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[allwaswell16]

A fic rec of my favorite One Direction Christmas fics as requested in this ask. This is part 2 of this rec. You can find part 1 here. If you enjoy the fics, please leave kudos and comments for the writers! You can find my other recs here. Happy reading!

- Louis / Harry -

🌟 In A Twinkling by jacaranda_bloom / @jacaranda-bloom

(E, 89k, famous/not famous) in an attempt to appease his Nan, he sends her photoshopped pictures of him and his pretend boyfriend, Harry. The fact that the man in the pictures is none other than Harry Styles, world famous Gucci model—and recurrent star of Louis’ fantasies—is irrelevant. It’s not like their paths will ever cross…

🌟 I Keep Looking For Magic by @lululawrence

(NR, 36k, fake relationship) After ten years of boyfriends all failing to ever meet Harry's family, Harry has a fiance to introduce and things are looking like they will be perfect. Until they break up. This leaves him with little choice but to find someone to pretend they are his fiance.

🌟 All Your Mates Are Here by LadyLondonderry / @londonfoginacup

(T, 36k, werewolves) In the wake of the holidays, the three single wolves from the Majestic pack are pointed in the direction of a new pack to join; one that's got struggles of its own. A new pack, a new house, and two new roommates with personal space issues... Plus exams, of course.

🌟 You Don't Have To Be Lonely This Christmas by LadyLondonderry / @londonfoginacup

(T, 35k, roommates) it’s the first of December, and he has less than a week to find somewhere cheap to stay. At least until after the holidays. Enter: an old friend with an old house and a suspiciously empty bed.

🌟 Heart Beat by @allwaswell16

(E, 35k, kid fic) Hideaway Haven is the place that Louis has always called home. It's also the place that Harry had tried to leave behind him. When Harry returns to start a music academy in his hometown, he finds himself face to face with his high school crush—and his charming daughter who wants to learn to play the drums.

🌟 You Should Be Here With Me by @lululawrence

(NR, 34k, footie player Louis) The festive period is a traditionally hectic one in the world of Premier League football, and this year is no different. A lot is riding on how Manchester United is able to come through the fixtures in the coming weeks. Louis and his teammates know all too well the pressure that is on their shoulders.

🌟 Snow In Love by @lululawrence

(NR, 33k, friends to lovers) Harry and Louis are best friends and have been for basically as long as they can remember. For the first time since middle school, they are both single for the holidays leaving them with the brilliant idea to take each other as their dates to work events. To make things easier they will pretend like they’re dating.

🌟 Set the Sky Alight, Oh Holy Night by LadyLondonderry / @londonfoginacup

(T, 33k, roommates) “It’s a starter home,” Niall says. He looks ridiculously proud. Louis does not think he should look that proud. “That bathtub’s fallen through the ceiling,” Louis points out. “Starter home,” Niall emphasises. One house, five almost-strangers (plus Niall), six new beginnings.

🌟 You Ain’t Gotta Feel Fear Just Mingle by LadyLondonderry / @londonfoginacup

(T, 32k, coworkers) Harry has been at his dream job for less than three months, and he knows two things for sure; first, his project manager doesn't know what he's doing, and second, someone in the office is apparently pure evil, and no one will tell Harry who it is. Oh, and the guy who works in conservation at the other end of the building is the most beautiful man Harry's ever seen, even when wielding a hot iron as a weapon.

🌟 Your Reign is Free (to give along to Santa) by LadyLondonderry / @londonfoginacup

(T, 28k, established relationship) It’s Christmas Eve. It’s a totally normal Christmas Eve. Harry and Louis have some friends coming by, and some totally normal birthday and Christmas plans. It’s a totally typical totally normal Christmas Eve. A fic that takes place over 24 (+1) hours where surely everything will go totally to plan.

🌟 On This Winter's Night by @reminiscingintherain

(T, 27k, meet cute) When a random bloke offers his lap for a seat on a busy bus in December, Louis' Christmas ends up being much different, and far less lonely than he was expecting.

🌟 Home Again...Winter Harlow by @dandelionfairies

(T, 27k, chef Harry) Winter Harlow… a small town that embraces the holidays like no other. That may not be true, but don’t say that around any of the residents. They pride themselves on their festivities. While Louis is basking in the glory of the holidays and everything new to him, Harry is walking into everything he once loved but now hates.

