#lourries

Hi, just wanted to check in with you guys as it’s been a while. I’ve seen some abnormally petty things this past week. As much as I love our fandom to death, I’ve seen the bullying tendencies come out again in that fans are going over to Tess Wards page and leaving bad reviews on a book they haven’t even purchased. Not cool at all and I honestly expect more from this amazing fandom filled with such caring and passionate people. It’s really important we acknowledge these problems and that we don’t add fuel to them.

When a girl signs up to be a beard, I’m pretty sure they know by now what they’re in for. Our fandom is notorious for bullying the narrative ladies on social media, and at least from the tumblr side, I hope we are all discouraging that kind of behaviour, and speaking up to anyone who is displaying this bullying as a joke on their blog or on twitter or facebook or otherwise. It’s not a nice thing, nor is it the greatest thing to stand by and watch it happen and do nothing about it. Imagine this was at school or work and you were being bullied and nobody said anything to defend you. At some point we’ve got to make the decision to do our part in stopping the bullying, even a little contribution by many will go a long way in changing a bully’s mind.

Also the bullying in our fandom thing is probably a big reason why 1D are scared to go public with their actually real relationships. Imagine it’s someone you really cared about and loved, but to go public would mean harassment to that person, their social medias and even their family and friend’s social medias. This is the more shameful part of the fandom. So let us try encourage others to be nice. If you are about to do something mean, consider simply ignoring and moving on, rather than being a part of the problem yourself. 

That’s all for now! Have a great day, and know that my salty ass is jelly of all you guys going to Harry’s show this year. :D To everyone else not going to the show, enjoy the videos and pics and other posts we get! And thank you to everyone who takes a video or picture and posts it online for everyone. Our fandom has always been the realest MVPs with that sort of thing. I don’t know any other fandom with such drive/thirst for content and producing content for everyone else. Every other fandom must think we’re absolute bonkers. 

Love you all and try to be good to each other. Do it for mum. Happy Mother’s Day to a lot of the world. x

Our entire fandom is probably a mixed bag of opinions, for obvious reasons. So the most important thing to the healthy sustainability of our fandom is tolerance of people with different opinions and beliefs to your own, and positivity for Louis and Harry by trying to stick to posts that for the majority, make people happy, or if it’s sad - at least sad about the right things. The problem in the Larrie fandom is getting upset, angry, depressed and exhausted about things we shouldn't have to feel those negative emotions about. The only way to truly know if it's something sad, is if it's something the boys are visibly sad about themselves. All the rest of the fandom-made sadness is speculation and fiction - things that we should actively be trying to maintain an emotional neutrality with. And yet we don't and so as a result we have many mood problems from the content people are putting out and a widespread suffering from things outside our control. We need to become aware of the problems, and we need to change for the sake of the fandom’s survival before we self-destruct from all this fandom-made stress.

So how do you defeat negativity within yourself? Sometimes all it is, is a matter of changing perspective. If you are just too exhausted of being angry and depressed all the time because of the way you feel about things, then just change the very way you feel about things. Emotions, and feelings in general can be extremely difficult to manage and deal with, but if you push yourself to work these feelings out in your head, you will become much lighter, and I believe happier, afterwards.

As always, please don’t give your notes to negativity. Try to be a positive blog that helps lift the fandom mood up and most importantly, love each other and love your Larents. :)

Good luck Larries!!

There are two main goals for the-lourries blog

1. Providing people with our list of respectful blogs they can follow who love Larry and ot4 should they need to know some more nice fans <3

2. Encouraging Larries to be positive blogs and to not give notes to the negativity being widespread within the Larrie fandom about Louis, Harry and Freddie. (There are other problems but we have got to start somewhere.)

Hope that helps :)

Love and peace to you all,

Follows/blogroll/reblogs/likes/positive blogging/contacting others etc. Have an amazing day/night. Also great win by Roger 😍 xo

Louis has been talking about his son for well over a year now and it’s clear that he loves his son so much and does his best for him...

If you can’t accept Freddie, then at least accept the possibility and respect ½ of your ship, Louis William Tomlinson. That means saying No! to reblogging anti-dad!Louis and anti-Freddie posts. If what people are saying hurts you, tell them on anon! If they just ignore you or brush you off, click unfollow! Show these people that nasty behaviour towards the ones you love will not be rewarded. This is the only way they will learn to stop. If you want the fandom to become a safe place again, you have to make a stand through subtle discouragement to push back against the Louis negativity on your dash.

Don’t sit by and let him be disrespected like this. If you really love him, then stand up for him. It doesn’t make you a bad Larrie, it makes you a true Larrie.