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hey team

very sad to be sharing this message, but i feel i have been cornered and don't have any other choice. someone that i know in real life is threatening to expose my fics publicly which is something i am not comfortable with. to protect myself i have removed all of my fanfiction from ao3. i will also shortly be changing my url. i'm sorry to be saying goodbye like this.

if you have saved copies of any of my fics, i am comfortable with you sharing them - but I would ask that you please be aware of who you are sharing them with.

thank you so much to all of those in the fandom who have always supported me and my writing. x

tempolarriefix

if it looks like, feels like, tastes like love…

Pairing: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson (with side Zayn Malik/Liam Payne) Wordcount: 16.6k Collection: @1dclicheficfest

Summary:

Niall has an easygoing smile on his face, bright and unbothered, as if he isn’t facilitating a lunch between Harry and the one person he might truly hate. “Niall. Louis,” Harry greets them both, somewhat strained. Louis doesn’t even look up at him. Harry sighs, taking a seat next to Niall and grabbing for the sandwich on the table. “Hear me out,” Niall says, cutting right to the chase. “Family housing.” - Or, the one where harry and louis hate each other but pretend to date to be able to live in university ‘family housing’, zayn and liam are their nosy next door neighbors, and niall is the friend who made it all happen.

Huge thank you to the mods of the @1dclicheficfest! Ziam manip credit to limaxniaz on instagram.

Read it now on AO3.

If you enjoy - comments, reblogs, and coffees are all very much appreciated!

#serena!!!!!#this looks so good!!!!#fic rec

Hey ! I hope you’re well ! I read playing by hands a few weeks ago and couldn’t put it down, it was just incredible. Your world-building was especially engaging, and I was just wondering how you went about creating the world and the political intrigue etc in this series ? It all felt so well thought out, I’d love to read about your process 💕

hey there!! I am well thank u, in lockdown still but chugging along.

if I'm totally honest the planning for the political/diplomatic stuff in the series was initially super messy. I knew that I wanted to do an arranged marriage fic with a twist and I knew that I wanted H and L to be on an equal footing when they decided to get married. I read a lot of historical fiction so I also didn't want it to be too easy if that makes sense. One of the biggest things I wanted to explore was the idea of responsibility to self vs. responsibility to duty/country so I knew that there was going to be conflict where some characters had to be almost ruthless in their actions by thinking of the greater good.

I don't know nearly enough to write realistically about real history so I knew early it would be set in an au world with my own countries. I came up with Andras and Ryde first, then realised I'd need an antagonist country to drive the plot. I really wanted Sicea to be the enemy for H and L but also positioned in a way where they weren't just a country full of evil people. So I looked up a lot of causes of historical wars and decided on the resource-shortage being their driver for attacking.

I think what really helped me was trying to position all the characters as people with their own flaws and motives. sometimes background characters can often end up as sounding boards for the MCs which I find quite frustrating to read so I tried very hard to avoid that. I'm quite proud of the result because I feel like a lot of the personal conflict in the series is driven by these character choices that aren't necessarily always right, but feel like the right thing to the decision-making character (Johannah keeping H in Ryde, H turning L's offer down, A not wanting H to stay in Ryde, etc.) And that then gave me the opportunity for L and H to be super active in their own story and have their own personal reactions to what was happening around them.

Idk if I'm totally delusional and if any of that comes across to you guys lol but yeah, that's sort of the process and what I was hoping to do when I went in to write playing by hands especially.

Thank you so much for reading and for sending this lovely message through!! xx

#playing by hands #adjudication #adjudication ask #fic asks #my writing

Hi! How are you? Just wanna ask when are you going to post the coda of playing by hands? Not trying to pressure you or to be impatient just wanted to know if you have a date or something? omg i sound so demanding. Please, take all your time. Hope all is well. Lots of love.

Hi! Thank you so much for your message and for you lovely comments, you don't sound demanding at all. Unfortunately I've got a sort of wall with the coda and now I'm reconsidering if it's really even needed. I know a lot of people want to read more, but I can't find a way to write it that feels right? I've also just started my second uni degree and so that is taking up most of my free time. I'm so sorry for making such a mess but for the moment I'm going to mark the series as complete. Sorry to anyone I have let down x

#playing by hands #adjudication

allwaswell16

“Louis passed on his well wishes,” she tells him. “He asked me to tell you if you need anything, all you have to do is ask.”

Harry’s stomach rolls.

He should be used to it by now. All someone needs to do is let slip Louis’ name and Harry’s insides rumble. It isn’t an entirely bad feeling, which only makes Harry feel worse. If he had to name it, he would say it was a mix of panic-embarrassment-guilt-nervousness-excitement-anticipation-intrigue-anxiety and probably a thousand other things. More than enough to make a man woozy.

The thing is.