🌟 under the rain or under the snow by MquietMiNd

(E, 20k, exes) Christmas AU where they broke up a month ago but Harry shows up at Louis’ childhood home for the holidays. Louis didn’t tell his mum about their breakup so staying with them is not ideal. Harry stays.

🌟 'tis the damn season by YesIsAWorld / @louandhazaf

(E, 17k, girl direction) Harry returns to her small hometown over the holiday season and starts to think about the road not taken.

🌟 You'll Be Home For Christmas by @2tiedships2

(NR, 15k, omegaverse) “And be nice to my calendar filled with holiday cheer,” Niall instructed. “You’re going to burn a fucking hole in it from the way you’re glaring at the innocent thing. It’s not the calendar’s fault that your heat is starting so close to Christmas.”

🌟 Ride My Sleigh Tonight by @kingsofeverything

(E, 9k, office party) In exchange for free food and drinks at Liam’s office holiday party, Harry pretends to be his boyfriend. But this is not that story.

🌟 Not Another Lonely Christmas by @haztobegood

(E, 8k, fake relationship) Harry should be more nervous that he’s bringing a literal stranger to meet his extended family, but he figures it can’t be much more awkward than Aunt Sharon’s Christmas parties usually are. Instead, he’s looking forward to having an extra person to buffer the conversation.

🌟 Where All Roads Lead by Rearviewdreamer / @all-these-larrythings

(NR, 7k, snowed in) Harry's Christmas takes an unexpected turn when he discovers a misplaced holiday card in his letterbox. He never thought that braving the snow to return the card to its sender would be so worth his while.

🌟 Three Hundred Cupcakes Later by Larry_you_know / @larryyouknow

(G, 5k, meet cute) Louis finds Christmas parties usually too boring or too rowdy. Nothing in between. And this one was definitely bordering on lame... Until he spotted the most handsome man watching him.

🌟 Charm Your Pants Off by 4ureyesonly28 / @evilovesyou

(G, 2k, doctor Louis) When Harry hurt himself in front of all of his coworkers, he thought his Christmas Eve couldn’t get any worse. That was, until he ended up in an actual ambulance.

🌟 'Tis the Damn Season by zanni_scaramouche / @zanniscaramouche

(M, 2k, exes) The door will open and he’ll smile wide and genuine at the people who raised him, his teary-eyed mother and rosey-face step-father. He won’t think about the cabin in the woods again until next December.

🌟 Stuck in Midnight Traffic by LetTheMusicMoveYou / @letthemusicmoveyou28

(M, 2k, meet cute) the one where two broken people meet in an empty tube car on Christmas Eve. Can they find a way to heal each other?

- Rare Pairs -

🌟 Couldn't miss this one this year by yourlionheartx / @djtommotomlinson

(G, 3k, Liam/Louis) All year Louis has been chasing this gorgeous guy he met at a ski shop. It’s Christmas and he’s decided it’s just time to let it go. He's spending Christmas on his own this year.

🌟 I Saw Several Angels in the Self Help Section by LadyLondonderry / @londonfoginacup

(G, 3k, ot5) Zayn and Louis are soulmates. They're also missing some soulmates. For extra flavour, it's Christmas.

[moon-sun-thyme]

happy 28th

[pride-pixels]

//always in my heart// I’ve been sharing my pixel art on Instagram for almost one and a half year now and I thought it would be nice to share it on Tumblr too. I mainly do LGBT and One Direction related art mostly of Harry Styles. You can find me on Instagram as @/pride.pixels .

[i78ltst]

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[lanallite]

Be My Mistake by lanallite

Explicit ⋆ 𖤐 ⋆ 1/1 chapters ⋆ 𖤐 ⋆ 37.9k words ⋆ 𖤐 ⋆ Complete

Louis swears he’s done with Harry Styles. He’s said it before—after the screaming fights, the slammed doors, the texts he knows he shouldn’t answer but always does. It’s just sex, he tells himself. It doesn’t mean anything. But with Harry, it always means something. Getting over him was never going to be easy, not after nearly two great years together, a breakup that was loud and messy, and a crater left in the middle of their friend group. And definitely not when Harry still looks at him like he still belongs to him. Louis tells his friends it’s over, that it’s just drunken mistakes, that it’s not like that anymore. But Niall, Zayn, and Liam see right through him, because they know that with Harry, it’s always more than that. They tell him to walk away. Louis knows they’re right. But that doesn’t stop him from going back. or; inspired by ‘bad idea right?’ by Olivia Rodrigo, Louis and Harry are exes who always seem to end up in bed with each other.

