love wins

These are husbands your honor.

Louis noticing a fan with a weed rainbow flag | Boston, MA.

the flag:

🏫 Zero He Flies Under Green Trees orphan_account (2k) | Not Rated

Unversity AU in which Louis and Harry prove you can never be too young to act like an old married couple, and their friends kind of have to deal with their overly unromantic romantics.

🏫 Give Me Truths by @iwillpaintasongforlou (110k) | Explicit

‘Just like a little cat,’ Louis thought later, as he drifted off to sleep. ‘A little kitten with his claws sunk right into me.’ It isn’t that terrible of a thought, after all. …………. Louis is a psychology student with a tattoo count as high as his genius IQ. Harry is in a (sort-of) relationship with a homophobic man and hates himself a little more every day. Things fall apart and Louis puts him back together.

Or, the one in which Louis falls in love with a fragile boy and tells him every beautiful truth in the world, as long as it makes him happy.

🏫 can’t believe i made it (i made it that’s for sure) by @ouijadazed​ (10k) | Explicit

Louis is in love with his teacher, Mr. Styles, who is engaged. That doesn’t mean Louis can’t try to be with him.

🏫you are in love by @wildestdreams (270k) | Explicit

The one where there’s late night coffee runs with deep conversations, lots of frat parties with cute frat boys, TV show references, numerous social network interactions, first kisses in the rain and a slow burn love story between two unlikely people.

🏫Touch by @kotabear24 (228k) | Explicit

Harry’s shy and virginal with a past, new on the football team; Louis’ the (experienced) popular star of the team and Harry’s new mentor.

🏫Taste. by @kotabear24 (33k) | Explicit

Harry and Louis’ relationship has really changed a lot.

🏫Sound. by @kotabear24 (54k) | Explicit

After two months of being apart, Louis returns home to Harry over Christmas break. Featuring copious amounts of personal growth, love, sexy times, and - of course - communication.

🏫Wednesday Edits by @kikikryslee (166k) | Mature

“South Jersey Daily; Louis Tomlinson speaking.” “I love you so much,” Harry gushed into the phone. “So you got the flowers, then?” “I did. And they’re beautiful. And I’m hanging up your card on my wall, right next to the message you wrote after graduation.” “I’m glad you liked them. I don’t want you to forget about me now that I’m not there anymore.” “I could never forget about you,” Harry assured. — Last year was the Year of Office Romances. But now that the seniors have graduated, the new staff of The Taylor Times will have to deal with a new school year, appropriately titled, the Year of Long-Distance Relationships. Let the drama and frustrations begin. FYI, This is the sequel to Monday Meetings!

🏫Just A Feeling by @whoknows (43k) | Explicit

The first time that Harry thinks about marriage in relation to Louis, he’s eighteen years old, standing in the middle of a crowded frat house, six drinks down and another in his hand.

It’s not the first time that he’s laid eyes on Louis. It’s not even the second time, or the third time, but Harry doesn’t believe in denying what his brain is trying to tell him, and his brain has been telling him that Louis might be the prettiest person in the world ever since that first fateful meeting, when Harry hadn’t been able to stop looking and Louis had ‘accidentally’ spilled his tea all over Harry’s lap in retaliation.

🏫A Million One, A Million Two (a Hundred More Will Never Do) by @LittleLostPieces (42k) | Explicit

While Harry doesn’t want to spend his final year at Wilshire Academy sharing his space with yet another idiot roommate, he figures he could have ended up with a lot worse than Niall. As the school’s newest scholarship student, Niall provides a fresh perspective on Harry’s privileged life, as well as a grounding presence when Harry’s other friends, Liam and Zayn, are acting like lunatics. Most importantly, though, Niall introduces him to Louis, a cynical townie with zero interest in spending his time around entitled boarding school kids. Convincing Louis that he’s more than a trust fund and a charming smile won’t be easy, but Harry’s never been one to back down from a challenge.

An AU loosely inspired by the short-lived WB drama, Young Americans, and the Gotta Be You music video.