He can’t stop thinking about Louis’ lips.

Once they’d agreed to wed, they’d sat on the edge of Louis’ bed. It was wildly inappropriate but there had been no one there to scold them, and among all the things they had to worry about, it ranked comparatively low. They didn’t do anything more than kiss. Louis seemed entirely satisfied mapping the panes of Harry’s face. His touch had been soft, the barest grazing of fingertips across Harry’s temple, his cheekbone, his jaw. He’d watched Harry unabashedly while he’d touched him, his eyes wide and shiny with disbelief.

Harry had never felt so humbled.

He isn’t sure if Louis has always looked at him that way, or if that was simply the first time Louis felt comfortable letting the depth of his feelings show. If it were the former, Harry must have been blind to have missed it. The tenderness of Louis’ gaze was as light and careful as his roaming hands.

But Christ, now that he can see it. There is simply no denying the truth. It is written in every inch of Louis, in even the briefest of moments. Harry has passed him in the corridor, shared space with him for a minute, probably less, and seen it shine through Louis’ every pore.

Louis loves him.

Harry knows it deep in his bones and it thrills and terrifies him in equal measure.

Every time he remembers it, he is swept away by its enormity once more. Right now is no different. For a moment, he is floored — and not just because he is lying flat on the ground. Then he blinks, and he is still in the gardens, and his sister is still waiting expectantly at his side.

Harry clears his throat. “That’s, uh. Very kind of him.”

-from playing by hands by @bottomlinsons

[Harry/Louis, 164k, Royal au]

Masterpost

#omg thank U so much anitra!!!!#i obseeeeessed over this section for so long!!!!#because starting a sequel is SO HARD #so so stoked you liked it enough to post!#xoxoxoxoxoxo #playing by hands

Hi! I just finished reading Playing by hands and I'm sooo in love with it 😭❤️ when i first read adjudication last year i didn't know that there will be a second and third part! you didn't know the noise that came out of my mouth when i just saw it last week!!! I can't wait for your next update to the story. Thank you for sharing your beautiful stories to us. God bless your heart.

YAY thank you so much for reading and i'm so happy you loved it! can't wait to get the final part out to you guys x

#adjudication #playing by hands

I loved reading the wonderful happy ending in playing by hands💖💖💖 but im also so sad that i finished reading 😭😩 i will miss those idiots so so sooo much 🥺🥺🥺

gosh i can't believe it's finished either!! i feel like I've been working on this fic for so long it doesn't feel real that it's done and posted. i'm so so glad you enjoyed reading x

#playing by hands #adjudication

I’m soo excited for the coda!! Your protective harry has been everything and now I really want to see some possessive Harry for it 👀

omg so happy you're excited for the coda! hoping to have it out to you guys asap xx

#playing by hands #adjudication

thelarriefics

ROYAL FIC REC, Part III: Below you’ll find more regal fics. (Part I, Part II)

📖 Nothing But You On My Mind by @absoloutenonsense (83k)

Louis Tomlinson is a PR manager hired to improve the image of royal bad-boy Prince Harry Styles. Unfortunately for him, that means being faced with the Prince’s constant innuendos, incessant dirty jokes, and relentless flirting. Louis just wants to make it to Princess Gemma’s coronation; once she’s crowned Queen, his contract is up and he never has to see the Prince again.

📖 adjudication by @bottomlinsons (75k)

Harry’s been engaged to Princess Charlotte of Ryde for as long as he can remember. He’s come to know her, to love her, through the letters she’s sent him over the past three years.

But when the wedding finally arrives, Harry quickly learns that nothing is as it seems. With his crown and country at stake, Harry must decide who to trust in this strange new land. And the sly Crown Prince of Ryde doesn’t seem inclined to make things easy.

📖 i kiss you (across hundreds of separating years) by @inlockets (44k)

the stars and two amused boys are playing cupid, and there are one too many coded love letters and a duck plushie that smells like home

📖 Just for Tonight (I can be yours) by @sadaveniren (42k)

Harry, prince of Cestrescir, has been betrothed to Ludvic, prince of Yorvik, since birth. He’d accepted a loveless marriage as his duty to his country, until an accident threw him in the path of a gentle alpha

📖 crown me with your heart (your love is king) by @perfectdagger (41k)

A The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Wedding au in which Harry is the Crown Prince of the small island of Eroda and Louis’ uncle is trying to take the throne from him, with a slight a/b/o twist and some more.

📖 take my hand, wreck my plans by @daggerandrose (38k)

a cinderella abo au with a twist

📖 Under your skin, Over the moon by @softfonds (35k)

If there was one thing Harry didn’t expect the day before his uni graduation, it was for his long lost grandmother to show up and tell him he’s actually a prince thats next in line to rule Genovia. He also didn’t expect to fall for his royal advisor, who happens to hate his guts. A Princess Diaries AU.

