#fly high Liam

[sweatyfestivaltrash]

Here are some snipits about Liam from the Popbitch weekly gossip email this friday. I think we'll all love the second one.

"Our favourite story about Liam was that in his post-One Direction years he got into art, and started to do some drawing.

Word of his new hobby reached David Hockney's great-nephew, who kindly arranged for Liam to meet the man himself.

In advance of the meeting, Liam made a portrait of Hockney, and presented it to him when they did get to hang out.

Hockney was so taken with the result that he hung the portrait up in his house.

A close second favourite story? Liam and Cheryl stayed together publicly at the end of their relationship purely to piss off Dan Wootton, then Showbiz editor at The Sun, who had reported their break-up."

[louisisalarrie]

no one fucking helped him and that keeps just repeating in my head

[faithinthekindness9194]

I had my original One Direction tattoo in 2022…today I added angel wings and had Liams arrows (plus one for himself) tattooed in honour of the amazing and kind man that Liam was🥺 Fly High Liam🕊️🫶🏻

[r1ver28]

With the tragedy we're all going through, and the heartbreak that was left in the wake of Liam Payne's departure, we need to open our eyes to the reality of life. Think of any person you put down in your life. You don't know their story, you don't know the hell they might've gone through. That girl you whispered about to your friend is insecure. That boy you said you hate is only a dick because that's what he was taught to be. Mental health and suicide is a serious problem, and it's arising all around us, even if we're blind to it. The struggles of ourselves and those around us are more than important, they're a matter of life or death.

Liam Payne died because of the world he was brought into. He was supplied drugs and alcohol, while being overworked and exhausted. Then, most his fans and supporters turned their backs on him without another thought when he potentially makes terrible choices. No one is defined by what they've done, and Liam never was. He was an amazing person, who deserved all the love he should've been receiving.

There's more pain than love in this world. There's more hatred than acceptance. There's more insecurity than self love. If that's true, then why do we continue to put hate out into the world? Why do we speak terribly of someone we've never met? We must learn to forgive, we must learn to be empathetic and stop putting others down. Don't judge everyone you meet blindly. Don't hate someone for their past mistakes. Don't spread hate for a celebrity just because you can. We're all humans, and we all deserve love if we're kind enough to spread it.

- River

[dianadirectioner18]

I bought a book at the end of the summer and i gave it to my mom so she can give it to me for Christmas. It's in czech language so i didn't expect this. Turns out the main character's name is Ethan Payne. He is british, heavy smoker, really depressed and basically looks like a walking dead body. I did not need this rn i am full on crying. If i only read this sooner it would be funny thing and i would be excited about it. Now i just suffer. Sorry but i just really needed to vent.

[byler4vida]

Rip to Liam Payne 💔💔 tbh, I didn't like him at all, but I definitely didn't know that he was suffering from mental health issues etc, now I just feel so guilty, I feel like if we see someone who is suffering from so pain, we definitely should be more easy on them ig, even though we that person has done alot of wrong things, we should criticize them, not hate on them or whatever, criticize the stuff that they do, the people who we should really hate, should be people like P Diddy for example, idk If I'm wrong for saying this but I just feel like very guilty and just mad at myself, hopefully I can learn from this and just not hate the person before knowing their struggles 💔💔💔

[starrylavender19]

Post Liam sunsets 😭

Fly high payno 🕊️

I love you.

Always.

[samulawsenc]

I woke up from a supersupersuper bad dream an hour ago. I dreamed about louis... I don't want to use that word to talk about lou cause it don't feel lucky if you always grab that kind of word around your mouth especially for him, anyway after I realized it's really just a dream, the first thing came to my mind is I reeeeeeally need to check on lou through the fucking internet. I was even ready to run out my only chance to text him on ins, wanna tell him please be happy and be safe. Then I thought it better be used as telling him I'm going when I could have any chance to see louis concert in person one day... ...

now I'm thinking Lili

what if losing liam is also a bad dream we didn't wake up from.

l came to this community way too late like ten years after this band apart. but I never regret any of it. l'm happy and lucky to meet a community tight like this. I'm still in the most euphoric stage totally loving them.

