“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own, than when you almost broke it eight years and a half ago.”
-Jane Austen, Persuasion
Harry has this hollowness inside him. At the age of 30, he still can’t shuck this self-inflicted despair off his shoulders. This narrative however, is about a year-long pause in his misery meander. The year he traded his bustling life in the city to a rural cliffside town where the latest bulletin was an upcoming pie-making competition. Waves in such shades of blue and green that he saw never before and ever since. He danced to an altogether different rhythm in the year of 2012. That year he was a writer, a dreamer and a lover.
-OR- Harry had long accepted that he was meant to be a one-hit wonder author and a loner. Bad-mouthing the characters based on himself and his former lover, a decade later, hinders his resolve when the video goes viral and Louis shows up at his doorstep.
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Wait, is the anon not only saying what we’ve been saying all along but also that Olivia Wilde negotiated a tattoo in exchange for not getting a fake marriage proposal? Why did they have to out Louis and Harry at the end? 🥲
I don’t know what to think, but it makes me hate the music industry so much more.
Also how is Tumblr allowing an 8min video upload?! 👀
I remember this day, 3 years ago, and feeling so scared when I posted the last chapter that I couldn't bring myself to read any of the comments for more than 2 weeks. I was afraid that people would be disappointed. That I'd spent so long writing it, gotten to the end, and somehow let myself and all my readers down.
But behind all of that, really, I was mostly terrified to let it go.
In the 2 years I was writing Mates, so much of my life outside writing felt like it was falling apart. Continuing this story became a ritual that helped me hold onto hope. And when it drew to a close, I didn't know what would come next for me. I felt like I was losing so much more than just a fun lil escape hatch. And I was petrified.
I didn't know then that I would make so many new friends all over the world thanks to this story. That I would meet someone because of it, and fall in love, and end up moving my entire life to a new city. I didn't know just how much writing this fic (and the rest of this series, which I also didn't know would exist) would renew my belief in love, and community, and kindness. And how much that renewal would end up changing the entire course of my life.
I didn't know when I finished it, and was so desperately scared that it had failed, that actually, it had already saved me.
So. Happy 3rd birthday to my biggest, softest, most self-indulgent baby. I love you so stupidly much. Thank you for everything 💛
by @louisandtheaquarian and @zaynmaliksmiddlefinger
hl | ziam | enemies to lovers | famous/not-famous | fake dating
rating: e
chapters: 45/?
When Louis Tomlinson goes to bed on New Year's Eve, he is not prepared to wake up to a job offer that’s layered in more NDAs than he's ever seen, courtesy of ZAYN, A-list pop star and Louis’ best friend Liam's celebrity crush. But what is Louis even less prepared for? Zayn's Very! Enthusiastic! Influencer! boyfriend Harry Styles.
When Harry Styles signs on to become Zayn’s fake boyfriend, he's expecting 12 months of good press and a generous paycheck to help launch his hair and skincare line—he doesn't expect to fall in love at first sight with the man who'll apparently be following Zayn around All. The. Damn. Time. The Entire Year.
Otherwise known as a fake dating with a twist, famous/not-famous, enemies to friends to secret lovers au where Larry and Ziam fall in love behind the scenes while Zarry bicker in public.
the boys are the height of fashion at Capital FM (yes, those are turned-down overalls lmaoo)
2012:
Louis announces his charity football match supporting Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice!!
“And now we welcome our next guest, Harry Styles from the Wan- One Direction!” Harry supports Nick for his last night show before taking over the Breakfast Show!!
2014:
Where We Are Tour concert – Pasadena, USA #2, feat. NIALL TEASING READY TO RUN FML and Liam comforting Niall on not being able to grow a beard lmao
2015:
the boys play their last US concert before the hiatus, On the Road Again Tour concert—Foxborough, USA (AND THEN NOUIS RUN OFF TO VEGAS TO GET MARRIED NBD)
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These fics kept me company in May 2025. Thank you to all the writers and podfic creators in this fandom for always giving me a place to retreat to <3 You can find my other fic recs here.
💐 Two, He's Kissing On You by @louislittletomlintum [E, 10k, threesome]
“There’s no way you’re this professional,” Louis accused quietly, adjusting his grip on his cock that felt like it was throbbing now from not getting the friction it wanted.
