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Zayn Malik fronts the new summer issue of Dazed. Photographed by Collier Schorr and styled by Robbie Spencer.

#this tumblr remains inactive forevermore but i just wanted to say #zayn malik #is My Guy #forevermore #tell m a lie

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#zayn malik #tell m a lie #otra #his face in the second one

blackdeaneyes

#liamzayn #1dday #tell m a lie #2 years ago today

sashayed

One of the most important lessons of ZIAM NOVEMBER is that – while the love we give ourselves is the most important love of all – sometimes it is hard to find that self-love. And that is okay too, because our friends can help hold us up until we reclaim our own self-inclusive hearts. As Ne-Yo, a poet-laureate of ZIAM NOVEMBER, once said, “[Liam], let [Zayn] love you, and [he] will love you, until you learn, to love yourself.” That is why it is important to celebrate tiny bullied learning-to-box unsure-in-his-own-skin nobody-came-to-his-16th-birthday-party already-got-kicked-off-xfactor-once snuggle gumdrop LIAM, and how totally puzzled he consistently was by ZAYN’s unapologetic physical affection and comfort and support.

Look at his little uncertain eyes slowly softening and blinking into acceptance of this embrace. “I – his face is right? On my face? :) It is…nice? But is it allowed? But it is nice :)”

“Why this? What this? :)?”

This is intensely painful because tiny curly dippin dot liam is literally paralyzed with the strength of his Not Know What Do. “Is this? Touching? Jokes? Is it friendship? Is jokes friendship? Do I react with jokes also? I will not react at all.”

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#remember remember ziam november #forever and for always #tell m a lie #liamzayn

they1dontknowaboutus

#i see this gif going around again and it's hortworming :]

yziam

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#awww #liam payne #zayn malik #liamzayn #tell m a lie #wwa

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Thanks Zayn

#zayn malik

herstrionics

if this somehow becomes yet another topic the band refuses to explicitly address i’ll– well i won’t delete but i’ll threaten to

sashayed

I feel like an essential part of being a one direction “fan,” lololololol, is that things HAPPEN – albums leak, Louis casually drops the n-word, Zayn LEAVES – and you react to these happenings, as a normal person would, and you live in the world where those things happened, but the people who are ACTUALLY INVOLVED don’t seem to be living in that world!!!! It’s literally One Direction on stage and all of them are on fire and through the blaring alarms and smoke they’re like “Can’t wait for the next album!!! :)”, and you’re looking around wildly like, ARE U GUYS GOING TO ADDRESS THIS FIRE????? and they’re like “Let’s go golfing!” Honestly the MOST you can hope for is that One Direction will spend 10 seconds being like, “It wasn’t easy when we were on fire,“ but you can’t tell how they got to be on fire? And plus you’re like, ARE YOU NOT….ARE YOU NOT STILL ON FIRE???? And then you start to go “Am I crazy? Am I crazy for being unable to stop reacting to all the Fire? Maybe I’m the crazy one here? WHICH WORLD AM I ACTUALLY LIVING IN???? THE ONE WITH FIRE OR THE ONE WHERE EVERYTHING’S FINE?????”

FULL MUGATU!!!! anyway honestly god bless the tiny, pearl-sized egg that Louis Tomlinson laid in the heart of a daffodill, I hope someday it can grow up to have adventures just like a Big Person could.

mistresscurvy

OKAY like I get this, I get the fact that people WANT the boys and especially Louis to actually talk about his Special Lifetime Event and address it explicitly and to “OFFICIALLY CONFIRM IT” beyond his reps No Commenting in response to the People and Sun articles (even though that IS confirmation). But I genuinely find it BAFFLING that people EXPECT them to, and think it’s weird that they haven’t, and IN PARTICULAR compare it to how they handled Zayn leaving the band.

Because first of all, THEY DID address Zayn leaving the band. Louis and Niall tweeted about it the next day, Liam did his twitlonger, they’ve talked about it in basically every interview they’ve done since Zayn left. What they HAVEN’T done is stop MID-SHOW to talk about how weird it is to do You & I without him or something like that, because there’s NOTHING TO BE GAINED by drawing attention to a thing we all already know: there used to be five of them on stage, and now there are four. He left the band almost four months ago. What more is there to say, really?

And second of all, there is a BIG FUCKING DIFFERENCE between Zayn leaving the band and Louis expecting a baby with a non-famous woman, namely that Zayn leaving is directly relevant to their public professional lives and LOUIS’S FUTURE CHILD IS NOT. I’m not saying the baby won’t be in the public eye, because their father is a pop star, of course they will be. Obviously there is public interest in the boys’ private lives. But Louis didn’t tweet about how he was FEELING after he and Eleanor broke up; I don’t know why he would tweet about this, months before the baby is born. They released the story now in order to control it, because the longer they waited the greater the risk of the pregnancy getting leaked, which would have guaranteed it being spun by every tabloid as a SCANDAL and a CRISIS, as opposed to something that was UNEXPECTED but that Louis is handling. But beyond an article stating that she’s having a baby and it’s his and he’s Doing Right By Her, I honestly don’t know what more he could possibly WANT to say prior to the birth.

Louis unexpectedly becoming a father does not actually materially affect the band itself, unless you actually believe that Harry is crying himself to sleep every night because Louis cheated on him and LARRY IS DEAD. It’s a personal matter. Probably it will affect certain business decisions they make in the future about tour schedules and so forth, but so do LOTS of things that I have no idea about and that are none of my business. Does that mean I’m not invested in the baby? OF COURSE I’M INVESTED. But I do not for one fucking second think that Louis is required to say jackshit about becoming a dad. My interest as a fan doesn’t trump their right to privacy, and their right to share as much or as little as they want to about something that has no relevance to their actual job.

agonyandagony

I can’t figure out what this addition is responding to, because it’s nothing I see present anywhere in the post? I read a post that is about personal emotional reactions, not any expectation that those reactions should in any way manifest in real life. Like, definitely and of course Louis has no obligation to let me read his diary so I know EXACTLY HOW HE FEELS about impending fatherhood! But I’m also still allowed to want to know in some oblique way, same as I’m allowed to want to know if it’s true in the first place. That doesn’t mean I expect to be told! Emotional responses don’t equate to some expectation that they’re met or catered to. I can also WANT them to sit in a circle with me and tell me exactly what happened with Zayn and how that makes them all FEEL without having any reason to expect they could or should do that. It’s weird to be a fan of someone or something that you feel a certain level of investment in on a personal level (which I’m pretty sure is common to most fans — like, there’s a reason we like 1D In Particular rather than Indistinguishable Androids Singing Gentle Bops, and it’s because we find something interesting or intriguing about the actual members, at least as we see them), and to then bump up against the boundaries of that investment when they manifest is sometimes weird and bizarre, especially when it happens several times around several big events. That’s literally all this post is saying, in a jokey, metaphorical context, and I’m struggling to understand how that gets translated into the idea that caring at all is demonstrating entitlement.