It's my hard night right before my final, as always I'd like to put on some music video at my side to went through with it. I've actually just start falling in love with ATL at that time, but I've already seen them videos for a hundred times in a too short period so I scrolled my head and thought about I haven't seen any 1D video yet. I know they are pretty popular back in the days cause I'm actually only six years old when they are hot under the spotlights, you see there's a littlelittle gap within us, so all I know about is their songs wmyb, 18, perfect, best song ever, drag me down, night changes, only these five, I have no idea about any other thing about this band but I love 18 a long time ago, I even recited all the lyrics of this song so I can sing it clearly at my high school which banned for any electric setup, kind of destiny ain't it. So I put on up all night the live tour video, my first crush in the band is Liam, the little waving he shaked when he sang on the stage got me sososososo fooking hard. Li is also the first one I searched for on ins. I'm always a shipper when I stepped into a community. When I see that tour video, I'm like Lilo & Zarry & didn't figure out what to do with niall. btw I knew nothing about larry thing back then. After my first investigation on ao3 is finished, I was like yeah I AM INTOING this community for sure. First of all, respect to every shipper on the internet. I love u all, laying on the bed and drowning in ao3 is the happiest thing for me after a day tortured by life. every night I literally mean it EVERY NIGHT even till today I only sleep after I read Ziam work for at least 30 minutes. Larry work sometimes. I am falling into Ziam community sososososohard and that's why I signed up my first tumblr wanting to find an account called doveziam to follow. I love her. She is a beautiful writer and her wonderful works and touching words pushed me further into this warm community. but I really be here way too late, that account isn't active in recent year. Luckily, I've found so many lovely writers who are also super talented.

Four months is passed, Lili, I only loved you for only four months, I checked your ins every week to see your happy time you shared with us, I totally not see the doom coming. Lili, eight years ago I lost my mother which taught me always to be grateful for what I have, but Lili, you taught me to be grateful IN TIME.

Lili, it's a nickname by Chinese fan for Liam. Don't even know Liam know it or not. there's no more opportunity to tell him that.

I ask myself

What is love even too late for mourning?

[twentyonedarklarries]

"Thanks for all you've done

I've missed you for so long

I can't believe you're gone

You still live in me

I feel you in the wind

You guide me constantly."

[derangedbookworm]

at this point, i give up on happiness

[bakeinthesun]

I am angry.

Angry at the people in the 1D Fandom circles (who do not deserve to be called fans) who refused to see beyond the surface.

Angry at the non Fandom related people for jumping on the hate train as always.

Angry at the media for not having an ounce of integrity.

Angry at the music industry for reasons I don't need to explain to anyone.

Angry at the people around Liam.

Angry at life for being so unfair.

Am angry at myself.

For being selfish at this moment. For mourning my life as I know it. For mourning the end of One Direction and not only Liam. For mourning the happy memories that will never be happy again. For mourning my loss. For wanting this all to be a bad dream, a nightmare.

I am devestated.

[noelygsguitar]

liam of the day : maine road 1996 liam 🎶💕

[louisisalarrie]

It's not about hating harry, it's about the arrogance he's shown since he started his solo career.

don’t you think it’s unfair that Liam keeps getting dragged through all these horrible rumors in the press, and Harry not wanting to be part of a tribute just to protect his career seems selfish? And if the rumors about him releasing new music in April are true, it’s only going to make him look like a hypocrite.

ok… you wanna talk about it? let’s talk about it. anon, a very big welcome to the show which has had quite the break recently. but we back on tour!

I think everything in the media and the whole thing that happened with Liam is fucking disgraceful. I know I don’t talk about it much, but that’s mainly because it makes me feel physically ill and I don’t wanna start having people in my inbox start shit with me about Liam. I miss him dearly every day and he didn’t deserve to pass and he didn’t deserve all the hate and all the absolutely disgusting behaviour that “fans” and the media put him through.

