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[hoovesandfloorpaws]

in Gothenburg Sweden, 23 June 2015 was also where Harry waved the Sweden national flag that had the AIMH tweet printed on the other side (something one could say was in kind of the first "Pride Flag" he waved 🥹)

This entire post -- gosh, that was such a fucking overwhelmingly wild time to live through on here. Even just reading through this timeline, I'm having war flashbacks.

And there was SO much more happening too.. 2015 was a very long decade for them and us.

I still distinctly remember thinking at some point in March/April 2015 "Since WHEN is Louis such a party boy?? hUH? what's going ON? 🤨"

Because the sudden MASSIVE avalanche of the party boy articles and pap shots were super overwhelming and didn't feel organic or "normal" for him at all. Also the amount of strange women he was suddenly papped with.. like.. if you knew how he had usually been papped while maybe out a party.. -- there were usually mostly GUYS around him when he was out partying- IF he even was! Louis wasn't a 'wild club night party boy' - until suddenly he was made to be one.

it felt extra WEIRD AF that he'd suddenly be so cock-in-the-hen-pen.. if one knew the Louis he showed himself as before that. Maybe I'm forgetting something big here, but iirc he didn't really have obvious girl friends before- really mainly just his mates and his beard (E), but E was I think next to never papped out partying with Louis (or maybe I have repressed that memory lmfao) - so THAT was why everything felt so was so EXTRA sus

I obviously can't speak for the entirety of us Larries back then, but within my 'group' it was so obvious to us that he was playing a role even before any of babygate was announced. We just didn't know what the hell was going on; if that was just something to further put distance between Harry and him. For a few weeks I thought "yeah, they're showing him 'partying with a group of strange girls to now also make not just Harry, but also Louis into a womanizer'. (oh, how wrong I was)

Nothing made sense until it suddenly made sense and then it was just A WHOLE MESS when GMA happened. 😭 I remember being in shock the entire day. And feeling so fucking awful for Louis. And for Harry. Anyone who had paid attention to H&L as real people was able to look right through that horrible stunt that had been kicked off. (and goodness how naive we were, thinking it would be a short-lived thing, paternity test after birth, oh it's not his kid, good riddance... 🙃) Anyone who knew them knew it was an absolutely sinister & extremely heavy-handed stunt.

Concert signs, pregnancy allusions, interviews, fonding, and colorful bears: selections from June–October, 2015

5 June, Cardiff: first show of OTRA Europe xx

(this post could be twenty times longer than it already is…)

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6 June, Cardiff

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19 June, Oslo

Harry Magee is present at the concert.

Liam reads “Always in my heart @Harry_Styles” sign, not shown on screen – ‘That is beautiful,’ he says, ‘Absolutely beautiful stuff.’

Harry during Little Things:

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23 June, Gothenburg:

Sign shown on screen:

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26 June: Louis is papped with Tamara Bell at Glastonbury Music Festival. (People.com posts story on 28 June)

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27 June, Helsinki 

Liam: [There just happens to be a small child there!?] Louis: What’s this baby doing here? Liam: (mock outrage) Who’s thrown their baby on the stage! That’s outrageous! Louis: (tosses the baby away) It’s not real!

Liam: Oh no! Louis: It’s not real. It is not real. Liam: …It is a fake baby, it was fake, for all those people out there who think that was a real baby.

The following sign shown onscreen:

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9 July, San Diego (first show of N. America tour leg)

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14 July: People.com reports pregnancy news (at a reported 11-weeks-gestation)

Dan Wootton didn’t get the exclusive!  (‘Yes, Ann Marie Thomson, head of Syco PR is married to Pete Samson who started his career with The Daily Mirror in 2003 and moved to The Sun in 2007 and broke the news that Louis would be a dad in July. That world exclusive belongs to him and he is married to Syco’s PR Directory. Think about that.’ xx)

In early May, Louis was papped with Briana in LA (other people in this video include Oli, Calvin, and Ashley). At least 25 “lothario Louis” articles are published at dailymail.co.uk before “father-to-be Louis” is announced in July.

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15 July, Seattle: first concert after pregnancy announcement

(The stadium fell oddly silent, and Liam commented that things had gotten awkward and uncomfortable.)

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17 July, Vancouver:

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24 July, Winnipeg:

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4 August: on Good Morning America, Louis is offered congratulations on the pregnancy

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Harry during Story of My Life

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5 August, E. Rutherford:

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20 August, Toronto:

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27 August, Cleveland:

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24-30 Sept: UK tour leg begins with six shows at the O2 in London.

RBB and SBB, below, displayed before the first show. They didn’t appear at any other London shows:

Technical difficulties:

Briana seen with Louis’s family at O2 shows (Daily Mail)

30 Sept: Louis is papped leaving club, accompanied by brunette women

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3 October, Manchester: Harry during Little White Lies

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7 October, Glasgow: During the STV interview, the baby is specifically mentioned to Louis for the second (and last time).

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9 October: Daily Mail reports that Louis is ‘clearly excited’.

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10 October: RBB starts tweeting

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13 October:

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20 October, Belfast: One Direction suddenly cancels the night’s concert

Louis is offered nonspecific congratulations at the end of UTV interview

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21 October: interview with ET after cancelled/postponed concert

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31 October, Sheffield: last night of OTRA tour

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A strong part of me wants this to be truly comprehensive, but there’d probably be 673 gifs involved. I gave up on linking everything (message me, of course, if you’d like credit or a particular link).

[cosmonautroger]

Olesya Dzhuraeva, Morning Conversation, 2016

[charlotteduerrewatson]

[daisydenim1967]

Sky Ferreira and A$AP Rocky

[theartsofrust]

[angelic-nemesis]

coming back from tiktok to tumblr feels like healing♡

[zegalba]

A displaced Iraqi woman holds her cat, Lulu, while waiting for transport in the Iraqi Kurdish checkpoint village of Shaqouli after she fled her home with her children on November 10, 2016.

[petitworld]

Trentham Gardens, Stoke-on-Trent, England by Nigel Dunnett

[luxforlifexo]

irl bratz doll 🐆🤍💋💄

[brookeizhere]

Happy 2015 🌴

[flushedangel]

I’m going desk shopping soon, here’s some of my inspo!! 🎀🪽

[vintagedollrina]

tumblr girl fall 🎃🍂🥧

[charlotteduerrewatson]

[witchrealms]

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[rdjandtomholland]

2016 → 2017 → 2018 → 2024