🏫The Violet Hour by @littleramblings (40k) | Explicit

At the age of twenty, Louis has shackles on his wrists and speaks to his boyfriend from across a table, wearing sweats and an orange prison shirt. At the age of fourteen, Harry can do nothing but hold his hand and wish they were never caught.

Or; that underage fic where they actually do get caught. Louis gets sent to prison and Harry visits as often as he can because the only crime they committed was falling in love.

🏫Golden Like Sands of Time by @afirethatcannotdie (51k) | Explicit

“You need to change this one,” Zayn says, pointing to number six. “It’s unrealistic. It needs to be something you can actually achieve.” “What’s unachievable about a summer romance?” Harry asks, offended. “Nothing, it’s just… what if it doesn’t happen?” Harry pouts. He can totally have a summer romance. It’s just about finding the right person. “What about… kiss a stranger?” “Perfect.”

HARRY + ZAYN’S KICKASS SUMMER 1. Use our fake IDs 2. Go to the beach every day 3. Crash a wedding 4. Learn guitar 5. Throw a house party 6. Kiss a stranger 7. Read 10 books 8. Kiss in the rain 9. Spend a night under the stars 10. Skinny dip in the ocean

AU. Harry and Zayn are spending the summer on an island, and there’s a plethora of booze and bonfires and boys. Or in Harry’s case, just one boy.

🏫 college au by @kikikryslee (75k) | Mature

🏫And I’ll judge the cover by the book by @harrystylesandstuff (73k) | Mature

At twenty years old Harry has his life figured out. He’ll graduate from the private University of Buckingham and move to Oxford to study journalism. He’ll meet someone who shares his values and accepts who he is, and apply everything his successful parents have taught him.

At twenty-two years old Louis has no clue what he wants in life. He’s not sure he’ll pass the year and doesn’t know where he’ll go after that. He spends his time smoking away his doubts about himself with his friends and all he cares about is making sure his family doesn’t fall apart.

They don’t belong together.

Or a Private University AU where Harry is a queer posh prince, Louis is a closeted troublemaker, and neither expect to understand each other the way they will.

🏫Baby Heaven’s in your Eyes by @theboyfriendstagram (120k) | Explicit

They couldn’t be more different if they tried. Louis Tomlinson is 17 years old and in his last year of the most prestigious private school in Doncaster. If there’s one thing that completely annoys him, it’s that there is a poor community college right across the street.

Harry Styles is 19 years old, and (once again) in his last year of college. He goes to community college in Doncaster. He never shows up to classes and if he actually bothers to, he’s either high or drunk; sometimes both. His skin is littered with tattoos and if there’s one thing he absolutely hates, it’s the snobby students attending the private school right across from his.

Or a sixth form!AU where Harry is the fucked up bad boy with too many problems, Louis is the perfect rich boy with too much money and their schools are right across from each other. They meet at a party and that’s the last (and maybe the only) thing they need.

🏫blue lips, blue veins by @fresharold (173k) | Explicit

“Want some advices?” “No thank you.” Harry answers, trying to brush off Niall’s hand from his shoulder, with no success. “I’m going to give them anyway.” Niall continues casually. “Just do like, baby steps. Day one say hi and smile. Day two suck his dick.”

au where Harry takes art classes on Fridays before going to work and Louis is the French nude model who drops the robe and doesn’t let him focus. There are plenty of text messages, a mess of emotions and a lot of time spent in bed.

🏫Both Showing Hearts by @kiwikero (113k) | Explicit

Louis Tomlinson is, in fact, not straight.

Harry Styles isn’t sure what he is.

Together, they figure it out, and maybe fall in love along the way.

Or, the Uni AU where Louis helps Harry figure out his sexuality, Niall crashes a bachelorette party, Liam works in a printing centre, and Zayn happens to need lots of printing done.

🏫Coeur d'Enfants by @lavenderforluck (126k) | Explicit

As Marx said of the bourgeois class: all that is solid melts into air. St. Peter’s verse.

