Colouring hair is hard ;_; and I’m jumping all over the place today. #colouringnewbie #wip #drawing #portrait #fanart #sebastianstan #colours #colouring #eyes #glasses #lips #colouredpencils #pencilcrayons
@mushroomjelifish Thanks for the shoutout. I was looking through @albymangroves and @artgroves blogs. I really like her art, so I like looking around her blogs. I really liked your drawing. The precision of the palette is so good. It reminds me of getting to see an expensive colored pencil set as a kid. It opens a whole world beyond the basic 8-color Crayola set. I felt like you really captured his facial expression. It looks like a photo, even as it looks like a drawing. His jaw, chin, and eyes really match my real-life perception of his looks. Thank you.
This amazing prize pack has been in the works for a long time. With every $5 donation with the #z016, you will be entered in for a chance to win! (so if you donate $10, that equals 2 entries)
I got the prize pack today from the 1DFansGive raffle for Zayn's birthday (raising money to support the British Asian Trust).
I just wanted to thank Team Leader Kenzie (tiedup-twoships) and the 1D Fans Give Zayn team for the prize pack! It's so lovely to have all these Zayn goodies! I'm already plotting where I'll put the stickers (cyrilliart and ashleyrguillory have such nice drawings!). I'm really enjoying the fanart book and it's so neat getting to see the pages in close detail. This fandom has so much talent!
Congrats to our raffle winner! We will be in contact so we can get the gift prize over to you!
Again, hugeee thank you for everyone who donated. I am beyond amazed with this fandom! We may have not made goal, but we got pretty damn close, a number that I never thought we would see.
We are not returning next year, and although I am saddened by it, I will still be here to support Zayn and support all 4 boys on their journeys, and I hope all of you can to. Heres to the future.
“And remember nobody’s feelings are more important than your own,so take time to love yourself”
It's such a lovely prize pack! Thank you to Kenzie (tiedup-twoships) and the 1dfansgivezayn team for organizing the raffle and all the 1dfansgive crew for running these drives and for being such a positive force in the fandom all year long.
Sorry if I'm rushing you, but did you ever write that Ziam astrological compatibility analysis? I'd love to read it, even though I don't know the first thing about astrology. Thank you.
No problem. :)
Yeah, that one. *sigh* The reason it hasn’t been made yet is that there aren’t any really reliable sources for either of their birth times and to make an accurate analysis you need that. There are some that seem probable but that’s not good enough unfortunately. Until I can get my hands on one I don’t feel like I can make them justice. Sorry about that :(
Thank you for the reply. I have no idea about the veracity of this info, but according to this timeline, Zayn was born at 10a and Liam was born at 1p. Liam was also three months premature, in case it affects the analysis.
I hope you won't feel like I'm pushing you to do the analysis, if you're not comfortable with the information's accuracy.
Is birth time something you can gauge about people, so one could tell whether 10a and 1p might be right?
Hello. Thanks for the suggestion to tweet Metro and 1D about the selection of winners for the London sessions. You may also want to add Bauer Media Group @bauermedia. Is there a hashtag you would suggest? Thank you.
Good idea, also @metro_comp which is the metro’s contest twitter.
They said that winners would be notified within 3 days of the contest closing, but someone has gone back through the hashtag for the contest and no UK people have ever tweeted that they have won, which sounds fake but ok.
#LondonSession and #1DLdnSession would be the hashtags for the event.
Thanks for sharing the photo of your Halloween costume! It must have been a lot of work to put it together, so thank you for putting in the time. Did you get many reactions to it?
Of course, it was fun! It took most of the day to paint and everything, but it was definitely worth it! I live in nyc, so there were a fair amount of people commenting on it, and some girls taking pictures. At one point I was walking down the sidewalk and a 20-something guy pointed and said “I think that’s bondage bear!!” So that was super cool! There was also an older man I passed who must’ve taken 20 pictures, I’m not sure if he knew who I was or if he’s just really into taking pictures of people’s costumes hahaha
Thanks for replying to my ask. I'm glad you had a fun time with your costume. It must be really nice to live in NYC, where you'll run into lots of pedestrians. It's neat that so many people know about RBB.
Thanks for sharing your theories about the latest RBB picture. If it's the first time that the hand appeared in the bucket with the money, it would be funny if it was a reference to "Stand Up": "put your hands up / I'm a thief, I'm a thief," assuming the Polish money refers to Simon Cowell.
I AM SCREAMING OMG HILARIOUS!!! yassssssss! i do think it’s the first time the hand was in the pail. i know the hand’s been other places.
Thanks for replying to my ask! I really like the gif. Ha ha.
I'm really intrigued whether the money bucket will appear for the rest of the concert dates as it's been irregularly present up to this time. The promo and press is increasing in intensity now, so there's more possible time for shadiness from 1DHQ.
