#fluffao3

[deadendtracks]

The entire reason people need/want podcast apps or rss readers is because content was scattered all over the place. like instead of visiting 493 different blogs every day, you could go to Google Reader. 

This is literally going to a single website, one run by a non-profit organization, and profiting off of the content. it’s not providing a service that the original site doesn’t already provide! you can access AO3 on your phone, you can download fic to your ereader, it’s extremely mobile friendly already. 

Literally the only thing these apps do is provide a profit stream to their creators by exploiting content provided to a third party website for free, based on the infrastructure created and defended by a single nonprofit organization over the last ten years and the work of countless volunteers and authors/creators with the understanding that content would only be used by AO3 because it had built and established trust within the community providing content.

Fuck these self-serving rationalizations. They’re wrong and they know they’re wrong. They just know we have little recourse to stop them.

[larryfanfiction]

Homegrown by casuallyhl @casuallyhl

Length: 51k

“It wasn’t an easy decision, if I’m honest,” Harry admits, shoulders sagging in on himself. “Moving is really difficult. My whole life was in Manchester. But Manchester didn’t want me. Leeds did.”

“Well, Leeds is happy to have you,” Louis says, giving Harry a kind smile.

Harry brightens a bit at that, undeniably pleased. “Yeah?”

“Yeah,” Louis replies, expression soft and lips curved.

Or, a gardening AU where Harry is new to town and the newest volunteer at the local gardening club, Louis is the attractive grandson of one of the members, and the nosy volunteers hatch a plan to get them together.

Ao3, Chaptered, Completed

[larryfanfiction]

If Some Miracle Could Win (Your Love For Me) by eli_ssabeth 

Length: 1.3k 

“Nervous, love?” Louis murmured. 

“Me?” Harry laughed. “I’m not the one up for a Grammy, Lou.” 

“Maybe not,” Louis agreed. “But your fiancé is.” 

Harry felt his face split into a wide grin at the word. It wasn’t new, but he loved hearing any acknowledgement of the wedding the two of them were planning for the summer. “You’re very right. My fiancé is up for a Grammy. But I’m not nervous. I know he’s gonna win it.” 

“Careful, now. You’re gonna give him a big head.”

 Harry giggled. “Can’t get any bigger.” 

OR 
A self-indulgent coming-out fic that is the result of Rule #1 of The Group Chat

Ao3, one-shot

[larryfanfiction]

Happiness Comes in on Tiptoe by scagnetism

Length: 9k

There is a supermodel standing at Louis’ door. He suddenly feels extremely insecure about his unwashed hair and clothes that have seen better days. He’s sure his mouth has fallen open, but there is a supermodel standing on his doorstep.

Or, the AU where Louis is new to the neighborhood and Harry is the angel living next door.

Ao3, One-Shot

[larryfanfiction]

Sun-Dappled by QuickedWeen

Length: 4k

When he lifted the lid of the box, he saw a small note. Underneath the note was a gleaming and golden Snitch.

Confused, he opened the note.

“ Two gifts. One from each of the most important days of my life .”

Not helpful, Lou, Harry thought with a scoff.

Harry rolled the Snitch over between his fingers. It was heavy, solid, like the ones they used for official school matches. He was grateful, of course, but he remained in the dark as to why this was his birthday gift.

Louis and his best friend Harry are in their seventh year at Hogwarts, facing down their future together. Louis has been in love with his best friend for as long as he can remember, and he begins to feel a sense of urgency as the second semester begins. Finally he hatches a plan to tell Harry about his feelings on Harry's birthday.

Ao3, One-shot

[larryfanfiction]

The Edge of the Stars by casuallyhl

Length: 16k

Louis laughed. “You think you can convince some random guy to want to go out with me?”

“Oh baby,” Jay chuckled. “I can convince all of the UK to want to go out with you.”

Or, a Meet the Parents AU where Harry is the man of Louis’ dreams, and it’s up to Jay to convince him to date her son.

Ao3, One-Shot

[larryfanfiction]

The Bigger Man by checkthemargins

Length: 8k

There's a bare-arsed mouth-breather in his bed. The duvet is on the floor, the sheets wrapped around one long leg. He's pale and he's got a mop of curly hair and he's hung like a horse, or gorilla, or elephant, or some mammoth animal. He's on his front and his legs are spread a bit. His big balls are actually so hypnotic that Louis ends up standing right at the edge of the bed, head tilted and staring, before he remembers that there's a stranger in his bed. He drops his rucksack and walks across the room to collect his life-size toy light saber. It's double ended and red, because he's a Sith lord. He extends one end and, from a safe distance, prods the sleeping stranger in the arse.

When Louis's summer holiday in Ireland is cut short due to an unexpected request from the biological father he's never met, he returns to London only to discover that his flatmate, Zayn, has rented out his room to a curly-haired mouth-breather called Harry Styles.

Ao3, One-shot

[larryfanfiction]

Adore You by isthatyoularry

Length: 66k

“We invited our new acquaintances from uptown. You’ve simply got to meet their oldest son!” said his mother with a flourish, and suddenly it became abundantly clear as to why his parents had so adamantly demanded he join them in Deansville for the entirety of the summer.

Against his wishes, Harry spends the holidays at his family’s summer estate, and is reluctantly pulled into a courtship he didn’t ask for. Harry doesn’t want to get married, but Louis does. They don’t fit, but then again they really, really do.

Vaguely set in the 1920’s. Headpieces, jazz, fashionable canes, and flapper dresses, and that.

Ao3, Chaptered, Completed