#told through social media posts

[sadaveniren]

Hi! The sisters are heading to la and they might get papped with B and F and spend there several weeks pretending to be one big happy family. How not to feel anxious about their circus? I know they are not my monkeys but still I feel uneasy when it comes to bg

Well. For starters last I checked we don’t know FOR SURE where they are going but yes. Clearly they are painting this story that they are going to the USA for that big family trip they’ve talked about.

As for how I don’t feel anxious? Simple. They’re telling us it’s happening. And in this fandom if we’re being told something private life about Harry or Louis is happening it means…. It’s not their private life. It’s FOR US.

Like. Louis has shown a lot of the last couple of years he can go and do stuff and not advertise it and no one knows he’s there. Just think back to all of the adventures we saw his band/crew go on with him over tour. We didn’t know those things were happening when they did. We found out eventually but no one was posting “hey what’s a good thing to do in Iceland?” Or “where can we go ride ATVs?”

I’ve talked before about analyzing sources when it comes to the boys (and other things) and one of the biggest things is what is trying to be sold.

We didn’t NEED to be told they were doing a family vacation. Phoebe doesn’t NEED to ask IG for tips on long haul flights with a 9 month old. She has an older sister with a baby of her own. We were told about the big family vacation and Phoebe ASKED IG because the stage is being prepped for “look at our big happy family” and “look at our big happy family” is inherently going to mean Freddie should be there. So. Either we get Freddie content (and maybe that means he won’t show up for Christmas, who knows) and in that case - oh look we were prepped for it! - or we don’t 🤷🏼‍♀️

Either way. This trip is meant to be seen. Whether you like the Tomlinson twins or not (gonna go out on a limb and assume more people in fandom DONT) they are influencers and they TELL STORIES with their social media to sell people shit. And part of what they are selling is this idea that they are being transparent about their private lives (plot twist they definitely aren’t)

So basically… I don’t get anxious cause this is just something being sold to us. If this was an actual private vacation we wouldn’t know about it. So if Freddie shows up - lol kay… you should be in school buddy cause the USA doesn’t have breaks like that - but it’s just…. It’s just the story.

[thelaurenshippen]

oh! also! while we're on the subject of pride month and Damien and A Neon Darkness, that character of course would be NOTHING without the incredible voice behind him - Charlie Ian. the audiobook of AND is sO GOOD CHARLIE IS SO GOOD and also Charlie is a trans woman and uses she/her pronouns and she and I both thought people might like to know that!!!!

[esta-elavaris]

Had a moment today that exemplifies how my family thinks but like, in a way that’s just very sad and makes me glad I don’t think that way.

Showed a relative the amazing painting that friend did for me, and her first response was “you’d be able to sell that for some good money!!!”

Like. No????

For months I’ve discussed this creative trade with this friend, we’ve talked about what the other wants, we’ve gotten excited about it and traded progress pics as we work on it for each other, gotten stoked over making plans to get to the post office and seeing the other finally get it, and it’s just been a very wholesome and very fun project. It took six weeks for us to complete these projects, and now I have something on display in my room that makes me very happy, that’s objectively beautiful, and that I know a friend put a lot of effort into making for me and was THRILLED when I adored it.

And my family’s immediate line of thinking is “make a few quid from it lol”.

I can’t imagine the headspace it must take to go through life like that.

[mistystarshine]

i'll be real gang. i had way too many WIPs as it is, but i am SO tempted to write that fic where lucifer and lute invent the hell irs and adam is made to serve as their eternally suffering paperwork guinea pig. (to see if the average man can understand this shit) (n o) this is my roman empire.

[jcryptid]

Have to routinely stop myself from bashing myself for making characters certain races and genders bc “what if this is insanely offensive to some people?” by asking one very simple question:

Do people like this actively exist?

If the answer is yes, then maybe I can stop feeling bad about giving my beautiful, disabled, black, baby boy dnd character a love of the colour pink.

Ya know, bc art is all about translation, and people are gonna people regardless of if some random asshole on the internet decides their existence is problematic.

[rubyredbonnetblue]

My dad "acknowledging" my queerness:

*yesterday, helping me move boxes* My dad: you sure have a lot of books on queer history Me: yeah, I collect them. They're mostly old out-of-print books that I found at Half-Price My dad: *goes back to talking about logistics of box stacking and says nothing else on the subject* *a few months before, Bronski Beat is playing* Me: I love Bronski Beat My dad: *surprised* me too! They were my favorite band when I was a teen. Me: you know, Smalltown Boy is actually a song about being gay and running away from home. Me: *continues to try to tell my dad why I'm passionate about Bronski Beat and how they played a really cool role in queer history* My dad: *turned away and actively stopped listening to me the moment I said "gay"* *outright interrupts me mid-sentence to change the subject*

[thatone-churro]

one must imagine sisyphus enjoys refilling the condiment stands

[bejeweledmp3]

Your tags are making me think inordinary chapter on how ellie plays WCS for the first time and almost gets rained out but plays anyway and Joel shows up as a surprise and it's just That Day dealing with headlines and being like alright we're doing this my pen is out I'm taking NOTES!!!!

OH MY GODDDD this. literally all of this. i do feel like wcs is not a normal setlist song and she would decide to add it whilst they're waiting to find out if she can play or not (in a ok universe you've made this particular day Shitty As Fuck but if you let me do this one thing (the show) i will play that song) bc you KNOW it's a fan favorite you just know it. just the idea of her having joel there for emotional support??? fuck me up. people lose their minds about it completely on social media and joel is left blissfully unaware. they both catch the cold of their lives afterwards but it's fine

[thatrandombystander]

I've been at this office job for less than 2 weeks and I was already developing beef with the HR team, and now I've learnt that my whole team has beef with them

We had a team meeting and my boss gave me a task, my coworker went "isn't that something HR should do and should have already done?", to which my boss replied "Yes but I need it done well and soon so we're doing it ourselves"

Lmao get wrecked HR, the grad that's just started is better trusted to do good work than you are

[cuddlytogas]

entering my bitch era (trying to get more into twitter fandom and finding my tl flooded with people talking about A Certain Popular AU Fic that is, frankly, mostly just fine, and being overwhelmed with some of the pettiest little jealous rages you ever did see)

[sparklecryptid]

Sometimes I see takes on this site that feel incredibly cisgender

[vexx-the-egg]

This is kind of a harsh opinion arguably fueled by my own personal feelings. BUT FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. New Twitter users, please stop trying to turn this into Instagram. I don't want to see your Blazed post of you trying to prove how hot you are or how expensive your clothes are. Just link your insta or tiktok in your bio or something. Post your personal photos for people to stumble upon your blog like normal please for the LOVE of god STOP paying money to show off how you look for clout. Sure post pics and stuff but I can't be the only one whos weirded out by it. How every other social media site basically tells you that if you sell your face then you're guaranteed to get attention. This is the last site I could find that doesn't base a following around looking conventionally attractive and I want it to stay that way.

[pls2daysatan]

Social media makes me feel like I’m an animal in a circus. Do something cool, they all cheer. Do something boring, they spit on you and throw garbage at you.

[dreamcast-official]

fuck it. fuck it. i dont care. i dont actually care

[scarlet-rosepetals]

Also children should have social media.

Imagine an isolated gay kid who’s parents are violently homophobic and who’s teachers are all banned from saying the word “gay”. Now imagine that kid only has access to “family friendly” websites because of laws “protecting children from the dangers of the internet”. Does this still sound like a good idea to you?

objectively good idea

[talkfastcal]

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