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[ahurricanebehindthedoor]

YES! FREE THE ANKLES!!!

*chants* FREE

THE

ANKLES.

FREE!

THE!

ANKLES!

laur was your YES also a yes to me making a “free the ankles” sign for my louis show? or maybe it should be “get your ankles out”??? Or maybe “show us your ankles”???? suggestions welcomed.

[allwaswell16]

These are all the One Direction fics I read and enjoyed in March 2022. You can listen to my podcast to hear me talk about each of these fics as well as an overview of what was posted on ao3 in March including the fics on this month’s fic roundup which you can find here! Please let the writers know if you liked the fics by leaving kudos and comments! Happy reading!

Fanfictional Podcast #36 | ko-fi | fic recs

-Larry-

🌿 For the Right Reasons by @juliusschmidt

(E, 105k, Bachelor au, friends to lovers, reality tv, mutual pining, slow burn, fake/pretend relationship, jealousy, travel, angst with a happy ending, smut, this fic murdered me)

Louis may have signed up to be a contestant on the Bachelor, but he’s not interested a ring or a proposal, not from Harry, not from anyone.

🌿 i'm a captain on a jealous sea by @thedevilinmybrain

(E, 15k, canon, jealousy, fighting, angst, hurt/comfort, love declarations, exhibitionism, honestly I wanted to punch Nick in the face so who could blame Louis?)

What Louis actually has a problem with is the way Nick Grimshaw looks at Harry.

🌿 Mr. Tuesday by @jaerie

(E, 7k, sex worker Harry, client Louis, religion, closeted Louis, sexual inexperience, off screen Louis/OFC in a forced marriage, softest most heartbreaking sex work fic you'll ever read, comment on it and maybe we'll get more of this fic!)

Tuesday. Harry loved Mr. Tuesday.

🌿 More Than a Mic Drop by @haztobegood

(E, 5k, canon divergence, famous/not famous fic, canon Louis, sound engineer Harry, tour, bdsm, dom/sub, dom Harry, sub Louis, smut, um wow this was hot)

Harry levels him a serious look and suddenly the room feels too hot. “You could have broken the mic and we don’t have a lot of spares.”

🌿 Call Me Yours by @maggieisalarrie

(T, 5k, high school au, recreational drug use, hurt/comfort, breakup, getting back together, smut, oof poor Harry, this hurt just right)

A story about love and lust with some miscommunication and, of course, a happy ending.

🌿 Naturally by @neondiamond

(E, 5k, teachers au, PE teacher Louis, music teacher Harry, camping trip, bed sharing, meddling students, pining, smut, loved the meddling students!)

When PE teacher Louis first gets assigned to be a chaperone on a weekend long camping trip with a bunch of high school seniors, he’s not too excited about it.

🌿 I Feel Safe With You by dimpled_halo / @comebackassholes

(E, 3k, part 3 in series, dom Louis, sub Harry, Harry as Marcel, sex work, kink exploration, kink negotiation, smut, pretty sure Marcel has a Louis kink which is pretty relatable)

The last two scenes have been everything Marcel could ever ask for so he can only imagine what Louis will come up with today.

🌿 Vesper by YesIsAWorld / @louandhazaf

(NR, 3k, girl direction, friends to lovers, bisexual Louis, separated Louis, vibrator, omg I mean I think Louis did this all on purpose, please read it and let me know what you think)

“No.” Louis shook her head, lips tucked into her teeth. “Not like a…” she waved her hands around, “woowoo vibe. Like, a, you know, a vibrator.”

🌿 In the Cards by @homosociallyyours

(NR, 3k, tarot reading, bluffing, fluff, humor, this was so cute and funny!)

When Zayn has an emergency & needs to leave the metaphysical store he works at, a very clueless Louis must give a not-so-clueless Harry a tarot reading.

🌿 two bananas for a pound (three bananas for a euro) by docklands / @hershelsue

(G, 1k, established relationship, mpreg Harry, cravings, fluff, banter, humor, this ficlet made me smile)

Harry loves bananas. Except now, with the pregnancy, everything with them makes him sick. Louis fixes it.

🌿 Pink and Pretty by sunandthemoon

(G, 1k, high school au, secret admirer, Valentine's Day, pining, shy Harry, side Ziall, fluff, this was so cute!)

Louis, in the spirit of the holiday I’ve finally decided to gather my guts and tell you how I feel.

🌿 stay hydrated! by absolutehly / @thestylinsons

(NR, 637 words, canon, kissing, watersports, concert, getting romantic over a piss bucket yes pls lol)

Where Louis drinks too much water during a show and is grateful he has a break during Fearless.

-Rare Pairs-

🌿 like air to me by yeah_alright / @uhoh-but-yeah-alright

(M, 5k, Zayn/Louis, exes to lovers, heartbreak, five times fic, angst with a happy ending, flashbacks, implied smut, wow this was gorgeous writing and hurt so good)

Five times Louis’ smoke break brings back memories of Zayn and one time it brings him back to Zayn’s doorstep.

🌿 Keep Up by mynameispiaivy / @missrefridgefreetorator

(G, 4k, Louis/Michael Blackwell, canon, Michael pov, pining, banter, birthday, fluff, mentions of depression, wip, I'm so excited for this and I already love it!)

29. he’s going to be 29 in a couple of days. Jesus.