🏫Cold by @RealName (87k) | Mature

Harry Styles hated the minister’s son.

Louis Tomlinson was brash, obnoxious and possessed all the attributes that Harry deemed unlikable in another person. Unfortunately, they attended the same Bible studies class at church and their mothers were best friends, so avoiding the other boy was impossible.

🏫Fading by @tothemoonmydear (202k) | Mature

Louis knows about beauty; the combination of qualities that pleases the aesthetic senses. He creates that combination every day in the garments he designs while studying fashion at uni. The cut of the design, the color of the fabric, the intricacy of the stitching; it all comes together to create something beautiful. When the science student with the long legs and dimpled smile agrees to model for him, Louis decides he’s found beauty personified. Harry just thinks Louis needs someone to show him how beautiful he is.

🏫Faking It by @TheCellarDoor (46k) | Mature

A uni AU in which Louis has been Harry’s best friend since he offered him cubed fruit on the playground, and they spend more time cuddling in their dorm beds than they do apart, but it’s not like that. Or is it?

Aka Harry pretends to date his best friend to escape unwanted attention from a too insistent classmate and hopes it won’t blow up in his face. Featuring embarrassing dildo accidents, awkward boners, longing, first times, late night conversations, emotional discoveries and Niall as the exasperated friend with bad advice.

🏫i got my eyes on you (you’re everything that i see) by @balanceds (11k) | Mature

“It’s not a secret, right, Harry? All of his friends seem to know–”

Harry slumps down and starts methodically banging his head against his newsroom desk. “Niall, it is a secret from him because I have spoken a total of ten fucking words to Louis Tomlinson and also he is incredibly out of my league and probably fucking straight as well!”

Or: Harry’s a first-year on the school newspaper, assigned to cover the terrible men’s first football team. Louis Tomlinson is the team’s star defender. Harry pays significantly more attention to Louis’s arse than to writing real columns. Pretty soon, everyone notices. It takes Louis the longest.

🏫Just Tell Me the Song and I’ll Sing It by @myownspark (39k) | Not Rated

Louis is an architecture student who can only think about the future. Harry is a baseball player who can only think about right now. Both are lonely for different reasons. Boybands bring them together.

Or, this may just be a long love letter to Louis’ voice, I’m not sure.

Based on the following prompt: Harry and Louis are university students who go to the same bar on the weekends. The bar has karaoke and Louis likes to sing Disney/Musical/Boyband songs sometimes. Harry thinks he’s cute so he starts singing Disney/Musical/Boyband songs and flirting with him while he’s on stage.

🏫keep them in your mason jars (i’ve come home) by @sincehewaseighteen (84k) | Explicit

“I saw them there and I wanted to know what they were. I thought they were maybe tea lights or something but there’s things written on them. Like middle school and other happy things. Do you collect things?”

“Memories,” Louis blurts out, hand so tight on Harry’s shoulder his fingers could bruise into him. But he needs something to hold onto in fear he may fall over and pass out if he doesn’t. “I collect memories.”

But the silence between them is unsettling. As each cold second passes, the thought of Harry shouting out loud that he’s a freak is doubling. The thought of Harry running away and never coming back to him again is tripling.

Until Harry speaks. “You have fifty mason jars sitting outside with memories inside them?”

or the high school au where louis believes he can hold memories inside mason jars to last a lifetime, and harry holds both louis and his unique tradition deep in his heart. otherwise known as the mason jar fic.

🏫Learning to Breathe by @youcomecrash (110k) | Explicit

He’s playing football at one of the top universities in England and he should love everything about his life right now, but instead he’s moving backwards. How does your past fit into your present? Louis is still figuring it out.

🏫Lights Will Guide You Home orphan_account (137k) | Mature

Louis Tomlinson is his school’s resident bad boy and easily the most liked person there. He’s loud and confident and popular. He spends most of his time abusing his parent’s money or partying or playing football. He also spends a good deal of it obsessing over the quiet curly boy in his English class, but no one really needs to know that.

