#not 1d

[hcllanders]

dovecameron: 🥃🎻 @glamourmag women of the year ♡

[tomlinshires]

Alice dyer I love you

[daisiesonafield-blog]

Daisie's helpful tips for Black Friday 2024

Hey guys, I found some cool links to spreadsheets with the discounts many brands are having for this year's sales, so I thought I'd share in case any of you are planning on getting things for the holidays. This is especially helpful if you're buying something that's sold at multiple retailers because they all have varying discounts!

Masterlist for everything

Perfume/body care list

Also, if you add the Rakuten extension to your browser you get cashback while shopping. I've used it for years and have gotten over $800 back in total over the years.

Get it here

Louis' store is also having a sale! Get his merch here 56.52% off, and LIVE album here 50% off!

[backtothelighton]

[a break in regular programming to air out some Marauders drabbles I wrote years ago]

The thing about surviving when you weren’t supposed to – when it would have been all over if things had gone just slightly differently, when the people around you didn’t make it – is that you’re supposed to feel really damn lucky. It’s sort of poor form to wake up, mostly mornings, and wish it was all over, in the past, and you were there too.

But here you are, and you’ve made it. Won the lottery, rolled the dice, been dealt the right hand. You’ve survived, and you’re supposed to feel grateful. Exhilarated. Ready for a second chance, another act.

You’re definitely not supposed to wake up most mornings and just try to… avoid the day. You’re not suicidal, no, that would be honestly kind of selfish. The people who didn’t make it would do just about anything for this chance, wouldn’t they? So it would be unsporting, really, to actively throw it all away. And, to be frank, you just don’t really have the energy to actually kill yourself.

So, instead, you sleep through breakfast because that’s one less task to finish for the day, and besides, your strong, beautiful body is wrecked and you’d really rather it not exist, and this is the next best thing. And you find a job that’s fine, it pays the bills on your shitty little cottage, you can do it from home, your supervisor doesn’t notice that you get very little done a few days of the month. You know what it feels like to care about your work with your entire soul, and you know what it feels like to lose that. This way is better.

You’ve got a few friends – acquaintances, really – and you go round to the pub with them once a month or so. Your mum writes every once in a while, and you write back, because you’ve really no wish to hurt anyone, least of all her. You don’t even want to hurt yourself; you just want to stop hurting, which would require you to stop existing, and since you can’t do that, you don’t do much of anything. You see her in Wales at Christmas. It’s fine. She’d be heartbroken if you were gone, which is reason enough to be here. Your father’s been dead since you were a child.

It’s not all unrelenting tragedy, of course. Life has a way of poking around the corners when you least expect it. The brilliance of a summer day; the way the leaves smell in autumn; the safety of reading in your flat as snow makes Yorkshire clean again; even the heady rush of spring, which makes you think, for a moment, that there might be something out there for you again.

The most flattening thing about losing everything is the way it disconnects you from the future. You dreamed, once upon a time. As strange and different as you were, you found a way to believe that the future held something for you. Now it’s all in the past.

You get the paper, still, Muggle and Prophet, but mostly to figure out how to stay out of the way when you’re a wolf. Not that you’re particularly dangerous, anymore; it turns out that a depressed man is a depressed wolf, and every month you chain yourself to a tree with awful silver handcuffs and wake up bleeding and hungry and tired.

Transformations were different when you were younger, you think – something about the wild passion of adolescence carried over into full moon nights. Maybe you were just so full of hormones that you couldn’t help but lose your mind. You remember running for miles and miles each night, with stag and rat and dog (don’t think about the dog) by your side, feeling free and whole and strong in the light. Now, really, you’d rather just lay down, hope you don’t bite yourself too much, and wait for it to be over. Even the other wolves ignore you; it’s pretty clear to everyone that you’re just not much use. You read in the paper that they’ve developed a treatment, but the price is beyond you. It doesn’t matter too much.

You keep your wand, because it’s the easiest way to clean up around the house, but other than scanning the Prophet headlines you’ve fallen out of touch with the wizard world. Your mum’s a Muggle; so are your bar friends. You’ve read, in the paper, that they’ve pushed through stricter anti-wolf laws since the War. It makes sense, of course; they’ve won, and they want to punish everyone who lost. But it makes it pointless to try for a wizard job. You edit Muggle papers for Muggle money.

You write to Dumbledore, just once, after the war. You think he might answer you, now that he knows it wasn’t you spying for the other side. He writes back, explaining kindly but firmly that the baby is safe with Lily’s family. You know a brush-off when you see one. And what claim do you have, really? You aren’t the baby’s godfather. You loved his parents, sure, but they loved other people more than you. You don’t really remember anything about her family – were they even at the wedding? – but clearly it’s for the best. You were good with kids once, of course, but there’s a world of difference between tutoring the first-years for work-study money and raising a child. You don’t reach out to the Wizarding world after that.

It turns out you like Muggle literature quite a bit. You start reading it for your editing job and find that there’s more to Muggles than they told you at Hogwarts. Dickens, Jane Austen, Tennyson, Mary Shelley; you don’t mind living in someone else’s gothic world for a few days at a time.

You try not to think about your own gothic prison, Azkaban, that cold, dark rock in the cold, dark sea, full of people imprisoned inside their heads. You know that whatever you’re feeling, he’s feeling much, much worse. You know he deserves it. Most of the time, you’re glad he didn’t ask you to join him. You don't want to know what you would have said. In time, deep fury and bottomless grief sink to the bottom of your self and are replaced by numbness. They become the planks on which you build your life.