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[marian-devotee]

I took my little brother (autistic, mostly non verbal) out and he was using his voice keyboard to tell me something, and this little boy (maybe 4 or 5?) heard him and asked me "Is he a robot??" I tried to explain to him that no, he isn't a robot, he just communicates differently, but my darling brother was in the background max volume "I am robot I am robot I am robot I am robot"

[marian-devotee]

My little brother insisted if I was going to post about him, he wanted a cut of the "profits". When I explained to him that Tumblr isn't monetized, and is pretty pointless, he and my older brother pointed out that he'd still be bringing me "fame and notoriety" if the post got "big". So we agreed, if the post hit 10k notes, which seemed extremely farfetched and silly at the time, I'd take my little brother out for sushi (his favorite food) and let him eat as much as he wants.

I guess God wanted the little robot to enjoy some sushi 🍣 🥲

[blade-liger-4ever]

@marian-devotee get him sushi six more times, you're at 60k notes.

[marian-devotee]

It's not per 10k notes 💀 it was a one time deal, but I gave him some options for if it hits 100k 😂

[kimberlychapman]

FEED THE ROBOT!!!!!

[saveyourhelplessspite]

favorite thing ever is leaving this gif in Ao3 comment sections

because A: a shocking amount of people don't know abt the 'img src=' trick to add images into comment sections, and B: well over half of the authors seem to really enjoy the sentiment

[saveyourhelplessspite]

and this post has served its purposw

[glitchedoutpxie]

How to use Em Dash (—) and Semi Colon ( ; )

Since the ai accusations are still being thrown around, here's how i personally like to use these GASP ai telltales. 🦄✨

Em Dashes (—)

To emphasize a shift / action / thought.

They're accusing us—actually accusing us—of using AI.

To add drama.

They dismissed our skills as AI—didn't even think twice, the dimwits—and believed they were onto something.

To insert a sudden thought. Surely they wouldn't do that to us—would they?

To interrupt someone's speech. "Hey, please don't say that. I honed my craft through years of blood and tears—" "Shut up, prompter."

To interrupt someone's thoughts / insert a sudden event.

We're going to get those kudos. We're going to get those reblogs—

A chronically online Steve commented, “it sounds like ai, idk.”

Semi Colons ( ; )

To join two closely related independent sentences / connect ideas.

Not only ChatGPT is capable of correct punctuation; who do you think it learned from in the first place?

Ultimate pro tip: use them whenever the fuck you want. You don't owe anyone your creative process. 🌈

[1dmonthlyficroundup]

— 1D Monthly Fic Roundup —

Hi, and welcome to the 1D Monthly Fic Roundup for May 2025! Below you’ll find 1D fics that were all published this month. We hope you’ll check out these new fics! If you would like to submit your own fic, please check this post on how to submit or visit our blog @1dmonthlyficroundup​. You can find all our other posts here.

Happy reading!

＊ Just a little taste, Babe! by Blue_Green28 / @bluegreen28fics [E, 9k, Louis/Harry]

Harry wants to go on a date but needs his best friend and roommate Louis to taste-test his flavoured lipstick beforehand. They both are more into it than they thought.

or, just some good old idiot roommates in love.

＊ is this just fantasy? by @tracksuitponytail [M, 7k, Harry/Louis]

While stranded at an airport between tour stops, Louis discovers that Harry has been secretly reading fanfiction. Not just any fanfiction. Will 30 minutes in a sleeping pod blur the lines between real life and fantasy—and change the way they see each other for good?

＊ Hush, Hush, We Both Can't Fight It by @louislittletomlintum [E, 8k, Louis/Harry]

“Why would you want to do all that? Like, get strung up or whatever?” Louis asked objectively. “Surely would kill your boner, takes a lot of time, doesn’t it?”