Harry Styles is more or less invisible at the same school (unless he’s being harassed). He’s shy and painfully insecure and quiet. He spends most of his time crying on his bedroom floor with a razor pressed against his skin or trying (and failing) to think of reasons to stay alive.

So, of course, it’s inevitable that they fall for each other.

🏫like fires in the night by @capriciouslouis (138k) | Mature

Louis comes to university looking for a drama degree and a purpose in life. He gets significantly more than he bargained for.

He’s got a secret stash of weed under the floorboards, his grades are going to shit and his mates keep getting pissed. There are secret passageways in the wardrobes and he really needs to get Niall a girlfriend. And most importantly, he can’t take his mind off the mysterious law student down the hall…

🏫Love’s On The Line, Is That Your Final Answer? by @PearlyDewdrops (53k) | Explicit

Harry can’t believe it when Louis, the boy he’s always had a tempestuous rivalry with, asks him to be his boyfriend. Well, pose as his boyfriend, that is—for a new television game show in which young couples are quizzed on how well they know each other for a jackpot of thirty grand.

Reluctantly, Harry agrees—because he’s got student loans to pay off, hasn’t he? What’s the harm? And he can totally deal with keeping his secret thing for Louis under wraps too. This is all just to win some money. It’s fine. No big deal. What could possibly go wrong?

Well, everything. Obviously.

🏫NSFW by @Rearviewdreamer (31k) | Mature

Harry thinks that his day couldn’t possibly get any worse when he leaves the advising office and is forced to take a boring art lecture of all things, but he soon finds out that his entire schedule being dropped and pretty much ruined for the semester might have been the best fuck up that life has ever handed him.

🏫Red Brick Heart by @hazmesentir (98k) | Explicit

Harry has only had his room for thirty-two minutes when it stops being his.

Uni AU. Harry had turned up at the halls of residence expecting fun, new friends, and maybe a life experience or two. What he doesn’t expect is a surprise roommate who’s loud and dramatic and obsessed with tea and is maybe, actually, all he’s ever wanted.

🏫restless (kiss me you fool) by @gglow (14k) | Explicit

AU. It was safe to say that Louis was terrified. He didn’t know what to do or how to be with Harry. He was so… scary. Like he’d just stare straight into Louis’ eyes for no reason, and read his mind. It was like he knew what Louis was thinking about and that made Louis feel very uncomfortable.

OR Where Louis is the new student in college and Harry is the tall dark senior everyone looks up to. And Louis wants Harry to ruin him, he’s wanted that since the first time he saw him.

🏫Say You’ll Remember by @whisperdlullaby (93k) | Explicit

au. louis and harry are best mates that are only half aware that they’re also soulmates. alternatively, louis goes to university and harry travels the world, and they always manage to find their way back to each other.

takes place over nine years, in which they love and hurt, make mistakes and learn, and above all, grow.

🏫Soft Hands, Fast Feet, Can’t Lose by @dolce_piccante (112k) | Mature

American Uni AU. Harry Styles is a frat boy football star from the wealthy Styles Family athletic dynasty. A celebrity among football fans, he knows how to play, he knows how to party, and he knows how to fuck (all of which is well known among his legion of admirers).

Louis Tomlinson is a student and an athlete, but his similarities to Harry end there. Intelligent, focused, independent, and completely uninterested in Harry’s charms, Louis is an anomaly in a world ruled by football.

A bet about the pair, who might be more similar than they originally thought, brings them together. Shakespeare, ballet, Disney, football, library chats, running, accidental spooning, Daredevil and Domino’s Pizza all blend into one big friendship Frappucino, but who will win in the end?

