#Thanks for the memories of relevant information ig :/

[sepiasys]

I can't believe we had to make a new profile on SP officially because this is the second time a dude appeared and also they just directly did stuff in the body? Mfer rlly tried to help before ig getting pushed the fuck out.

Also. Oml I almost forgot. But uh yeah ykw this is progress, because idk, means an alter feeling comfortable existing or sm shit. Idk if this would be a new split or an old bro coming back or smth but- ah. Thx for the memory of looking in the vents as a kid and also the times we'd look at angel numbers and guardian angels and like all that shit. And like looking up smth like lion-human face bc thats what we saw in the vent. Thanks -,_-,

[larriefails]

First off, I’m not a rad nor a larrie, I’m a louie who hates both. I was just commenting on that because I’ve been in the fandom since 2013 and the de facto leader comment not only came from the boys but also during a billboard interview. In the billboard interview, they highlighted how Louis was the one taking the business calls and talking to their team about certain things. Also it’s not completely impossible to believe that once the 1d train ran out the big producers/names didn’t care to +

Work with him, because he was no “harry styles” liam is the same he even said that Simon didn’t want him on his label as a solo artist despite him having a great rapport with him. But there were other times louis’ business contacts were brought to light such as when he went to the Brits in 2016 and a reporter commented on how he was constantly on his feet to greet big name record executives and businessmen. He has the connects in the business that’s all I was trying to state.

Look, 99% of the time when I reply to an anon “you sound like a conspiracy theorist” it’s not because I think they believe in Larrie or because they’re rads, it’s because they fucking reason like conspiracy theorists

And your reasoning here is just… conspiracy theory mess. I don’t care which parts of it you believe or not, I don’t care what your personal feelings on these specific sets of conspiracy theories are. It doesn’t matter, the point is that you’re reasoning like a conspiracy theorist

I was gonna put this in a separate post, but I think it fits here very well (I might still make a separate post about it who knows)

A few days ago, I saw this video on twitter of a woman talking about her own death like it was nothing in a very matter of factly way, wearing a wig and using a very funny tone. Someone in the replies linked to her IG page so I went to look at it, and when I saw comments telling her “thank you for accepting my follow request” I realized she was usually on private and I’d just been very lucky to find her profile to be open, so I followed her just in case with the intention of watching her funny videos later

Since she was a new follow she continuously appeared on my recent IG feed and I soon realized how relevant what she was saying was to my interests

This is the woman

One day she posted this, and my alarms went off

Let me clarify that I don’t care if she’s a professor or a therapist or not, I followed her because I thought she was funny and that she’d go on private soon, this was all a complete surprise to me. The DM rang close to home to me, seeing as I’ve read Larries for a while now, it was all too familiar, her reply was too

Then she posted this

Once again, I said it before and you can read it here X it doesn’t matter if she’s a professor or not, if their suspicions are real or not, if she’s lying or not, because going through UCLA’s professor roll call is a step too far, and confronting her about it, even more so. And the way she presents it.. she’s right. She just linked the website, she never claimed to work there. If you go to her page, she’s very careful with the information she provides, so the people that want to prove she’s lying have very limited resources. They go with the preconception that she’s lying so they try to find ways to prove their preconception

You have the preconception that Louis was the de facto leader of 1D, so you’re working your way backwards to prove it. You’re looking at bits and pieces of interviews that will prove your theory right, but that’s just not what reality is

“The de facto leader comment not only came from the boys” .. no it didn’t, though? They didn’t say this. Do you know where the “the boys say Louis is the leader” comments come from? Stuff like this

Context for that interview? The Hot Desk, August 2011 X

One Direction had exactly ZERO songs out, this interview was recorded before they even released WMYB. All 5 of them had written on 3 songs of their first album that would come out in November. Savan Kotecha was still running the show. Louis was still 19 and he hadn’t been in show business for a year. How much of a leader that conducted business meetings do you think he was? I’m not gonna watch the entire interview to see the context, but this is not Zayn saying Louis was the de facto leader, this is Zayn kidding

What to even say about this, which is from the video diaries in X Factor?

Or this?

