The first time I’ve heard of them was also the day i signed the blood oath to these life ruiners. I remember the days as clearly as it were today. It was on the day they released What makes you beautiful, 29th of August 2011. I remember waking up and scrolling through facebook while eating breakfast i know i know i didn’t know better back then i didn’t even know that a society such as tumblr existed back then okay so don’t judge. This friend of mine posted a video and said ”my babies finally did it”. And I remember looking at that link and reading One Direction and I was thinking ”well I could check this out see who those babies were”. I remember being in the living room on the flat screen clicking the link and waiting for the loading to finish. The fist thought that crossed my mind when i heard the music was ”why does this sound like the soundtrack to Greece?” Then all of a sudden a boy with curly light brown hair appeared on the screen and started singing and my jaw literally dropped on the floor and then another boy with darker brown hair which was also curly appeared and he had these breathtaking green eyes. in that moment I collapsed on the coffee table, my legs not being able to hold me anymore. I remember thinking ”who are these boys? damn they are beautiful and their voices are angel-like”. When the song ended I quickly got to google and googled them. I learned that they were on the x-factor so I went on youtube and searched for their videos and looking through the video diaries I fell in love with their charm, humor, banter the way the were with each other. That’s when I knew that I’m gonna be a fan of them for a really long time.
After that I just listened to their song, which evolved into songs, but I wasn’t that much obsessed with them. But then one day idk how I ended up reviving my twitter account and started following them and there was so much stuff coming from tumblr and I remember looking and searching for their pictures through it and that resulted in me making my very own tumblr acccount and that’s when my obsession devotion bloomed I started reading imagines, one shots, stories, even writing a few myself. Staying informed of what the boys did every second of the day, it was like a job which I thoroughly enjoyed doing and still do.
I’ve met a lot of amazing people who became my friends and best friends all thanks to the 5 idiots.
I have to admit that I was mesmerized by each of the boys individually which is probably why I was fist a harry girl and I went full circle being a different boy’s girl for a while, but now I can’t pick a favourite I really can’t.
My dream is that when I meet them I could thank them for saving my life countless of times, because of their songs I pulled through some crappy shit and because of their ability to make me smile through tears and make me believe in myself they’ve lighten up countless of gloomy days
My favourite moments have to be the video diaries that I miss very much, but also their random banter on twitter and the whole fact that they argue like real brothers sometimes.
Since I came on tumblr I got to know all the wonderful things that go around in the fandom and the most amazing are the ships. My #1 ship has to be Ziall because I really believe that love is true and not just friendly love also over time I was won over to the Larry ship so… :D
The best thing about our fandom is how much we stick together and how we back up our boys when they need it at most. But there’s also the hate and the leaking songs, videos, albums of which I do not approve at all, but other than that I love the fandom :)
