Edits

The One Direction fandom likes to make edits of the boys, the most common and the most seductive being the punk edits. Most girls, including me, don't go crazy over guys that wear eyeliner, have piercings, or have tattoos. I personally don't dig the eyeliner and am picky about guys with peircings, but tattoos: holla atcha gurl! Something about those boys can make those three things look totally hot and attractive to girls of the fandom. Another category of edits is the flower crown edits. I don't understand why girls want guys wearing flower crowns or flower headbands, but it's kind of cute. I'll admit though, it's still weird. The strangest part about these edits is that they are coming to life. As the boys get older, each of them (except Niall) are adding more and more skin art to themselves. Zayn covering the most surface area and Harry with the most individual tattoos with Louis not too far behind.   Liam has got some himself. In addition, Harry stole a girl's flower headband/crown that was in the front row of one of their concerts in Europe. Of course Directioners got a couple snaps of this.

Punk edit of Louis

An unedited picture of Louis sporting tats and a rugged outfit. He's with the pure and inkless Niall.

Louis' ankle tattoos

Punk edit of Harry

Real Harry

Punk edit of Zayn

Real Zayn

 

Punk edit of Liam

Real Liam

Flower crown/headband edit of Harry

A photo from the concert in which the edit came to life. You can clearly see the lightly colored headband upon the dark hair of Harry Styles.

Missing My 1D Buddy

The school year is coming to a close with only 3 days left. About 2 weeks ago, one of my special friends, Shadman, left our school to go to his home school; he felt he would be more successful there. I was sad when he left because we would fangirl over 1D together all the time, laughing at them, talking about them, and singing along to their music. I converted him to being a boy Directioner & I'm absolutely so proud that I managed that! We really didn't talk to much to each other in the beginning of the school year, but being Directioners really made us bond in our free class periods and history class. One Direction created a connection that made it hard for him to leave, but because of this connection we are buddies for life! If you're reading this... LOVE YOU SHADDY!

2014 Announcement

Okay, so One Direction announced yesterday that they are going on a stadium tour in locations around the world, the Where We Are Tour. That's amazing & I'm so proud of them for reaching that ability of selling out huge venues, such as stadiums, around the world; but there's one problem. AMERICA ISN'T LISTED ON THE TOUR SCHEDULE. Fml. Like seriously? Why do I have to live in America? They probably have every country with a stadium listed on the schedule except for America. Why do you do this to me boys?

A new tour also means a new album will be coming out before the year ends. That's an upside; but in addition to a new album, they are coming out with a perfume, they came out with Fatheads & new cutouts recently, other new merchandise will be coming out, new magazines with their beautiful faces, and their 3D movie. That's a lot of money to spend that I don't have! 

EVERYTHING!

Being a Directioner, everything reminds you of them!

Examples
1. Pigeon: It's Kevin, Louis's plastic pet pigeon
2. Irish, anything green, & food: Niall
3. Mirrors: Zayn
4. Carrots, Superman, & fungi: Louis on the video diaries
5. Cats, curly hair, Jack Wills: Harry
6. England: Harry, Louis, Liam, & Zayn
7. Any words from the titles of their songs

And more...

Usernames

Btdubbs, this will be a short post.

All the good 1D usernames are taken on Twitter, Instagram, and other social networks that require usernames. You have to be really creative when making a 1D username, because Directioners have incorporated almost every aspect of their lives into making each individual username. They incorporate their physical appearance, nationality, inside jokes, etc. My username on Instagram involves the member I fancy the most, Niall, and their debut album, Up All Night. My Instagram username is up_all_night_with_niall. My Twitter and Vine usernames are both HeatherHoran143, again involving Niall, implying that I'm married to him because I have the same last name as him on my username. On GifBoom and for Kik, my username is taken_by_niall. Taken is a song from Up All Night and I fancy Niall the most. I really like Niall... And food. Niall likes food. Coincidence? I think not!

Celebration!

