night owlie

figuring it out

[rozrozhollander]

HOLLANOV + TROPES

[rainbow-femme]

They move in together full time and Ilya notices that Anya acts differently with Shane than she does with him, more quiet and less playful, and he worries that means she doesn’t like Shane or is jealous, so he hires a dog trainer to come over and see if there’s anything they need to do to help

After a while of talking about how Anya acts the trainer says there’s nothing to worry about, Anya likes Shane just fine, it’s just that she sees him as the boss and is acting accordingly

And Ilya is like. But. I’m the one who adopted her? And raised her before Shane got here?? And the trainer is just like yeah well she sees you more like an equal. And Ilya is like WAIT she thinks Shane is in charge of both of us?? And the trainer is just like well do you interact in a way that would make her think that?

Ilya’s life flashes before his eyes as he thinks of all the times Shane has come over with a snack for Ilya and a treat for Anya, or all the times Shane has announced they’re all going for an after dinner walk, or pets Ilya’s hair and tells him he did a good job at practice, or the fact that he uses the same warning tone with Anya when she misbehaves as he does with Ilya when he’s causing problems on purpose

Shane comes home to Ilya with his face in his hands going oh god I’m not Anya’s dad I’m her brother and she thinks we’re both your pets. And Shane just goes. What.

[believeripley13]

I love the opening of Heated Rivalry so much because it sets up the show and Shane and Ilya's dynamic so perfectly. From "not the most sociable" Shane Hollander actively going out of his way to interact (because he's already fascinated by him) to "not liked outside of his own locker room" Ilya Rozanov being a bit of a cocky shit (which we pretty quickly realise is a front) to the instant spark of attraction.

Look at this man experiencing freckles and awkward Canadian politeness and developing a fat crush.

My favourite part however is as Shane is leaving clearly uncomfortable with how their conversation went (he does a head tilt like "well, that went horribly")

Ilya notices and that's when he chirps, immediately making Shane more comfortable as he chirps back. And thus, their lovingly teasing, when they say "asshole" and "boring" they really mean "I love you" dynamic is born.

Also, yes, Ilya's lighter doesn't spark until Shane appears which is just an additional beautiful touch.

[argillaforma]

hollanov at their kid’s autism assesment and the doctor says that autism can be genetic and asks if anyone in the family has autism and shane says no at the same time as ilya says yes

[gimmiekiss1221]

ilya when shane answers no:

[allwaswell16]

All the One Direction fics I read and enjoyed in June 2026. For new fics, check out this month’s fic roundup at @1dmonthlyficroundup! You can find my other fic recs here.

- Louis / Harry -

🍭 Pretty Good Bad Idea by galactic_larry / @galacticlarry

(M, 39k, Waitress au) Harry works as a waiter and pie baker at a diner, and is trapped in an unhappy marriage to his abusive alpha. When he falls pregnant, things become more complicated. And then he starts having an affair with his doctor, which doesn’t really help the situation either.

🍭 Unbonded by jacaranda_bloom / @jacaranda-bloom

(E, 24k, omegaverse) the one where Harry is an omega who has been cast out from his pack, Louis is the alpha leader of the pack where Harry finds a new home, Liam is an alpha with heart of gold, and Niall is a cook who can't seem to stop setting himself on fire.

🍭 John Doe by @fitzandlarry

(G, 12k, coffee shop) There's a boy taking the stand at the open mic night where Harry works as a barista, and he's going to find out the boy's name if it's the last thing he does. An ode to Never Shout Never, and a story about finding a new home.

🍭 Everything is Great, Everything Is F×͜×king Great by HalosAngel / @4izhalo

(E, 11k, friends to lovers) A few years ago, Louis tried to stop Harry from moving away by telling him he was in love with him. Louis is coping with a break-up and struggling. A night out with his friends takes a turn when Harry shows up, unexpectedly back in town.

🍭 The Shape of Letting Go by BeamyK112

(NR, 11k, pilot Louis) Louis is retiring and signs up for a pottery class. It's not going well after the first few classes. Can the instructor help him learn to let go and get a little messy?