🏫Tale Old As Time by @BrightGoldenStar (21k) | Mature

Louis Tomlinson is the most popular boy in school and he knows it. He’s incredibly conceited and self-centered. A witch named Eleanor comes to Louis’ school, she transforms him into a beast and tells him he has a month to find someone who can love him for whats on the inside. Who could ever learn to love a beast? (Larry Stylinson)

🏫 This Ain’t Just a Thing That You Give Up by @lululawrence​ (34k) | Mature

Harry turned to Liam to whisper something about not being in Kansas anymore but his best friend was frozen to his spot with a look of complete disbelief on his face. Harry looked to his right, the direction Liam seemed to be focused on, and saw a small group of people who had paused their discussion to look towards him in confusion.

A small group including Zayn Malik and Louis Tomlinson.

Harry is fairly sure his jaw actually dropped.

“Li, is that…?”

Liam nods his head emphatically. “I’m about 110% sure that yes. It is.”

or…

The one where Harry is a baker in addition to being a college student who just happens to meet the crazy famous Louis Tomlinson while on spring break. Featuring personal assistant!niall, roommate and best friend!liam, and costar/model!zayn.

🏫This Road Has Been Putting Miles On My Heart by @rosemeetsdagger (59k) | Explicit

Louis held him in a bone-crushing hug. He held on to him as if he was going to lose him forever and time was running away. He supposed it was true.

[Harry leaves to university two hours away. Louis stays and continues teaching.]

🏫 This Shifting Ground by @zarah5 (28k) | Mature

University AU. In which Louis, law student, is the cheeky waiter to Harry’s dates. This is how it starts.

🏫You’ll Be My American Boy by @headscarvesandtattoos (44k) | Mature

“Actually, Louis, can you take Harry to Westminster tomorrow? I have to work all day. Sorry, Harry. I tried to take off but I couldn’t,” Niall apologizes.

Louis isn’t exactly the person Harry wants to spend his first real day in London with, but there’s no way he’s going to find his way around on his own already.

Niall and Harry both turn to Louis expectantly.

“Yeah and after that we can stop at Starbucks to get your non-fat, shit latte, and maybe if I’m feeling super generous I’ll even take a picture of you posing like you’re holding Big Ben in your hand!”

or the one where Harry’s an American studying abroad in London and Louis ends up showing Harry more than just London

🏫Young & Beautiful by @Velvetoscar (227k) | Mature

Louis, to his horror, attends an elitist university in which the name Zayn Malik means something, Niall Horan doesn’t stop talking, there are pianos everywhere, and Harry Styles, only son of a drug-addled, clinically insane ex-rocker, has a perfect smile and empty eyes.

🏫Your Name Is Tattooed On My Heart by @mcpofife (86k) | Explicit

Louis is ready to find the love of his life, but first he has to stop falling for the punk rocker next door.

I mean for starters let’s take a look at them performing at the Dr. Pepper Ballpark

Like just look at them…

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This is just a very convenient camera angle but it’s important nonetheless…

They are literally all over each other for the entire time they are at the stadium…

God knows these two love a good sensual whisper…

Oh would you look at that Louis giving the secret signal to his platonic bro pal Harry…

Let’s not forget the fun that took place in the privacy of the baseball clubhouse

Getting a little jealous over there Louis?

Woah there Louis you look a bit *ahem* excited about seeing young Harold in all of his shirtless glory…

totally platonic to get a boner because of your best friend right?

Like I can’t even with these two…

Oh and who could even begin to forget this gem of an interview?

Yeah Louis some people genuinely do think you and Harry are in a relationship. Maybe it’s because every time you are asked about it you never actually deny it…

Or maybe it’s because of the fact that you then proceeded to seductively bite your bestie’s back for no reason at all…

I mean I don’t know about you but I don’t think dude pals usually put their hands on another dude pal’s inner thigh…

Or look at their dude pal like they are the reason for their entire existence…

But hey if you really want to see something spectacular let’s move on to my favorite part of the day…

Ah yes the signing…

Harry looking as if he had just been thoroughly fucked only moments prior to the signing. I mean just look at his tousled sex hair and swollen bubblegum pink lips. Not to mention his flushed and sweaty appearance…

Someone *cough cough* Louis *cough cough* really did a number on him…