On this fine day, we celebrate a birthday & an anniversary in the 1D fandom. It's Paul Higgins's birthday! Happy birthday, Paul! Lots of love to ya. For those of you that don't know who Paul is, he is their head of security. He's from Ireland like our own leprechaun, Niall. Speaking of Niall, it's his three year anniversary of auditioning for the X Factor UK. Congrats, Niall! You've made it so far and your future is bright. Keep singing, dancing, and playing your heart out. Love you more than words can describe. Muah! x

Relationships and Friendships

To many people, especially guys, the whole obsession with One Direction is annoying. The only people that can truly tolerate me expressing my abmiration for One Direction are my true friends. Many people at school don't associate with me much because I talk about the boys so much, but my true friends are always by my side. They get annoyed sometimes and have to tell me that enough is enough, but they tolerate it for the most part. In addition, guys don't like girls that talk about other guys too much. Lately I haven't been talking too much about 1D because I have been blogging about them so much. I get to talk to all you lovely people about them! Isn't that great? Anyway, guys don't want to be in a relationship with girls that are always talking about how funny, attractive, talented, etc. another guy is. Even though female Directioners know that they have slim to no chance with One Direction, but guys see it as the girl has their priorities with another guy; in this case, five other guys. Guys don't want to waste their time on a girl that seems to be in love with a far-fetched guy.

Twitcams, and asking, and following. Oh my!

The wonderful world of Twitter has allowed Directoners to at least have a chance with interacting with the boys, but many of the fans miss their Twitcams, asking sprees, and follow sprees. Due to the time difference, living on the east coast of the U.S. and all, many of their Twitcams are when we are in school or during the middle of the night. We can always watch them on YouTube, but we can't ask them questions live that way. Their asking and follow sprees are also either during school or in the middle of the night. This prevents me from getting tweeted to, retweeted, or followed by any of the boys. I get their tweets sent to my phone, so when I see that they've tweeted about these three things, it's like I am being mocked. I just sit there and mope in class. What a life.

Twitter Fights: The Wanted

The Wanted are a British-Irish boyband like One Direction, but aren't very successful in the music industry. They think they are SO much better than One Direction, but they aren't even close to being as successful as One Direction. Did they have two sold out world tours? NO. Did they win over 50 awards? NO. Did their debut album release at number 1 in the U.S.? NO. Sorry, they need to pipe down. They are always getting into fights over Twitter, The Wanted always starting crap and hating on the younger boys. They are so irrelevant and don't have any amunition on them, so they make up fake stuff like that they are gay. In the most recent war, Liam and Louis's girlfriends and a couple fans got involved too. The girls had a little bit to say to Tom of The Wanted. Louis and Liam were quick and clever when firing back, mentioning Tom's failed X Factor audition. Tom deleted all his tweets from the conversation, probably embarrased, but Louis kept his tweets posted. The Wanted have failed once again.

Follow!

Follow me on Twitter @ HeatherHoran143 & on Instagram @ up_all_night_with_niall


Check out my friends's blogs

Nice Car Blog

SHAD-MANIA B3 BAL'IN

Bromances

Like all tight guy friendships, the boys have bromances with one another. It's a huge web of linking bromances because each of the five members of One Direction have a special bromance with each of the remaining four members. Directioners have come up with ship names to identify each bromance.

The bromances are...
1. Niam (Niall & Liam)
2. Narry (Niall & Harry)
3. Ziall (Zayn & Niall)
4. Nouis (Niall & Louis)
5. Zarry (Harry & Zayn)
6. Ziam (Zayn & Liam)
7. Zouis (Zayn & Louis)
8. Lirry (Liam & Harry)
9. Larry (Louis & Harry)
10. Lilo (Liam & Louis)

The problem with bromances is that people think the boys have relationships with one another as more than friends. The only bromances that interfers with the boys actual love life is the bromance between Harry and Louis. Their ship name is Larry Stylinson, but commonly know as just Larry. People genuinely think that Harry and Louis are in a relationship and the fandom has become divided into Larry shippers and Elounor shippers. From my previous post, you can gather that Elounor is Louis and Eleanor Calder's ship name. Louis is madly in love with Eleanor and those crazy people that think that Louis and Harry are secretly in love give Elounor a really hard time. They make up the most outrageous rumors such as that Eleanor has a twin named Tina and management hired El and Tina to be Louis's girlfriend, Eleanor. The Larry shippers bash Eleanor just because Louis loves her and it disgusts me! I think if Harry and Louis were a gay couple, they wouldn't put themselves and others in this situation. Unlike Larry, the other bromances are simply taken as jokes. That's why the whole Larry situation irritates me the most. When a picture comes out of Niall and Liam (Niam) being all cutesy, Directioners don't freak out. When a picture of Larry comes out, it's obvious that they are secretly madly in love. It's just a bunch of bull. They get bugged so much about it and it makes me mad that people can't just leave them to do what they want. They are "mature" young lads that are old enough to do what they want and should have that freedom without getting criticized.

