#purpleturtleshorts

[elceeu2morrow]

just wanted to pop by and say thank you so much for reposting all the crew's social media posts. For me personally, it's been one of the most enjoyable aspects of ltwt bc I love seeing all the background work and I don't have Instagram so thank you truly 💕 hope you're having a nice day !!!!

You're very welcome! I, too, enjoy getting those behind the scenes tidbits. The time lapse videos that show how long it takes to set up (from John Delf) is very cool. As Louis says, a lot of hard work goes into putting on the show! Looks like most of them will be on the next leg of the tour so it'll be fun to get more photos. Hope you're having a great day/night as well!

[chooey]

hey, i saw your post and i just wanted to reach out and idk... give you a virtual hug or hold your hand or something. thinking, praying and hoping for good things for you and the ones you love. you dont have to respond, i just wanted to reach out to you and offer something other than silence

thank u☹️🥺💖 it's looking real bleak here ngl- our country is infamous for putting the absolute worst. corrupt, money-hungry shitty "people" in power............... thank you for thinking of me 😭🌷

[faith--in-the-future]

since we have far too many hours between the tweets and the show i want to know what you think they're plotting 👀👀👀

the rational part of my brain is saying nothing bc I don't want to be disappointed skgkh but the emotional part of my brain is thinking about a Portland situation... maybe we'll see him in shorts again... and idk if it's realistic but maybe new cover ???

[essercipertuttienonperse]

for you Emma https://www.instagram.com/p/CSo-5p-r6Qw/?utm_medium=copy_link

I love them skjdkd

[lwt-gifs]

louis' iconic mic lean ( for @purpleturtleshorts )

[faithinlouisfuture]

for Jo @purpleturtleshorts & our mutual love of Klimt and Louis 🧡

/ the kiss

/ medicine (part of the Faculty Paintings)

/ portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer

/ (part of) the tree of life

[tanktop-lou]

Hi love! Sorry to bother you but I wondered if you have some solo Louie blog to recommend, please. If they don’t post about harry (or at least use the tags) it’s even better, nothing personal I just don’t care about him. Thank you so much ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Hii sure these are some of my lovely mutuals

@essercipertour @itsallaboutzayn @louwangji @faithinlouisfuture @nonsocomechiamareilmioblog1 @random-hot-mess @louis-the-eternity @chrysopon @lt2official @gecgec @winterlou @want-to-be-loved @paigeschapterbook @lwtwalls91 @lwt-gifs @28-quetzal @louangelwt @aflowersblossom @defencelessangel @chewsdays @moonshinelouis @purpleturtleshorts @timidlouie @fairylightslt

[polaroidplanets]

i saw this going around in another fandom and i thought it was cute so i’m starting it here too!

rules: put your "on repeat" playlist on shuffle and list the first ten songs, then tag some people.

1. i don’t want to talk - wallows

2. earth girl - sonny & the sunsets

3. love sick - beach bunny

4. beach - san cisco

5. lisa baby - walk the moon

6. on the lips - frankie cosmos

7. fearless - louis tomlinson

8. defenceless - louis tomlinson

9. apartment - young the giant

10. pulling leaves off trees - wallows

i’m tagging: @28-quetzal @fairylouies @berlinini @crankydee @awayfrmhome @purpleturtleshorts @faithinlouisfuture @joliepetitelou @cowgirllouis (no pressure🥰)

[louis-in-red]

2021 Louie Awards Tag Game

@berlinini thank you for the tag!!!

Welcome to the 2021 Louie Awards!

Who are today's winners?

Nominees: All of Louis Tomlinson solo songs and covers

1. Best Lyrics: Defenceless -> We're sleeping on our problems like we'll solve them in our dreams, we wake up early morning and they're still under the sheets -> do I need to say more?

