halfway home

all that remains

Relationship: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson
 Words: 40k (completed) 
Rating: Explicit

“Did you write it about me?” Louis asks, when the tones of the last song fades, his voice so low Harry barely hears it. “Yeah… or like…” he turns to his side and their eyes meet. Louis’ eyes are a little red and his neck is flushed. Harry himself feels exposed when he looks at him. “About us, I guess,” he says finally. Louis nods, chewing on his lip. Even though he is obviously affected by the songs, Harry still has a hard time reading him. “I like the idea of our story being told through songs,” Louis says, and Harry’s heartbeats speed up. “It’s quite fitting.”

Or, Harry has always written too many songs about him.

In other words, this is the Ultimate Song Analysis Canon Complaint™️ no one asked for but the one you’ll get anyway. 

See author’s note and tags for further warnings and disclaimers.

Chapter Index


i. 
 Two Ghosts 
 Meet Me in the Hallway
 Sign of the Times 
 From the Dining Table

ii.
 Fine Line 
 To be Falling: so Lonely 
 Golden 
 Adore You 

iii.
 Walls

#Stripthatcountdown day 5 - Favorite thing(s) about Liam

i'm angry. i'm really fucking mad. but while i work on dealing with the anger and sadness and frustration that is bubbling within me, there's also a LOT of gratitude.

liam was a part of a group that became MAGIC. they were MAGIC. they were so much to so many people and he was a part of that. it's because of liam being a part of one direction that everything happened exactly how it did and i somehow ended up here, and i am SO thankful for that. it's because of one direction that i have some of the closest friends i've got in my life. it's because of one direction that i know as much about myself as i do and that i was able to be able to get through some of the hardest times of my life, and he was a part of that.

i want to remember him how i remember him on stage. i want to remember him smiling so big his eyes are mere slits and his mouth open wide laughing. i want to remember IT'S A SNAKE HABITAT TURN AROUND! and the sheer joy that he and the others brought me.

The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.

So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosity’s birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.

This isn’t a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we can’t get to because it’s name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.

That’s not sad, that’s awesome.

Harry's DMs with comedian Joe Lycett after he joked about painting a portrait of Harry, following the Vogue article of Harry getting his portrait painted by artist David Hockney. (5 August 2023)

oli is the mitochondria of louis tomlinson

grandpa :(

purple girl jumpscare

"d'you know what i mean"

helene is a secret psychotherapist

good for eleanor

the 2023 tour is gonna be SICK

"soft and sensitive"