Definition
ship: (v) to think two people are a good couple

1D Girlfriends

Liam has been dating Danielle Peazer, a dancer on the UK X Factor, for over 2 years and they are such a happy and beautiful couple. She is a gorgeous and talented girl that has made a successful career as a dancer without the help of Liam, but some "Directioners" think otherwise. They think she is using Liam to get famous, but that's a bunch of bologna. Louis is dating student and model Eleanor Calder. Harry introduced the two a little over a year ago and they have been dating ever since. Eleanor once said, "I'm just a fan that got lucky." She has a killer fashion sense, is absolutely stunning, and the boys have described her as "the female version of Louis," so she must be a good time. Zayn is dating singer Perrie Edwards. She auditioned for the UK X Factor in 2011, being put into a group at the Bootcamp stage with three other girls in which they named the group Little Mix. Little Mix went on to win the X Factor that season and release and album in the UK, so you could say Perrie is extremely talented. Perrie's bandmate, Jesy Nelson, once said in an interview, "I have never seen a boy that loves a girl so much like Zayn loves Perrie." Like the other girls, she is gorgeous and a perfect match for her 1/5 of One Direction.

Most of the Directioners, including me, love and look up to Dani, El, and Perrie. They are role models to girl Directioners and we envy them. We wish we were them! It's so conflicting because we see Payzer (Liam & Danielle), Elounor (Eleanor & Louis), and Zerrie (Zayn & Perrie) together and think of them as perfect couples that will settle down and stay together forever. On the other hand, we want to be the ones that marry the boys, but most Directioners have enough sense to realize that is probably won't happen and respect their relationship. Danielle once said the wise words, "Hating me won't make him love you." PREACH GIRL. The immature Directioners send the girls hate, but those aren't true fans, so the real Directioners just brush them off.

I'm just glad Niall is still single, me being a Niall girl and all. Harry has had "a long list of girlfriends" and is a "womanizer." Well, that's fake and the tabloids need to get their heads out of their butts and realize he isn't like that. Thank you.

Louis and Eleanor: Elounor

Harry bought them those matching pajamas.

Liam and Danielle: Payzer

The earlier times of their relationship, when Liam was still competing on the X Factor with his bandmates and Danielle was a background dancer.

Zayn and Perrie: Zerrie

Cuddling, so cute. 

Fan Fiction

To start off this post I would like to talk about fictitious and magical world of fan fiction! For those of you that don't know what fan fiction is, it's pretty much self explanatory. It's fake stories, some as long as novels, regarding a specific fandom. There is Twilight, Harry Potter, Divergent, Justin Bieber, Big Time Rush, The Hunger Games, Cody Simpson, and of course One Direction fan fiction. I only read One Direction fan fiction, but there are so many stories out there. There's even a website just for One Direction fan fiction! Some users of Instagram and Tumblr even dedicate a whole account to just to fan fiction! A website, now an app too, that most independent authors use to write and publish stories on is called Wattpad. Wattpad has a section where you can pick what genre of stories you want to look at and fan fiction is one of those genres. That fan fiction section is LOADED with One Direction fan fiction. It should be called "One Direction Fan Fiction" instead because Directioners dominate it. 

