#i am a tinhatter

[catatonicsx]

one of my most tinhatted milex takes is that when miles mentions "the sins of Cincinnati" in cold light of the day is actually referring to the tlsp performance in cleveland. because bffr how much time has miles kane spent in Ohio.

[2000sscribbles]

i actually can't believe there are people on this website that can read an article where dt talks abt how his family says "i love you" to each other all the time and how that's a strange and wonderful new thing to him but like they ignore this super sweet and touching thing he's saying abt his loved ones and instead they completely laser the fuck in on him going "losing awards sucks" n then they pull out like year old screenshot from her instagram stories where georgia is like "my favorite awards loser omg <3" as evidence that she's an evil manipulative bitch who's abusing him and like it would be really funny if there wasn't a whole clique of people doing it

[fightingalgth8rs]

Meena you bitch I know your address, I know everywhere you go what you do, I know about your stupid friends, I know everything and if I find you threatening or harassing innocent people again on the internet bitch you are going to feel so sorry that you ever messed with this fandom. So go back to whatever hole you crawled out of and die bitch.

Oh look at me I'm so scared! Look at the wee hairs on the back of my wee hand! Look I got goosebumps! I'm shaking like a leaf!

Oh kindly fuck off darling. Take your empty f^ckn threats somewhere else. Good luck on trying to track me down! It will be as dumb as the Russians sending missiles all the way from Russia to Cuba lol! (Which we all know didn't happen cz it's a dumb idea!)

Oh and wait...

Who's harassing?

Your crawled onto our blog and YOU are the one sending threats. And I'm pretty sure that counts as harassment, bullying AND assault. So I wont be worrying about anything! Have fun inside your sick mind love!

[sam-winchesters-gay-lover]

there’s something deeply wrong with me i fear

[wuwzer]

With everything going around I feel the need to throw this back into the loop of it all

David Tennant will literally be out here like

And bitches will be like

'nah she had a gun to his head actually'

[forthlin]

i’m sorry what is it with the ‘extremely heterosexual paul mccartney’ narrative? have people seen that man?? where does that come from?? just because he wasn’t trying to shock papers in the 70s by intentionally feeding them gay rumors doesn’t make him extremely heterosexual. ??? am i missing something ??

pal i am completely with you. i understand citing his direct quotes about being straight and i'm not calling anyone a liar or whatever but why would anyone of his position/fame be yelling about his queerness from rooftops like of course he would deny being a lil fruity. (which i respect, his private life's always been on blast). that said i feel like he basically did yell about his queerness from rooftops and people just ignore it. i'm a staunch mclennon tinhatter but also i'm just saying if you threw all of the insane shit they said and did with/to each other into a biopic and changed the names to Carl Michaels and Brad Larson no one would question the existence of Homosexual Tendencies

[dtmsrpfcringe]

the definitive dictionary and almanac of Tinhattery

hi, this will be a list of the main misogynistic accounts, definitions people have questions about, accounts you should follow and abbreviations— let’s gooo!! If you’re tagged in this I probably put you on the accounts to follow section. Adding a cut here because it’s long and gonna get longer

definitions!!!!

LCB- Used to stand for letscoffeebreak, she has since changed her username to dejadestalkearmeloser.

NGO- Nightgoodomens

Ingrav, Amy- Ingravinoveritas.

tardisrose- thetardisisblueandroseistoo

Tinhatters- A group of (mostly) tumblr users who think everything in these two relationships are fake and the women are abusive and the men want to run away.

Queeranoners- same as above, my favourite way to refer to them, coined by the amazing @theeminentlyimpractical

sheenbergs- Mix for Michael and Anna’s name

sheenbergnant- the amalgamation of the four bad bitches we love

sheenant- ship name for David and Michael. (Remember kids: shipping is cool but it’s fictional!!)