2. Best Vocals: Always You (I agree with Clem... ChAAAsing the high... best vocals ever)

3. Best Sound: KMM (Live)

4. Best Chorus: Miss You

5. Best First Verse: Copyx3 -> perfection :')

6. Best Second Verse: Fearless

7. Best Bridge: Miss You (Louis sort of rapping is one of my favorite things)

8. Best Cover: 7 (AFHF version)

9. Best Unreleased Song: Copyx3

10. Best Walls Song: Walls/Always You (my babies)

11. Best Pre-Walls Song: Miss You supremacy

12. Best Live Performance: The Away From Home Festival 2021

13. Best Music Video: I totally agree with Clem... MISS YOU SUPREMACY! THE VIDEO IS PERFECT! I love the way they tell the story in the mv and it goes perfect with the song lyrics. I also love Two of us... such a vulnerable song and a vulnerable music video... and the one with Richard... I cry every time :'(

14. Best Band Member: sweet Matt :') but I also love Steve!! so both of them :P

15. Best Team Member: I'm going to pick three: Helen, Charlie and Oli :)

Tagging @louis-the-eternity @bbrox @quetzal-28 @louiswaist @dreamersdivingheadfirst @venusrobots @louismygf @purpleturtleshorts @lwt28brave @uruwhy (no pressure tho)

[anthrac1te]

This or That?

Away From Home Festival Live Performance Version

Tagged by @quetzal-28 thanks mate

Put in bold your preferred song (live version), and then tag 3 people to play!

Best Cover: Through the Dark - Drag Me Down - 7 - Beautiful War - Little Black Dress -

Best Acoustic Song: Only The Brave - Perfect Now - Too Young

Best Rock Song: Kill My Mind - 7 - Fearless

Best Sad Song: Two of Us - Beautiful War - Change

Best "Faith in the Future" Song: We Made It - Just Hold On - Through the Dark - DLIBYH

Best Crowd Interaction: Always You - Defenceless - Fearless - Through the Dark

Cover/Live Version That Should Get a Studio Version: Beautiful War - Copyx3 - Fearless - Drag Me Down - 7

Song That Should Make It Out of the Setlist: ive got adhd i forgot mostly all of em probably but um i dont think any of em maybe take a slow paced one out, not sad but slow

I'm tagging @fearlesszouis @purpleturtleshorts @icarusfallsforwalls

Feel free to ignore, as always.

[faith--in-the-future]

I sent you a pressie in the DMs😌😌😌😌

shskjs I did not enjoy it

[essercipertuttienonperse]

me seeing the posts on your blog in the beginning of 2020 👁️👄👁️

AJSJSJDJD DONT LOOK

[desmond-the-queer-dragon]

It has come to my attention that the Documentary Paris is Buring was directed by a Cisgender white person who never respected the LGBTQ communitys boundaries.

Thank you @purpleturtleshorts for bringing this to my attention.

While this was something I did not know, it does emphasis my point here, and that is the fact that for decades, the boundaries of the queer community have never been respected. Not only that, but people want to appropriate our culture and profit off of us.

Yeah no. Nice try vogue. Point still stands.

TW: mentions of transphobic and homophobic hate crimes, abuse.

Dear Harry Styles Fans,

Some of y’all have been very adamant in defending Harry and While I understand the sentiment of supporting your favorite artist, I need you to understand the criticisms that people are making in regards to the Vogue cover issue.

The Marginalized communities of Latinx Queer and trans people, Black Queer and Trans individuals (who have done so fucking much for the queer community) along with other members of the LGBTQ+ community, have been trying to explain the issues behind it, giving you historical context and explanation behind why the media hailing Harry Styles as a gender bending icon is an issue.

Instead, what you all have been taking away is the fact that people are mad because he wore a dress. You are cherry picking the facts and not thinking about the broader issue.

No, we are not mad he wore a dress, we are mad at the fact that he is taking credit for it by allowing the media to claim him to be a gender bending icon. It doesn’t matter if he never said it orally himself, he sure as hell has done nothing to refute the claim or bring awareness of the history of how these fashion styles came to be.

Some of you bring up the fact that he is unlabeled and to stop calling him straight, and that it shouldn’t matter what his sexuality is. In a perfect world, it wouldn’t.

But this isn’t a perfect world.

Just because we have the right to legally marry, we are still ostracized, discriminated, beaten, and attacked for being queer.