I will admit, I probably have about 15 fan fictions that I am reading right now. You might think, "Why is she reading so many stories at once and why doesn't she finish one before she goes to another?" I have a very good reason for that. Most fan fiction are "editing" or "updating" which means that you have to wait for updates of new chapters to be published or posted. Instead of waiting sometimes weeks on end for the next part, I will start another story. It gets frustrating though because once the next part is uploaded, you've forgotten what happened in the previous part and have to go back and skim it to get a grasp on the story line again. Sometimes the authors won't update for weeks or months on end, so you definitely have to go back to refresh your memory. The problem with reading fan fiction on Instagram is that you may forget the username or hashtag that it's under. I was in the middle of a really good Zayn fan fiction and I kept checking everyday for updates, and then every other day, and then every week, until I eventually forgot about it. That's why Wattpad is my favorite to read on! Once you are done reading for the time being, it saves the story in your library and you can always come back to it. Wattpad also sends you notifications whenever a story is updated, so you don't have to search for it. Unfortunately, Instagram, Tumblr, and onedirectionfanfiction.com does not. 

Another problem with fan fiction is that most of it is Harry or Niall falling in love with a normal girl. Zayn, Louis, and Liam have girlfriends that a majority of the fandom has grown to love and we see them as perfect couples, so we don't want to come between them by writing about them with another girl. This leads me into another topic: the 1D girlfriends!

My final problem that I will address in this post is gay fan fiction! I have nothing at all against gay people and am actually for the equality of homosexual people, but the boys are not gay. 3/5 of One Direction have girlfriends, meaning they are straight. Harry and Niall have had girlfriends before, meaning they are straight. It just irritates me. This leads me into another topic: bromances!

(Links to fan fiction sites below)

Wattpad

One Direction Fan Fiction

School

One Direction have caused me problems in school. Whenever someone says "One Direction," my head immediately turns to see who said that. I can't help it! It's an involuntary action that I can't help. When I am having a conversation with someone, especially my history teacher, I can't help but laugh when the person says "One Direction." In addition, people always look at me anytime someone says "One Direction" in front of me, even if it's not directed towards the band. One day in history, we were talking about Egypt. My teacher, Mr. Ievoli, said, "The Nile River flows in one direction and the Monsoonal Winds blow in the other direction." Everyone in my class turned their heads and looked at me as the room went silent. Mr. Ievoli was confused at first until I started laughing, and then he got mad. Not only did he say "One Direction," he also said "Nile." He said it, so there was no differentiation between Niall Horan and the river in Egypt. In my head, I pictured the gorgeous Irish boy with blonde hair, not a river with sand on either banks. 

One Direction have also caused me problems outside of school, but regarding school. I will go home and go on Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, or Facebook just to check up on social media, but get distracted looking at pictures, watching videos, and reading fan fiction (I'll talk about fan fiction in another post). 2 hours later..... STILL ON SOCIAL NETWORKS, and still haven't started my homework. I will then have to stay up later or finish it the next day. Procrastination and lack of focus at its finest. 

Misconceptions

Most "normal" people, people that aren't Directioners, have this misconception that all Directioners are 12 years old, crazy people that literally follow them and do whatever they can to physically get at the boys, or both. This is REALLY irritating because those Directioners that will do whatever they can to have a physical interaction with them are rude and selfish, and they make the fandom look bad. I am not one of those people. I love them so much, I have a lot of respect for them and accept the fact that they are also normal people that do normal things.

I'll tell you a story that demonstrates this problem perfectly! Niall's Brother, Greg, got married in Ireland earlier this week. Fans crowded around the church, screaming and disrupting the ceremony. When the newly weds came out of the church, with their parties behind them, they were mobbed by fans. Niall was among the groomsmen and was the one who got the worst of the mob. Niall and Greg never mentioned anything on Twitter about the fans, but I guess they just wanted to brush it off and enjoy the fact that Greg just got married. Although, things like that don't just happen and you don't care. It was rude and disrespectful on part of those young girls, AND THEIR PARENTS, to disturb a special day like that. I know it's part of being famous to deal with that, but thats ridiculous. I would NEVER do something like that! It's sad that people automatically think, "Wow, Directioners are terrible people," but many of us really aren't and it's a very inaccurate assumption.

Here are some pictures that fans managed to snap!

Niall leaving the church

Niall and Greg leaving the church

Greg with Niall and their father, Bobby, in the background

Niall leaving the church with security guiding and protecting him. THERE'S PAUL ON THE FAR LEFT!