What? No, no they’re not, like, they’re just not, they’re standing in a circle and looking forward

This is just ridiculous

Does the person that created this gif set not realize that this is the performance where Louis doesn’t sing at all? It’s Torn at judges’ houses. It’s infamous for the fact that only Liam Harry and Zayn sang. This is all for dramatic effect because X Factor was a reality show

Louis liking motivation chants means he’s the leader? That he goes to business meetings? I’m so confused

That’s not because “he’s the leader” that’s because he’s the class clown

If accepting an award means he’s the leader then I guess this meme fits 1D very well

They all accepted awards, Christ

Anyway….

And that’s an entire gif set that was solely engineered to show that Louis was the leader and that “the boys said so”…. but they actually didn’t? The only two times it comes up they answer jokingly and it’s before Louis could do anything remotely leader like. But that gif set is so popular, created by a Larrie but that spilled out to the general fandom enough that I saw it on my dash reblogged by non CT blogs X

And it created this notion among some people, especially those who have Louis as their fave, that the other members of 1D had in fact said that Louis was the de facto leader, when they didn’t. It’s conspiracy talk, scouring through hundreds of MILLIONS of milliseconds of footage to pick 9 of them and put them in a gif set to prove a point they’d already decided on

There are also three news articles linked (copying and pasting directly from the source, sorry for the weird formatting idk how to take it off)

1: That’s the number of hotel rooms in Mexico City used for dance rehearsals. The guys locked down a room for three hours. Louis took control of the rehearsals and even helped conceptualize some of the routine.

That’sabout 1D learning the choreography for Best Song Ever

How exactly does it prove that Louis is the de facto leader for him to take over 1 dance rehearsal when everyone in 1D had confessed they couldn’t dance a million times at that point? Louis had some musical theater experience, so that’s that..

Harry: Louis is still loud and mischievous - he likes to test the boundaries. He’s quite outspoken. You need someone like that, because he’s great at standing up for us as a band.

That’s perhaps the most “leader like” comment any of them have ever made about Louis, and it’s not really about him being a leader once you put it by itself instead of surrounding it by “look at all the times they said he was the leader,” right? It’s just more of a testament about the fact that Louis was louder than the rest, which we already knew. If someone had asked me six months into my journey in the fandom who I thought was the loudest in band meetings I would’ve said Louis. That doesn’t mean he’s the leader. A leader has SO many more characteristics than being loud and outspoken. In fact, a lot of leaders aren’t loud or outspoken at all

The last link they put is once again, what How I Met Your Mother explained as the cheerleader effect X which taken away from the time period sounds quite misogynistic but let’s not dwell on that. Basically, it’s when a group of women appear hot when they’re all together but not individually. When you have the gif set all together, it looks like “wow, these are hot arguments as to why EVERYONE thought Louis was the leader,” but look at them individually, see their context and they’re not as hot now, are they? Especially when you realize, once again, that these are very very small morsels of time taken from very very large portions. That’s how Larries operate

Several people in your management and inner circle have described you to me as the unofficial businessman or leader of the group. Is that a fair assessment? I’ve sometimes felt like that, but to be honest most of the time I’m the immature one who needs to be told to get focused. I’m a bit of a perfectionist so I have to be kind of be on board with every minor detail and [I’m] quite opinionated.

And that last link is also the Billboard interview you mention in your ask. Do you know when it’s from? December 2012. One Direction had just released Take Me Home, their second album, which according to the interview that Larries love the most to base their sabotage conspiracies, didn’t very much involve 1D’s input at all

Savan Kotecha: I think by album 3 (Midnight Memories), yeah, not all of them, there was definitely one or two-one especially-that was like, kind of bitter about the fact, that, you know

Ross Golan: They were a boyband?

Savan Kotcha: And he was not the talented one. He wasn’t the singer, and he wasn’t the star. And you know which one I’m talking about…

Ross Golan: Of course.

Savan Kotecha: And he then started having something against me and against that process, I think. And, you know, maybe we could have been more inviting in the creative process during album 2 (Take Me Home) and not been so…authoritative.

