#myownsparknow

In honor of Fan Fic Writer Appreciation Day 2019, here are the first lines of fics written by just some of my favorite Larry fic writers! I have so many more favorites that it hurts me to stop here, but I have to stop somewhere. You can find part 1 to this from last year here. You can find my other recs here. Enjoy!

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📖 Louis lets the heat of the small mug of coffee in his hands warm him for a moment before he takes a sip and stares out the glass pane of his kitchen door.

📖 Today’s Chatham Chatter! A little bird told us that the pranksters who outfitted our beloved founder’s statue with a bikini and grass skirt last week is not the fraternity you’d suspect … it was, in fact, a certain mild mannered sorority! 

📖 Louis Tomlinson can't cook.

📖 Liam yawns behind his hand as he stretches in his desk chair.  

📖 Louis checks his rearview mirror as he backs out of his driveway. People rarely come down the dirt road in front of the Farmhouse, but when they do, they’re usually driving really fucking fast.

📖 From the beginning of time there were soulmates.

📖 A prickle of fear runs through Harry’s body. 

📖 Louis stretches his arms overhead and yawns, squats down to wrench open the garage door, then jumps up and pushes it to make sure it catches and doesn’t roll back down. 

📖 There were cattle in the road.

📖 The thing about inheriting a giant, ancient country house from a mysterious great aunt along with a mysterious condition that said you have to live alone in the house for at least six months before the ownership would be fully turned over was that you had to actually, fucking, do that.

📖 For all of his life, Harry had had small expectations for his future.

📖 Harry steps out onto the tarmac at Logan, the humidity of the late August afternoon immediately wilting his curls and drawing the sweat from his skin after the cool of the airplane.

📖 Harry’s falling.

📖 There’s a knock on the door. 

📖 Harry smiled when the Chicago skyline came into view, its imposing cloud-scraping towers nestled into the edge of lake Michigan. 

📖 “This is it, then?”

📖 Charlotte meets her soulmate two weeks into her first season. 

📖 The thing about sleeping with a member of a famous indie band is that the inevitability of having a song written about you is most likely a hundred percent.

📖 Dark clouds roll across the deep green English countryside. 

📖 There’s a light gleaming in the distance.

📖  Louis sat back from his laptop screen and then leaned from side to side to get a better perspective.

📖 Multiple layers of rhythmic sounds created a cacophony in the air.

📖 “Will he feel it?” It’s the same question he’s been wondering all day but hasn’t exactly had the courage to ask.

📖 Louis is not a morning person.

📖 Harry closes his eyes and takes in the applause, savors it. 

📖 It's 3.17 am when he gets the call. 

Happy Fan Fic Writer Appreciation Day to all these amazing writers and the many more who write for our fandom! I have truly loved reading your fics and appreciate all the time and effort that went into creating them! Thank you!  (Writers of the above fics are listed below the cut.)

DIY Playlist Submission #15 by @myownsparknow

- Miss You // Louis Tomlinson

- Want You Back // 5 Seconds of Summer

- Listen (feat John Legend) // David Guetta, John Legend

- Everybody Knows // Sigrid

- I Believe // Tears for Fears

- Just Like You // Louis Tomlinson

- Don’t Worry, We’ll Be Watching You // Gotye

- Until We Go Down // LISTENBEE, Ruelle

- The Places We’ll Go // Farewell Flight

- We’ll be OK // DJ Shog, Chris Gold

- I Will Follow // U2 

- Back to You // Louis Tomlinson, Bebe Rexha

- Just Hold On // Louis Tomlinson, Steve Aoki

- Freedom! ‘90 (Remastered) // George Michael

You can also listen to this playlist ‘Listen Up For Louis’ here.

Thank you for participating, and well done on including all of Louis’ solo songs in the list. 

Don’t forget to reblog this playlist if you agree with the list. 

Ira Glass

I’ve found this to be so very true. I love my betas with my whole heart. I have such respect and trust in them and I know when I hand by babies over to them they’ll be thoughtful and they only have the story’s best interest at heart. 

“Of course.”

“Mm hmm.”

This was the absolute hardest thing ever! aaaah! I was tagged by @polkadotsvstripes who clearly hates me and made me think about this for far too long when I should have been writing.

Just Tell me the Song and I’ll Sing It by @myownsparknow - I can barely do justice as to what this fic means to me. It is my soulmate. When I read this for the first time it was anonymous, and it was the middle of the night and I just felt like I needed to run laps around my house and knock on my neighbor’s doors and spread the good news about this fic. I left so many texts to my beta, but she was asleep. I left incoherent comments on ao3, but none of this seemed like enough to me. So I copy and pasted them on tumblr just screaming into the void. But my screaming was answered and eventually I found out it was Cynthia who wrote it and I became her fan club president and friend. This fic is magical. On the surface it’s a fic about baseball and boyband songs. But oh, it’s so much more.