Harry shrugged, clearly thinking about it as he stared over Louis’ head. “I dunno. I think it sounds dreamy. Like… what a build up, right? Someone taking the time to purposefully tie you up, make all the knots. Looks so pretty too. Then like, imagine you’re just bound, like… can’t do anything. You’d have to trust that person so much, cause they could do whatever they wanted to you, once you were tied,” Harry explained slowly.

Louis hummed with intrigue, leaning in to kiss Harry’s neck because he wasn’t aware of his boyfriend's interest in the subject at all. “Yeah? Sounds like you’ve considered it, lovie,” Louis murmured to him.

“Yeah,” Harry sighed, then giggled a bit. “Maybe,”

or the one where louis ties harry up for the very first time

＊ Tell Me Now, Is It So? by @louislittletomlintum [E, 28k, Harry/Louis]

“Who’s the kid?” someone spoke up, and when Harry looked for the owner of the voice he knew so well, he felt like his jackrabbiting heart almost completely stopped.

The man was… beautiful. Harry had never really thought that about a man, because that was a bit of a queer thought, but Harry felt like this was objective. He was beautiful in the way a stained glass window in a church was, or a meticulous oil painting in a museum. Undeniably so.

“The kid, Tommo, is Harry Styles. And he’s our new runner,” Nick announced, patting Harry’s chest.

or the one where harry comes to work on a pirate radio ship in 1966 and gets a lot more experience than he bargained for

＊ the perfect sky is torn by @disgruntledkittenface [NR, 6k, Louis/Harry]

Louis and Harry both think it's a coincidence that strange things start to happen when they break up.

It's not.

＊ Springbrooke by skipper / @skipperxao3 [M, 98k, Harry/Louis]

Springbrooke is a small town, rich and filled with perfection. 

At the start of his senior year, Harry, an omega with no desire to fit in, meets Zayn, an Alpha with no desire to stand out. With him, he makes a pledge to survive one year, his final year at Springbrooke High, and he’s determined to make the best of it. He struggles through new relationships along with the old, discovering the true meaning of love and friendships in ways he never expected. 

To Harry, each day that passes is one day closer to breaking free and his chance to leave without looking back. Though he soon learns, in the end, it’s not leaving that matters, but what you take with you when you go.

＊ To Thee, I Claim My Own by skipper / @skipperxao3 [E, 24k+, wip, Louis/Harry]

Outside the threshold, the House of Alpha Tomlinson is nothing but a distant dream. The walls are high, holding in the hope and power every simple man has. It is a place that young Harry Styles, at one time, longed to be. To secure his entrance, he naively made a remarkable deal of protection. But as years pass, working in the home has introduced him to a world of unparalleled despair with no means for escape.

However, after a chance encounter with the Tomlinson Alpha heir, he is given a new outlook to his undeniably bleak future. Despite their differences, with every moment Harry spends with Louis, he sees life form before his very eyes, his Omega clinging desperately to the new Alpha. As time passes, their growing companionship brings feelings he never believed he would live to experience. Ultimately, leading to a choice he never expected to make.

With Louis, Harry finds strength to discover if he can fight for their potential. But with that, comes a greater risk, which in turn, may be too great a loss to endure. As he implores into his future, Harry knows he'll either have a chance of something great with Louis, or break a deal that protects all he holds dear.

＊ Don't play with me ('cause you're playing with fire) by LovelikeLou / @purrrhazza [M, 293k, Harry/Louis]

Louis leaves his hometown as soon as high school ends to travel the world. Not entirely ready to take on the world on his own, he stumbles head first into an unexpected whirlwind of restless green eyes, dark secrets and more love than he could ever imagine. Part 1 of Don't play with me series

＊ Don't let me go ('cause I'm tired of sleeping alone) by LovelikeLou / @purrrhazza [M, 2k+, wip, Louis/Harry]

After leaving Harry behind to take care of his mum and sisters, Louis tries his best to navigate life and mend what is broken. Part 2 of Don't play with me series

＊ The Lives We Make by @wishingforloushair [E, 104k, Harry/Louis]

After the arrest of Simon Cowell, life seems to have returned to normal for Louis and Harry. Their relationship is flourishing, and they’re both excelling in their roles at the Agency. When Harry gets a late night phone call from Zayn who’s at risk of imminent harm, the information he discovers leaves him questioning everything about Louis, the man who promised two years ago that there were no more lies.