DT- David Tennant (Georgias husband)

MS- Michael Sheen (Anna’s boyfriend)

GT- Georgia Tennant

AL- Anna Lundberg

PR- public relations

GM- a…delegitimising way of referring to Georgia by refusing to use her last name. Instead use her maiden name. Note how they don’t refer to David as David McDonald

APAT- usually used by tinhatters (stands for Anna Plain And Tall) to refer to Anna Lundberg

PR (Tinhatter definition) - an omnipresent being forcing two rich white men who constantly champion human rights and lgbtq acceptance into a hetero relationship because they just are so oppressed and abused and not because they love their partners!

PR (actual definition) -the professional activities of an agency hired by a person, company, or other entity to shape, create, and manipulate that person/company’s public image. A public relations firm is often useful in helping a company manage its media reputation when a crisis happens, in order to attempt to minimize false information or slanderous statements which could damage reputations.

Shipping- Shipping (derived from the word relationship) is the desire by followers of a fandom for two or more people, either real-life people or fictional characters (in film, literature, television series, etc.), to be in a romanticrelationship. Shipping often takes the form of unofficial creative works, including fanfictionand fan art.

Shipping (Tinhat definition) - NO THEY HATE THEIR PARTNERS AND WANT TO FUCK EACH OTHER LOOK HE BLINKED IN HIS VICINITY THEIR PARTNERS ARE ABUSIVE I SWEAR

GREATEST HITS (posts that killed Tinhatters, feel free to submit your favourites in my inbox)

The breakdown of an anon

tassel jokes

backstreet cringe

Ingravinoveritas admitting it

Laurens amazing fuck off post that snowballed into half the fandom straight up saying fuck you to these people

HALL OF SHAME (Worst of tinhatters, again feel free to submit more)

• Taraiha’s rivals meltdown

NGO hates this fandom for…calling her out

it’s not a choice to be weird and creepy about people’s lives! (Again shipping is fine. This shit is not!!!)

it’s okay if you attack women just don’t criticise Michael Sheen (no idea what she was talking about with David) this same lady had another absolutely dog shit post I guess she removed?!

How dare women…have fun at their birthday parties?? (Part 1)

for a group constantly sexualizing David and Michaels every movement we can’t stand when a woman shows a little chest and has fun

Accounts you should follow!!!!:

@goodomenswarning - same purpose as this account, hilarious, an amazing friend

@badaziraphaletakes - calls out shitty takes in good omens as well, so much more level headed about toxicity than I am but I love talking shit with them. @thegeorgiatennantblog - best Georgia content

@fightingalgth8rs -bad bitches calling out extreme sexism

@phoen1xr0se - one of the best and I devour everything she posts

@davidtennantgenderenvy stands up for what’s right in the fandom, one of my idols and stuck up for me during a vulnerable time.

lmk more I need to add because I’m definitely missing some

THE REPEAT OFFENDERS (booo 🍅🍅):

Ingravinoveritas- one of the bigger ones, refuses to believe Georgia does anything nice for David, or that any of them actually like their partners. Can’t stop fetishizing gay male relationships to save her life. If David blinks he apparently wants to be bent over. Likes to pretend she’s not as bad as the others but has some of the wildest takes and said she felt threatened and scared for her life at someone making a Shakespearean reference. Professional victim

Nightgoodomens- a particularly nasty motherfucker. So toxic she’s quarantined. Misogynistic, ableist, um…yeah not much to say there except for the fact that apparently anything that David does that involves his wife means he’s forced into it. Would rather see them as abused puppies than accept they love their partners. Heavy on the homophobia and bi erasure since yes, fetishization isn’t allyship, it is homophobia. Everything is PR. She doesn’t know what PR means nor that David and Michael are not nearly important enough to have a 24/7 team controlling all social media and personal aspects of their lives. Neil gaiman apologist who blamed his sexual assault revelations on David’s support of trans people. Denies women flirting with each other and boils it to PR friendships??!?

