Harry with a Louis ×͜× pride flag for the second time. There is no way he didn't notice the Louis smiley. Look at it folded up even, it's obvious. X

HSLOT Austin Residency 6, 10.3.22

What makes you beautiful | Austin 9/25

every angle that harry styles has is a good angle

Harry putting a ‘Beto for Texas’ sticker on his guitar at HSLOT Austin with Beto in the crowd is something that is so personal to me

Can we please make it a thing for the US shows to scream "RIOT, AMERICA" ??

HSLOT 2022 USA residencies 1 (Toronto, New York, Austin)

15 August 2022 - 3 October 2022

I (pointing to himself) miss (index finger in his chin) you (pointing back to someone).

Harry signaling "I miss you" in ASL - HSLOT Residency Austin N6 - 03.10.22.

may I ask about the mitski curse or is it secret knowledge

*LONG POST INCOMING* It all started in 2016.

I've been a Mitski fan since 2014 when First Love/Late Spring premiered on Stereogum and desperately wanted to see her live. The chance finally came after I moved to New York; I had tickets for her show in February 2016 at The Knitting Factory. But then. A freeze hit the city that weekend, resulting in a pipe in the shitty apartment bursting so I missed the show because I had to wait for the emergency repair guy to come by. Okay, well that's a bummer, I though. I've been waiting for almost two years to see Mitski but surely I'll get another chance. July 2016. I was living in Texas for the summer, a few hours away from Austin, where Mitski had a show scheduled. Perfect! I can drive up to the show! My old, barely functioning truck can handle the drive! It did not. My car broke down two hours outside Austin.

November 2016. Third try to see Mitski in a year is the charm, right? Oh wait, I waited too long to buy a flight to my grandma's for thanksgiving and I had to fly out the day of the Mitski show because every other flight was $500 more expensive.

By 2017 I was starting to get worried. I had tickets to see her April 2017, but I got horrific food poisoning and couldn't get out of bed for three days.

I didn't get another try until late 2018 on the Be The Cowboy tour during her 4 night residency at Brooklyn Steel. Except Mitski's popularity had blown up significantly and I couldn't get tickets when they went on sale the first three shows. BUT THEN a fourth show was added, on a Monday night, and I finally got tickets! Perfect! Until I had a final project for one of my classes scheduled the same night that I could not miss without failing the class, and I desperately tried to find tickets for another night but none were available for under $300.

At that point I was convinced: I was cursed. There were no tour dates I was even able to TRY to make, and then in September 2019 Mitski played Summer Stage (two weeks after I moved from New York) and announced it would indefinitely be her last live show.

October 2021: Mitski releases Working for the Knife and announces a tour. The closest tour date to where I was living was 8 hours away, but I fought for my life for tickets and was determined I would finally break the curse.

I got COVID two days before Mitski's Denver show in March 2022.

BUT WAIT! Mitski was announced as one of the openers for HSLOT's European stadium leg! And my friends and I planned a bar trip to Scotland that lined up with the weekend of Harry's show in Glasgow! Okay, maybe seeing Mitski as an opener at a stadium show isn't ideal, but I was desperate. Except, of course, the stadium entry was a complete mess, and we didn't get into the show until the very end of Mitski's set. I had finally seen her live, but for 8 minutes and at what cost.

I wasn't happy, but I told myself it wasn't the end of the world because I already had plans to see Mitski at the All Things Go festival in October, so redemption would come soon enough. Then Hurricane Ian hit and my flight to DC that had a layover in Orlando was cancelled the day before I was supposed to leave. At that point, there was nothing I could do but laugh. Why did I think it would go any differently this time? No. I couldn't take it anymore. I dropped wayyyyy too much money on a different flight to DC with no layover. That flight was delayed by 5 hours, but I made it. Nothing was going to stop me.

Mitski's set starts. We're in the pit, I'm 5'2" so I'm on my tip toes, straining my neck to keep my eyes on Mitski. And then. Everyone's BeReals went off during Francis Forever and the crowd became a sea of phones. I was crushed. I had broken the curse, but 9 years too late.

Louis Tomlinson • Bigger Than Me is playing at HSLOT Residency Austin 3 (TX) • 28.09.2022

HIIII okay so i messed up and forgot to do this on my actual anniversary but i do this every year and i wanted to let you know that i used to be in your ask all the time about being in love w my best friend and late september was our 4 year anniversary!!! i’ve sent one of these every year to tell you about it so this is that! we have had the most magical year and to top it off we got to go to hslot the last night of his austin residency!! sending you love always 💖💖💖

OH MY GODDD That is so fucking sweet and I’m SO happy for you! Thank you so much for keeping me updated 🥺 That is so amazing AND I’m so happy you guys got to go to Harry 😭💜

So Harry selecting the ×͜× OTB pride flag in Austin does appear to be deliberate. He had other options. He chose this.

Harry looks at it, keeps singing and dancing around the stage, ignores a regular pride flag thrown at him, goes past the OTB one again, looks down (here's a slow mo version of that part), and then chooses it to fly. 🥲 x

Slow mo version of just the part where Harry picks up the OTB flag. From the full context video he appears to have seen it before, ignored other pride flags later, and then it looks like he's searching for it when he comes back here and picks it up.