#this is NOT liam positive

[louisloulouie]

This is so complicated, so I’m just going to write my feelings out and idk how this is gonna go. This will be a very selfish post to just talk about my feelings.

If you see me post about liam pre-2016 just know I’m grieving the man I thought he was and who’s music helped me so much in life because it is impossible to separate 1D from myself.

Personally I am not grieving Liam as the person he was exposed to be. I know now that he’s dead we shouldn’t attack him but I have been 100% against him in the past month. I supported him 100% since 2012, then he started getting into some weird things, then he dated Maya, and then everything about the type of person he was came out and those all culminated to me being completely against him. I am not mourning him right now if I’m completely honest.

But, that man was a part of a band that has been integral to me for almost half my life. 1D was my world. I was a liam girl before I was a louie, I have not and probably will never love something as much as I did 1D. He and 1D were so important to me. So I am grieving the person he was, I’m grieving my childhood, I’m grieving the band that saved my life when I was at my lowest I’ve ever been.

I feel so so so so fucking bad for his family, for his parents most of all oh my fucking god I can’t believe they have to bury a child. I feel bad for his sisters, I feel bad for his son. I’ve been out of the loop when it comes to Liam’s personal life so idk how involved he was with Bear, but now that kid is gonna grow up without his father and that’s so painful.

I personally don’t think Liam could have been redeemed after everything that came to light. Maybe this isn’t something I should be saying when he’s just died. But I don’t think an abuser could have bettered himself much. Maybe I’m ignorant or closed minded but I’m open to hearing the opposite perspective on something like this. I think it’s tragic that he died before his victims could get justice. I grieve for his victims and the things Maya had to go through at just 19 years old and what she will have to go through now as the person who exposed him the most, I know the Liam fans are going to attack her ruthlessly.

So I’m not mourning him as the person we know he was now. But I am mourning who we thought he was in the 1D years. I’m mourning the friendships he had with the other boys and the happiness they brought each other and the millions of fans who sought comfort from them. I’m grieving for the girl who was 14 years old that found 1D at just the right time so that I could keep living with a new source of happiness keeping my alive. But I am not grieving the Liam we have all found out about the past couple years.

[utilitycaster]

I think Orym's position here is such a great one to depict, because the reality of any form of political organizing you will find someone who will not budge. This is fundamentally neutral, though someone like this can certainly have a position you find repugnant. It doesn't matter. This is the reality of dealing with that person. If someone will under no circumstances change their position - especially if it's informed by personal experience - that doesn't mean they are a good or bad person or their position is justified or not, but it does mean that to get them on your side, either you will have to find a way to appeal to them, not the other way around, or you will have to move forward without their support.

When encountering someone like this, you can bang your head against the brick wall and tell them about the superiority of your position for as long as you want, but unless you dip into threats and coercion or worse, you really cannot make them do anything they don't want to, no matter how eloquently you speak. There's considerable power in being that person.

(For what it's worth, I think he's perhaps the truest foil to Ludinus in this respect; I believe Ludinus's beliefs to be just as deeply ingrained and immutable. The key difference is that Orym is not in any way responsible for the death of Ludinus's family, or like, Molaesmyr, so when they move into the moral part of the argument instead of simply the blunt reality of unmoving objects, he does have a significant advantage.)

[samcat18]

Liam o'brien absolutely vibrating with anger that he's channeling for orym is making me feel more than anything else in this philosophical snoozery is

[pearlpleultraviolence]

Liam Payne Memorial- Cathedral Gardens, Manchester, England.

(pic is mine </3)

[larentslovechaos]

the way we're gonna get to see zayn's ease and confidence as a solo performer grow just as we have with harry, louis, and niall 🥺 i couldn't be more proud of all of them

[unicone0crem]

ladies and gentlemen *posts*

they're married! plus I'm back :D

[starshapedoasis]

-US Vogue January 1998

[teenwolf-confessions]

[blackhholes]

Self-Injury in Teen Wolf

“A Hideous Torture on Himself”: Madness and Self-Mutilation in Victorian Literature by Sarah Chaney / Representing the Unrepresentable: Self-Harm as Affect by Laura Wilson / Damaging the Body Politic: Self-Mutilation as Spectacle by Alexandra Gray

Written for @teenwolf-meta‘s Meta May Monday theme: pain.

The idea of pain making you human was introduced into the show when Derek said "And that's what keeps you human- pain." to Scott in the season one episode The Tell. It's a concept which is repeatedly brought up throughout the show and might actually be one of the more consistent facets of werewolf lore seen within the show.

When lycanthropic characters are incapable of relying on their anchor to tether them to their human side, they can instead draw on their own pain, often self-inflicted, to avoid the consequences of shifting. Throughout the show the character shown to utilize this the most is Liam. He's often incapable of controlling his anger and as a result is incapable of keeping in touch with his humanity, meaning that he's pushed to the edge of self-injury more often than other characters.

Another instance where we see characters inflict injury on themselves, or others, is when they need to trigger their healing. As seen in the season four finale when Kira is unable to heal after being attacked by berserker-Scott, where she then has to cut up her hand with a shard of obsidian for the rest of her body to heal. This is interesting because it visualizes a clear disconnect between the body and the self, the self which needs to heal can only communicate this with the body through more pain and injury.

Lydia is also seen injuring herself in season two when she's being controlled by Peter. When she's awoken by her mother her sheets are covered in blood and it's then revealed that she punched her mirror with no recollection of it. This serves as a narrative red herring as it's revealed later in the same episode that the Kanima hates its own reflection, but on a personal level it also shows the viewer the disconnect Lydia is experiencing between herself and her mind.

[baylardian-1]

Kinda a redraw of this piece requested by @puppycillz like embarrassingly a LONG time ago (2022 🫣🙈), I never forgot and it's always haunted me!!! It's just a very hard pose to pull off with that many bodies. 😭😭😭😭😭

Bit of a fantastical stretch of a scenario and bed lmao. 😂

BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it at least goes with the funny idea that Chakotay gives up his fleet commander's quarters on Voyager to the Paris family lol.

[httpiastri]

my boys interacting ????? 🥲

[sunshine-and-her-ikevil-stuff]

Looks like I have to wait a bit longer for Alfons, but that's okay because

IT'S LIAM!!!

And this event is right up my alley!

[m4ndysk4nkovich]

and if i said that i’m on lip’s side in season 4?

[eckvanett]

Some rules that I’m giving myself next year:

• Have more fun (stop saying no when offered to hang out with someone)

• Put myself before others even if I have to be selfish

• Live my life how I want to live it

• Do what I want even if it means doing it by myself (this will also help w my anxiety so it’s a win/win situation)

• Enjoy my life as a woman in my early 20s

• Work my ass off but give myself a chance to enjoy my success

• Stop caring about what others think of me

• Read more (even if it’s smut, idc, just read)

• Live every day the way that One Direction made me feel as a teenager

[teenwolf-confessions]

[zot3-flopped]

Is it true that Maya Henry used to be a Directioner and attended a Meet & Greet?

Yes - and Liam was her favourite. Here's a picture of her with them in 2015, when Maya was 14 years old.