Niall struggling to get into the car

The lovely couple, Greg and Denise Horan

Niall in the car on the way to the church

Ridiculous fans waiting outside with the Niall cutout. Really?! 

I would just like to mention that Niall looked absolutely dapper in that suit. 

More info!

If you don't already know a lot about One Direction or haven't listened to their music, check out their website, Wikipedia page, and official VEVO channel. If you already are totally obsessed with them, you can view their Twitter and Facebook pages for updates on everything they are doing. Their official website can help you stalk, I mean keep up to date with, them too.

(All links below)

One Direction VEVO

One Direction Wikipedia

One Direction Website

One Direction Twitter

Niall Horan Twitter

Zayn Malik Twitter

Liam Payne Twitter

Louis Tomlinson Twitter

Harry Styles Twitter

One Direction on Facebook

Why are they so cute and funny?

Okay, I would like to address another major problem that Directioners struggle with. The boys, A.K.A One Direction, are so darn cute and funny! Directioners freak out to the point of losing consciousness. I personally have never passed out because of this, but I do get overwhelmed. Directioners also have panic attacks where we hyperventilate, cry, scream, and squeal. I don't cry, but I do hyperventilate sometimes and scream, a lot. It's no big deal. They are just too much to handle.

The members of One Direction do the funniest stuff to each other! They prank one another, wake each other up in funny ways, and just say and do the funniest things. In the One Direction documentary, A Year In The Making, Louis, Liam, and Niall serenade Zayn and Harry in order to get them out of bed to eat the breakfast they just went out and bought. Louis and Zayn pranked Harry, Niall, and Liam on Nickelodeon, the kids television channel. Niall really didn't react very much though, but Harry was on the verge on passing out and Liam was in a panic. In addition, they say and do the most random and funny things in interviews and on stage. During an interview in France after the release of their debut album, Up All Night, it looked like they had a great time! They answered some interesting questions, danced, and rapped, which they aren't particularly good at. Louis has the best yet dumbest joke and it's called the 'mushroom joke,' and Zayn has a hysterical catch phrase. One Direction and their vocal coach even made a whole song about it while they were on the X Factor. (The links to the videos of the events that I mentioned and partially described are posted bellow)

One Direction - The Wake Up Song

One Direction - Nickelodeon Pregnancy Prank

One Direction - X Factor Vas Happenin' and Mushroom Joke

One Direction - Vas Happenin' Boys

One Direction - France Interview

Not only are they funny, they make the cutest and silliest faces too! (As shown below)

Their music video to their song Kiss You and to their cover of Blondie's song One Way Or Another explain this post very well. (The videos are below)

These hilarious actions and adorable faces that make One Direction so cute, Directioners can't cope with unless they fangirl! It's the only appropriate way to respond to them. Peasants, I mean people, think we are crazy though. I don't see why, but those haters are irrelevant and don't phase Directioners. We still have to deal with their dumb comments though. Can you not? I just can't even deal with this right now. They didn't even have to flip their hair to get me overwhelmed. 

Top of the mornin' to ya!

Hey, I'm Heather and I'm a Directioner, a fan of One Direction! For those of you that don't know who One Direction are, listen up! One Direction are a boy band consisting of five members, four from England and one from Ireland. Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Louis Tomlinson, and Liam Payne (Sorry, Liam. I put you last.) were put together as strangers on the UK's series of the X Factor during the bootcamp stage in 2010. They have skyrocketed to the top of the international music charts ever since. Many of you that personally know me, or don't, may know I am a Directioner because I am very outgoing about it. I don't mind what people think about me for being such a dedicated fan, but I do encounter many problems that I am willing to deal with. The main problem that Directioners have to deal with are Directionators, people that claim to be Directioners, but really only like a couple of songs and don't have their facts about the boys straight. Other Directioner Problems include: Niall and Louis not getting very many solos, explaining how they aren't gay, but they are, how we never have one favorite song by them, and how they look better in skinny jeans than most girls, including me. Two things that really bother me are when magazines have posters of the boys that are double-sided, each side containing a member of the band, and when people mispronounce or misspell the boys names! Louis is pronounced "Loo-ee" and Niall is pronounced "Nye-all," not "Loo-is" and "Neel." These are just some of many problems and things that bother Directioners like me.