okay as someone who wasn't a directioner now i'm very intrigued by this post you mentioned in your tags about 1d and fandom and wanting the truth! tell me more! tumblr search function is useless for things like this
OMG hello first non-spam anon I've received in literal years! I can only assume this is in response to the tags in my reblog of this heated rivalry/ heated rivalry cast fanvid set to fame is a gun:
#woof#so much for trying to calm my anxiety before sleeping#while this show is ruining my sleep cycle and my life#where’s that old post about 1d and fandom and wanting the truth but by wanting it not being able to get it#something something#there’s something nearby going on here#show in part about the pressures and soul death of fame#catapults two incredibly talented joyful theater kids into unimaginable levels of fame in six weeks#I just want good things for them#and they have much more of a sense of self than 1d members did at the time#they’re 6 to 9 years older and that’s fucking crucial#but damn it’s a lot#hudcon#hudson williams#connor storrie#heated rivalry#heated rivalry meta
Just for you, and the way you have piqued my own insatiable curiosity, I have spent an hour digging through my old tags and found the post (linking my own reblog because my url will never change and thus I trust the link) (Edit: jk I remembered how to use tumblr desktop and found the og post as well.). I probably would have gone feral today and looked it up anyway, but the fact that you asked makes me feel slightly less insane. So thank you for that.
It's not quite about the same thing on its face but but I still think the vibes that reverberated to me from nearly TEN YEARS AGO justify my seeing it as in the same neighborhood as what may face connor and hudson as their careers are launching into the stratosphere.
See, for example:
"What we always wanted from them was what they did not give to us intentionally."
"One Direction is perhaps the first band to exist entirely within the Panopticon, from the very beginning, and yet even that was not enough for us. Can you imagine how difficult it would become to hold onto a "self" when what people want most from you are the moments of your life that specifically are NOT FOR THEM?"
"The knowledge could only be "authentic" if it was not meant for us."
Happy to explain more if the connection doesn't seem as obvious to other humans as it does to me, come back any time.
