Hi, everyone.

It’s been a while! I hope you’re all doin okay 🥹🥹

I have a story for you today - and this feels like far too much of a crazy coincidence not to share.

When I was in college, I struggled with a period of extremely low mental health. I was away from home, alone, struggling to make friends, and still grieving the sudden passing of my father 3ish years prior.

A few things saved me: One Direction, and positive thinking. To be more clear, whenever I was suffering and stuck in a negative thought pattern, I would draw a plus sign on my thumb in pen to remind me to think positively. This was instrumental in saving my life, so the second I was able, I got the plus sign tattooed on my wrist.

If you know anything about me, you know how hardcore of a One Direction fan I was (and still am). To this day, I listen to their music daily.

Yet somehow, I was unaware that each member of One Direction except Niall has a “cross” tattooed on their ankles to keep them grounded, until earlier this evening, when I came across a video on IG of early days Liam showing the tattoo and explaining the story. I accidentally closed the app and lost the video, but I found it later on YouTube through Louis’s tattoo tour. Louis’s ankle is the second photo of this post.

With everything going on now, and with Liam’s passing, I’d been considering getting a One Direction tattoo that I’d already wanted for years, but now seemed like the perfect time to honor Liam and everything he and the band helped me through.

Turns out I didn’t need to. By some crazy, spiritual, planets-aligned, universe-shattering coincidence, I already had one.

As my mom so aptly said: “Maybe you got Niall’s”. But I think through all of this, I have a piece of all of them with me now - including Liam. 🤍 🕊️

Hi, everyone.

It’s been a while! I hope you’re all doin okay 🥹🥹

I have a story for you today - and this feels like far too much of a crazy coincidence not to share.

When I was in college, I struggled with a period of extremely low mental health. I was away from home, alone, struggling to make friends, and still grieving the sudden passing of my father 3ish years prior.

A few things saved me: One Direction, and positive thinking. To be more clear, whenever I was suffering and stuck in a negative thought pattern, I would draw a plus sign on my thumb in pen to remind me to think positively. This was instrumental in saving my life, so the second I was able, I got the plus sign tattooed on my wrist.

If you know anything about me, you know how hardcore of a One Direction fan I was (and still am). To this day, I listen to their music daily.

Yet somehow, I was unaware that each member of One Direction except Niall has a “cross” tattooed on their ankles to keep them grounded, until earlier this evening, when I came across a video on IG of early days Liam showing the tattoo and explaining the story. I accidentally closed the app and lost the video, but I found it later on YouTube through Louis’s tattoo tour. Louis’s ankle is the second photo of this post.

With everything going on now, and with Liam’s passing, I’d been considering getting a One Direction tattoo that I’d already wanted for years, but now seemed like the perfect time to honor Liam and everything he and the band helped me through.

Turns out I didn’t need to. By some crazy, spiritual, planets-aligned, universe-shattering coincidence, I already had one.

As my mom so aptly said: “Maybe you got Niall’s”. But I think through all of this, I have a piece of all of them with me now - including Liam. 🤍 🕊️

My dentist never gives me feetie warmers.

You’re probably not likely to claw the dentist’s face off.

You don’t know that

Lesser-known steps of the writing process:

I have a massive fear that no one actually likes me, rather everyone is just politely tolerating me hoping I leave them alone

hey man I found a piece of your soul stuck in the text messages of old friends you don’t speak to anymore. do you want it back

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May your August be filled with love and growth.

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“you’re a writer, right?”

me, staring at the one sentence i’ve managed to add in the last hour and the 12 open tabs on the specifics of shoes in 1845 Ireland: In theory.

who else up hurkleing their durkleing

hooray for blue charmander!

somehow I've done another Chartodile family moment