#girldirectionfest2020

[loveonwallstour]

hi!! when will we find out if we’ve been accepted into the girl direction fest?

hi love! if you’ve applied, you’re automatically accepted! the deadline for sign-up closes next week, so i’ll be giving you more info then!

i really need more prompts, so if someone has an idea for a fic, please submit it here!

[girldirectionfest2020]

The first two fics are up!! I hope you’re enjoying them as much as I am. If you haven’t read them yet, go check them out!

Tuesday 04-08

so long i've been waiting (to let go of myself and feel alive) by hazloveshisboo - 7k - fake/pretend relationship

“Lou!” Harry said excitedly, trying not to bounce where she had landed, half straddling Louise with her thigh in between the other girl’s. “I know how to come out to my family!”

“That’s great love, why did you have to tell me at...midnight?” Louise grumbled at Harry, looking up at her.

“Because I need your help,” Harry bit her lip a little nervously. She wasn’t sure if Louise would agree. “If I just bring my girlfriend with me, then I won’t actually have to come out.”

or

Harry wants to come out to her family, and figures asking her best friend to be her fake girlfriend for a weekend family retreat is the way to do it.

Thursday 06-08

Bendy Wendy by Star55 / @star55 - 1k 

Louis is forced to do yoga from her football manager to learn better control over her body and her attitude. Enter Harry - professional yoga instructor.

[girldirectionfest2020]

The fifth fic is up!! Go check it out if you haven’t read it yet! Last week the schedule was a little different, but that means you’ll either get three this week, or two this week and then one the week after that!! So get excited either way!

Wednesday 19-08

(the devil’s in the details) but you’ve got a friend in me by andidmarrylarry / @and-id-marry-larry​​ - 16k - high school and 1980′s au

"The carpeted area surrounding the snack bar was packed with kids from Zayn and Louis’ school and she could mostly discern the different groups by the way they gathered. Of course, the roller rink wasn’t much of a destination for nerds or burnouts or anyone Louis had ever really talked to, so she’s mostly categorizing different levels of semi to full high school royalty by the labels on their sweaters and the letters on their jackets. Louis looked over to Zayn and could tell instantly that he had spotted Liam. His eyes grew round and shone like a cartoon character’s. Louis shook her head, dismayed at her friend’s lack of will. At least until she turned to follow his gaze and saw the figure next to her."

Or, in the late 80's, Louis was just trying to make it through high school relatively unscathed by sticking with Zayn and not opening up too much to anyone else. When Zayn's hapless crush on the student body president brings Harry - bubbly and magnetic and sweet - into Louis' life, she realizes just what she was missing out on.

[girldirectionfest2020]

The third and fourth fic are up!! If you haven’t, please go check them out, because they’re really good!

Tuesday 11-08

daydream about me by @adoredontour​​ / louistomlinsons - 21k - strangers to friends to lovers

“Anything else going on for you at the moment?” she asks, leaning forward on her elbows across the table, mindful of the radio equipment in front of her. “What about you and that Louis Tomlinson?” Harry sputters, mouth moving but no words coming out. She can feel her cheeks heat up, darkening with embarrassment. “It’s not, Louis and I, we don’t—” Harry can’t finish the sentence, tongue heavy in her mouth. She takes a deep breath, thankful they’re not being videoed, and tries again, “We’ve never even met, actually.” alternatively titled 'harry styles does not have a crush on louis tomlinson and other lies she tells liam payne'

Thursday 13-08

Study Dates and Coffee Taste by @alwayshazandlou​ / alwayshazandlou - 2k - college/university au

Prompt Based Off: 15. college au - Harry and Louis have the same class and they have a crush on each other but they're disaster gays and one of them is great at the class and the other one sucks so they have to tutor them.

[star55]

Title: Bendy Wendy Author: Star Word Count: 1,071 Pairing: Louis/Harry Rating: General Summary: Louis is forced to do yoga from her football manager to learn better control over her body and her attitude. Enter Harry - professional yoga instructor.

A/N: This is my fic for the Girl Direction Fic Fest 2020. I hope you enjoy it!

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The day Liam refused to go to yoga with Louis was… well, she wasn’t expecting it to happen, to be honest. She thought that Liam was her best friend and weren’t best friends meant to do things together? Even things that they didn’t exactly like doing? Just to support said best friend?

“I love you, Lou, but I am not going to yoga with you again,” Liam says. She’s said some variation of this sentence every single time Louis has brought it up with her. But this time, she slides a business card across the kitchen island to her, leaving the little rectangle of cardboard sitting there, staring at Louis. Mocking her.

Louis was, as it turns out, utterly shit at yoga.

She was so spectacularly bad that she got kicked out of the class.

For landing on someone.

And kicking someone else in the head.

It wasn’t entirely her fault.

Okay, well, it was but it also wasn’t. And that’s the story she’s sticking with.

“This is the number for the yoga instructor I mentioned last week. She’s a seasoned professional.”

“Professional yoga?” Louis guffaws, her hand reaching for the business card. Bendy Wendy it reads. Great this is just what she needs.

“Just give her a call, and arrange a time,” Liam says. She stands up, rounds the island and kisses Louis on the side of her head. “I have to go, so good luck.”

