#i'm still tagging that even if the conversation has somewhat derailed from that

[alarrytale]

before saying all this, i am a larrie and support both harry and louis. now with that out of the way i want to say that if you feel like you’re being manipulated by and gaslighted by louis wouldn’t it be best to step away or leave? being constantly angry/tired/disappointed is not healthy. i think putting yourself first is better than staying here.

i’m personally not happy about the kid being there, but it is what it is. this is one of the most horrible stunts because it involves a kid who’s innocent in all of this and a guy who didn’t ask for any it. i will never judge louis for how he deals with it. all i want is for the kid and louis to be free from all of it.

at the end of the day we don’t know them really, we don’t know what’s happening behind the scenes, we don’t know anything besides what they decide to share with us. we don’t know the exact reasons. we don’t know how contracts or ndas look like. we don’t know what kind of deals and sacrifices they’ve had to do.

i’m sorry if i come off as rude. that is not my intention. just wanted to share my thoughts.

No need to apologise! You're not rude.

I'm not constantly angry/tired or disappointed. I'm mostly happy here in this fandom over all, and i focus on the things that still brings me joy. The community between us larries is one of the strongest i've ever experienced. We are constantly bombarded with lies, gaslighted and targeted by other parts of the fandom, and sometimes by larry themselves. Yet, we usually respond with memes, laughter and love. I love being a larrie, and i'm still proud to call myself a larrie. The good still outweigh the bad for me, and that's why I'm still here.

I disagree with you on one point though. I do think we know who they are. They're good people, who's dealing with a shit situation. We still get glimps of them from time to time. And we do know how contracts and NDA's look like, maybe not exactly what is in theirs, but we do know what's legal and not.

And we know ALOT more than they show us.

The problem is that before there was a clear bad guy and a clear fight towards freedom that was very explicitly expressed by Harry and Louis. Now there is not, and there is now evidence that support the contrary. They are happy with status quo. Harry is wildly successful and Louis has overcome his struggles and is now on towards bigger and better. At least that's the narrative we're being presented. And where does that leave us, the larries? We are still being targeted and gaslighted from all sides, but now it looks like Harry and Louis don't care. Remember the larents tweet from Harry and the context around it? Yeah, we're not getting that in 2023. It appears larries are only valuable as fans, not as larries who sees the truth and their fight for freedom. We appear to be collateral damage in their search for more money and more success.

Was our consept of freedom that different? We though freedom for them meant a coming out and an end to the lies. Maybe their consept of freedom was getting free from Simon and being successfull and rich?

I don't think so though, at least i hope not. I still believe Louis would end babygate right now if he could, and i hope he sees and knows everything larries have been through, despite everything done in his name to harm us. Hey, his fandom is 80% larries. Do i really believe Louis to be that evil and greedy? No, no of course not. We know who he is.

And that's why I'm not going anywhere.

[solicuttle]

Some fluffy and somewhat chaotic grocery shopping headcanons with Kaidou and Akechi? Maybe you both are out shopping and you find a child all by themselves and try to help find their parents? Sorry if this prompt is really random! But I'm glad to see requests back open!💕

This prompt was actually super fun to write,,,

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Grocery Shopping

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Word Count: 1.k

Warnings: None (?)

Characters: Kaidou Shun, Akechi Touma

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Akechi is one of the worst people to take grocery shopping. This is not an exaggeration; it is simply a fact. While Akechi does supply pleasant company (that being that Akechi is a nice background talker), he is a bit peculiar in your buying habits. Are you really sure you only need the items on your list? Akechi means well and he’s thinking for your future. What if you need a zucchini compressing machine later, and you don’t buy it now? Won’t you feel regret then? That’d be terribly awful, so if you could just listen to Akechi you’d save yourself the trouble.

To stop that from happening, why don’t you just purchase the machine now and – oh, how about this brand-new rice cooker? Akechi knows you might want to buy rice, so why not buy this to go with your purchase?

Akechi gets derailed a lot. On the plus side Akechi will help you carry your bags, but only so you can grab that nice spatula over there.

Do not take Akechi to the meat section. He can and will stand still for 10 minutes while he tries to convince you to buy quail meat. You can try and leave but remember who holds your groceries. If you’re vegetarian/didn’t plan to buy meat at all, expect to see random sunflower seeds or asparagus in your groceries without your prior knowledge.