Unbeknownst to them, they’ve become embroiled in a race against time in a sinister plot orchestrated by dangerous people who will do anything to keep them silent. The answers lie in the past, but for Louis rehashing his life is a painful experience fraught with regret and nightmares. When he’s forced to though, he’ll do just about anything to save the people he loves. Part 3 of Truths at Play

＊ (but maybe all along) i'm afraid by localopa / @voulezloux [T, 39k, Louis/Harry]

Romantic love couldn’t be real, he concluded at 14 when a girl in his year asked him to the Sadie Hawkins dance, blush sitting high on her cheeks as she stumbled through her prepared speech. He had seen the look she gave him many times from others in their year. The infatuation, the giggling, the coy shyness. Year 10 love always faded into nothing, and soon two partners were as good as strangers in a matter of weeks. The girl, for what it’s worth, took the rejection in stride, though he could see the prickles of tears welling in her eyes as she turned away from him.

The cycle would continue with her, as it does with everyone. Her feelings for Louis will fade until she feels nothing for him, and he becomes another faceless boy in her journey to find her love, even if he didn’t think that love truly existed.

Romantic love is a myth, Louis asserts to himself in the mirror every morning. Romantic love is a myth, and he is not in love with Harry Styles.

or the five stages of realizing you’ve been in love with your best friend, who definitely doesn’t feel the same, this whole time.

＊ Forever at Your Feet by larry_hiatus / @emilarry [E, 52k, Harry/Louis]

“Don’t fight it, darling,” Louis breathed, thumb stroking over Harry’s cheekbone. “You’re so very special. I can see it, and God can see it. He wants you to have this opportunity, he wants you to be ultimately purified. He wants you, cherub.”

Or the one where Harry’s in a sex cult, and he’s the leader’s favorite.

＊ I'm Fed Up With Pretending To Be Fine by patdkitten / @babyarcanacasey [M, 25k, Louis/Harry]

Harry Styles accidentally comes out in an interview following the news that his former bandmate (and secret ex-boyfriend) Niall Horan got married to another man. His personal assistant Zayn Malik suggests they lie low for a bit while Harry's agent cleans up the mess. Zayn's even got a suggestion: he has a friend named Liam that is a manager at a bed and breakfast/working farm in the middle of nowhere in Wisconsin. Once there, though, there's a complication: the owner of the bed and breakfast is a really attractive shifter by the name of Louis Tomlinson, who just wants a quiet life with his daughter Ariel. And, oh yeah, things are awkward between Zayn and Liam, and Louis isn't happy Zayn's staying with them.

＊ Three Word Phrases, Skipping Stages by Worldsofdreamers / @fulldivein [E, 4k, Niall/Zayn]

Third time is the charm, or so they say, would their third attempt at making this work stick?

After all, a lot had happened in the five years since they'd been together last.

Only time will tell. Part 2 of Whenever, wherever

＊ I Keep Holding On (this stormy life) by Worldsofdreamers / @fulldivein [M, 1k, Niall centric]

Behind the last two songs on heartbreak weather. Part 1 of Chasing The Clouds

＊ All I Needed Was Someone by Worldsofdreamers / @fulldivein [NR, 1k, Louis/Harry]

Misunderstandings flare drama in public, but behind closed doors, they've never been more in love.

＊ Love was a sweeter song by Worldsofdreamers / @fulldivein [M, 2k, Zayn/Niall]

A road trip home and surprises for the future. Part 3 of Whenever, wherever

＊ For what it's worth (I'm sorry) by @ineverateakiwi [NR, 42k, Harry/Louis]

Harry is happy. He loves his daughter, has his dream job and the best friend in the world, so he doesn't understand why the universe decided to punish him by bringing Louis Tomlinson back into his life.

Louis Tomlinson abandoned everything - including the love of his life - five years ago and never allowed himself to look back as punishment. However, after a lot of pressure from his friends (and therapy), he decided to come back to correct his past mistakes. He just didn't expect to discover that he has a daughter he's never met. Now he needs to fix his past relationships and build a new one with the smartest little girl.