“I’m not,” Zayn shrugged and mumbled back, still snapping away. He almost sounded bored but his words betrayed him. “Your partner is literally right there though,”
Louis instantly grinned at that, because if that was the only issue, it could be easily resolved.
“He likes to watch. Don’t you Haz?”
💐 All You Want's Under Your Nose by @wishingforloushair [E, 3k, porn without plot]
Louis decides to treat himself to a new sex toy, but is perplexed when he sees a man in the shop placing each vibrator against the tip of his nose and sneezing. Curiosity gets the better of him, and it turns out the man, Harry, is a sex-god who knows far too much about sex toys and promises Louis that if a vibrator makes him sneeze it will definitely make him come. Of course there's only one way to find out for sure...
💐 but i could be your obsession by staybeautiful / @harruandlou [E, 45k, college au]
Through the windshield he could see a maintenance road up ahead. “Turn in there.”
As Harry was pulling off, Louis pulled open the glove box, dropping both their phones in the cup holders and rifling through the inside of it.
“What’s wrong?”
Finding the lube, Louis tossed it in Harry's lap. “You’re hot. It’s annoying.”
It’s the summer before Louis' senior year of college and he’s spending it getting drunk with his friends, working an internship he hates, and hooking up with Harry, the ‘straight’ frat boy he met in January. There’s only six weeks until school starts.
💐 all the sins you didn't have by Brooklyn_Babylon / @twopoppies [E, 99k, historian au]
It’s 1880, and premier danseur Harry Styles is running out of time. At twenty-five, he’s fast becoming too old for the lecherous benefactors who frequent The Paris Opera Ballet’s infamous backstage, and the only way to ensure he isn’t left penniless or rotting away in a brothel is to secure a permanent patron.
Enter Lord Louis Tomlinson: wealthy, young, handsome. And, unfortunately, a notorious rake. Harry strikes him and his gigantic ego off the list immediately… At least until they realize they have a common set of enemies and a common goal: revenge.
Though their ruse starts smoothly enough, the decadent freedom of Belle Époque Paris gives way to the rigid social rules of aristocratic Victorian London. Can a relationship that started as a calculated deception withstand the harsh realities of societal expectations and family duty to become a love more honest and profound than either has ever known?
The one where Louis goes into Witness Protection and ends up in a fake marriage with a very real problem: he might be catching feelings for his FBI-assigned husband.
💐 is this just fantasy? by tracksuitponytail [M, 7k, friends to lovers]
While stranded at an airport between tour stops, Louis discovers that Harry has been secretly reading fanfiction. Not just any fanfiction. Will 30 minutes in a sleeping pod blur the lines between real life and fantasy—and change the way they see each other for good?
*podfics available*
💐 Sun Emoji Moon Emoji by @mybeanieandme [T, 5k, university au]
🎧 podfic read by averytree
For the prompt: University!au: Harry works at a cafe as the busboy and Louis just really wants to get to know him. (Louis pines for an insecure Harry for a semester)
💐 Moon Dances Over by LadyLondonderry / @londonderrytea [GA, 1.9k, merpeople au]
🎧 podfic read by @allwaswell16 for @podfic-pals
Louis knows that his tail is, frankly, stunning. His iridescent blue scales shimmer in even the slightest sunlight, and his fins have grown since he presented, delicate and almost transparent in their webbing.
He also knows that that means he’ll be one of the first to pick tonight, as the most beautiful omegas are blessed to pick their mates first. It’s considered a huge honour, since the guppies they’ll eventually birth will certainly be beautiful as well, bringing favour on the whole clan.
Louis has a stubborn streak, though. He’s always been rather a fan of mating for love, and there’s someone he’s had his eye on for a long time now.
💐 Truth or Drink by @kingsofeverything [M, 6k, exes to lovers]
🎧 podfic read by @podfic-pals
Harry and Louis broke up years ago, and they're seeing each other again for the first time to play Truth or Drink. On camera.
💐 Big Dicked Bottoms Make the Rockin’ World Go Round by YesIsAWorld / @louandhazaf [E, 4k, social media au]
🎧 podfic read by YesIsAWorld_PodFic (YesIsAWorld)
Harry was tired of the assumptions made about his sexual preferences and he wasn't afraid to (drunkenly) post on Tumblr about it. The last thing he expected was to find his perfect partner.
* honorable mention *
This was a re-read for me, and the podfic is unfinished and discontinued, but the chapters that are there brought me a lot of joy this month.