🍭 Where Do You Want to Sit? (Not) Next to You by itdoesntlivehere / @nothoughtsjustlarry

(T, 8k, omegaverse) the one where irritated-with-life Louis almost misses his flight from LAX to Heathrow and gets stuck sitting next to happy, love-loving Harry

🍭 Love The Way You Wear On Me by LetTheMusicMoveYou / @letthemusicmoveyou28

(E, 5k, famous/not famous) the one where Louis Tomlinson is a popular photographer for Runner’s World magazine. He’s less than thrilled when he gets assigned to shoot a cover piece with international pop star turned marathoner: Harry Styles. It turns out to go better than he’d expected

🍭 Better Than Anything Else That I've Tried Alone by @homosociallyyours

(E, 4k, witch Louis) When Louis goes away for a witches only conference, he leaves Harry a few gifts to keep him busy. Harry enjoys them. A lot.

🍭 Mine is better by StormyDrama28 / @stormy-28

(E, 3k, blind date) He takes a few more steps and turns towards the last dark hair head, straightening down his white t-shirt and discreetly fixing his fringe. Fuck. Shit.

🍭 You've Got the Antidote by sunflowerskyline

(NR, 2k, established relationship) Harry has a painful migraine. Louis helps him feel better with soft words, delicate touches, and a bit of soothing skincare. Featuring copious amounts of fluff, pet names, and general sappiness.

🍭 when the going gets tough by pointerbrother / @pointerbrotherblog

(E, 2k, omegaverse) Harry is going into unexpectedly early rut and right then, his new boyfriend Louis decides to be a dick and make him jealous.

🍭 But trust me on the sunscreen. by @disgruntledkittenface

(M, 1k, doctor Harry) In the middle of a tough shift at the hospital, Harry storms outside to take a break. He's expecting to get a few minutes to himself to recharge. He gets more than he expected when he catches sight of Louis.

🍭 Together Together by @haztobegood

(E, 631 words, mind control) One Etsy witch and a charmed pendant later, Harry was ready. It was time to get his feet wet and see how far this new power could go. He swayed his hips to the right. He knocked his hips to the left. Louis’ gaze followed his every move.

🍭 the old familiar sting by yeah_alright / @uhoh-but-yeah-alright

(E, 100 words, girl direction) Angst, post-breakup, masturbation Drabble

🍭 you never call, by the way by @kitchendancefloors 

(NR, 13 words, poem) Haikurry alone in his hotel room.

- Rare Pairs -

🍭 You Teach Me (And I'll Teach You) by teaandtumblr

(G, 3k, Zayn/Niall) Zayn is a librarian who takes pride in the Pokemon Gym that is his workplace. That is, until a certain someone starts making a habit of winning it off him every damn day.

🍭 You Can Be My White Knight by vixalicious

(T, 2k, Liam/Louis) Liam comes down with the 'flu on tour.

[wankersday]

Thank you to all the incredible authors who participated in this year’s Wankers Day Fic Fest!

Fics are listed in the order they were added to the collection. Authors, please @wankersday in your fic post if you’d like it reblogged.

you never call, by the way by kitchendancefloors

Mine is better by StormyDrama28

with satin sticking to your skin by DaddyAlphaLouisBabyOmegaHarry

If I promise you can break me (won't you love me like you hate me) by we_are_the_same

the old familiar sting by yeah_alright

But trust me on the sunscreen. by disgruntledkittenface

Harry's Epic Watch and Wank Birthday Beat Off Bash! by juniperlightning

Together Together by haztobegood

Swathed in Sweat by larry_hiatus

Love The Way You Wear On Me by LetTheMusicMoveYou

Wank All the Time, Kiss Occassionally by larry_love13

Chocolate Flavored Lust by homosociallyyours

Please let these wonderful authors know you appreciate them by leaving kudos and comments!❤️

See you next Wankers Day!

[lucylehane]

"The sex tells the story, so it never felt gratuitous to me. The sex is character development. The sex is what is moving this relationship forward, and watching it change over time."

Jacob Tierney on It's Open With Ilana Glazer

[wankersday]

May is International Masturbation Month, so let’s celebrate by writing fics about wanking!

Rules:

Participants must be 18 or older

All pairings/groups that include at least one member of ot5 are allowed, femslash is allowed, any combination of f/m/nb is allowed

This fest is not anonymous, so if you post a snippet, make sure to tag @wankersday so your snippet can be reblogged

No word count requirements

No sign-ups, just write your fic

Fics must be posted to this collection before they’re revealed at noon EDT on Thursday, May 28, 2026 aka International Wanker’s Day!

Tag @wankersday in your fic post so mod can reblog — mod has a no-ai policy and will not share posts that contain any

AND the most important rule:

The only smut allowed is masturbation, i.e. characters are not to touch other people’s junk, only their own!

Any questions? Just ask!

[wankersday]

5 whole entire days to write something!

