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go away or stay :) she/her

[goodmorningtomyblorbos]

may louis continue to find the answer to 'how did i get here?' every single night out on tour by not only looking out into an ecstatic crowd, but also every single day by looking in the mirror and feeling it in his heart that he deserves it. that he's worked hard for it and he's worthy and actually always has been. most of all, i hope he allows himself to revel in it, to enjoy it, and to feel good about himself & his music, now and forever more.

[zan-miya]

grown son cuddle with dad challenge :) Jason lost a bet with his siblings but Bruce is lowkey extremely happy with this outcome. none of his children will ever be too big for cuddles.

and what if i say jason sometimes find it hard to be comfortable in his post-resurrection body because he died as a small teenager so when things dont fit around him the way it used to (bruce's hugs, the gargoyle) it sent him spiralling

[oneswordstyle]

Sit in your parent’s lap like you did when you were a kid

[rohie-deactivated20191102]

“Years ago a friend of mine had a dream about a strange invention; a staircase you could descend deep underground, in which you heard recordings of all the things anyone had ever said about you, both good and bad. The catch was, you had to pass through all the worst things people had said before you could get to the highest compliments at the very bottom. There is no way I would ever make it more than two and a half steps down such a staircase, but I understand its terrible logic: if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.”

— I Know What You Think of Me, Tim Kreider for the New York Times

[owlmylove]

after YEARS of seeing this quote online and finding it to be the most deeply and resoundingly profound writing i finally found the source article and absolutely nothing could prepare me for this opening paragraph

[bi-icon]

Okay but the whole article is really interesting and also contains this quote which I’ve never heard before but really like:

“Anyone worth knowing is inevitably also going to be exasperating”

[astronomyglitter-blog]

“if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.”

[goodmorningtomyblorbos]

"Maybe a little. But I deliberately wanted to create a positive energy, not because everything is so easy, but because it was heavy. Music can save you, even if it only lights up the world for three minutes. I think this lightness is the most honest response to the heaviness of the past few years.”

-- Louis on his new record being more positive than the previous ones for Musikexpress 🥺🥺🥺

[astronomyglitter-blog]

LLORÉ 😭❤️‍🩹

[breebers]

So like, maybe it’s me but that MV aggressively gives “queer man feels trapped by compulsory heterosexuality.” Like, a lot. Like, I don’t really know how else to read it.

[ssfoc]

Same anon, all righty, here I go!

https://youtu.be/9R_DJSTsgr8 (J-SOL's audition for X Factor in 2018, Louis gets emotional because J-SOL's original song is about his mom and Louis is famously a proud mama's boy who misses Johannah a lot, Louis gets up to hug J-SOL after his performance)

https://youtu.be/eKr2bczFgbI (Anthony Russell's audition for X Factor in 2018, Louis gets emotional because he helped and campaigned for Anthony to do well on his audition after his stay in rehab, Louis gets up to hug Anthony after his performance)

https://youtu.be/LsZMtGSnltQ (a girl from Doncaster auditions for X Factor in 2018, Louis's excited response is "Yes, Luv! Oi Oi!!")

https://youtu.be/C8jgj8KZlow (Louis being sweet to his fans throughout the years through July 2020)

https://youtu.be/BOj1SYVFL_4 (Louis showing his kindness throughout the years through July 2020)

https://youtu.be/O0WnQ9ID5WI (Louis showing his charitable side and other acts of kindness through January 2021)

https://youtu.be/KIRF5PkMJ1k (Louis showing his various acts of kindness throughout the years through July 2023; my personal favorite moment is the Today Australia Show in 2012 at 12:55, when Louis was the only 1D member who didn't laugh at the nervous and awestruck fan [I'm very much not a Harry or Larry fan, so I didn't like how Harry laughed at her the hardest and the loudest, but I was disappointed that the other boys also laughed at her too] and Louis invited the girl down to the stage for a cuddle)

https://youtu.be/ISfpd7sY7sw (why Louis deserves a more genuine and sincere fanbase through December 2017)

https://youtu.be/vdIOxXGL6sc (a fan emotionally tells Louis that his music saved her life, and he reacted with "oh darling" and hugged her as she cried, August 2019)

https://youtu.be/yafG_0iz74k (a fan emotionally tells Louis that her grandmother passed away the Saturday before his concert, and his song "Two of Us" had been helping her get through that incredibly difficult time, Louis held her hand and comforted her, video is from November 2021 but it looks like this is actually from early 2020/pre-pandemic)

https://youtu.be/ZL44y5gYOB4 ("This Is Us" extra scenes, Louis going back home to Doncaster and talking about his life there)

https://youtu.be/s2KuNTBv89s (Louis singing "Two of Us" and crying because the song is about Johannah, video is from April 2020 but it looks like this is actually from early 2020/pre-pandemic)

https://youtu.be/946R8oKhDgY (Louis getting emotional while talking about his parents' divorce [Johannah and Mark] in "One Direction: A Year in the Making" in 2011)

Hope you enjoy them and I hope your followers enjoy them! I do like the various memetic videos of Louis being a sassy and sarcastic king, which have way more Likes and Views, but let's be honest, these kinds of videos of him showing his kindness and more sensitive side deserve more Likes and Views.

Since I can only link 10 videos per post, here are the others.

This Is Us

Two of Us

Jay and Mark’s divorce

Thanks for sending the video links and descriptions. <3

[artandbrimstone]

let’s watch over the city with mama

[barcarole]

do you have any advice on how to get into opera when you don't speak italian/german/etc ? sorry if someone has already asked this!