💐 Wild And Unruly by @100percentsassy, gloria_andrews / @gloriaandrews [E, 123k, farm au]
🎧 podfic by frecklebombfic & red_panda28 / @red-panda-28
Harry is a cowboy sitting on the biggest oil reservoir in Wyoming, and Louis is the paralegal assigned to pressure him into selling his land.
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I hope May has been treating everyone well! Between work, life in general, and reading through the Hunger Games series with a friend, I haven't really had that much time or motivation to read fics this month. The ones I have read I've loved though! I hope you find something that looks interesting on this list. Happy reading!
❃ bright eyes, blue denim by @evilovesyou
Louis/Harry | 2.2k | G | Meet Cute, Shopping
Louis' favourite jeans have suddenly disappeared from where he always got them. Harry is a store manager with an affinity for customer care, particularly when the customer has bright blue eyes and happens to be very flirty.
Harry’s hand sprang out and took the arrow back in her grasp, Louis’ entire face having lit up when Harry spoke. “Thank you for returning this to me.”
“Well, it was my fault, right?” Louis gave her a big smile before glancing up at Harry’s ears and then over towards her target. “Fuck, are those all bullseyes?”
Harry shrugged. “I haven’t checked on them yet, but maybe.”
Louis’ eyebrows were raised. “I didn’t realize archery was such a big thing for deer hybrids.”
Pursing her lips, Harry tried to figure out how much to say. Why was Louis talking to her? Why had she called out in the first place? Was it because she thought Harry was a freak, like so many other humans?
“It isn’t for everyone,” Harry finally settled on.
Or the one where Harry is a deer hybrid trying to prove to her clan she's more than what's expected. When she meets Louis, a human, she thinks it's just a one time thing. It's not.
I wanted to read something sweet, and this one really delivered! I've never really thought of deer hybrids before, so it caught my interest right away.
❃ Till Death Do Us Part by @louloubabys1992
Louis/Harry | 4.8k | M | Werewolf Harry, Human Louis, War
Harry sometimes wonders at his purpose in life. To hold a torch to his family name is one noble goal. To fight against those who wish to exterminate his kind is even nobler. He just wishes he was comfortable enough in his own skin to be able to do all that.
It's not until Louis comes along that he realizes he doesn't have to do it all alone.
Oh this was intriguing! I love how Harry is the strong alpha to the world, but gets to be soft and vulnerable with Louis.
❃ You Put the Boom Boom Into My Heart by @kingsofeverything
Louis/Harry | 5.8k | T | Texas, Teenages, 1980s, 5+1 Times
Harry's been trying all summer to come up with a way to show Louis how much he means to him before he leaves for college.
Or five times Harry fails to win Wham! tickets and one time he succeeds.
Gaah, this was so fun! The pining, the scrambling for the phone every time, and the blow up of pent up anxiety. I'm so glad they managed to get the tickets, and that they made a date of it!
❃ Superstition by @freyaforestafay
Louis/Harry | 6k | E | Girl Direction, PWP, Witchcraft
Harry has a pretty simple life: school, work at the local flower boutique, and Sunday night dance parties with her two black cats, Matilda and Anna, to RAYE’s 21st Century Blues. Everything fits, slotted in with the fabric fibres of her life—organised chaos, as she likes to call it. That is, until the moving trucks pull up outside Harry's apartment complex, and someone starts moving into the previously empty flat next door.
I do love a good girl direction fic, and this was great! I love Harry's witchy vibes, Zayn getting fed up and coming in with the best advice.
❃ the perfect sky is torn by @disgruntledkittenface
Louis/Harry | 6k | NR | Exes to Lovers, Crack, Scientist Zayn
Louis and Harry both think it's a coincidence that strange things start to happen when they break up.
It's not.
This was just a fascinating concept, and such a fun read! They are inevitable, so the world falls apart with their relationship. Poor Zayn going full crazy scientist, making the connections only for them not to believe him!
Father Louis has spent his entire life devoted to God despite the sins he keeps hidden—until a stranger, Harry, with honeyed words and a sharp tongue enters his confessional. As his faith unravels with every interaction he has with Harry, Louis is forced to choose between the life he’s built and the sin he can no longer deny.