Dejadestalkearmeloser- pretty much the same as nightgoodimens, flips shit when you call her out on it, I mean look at her pinned post about me and you’ll see. Also apparently I’m every account that doesn’t like her. Seems to have a problem with lesbians not liking her (wonder why lesbians don’t like the misogynistic people who only talk about the lgbtq community when it comes to fetishising mlm relationships)

Thetardisisbluesndroseistoo- flips shit at Georgia getting credit for anything, lost her shit on someone saying that Georgia has educated David on lgbtq allyship (he quite literally said himself that she does) later deleted posts when I called her out. Can’t stop laughing at that

invisibleicewands- really, really creepy about Anna, delving into her past and family to try and find…something. Body shaming. Mom shaming. The usual misogyny.

dtmsrpf- I guess a spoof on my name, belongs to one of the others on this list. The usual misogyny with a particular axe to grind against their looks and other things. Definitely a little salty.

georgiatennantunofficial (instagram)- extremely fucking gross. Body shaming and misogyny. Usual. You guys see a pattern yet?

[eisforeidolon]

Don’t know if relevant but found it incredibly funny. Noticed a gifset of this weekend is going around and hellers screaming cockles, where misha basically asked jensen to sit closer to him as he does with Jared, and Jensen came closer, made some jokes to allure the audience and went back to his space (I don’t know if he sat closer after that though). It is such a lol moment for me, and seeing hellers excited for this is hillourious. It feels to me like Misha and his minnions are so adamant to take the place of Jared in Jensen's life. They push for the things which comes most normally between jared and jensen.

I am always amazed at the extent to which tinhatters are able to convince themselves that actors doing things they're being paid to do means they're ~*in lurve*~. OMG, I paid them to hold hands in a photo op and THEY DID! OMG, they're being paid to banter together on stage and THEY DID! Like do you seriously not understand the concept of actors, or ...

I think full videos of the panels went up earlier this evening, but I saw clips previously which included the section of the panel you're talking about and it was so obviously a bit? Part of the reason it's so funny with J2 is that while sometimes they do pointedly do it as a joke, they can make it come off spontaneously. Not only that, but there's also a large portion of the time they don't even seem to notice they're doing it.

This was so painfully staged to warm up the audience at the beginning of the panel that it's embarrassing to compare the two. It was actually Jensen moving closer to Misha after asking why he was sitting so far away IIRC, and then them both exaggeratedly scooting across the stage. Then Jensen moves his chair back as far away as it started with such a blank look, very, 'Okay, checked that off the list, on to talking about the city'. Twue lurve!

I have pointedly said before that I don't think Jensen needs to treat Misha like he has a communicable disease just because some nutcases on the internet are going to fantasize every second they breathe the same air into an epic romance. I would also be very surprised if Jensen has heard even a fraction of the queerbait-y objectifying shit Misha has said and continues saying behind his back. It's also relevant that they're being paid to perform for an audience who are likely mostly GA fans who want to believe the whole cast are super close besties and want to see them goofing around - like they do on the gag reels!

Meanwhile, the cockless weirdos desperately want believe Jensen performing during panels with Misha means that Misha will oh-so-easily take Jared's place - and beyond! The problem is, if you compare the onstage dynamics between the three of them? I haven't ever seen a truly awkward panel between Jensen and Jared or Jared and Misha. But Jensen and Misha? Oof. It's not always terrible. But Jensen is the most reserved and least open while Misha is constantly flippant, raunchy, and overshares. It's not just that Jared is more adaptable, it's that they're genuinely an awkward personality match. Then you add the whole known issue of belligerent overstepping D/C shippers who may try to slip in an awkward bomb of a question on top of it. So in the same way that I assume you don't know what a romance actually looks like if you think D/C is one at all, let alone an epic one? If you're insisting Jensen and Misha are the ones that must be fucking given their onstage chemistry, I assume that you also don't understand chemistry is more than who you personally get off on imagining having sex.

[arwenadreamer]

What's this 'drunk handjob' thingie? I am seeing this everywhere

Hi nonnie, it's nothing that really happened. (At least nothing we know of. 😉) It's just some headcanon or whatever that got a life of its own. To be honest, till a few minutes ago I thought it was about Sam and Dean weirdcest. Only realised with that other post that it is about J2 apparently.