At that point, Louis STILL wasn’t in a position where he could really be the leader. None of them were because the creative process wasn’t inviting still. It wouldn’t be until the third album

The conclusion here isn’t that Louis isn’t outspoken, or that he didn’t care about business or that he didn’t defend the band, or that he didn’t want to write more, or that he didn’t want to make connections. No one here is arguing that he didn’t care at all or not giving him credit for anything. The point I‘ve been making for days now and that people don’t seem to get (one way or another, because I’ve gotten very unpleasant messages about how he’s not equipped to be a businessman and shit like that that I’ve just decided not to publish at all), is that things don’t have to be black and white

I don’t think ANYONE was the leader of 1D. I think that Louis’ personality made him stand out more in certain aspects (such as meetings with their team), and because people need to label everything all the time, instead of describing it as it was, it took the position of “de facto leader”

The problem here isn’t even that people believe he’s the de facto leader, that wouldn’t concern me at all in and of itself because who cares? It’s not hurting anyone… The problem is that it puts an excessive amount of weight on Louis’ shoulders, I also explained this. It’s this dichotomy of a person who basically carried the whole band during its five years but that also is completely defenseless and at the mercy of binding contracts to even choose the socks he wears

These sort of preconceptions aren’t harmful by themselves, they wouldn’t be harmful in a normal band. I wouldn’t have a problem with this preconception if Louis was Calum Hood and this was 5SOS, my problem is that this is One Direction and preconceptions and conspiracies have tormented these guys for YEARS. No conspiracy and no preconception is innocent, they all have to be dismantled, we have to examine EVERYTHING that leads to absolutes if we want a chance at healing the fandom, and I don’t mean the 1D fandom because that’s gone now, it’s never gonna heal, I mean Louis’ specifically

If we want a chance at him being left alone from Larries these things have to go. Stop seeing him as this commodity that you can just paint over and start seeing him as a person, not a caricature

That interview also doesn’t say anything about him taking any calls business or otherwise. I don’t think anyone has ever said it and I have no idea where it came from because I’ve found zero sources. The interview doesn’t mention him “talking about certain things“ either, it’s just what I pasted here. That’s all of it. Everything else comes from years and years of stretching this one question out of this one interview done when Louis was still 20 and 1D had less than 2 years in the music industry. It’s no exactly the smoking gun y’all think it is, guys. Same with the Savan Kotecha podcast

Then the rest of what you say is just noise, man. IDK what to tell you. It’s just noise. If Louis had ran the show BTS for five years, then he’d have access to the best producers and writers on speed dial, why would he not being Harry Styles hinder how he’s perceived by the people that work backstage? They’d recognize the person that was “the backbone of 1D” for who he is because those things spread in the business. If LOUIS said that wasn’t happening, then it’s because your preconception was wrong and you took a bunch of things out of context to create a “narrative” that simply wasn’t real. Louis was dedicated to the band and wanted to write for it and involve himself in the creative side and he GENUINELY WAS IMPORTANT for the band, but he wasn’t its backbone or its de facto leader

Simon didn’t wantt Liam on his label probably because he couldn’t afford him, btw. He decided to stick with Louis because they’ve been thick as thieves since 2014 and those contracts cost money and Syco is a very small label with very limited resources, so they couldn’t offer anything to more than one member. I’m  aware that I’m making assumptions here, but they very much align with reality, especially now that Syco lost so many other acts and now that Fifth Harmony disbanded and Syco landed only Lauren (Camila being like Zayn) and having to leave Ally, Dinah, and Normani go to other labels. That doesn’t mean they saw no value in them (in fact, I think Lauren is the one faring the worst), it’s just that they can only afford so much

And how much can you grin on one report written by the HUFFINGTON POST in 2016?X I’m talking about the “Louis hugged industry people that one time” comment you made. Once again, I’m not saying he doesn’t know anyone. I’m saying I BELIEVE WHAT HE SAYS. If he says he can’t easily get the producers and writers he wants, then I’m going to believe him. And that one report doesn’t really change anything for me. It’s, once again, very conspiracy theorist behavior to put more weight on an isolated report from an untrustworthy source three years ago than on Louis’ own words. If he really had enough reach to be friendly with everyone in the industry, then he’d be able to get any producer he wants