I Had Rather (series) by @magicalrocketships This is the fic I have read the most times. If you’ve read this classic Tomlinshaw fic, you know it’s angsty, BUT this is the fic I reread when I need comfort. I’m not sure what that says about me. bahaha. Actually, I DO know why. It’s because it’s so immersive. You’re drawn into the world so completely that there’s no room to worry about what’s going on outside this fic. So when I need to forget for a little while, this is what I turn to.

Unbelievers by @isthatyoularry Enemies to lovers is probably the trope I love best, and for me, this is the classic enemies to lovers Larry fic. When you read that first line, you gasp. When Louis creates that birthday surprise, I squirmed with embarrassment and literally read it through my fingers as though it was a scary movie. The tension! The angst! The classic Nouis friendship!

Love Is A Rebellious Bird by @100percentsassy & @gloriaandrews Hmmm. There’s a lot of enemies to lovers on this list, isn’t there? Well, I’m not that surprised really. Here’s another classic enemies to lovers au that holds a special place in my heart. It was one of the first au fics I ever read, and it was such a game changer for me. Like a huge lightbulb going off that there was a whole world of possibilities for reading and writing Larry. Probably the fic that most inspired me to try to write something myself. I remember just being shocked that a fic could make me cry. (This was early on in my fic reading journey, okay?? lol) I remember when I wrote my first fic (also enemies to lovers, ha), I reread this fic for inspiration for the tension I wanted to build between my characters. Oh, how I loved the tension in this one.

An Infinity of Cliches and Me and You by justoneshoe. Pour one out for this fic that has been deleted off ao3. Utterly delightful and also one of the few fics I continuously reread. “Louis is not in love with Harry, but the universe (and Niall) seems to think he is.” Louis finds himself in multiple alternate universes (HIgh School Musical, superheroes, medieval times, etc.) and falls in love with Harry in every universe until he makes his way back to reality. I have this downloaded and have no idea how to share it, but if you want to message me about it, I can try and figure it out.

 ~*~My Favorite Fics by MyOwnSpark~*~

Just Tell Me the Song and I’ll Sing It, ~40k

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.

{Okay, this fic is my soulmate fic. Yes, on the surface it is about baseball and boyband karaoke, which that’s like it’s just speaking to me directly. BUT this fic is so much more than that. This is the fic that made me fall in love with Cynthia’s writing. The story itself is lovely and clever, but my god, the emotion that she can convey with her words is so compelling and unique. I would recognize her writing anywhere.}

Long Road to Love Leads Back to You, 9k

“Missed you,” Louis murmured.

Harry smiled against his mouth. “It’s only been a few minutes, babe.”

“No, I meant …” Louis sighed with relief and didn’t finish, chose to keep kissing instead. He’d been afraid it would be one of those distant, frosty kind of nights where they would bicker and pick and brush past each other, Harry mad at Louis for some reason Louis couldn’t name. Those were nights where Louis could see that edge of disappointment in Harry’s eyes, nights where it seemed their love got lost somewhere between the kitchen and the bedroom, among the dirty dishes and lost toys and their two very young kids. But it felt like they might be righted now, back on track because of their funny conversation in the bathroom, and if Harry wanted Louis to be naked on his lap, then that’s what Louis would to do.

Harry is feeling cranky and lonely after a long week. Louis' offhand comment about a co-worker's maternity leave starts a conversation that gets Harry out of his head and into his heart.

{I remember Cynthia first telling me she was writing this and being nervous about the topic, and I just remember saying that I knew that whatever she wrote would be amazing. And then when I read it, it just blew me away. This is so beautiful and again so much more than what it seems on the surface. It’s one that stays with you, and how with the right person you can be truly vulnerable.This whole thing will just knock the wind right out of you.  I have to stop now before I start crying. IM FINE.)

Can’t Keep This Beating Heart at Bay, 9k

Louis thought that he kinda liked her, but there was something missing; he saw it in Harry's eyes. Basically "Home" in a fanfic, with an epilogue thrown in for good measure.

{Okay, so first of all, I don’t read canon fics just in general, but I’m so glad I gave this one a chance. You can just feel the panic right alongside Louis as he frantically tries to fix what went wrong. And then the epilogue...damn you, Cynthia. I dare you not to shed a tear at that one.)

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