📖 with no way out and a long way down by @so-why-let-your-voice-be-tamed (31k)

Prince Harry is ten when he receives his soulmark.

📖 the sanctity of patience by @scrunchyharry (22k)

When young Lord Harry was chosen by King Louis of Bavaria to become his husband and prince consort, Harry thought all of his dreams had come through. His illusions came crashing down when he understood it meant living in isolation in the alpine castle of Neuschwanstein with a husband who turned out to be far from what he had hoped for.

His illusions vanished, Harry will have learn to appreciate what has and even, perhaps, fall in love with his imperfect husband and his castle.

📖 But Now Together, We’re Alone by @becomeawendybird (22k)

It’s a stroke of good luck when Harry Styles, a man who grew up on the small island of Martinique, is offered the position of tutor to the Dauphin and his sister.

When he arrives at the palace, he is dragged into a world of opulence, courtiers, whispers in the shadows, and illicit affairs. But he is also introduced to the king, the most intriguing man he’s ever met.

📖 The Golden Prince by @behappyhl (19k)

When He arrives in London, he’s speechless.

It’s so different from his little hometown, he can’t help the feeling that it is an unknown planet. Everything is bigger; The streets, the buildings, the stores. The people are always running somewhere, always in a hurry. Harry instantly feels out of place.

Or, Harry lives a perfectly normal life until he gets a life changing job opportunity.

📖 i hope that you won’t slip away in the night by @adoredontour (13k)

the one where louis is a prince and harry is a popstar

📖 The Prince and The YouTuber by @haztobegood (12k)

The Annual Rosendal Spring Gala hosted by the Royal Family is the most prestigious fundraiser in the country. When a problem with the honorary foundation arises, Crown Prince Louis Tomlinson must pick a new worthy foundation on short notice. He discovers the perfect replacement in an unlikely place, while watching his favorite YouTuber, Harrysparkles.

📖 Trust Me Tonight by @vintageumbroshirt (10k)

After Harry’s eighteenth birthday, his father calls him into a meeting to say that he is to be married to Prince Louis of France in just over a week.

Harry is excited, of course. The arrangement is better than any he could’ve hoped for, with such a young, handsome and kind husband.

There is just one issue: Harry doesn’t know what happens on his nuptials, or how to get pregnant to give Louis the heir that he needs.

📖 Your secret’s safe with me by @lightwoodsmagic (7k)

when Louis’ favourite singer comes back and announces he’s performing again, him and the rest of his group chat decide to go. When Haz, the man Louis’ fallen in love with without meeting him, says that he can’t, Louis tries his best to convince him with a drunken phone call, hearing his voice for the first time. It’s not until he’s at Royal Variety that he swears he can hear it again.

📖 been lost for too long by @lookslikefairytale (6k)

Nothing much interesting happens in Harry’s life, ever. Sure, some would – literally – kill to trade places with him at the palace. But being seventh in line for the throne comes with a set of annoying and boring responsibilities and none of the fun that the actual royal princes, Harry’s cousins, get to have. Except, maybe, for the fact that people seem to want to kill Harry on a daily basis.

or, the one where Harry gets kidnapped and Louis rescues him. Kind of.

#an absolutely lovely list to be a part of #thank you so much!!#adjudication #and please also check out the sequel which is complete too!#playing by hands #my fics recced

allwaswell16

FANFICTIONAL

A podcast from @allwaswell16

On this podcast I recommend One Direction fan fics and talk about each fic. I also give an overview of what’s currently being published in the fandom and I read a short passage from one of the fics each month.

You can find the podcast on: Anchor, Spotify, Apple, Google, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic, and Breaker. You can support this podcast on Ko-fi here!

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2019

🎧 Episode 1: An introduction and August fic recs (Link to fics)

🎧 Episode 2: September fic recs (Link to fics)

🎧 Episode 3: October fic recs (Link to fics)

#this was just the loveliest thing to wake up to!!!!#and omg hearing what you said about playing by hands made me feel so happy and warm and pleased #ily ily ily #<3 #<3 <3 <3 #playing by hands

allwaswell16

{Recently Read 1D Fics}

July 2021

These are all the One Direction fics I read and enjoyed in July. There are 16 recs here in all and are in order by word count and organized by pairing. You can also listen to my podcast to hear me talk about each of these fics as well as an overview of what was posted on ao3 in July including the fics on this month’s fic roundup which you can find here! Please let the writers know if you liked the fics by leaving kudos and comments! Happy reading!