I'm not even a 100 % convinced J2 tinhatter. I see it as more of a Shrödinger situation. They may or may not have more than a platonic friendship going on. We'll never know. That cat will always sit in the box for us. But no one can deny that their love for each other is deep. And at least a bit strange. So a drunken hand job? I can see where that headcanon is coming from.

[lightofraye]

First link.

Second link.

Per your request, I am cropping out your name. No worries.

But yeah. In the first link, it's Jared and Jensen, a fact I keep repeating over and over and over again: those two are like puppies in a pile, all over each other, physically intimate, comfortable with all kinds of touching. (Not a tinhatter here, folks, but boy, I can see why those rumors persists!)

Meanwhile, at Wales Comic Con, the second link, Danneel is being physically aggressive, shoving at Jensen repeatedly and him just turning away from her. He never once touched her.

The length of time of the panels are very similar, and yet... Wales Comic Con: not a single touch from Jensen to Danneel, and plenty of aggressive shoves from her. Jared and Jensen at IndyCon, plenty of touching, playful and affectionate, knee bumps, and so forth.

So when people say Jensen isn't comfortable with PDA, I want to laugh and go "No, that isn't his problem!"

His problem is that he's not comfortable with his blasted wife. And who can blame him, with how she treats him--publicly. Imagine how much worse she is in private. Small wonder he's rarely ever home.

There's no affection from Danneel. It's rather obvious, to those not wearing rose-colored blinders. Just control and manipulation and greed.

Anyway.

Thank you for your ask, and your share. I hope he does too.

[spaceorphan18]

So apparently the glee writers loved to bring in aspects of the actor’s personality and give them to the characters, as well as their personal lives and interests. What do you think they brought to Kurt and Blaine from Chris and Darren? There is some obvious stuff, well to me it is from what I’ve seen of them in interviews etc.

They brought some negative stuff for some of the other actors, but I don’t think they did so for them??

You know, it's funny - we used to say that as the show went on - Kurt became more like Chris and Blaine became less like Darren.

Kurt is the more complicated answer. When the show started, Kurt was much more Ryan Murphy -- this weird, effeminate, overly dramatic kid. Kurt became more toned down as the show went on, because Chris was (is) not an overly effeminate, dramatic guy.

They tried to bring in Kurt writing (Chris really did not want this - but there are elements of it in his character anyway). There are also smaller things -- like Kurt's penchant for twirling things, that's a Chris-ism. There are more -- but I'm kind of blanking, I'd know it if I saw it. But they're peppered in. You can sometimes tell when Chris improv'd a Kurt line, because Chris as a sharp sense of humor and a certain cadence to it that is slightly off from the rest of the writing.

Also, I do believe Kurt's independence was definitely a push from Chris, as Chris values individual independence very much.

Unfortunately, there were some negative things that did filter through for Chris/Kurt, mostly in the last few seasons. They started commenting on his looks more (which Naya confirmed Chris felt uncomfortable with). They also make a lot of jokes about Kurt liking old people -- and part of that stems from Chris having older friends/enjoying older people, but I've always wondered if Walter stemmed (every so slightly - there are definitely other factors going on here) from the fact that Chris's partner Will is a good deal older than him. (I mean, not that much older, but Will is older than I am!)

Of course, The Hurt Locker episodes were commentary on itself, and part of that commentary was Chris (and possibly Darren)'s wanting to not be linked together. Also, I've always wondered about the line from Isabelle about 'Chris' and 'Darren' not wanting to sit together. And I always wondered if it was commentary on Chris not wanting to be public with Darren because of the tinhatters.

Darren/Blaine is a little bit harder to define in some ways. The character just was incredibly under developed in the first few seasons, and especially in Season 2, Darren brought a lot more of himself to the role? the voice change is the big one - Darren changed Blaine's voice, and once he settled on it, he never looked back.

I don't know how much they wrote Darren into Blaine, though. There were little nods here and there -- The glitter rock vampire stuff is all Darren, and probably improvised. Blaine put on pink sunglasses in season 2, which was a nod to Darren (at the time). But I don't know that they took too much of Darren's life and put it in the show.

