hello, hope you’re alright! i was wondering if you could recommend me some of your favorite fics? preferably new ones? thank you in advance!
hi! i'm doing alright, thank you :) all of these fics i picked out are from this year (the past seven months) so hopefully that's new enough. i'm also only doing a few because i'm short for time, sorry!
✰ don't want no other shade of blue by @louisisworthit | E | 43k
“I know you’re putting on an act,” says Harry after a moment, and Louis scowls when he realises the prince is actually amused.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” says Louis.
“All I’ve heard over the past couple of years are rumours of Prince Louis’ kindness, and generosity, and oh, he’s so handsome I can barely pour his tea without shaking!” says Harry, putting on a silly, high-pitched voice for the last bit. Louis’ scowl deepens. “I would already know if you were just another selfish, bratty omega prince. You can’t fool me, darling, but I admire your efforts.”
“As you said,” Louis grits out, “those are only rumours. I assure you, I’m a terrible person.”
✰ no good unless it's real by @fackinglouis | E | 17k
Louis is a very busy farmer who’s just trying to make it to his next nap and Harry’s the new hot vet that’s determined to infiltrate every area of his life.
✰ Pink in the Night by orphan_account | E | 32k
His finger was tapping on Louis’ chat before Harry could even think about it, eyes reading over the last text he’d sent Louis. I miss you. Do you miss me?
Harry had felt so pathetic that December night, alone in the dark room of the Japanese apartment he’d been staying at, the strong smell of alcohol clinging to his clothes.
Louis hadn’t replied, but Harry wasn’t surprised; he had texted Louis a few times before while he’d been away, but there had never been a response.
It pained him to admit that this was their new normal.
✰ my ugly mouth kept running by @cosmicues | E | 4k
sometimes second chances are more important than the first.
✰ let’s shack up by @breadylou | E | 11k
In which Louis wants to wake up in Harry’s arms forever. So he makes a list.
✰ the entertainment by @tllthesundies | E | 95k
For Harry's upcoming album release, his team dreams of hiring him a PA to help assist with the burden that comes with a launch. Louis Tomlinson is a highly sought-after PA who's worked with many A-listers.
✰ Memory of a Dream by @afterglowslouis | E | 65k
Harry hums. “Why else do you think I brought you here? It's our place now," the alpha smiles, gentle. "Have you always lived with your godmothers?”
He nods, gazing at the leaves as the breeze comes to ruffle them. “As long as I can remember. And if you’re wondering what happened to my parents, I don’t really know. Apparently they died when I was still a baby.”
“I’m sorry,” Harry tentatively reaches over to put his arm around him; he doesn’t protest. Instead, he snuggles closer and closes his eyes.
There seems to be a barrier between them, or some kind of deep gulf that can’t be crossed. He feels it right now even though he’s never been so close to Harry before. Harry’s entire body is kissing his curves, in a place remote from everything; and yet… and yet he can’t connect with Harry. Maybe it is for the best — getting attached to somebody he can’t have sounds like torture. At one point, Harry moves so that he is sitting right behind Louis, allowing for the omega to lean against the alpha’s chest; it feels good, he feels safe. He is succumbing to illusions; he will get hurt.
Somewhere behind them, a raven croaks.
✰ maybe i could meet you there by @cosmicues | T | 4k
there are too many things unsaid and a rooftop might just be the place where they finally say everything.
✰ tender is the night by @raspberryoatss | E | 41k
“Louis... it’s not like you can do anything about it anyway, right?” Harry asks.
And—that. That is enough for Louis to pull the door open with an angry crease between his eyebrows, a frown pulling at the corners of his lips. “Are you threatening me, Casper?”
“We’re both friendly ghosts, I’ll give you that,” Harry grins widely, leaning against the doorframe. “Besides, what are you gonna do?” He lolls his head to the side, a stupid, cheeky grin inching on his lips. “Kill me?”