Fanfictional Podcast #27 | ko-fi | fic recs

-Larry-

playing by hands by @bottomlinsons

(M, 164k, sequel to adjudication, historical au, royal au, Prince Harry, Prince Louis, politics, war, violence, arranged marriage, political alliances, slow burn, angst with a happy ending, character injury, engagement, marriage, a new favorite, I'm still reeling from it, JUST READ IT)

this charade (was never going to last) by @scrunchyharry

(E, 68k, spy au, fake/pretend relationship, fake marriage, witness protection, enemies to lovers, major character injury, violence, crime, hurt/comfort, intrigue, hacker Harry, rescue mission, smut, this was a RIDE, such a page turner that I couldn't put it down!)

Hint: I want to be yours by bluegreenish / @greenblueish

(M, 11k, a/b/o, alpha Harry, omega Louis, Louis pov, fwb, painter Louis, physiotherapist Harry, pining, rut, smut, this was so much fun!)

Trust Me Tonight by 28sunflowers / @vintageumbroshirt

(E, 10k, royal au, King Louis, French Louis, Prince Harry, historical, Regency era, arranged marriage, sexual inexperience, first time, virgin Harry, mpreg Harry, smut, this was so sweet and lovely)

I'm Tripping Over Your Every Single Move by lookingfortherainbow / @andtheywerebandmates

(T, 6k, uni au, lifeguard Louis, swimmer Harry, pining, disaster gay Harry, embarrassing situations, meet cute, first date, kissing, no smut, humor, I was literally lol, I'm obsessed with this)

Hot Chocolate by @kingsofeverything

(E, 6k, butthole series, stand alone fic, meet cute, sculptor Louis, artist Louis, baker and chocolatier Harry, social media, Instagram, thirsty Harry, embarrassing situations, humor, masturbation, this (butt)crack fic was hilarious and genius and I loved it so much!)

tangled in self loathing by lightswoodmagic (sarah_writes) / @lightwoodsmagic

(NR, 2k, crime au, hitman Louis, angst, exes, gun violence, revenge, non descriptive smut, ambiguous/open ending, I'm still reeling from this one whew)

Sofa So Good by SunTomato / @sun-tomato

(G, 2k, moving in au, humor, meet cute, first meeting, omg this was so funny and cute and the banter was hilarious between ot5)

In the Shallows by LadyLondonderry / @londonfoginacup

(T, 2k, merman fic, merman Harry, human Louis, lake, water, enemies to lovers, surprised Louis, apologies, apologetic gestures, getting together, the worldbuilding was amazing and I adored this fic and this writer's brain)

take the time for you by pixies / @tomlinbuns

(G, 1k, speed dating au, meet cute, twist/surprises, ahh I loved how even though Niall isn't in the fic he plays a big role haha, just read this so you know what I'm talking about, this was so fun!)

If I Had It My Way... by @fallinglikethis

(T, 1k, swimming pool au, insecure Louis, pining, recent coming out, summer, hot weather, sun cream, touching, kissing, this made my heart flip over in my chest)

An Advanced Position by YesIsAWorld / @louandhazaf

(E, 1k, canon, established relationship, wall sex, sex positions, asking for help, practice, Harry and Louis are having trouble achieving wall sex and it's hilarious lol)

-Lilo-

Blow Me Away by LadyAJ_13 / @ladyaj-13

(E, 6k, Louis/Liam, canon compliant, established relationship, touring, hotel rooms, bus sex, communication, oral sex, anal sex, bl, sexual frustration, this was so good omg, very hot but also sweet at the same time, Louis doesn't know why Liam doesn't want a bj fic)

-Shiall-

Oh, Pretty Baby by abrighteryellow / @a-brighter-yellow

(G, 4k, Niall/Shawn Mendes, teacher Shawn, hot dad Niall, kid fic, crush, meet cute, flirting, omg so cute)

-Tomlinshaw-

I'mma Give You A Promotion by @lululawrence

(NR, 4k, Louis/Nick Grimshaw, canon, quarantine, work from home, secret relationship, determine the relationship, humor, radio, fluff, no smut, so charming and I love how they just fit together)

Use You As A Focal Point by Jiksa / @jiksax

(E, 2k, Louis/Nick Grimshaw, sequel to Use You As A Warning Sign, canon, sexuality crisis, internalized homophobia, angst, falling in love, oof I loved the first one and the second one hurts just as good)

#thank you so much for reading anitra and for your kind kind kind kind kind words #ilysm #<3 #playing by hands

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dailytomlinson

11 years ago, everything changed and not a single day has gone by that we’re not proud of Louis, Harry, Niall, Liam and Zayn. Congratulations to them five, on making it through, inspiring us, growing up as musicians, lyricists, producers, writers and more, while creating a lasting space for fans all over the world that allowed friendships (and more) to grow. We’re excited for what the future holds for Louis, the boys and the band altogether and can not wait for the upcoming chapters. We will be here… after all, we’re the greatest team the world has ever been. Happy anniversary (to our forever), boys!

#miss ya boys #:')