I think, ultimately, that Darren had one of the better relationships with the creators/writers/etc of the show, and thus was not given the same treatment that those on the outs with them often got, unfortunately.

Jane Lynch once said - you could always tell who was in and who was out with Ryan Murphy based on how the character was treated. And I do think she was pretty accurate on that one.

[fightingalgth8rs]

Help. https://www.tumblr.com/nightempire/780822610892226560/david-really-wrote-down-everything-michael-did

Zero integrity. Weak spine. Coward. Rock bottom. And so on.

Tinhatters are "destroying" DT while praising MS. Apparently he managed to do something that DT couldn't because he has no spine.

My question is what. What Michael has actually done? Left his gf and kids? He hasn't as far as I know. Are they saying this simply to create a false dichotomy to prepare the basis for some future "divorce" between MS and DT? The narrative would need to have a "villain" and a "hero/victim", and outside villains (wives) don't cut it anymore. Looking through ngo's blog I noticed that she follows this exact pattern in her new obsession, she villanizes Jayce while Victor is a pure innocent baby. She still ships them as a couple, but Jayce is constantly in the wrong and needs to beg forgiveness. (Very healthy, I know)

I sorta think that since her first choice of the DT/MS narrative - boys leaving their wives, publicly humiliating them and shacking up together- didn't work (it's simply too obvious now), she needs this new dramatic narrative turn: one of them turned out to be a weak coward. He sauntered vaguely downwards and lost his paradise etc.

Looking forward to watching this narrative unfold if I'm right. Should be fun.

Oh, and she lied, of course. She just posted this, so her twittering about losing interest in DT was just that, twittering.

P.S. It's fun psychoanalizing tinhatters, I found. To give them back a bit of what they dish out about celebrity strangers.

I really think she’s smoking crack. Something is not okay here. This is a psychotic break. She’s lost her fucking mind. This sounds like what Tori’s stalker sounded like right before she got arrested.

Oh btw I’m on a completely spur of the moment road trip since like noon so everything I’m saying is what I am able to type with cell service. This comes to you from a gas station in COLORADO. I’m sitting in my car trying to fucking comprehend what is happening here

[thegeorgiatennantblog]

I look at what's happening in the GO fandom and I have flashbacks. Where does this sudden influx of rpf creeps come from? I thought that in 2024 everyone would already understand how to behave and that something like this would be unacceptable, but here we are, it's probably a canon event in every fandom. It's good that at least this madness won't last for another 15 years like J2.

Sorry to tell you nonnie but I thought by 2025 (yk the fake year. the science fiction future year. yeah that year) homophobia and misogyny would be gone, we would've ended war and world poverty and prolly have a fossil-fuel-free world but there you have it.

[allthishumanityforfree]

I'm the tangfastics at stage door lady (50 years old) and Paul Mescal is the first crush that I've had of this size on a celebrity since Cary Elwes in The Princess Bride. I've been examining it big time... Some of it is impulse control, diagnosed with ADHD and perimenopause and went through some trouble at work which evidently can lead to crushes as a way to deal with things. Happily married. But way way way way addicted and wasting way too much time on following him on social media. I was trying to cut down and found this account just googling his name because I had taken Instagram off of my phone. First saw him a year ago on Hulu and all of the strangers and thought he was Pedro Pascal for the first few minutes, then looked him up and started watching normal people which I had started before not realizing it and liked it more the second time. I think it might be just those two movies in a row that really created the attraction. I didn't even know what shipped meant until I got on Instagram just for paul. I totally had shipped him and Andrew quite some time so you properly identified me as a mescott but then I equally shipped him in Daisy just as hard. I have had some jealousy issues about Gracie, but he just wore another one of her sweatshirts last night at stage door. I do think the relationship is real. It will be interesting to see how his career grows and who end up being his long-term partner. I think his natural reaction to being given the Tangfastics was pure joy and he brought up vanya, so I don't think there's any awkward breakups I have a feeling they're just trying to keep their private lives private. Paul would hate all of these conversations we're having about his private life. But my self-control is seriously lacking these days! Curious how you became such a shipper and is it in jest or are you full on tinhat.