Let me put this perspective:

In 2020, it was reported that at least 44 transgender or gender-non conforming people were fatally shot or killed by other violent means, the majority of which were Black and Latinx transgender women.

Why the term at least?

Because often times these stories go unreported or misreported because of fear and discrimination.

Black and Latinx queer and/or trans people created gender bending fashion when the world turned their back on them, letting them die one by one from AIDS, when police were arresting them in the street, when they were faced with homelessness because they had been kicked out of their homes for being who they were.

One of y’all sent an ask and told me that I need to engage with people in real life.

Guess what? It’s the people I hang out with in real life that I am making this post for.

I have friends who had been attacked for being trans and for being queer and for participating in gender bending fashion. I myself have been physically and verbally attacked as well for being queer, Trans, and participating in gender bending fashion. I have friends who have been kicked out their own homes because they exercised their right to express themselves how they want.

Some of you do not understand how it feels to watch as a cisgender man-who benefits the most from fucking privilege-get praised for wearing gender bending fashion while you, on the other hand are attacked and ostracized for it

I hope and pray you never do.

Whether you want to admit it or not, Harry styles is apart of the majority, he is cisgendered and is not apart of this community. Yes he may be unlabeled but guess what? He has never said he was queer. He could simply say “yes I am queer but I am unlabeled” and he has not.

Why? Because no matter how much Hollywood or the music industry is “accepting” or claims to be, coming out as queer will negatively impact your career. But being unlabeled? That’s having your cake and eating it too. He can get the best of both worlds.

For those who say he is an ally, I ask this:

If he is ally of the community, as some of y’all claim, then why isn’t he giving credit to the communities that created gender bending fashion?

Where is this support for the trailblazers who made this possible? Where is the recognition?

Nowhere.

Where does it stem from? Systematic Transphobia, homophobia, Transmisogyny and racism.

Not one of the anonymous asks I got mentioned anything about the issue of the transphobia, homophobia, and racism at play here, which means one of two things:

Most of you don’t recognize it because you either benefit from privilege and are sheltered from it

Most of You do recognize it, but choose to ignore it.

Most of you, I assume, are teenagers and you will most likely not want to listen to me because you are uncomfortable by what I have said or don’t want to believe me.

Most of you will say that I am being harsh. But beating around the bush has gotten me nowhere.

I hope some of you take the time to think critically, to look at what others have presented to you and to put yourself in our shoes. I hope you try and understand where we are coming from. And if you choose not to now, I hope you do sometime in the future.

No one is saying you need to hate Harry styles. We are asking you to analyze what media is telling you and be critical of his actions. You can support someone and be critical of them.

Im regards to articles, I’ll give you a few to start out with down below.

Hope you understand where we are coming from,

Sincerely,

A Non-Binary Dyke.

[paigeschapterbook]

I was tagged by @purpleturtleshorts so here it is!

Rules: put your "on repeat" playlist on shuffle and list the first ten songs, then tag some people.

1. Walls - Louis Tomlinson

2. Alone Together - Fall Out Boy

3. Fast Car - Tracy Chapman

4. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

5. Centuries - Fall Out Boy

6. Baby Can I Hold You - Tracy Chapman

7. Kill My Mind - Louis Tomlinson

8. Mr. Brightside - The Killers

9. Sober - P!nk

10. Only the Brave - Louis Tomlinson

So there it is. I don’t know who has already done this, but I’ll tag @zouis-little-lover @louistwhoretour @icarusfallsforwalls @28-quetzal @captainlouisuniverse @adam-my-adam

Thank you for the tag, Jo!

[essercipertuttienonperse]

Saw this and thought you might be interested

thank you!! you were right bc I read that some time ago and I remember loving it!! its truly not that surprising tbh like in the past the main system of values that society was built on was religion so people saw themselves through the lenses of those religions and now the system of values is extreme capitalism + consumerism so people see themselves through these lenses and end up behaving like they also are products that need to be sold to as many people as possible and they think that that's achievable through buying things

[essercipertuttienonperse]

Happy Birthday Emma !!! Hope you have a good one 💕

thank you !!🌟