#suspendrs

walls by suspendrs (20k)

The thing about having been on the move so much for the past five years is that now, once they’re finally able to sit down and rest for a bit, they don’t really know what to do with themselves. Louis loved the pace of the band, for all he and the others complained about it; he isn’t very fond of sitting still, and he absolutely loathes boredom, and there was very little space in their lives for either of those things while they were so busy putting out an album every year and touring more often than not. Being in the same room as Harry while neither of them are under the pressure of keeping up appearances feels like being in a room with a total stranger, and the amount of trouble they’re having trying to get to know each other again is really rather alarming.

Re-Reads:

1. California Sold (isthatyoularry) - A fake-relationship AU between to lifelong best friends.

2. Whirlwind (dolce_piccante) - Acclaimed actor, Hollywood heartthrob, and Oscar nominee Harry Styles seems to have the world at his feet, but seeks out an old friend when he needs a date for his big night.

3. Wrapped in Light, in Life, in Love (orphan_account) - Of all the things to happen while taking care of his niece for a month, falling in love with his boyhood crush all over again is probably the highlight of Harry’s autumn.

New Reads:

1. Overwhelming (krisstylinson) - Louis is an omega attending university to get his degree and most definitely not waste his time with unimportant things such as finding a mate. Harry is the alpha who manages to unwittingly mess up that plan.

2. Like Gold (ishiplouis) - Royal AU where Harry is Prince Louis’ adviser, and Louis is anything but helpful.

3. Thrills Don’t Come for Free (suspendrs) - Louis has too much to drink and falls asleep in the backseat of Harry’s car.

4. Crash Landing (kingsofeverything (fullonlarrie)) - Louis crashes weddings for the thrill of it. He gets dressed up, uses fake names, and makes up stories to go along with each new persona. Sometimes he’ll find someone on the guest list to spend the evening drinking and dancing with (among other things). No strings attached and he never sees them again. That is, until he meets a fellow wedding crasher.

5. The Edge of the Stars (casuallyhl) - A Meet the Parents AU where Harry is the man of Louis’ dreams, and it’s up to Jay to convince him to date her son.

6. Here’s to Many More (ladylondonderry) - Harry grew up in the foster system and now, at eighteen, he’s out on his own. One day, it’s cold and raining and he takes a chance on a coffee shop instead of a forty minute bus ride during rush hour. There, he meets a boy who talks too much and draws friends to him like a magnet.

7. Truth in Your Eyes (summerwine) - Louis twisted the bottle in his hand, revealing the label written in gold, and only now visible to Harry’s sober eyes. Truth Serum.

8. I Found a Love (lululawrence) - Louis is a nerdy English major who may just run into his happily ever after while working his shift at the local library.

9. We’re Swimming with the Sharks until We Drown (velvetnoodle (goldfishsunglasses)) - [Harry works at a casino] + [Louis is robbing the casino]

10. Black and Blue (alison) - Louis is a barista who is a bit damaged from a previous relationship. Harry is a musician who is all warmth and light. Rebuilding a life takes time.

11. Give Me One Excuse (green_feelings) - Louis gets dumped by his fiance and Harry is his replacement. It’s not their decision to get engaged, but it’s their decision to get married.

12. Not the Desperate Type (lululawrence) - Louis’ neighbor has a series of unfortunately short sexual experiences and Louis can hear every. Single. One.

13. For You, I Will (I Don’t Believe in Magic, but) (theweightofmywords) - Louis leads two lives, when all he wants is a simple one with Harry.

14. The Second Hand Unwinds (kingsofeverything (fullonlarrie)) - Louis Tomlinson is one of the first members of NASA’s top secret Chrono Exploration Program. When things go wrong and he’s sent further back in time than planned, he has no other option than to show up on his ex-boyfriend’s doorstep.

15. We Gotta Get Away from Here (afangirlfantasy) - Prince Harold needs saving and Louis is his Knight in shining armor... sort of.

16. Was it All a Fake? (jaerie) - Louis’ luck turns around when he meets Harry, the rich heir to a fortune. After their bonding ceremony, things aren’t exactly what Louis expected.