[nickyandmikey]

when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳

[nickyandmikey]

THIS IS NOT ABOUT ONE DIRECTION I DON’T KNOW WHO THIS “HARRY” PERSON IS GO WATCH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND CLARENCE CLEMONS KISS ON STAGE RIGHT NOW

[irrelevantlyvalid]

op is the only valid person i’ve ever met. everyone else needs to come to the light

[chokolattejedi]

Okay, but this is really important: Bruce Springsteen occupied this really weird place in music history. His songs were all from this pessimistic, nihilistic view of an America that had let him down:

Just like the anti-Vietnam War protest songs that we associate with the 1960s, or the early nihilism that spawned punk music in the 1970s. But he didn’t *sound* like a punk anarchist; he sounded like a country rock singer. When he released Born in the U.S.A. people completely misinterpreted (or possibly ignored) the lyrics in favor of the tone of the music.

Politicians used his music to promote their ‘Murica Yes! brand, and he had to literally explain that that was not what he was about. He’s over here asking when we’re going to have jobs and heathcare, not stanning the politicians who weren’t helping the people.

It was also kind of a big deal that he had an integrated band, because even as late as the 1980s music was still kind of segregated and MTV was straight up racist. They refused to play and promote black artists and then claimed that were no black artists in the first place. Michael Jackson’s record company had to threaten a boycott of their white artists to get MTV to play his Thriller video.

Plus, the first black/white interracial kiss on TV was in 1968 (OG Star Trek). Also it took us until the 70s to get sympathetic gay characters on screen, and the 90s to get gay characters to kiss onscreen. And all of those firsts were met with outrage.

So keep that in mind when you see Bruce Springsteen not just playing with an interracial band, but engaging in an interracial, gay kiss on stage repeatedly.

Passages from American Popular Music by Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman

[executeness]

I used to think that Bruce and Clarence kissing onstage was exuberance, showmanship, and telling racist homophobes to fuck off. Like, they picked up a certain kind of audience and went “Racist homophobes? Not in our house!” And started the kissing then but then I actually looked it up and

https://www.gq.com/story/this-fucked-me-up-bruce-springsteen-singing-about-clarence-clemons

It was a story where… we remade the city. We remade the city, shaping it into the kind of place where our friendship and our love for one another wouldn’t have been such an exceptional thing. - Bruce Springsteen

It wasn’t about showmanship or rejecting bigots or anything it was just. Damn right that was one of the loves of his life and damn right he was going to kiss him onstage

It gets me a little that Bruce has had a divorce, that he’s been married twice, but he loved Clarence for the rest of Clarence’s life and will presumably love him the rest of his own

Clemons said in one interview. “Bruce and I looked at each other and didn’t say anything, we just knew. We knew we were the missing links in each other’s lives. He was what I’d been searching for.” In another version of the story, Clemons says “He looked at me, and I looked at him, and we fell in love.”

I’m having some emotions about it!

“He was elemental in my life,“ Springsteen adds, “and losing him was like losing the rain.”

Not just! I love you pure and deep and true but! I am going to love you like that in front of the whole damn world!

We have fewer narratives about taking risks and making statements for platonic love rather than romantic and supposedly it would be easier to downplay this onstage than romance and! They refused! They fucking refused! In front of hundreds of thousands of people, over the course of years! In the spotlight, in word and deed, I love you!

God I’m not okay about it

[ramshacklefey]

Now I’m mad that this is not among any of the things I was ever told about this artist.

[jbbartram-illu]

I knew about this in general (& via all those fabulous photos), but this just adds even more beautiful context <3

[eregyrn-falls]

Just to add to the pile: this was the cover of Springsteen’s break-through album Born to Run, in 1975:

I mean, will you LOOK at this:

This was the pic chosen for the album cover from an extensive photoshoot, too. A few others:

There’s a lot more online if you search. They’re all pretty amazing. But the photographer is right, the one chosen for the album cover just pops.

[rapidlydecayingcorpse]

i feel like people aren't getting how dire ai is. we are running out of drinkable water. our brains aren't engaging as much with what we see and hear. people near data centers don't get clean water and experience electricity blackouts. it's being used to make pornography of underaged people and women. it often just lies. it affirms everything. it lies. it has made people kill themselves. it lies for gods sake. and people act as if im dramatic for being staunchly against it. 'now i KNOOW you hate ai and whatever, but look at this cute video' this isn't me being a new age puritan about internet videos, this is about the fucking earth and our future living on this planet. people are suffering now, people will suffer more, and my friends and parents will roll their eyes and think im annoying for despising ai so explicitly. we need to wake up because we cannot live like this

[1dfests]

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[disgruntledkittenface]

last line challenge

thank you @homosociallyyours for tagging me lately! I had a thunderbolt of inspiration for a @wankersday fic and here is the last line that I wrote:

He’s counting Mississippis in his head when he first sees him.