You can’t have this dichotomy that you present in this very ask of “they’re not picking up the phone because he’s Harry Styles” but he was the de facto leader of the biggest band on the planet for five years and everyone in the music industry knows him. It just doesn’t mesh together. You’re placing him in the same impossible position Larries are placing him and that’s harmful. He needs fans that see him as a person and you, I’m sorry to tell you, do not. You see him as a caricaturesque figure that can both be incredibly important and incredibly subjugated

“He has the connects in the business is all I was trying o state” 1. no that’s not all you were trying to state. 2. According to himself, he doesn’t have all the connects. He’s clearly close enough to be friendly with Rob Stringer, but that doesn’t mean that Rob Stringer will lift a finger for him and according to Louis, he’s not.. But that doesn’t mean that Louis can’t get ANYONE or that he’s being sabotaged. As always, truth lies somewhere in the middle. The only reason it’s harder to spot in this case is that people stretch it on every possible side so much

I know this is long as fuck and I probably lost any person that was willing to read my drivel in the first place, but I just really think it’s important that you start taking what LOUIS SAYS ABOUT LOUIS as fact, instead of twisting it around to present alternative facts that would present a reality that will please you more. It starts at “Louis was the de facto leader” and it ends as “he’s been faking fatherhood for three years and lied about his mother’s last few days” Sick..

[twdmusicboxmystery]

TD Details: They’re Everywhere!

Good morning! (It’s Friday! Yea!!!) This is one of those posts with lots of little tidbits people have sent me that aren’t big enough to warrant a theory all their own, but still definitely worth mentioning! Hope some of these give you the TD tingles (they did for me). ;D

@anthonycuc_ (IG) sent some info about the TWD Monopoly Game. In the game (and also the comic books) the hospital is called Harrison Memorial Hospital. That’s obviously different from the show. Even so, the name “Harrison” has a very interesting meaning. Urban Dictionary comes up with this as a character definition:

“A fighting Messiah whose capabilities and ultra-human strength exceed those of any being, human or non-human in nature.” (Think walker.) “Harrison’s true identity and age is unknown though he takes on the form of a teenage male with blond hair. He spends the majority of his time…winning at everything. After voluntarily offering himself for medical research, it is discovered that…he is capable of regenerating after attaining wounds.” (There’s more; I just included the relevant bits.)

We can’t know if this was what they were going for, especially as the name was changed for show. But that’s probably because they wanted to use the same hospital filmed behind Rick in 2x01 to connect things in the show. The point is, the description of “Harrison” sounds like it could have been a template for Beth’s arc. And, I would argue in some cases, Daryl’s. (The super-human powers and always winning bits.) Very interesting. Thanks @anthonycuc_

@nahel.mzg (IG) told me that in French, Jadis means “a long time ago.” So another interesting take on Jadis’s name that might be pointing us back to events in the show that happened long ago.

@julspad (IG) pointed out that in 7x10, Jadis staged a walker fight between the Winslow walker and Rick. It was reminiscent of the one at Woodbury: humans vs. walkers in an enclosed arena, plenty of bystanders, etc. And that’s interesting because it would mean ties to the Governor, Andrea, and Merle.

@missa_alyssa (IG) pointed out the strong resemblance between Dr. Edwards and the Dr. Carson Negan killed. Obviously they’re both doctors, both kinda bald with similar head shapes, coloring, hair, etc. And there are the lollipops, which I picked up on, but the physical similarities didn’t occur to me. Interesting!

@paolo_pedini (IG) sent me this pic from @twdtruefacts. Actually a very profound insight. I like it!

@twdeaddicted (IG) pointed out that in 4x12 Daryl says, “You don’t get it. Everyone we know is dead!” Beth said, “I get it now,” just before being shot. 

@twdeaddicted thinks she probably meant she understood what Daryl meant about the horrors of the real world after being exposed to Dawn’s personality. Very interesting! I’d never connected those two lines before. I also wonder if it fulfilled what Daryl said about everyone he knows being dead. Obviously, whether Beth returns or not, that’s not true. But you could argue that Beth was the only one who really KNEW Daryl. Therefore, when she was gone, everyone he “knew” was dead.