And, oh, Louis wishes he could.
edit: am adding this one even though it’s not 1d (it’s a red, white & royal blue fanfic and it’s just too cute not to include jic):
✰ in wildest dreams (i never dreamed of this) by @millsxwriting | T | 8k
It’s Alex’s birthday in New York City, and life is just a little bit better than he would have ever imagined.
let me know if you want recs even more recent than this! and enjoy :)
as i have said in a recent post, i am in somewhat of a writing slump. so, to get some new inspiration, i thought it would be fun if y’all sent me your ideas/prompts/headcanons for shoni (the wilds) and firstprince (red, white and royal blue) and i’ll try and see what i can come up with.
as this is more or less an experiment, i won’t guarantee that anything will be coming out of this, but it’ll be fun to try anway!
I just reread your oneshot for the wilds fandom, like a bullet needs a gun.
I loved it on the first read. Loved it way more on today's second read.
I can guarantee that I am gonna reread it again someday and love it more so then as well.
How you wrote Toni, Shelby and Martha... amazing.
I also ended up liking your ocs.
I especially liked it when Shelby wore her hair down because Toni complained about her ponytail.
Also how Shelby hold Toni accountable for her mistakes (the after game argument).
And Martha setting them up and making up excuses such as her goldfish dying. Man, I loved that whole part.
That's my most favorite Martha-the wing woman moment in all the shoni-fics I have ever read (and I have read a lot of shoni-fics).
Not to mention the scene when Toni got tounge-tied when Shelby's aunt mistook them as a couple.
Anyway, I can give a whole paragraph of all the things I liked.
But you wrote it. You know how good it was.
So, just wanted to let you know how much I appreciated your work.
I'd comment on the story itself. But it was written such a long time ago and you haven't been active on the fandom, so I wasn't sure if you would read the comments. (Or this ask, tbh...just shooting my shot, I guess?)
Anyway, kudos to your writing. (Won't mind getting more of your works though, just saying.)
uhm hello this is the sweetest thing ever??? thank you so so much, i love getting comments/replies like these!! i‘m so happy you liked it and took the time to write down what you liked!
i have multiple shoni fics that i started and i’ll try to finish at least one of them but i’m currently just not feeling any of my writing so it might take some time. i’ll definitely keep you updated on here :)
“H?” Alex asks, turning around. He’s been sitting with his back against Henry’s chest, listening to his low voice rambling about saltwater and coastlines.
Henry stops and looks at him, prompting him to go on with a tip of his head.
“You’re my favorite person ever,” Alex says quietly.
It’s Alex’s birthday in New York City, and life is just a little bit better than he would have ever imagined.
thank you to @falsegoodnight for being my amazing beta <33
Fairy tales always end with the Happily Ever After; the princess escapes her evil stepmother and gets married to the knight in shining armor. It turns out real life doesn’t care about Happily Ever Afters and sometimes problems appear when you don’t expect them to. Harry sure didn’t, not after years of being married.
thank you to @falsegoodnight for editing this one!
title from ‘pictures’ by judah & the lion feat. kacey musgraves
these are the fics I read or reread and enjoyed this month! like last time, i’m separating it into different sections: main list, podfics, wips, and non-1d. rereads will be included in the main list and marked with *.
*note: this list encompasses the fics i’ve read from the 1st to the 25th and any fics read after will be included in next month’s fic rec list because otherwise this is going to be obnoxiously long.
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main list ~
✰ black cherries and chocolate by @harryanthus | NR | 666 (intense and jarring in the best way. this leaves you with that heart-racing feeling and panic crawling up your throat)
There is something or well, someone in the walls.
✰ keep secrets just to keep you by @hadestyles | T | 1k (loved this so much!! and need 1000000 more royalty abos from rori immediately)
“With the elements as my witness, I take you to be my husband. My heartbeat begins with you and ends with you, Louis Tomlinson.”
Louis sinks to his knees as well, salty tears mixing with the pure rainwater. “And I take you as mine. My heart beats for you and with you.”
“Family trouble. Interesting,” Toni says. She thinks about the bottle of vodka Shelby bought at the gas station that day, and what that might have to do with the family issues.
“Stop. You’re becoming, like, Malfoy-level obsessed with her,” Martha says. Toni sits up abruptly, “I am not. Also, stop referencing your gay Harry Potter ships in my presence.”
Toni doesn't expect to fall for anyone in her senior year. Least of all for Shelby Goodkind, the new girl that arrived in town just before the end of summer. In fact, Toni can't even look at her for longer than two seconds, or listen to more than three sentences coming out of her mouth without wanting to accidentally push her off a cliff.