Louis harrumphs as the front door shuts behind Liam. But she finds herself pulling out her phone and dialling the number on the card.

~*~

The gay part of Louis’ brain gets stuck on holy shit – she’s tall and those legs are amazing, please be single. But the feminist part of her brain goes to good body for a yoga instructor. That was probably a little bit of her gay brain talking, too.

As it turns out, Bendy Wendy is Harry’s yoga studio. She took it over from the previous owner, but didn’t change the name. Louis finds it stupidly endearing.

Harry, used to be a physiotherapist and, much to Louis’ luck, has worked with many football players who have sustained injuries. During their initial phone call, Harry said she found that yoga was her true passion, and that’s why she changed careers.

But now that Louis is underneath Harry, she gets it.

“You’ve got great flexibility,” Harry says, her hands shifting up Louis’ thighs. She has a lovely, smooth voice. Deep and rich and Louis has lost herself in what Harry has said a few times now. Oops, better pay attention.

Harry’s hands are big and warm, which is another thing Louis discovered upon walking into this studio. The fact that Harry has her hands on Louis’ body right now is making the gay part of her brain take over the rest of her brain.

Thankfully, Louis has years of practiced control under her belt, and she doesn’t say anything inappropriate.

“Do you touch all of your clients like this?” Louis asks. Harry smirks down at her.

“Only the fit ones.” She pats Louis’ thigh and they both sit up, facing each other. “We do a lot of simple, low impact moves at first,” Harry continues like she hasn’t just called Louis fit to her face. “The more balance and strength you gain, the harder the moves.”

Louis nods, trying to pay proper attention.

“And you’re not going to kick me out?”

Harry shakes her head. “I think you’ll be fine. I don’t think you’ll be able to kick anyone in the head falling over if it’s just the two of us.”

“You’d be surprised,” Louis muttered. “But thank you. I appreciate this. My manager won’t let me back on the pitch until I’ve learned to control myself or some bullshit.”

Harry’s lips twitch in a smile. “You do have a bit of a temper on the pitch.”

That catches Louis’ immediate interest. “You watch me play?” she asks. She’s flirting, she knows she is, but she’s wanted to ask Harry on a date ever since she walked into this studio.

Harry nods. “You play for my team, how can I not?”

Wait.

Wait.

A smile blooms across Harry’s face. Louis can’t help but smile too.

“Maybe you can come see a game some time?” Louis offers. “I’ll get you box tickets?”

“That’d be lovely,” Harry replies.

~*~

After plenty of one on one yoga sessions, Louis is deemed “fixed” enough by her manager to not only be allowed to properly play games again, but to also give up yoga if she wants.

As it turns out, Louis quite likes yoga.

She enjoys getting to flirt with Harry for an hour several times a week without interruption.

So when Harry tells her she can’t be her yoga instructor anymore, Louis is, well, she’s a bit crushed to be honest.

“Why? I haven’t landed on you since that first session!” Louis says. That hadn’t been entirely her fault, either. Harry had let go of Louis’ body and she had gone tumbling down, taking Harry with her. They’ve laughed about it since, so she didn’t think that Harry would stop being her yoga instructor over it.

“I just think you’ll benefit from doing some yoga with Simone,” Harry says, slinging her bag over her shoulder. “Besides, she’s looking forward to meeting her favourite United player.”

Louis can’t help but preen at that, but it doesn’t last long. “But I like having you as my instructor.” She knows she sounds more than a little put out, and probably a little childish, but she feels like she’s being broken up with.

“It’s a rule,” Harry says easily.

“What’s a rule?” Louis asks.

Harry smiles at her, blinking and shifting ever so closer to her. “To not date clients.”

Louis blinks. A smile blooms across her face. “You should have led with that,” she says, raising an eyebrow in Harry’s direction. “I’ve been dying to ask you out since our first session.”

“I know,” Harry replies easily. “But it was fun getting to know you before going on a date. This way, I know you can keep up with me later.”

Tingles go up Louis’ spine at the implication. “Well, I hope I met your expectations?”

“Exceeded them, actually,” Harry replies. Her smile fills Louis’ vision as she moves in closer and presses their lips together in a kiss that Louis has been hoping would happen for a while now.

[girldirectionfest2020]

Submit those prompts!

First off, a big thank you to everyone who has signed up to join already!

At the moment we have seven writers and four betas, which is great. I’ve changed the deadlines a little, so both the deadlines for submitting prompts and signing up to be a writer are next Sunday (April the 19th). 

Sadly we only have one prompt at the moment and multiple writers have said they’d like to receive a prompt, so if  you have any ideas: please submit them!! You can do that here! If you’d like to be a writer or beta, you can let me know here! You can also always message me on tumblr (also if you’d like to submit a prompt or still join in as a writer or beta after the deadline has closed, just message me or fill in the form and you’ll be fine!). 

[echoedsparks]

Hi! I’m organising a girl direction fic fest and was wondering if you could boost my blog and the fic fest?

we LOVE wlw antics in this house !!!!!!

[star55]

Hi! I’m organising a girl direction fic fest and was wondering if you could boost my blog and the fic fest?

Of course! That sounds so exciting! 💜