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[fandomfirewater]

Dear Liam

I came into this fandom in a time that I was struggling. I was depressed and lonely and I was contemplating suicide. I was being bullied at school and i was the only girl in my grade in a very small school so as you can imagine I wasn't doing great. At the time i was a fan girl of many things like Lord of the rings, Percy Jackson and the Hunger Games. I would throw myself into fantasy worlds to escape my less than ideal circumstances and i would listen to the radio because I hadn't figured out streaming music and I didn't have money to buy music on my phone. It was during this time that I heard "Kiss you" on the radio for the first time and fell in love with that song. In my excitement for it I made a connection with my now best friend (Kimay) who asked me who my favorite member of the band was. I had never loved a band like this before never enough to know the names of all the members so I went home and looked at some pictures of the boys and decided that the cute blonde one was going to be my favorite and to this day Niall is still my favorite. After that fateful day I continued doing research looking up quotes and fun facts and listening to whatever music I could find on YouTube. I found myself emerced in fanfiction and imagines about you and the boys and it brought me so much joy. My friendship with Kimay grew and we bonded over wishing for a concert to come to South Africa so we could finally see One Direction in person. We were so excited when it was announced that they would be coming to South Africa in 2015 and we begged for The tickets which went on sale a whole year before the date of the concert and we were so excited and happy when Our dreams were realized when her parents got the tickets so that both of us could go and see them together. As the time went on One Direction's music matured and got better and better and we got more and more excited for our concert. Unfortunately days before the concert in Johannesburg Zayn officially announced that he was leaving the band and we were both devastated leaving me crying for those 2 days. Before the concert I gave myself a pep talk (Julie. One Direction taught you that you shouldn't cry over some guy so you are going to stop crying go to this concert with your best friend and you are going to have the time of your life) and I did have the best time ever. I can't remember when "This is us" came out but I got the DVD and watched it obsessively I even got my Grandma to watch it with me. I thank you for all the good times I had in this fandom and I will never forget the hope you have given me for a better life. I am happy to report that dispite my grief at your passing and other recent deaths in my life I am no longer suicidal and I am following my dreams as a Nature guide in South Africa. I even sometimes find myself smiling just because life is so good. I admit in recent years I had stopped checking in regularly on you boys as I have grown up and have been working on my career and only hoping in the back of my mind that I would live to see a One Direction reunion. You will be missed Liam by everyone who's lives you have touched whether through actively knowing them or just being a person that we admire from afar. I know that you have shaped me into a better person and I wish I could have given you the hope you gave me!

Goodbye Daddy Direction

Thank you to @rememberingliampayne for making this tribute happen

[knightofleo]

[herpsandbirds]

Common eider

[phynoma]

This needs to be immortalized because it's what made me turn on the sound. And they were right

[kosmogrl]

how it feels when one of your hyperfixations comes back and stronger than ever

[ilynpilled]

how it feels when one of your hyperfixations comes back and stronger than ever

[pulim-v]

how it feels when one of your hyperfixations comes back and stronger than ever

[airandangels]

These little-known bank accounts allow Americans with disabilities to save and invest

If you're an American with a disability who receives government assistance, you likely qualify for an ABLE account, or you may starting next

The age of eligibility for an ABLE account, allowing USAmerican disabled people to save up money without losing their government assistance for having “too much,” is going to go up to cover disabilities diagnosed by age 46 (currently it’s age 26), meaning a much larger number of people will be able to access them. As the article notes, many Americans don’t know these accounts exist, let alone whether they or someone they care for could qualify for one, so please share this information around.

It seems to me it would obviously be better if the “no more than $2000 a month” limit were simply removed and disabled people could have whatever savings accounts they chose, but this is heaps better than nothing.

[non-binarypal7]

Effective as of January 1, 2026, eligibility has expanded to folks whose disabled diagnosis was established prior to turning 46 years old

About ABLE Accounts An ABLE account is a savings and / or investment option for people with disabilities who qualify. It falls under Section

[rovermcfly]

rocky's crew dying from radiation exposure, something humans go to great lengths to prevent and are very scared of and grace's crew dying in their "sleep" with nobody watching, something eridians go to great lengths to prevent and are very scared of. cool book that is easy to read through your tears.

[boyblogdog]

happy pride month to those in the closet. to those who went back into the closet. to those who have unsupportive families, friends and relationships. those who were bullied and harassed because of their identity. those who were killed because of who they truly were and loved.

you are loved and appreciated.

[crushed-sugar]

Special shoutout to all the queer, intersex, and trans het folks. Sorry for all the “it’s illegal to be straight this month” jokes you’ll have to endure. Y’all are still very much part of the community.

[the-irreverend]

And stay safe everyone!

[starsandscars81]

“Love is love” okay but can we talk about people whose identities don’t focus on feelings for another person? Pretty please???

[snoomfies]

snoopy pride flags :)

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[garashir]

hey friends where is that picture of boromir with the gondor flag except its a pride flag?

[lesbiansforboromir]

Couldn’t find it so I made another because you’re right that it’s a crime and it’s definitely my duty to remedy it

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

@jorality

[jorality]

We know who has all the brain cells

[arsnof]

It makes the dream work

[naamahdarling]

Being smart enough to know when to consult and listen to someone more knowledgeable is in fact quite smart! Many humans cannot manage this!

[gothhabiba]

“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”

— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“

[jackkdaniels]

when i was a kid i decided that killing people was bad therefore war was bad therefore the military was evil. and adults would tell me it's more nuanced than that and i would understand when i grew up. well i'm a grown up now and idk i still think that killing people is bad and war is bad and the military is evil

[frog-on-top-of-a-log]

“Being aromantic and asexual sounds nice. You can skip all of the drama.”

That would be true if society reacted normally to childless single people or anyone else that doesn’t fulfill their expectations of a stereotypical relationship. The way things are now, the drama just comes from a different angle. Amatonormativity is a prison.

[thepinkpestilence]

more people could identify as asexual/aromantic if they not only knew what that label is but also knew about how wide the spectrum could be. because not every ace/aro person feels the same way and even people who DO have a general idea on what it means, could still be like "yeah no i cant be possibly ace/aro because i feel/do this and that"