Hello. I hope you don't mind me posting this ask. Thank you for giving him those sweets, you certainly were a talk of the fandom and gave us all a little Mescott hope. I am so so relieved that he seemed happy and there was no awkwardness, although you have to admit that the lack of public appearances, even at professional events, is unusual. No reason Paul and Andrew can't attend opening events and promote each other's stuff.

Can you tell us what he said about vanya and more about meeting him?

I worrying am quite a tinhatter, I believe everything I write on here. I mean, I am not in peoples dms and like this in real life. This Tumblr is the only place I talk about Mescott, and I chose it because it's quiet and hidden. I would hate for people involved to read these thoughts, which is why I do not have a Twitter, TikTok or Instagram about Mescott. It's just here and the Discord, where I feel I can get feral, and no one will notice. Of course, I am aware that it's not totally hidden and people can still find me. (I am shocked I have this many followers).

But 80% of my thoughts when they drift are about Mescott. And yes, I do think they had a thing going on during the AOUS promo. I have always thought Paul was queer. I liked him as an actor since Aftersun, well actually I saw Carmen when it came out and thought he had huge potential as an actor. I just presumed he was queer, like a straight guy would not be engaged to Phoebe Bridgers.

How did I become a shipper? I watched Mescott on Graham Norton promoting AOUS and perceived. My TikTok fyp is generally celeb interviews and press tours, so I started seeing those purple cardigan/blue shirt interviews. I became low-key obsessed with were fucking. I perceive a lot about celebs hooking up (I could list a few I think have theories about) but thanks to some good gifmakers I really got into Mescott. For whatever reason, it itched my RPF brain. I just loved how happy and comfortable Paul was with Andrew compared to older interviews, I guess.

I also am not sold on P&G being real, but I am worried if I say some theories I could tempt fate.

[ingravinoveritas]

Thank you for having anonymous back up, (I understand why somebody would prefer not having it on but I am worried how people/friends would react to my following an rpfer).

Anyway, something you said once a while ago has stuck with me and if you're okay with answering, you said something along the lines of your 90% sure that Michael has read your fanfiction and I'm curious why you say/think that, or if it was just a joke I didn't pick up on.

Hi, Anon. I'd like to start by responding to the first part of this, as I have to admit I was slightly taken aback, and hopefully you will soon understand why. You may not have intended it, but your comment came across as a bit backhanded. I appreciate that you follow me, but it was kind of like someone saying, "I'll come to your house for a delicious home-cooked dinner, sure, but your car's a pile of junk and your furniture's ugly and I just hope I don't see anybody I know on the way over."

The whole reason I've preferred to not have Anon on for a very long time now is that I've been on the receiving end of libelous, hateful, defamatory attacks and harassment (in one form or another) almost every day now for the last seven months. So for the sake of my sanity--and as much as I didn't want to, because I do enjoy answering Anons--I had to close that avenue off. And part of the reason I think that harassment has proliferated in all this time is that the people engaging in it use words like "RPFer" or "tinhatter," which make it very easy to not see me as a person. While I do ship Michael and David, that's not the sum total of me--who I am, or what I blog about. You know?

But I think that you do see me as a person, Anon, which is why you follow me. So what I would say to you is to ask yourself: If the people you call friends are unwilling to see me as a person/would judge you so harshly for doing so, are those people you truly want to have as friends? It seems like it makes more sense to own what you enjoy, and to not have to hide parts of yourself just to make others happy. You can continue to follow me if you like, or you can unfollow me, and that's okay, too. I would just appreciate it if you refrain from implying (intentionally or unintentionally) that my blog is something embarrassing to follow. I also don't want you to feel embarrassed to be here, but that's entirely up to you.

To answer your question, though (which I certainly am okay with answering), I was indeed serious when I said that I thought there was a possibility Michael had read one of my fics. This was back in 2019, and to set the stage, Michael was heavily into the GO fandom at the time--interacting with fans on Twitter, retweeting/liking fanart, and lurking all over the place. The fic in question was my Michael/Female Reader fic, and what made me think he read it was an Anon that I received almost immediately after publishing it.