This was something alright. Holy hell. I love that Harry is pure temptation, but it's still Louis choice to give in and fall. He is the one who has to break, make all the moves. Harry is there offering himself up to him, but never touching first
❃ the thought of you is wrapped around my neck by @louieshalo
Louis/Harry | 15.4k | E | Famous/Non Famous, Friends to Lovers, Dom/Sub
Harry bites his lip, glancing over at him; his eyes are still on the horizon, so Harry lets his gaze linger for a moment. The chill has flushed the tip of his nose and apples of his cheeks pink, and he looks so painfully pretty that it makes Harry’s heart hurt; this close, he can see a few patches of close-shaven stubble Louis’ razor hadn’t quite cleared away, and belatedly it strikes him that Louis must have shaved specifically for this. He’d certainly had noticeable scruff when Harry had been shamelessly ogling at him through the huge festival screens lining the stage earlier in the day.
His teeth sink into his bottom lip to temper the satisfied little smile that blooms at the thought of Louis taking the time to neaten himself up for a night out with Harry, the idea sating the endless pit of need that Louis ignites in him just enough to quiet it for a short while.
or, where Harry is desperately, stupidly in love with his best friend.
This was great! I love how everyone else can see it, but them. The people around them commenting on their relationship, while they are both there pining for the other.
❃ Reduce Me To A Pleading Cry (Break The Skin and Tantalize) by taggiecb
Louis/Harry | 37.4 | Dom/Sub, CEO Harry, Younger Louis
As the CEO of Styles & Styles, Harry Styles cuts a brooding and handsome figure at the helm of a very successful business. His reputation for intensity is well known, but you would be intense, too, if you had to work numbers all day, give countless orders, and conduct endless meetings. When all you really want to do at night--ache to do--is give away the reins, let someone else make the decisions, be ordered around for once, just--let go. Harry has reached his breaking point when one touch from a man whose very stance commands attention leads him back to a place he thought he’d never return.
Or Harry is a broody submissive boss, Louis is a natural dom who works in the mail room at Styles & Styles, Niall is a matchmaking oracle, and a slender, dark haired man stands mute at the coffee stand encouraging others to spill their secrets.
This one is a lot of fun! I love Harry being a sub CEO, needing to release some tension, and with Louis growing into his role.
A fic rec of One Direction fics in which Louis has a girl child as requested in this ask. If you enjoy the fics, please leave kudos and comments for the writers! You can find my other recs here. Happy reading!
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🩷 Be There by @mission2feelike
(NR, 197k, exes) The one where their family has been torn apart and their hearts broken, but an accident, a snowstorm, cinnamon rolls, and the adorable Josie force Louis and Harry to finally face the truth, and each other.
🩷 Flour and Chocolate by teaandtumblr
(M, 145k, hipster Harry) Louis is a single dad and Harry works at the newly opened bakery down the street.
🩷 Linger by @yourpricelessadvice
(E, 136k, speed dating) Louis has a truckload of painful memories and a custody arrangement where a family could’ve been. The last thing he’s looking for is a new relationship.
🩷 Just Pretend by @kingsofeverything
(E, 90k, fake relationship) Louis Tomlinson is a divorced dad who doesn't date. What free time he has, he likes to spend with his teenage daughter, and if he wants to take someone home, he does it when she's spending the weekend with her mom.
🩷 Full of Terraced Dreams by @insightfulinsomniac
(E, 47k, neighbors) In the midst of parenting a teenager on the precipice of presenting as an alpha, the new neighbors moving in next door are the least of Louis' concerns. That is, until said neighbor turns out to be entirely too lovely and also a young single parent.
🩷 For You I Saved the Love (I Never Knew How to Give) by pinky_heaven19 / @pinky-heaven19
(NR, 42k, small town) the one where Louis moves to a small town with his young daughter and has a gorgeous neighbor. Harry loves children and Louis also likes him a little bit. Lots of fluff.
🩷 Oh, That's What I Want by @lululawrence
(NR, 38k, girl direction) Louis is 42 and newly divorced with her four daughters off to college when she realizes all the plans she used to have for her life no longer fit. Just as she's starting to figure things out, she meets Harry Styles who proves sometimes starting over turns out so much better than sticking with the original plan.
🩷 Heart Beat by @allwaswell16
(E, 35k, small town) When Harry returns to start a music academy in his hometown, he finds himself face to face with his high school crush—and his charming daughter who wants to learn to play the drums.