17. A Love Reaction (tilthesundies) - It’s never been a thing. Not until now.

18. These Hearts They Race (larrymylove) - After over two decades on the force, and twenty years as Harry’s partner, Louis is retiring.

19. Your Silhouette over Me (orphan_account) - Louis went out one night after work, wanting to get laid, and then ended up meeting a bartender named Harry Styles.

a few of my favorite @suspendrs (suspendrs) fics:

ferricadooza! (65k) // Or, the year is 1963, homosexuality is illegal in the UK, Louis owns a gay bar, and Harry’s an underground boxing champion with an unfortunate enemy.

the act of making noise (32k) // Or, Louis's famous, Harry has no idea who he is, and they get snowed in together at a ski lodge in Vermont.

satellite (100k) // Or, Harry finds out that someone's been living in his house without him knowing, but instead of kicking him out, he falls in love with him.

the pink album (31k) // Or, a love seven years in the making, inspired by Harry's debut album.

we’ve got to get away from here (23k) // Or, Louis is an FBI agent who likes to think himself a paranormal expert, and Harry is the alien that somehow ended up in his office.

a few of my favorite @thehltour (softhar) fics:

paris holds the key to your heart (38k) // it’s 1925. st. petersburg is now called leningrad and harry doesn’t remember who he is.

time’s never been on our side (31k) // or it’s 1974 and louis falls in love with harry’s photograph.

and it’s called black magic (6k) // or, the witch fic inspired by stevie and harry at the rock & roll hall of fame that nobody asked for

a few of my favorite @sawayakakuns (wreckingtomlinson) fics:

half remembered, halfway across the world (50k) // or, the Breath of the Wild AU where Louis has been asleep for 100 years and wakes up just in time to save the world, Liam is an honest Rito warrior, Zora prince Harry may or may not be in love with the Hylian hero, Zayn is the one person Louis can't quite figure out, and Niall eats rocks.

the disaster harry series which also includes some fun collabs // a series of unconnected stories in which harry styles is a disaster gay. also he finds louis in each universe, but that’s secondary

melodies and memories (19k) // Or, Zayn is the greatest warrior of his kind, Louis won’t shut up, and wartime is never a good time to fall in love.

a fic by @lesbiankeysmash (keysmashlesbian) that i would die for (emma writes outside of the fandom but we still love and support her):

so don’t explain, kiss me (2k) // In which Harry and Louis are roommates, and it takes three seconds for Harry to make a terrible first impression.

and of course, the iconic:

ain’t that a kick in the head! (22k) // In which Harry’s a disaster gay who doesn’t know shit about soccer, Liam drinks too many blue raspberry Coolattas, Niall knows everyone, Zayn looks dead, and Louis is Not Happy about sharing his breakout moment with “Drunk Hawaiian Guy.”

also here are a couple of my own fics:

adrenaline (38k) // louis tomlinson, college dropout, up and coming dj, and gay activist, is the notorious owner of exclusive underground gay club, adrenaline. harry styles, med student by day, partier by night, child prodigy and seemingly heterosexual son of harvard professors, is the youngest and arguably the smartest student at harvard medical school. or: a one night stand wasn't supposed to become the greatest love story of the 21st century.

red hands (132k) // a dystopian au in which harry, an ex-soldier who’s escaped from his government run camp, accidentally stumbles across the biggest rebel movement in the country, and louis, one of the rebellion’s mysterious leaders who appears to hate him, seems to simultaneously have an obsession with keeping him alive. or: harry is wanted for treason, niall hasn’t changed in four years, liam is always smiling, and louis is angry. like, really angry.

round 1 of the first h+l dystopian fic fest was, needless to say, a success!! we had to overcome many issues as majority of our authors unfortunately had to drop out, but we are incredibly lucky to have had these four talented writers on board.

thank you to these incredible authors and to everyone who supported this fest! we hope to expand to even more amazing authors in the future and keep celebrating dystopian fics for years to come.

at last, at last by @suspendrs (41k)

“Come with us,” Tommo says, stopping at the other end of the gymnasium, near the doors. “Don’t let them make you suffer any longer. Come with us, and be human.”

Before Harry has even finished thinking it through, he’s on his feet, gaining the attention of every single person in the gymnasium. What has he got to lose, anyway?

