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@whateveriscatchy

she/her. 20s. Louie Larrie.

Ok don't quote me on this I might be full of shit since I don't know every song in every preshow and stuff but I believe All You Need Is Love was played PRESHOW at Wembley N1 2022 and Wembley N2 2023 ONLY of all preshows and then during those shows he he tried to get the crowd to split sing it, so he! tried to! prepare them! before the show! And 2022 it didn't work! and he tried again! And I believe during 1D he also tried! But also The preparing the crowd before the show by having it be played in the venue!! I Am Endeared

The largest mass shooting in American history was a hate crime against gay people. Don’t ever forget that.

June 12, 2016. Putting a date on this for when it gets reblogged months from now by people who think the post is about something from 30, 40 years ago.

I am a survivor of the Pulse nightclub shooting, having grown up in Orlando and just turned 20 a month prior. If you didn’t know, there were several families who refused to claim the bodies of their relatives due to their sexuality. One family even had their relative’s name removed from the memorial. Murdered by the same hate with which their families reject them in both life and death.

Many, many people celebrated Pulse. We were told we deserved it. That it was God’s punishment for our sin of loving the same sex. We are sent messages like these I received in 2018:

We in the community often call the victim count 49+ to include the survivors who couldn’t live with the pain.

The event was never officially declared a hate crime or targeted homophobic attack and is rarely listed as one in databases.

At our vigils for those slaughtered, Extremist Christian groups showed up to protest, holding signs like this:

ID: Me kissing a woman I was casually seeing in front of an angry looking man with a “Sodomy is Sin” sign.

Please understand how much more than just a mass shooting this was. We are still to this day harassed and told we deserved it by some.

This year was the sixth anniversary. The first couple years I received dozens of messages checking in on me on 6/12. Year 5 got enough news coverage for people to think to reach out to me. This year it was my therapist, the woman I kissed in that photo, and a couple of other gun violence survivor friends. People are forgetting already.

With the 7 year anniversary <2 weeks away, I figured I’d reblog this

Now there’s one thing I’ve always wanted to try, and when I say it never works–it never works. But, I have faith. […] So, while we’re in the back, and the way I see it you have two choices. You can stand there and talk amongst yourselves and assess the traffic; [jokingly] which song you’re gonna leave during in order to get home 10 minutes quicker! OR: You can do my idea! We’re gonna be in the back, now what I’d like you to do is fill Wembley with as much love as possible. Okay, so what I want you to do is I wanna split you right down the middle, okay? If you’re on this side, raise a hand. You’re on this side, raise your hand. Now is everyone aware of the song, ‘All You Need Is Love’ by The Beatles? What’s gonna happen is when we go into the back, what I would like you to do, is to sing. Just the chorus. So in order for that to happen I want this side to sing ‘All you need is love’, correct. [Conducts Wembley] All you need is love, [other side] BADADADA, All you need is love, love, love is all you need. This side, 1, 2, 3, 4, go. [Crowd sings ‘All you need is love’] This side, BADADADA. All you need is love, one more! Correct, thank you very much. The louder you sing it the faster we’ll come back [giggles].”

-Harry (re)creating his own fan project. 🥹

Love On Tour 2023: London, Night 2. (14 June 2023)

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so i just got a notification that tumblr wants to force me to put the 'mature' community label on this image, if you're curious about our society's collective slide into obsession with censorship and correct-thought. i hate it here

I know, I know, gatekeeping the outdoors, that's supposedly bad, right, but I think if you show up to do a hike and you brought a portable speaker with you to play music while you hike, I think, like hear me out, there should be a gate, and someone at the gate should keep you from doing the hike.

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playing music in public should get strong social disapproval

Recorded music, anyway. Live music is different rules. If you want to lug an entire cello up a mountain you can do whatever the hell you want.

Carrying a speaker on a hike to make everyone listen to your bullshit, and simply sitting under a tree and playing a fiddle in the woods, are two activities so different they may as well not exist in the same world.

I think the critical difference is that the bringing of recorded music with you ties the space to Elsewhere, whereas the creation of live music with an instrument you brought both binds you to the space, and drags everyone who hears you play into it as well.

I think you're right.

Also it's never someone who wants to blast Bach or Vivaldi who brings a speaker is it

stants on all four of my paws all stanced and meows aT the world because its a nice day And the sun is out and my tail is arealy fluffy and my coat is so soft and shiny andim all ready for the world MEOWAAA mew mew mew meow miawo!!!!!!

picture of me because you care. btw

when I was 14 I worked in a grocery store and one day I got to bag Stephen King’s groceries and of course, being the little horror fiction nerd I am I was completely starstruck

I think he thought I was gonna ask for an autograph because I was not even lowkey staring I was full on moon-faced and bouncing and he kept looking over at me hesitantly like aw jeez kid fuck off

anyways I finally managed to squeak out that I was a huge fan and asked for advice on writing, “how do I write as well as you do?” in my horrible thick German accent and broken ass English and he gave me the best writing advice I have ever received

“shit kid, stop worrying about how other people do it and just write your story”

14 years later my wife and I nearly hit him with our car because he was jaywalking

However you think this story will end is wrong

this is absolutely fucking pathetic now every single fucking streaming service is gonna start doing this shit. all y'all had to do was not watch Netflix and let it flop for a few months and they would have given up

This is very misleading, and that's on purpose.

The data they're using, at least the data that I saw, was from a four day period (May 23rd - 27th) before the account sharing ban went into effect on the 1st of June. They're doing this to try and convince people there's no real means to fight back against them.

Here is the data I was talking about.

And a close-up so y'all can see what I'm talking about.

Notice the sharp drop that came immediately after the spike in new subscribers? Also, notice how they had to cut it off almost immediately?

Don't let them fool you into thinking it's futile to fight back.

sometimes I randomly think about the time a girl posted in this girls only Facebook group I’m in telling everyone how she broke up with her boyfriend and he lied saying that he lost the spare key she gave him, only to then break into her apartment when she wasn’t home and steal the cat they’d adopted while they were together, but then he denied having done this and she didn’t really have proof that he took the cat since he wouldn’t let her come into his place and look for it. And then another girl saw this post and knew her ex-boyfriend, and she was like “girl. I used to hook up with your mans back in xxxx and I still have his number. If you want, I’ll hit him up and get him to invite me back to his place and see if your cat’s there.” And the OP was like “bet.”

So this woman hit up homie dog, asked him out for drinks, went home with him, slept with him, and then woke up in the middle of the night and TOOK THE CAT. Like she had only said that she would confirm if the cat was there but then she took it upon herself to steal this woman’s cat back. Like she full on Trojan horsed this man and then hit up homegirl like “I got the goods. Where you wanna meet.” And then the two of them posted a photo of them together with the cat to the group.

And I just think women supporting women is so beautiful.