#and now i know i am not crazy bc my cishet dad sees it too

[luobingmeis]

let’s play a game called “who is more normal abt me being gay” is it my dad, who spent most of his life growing up on a farm in the midwest w/ a likely conservative family (if the fb posts are anything to go by) and i have no idea if he knew any gay people, or my mom, who was a hairdresser in the 80s and spent most of her 20s going to gay bars

the answer will in fact surprise you

#this is mostly be being sarcastic and also reductive bc at the end of the day where someone grew up isn’t an immediate indicator #of their views #this is more so a reflection of today’s grocery store chat with my dad #being abt how i am my mom’s token gay kid #and now i know i am not crazy bc my cishet dad sees it too #but also it’s kinda funny bc my dad knows that i have a type like most people #meanwhile my mom is the equivalent of ‘oh ur gay???? u will love my other gay friend’

[ialwaysknewyouwerepunk]

Umm I appreciate what you said ab louis and while I do agree w the way he tells full length stories and just jumps a little around the truth, the way his image is this laddy lad (I mean look at his twitter) ect but I mean his situation is so fucked up. Idk if you wanna talk ab it or what's your opinion on that so I'll just say good morning america and hope u get it. I don't think he likes his situation I don't think he likes looking so one dimensional..I just wanna have faith in the future

hey anon, i definitely stayed on the lighter side of topics in my answer but we all know that for both louis and harry their (forced) public persona and their secrecy is a result of their closeting. ruthless closeting that has put limits on them from the start, and has ruined parts of their lives, which you can hear in way more lyrics than a basic cishet boyband would write. a big part of that was louis steering the band in that direction bts. 'home' and how it was released is the biggest result of that. bc he's been fighting it - slowly but surely. i think something louis has been telling us is that there is change coming, that the chess game of getting to where he wants to be without burning bridges before he wants to cross them (and then burning them down) is being played and he's being cautious about every move. he's breaking through the glass. what i especially meant about him benefiting from being a leader bts is that he has learned a lot about the industry through that, which is now helping him play the game until he gets what he wants. that's truly what i believe is happening and has been for years. harry and louis are both still heavily closeted but in different ways - harry's is more of a glass closet while louis's is pretty iron-clad, and one isn't worse than the other. they both limit their freedom of expression and to simply be who they are bc they've been told that the world won't accept them and their careers would basically be over if they came out. i will say it plainly: babygate, and that whole period of time of "louis goes out every night and takes women home" was character/career assassination and an extra tight padlock on his closet. because he was getting so powerful bts and he was proving that he wanted to fight back. it was a way to paint louis as an irresponsible kid throwing away his money. someone who'd get a kid from a one night stand. someone you don't sign a solo contract to. then they spun it to some "responsible dad" story to cement the whole "yes i am father" narrative long-term. (just to get through the story real quickly here ofc bc what a shitfest and no it doesn't make sense.) i am convinced if bg hadn't happened, we would've experienced louis as what he really is: someone strong and successful, not limited by the industry. we would've maybe seen a more forceful or public push by the time of the hiatus, who tf knows. bc what's been going on all these years with his solo career is him being constantly held back and silenced. it makes literally no sense that the man we see trending on twitter after a simple "how's it going?" and who's climbing the charts merely by fan effort is still somehow unknown to the gp. NOW we finally have him freed from syco - the villains of the story here obviously - and i know i can see a lot of change already. the livestream, his twitter reaching millions, the new announcements about him being independent and the companies backing him already properly working to promote him!! the stadium tour selling out!! his tweets literally telling us to have faith in the future, which he most certainly has!!! bc he's most definitely furious about what's been done to him but he's also too smart to make a rash move and destroy any chance of him coming out on top. how he'll make sure bg is over and done with i have no idea but he'll probably find a way to close it off as quietly as possible bc he's literally also too nice to do anything that would hurt that family, f.e. (he might also make it a public shitfest and make everyone who was involved's lives a living hell and i sure as fuck condone that behavior but, again, he's too smart and too nice.) that's why we don't see him going crazy on twitter like some other artists pointing out abuse in the industry - which they're rightfully doing!! but louis is choosing to play the game until he really is the boss and is powerful enough to push anyone that fucks him over aside. until no one can fuck him over anymore. watch him become someone like simon cowell but a million times better and whatever the opposite of abusive is.

so yeah, kind anon, i have faith in the future and i hope you do too

#louis #obviously this is my take on things we can barely see #but this is what i sincerely believe to be true #discourse #wow this was actually the perfect way to start my day #just reinforcing my own optimism #this shit is fucking depressing but we can't let that feeling win and louis sure as hell isn't #we're actively helping him fight nack by supporting him and keeping faith that it'll all work out #they fucking made it this far and they're gonna make sure it's a homerun #kind anon #closeting