You read Paradise Lost once for a cite-checking job and it leaves you catatonic for days. Would you have followed him to the end of the earth? Would you have turned your back on paradise and goodness for him? He never gave you that chance. You stay away from epics, after that. Heroics and world-historical loves are for teenagers.

Not that you don’t get laid. As the eighties wear on, it gets easier and easier to meet men out. You’re not the hottest man in the bar, and you know you’ll never feel actually beautiful again, but that’s really not the standard. You’re not looking for someone to love you. That part of your life is over. And really, men aren’t that complicated.

Twelve years slide past you this way, before you’ve hardly noticed. It’s amazing, really, how much feeling you could fit into a single day when you were eighteen, how much action – and how quickly the days flow along now. You’re thirty… not really that old, all things considered… but forty and fifty and sixty all look about the same.

And then one day, at the end of July in 1993, you pick up the Prophet from where the owl’s left it and the bottom drops out of your world.

[shippingalongnicely]

Non 1D: Published author's series - mostly urban paranormal romance/adventure/comedy

I own all of these as paper books and I don't know about their current availability or if they're on ebook anywhere. I've listed book 1 in each series. Nearly all feature heterosexual love interests (basically this is what I was reading before I discovered AO3!!). Many have exceptional world-building and character/story arc development across the series which I love in any kind of fic! Hope you find something you like 😊

Nahlini Singh

1. Slave to sensation

Psy-Changeling universe

Humans, weres, psychic universe, dark, complex world building, multiple characters

Keri Arthur

1. Full moon rising

Riley Jenson Guardian universe

Were-vamp hybrid protagonist, supernatural law enforcement, mixed supernatural races

Katie MacAlister

1. A girl's guide to vampires

Dark Ones universe

Comedy-romance, modern vampires, light read

1. You slay me

Aisling Grey Guardian universe

Comedy-romance, magic, dragons, mixed supernatural races, light read but involved plots

Shelly Laurenston

1. The mane event

Pack and Pride universe

Shifters, shifter society hidden in the human world, comedy-adventure-romance, law enforcement, light reads but complex universe creation and long story archs

Patricia Briggs

1. Moon called

Mercy Thompson universe

Shifter protagonist, mixed supernatural races, large story archs across the series

Lynsay Sands

1. A quick bite

Argeneau vampires universe

Comedy-romance, unique vampire origin story, light reads early in the series but increasingly involved plots as the series develops

Lara Adrian

1. Kiss of midnight

The Breed vampires universe

Dark, unique vampires origin story, warrior-protectors, rogue vampires, fated mates

Sandra Hill

1. The reluctant Vikings

Time travel to/from ancient Vikings times, adventure-romance, very light reads

JR Ward

1. Dark lover

Black dagger brotherhood universe

Dark, humans and vampires, complex world building, vamp royalty

Jim Butcher

1. Storm front

Dresden files universe

Male protagonist, wizard/detective, modern, drama, mixed supernatural races

Kevin Hearne

1. Hounded

Iron druid chronicles

Male protagonist, magic, modern, drama, mixed supernatural races, myths

Benedict Jacka

1. Fated

Alex Veris mage universe

Male protagonist, magic, modern, drama, mixed supernatural races

Karen Marie Moning

1. Beyond the highland mist

The highlander universe

Time travel to/from ancient Scotland, light reads adventure-romance segues into the more evolved:

1. Darkfever

The fever series

Modern, magic, drama, mixed supernatural races, dark

[alarrytale]

Dear Marte, sorry for a very non-larrie question but because I like and value your opinions (and mostly agree with them), I am genuinely wondering what’s your opinion of S*br*n* C*rp*ent*r? I used to be neutral, liked a song or two of hers and even understood her PR relationship with B*rry K. (eventho couldn’t understand how most people ate it and thought it was real). But lately, especially after seeing some videos from her tour (especially her ‘famous’ Juno positions) I started to dislike how oversexualized her image is on very purpose (because suprise suprise, s*x still sells most), I don’t eat her image at all, don’t find it genuine (because I personally don’t find her sexy nor see her as some femme fatale) and now I am just laughing how far she went with her album cover for her upcoming album which…even upset feminists groups. So I’m wondering about your opinion.

And to make my question a bit fandom related, I am also wondering why H went to her show and what was his impressions. Ofcourse he wasn’t there to see her in lingerie and watching her innuendos (eventho some h*rries like to think about him lusting for her) so maybe to get an inspo for the next tour to copy hers but make it gay?

Hi, lovely anon!

I hope i won't disappoint you with my answer, but from my limited knowledge of SC, her image and conduct, i actually love her.

I think it's so refreshing that she emerged as an artist contrary to the purity culture and as a confident, unapologetic and talented woman. I agree with those saying that she is for women, whereas Sid*ey Swe*ny is for men. They both have very sexualised images, but cater to different audiences. The oversexualisation is needed to combat the purity culture, and when you think about it, i think it's really funny that people get so upset and provoked by her explicit sexuality. It's really, really strange. The sex positivity she represents, her crude jokes and physical explicitness is sorely needed.

I'm a millennial, and this is a brand of feminist girl power i recognise from the late 90's (like the Spice Girls). The confidence she exudes, the mocking/belittling of men, the mix of a submissive and overly feminine look and exterior, combined with a dominating, confident personality is very attractive.

I'm so down with it (i'm sorry, anon lol).

And about Harry. I think he's attracted to and admiring her confidence, charisma, her talent, he's there for the catchy pop songs, her cheeky and rude lyric changes (he's married to Louis of course he loves that) and her unashamedly sexual and entertaining show. We're talking about a man who wears a dicklace, and t-shirts about safe gay sex and jerking off a Beatles member here lol. He relates to her.

[strangenewfriends]

MADDIE HAN!!!!