The best thing is to watch a Livestream/live recording with subtitles, the language barrier won’t be a problem anymore. You could also watch an opera film. Personally, though, I dislike this medium (I believe much of what makes opera so special - the theater - gets lost and muddled), with a few exceptions like Bergman’s Trollflöjten (most of it is set on/for the stage), Zulawski’s Godunov, Stroyeva’s Godunov, Straub & Huillet’s Moses und Aron, Powell and Pressburger’s The Tales of Hoffman, Losey’s Don Giovanni, Hess’s Wozzeck. Many times I just listen to a recording without paying much attention to the libretto or the story (you can read it later/while you’re listening to it if you wish) and solely concentrate on the music.

Edit: The MET, the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Wiener Staatsoper and the Digital Concert Hall are providing free access to their live streams and broadcasts, so you can take advantage of that as well.

[barcarole]

Hello! I'm just beginning to take an interest in ballet, and it would be of great help to me if you would talk about your passion for the art, your favorite dancers, productions, random facts... I wish you a lovely day!

Hi! I have made some posts about ballet: here, here, and here. I hope they are of some help!

[barcarole]

I am really interested in literature, but I didn’t have the chance to read as much when I was younger and now I really don’t know where to start. Do you have a list of absolutely essential books that everyone should read?

Hello! Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the hidden caves, but a forest is also made up of ordinary trees, patches of grass, puddles, clinging vines, mushrooms, and little wildflowers (Roberto Bolaño, 2666). Feel free to start anywhere, without the unconscious obligation of keeping to a specific path. This is a list of books that were the foundation (of sorts) I haphazardly forged when I started (a more conclusive list of favorites would perhaps take more time to consider):

Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Portrait of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

The Odyssey, Homer

Medea, The Bacchae, Euripides

Metamorphoses, Ovid

The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri

Death in Venice and Other Stories, Thomas Mann

Selected Short Stories, Guy de Maupassant

Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin

The Complete Short Novels, Anton Chekhov

Lost Illusions, Honoré de Balzac

Selected Short Stories, Guy de Maupassant

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Rainer Maria Rilke

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol, Nikolai Gogol

War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

The Waves, Virginia Woolf

The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman, Laurence Sterne

Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

Micromégas, Voltaire

The Collected Stories, Isaac Babel

Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo

The Street of Crocodiles, Bruno Schulz

Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories, Ghassan Kanafani

Bomarzo, Manuel Mujica Lainez

A Talisman of Darkness, Olga Orozco

The Sound of the Mountain, Yasunari Kawabata

The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories, Franz Kafka

The Zhuangzi

A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway

Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges

These are some recommended readings and personal favorites of several writers:

Susan Sontag

W. H. Auden

Italo Calvino (also, Why Read the Classics?)

Franz Kafka

Jorge Luis Borges

Oscar Wilde

Joan Didion

André Gide

Virginia Woolf (also, The Common Reader: First Series | Second Series)

Leo Tolstoy

Ernest Hemingway

Friedrich Nietzsche

Henry Miller

Gabriel García Márquez

Emmanuel Carrère, Jacques Roubaud, Patrick Modiano, and many others

I have also made some vaguely related posts (here and here). I hope I’ve helped! If you have any other questions, just ask. Enjoy!

[louisalbums-deactivated20210423]

Receipt time. This is from late 2019. My flatmate was having an affair with an older, married man (yeah, I know). He took her to very discreet, very expensive places often outside London. They were having lunch in Oxfordshire when she overheard a voice she recognized (we were both huge 1D fans back in the day). On her way to the loo, she was spying around & there was one Louis Tomlinson with a definite non friend. Later, she sw them leaving holding hands & laughing. She described him as a little older (early 30s),dark haired, elegant, tall, “wearing the kind of knitwear that costs more than our rent” & that he & Louis looked “relaxed & happy”. She also described him as “a Matthew Goode type”. Which, yes, Louis. I was a Larry at the time & was very upset. Now, I just hope Louis is happy & loved & with someone who cherishes him. And despite asking around, we never did find out who Mr Oxfordshire might be.

omfg...... thank you SO MUCH for deciding to share this

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

fanfic writers, here's your reminder to write whatever you want, however you want

"but I fear people will —" well, fuck them. you write for your own enjoyment, not theirs. and you certainly don't need a stranger's permission to write about fictional characters, no matter how wild or cliche or crazy or disturbing or violent or fucked up that thing you want to write about is. write it proudly and write it unapologetically. no one can stop you.

you have the powers to write and the powers to block anyone who tries to shame or tell you what you can or can't do. (fun fact: these people are just noises. you can hit mute anytime by blocking them)

repeat after me, you have all the powers.

[write-on-world]

[castletownranger]

HEY

For all you WONDERFUL FIC WRITERS who made the mistake of following me

LOOK AT THIS

[aryaokayfriend]

I- I didn’t realize this but it’s so true

[sleepy-writes-stuff]

I’ve had these thoughts, too. Universe really said, “Hey! You need to see this” 😳

[sjelaine]

Visit Original Link

Saturdays, Louis Tomlinson - piano solo

Here's me on my upright piano playing Saturdays, and here are the chords I used:

[nefastidies]

I think Jayce would be no.1 Jayce hater (next)

[theocseason4]

Everything is embarrassing if you live your life through the eyes of others btw