I had never received an Anon like that before, and to this day, I have not received one like it since. In no way am I saying that this is any sort of proof, but it was simply that I could hear Michael's "voice" in that Anon, because the way he talks and writes is so distinct. That, along with his intense engagement with the fandom/social media and the fact that he'd made no secret of his penchant for fanfic by then. And while Michael had only referred to Aziraphale/Crowley fics at that point, this is the same man who previously said he'd read Roy Orbison fanfic, so I don't think RPF would be remotely implausible...

In any case, I hope that helps to answer your question. Definitely one of the weirder occurrences in my time in this fandom, but then again, there's very little about this fandom that isn't weird these days, it seems...

[a-larry-retrospective-blog]

Before we start

I feel like I need to make a pinned post to introduce myself before I go on further with 'crying shaking throwing up' posts. So. Here it is!

You can call me R. I'm a '96 baby, not in the sense that I'm actually a baby but in the sense "you CAN and should do the math" because I know this blog will be updated so sporadically I'm not gonna update my age. Right now I'm 28, but you could be reading this as I'm approaching my 30s.

Three things about me: I'm haunted by Sherlock Holmes and the ghost of johnlock, I'm a TS scholar in the sense that I've been listening and reading and analysing her shit since i was at the ripe age of 13 years old, and all this should lead y'all to understand that I'm both a tinhatter and a deeply skeptic person. I have trust issues AND I like making theories, is that so bad?

Now, how the fuck did I end up here?

Imagine: it's the year of our lord 2024. I've been away from the 1D fandom, and the Larry fandom even more specifically (I was a lurker) for almost ten (10) years.

I used to lurk in Larry spaces between ?I think late 2011? to 2014. You can imagine what kind of fun year was 2012 to me. (Haylor is still, to this day, my Roman empire.)

Back in the day, I was a bit gullible (not to the point of believing the reborn dolls shit, sorry), so my thoughts in the last ten years have always been "well I don't know what actually happened between them: maybe they were, maybe they weren't" because i was Young (15 to 18) and not from an english speaking country and I probably missed a lot of nuance, and i didn't have the tools to analyse that stuff critically.

I didn't even listen to their albums unless a track was sneaked into my Spotify algorithm. And even then, I didn't pay that attention to lyrics or anything.

I'm blissfully ignorant, and I know I'm happy.

Fast forward to last month: the clock app (we all know the one) recommends me a video with Love of my life (as a TS scholar I cannot shorten it for fear of confusing the two). I'm like: huh. Inch resting. Let's hear the whole song. Oh, it's about "England"? I did not know an entire country could take a plane! Welcome back Sherlock from the hit BBC serie saying he missed "London" while talking about John, I guess?

Now I'm being silly goofy, but that kind of shocked me deeply to my core. Because like, okay. You're a songwriter and you're a DramatiqueTM songwriter at that. But. You WERE the love of my LIFE when you've barely reached a quarter of your life is objectively insane. That's something that has left a mark on you. And somehow I deeply doubt it's about one of his highly public relationship with one of the "blue eyed models" that Blondie was talking about.

So I started to dig into their songwriting catalogues, and boi oh boi. My frontal lobe is fully developed (hopefully), I have little to no parasocial relationship with two guys who I haven't looked for in the last ten (10) years, I'm an adult with a job and a degree and a second one on the way, and yet my first thought reading their lyrics was "oh, you guys are still both at the fucking restaurant, huh".

And now, here I am, with a new sideblog because I can't inundate my friends' dashboards with stuff we all agreed we outgrew ten years ago. I know I made this introduction so easily recognisable my friends could see it's me from a mile away. If you end up here, sorry for the war flashbacks! I love you!

I hope you all can enjoy your stay as I rediscover old Larry stuff, find out what I've missed in the last ten years, and generally comment on the state of whatever these two are doing.