Ok, curious anon here! =D How'd you get into one direction/zayn malik?
you're not anon but we're not finicky, haha. um... it was kind of a long slow lingering death to be honest. a lot of the people i knew were getting into one direction (mainly harry styles and harry/louis) probably... 18 months ago? and i thought the bbs were pretty cute but not exceptional. like, this is the internet, we have slashable twinky white dudes to spare.
but then ZAYN though?? that is literally all the explanation i have available for you is "ZAYN THOUGH" and if that doesn't say it all then nothing will. i was super-into the idea of zayn/harry for a second, though nobody was really writing it, so it was mainly just looking at pictures and going "wouldn't it be nice..." i read a little fic, but again, there wasn't enough zayn to keep me very interested.
then my chemical romance broke up, and some friends (mistresscurvy, destroyer of worlds) turned to vikings for solace, and then THAT turned out to be a bust, and then they turned to one direction, and i lounged on my balcony of i-don't-know-liam-and-niall's-names smuggery, reblogged pictures of zayn, and thought that i'd escaped the madness.
fuck, then the kiss you video happened :((( that was rough :((( those were difficult times :((( both versions of that video and the bts are so fucking cute :((( zayn in water wings :((( i ripped the song from the youtube video and listened to it on repeat for like a month, lol. and then the best song ever video came out, which like. WAS A BIT MUCH. i think it was in the mire of all this that i started dragging delladilly down with me.
and then. AND THEN. then came the weekend of liam payne, courtesy of mistresscurvy, who is a liamwife and a nightmare of a human being. i visited her for a weekend in august for our three-year friendiversary and this is what she did to me. friendship is dead. BASICALLY she told me liam's whole origin story (sickly as a child! in and out of hospitals! only one kidney! bullied at school! learned to box! almost made the olympic running team! tried out for xf at 14 and got sent home! tried out AGAIN and learned to hug! FUUUUUUCK) and inundated me with all sorts of hideous liam gifsets and videos, and very cleverly made everything relate back to zayn, and then she made louis sympathetic too, and then to put the ruinous cherry on top of that sundae she gave me fic recs and sent me home to mourn my innocence.
like. you can stay out of 1d if you honestly don't like the other boys and just want to like curl up with zayn under a blossoming cherry tree and feed him slices of pear by hand. if you don't like the other four boys then there is next to no fic to get sucked into and half the gifsets you see are polluted. but if you like liam :((( and you like zayn/liam :((( and you read the fic where they get papped kissing and have to pretend to be boyfriends :((( and the fic where zayn wakes up a girl and liam provides assistance :((( and the fic where liam gets hit on the head and forgets being in the band and that zayn is his forever boyfriend :((( then you are without a doubt in very serious trouble :(((
learning to love liam payne is undeniably one of the worst things ever to happen to me. mistresscurvy has a lot to answer for. she knows this.
AND STILL all of that being said 77% of my one direction feelings are devoted to zayn exclusively and the remaining 23% goes to whomever he's in a picture or fic with at a given moment in time, lololololololol