The Words Of A One Direction Fan

One Direction fans, aren't they a strange bunch? With their fan art and fanfiction, some believing the members of the band are gay and in secret relationships with each other. It's all very weird.
Now, since watching the One Direction fan documentary on tv a while back I've wondered what goes through the minds of the fans and I thought I'd ask one. My good friend Emily from Bristol wrote a little something to explain what the band means to her etc and I thought it'd make a great comeback post for you all to get into the mind of a 'directioner'

"You know, when someone says One Direction, it's easy to guess what others would say about them. They have no talent, their music is painful to listen to and their looks are so far past the line of unattractiveness that they can't even see it anymore. But not everyone has that opinion on them. I am one of those people. To me, the band that have an ungodly amount of fate on their side, are miracles. There were an infinite number of situations that were so close to happening which would have changed the way their lives have turned out. Small things like Zayn's mother urging him, pushing him, to get out of bed on the morning of his audition, to bigger things like Liam giving it a second shot. The tiniest things have joined these five young lads together and given them the chance to achieve the things that they used to dream of as a child and in my eyes, I find that incredible. 

I have been a fan of One Direction for going on 2 and a half years now and I still underestimate just how extraordinary each member is. Their personalities are completely different from one another along with everything else that makes them unique. I didn't choose to become a fan of them, it just sort of happened. My best friend was a fan of them before me and she was the one who got me into them. Before then, if I'm being honest, I never really paid much attention to them. However, I never thought bad of them. I never thought they were awful musicians or horrible people, I just never saw them in the same way as I do now.

As a collective fandom, we are famous for our various talents that are associated with every fanbase in existence. Although we partake in our fair share of montage videos, blogs and fanart, I would have to admit that fanfiction is our speciality; so much so that one of the fandom's most well known and most popular fanfic, After, is actually being produced into a film. 

The lads have changed me, in ways I never thought were possible, and I know that makes me sound like an idiot, but it's true. I don't care what others think of them, even if the things I have heard people say about them are so disgusting and disturbing that it makes me wonder how they could ever say that about another human being, they make me happy. And to be quite honest, I don't know what I would do without them. They are my life and nothing will ever change that. So say what you like about them, I'm not planning on leaving them anytime soon."

And that's that, the weird and maybe not so wonderful mind of a One Direction fan. 

Emily's twitter: @LetItShineTT

It's good to be back,

Laura