It’s on one of Akechi’s long winded speeches on why you absolutely need an air fryer that you find your distraction a crying child.

“Akechi, I think this child has lost their guardians,” if it makes you feel any better, Akechi will no longer coerce you into buying random ingredients because he’s focused on the kid. It’s kind of like a mystery for him to solve. While you could find the intercom and mention that you both found a kid on aisle 9, it’s much more entertaining to go on a wild goose hunt.

What should’ve been asking the kid their name turns into asking the kid their favorite color, favorite movie, favorite everything-that’s-not-very-useful. What should’ve been asking what their guardian looks like turns into “how nice are they?” and “do they prefer pink or blue?”. To you, the information is useless but Akechi somehow deduces that their guardian must not be on aisle 3 or aisle 2. How he does that is beyond you.

You’re the one patiently holding on to the kid’s hand. Even now, Akechi has refused to drop your groceries (perhaps he plans to blackmail you into buying more peas).

“Do you know what they look like?” Till now Akechi has not asked for the valuable information, so you have to take the reins. The answer you receive isn’t useful in the slightest – perhaps that’s why Akechi didn’t ask in the first place? Ah, there has always been a difference between geniuses and mere mortals.

“Their mother is on aisle 10 – the frozen food aisle.” Akechi randomly blurts that out – with no context or prior information. You obviously don’t believe him because there has been no evidence pointing in that direction.

“My bets are on aisle 6 –” you also have no valid reason, but you actually had a conversation with the kid so you’re probably right.

You’re not. For some unforeseen reason, the guardian – the kid’s mom – is on aisle 10 like Akechi said. Luckily for you, Akechi doesn’t gloat, preferring to coerce you into buying two packs of cereal.

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Kaidou Shun

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Surprisingly, Kaidou is relatively a nice addition to your grocery shopping. He doesn’t convince you to buy anything you won’t need. The problems begin with getting anything done in the first place. To begin with – Kaidou has absolutely no idea where anything is so it’s on you to figure it out. While that might not be an issue to you, it is a big issue to Kaidou who wants to carry your groceries. After all, what sort of superhero can’t carry bags of food?

Kaidou apparently, because he nearly collapses the minute you hand him the bags. You take them from him to check how heavy they are – they aren’t heavy at all. You wisely decide not to mention anything about it to shatter Kaidou’s fragile ego. You should’ve cracked his ego. Kaidou boasts about how he can carry your bags with ease, and how he only gave you your bags back to build your “character”. Whatever that means.

Kaidou resolves to help you dump your groceries into the bags. That would be nice if he could stop playing with the food to begin with. Kaidou had grabbed the carrots you’d asked for and instead of dropping them into your bags like you’d requested, he decided it was time to weave a gritty action story between two carrots. It would be interesting if you didn’t want to leave the supermarket sooner than later.

Kaidou’s in the middle of narrating one of his own battles when your savior comes in the form of a crying child tugging your outfit. “Kaidou, we have to help them!” This is said out of the goodness of your heat and definitely not because you don’t want to hear about how Dark Reunion got away for the nth time. ��

You try to go to the intercom but Kaidou stops you.

“Don’t worry, I can sense where their guardian is.” Kaidou can’t. You would plead to go the intercom, but Kaidou’s confidence has subdued the tears of the child. It’s much better for both of you that the kid stops crying, lest someone accuse you of kidnapping them. If only you were as confident as Kaidou and the kid.

His confidence drags you down the aisles – first the frozen food aisle where the guardian clearly isn’t, then the meat section, then the dairy section… and it hits you that Kaidou has absolutely no idea where any thing in the supermarket is. You do not want to crush the kid and you don’t say anything. Instead, you try and steer your rag-tag group towards the more populated sections where the guardian might be hiding.

“Let’s head to the vegetables section!” Kaidou interrupts your train of thought by dragging you to an aisle you’ve already been to. What are the odds of finding the guardian in a place you’ve already checked? Surprisingly high, because they’re waiting for you right there. The kid leaves Kaidou’s grip and throws himself at them – you sigh in relief because it’s finally over.

At least until Kaidou begins narrating how he vanquished Dark Reunion and saved a kid.