@danielverdooren (IG) pointed out that when Abe was introduced, a walker’s head is brutally smashed and we also see Abe smash several walker heads in, in S4. Shows that whether or not the actors knew, Gimple probably knew clear back in S4 that Abraham would die by Negan’s hand.

When Sam knocks on Carol’s door in 5x14, he uses the same 7-note rhythm that Negan uses here. (X) All I can say about that is that they’ve been pointing us toward S7 ever since Coda aired. Something epic must be going to happen this season. ;D

@the-ashes points out that when Beth continues Zack’s guessing game in Still about what Daryl did before the apocalypse, she guesses motorcycle mechanic, right? That was a foreshadow of him becoming a motorcycle mechanic at Alexandria. Once again, Beth’s dialogue foreshadowing HAS AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE FULFILLED!!!

Also from @the-ashes, some reminders of Clear: 1. Eugene turned. This is really interesting given Eugene’s arc this season. Does it mean he’ll turn into a walker? Or that he’ll betray TF in some way? This is why I wondered if he might die at the end of this season. I’m much less convinced of that now, but this literal writing on the wall must mean something. 2. “Sick after blood cover” I never knew this but (Comic Book Spoiler) in the CBs, Dwight dips an arrow in walker blood and uses it to make Rick sick. This could be a reference to that. Something to keep an eye out for simply because Dwight has become such an important character this season. On Morgan’s walls, right near these two phrases, is the one: 3) “It doesn’t matter how many days, how much time,” which of course we want to apply to Beth’s return. ;D. Also near this is the now-infamous 4) “No kias on bef,” and right above that, the word 5) “memory.” Hmm…  (More on Morgan’s walls: X, X, X)

Several people including @wdway​ and @doeroseq​ and @katkhaos sent me information about Christian symbolism around pretzels. This includes the fact that the twist of a pretzel represents arms being crossed in prayer. The three holes represent the Holy Trinity (plus rule of 3s for Beth). Pretzels were often eaten for Lent, from Ash Wednesday until Easter. They may have also been the basis for Easter Egg hunts as some cultures hid pretzels around the yard once upon a time.

Which leads to the inevitable discussion about Easter. Easter isn’t until about two weeks after the TWD finale airs this year. But obviously the most fitting date for Beth’s return would be Easter, as that’s the quintessential resurrection date for Christ. So the closest episode for that would be the finale. And let’s not forget that last Easter, Michael Cudlitz tweeted that one way or the other, someone would be coming back from the dead at Easter time. Just saying.

Also, from @wdway​: During Rick’s death fake out in 7x12, an ER sign sits right behind Michonne. We saw something similar via the Morse Code board in 7x04 when Michonne got her gun out of the fireplace. I’m not going to go into why that’s super-interesting to me, but a friend of mine has recently come up with an awesome find/theory that might tie into this. Keep on eye on Michonne! 

(And yes I get that the “ER” is part of th eword “SUPER” on the carnival ride, but tptb purposely left out the “R” as if to emphasize the “ER.”)

@bluesandbeth sent me this pic. 

Yet another 8 around Richonne (on the side of the Ferris wheel seat) in this episode. We talked about what they could mean. As far as I’m concerned, they could only mean one of 2 things. Either they point toward S8 (most likely) or they’re pointing us back toward Beth, who had lots of 8s around her in 5a, which pointed toward Coda. Either way, we keep seeing 8s around Beth symbolism. There’s all the parallels this past episode between Bethyl and Richonne. We also saw it around Heath right before he got Beth’s final line and then disappeared without a trace. Just like Beth.

@bluesandbeth also pointed out this symbol, which we’ve seen more than once. The military officers (walkers) are wearing the flags on their uniforms backwards. That’s a real thing and shows that the soldier is going into battle. 