I don’t think it’s fair at all how any of those boys have been treated in the media since the break. I think Louis, Niall, Zayn and Liam were all at a disadvantage with harry having been groomed from the 1d days by the Azoffs and them being prepared to give him everything they could if he walked away from the band. I despise the Azoffs and while they are incredibly successful, they are incredibly successful because they’re assholes. They are money hungry and saw an opportunity and took it. That’s the nature of the job and the nature of the industry. You don’t get anywhere by being polite.

I think the article from the Sun is no different than the consistent “harry is better off solo” shit we’ve seen in the media for the past 8ish years. I think it’s ridiculous to believe anything from the Sun, and they’re jumping on the back of the 1d reunion rumours a few days before the Brits for some clout and clicks. 99% of that article is mainly talking about how Harry’s team thinks it’s a bad idea and what they have to say about it, with no direct quote from harry himself (but a very chatty “source” instead!).

I think he’s been consistently marketed as “better” than 1d, and of course they have that angle, because it’s what gets people listening. It’s literally to get him more famous. That article says something about how he’s worked so hard to have now earned “respect and credibility” as if 1d weren’t respected or credible because they were a boyband. Which is what boybands have always been viewed as. It’s the same formula we have seen time and time again. 1 successful breakout star, the rest left behind. “He would never go back, that’ll be a step back in his career!! Stop the rumours!! We have more money to make off him!! He will never be a successful solo star again if he goes back!!! It’ll halt his whole career!! It’ll look like a money grab!! No one will take him seriously anymore!!” which is…….

Kinda true in a bit of a roundabout way. Solo harries will spontaneously combust and be upset with him, of course they will, and it would be extremely tricky to have this done right without looking like he’s losing credibility or whatever other shit they wanna spew. I think if harry did a big interview explaining what 1d meant to him and that he’d love to do it to honour the fans and the boys and how he got to where he is now and assure everyone he’s not stopping his solo career, maybe it’d calm them down. If he genuinely doesn’t give a fuck and goes against what his team has to say about it, it’ll be an absolute power move but yes, it will look like a money grab. And it’ll look like a money grab if any of the other boys agree to do it. To “boost their fame” and then another article about a vendetta or whatever comes out.

And you know what this boils down to at its very core? This absolute fucking bullshit about “losing credibility” if he were to go back? This shit about boybands?

It’s about misogyny. It’s about young girls “not knowing what good music is”. About swooning and wanting to date boyband members. About how silly they are because all they can see is hot boys. About how hysterical the fanbase is. About how “boybands don’t put in the work, they just have to look pretty”. About how they don’t get credibility because a bunch of straight dudes who think they know what “good” music is don’t like them. And it’s been an ongoing theme since the beginning of boybands, my friend. It’s easy to make money off a boyband, and that’s why they’re created. But, they’re never taken seriously.

Anyway, young girls run this damn music industry, by the way. Young girls keep the pop genre running. They keep these artists afloat. And they have done nothing but keep harry going since 1d ended, and (most) continue to support the other boys in their own careers. It is no different being a fan of an artist to being a fan of a sports team. Hell, those guys keep the sports industry running, and they’re more hysterical (and way more violent) than we’ll ever be.

My point is, that boybands don’t get taken seriously because young girls don’t get taken seriously. But we are the driving force behind pop music. And until there is some recognition and a tip of a hat to 1d for everything they went through and their work ethic, some good media, a fucking doco, SOMETHING, his team is gonna advise him not to go back. Hell, they will still advise against it, but hopefully he can make his own decisions throughout this renegotiation/change of management/label and be able to do the things he wants to do. I hope he speaks up. And he has a fuckton of power to change things, and that’s why his managers freak out.

Okay, well, final notes and if you got this far, congrats. Maybe there will be an encore sometime. But my point is that none of those boys would’ve been advised to go back if they were in harrys shoes. If Louis had run the same career as harry, did the exact same thing as harry to a T, people would be hating on him too. It’s the same formula any team would run with any of the boys if they had been the “frontman” of the band. It’s the same formula that’s been pushed on every boyband ever. It’s the same thing every fucking time and it’s so damn disappointing.

[wisegentlementyrant]

Another bunch of memes made by me. Based on real events

[r1ver28]

[shiftingwithmars]

”Four on stage, five in our hearts” Has a new meaning now….