Cue a group project and endless bickering, and suddenly Toni finds herself with an unbearable crush.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
SUMMARY: The childhood best friends to strangers to lovers AU. Or, the ‘Tis the Damn Season/Dorothea AU.
WORDS: 13738
PREVIEW:
And, of course, it’s at that very moment the door swings open. Shelby knows it’s too late to run, and instead lets the easy smile she’d know anywhere fade into an almost comical look of shock when brown eyes meet hers.
Six years.
It’s been six years since Shelby saw those brown eyes in person. They’re still unfairly bright, and they still make her heart race, but there’s a tired sort of weariness to them now, and the crease in the eyebrows above is deeper as well.
Shelby’s thought about seeing Toni again no less than once a day, but now that she’s actually here, she can’t do much more than lift an arm up to wave hesitantly. Her throat is embarrassingly scruffy when she says dumbly, “I came back for Christmas.”
“I see that.” Toni’s voice is mild and controlled, if deeper than it used to be. Even still, Shelby can see clear as day the way her jaw clenches, and the way her fingers have balled into fists where they’re shoved into her pockets. But besides that, and maybe for the first time ever, Shelby has no idea what Toni’s thinking. Right as she’s wondering if she might yell at her, Toni says, “So, would you want to come in?”
It all starts with Harry covering a shift for his colleague.
It ends in old wounds, resurfaced feelings and an ex-boyfriend Harry never really got over.
A typical Friday night usually looks like this for Harry: Going out for a greasy pub dinner with his mates, crashing on his bed with his clothes on at one in the morning and getting up five hours later for his morning shift at the hospital.
A typical Friday night does not involve running into his ex in the emergency room, it doesn’t involve Harry trying to convince everyone that he can’t be on drugs, that there has to be something else.
As Louis starts his freshman year of college out of state, Harry finishes his last year of high school back home. The distance between California and Arizona has both of them gripping onto everything they can to make their relationship work.
Or, the long-distance email AU no one asked for that I wrote anyway. Highly inspired by Love, Creekwood by Becky Albertalli.
(Oneshot, 13k, no smut)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
Harry almost feels out of breath by the time he finishes his sentence. Nothing he said can be held against him, but it’s still obvious enough that people are going to notice, he knows that.
The fans try to find Louis in every word he says, and he just put out a whole meal for them
Or the one where Harry and Louis are a little bit too careless about who finds out that they’re together.
(songfic, 9k, no smut)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
Louis meets Harry at a wedding when they're both hiding outside, eating deserts. They end up spending the evening together, and while they're having a great time, Louis isn't necessarily planning on seeing him ever again. Which is why he might have forgotten to mention the fact that he has a daughter with the bride.
(Oneshot, 23k, no smut)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
i felt it in my fingertips (you know that i‘m a mess)
Louis stops in his tracks when he sees a guy that seems somewhat familiar getting out of a car on the opposite site of the street.
“Oi!” He calls over, hoping to catch his attention.
The other guy turns around, and Louis was right. It’s Harry from the gym. Cute Harold of the Pippi Longstocking braids and absolutely adorable dimples. This might be an interesting night.
Or, the one where Louis is quite a mess, Harry likes to braid his hair and Niall sucks at matchmaking in the best way possible.
(Oneshot, 21k, no smut)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
It all starts with Harry covering a shift for his colleague.
It ends in old wounds, resurfaced feelings and an ex-boyfriend Harry never really got over.
A typical Friday night usually looks like this for Harry: Going out for a greasy pub dinner with his mates, crashing on his bed with his clothes on at one in the morning and getting up five hours later for his morning shift at the hospital.
A typical Friday night does not involve running into his ex in the emergency room, it doesn’t involve Harry trying to convince everyone that he can’t be on drugs, that there has to be something else.
(OneShot, 19k, no smut)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
It’s been six years since Harry met Louis, and even though he still is obnoxious and too sassy for his own good, Harry loves him more than anything he’s ever loved. They’ve been married for four years, have a daughter and are both at the peak of their careers. Life couldn’t be better. A day before his new movie premiers, Harry is grateful to have someone he can home to who supports him no matter what.
(OneShot, 5k, no smut)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