Or, Harry is born into a cult in a post-apocalyptic world, and Louis is the leader of the rebel group tasked with the mission of shutting them down. Together, they make a rather effective team.

His and Mine by @kissyboystyles (66k)

Harry is adopted by a wealthy family, soon to be cleared of his connection to his soulmate without discussion on his twentieth birthday-- a gruesome rite of passage. For the past eight years, Harry has been staring at one name: Louis. But what happens now that his heart starts fluttering for a stranger, helping him remain strong at his weakest points? Harry feels he should be cautious; what kind of person goes by the name Tomlinson anyway…

OR Harry legally isn't supposed to meet his soulmate-- he's rendered physically unable to recognize him even if he did-- but yet, of course, he does.

Nobody Marks You by @graceling-in-a-suit (33k)

“The plan is: we’re gonna put on a play. Now, I see some doubtful faces–” Louis looked around and found zero doubtful faces. Liam looked intrigued, Zayn looked bored, and Harry looked scarily blank. “But this is what’s happening. We’re gonna do some fucking acting, we’re gonna perform our hearts out, and we’re not going to think about anything else. The past, the future; none of it. All we’re going to think about is... “ Niall trailed off, eyeing the bookshelf to his left. He closed his eyes and reached a hand out towards it, running his fingers over the covers before pulling a book out at random. “William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.”

AU: Five assholes stuck in a bunker put on a play.

solid as a stone (when everything is gone) by @sisqueer (20k)

“Why’d you take me with you?”

Louis startles at the question, the car almost swerving off the road in the process. He holds his breath as he waits for the twins to wake up and start wailing, but they don’t. They keep sleeping on peacefully, covered in the family blanket.

Harry’s looking at him with an unreadable expression.

Louis takes a minute, mulling it over. He answers quietly. “I hate to say it, but as much as we hate each other, I can’t bear to leave you alone to deal with this whole thing all by yourself.” and I wouldn’t be able to bear it if you died, he adds in his mind.

or, it's the zombie apocalypse and Louis is stuck with Harry, with whom he shares a complicated relationship with.

FIC COVERS: kiss me on the mouth and set me free by @suspendrs

Word Count: 17,335

He moves on to Twitter next, where things get marginally weirder. His newsfeed is full of tweets about someone called Larry, and that apparently everyone is trying to ship him somewhere. There are a good amount of people though, mostly his hardcore gamer fans and ones with little crushes on him, that are screaming about how this Larry guy is gross.

Fifteen minutes of scrolling tells Louis that Larry Stylinson isn’t a person, but instead a combination of his and Harry’s names. The people that are claiming to ‘ship it’ are apparently rooting for them to get together, which. Okay.

Or, Louis is a gamer and Harry is a beauty guru, and VidCon is a good place to fall in love.

In honor of Fan Fic Writer Appreciation Day 2018, here are the first lines of just some of my very favorite Larry fics! I have so many other favorites that I’ve left out that I’ll have to do a part two one day. Enjoy! 

🖊️  Louis pulls his collar over his ears as best he can and wonders why he decided to walk the short but bitterly cold distance between his little two bedroom home and the local (and only) pub in town.

🖊️ “Humph?” Louis called, letting himself into his flat. 

🖊️ Dear Niall, I was glad to have the chance to talk with you again at the AHA conference. Your idea that the Musee D’Orsay Tomlinson painting is in fact not a self-portrait is an intriguing one, and I may have discovered something that will have a bearing on that theory.

🖊️ "Fuck, you're tight," Louis groans.

🖊️ “Why’s it always so fucking cold in here?” Louis asks no one in particular while he waits for the water to boil. 

🖊️ Louis knows a lot about Prince Harry.

🖊️ Harry enters the apartment, and drops his shopping bags onto the floor with a sigh. A flick of his wand sets the kettle to heating, and he yawns and stretches, jamming the wand into the holster strapped between his shoulder blades. 

🖊️ “I’ve had about enough of this shit, Sparrow.“

🖊️ “Man, my ass looks good today.”

🖊️ Harry pushes open the door to Smoky’s Bar, praying that the dilapidated sign with its burnt out letters isn’t a reflection of the interior. 