🌿 Kiss & Run by @fallinglikethis

(E, 4k, Zayn/Louis, fwb, childhood best friends, pining, angst with a happy ending, smut, oh god the pining I loved it so much)

When Louis and Zayn were kids, they started an innocent game of tag called Kiss and Run.

[infinitelymint]

HI!!!! Please tell me everything about A Doll's House! (I read it for a course in high school, but that was ages ago)

Aaahh!! Where to start?? What to say?? My inner theatre-nerd is escaping it's hold, I apologise in advance...

‘A Doll’s House’ is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen from 1879. It was written in the middle of a period of Scandinavian literature known as The Modern Breakthrough, which had as an aim to show the problems in society - for instance the relationship between man and woman and especially women’s role in society.

The play is about Nora, wife of Helmer and mother of two, who lives a traditional upper-middle class life - at least on the surface. At first glance, she seems simplified and naive, but as the play progresses, the audience gets more and more insight into her character, showing her to be very multifaceted. She might continue to be naive throughout most of the play, but she also shows herself to be independant (quite a contrast to the 'regular' woman of the time) and ready to take extreme and drastic actions in times of need. Quite controversially (for that time and now), the play ends with her leaving her husband and children behind to go out and figure out who she is herself and what kind of society she lives in.

In the beginning of the play, we are presented with a character who’s very like the typical 1800’s wife, but she has a secret that is revealed to the reader early on - she has broken the law, but she's done so in order to save her husband and family. No one really knows about this, though, so to the outside world, she’s the perfect example of a wife and a mother. It is, however, a bit of a double life. Behind closed, closed doors (because her husband doesn't know her secret either), she has gone against many of society’s norms and rules. She also has these thoughts about how society should be and is very disappointed when she learns that it isn’t like that - and when her husband turns out not to want to help her, too focused on how her actions reflect on him (where she thought he'd be proud of what she did, how she fixed their problems when he couldn't), she realises that she knows very little of the real world, and that the ideas she has about what’s right and wrong don’t match up with society’s. This is what leads her to part with her former life - she realises that she’s just been a doll in a doll’s house for others to play with, and famously says to her husband that “You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.” - like she sort of realises that she was never seen as an actual person but more like an accessory to him, that he never knew the real her and that he definitely never loved the real her (she isn't even sure who she really is herself - but she puts herself before her husband and children to go out into the world to figure it out).

The play very clearly shows how everyone - her husband, society - has certain expectations as to who she is and how she should behave and how the reaction when she breaks out of this mold is quite bad. If we were to turn it towards Harry, I do feel like there are some similarities to Harry here - there's a very clear idea of who he is from the outside world that fits quite poorly with who he shows us he actually is - a kind of dissonance between his public persona and the glimpses of his personal self we've seen throughout the years (and he has quite a big a secret, shhh). I think the quote is quite fitting here too - many people love the idea of het!Harry though the narrative doesn't actually fit real life and so they don't love him for who he actually is. Harry, too, is leading a bit of a double life - what's presented to the public and then what's real. And I'd wager that he has also felt a bit like a doll in a doll's house for others to play with at times...

[holyshit]

NOW I'M SEARCHING EVERY LONELY PLAAAAAAAAACEEEEEE

EVERY COOOORNER CALLING OUT YOUR NAME ‼‼‼‼‼

TRYNA FIND YOU BUT I JUST DON'T KNO-OOOOW

WHERE DO BROKEN HEARTS GO ❓❓❓❓❓

WHERE DO BROKEN HEARTS GO

[causticsunshine]

THE HIDDIE IS YOUR ICON!!!!!!!! I KNEW IT

YES!! i have a brand to keep up here and that is being associated with the hiddies in their many forms 🤧 ofc tumblr sent me to horny jail for it yesterday and i had to insist to them that i wasn’t sharing feminine-presenting nipples—sorry harry, your breasts are just too bountiful apparently—so please let me out of gay baby jail ajfkdks

[cowboylarries]

i follow you because i saw 'cowboylarries' and immediately approved of that! i think it was right before your philly show, too, so i am very glad i stayed because you're awesome and a pleasure to have on the dash

SEVEN 💘🥰🥺 tbh you were probably the quickest friend i made on this site and i’m so grateful for you!!!! 🤠💌

tell me why you follow me!

[holyshit]

were u able to see louis’ show from 47 hours away? 🥺💙

of course! had to take out my binoculars, but i could see it all from the comfort of my living room, he looked great! ....sdkjsdksfd if only that were true 😭😭 louis come to montreal, i am begging

[holyshit]

bringing back the leftovers chat because I finally got hbo and I LOVE THIS SHOW!!!!! so many episodes and they’re an hour long!! i live for this sci fi plot thank you for reccing it 💗 will update when I finish it

i hope you have a great rest of the day and a wonderful week love u

OMG NICE!!!! are you on season 1 rn or are you further in? it's such a fun (and incredibly sad sometimes lol) show and the vibe really changes from season to season so even the people who are less into season 1 (which isn't me because i love making myself sad lol s1 is my baby) still typically end up getting super invested in s2+3. and it's just one of those shows that really makes you think, go through every different emotion, and makes you have an existential crisis lmao so i really hope you enjoy it!!! and def send me your thoughts! love u right back dearly and wishing the same for u 🥺💞💞💞 things are looking up on my side so there’s that at least dzkjndsj hopefully it keeps up