🩷 maybe this christmas by you_explode / @nobodymoves
(M, 34k, A Miracle on 34th Street AU) Harry lives next door to Louis and babysits his daughter. He might be hopelessly in love with Louis and desperate to be part of his little family, but he’s ignoring that in favour of trying to make Louis’s busy life as easy as possible.
🩷 we can get there (we can do it if we try) by @zouisclimax
(E, 28k, nanny Harry) the one where Louis's a dad in desperate need for a new nanny. Harry's perfect for the job
🩷 KIWI KIWI KIWI by Rearviewdreamer / @all-these-larrythings
(NR, 24k, famous/not famous) When Louis' daughter took up acting as a hobby two years ago he figured he'd be just like every other parent of a young aspiring star. But that was before she was cast in a music video for Harry Styles in a one to a million shot, and before Louis began falling for way more than just his music.
🩷 Took Me by Surprise by QuickedWeen / @becomeawendybird
(M, 20k, secret relationship) A decade later, he's the head anchor of the American version of Match of the Day and is raising the coolest nine-year-old on the planet, who happens to be obsessed with Harry Styles - popstar, musician, and all-around household name.
🩷 all i want for christmas is by pinkgelpen
(E, 17k, age difference) harry is louis' daughters' au pair. they spend christmas in austria
🩷 O' Christmas Tree by @justalittlelouislove
(M, 15k, Christmas) Louis has a busy schedule to keep and a daughter to raise. He definitely isn't looking for a relationship. Enter Harry Styles, a local Christmas tree farmer that seems just a little too good to be true.
🩷 reckless behaviour by @seekforwarmth
(E, 13k, famous/not famous) Harry is a retired football player looking for a new opportunity. Louis is the image consultant hired to help him find it.
🩷 A Long Way From the Playground by nightwideopen / @themarshalstale
(G, 10k, Dr. Harry) Louis is a single dad who is having a lonely life crisis and Harry is a doctor that carries around princess band-aids in his pocket.
🩷 1D Wordplay Series 2022 by @phdmama
(E, 8k, lawyer Louis) New town, new job, new school for his daughter. It's a chance to start again for Louis Tomlinson, a clean slate.
🩷 Elementary by iwillpaintasongforlou / @canonlarry
(T, 7k, teacher Harry) Harry is a kindergarten teacher who's been roped into coaching a youth footie league, despite the fact that he doesn't know the first thing about football. Louis is the father of one of the girls in Harry's class who thinks he could coach circles around Harry (he can).
- Rare Pairs -
🩷 happiness hits like a train on a track by @leighbot
(G, 9k, Louis/Nick Grimshaw) the one where single father Louis is set up on multiple dates and none of them seem to take.
I haven't been active in 1d fandom for YEARS, but I had to say something: "if this gets out," that book about the gay boybanders, is out now, and the authors are still pretending it has nothing to do with larry. they're full of shit. I know sophie personally and the very first time I met her she launched into a story about how her sister or someone worked at a tv station interviewing them in the early days and walked in on them making out in a broom closet. She will GLEEFULLY out them to anyone.
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First I want to say if you know anything more about this article, please share it!!
I went through countless blogs on here with timelines, huge masterposts, rare pics etc .. and couldn't find anything about it. So here is everything I was able dig up
QX is a gay magazine in Sweden
Translation x - link to the original post they translated for us
(Please look at the link though because I didn't show everything below)
There is so much to unpack here ...
but
As far as I know, they are the only page to have ever posted that article. It was published Nov 6 2011, this Tumblr post was posted Nov 24 2011. And everyone thought they were lying. No one could find the source, so he posted this x
Now here's some reactions he got because for some reason, he was the only one to talk about the article it seemed?
Now let's go back to Harry saying this
UM?? Hello? I feel like I'm losing my mind
and then it was never really talked about again!! none of these responses have any notes and then there was really nothing at all after this.
How I even came across all this is because I was going through all my archives on here and stumbled upon it
July 28 2014 this account posted that they found the article x
So it took 3.5 years for it to ever be found/mentioned/talked about again? This post only has 700 notes so it quickly died back down and then once again, was never talked about again
And here's some other pages from the magazine
Someone please talk with me about this because I feel like I'm going insane!!!
✩ moodboard/poster and story summary of my (own) prompt for @bottom-harry-ficfest <3 can't wait to share with you all my beloved chief!louis and civilian!harry novella in april 2025 <3
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