🖊️ The thing about working at Fox in the Snow, is that the coffee shop itself is absolutely beautiful, practically a hipster photographer’s dream, and the sweets are delicious, made by hand, and the music is pretty good as far as hipster coffee shop music goes…But it’s a horrible place to work if you want to listen in on conversations.

🖊️ The Underground is always crowded in the winter, when London’s yellow streetlight haze is too weak to lift the snow fog on Chilworth Mews and there’s nothing to do but shiver, wet breath heating your scarf and steaming your glasses as you tramp down the slick, dirty steps of Paddington Station clutching a violin case to your chest at 6 a.m. 

🖊️ "He’s glaring at me again,” Louis whines, biting down viciously on the straw of his iced tea. 

🖊️ They finished their ”Where We Are”-tour on a Saturday night in Sydney, and Louis had never been as tired nor as high on adrenaline in his life.

🖊️ Louis shifts in his chair again to make it squeak against the floor, making Lottie cut off her intro for the third time to turn and glare at him. 

🖊️ ‘Could Louis Tomlinson contact the Virgin desk,  Louis Tomlinson travelling from Manchester please contact the Virgin desk, thank you. ’

🖊️ Saturday night dinners were a grand tradition, ever since Louis had first arrived in the city and sent a tentative Facebook message to Niall Horan hoping it was the same Niall Horan he remembered from middle school. 

🖊️ The crowd was loud and pulsing as the concert reached its peak. 

🖊️ Louis Tomlinson is on the rooftop of the LondonHouse Chicago when he gets the email.

🖊️ Harry threw himself back onto his bed and looked out the windows that lined the wall. The sun was beginning to set and the sky was a riot of colours, reflecting Harry’s mood.

🖊️ Bleary eyed, Harry pushed his way into the coffee shop between his flat and the tube station as he listened to his coworker, Nick, ramble on about the day they had ahead of them.

🖊️ Evening settled over London as Big Ben chimed on the hour, echoing, and rattling through the city’s walls.

suspendrs @suspendrs

💚 satellite (100k)

“It’s been three years since I’ve had a proper hot meal,” Louis says finally. “I have no idea where my family is, or if any of them are even still alive. The only reason I’ve been able to keep myself alive for as long as I have is because I keep to myself, stay guarded, stay hidden. It’s the only way I know how to live,” he says.

Harry wants to cry, but he tries to put on a brave face when Louis finally meets his eyes. “You’re safe here. You don’t have to be so guarded around me,” Harry says quietly, earnestly.

“That’s very sweet of you,” Louis says, putting his fork down. “But yes I do. Especially around you.”

Or, Harry finds out that someone's been living in his house without him knowing, but instead of kicking him out, he falls in love with him.

💚 sugar in a plum (4k)

“I’m your dad,” Harry says softly, extending his hand to Plum for her to have a sniff. Plum considers for a moment, looks up at Louis, and then bites Harry’s finger.

“Ow!” Harry shrieks, pulling his hand away quickly. He’s not bleeding, but Plum’s teeth are incredibly sharp, he feels like he’s been stabbed with ten tiny needles. “Jesus, Lou, I thought we were getting a cat, not a demon.”

Or, Harry's new kitten is out to ruin his life.

💚 there are no atheists in foxholes (64k)

“Do you think we’ll ever see it again?” Harry asks after a minute. “London?”

Louis blinks, looking down. They very well could spend the rest of their lives on this island, and they’re both very aware of that. Everyone probably already thinks they’re dead, anyway. Their flats are going to be sold, and their families are going to have funerals, and life is going to go on without them. Even if they do get rescued, it’s already been days. The news of the shipwreck has definitely reached London by now. They don’t know if there’s been any effort to look for survivors, but they also don’t know how far away from the wreck they are, or how far people are going to go to look for them, or if anyone even knows that this island is here and, like, it’s very possible that they’ve already looked and stopped looking for survivors, and no one knows they’re out here-

“I don’t know,” Louis says, before he can start spiraling. “I hope so, but I don’t know.”

Or, the sea takes everything from Louis, but it gives him back more than he ever could’ve asked for.