The idea is that the soldier is moving forward (into battle) and the flag would be flying behind him. So this is a sign of a coming battle. Not saying it’s a TD thing. We know the All Out War story line is on its way (in S8, which would correspond with all the 8s) which means it’s more likely this would correspond to all of TF. The fact that Richonne are in these scenes shows they’ll probably lead the war (which we all probably figured anyway). But I feel compelled to point out that the green army tents and equipment first appeared in 4x01 (along with the Bethyl hug) and were conspicuously present in Coda, and around Heath right before he disappeared. To me, that suggests that Beth will be a part of the All Out War story line.

Oh, there’s also a flag draped over the railing in the cabin picture in 5x09. Look:

That’s really interesting to me. We’ve all been waiting 2+ years to see the scenes Emily filmed at that little cabin. Perhaps this shows that we won’t see them until the war story line? Also, when the flag is upside down like that, it general represents that someone (i.e. the country) is in trouble or doomed. In this episode, Tyreese is doomed, so it works well here.

Oh, you know all the suspicious Grady-actor tweets we’ve seen lately? You know what, let’s review them:

1. Jarod Thompson had to go to the hospital (in real life) and for some random and unexplained reason, included a Grady picture. (X, X)

2. Teri Wyble (who played Shepherd) recently did an interview saying that she thought the people at Grady are alive and well, albeit low on supplies. (X) Why say that if the story line is over?

3. And it seems every few months we get a new suspicious tweet from Erik Jensen (Dr. Edwards). So here’s a new one to add to the collection: The wonderful @booklverlife (IG) actually tweeted Erik Jensen on Feb 13, just a few weeks ago, and got a reply. Check it out:

Again, why do this if the story line is over? I’ve never believed they’re just trolling TD. Why do that? There’s no benefit to them. Even if one of them just decided to be a jerk, all of them? Really? There are too many of them now. No idea what the France reference is about. Might just be misdirection, or maybe something we don’t understand yet. But he certainly didn’t reply that they weren’t coming back or say, “Sorry. Wish I was.” Nope. As always, ambiguous and mysterious.

Finally, these are just some extra things I’ve been thinking about:

Remember in this last episode when Michonne randomly started shooting milk jugs from the milk jug carnival game? I knew that had to mean something. I just didn’t know what. 

So I looked it up:

 "Milk is a powerful symbol within most cultural traditions. It is the fluid of eternal life, fertility, abundance; it is the food of the gods, the first human diet, it flows freely in the “promised land of Canaan” Milk symbolizes the MOTHER, it is deeply connected with life itself.“ (Source) It can also be a symbol of fertility or conflict. (Source)

All of these things go well with Michonne and the show right now. I feel like there was an Adam and Eve/Alone In Our Own World theme around Richonne in this episode. The fertility thing is especially interesting given the whole honeymoon theme. Milk is a symbol we see in the bible. The promised land is often said to be flowing with milk and honey. So not necessarily a TD thing, but interesting.

Okay, finally, in our FB group, we’ve been talking a lot these past few weeks about the fact that episode 8x01 will be episode 100 for the show. It’s been conjectured that, given the 100 theme we’ve seen since S4, episode 100 COULD be the one where Beth comes back.

I think that’s possible, but it will suck if they make us wait all summer again. Honestly, though, I still think it’s more likely that we’ll see her in 7x16 as the cliffhanger (as many have predicted).

Two reasons I think that:

1) It will give everyone something to talk about over the summer. As with who Negan’s victim was, everyone would talk and conjecture all summer about how Beth lived, what she’d been through, etc. Now, we’ve seen them go both ways on this. The S4 and S6 finales were major cliffhangers that made everyone talk all summer. Then again, the S5 finale was kinda boring and non-cliffhangery, so it’s possible that they’ll do that too.

2) Let’s look at how the 100 theme was used in S4. In episode 4x04, Daryl stares at that green jasper like his soul is tied to it *coughs Beth* and in the background, Michonne, Ty, and Bob talk about how they’re going to use Highway 100 to get back to the prison. 

So I’m thinking 100 is the route back to TF.

So it makes sense to me that we’d see Beth in 7x16 and then 8x01 (episode 100) could be the one that has all the flashbacks of her story line we’ve been waiting for and shows what she went through to make it back to TF.

Thoughts?

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