#that process

[dogsliampaynedoesntinstagram]

The part that gives me a visceral reaction when I read it is complaining about people either ‘deserving’ or ‘not deserving’ to meet Louis (or one of the other 1D guys or any celebrity for that matter). That’s not a thing - it makes the word lose all meaning somehow and it’s the weirdest hierarchy of entitlement.

I absolutely agree anon.  Dividing people into ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ has a pretty fucked up a creepy history.  And as you say that idea that meeting a celebrity is something that some people deserve and other people don’t is absurd.

I think what it actually means is ‘I like you’ or ‘I don’t like you’. At it’s heart that’s what I think a lot of fandom discussion of events like this is about.  People are sad that someone they don’t like got to meet Louis and they didn’t.  That’s a perfectly reasonable reaction.  But rather than get expressed in that direct and honest way - it gets processed and abstracted into this absurd worldview - where it’s not just a personal reaction, but an entirely logical moral code.

[toecrackers]

We prep thick steel for painting by sticking it in a giant oven and it turns different colours depending on how hot it gets (and stays that way when it cools). These pieces were around 520 to 575 fahrenheit when they were taken outta the oven

[explendiferous]

Make no mistake though, they were blessed with a most important important role, perhaps the MOST important role. Being a small part of the glorious cherub courtship process.