A story about mistakes, love and the courage to forgive.

＊ Take My Medicine, Blue by @signofcomfort [E, 14k, Louis/Harry]

Louis is feral and his doctor suggests bonding. Go figure.

OR

Harry is obsessed with Louis and Louis is too, but more so that Harry is obsessed with Louis' cock and can't keep himself away from it. Good thing Louis is there to fulfill his need, thoroughly!

[forwhatiam]

Happy 28th!! <3 Let's celebrate with some of the fics I've read this past month (and some from April)! Ordered from longest to shortest, look for the asterisks to see what landed in my bookmarks!

One More Time by BostonKatie617 (M, 166k)

One More Time is an AU fic, in which One Direction was a four-piece without Louis. Louis works in book publishing and lives in the Boston area where he supports his mum, who is stuck in a nursing home without any hope of recovery.

But while working too hard and caring too much, our protagonist Louis Tomlinson is granted one more extraordinary chance to recover from a broken heart… Maybe find some love… Help some friends… And definitely exact some revenge during an epic singing competition. An epic singing competition that just may include Harry Styles tripping down a stairwell and into the arms of a certain someone.

Is Louis brave enough to put it all on the line one more time?

The Dead of July by whimsicule (M, 117.4k)

Harry is Captain America, and Louis’ been dead for 70 years.

*Who Painted the Moon Black by throughthedark (E, 95.6k)

Hunger Games AU where Louis Tomlinson is district six's victor from the 69th Hunger Games and Harry Styles is district seven's victor from the 72nd Hunger Games.

Time Passed by coffinofachimera (E, 66.3k)

Louis struggles with their relationship as Harry grows into his identity.

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) by thedeathchamber (E, 55.8k)

Harry thinks he has good reasons for avoiding relationships. Meeting Louis puts those reasons to the test.

Forever at Your Feet by larry_hiatus (E, 52.5k)

The one where Harry’s in a sex cult, and he’s the leader’s favorite.

All I've Ever Known by haztobegood (E, 34.8k)

The disruption was small, but mighty. It came hitched to the back of a black Dodge Ram pickup truck one sunny spring afternoon. With its shiny metal siding and sparkling windows, it stood out like a sore thumb. It was a Tiny House. The brand new tiny house was delivered to the empty lot at 28 Longbourn Lane, drawing a small crowd around the mailboxes. Gossip was a hot commodity in Princess Park and it had been ages since the neighbors had seen something so novel. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that anybody that wants to live in a tiny home must be lacking in both taste and sense.”

Six Ways to Sunday by SilverStuff50 (E, 11k)

Harry’s a fanboy and Louis secretly likes the fact. Or maybe not so secretly…

Superstition by Forestafay (E, 6k)

Harry has a pretty simple life: school, work at the local flower boutique, and Sunday night dance parties with her two black cats, Matilda and Anna, to RAYE’s 21st Century Blues. Everything fits, slotted in with the fabric fibres of her life—organised chaos, as she likes to call it. That is, until the moving trucks pull up outside Harry's apartment complex, and someone starts moving into the previously empty flat next door.

*Sweven by 1Diamondinthesun (NR, 4.4k)

"So this Harry,” Liam chuckled, reaching for the business card, “Harry Styles, witnessed you in a near nap state and gave you his card? And his personal number?”

Louis ducked his head and smiled at the memory. “I asked for it, actually.”

Louis glanced up at Liam to find him staring back with a speculative smile. Liam pointed Harry’s business card at Louis as he spoke:

“I’d say he’s worth a call, then.”

[allwaswell16]

All the One Direction fics I read and enjoyed in May 2025. For more new fics, check out this month’s fic roundup at @1dmonthlyficroundup! You can find my other fic recs here.

- Louis / Harry -

🩵 Note to Self by @berzerkshires

(E, 42k, canon omegaverse soulmates) When he saw Harry for the first time in many years at the Euro finals, and Harry grabs Louis' hand, lacing their fingers abruptly to help him out of the way of a drunken fan. They immediately know.