I'm sorry that you feel discouraged about your writing. I've really enjoyed "Before It Goes Beautiful" and am looking forward to reading the rest.I of course don't know any of OT5, but I really felt like you captured their characters. In that bit when Zayn is talking with Louis on the phone and Harry says, "Heeeeeeeeeeeey," I really loved it, because Harry said the same thing in an interview (when they asked the boys which other guys' clothes they would want to wear). It's those little 1/2
touches that really make the fic so on point and real. Thank you for listening to me ramble. Please don’t get discouraged and please keep writing!! 2/2
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Thank you, love, this was incredibly sweet and I definitely needed to read it.
I feel like I need to clarify - what was said was not a personal attack on my writing, but instead an offhand comment that someone made about Liam/Ziam and fic. And, given some bloggers’ spheres of influence, it does affect how certain fics/pairings are received.
While yes, I should write for me, and not worry about what others think, once you put yourself out there - and are posting a WIP - having someone people listen to, and whose opinion they respect, essentially shun what you are writing is discouraging. The point of posting is because we want people to read, right?
I know every pairing is not everyone’s cup of tea. I get it. There are pairings/tropes/kinks that I won’t read. But I also don’t sit on my blog badmouthing any of them, knowing that it can, and does, affect whether or not someone else reads the story.
I went through this in another fandom because I didn’t write the “accepted” canon pairing, and it really really sucks hardcore. And I’m probably too sensitive about my writing as a result, but there it is.
I'm glad that the comment was about Liam / Ziam and fic rather than about your writing specifically. Thank you for being #brave and sharing your fic with us.
I realize that feeling that your pairing is shunned is discouraging, so I especially appreciate your making the effort to write and share your writing. I am very much looking forward to part 3 of BIGB. Reunited Ziam is endgame! (I hope.)
My answers: Harry would be pink lemonade. Niall would be an Arnold Palmer. Liam would be root beer. Louis would be Yorkshire tea. Zayn would be genmaicha.
Thank you to 1D Fans Give for making it possible for me to attend OTRA Baltimore
Grateful thank yous to Layne Faire and Gossip Candy for the 1DFansGive raffle that allowed me to attend the OTRA show in Baltimore.
My odyssey started about a month ago from the post soliciting donations for Médecins Sans Frontieres UK in honor of Liam's 22nd birthday with a chance to win tickets to the show at M&T Bank Stadium.
Last night, I got to see the boys live with my own eyes for the very first time.
View from the seats:
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I'm thankful for the opportunity to unite the impressions in my head from the videos and CD's to the living, breathing versions. It was wonderful to be around so many fellow fans both at the stadium and walking around the Inner Harbor. I don't usually get to interact with fellow 1D fans in my daily, non-online life.
Still, seeing them live may have sealed my doom as I think I'll now have to stay until the end, no matter how much pain it brings!
My highlights included
Earnest Liam working so hard for fans to enjoy the show. He mentioned that he was a bit ill and not at full strength, but he sounded great. He is certainly ill in another sense, though!
Watching them perform "18." I'm really glad that I saw a tour date late enough where they were performing the song.
Adorable Harry interacting with the fans who had brought cookies and then returning the Tupperware container. It's these kinds of interactions that remind me that even though he could have kept the container (and had received permission to keep it), he is still so considerate.
Louis seemed to be in good spirits. There were signs about Babygate, but they didn't seem to address them. Dark Liam read a Larry-centric sign too!
Both Liam and Niall referenced Hairspray. I'm a big fan of "Mama, I'm a Big Girl" now, but I'm not sure it would be reasonable to expect the boys to sing the song!
Like Harry after the Poulston/Deakin wedding, I've put my wristband onto my bag. Yesterday's euphoria will hopefully get me through whatever stunts and drama are to come.
Hi. I'm on the list. I don't have anything really to post. I had been on other fandom social media, but I got onto Tumblr in the last couple days so that I could send asks and post (?) likes. (I guess the magnitude of the pregnancy discussion finally pulled me onto Tumblr when I was content to just read blogs without having an account previously.)
Thanks for being such an interesting and thorough blog. I'm enjoying reading your posts.
With this talk of Louis's friends having unprotected sex with fans, do you think that one of them could have gotten Briana pregnant and now Louis is trying to do the "honorable" thing because of loyalty?
stop reading fics in wattpad. Go to AO3, start here
Thank you for posting happy things (pugs as Harry Styles!) and answering asks. I don't know any 1D fans in my daily life, so I don't really have anyone here who can commiserate with me. Obviously Louis's life is his life and he doesn't owe the fans anything, but his motto "Live fast, have fun, be a bit mischievous" is/was inspiring to me when I'm feeling down and I feel like that part is ending now. Everything's so heavy and complicated, instead!
