is your British ass happy now?

[cyclogenesis]

UGH YES OKAY I'VE FALLEN VICTIM TO ONE DIRECTION FANDOM. This is not surprising if you follow me on Tumblr, which is where I spend most of my days, chillin' out maxin' and relaxin' all cool and reblogging pictures of Harry Styles being a perfect human being etc. I really thought my Sherlock fannishness would stick around but it's hard to focus when

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[astreindre]

Hello! I have found you via friend of friends list, and would just like to say WELCOME TO THE MADNESS. I'm so glad more LJ people are getting into 1d, now there might actually be GOOD fic. Nothing against tumblr, it's my main hangout these days, but good lord those kids do not know how to write and also sometimes they terrify me? Like, I was in bandom okay, I know what it's like to be in all-consuming love with a band but jesus christ people. o.o Sorry to like, creep on your journal like this but I always get super excited when I see another person on LJ get sucked in, and this is the first fandom since bandom that's made me want to reach out and talk to people instead of stay hidden away in lurkerdom, so I hope you don't mind! I haven't seen a lot of the things you linked to either, so wooooo I know how I'm spending my night!

[cyclogenesis]

Ahh thank you! It was literally two weeks ago that someone reblogged a Harry/Louis gifset and I thought to myself "this seems like it could be of interest to me" and it was basically the fannish equivalent of deciding to start shooting up heroin because MORE. MORE. MORE. Oh my fucking god man, this band. Yeah bandom was totally my last big fandom (for like...four years, I still go see associated bands) and I've been adrift since then, but 1D seems to be the one that's brought me back to LJ because the feelings just can't be contained. FEELINGS. FEELINGS EVERYWHERE. (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ

[astreindre]

Up until two weeks-ish ago, I actually had One Direction tumblr saviored, so I never saw posts about them, and then someone on my flist started posting about them, and how precious Louis and Harry were and I was like NO I WILL NOT BE DRAWN IN I REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED TO BANDOM I REFUSE and then the very next day my tumblr was all One Direction, all the time. I think the fannish equivalent of heroin is the perfect way to describe them tbh. It's -- well not nice, but comforting I guess, to know that there's someone else who was fannishly adrift after bandom. I still look back at that time in my fannish life as the best thing ever, and I miss it like crazy. I compare every fandom I'm in to bandom and they just come up wanting. The fic's not as good, the fans are terrible -- there's always something. I've been in media fandom for the most part since then and WOW has it been different to come back into an active RPS fandom. So much new canon all the time! I had forgotten what it was like to be afraid to go to sleep because WHAT IF I MISS

[cyclogenesis]

I had a friend who got into 1D a few months ago, and we had been friends in popslash and bandom so I was like okay, and I watched the One Thing video and I was like "eh no, boring, they're not that cute" so it's confusing to me that I watched it again last week and it was all I ever wanted to have in front of my eyes for eternity??? What? How? I've read on and off in media fandoms recently but god yes, bandom was really the thing, wasn't it? Christ, I loved Panic! At The Disco so much. I mean I love my TV shows and everything but nothing compares to RPF. It's like last week I woke up and there were new .gifs of Harry Styles in his underwear. YOUR MOVE, NEXT WEEK. LET'S DO THIS.

Coherence is for suckers! I'm following you on Tumblr and friending you here because one mustn't OD on 1D alone! \o/

[kovaa]

one day i will be able to look upon this post and see it for more than the complete dearth of niall horan that it is.

TODAY IS NOT THAT DAY.

also. o t 5 THAT IS ALL THANK YOU GOOD NIGHT

[cyclogenesis]

h a t e r s all up in my grill, why tho? HARRY AND LOUIS ARE IN LOVE, PAY ATTENTION. *stomps foot, drags you away from the Irish cupcake*

okay okay okay. favorite Niall things:

Niall and Liam singing Sexy and I Know It - frankly this was when I was like OH OKAY, NIALL

http://theluckynine.tumblr.com/post/21499221862/x - HAHA NIALL TRIES TO GIVE HARRY SOME SUGAR AND HARRY WANTS NONE OF IT fail on Harry's part tbh

people who post lots of Niall:

http://theluckynine.tumblr.com/
http://niallispretty.tumblr.com/
http://kryptoniall.tumblr.com/
http://nialljustgotwet.tumblr.com/

LOVE ME AGAIN THX

[kovaa]

ahahahaha i caaaan't it's a sickness. i have a thing for the irish ok!! something about their accents and attitudes and pastiness really does it for me IDK. i just knew i would love niall AND I DO. also he looks like the smallest?? i'm into that :X

c r y i n g WHY WOULD YOU LINK ME THAT. i am so desperate to see him loved up and NOPE, DENIED AT EVERY TURN. EVEN IN THE OT5 CUDDLE GIF POST, i got my hopes up with the mention of the bromance between liam and niall and then OF COURSE zayn says to liam i thought it was you and me OF COURSE HE DOES. ;_____; oh god, it's just fueling my obsession- the more someone's excluded the more crazy the need i have for them not to be a;ldkfj

at least i found this liam quote: Niall's like my girlfriend. Everytime we hangout, I buy him food whenever he's hungry and take him wherever he wants. and coupled with that above video I'LL MORE THAN TAKE IT that video is incredible I TAKE BACK MY HATRED there is only bitter resentment.. and aching disappointment.. left (you know i love you ANYWAY even though

[violentfires]

f yeah let's do this thing

(i need a one direction icon and a lot more sleep)

[ivyenglish]

HARRY STYLES

<333

[ivyenglish]

ALSO NOW I HAVE HAD TIME TO READ THIS PROPERLY AND UUUGGGGHHHHHHHH MY FEELINGS ABOUT TUMBLR/FIC ARE BEST SUMMED UP AS STFU AND STOP ACTIVELY SEEKING OUT TERRIBLE PLATFORMS FOR POSTING FIC

Like whatever, tumblr's great for visual stuff. Way better than lj! Hurray tumblr, point for you! But being forced to read text in a tiny font in an eye-searing layout is too much work and is dumb and everyone should just stop now. NOW.

PS this post is excellent and I'm going to go read all the fic now. well all the Harry/Louis fic anyway, I keep forgetting the name of the one of the other three that isn't Niall or Zayne, and Harry and Louis are too distracting for me to focus on anyone else anyway.

[cyclogenesis]

Ahahahahaha I knowwwwwwwww. What weirds me out still is that some people are coming into fandom and Tumblr is their primary introduction and home base, because they've missed the LJ wave completely because they are sixteen year olds and kill me?? I feel like fandom went from publishing in zines to mailing lists/personal websites to fandom-specific archives (or ff.net which became irrelevant on 9/12/01 when they took down all the NC-17 fic and RPF) to LJ and now it's just totally decentralized and I hate everything. CAN'T PEOPLE JUST CATER TO MY NEEEEEEDS

I'm glad you got some stuff out of this, Harry/Louis is definitely the OTP!! But Liam, LIAM! Liam is adorable. I swear dude, the rest of them will grow on you. I mean I still want to read and write the most fic about Harry and Louis, but the rest of them are qt and definitely have a place in my life. Liaaaaaaaaaam.

[insunshine]

I'm definitely bookmarking this post. Thanks, dude!

[cyclogenesis]

You're welcome!! I hope you get into it! <3