🩵 All I've Ever Known by @haztobegood

(E, 34k, Pride & Prejudice au) “It is a truth universally acknowledged that anybody that wants to live in a tiny home must be lacking in both taste and sense.”

🩵 In This World (It's Just Us) by we_are_the_same / @so-why-let-your-voice-be-tamed

(T, 33k, fantasy) Louis participates in a scientific study, but everything is not what it seems.

🩵 Voice from the Grave by harryanthus_annuus / @harryanthus-annuus

(E, 30k, mystery) When a body is found in Harry's drawing-room, it's practically bound to spark notoriety in the public increasingly morbidly fascinated by the diminished gentry. But assets are easier lost than class.

🩵 Too Young by @jaerie

(E, 18k, omegaverse) accidentally bonded as 8 and 10 year olds, Louis starts resenting Harry once they were old enough for him to realize what had been taken away from him and now they're roommates who fuck out of obligation

🩵 My Home And My English Rose by @nauticalallusions

(M, 8k, established relationship) Everything is uncomplicated, perfect, even, until Harry gets an offer to become a famous musician if he goes to Nashville. Louis supports him, as always, with his decision to go and make it big, but it’s never as easy as it seems.

🩵 The Tokyo Surprise by @srldesigns6277

(E, 8k, canon) Harry surprised his fans by running the Tokyo Marathon, so Louis surprised him in return.

🩵 Always Darkest before the Sunrise by LadyLondonderry / @londonfoginacup

(NR, 7k, historical) “Harry Styles, ward of the church no longer, you are under arrest for the use of witchcraft against the innocent townspeople of Salem, Massachusetts.”

🩵 is this just fantasy? by @tracksuitponytail

(M, 7k, canon) While stranded at an airport between tour stops, Louis discovers that Harry has been secretly reading fanfiction. Will 30 minutes in a sleeping pod blur the lines between real life and fantasy—and change the way they see each other for good?

🩵 the perfect sky is torn by @disgruntledkittenface [Quote post]

(NR, 6k, crack) Louis and Harry both think it's a coincidence that strange things start to happen when they break up. It's not.

🩵 Unmatched by @elleseekeepdriv

(E, 6k, exes) the one where Louis and Harry are exes but they match on Tinder.

🩵 Squeegee and Skin by finelinefeelings

(E, 6k, pwp) Harry is a self proclaimed exhibitionist. Louis comes to clean the windows. Harry does what Harry does best.

🩵 Oblivious Hearts by FelintoGirl

(G, 5k, friends to lovers) Harry and Louis are roommates in Uni, Louis is in love with Harry and he tries to leave hints/does gestures to try and tell Harry but oblivious as always Harry doesn't realise them 

🩵 some fights you’re never gonna win (keep your eyes off him) by boyfriendstages

(E, 5k, established relationship) Harry can be good at sharing—when it comes to expensive perfume, designer heels, or maybe even the last sip of his drink. But Louis? Louis is not up for discussion.

🩵 Skulls and Crossbones by sweetkalachuchi / @neverforpickles

(G, 3k, omegaverse) “Thanks for the tea, mate… but uh, why did the steam turn into a skull and crossbones when you stirred it?”

🩵 Smells like heaven, feels like luxury by marshashlands

(G, 2k, omegaverse) one direction are touring, and well, louis get a habit of making a nest out of his best friends clothes. until he catches him, that is…

🩵 Let Life Take Its Time by Worldsofdreamers / @defences-down

(T, 1k, friends to lovers) Ever the doting best friend, Louis has been looking after Harry for a few days, when Harry lets a secret slip.

🩵 Doppio by @reallynotmemoi

(NR, 1k, uni) Louis had one job — to reach out to the pretty boy he fancied and ask him out. Easy as pie… or so it should have been. Sequel to Expresso.

🩵 everyday a little more alive by 5sexualhomos / @hogwartzlou

(T, 1k, uni) Louis and Harry have hated each other all four years of being in rival frats. One day their friends make them realize maybe they don't actually hate each other as much as they think they do.

- Rare Pairs -

🩵 Football, Dancing, Same Game by LiveLaughLoveLarry / @loveislarryislove

(T, 2k, Zayn/Liam) Li was a boy, Z was another boy, can I make it any more obvious? Li was a football player, Z did ballet, what more can I say?