Tagging 11 writers for 11 words but no pressure as always!

@homosociallyyours @crinkle-eyed-boo @uhoh-but-yeah-alright @kingsofeverything @louandhazaf @allwaswell16 @haztobegood @neondiamond @absoloutenonsense @beelou @berzerkshires

[wankersday]

Wankers Day Playlist

Songs submitted so far:

Wet Dream by Wet Leg or Harry’s cover

So Happy I Could Die by Lady Gaga

Touch of My Hand by Britney Spears

Caress Me Down by Sublime

Last First Kiss by One Direction

I Touch Myself by Divinyls

Longview by Green Day

Darling Nikki by Prince and The Revolution

Blister in the Sun by Violent Femmes

FU in My Head by Cloudy June

Right in Time by Lucinda Williams

Love (sweet love) by Little Mix

S.E.X. by Nickleback

From the Dining Table by Harry Styles

Solo Dancing by Indiana

Fingers by P!nk

dancin’ in circles by lady gaga

Keep your head up by Djo

Hand Solo by Marika Hackman

Picture You by Chappell Roan

Love Myself by Hailee Steinfeld

for your love by måneskin

Bad Things by Machine Gun Kelly (MGK) and Camila Cabello

Sweat by Zayn

Don’t Go Insane by DPR IAN

2 Become 1 by Spice Girls

Snooze (Acoustic) by SZA ft. Justin Bieber

Bad Idea Right? by Olivia Rodrigo

Ruin My Life by Zara Larsson

Lowkey by Niki

Submit more songs here!

I’ll add them to the list and hopefully eventually make a playlist on Spotify.

[kingsofeverything]

wankfest prompts

it’s been brought to my attention that there aren’t a lot of wanking prompts, so here are a few for y’all to use/combine however you want:

trying to wank but the cat/dog/lizard won’t stop watching

awkward sperm donations

strangers wanking in neighboring bathroom stalls

walking in on your roommate wanking and then asking them not to stop

clone a willy but they clone some other stuff instead

accidentally answering skype/facetime from a friend mid-wank

quiet wanking while their partner sleeps in the same bed beside them

first time wanking with a toy (or other things)

first time wanking on camera

wanking in zero gravity

trying to wank super fast because they have a lot of housemates and thin walls and no one is home

circle jerks with rules, ex: everyone has to come in a certain order or else 

wanking race

wanking and trying not to come first

body swap wanking 

first wank after giving up wanking for whatever reason

last wank before giving up wanking for whatever reason

sex toy tester

wanking using The Force

wanking using some sort of superhero power

self-fellatio

self-bondage

ok that’s more than 20, go forth and write wanking smut!

[wankersday]

More? More. More!

Body swap wanking

Ghost wanking

Instructional wanking

Cursed to wank at a certain time/whenever they think about a certain person/to a certain song

Wanking because they’re tired but can’t sleep

Wanking with bizarre substances for lubricants (mayonnaise? motor oil? salad dressing?)

Wanking while housesitting and then finding out there’s a nanny cam

[wankersday]

Lazy wanking

Rushed wanking

Shower wanking

Driving and wanking

Sad wanking

Angry wanking

Wanking because you heard it’s a headache cure

Wanking because you heard it’s a hiccup cure

Wanking at work

Wanking on the international space station

Using the washer spin-cycle to wank

[wankersday]

May is International Masturbation Month, so let’s celebrate by writing fics about wanking!

Rules:

Participants must be 18 or older

All pairings/groups that include at least one member of ot5 are allowed, femslash is allowed, any combination of f/m/nb is allowed

This fest is not anonymous, so if you post a snippet, make sure to tag @wankersday so your snippet can be reblogged

No word count requirements

No sign-ups, just write your fic

Fics must be posted to this collection before they’re revealed at noon EDT on Thursday, May 28, 2026 aka International Wanker’s Day!

Tag @wankersday in your fic post so mod can reblog — mod has a no-ai policy and will not share posts that contain any

AND the most important rule:

The only smut allowed is masturbation, i.e. characters are not to touch other people’s junk, only their own!

Any questions? Just ask!

[toomuchthisnotenoughthat-deacti]

[ilya-rozanova]

shane going through the horrors