[1dcommunityficrecs]

Rec List: Songfics!

Welcome to the first list of the Based On Bonanza! We have nine nifty fics full of love, creativity, and music -- please dive in! In addition to reblogging the fic posts for these, I also have a CRAPTON of fic posts from various past songfic events that I'll also be reblogging alongside these, because there are so many good ones and I truly cannot ever have enough.

As always -- like, comment, kudos, reblog, bookmark, share, and all that jazz.

Just Tell Me the Song and I'll Sing It by myownspark/@myownsparknow (39919, Not Rated, Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson)

Louis is an architecture student who can only think about the future. Harry is a baseball player who can only think about right now. Both are lonely for different reasons. Boybands bring them together.

Reccer says: This fic is so beautifully written and really weaves the songs used into having such meaning for the story. Truly one of my favorite fics I've ever read.

write this down by Sunflouwerhabit /@sunflouwerhabit (233196, General, Louis Tomlinson/Harry Styles) – fic post

“He can’t hear Harry say he’s proud of him when he doesn’t know if he’ll ever see him again after this week. 'I miss you,' Harry murmurs, his breaths warm and equally shaky. 'All the time.' Louis kisses him harder." ~~~ Harry leaves his hometown to find himself. Every road he takes has a single, fated destination. Inspired by Taylor swift’s tis the damn season.

Reccer says: This is the first fic that broke my heart, repeatedly, every chapter. That said, it’s impeccable in its heartbreak.

Halloween by SomeDovesFly/@somedovesfly (59444, Explicit, Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson ) – fic post

Follow Harry and Louis through 6 Halloweens in a sex, drugs, and rock and roll AU in a time before cellphones or internet. Inspired by Halloween by Noah Kahan

Reccer says: This fic really digs in to both the fun and the darkness that is halloween…and growing up and apart.

to wake up by your side is all I wanna do by beardyboyzx/@beardyboyzx (1000, General, Niall Horan/Zayn Malik) – fic post

a series of moments of realization, where Niall looks at Zayn and thinks -- oh.

Reccer says: soft, sweet, simple. I love the little moments sometimes, quiet and unremarkable and yet so full of meaning and love

Carry These Feelings by LadyLondonderry /@londonfoginacup (3000, General, Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson) – fic post

Harry he has a bad habit of using Faerie magic to keep his soulmate youthful

Reccer says: I love how much worldbuilding is captured in such a small little story, and the unexpected way in which the song and the lyrics were used

i still wanna dance with you by justanothershadeofblue/@justanothershadeofblue (7000, Teen, Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson) – fic post Warnings: Homophobia from several characters, including one incident of physical abuse

Harry has always been unapologetically himself, even when the entire world seems to be trying to change him. Louis wants to be more like him, wants to be brave, wants to love who he is as much as he loves who Harry is.

Reccer says: All the characters feel so whole and human -- they're all flawed, but also have good features, and seeing how those balance (or not) to different people. You can see the way love and acceptance and fear shape the characters in different ways. Louis is braver than he thinks.

Might've Took The Long Way by LiveLaughLoveLarry/@loveislarryislove (21000, Mature, Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson)

Louis and Harry were high school sweethearts, but they broke up after they went away to university. Two years later, when Harry comes back for summer break, Louis is forced to admit that he hasn't moved on. And despite all his doubts and fears that they just can't hack it long term, Harry is pretty fucking sure they can.

Reccer says: I love the conversations Louis has, with Zayn and with Gemma, basically beating a sense of self-worth and belief that good things can happen back into him

sunshine, baby! by staybeautiful/@harruandlou (106500, Explicit, Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson) – fic post

Louis is in his first year of law school, Harry is a junior on the swim team dreaming of the Olympics, and they both agree that they don't have time for anything more than friends with benefits... right?

Reccer says: Adorable instant attraction, great descriptions, fun Easter eggs

Like a Sour Diesel, She Burns by larry-hiatus /@emilarry (9620, Explicit, Harry Styles/Zayn Malik) – fic post

Zayn and Harry have a complicated past, but Zayn still goes to see him at the strip club where Harry works.

Reccer says: Colorful descriptions, teasing banter, emotional pining, forbidden love