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Up Until Now Couldn’t Find The Words

by galactic_larry

Alternate Universe | Alternate Universe - College/University | Friends to Lovers | Childhood Friends | Idiots in Love | Fluff | Letters | Coming Out | Long-Distance Friendship | Long-Distance Relationship | 5+1 Things | 5 Times | 2k

Louis and Harry have been best friends since Year 1, and now they’re going to university in different cities.

What happens when they start writing letters to each other and realise that the feelings they have for one another might not be that platonic after all?

Or the five times Louis and Harry write letters to each other and the one time they reunite.

Written for the @5times1dfest

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Up Until Now Couldn’t Find The Words

by galactic_larry

Alternate Universe | Alternate Universe - College/University | Friends to Lovers | Childhood Friends | Idiots in Love | Fluff | Letters | Coming Out | Long-Distance Friendship | Long-Distance Relationship | 5+1 Things | 5 Times | 2k

Louis and Harry have been best friends since Year 1, and now they’re going to university in different cities.

What happens when they start writing letters to each other and realise that the feelings they have for one another might not be that platonic after all?

Or the five times Louis and Harry write letters to each other and the one time they reunite.

Written for the @5times1dfest

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Up Until Now Couldn’t Find The Words

by galactic_larry

Alternate Universe | Alternate Universe - College/University | Friends to Lovers | Childhood Friends | Idiots in Love | Fluff | Letters | Coming Out | Long-Distance Friendship | Long-Distance Relationship | 5+1 Things | 5 Times | 2k

Louis and Harry have been best friends since Year 1, and now they’re going to university in different cities.

What happens when they start writing letters to each other and realise that the feelings they have for one another might not be that platonic after all?

Or the five times Louis and Harry write letters to each other and the one time they reunite.

Written for the @5times1dfest

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All the One Direction fics I read and enjoyed in August 2025. For more new fics, check out this month’s fic roundup at @1dmonthlyficroundup! You can find my other fic recs here.

- Louis / Harry -

🌊 Chasing Empty Spaces by Lis / @domestic-harry

(E, 79k, historical) The year is 1934 and Harry Styles was to inherent the largest tobacco firm in the south. His parents have picked out the “perfect” girl for him to marry and he has the privilege of receiving the highest education possible. The problem was, Harry hadn’t realized he didn’t actually want any part of that future until he met a mechanic named, Louis Tomlinson.

🌊 storm coming, rain soaking, blind hoping by wildestdreams / @thelavendrhaze

(E, 23k, strangers to lovers) Harry didn’t expect much when he boarded a train to the countryside for a party with near-strangers and rich kids he barely knew. He definitely didn’t expect to fall for Louis — charming, sharp, and impossible to read — over the course of one long, stormy night.

🌊 I Left My Heart In Every Chorus by FelintoGirl / @felinto-girl [Quote Post]

(G, 15k, friends to lovers) The five times a pining Harry sang karaoke with his friend Louis, who didn’t get the gist of the song selections, and the one time Louis finally got it.

🌊 It's Not That I Don't Want You by @parmahamlarrie

(E, 12k, asexual Harry) It begins with a benign comment during a night in watching a show with his lovely boyfriend, Louis, and leads Harry to a months long journey to understand himself better.

🌊 soft laugh meets the eyes by sunflowersue / @sunflower-sue

(E, 12k, strangers to lovers) A florist x tattoo artist AU where Harry brings weekly blooms into Dagger Tattoo Studio, and Louis has no option but to fall in love.

🌊 Feeling It Now by crimsontheory / @ireallysawanangel

(E, 7k, famous/not famous) When Louis hooked up with a hot guy in the bathroom at a music festival, the last thing he was expecting was for that guy to be one of the headlining acts at the festival.

🌊 Love of my life by @emmli28

(E, 6k, epistolary) Bound by distance but joined through pen and parchment, they discovered love deeper than presence. Each letter carries ache of absence, thrill of intimacy and whispers of hope. Each word is a promise. Fragile, aching, eternal.

🌊 There's No Better Love by QuickedWeen / @becomeawendybird

(E, 5k, m/f relationship) Louis has just started seeing this girl, and he can't stop thinking about her. Turns out the power of positive thinking is real.

🌊 Dust Off The High (And Go To Sleep) by juniperlightning / @juniperlightningwrites

(E, 5k, exhibitionism) Louis's band is performing at a club where Harry is a cage dancer. After spending the entire show trying to seduce each other from across the room, both men find themselves sexually frustrated and desperate for release.

🌊 you figured it out (and I love you for that) by @insightfulinsomniac

(E, 5k, canon exes) they’ve managed to keep in distant contact, but the tension between them threatens to eat them alive whenever they meet face-to-face. Until a late night/early morning chance meeting at Glastonbury changes everything.

🌊 Take my hand (and my heart and soul) by insufferablelovebirds / @twoweekhome

(T, 5k, canon) a five times Louis denies dating Harry and one time Harry asks why AU

🌊 hooked on a feeling by @disgruntledkittenface

(E, 4k, girl direction) Louis needs the money, so she takes a job as a topless waitress. She gets more than she bargained for when she meets her coworker Harry.

🌊 Dank Wank by @berzerkshires

(M, 4k, masturbation) Harry went to a dispensary in search of an edible that aided orgasms, and he got more than he bargained for.

🌊 i'm a couple glasses in by @justanothershadeofblue

(E, 3k, watersports) Harry winds a finger into one of the curls that grazes his shoulder as he stares at the jars of colored ribbons on the table in front of him. 

🌊 Violets Are Purple, Not Blue by galactic_larry / @galacticlarry

(T, 2k, blind date) One thing about Harry is that he hasn’t really been lucky when it comes to love. What happens when his friend, Zayn, organises a double date with his boyfriend’s friend, Louis?

🌊 Heavenly Treats by embro

(NR, 2k, pwp) Adorable Harry works at the local bakery where Louis comes in sometimes & one night while attending a bachelor party for one of his friends at a gay strip club, Louis sees Cutie Harry poledancing/stripping onstage! stuff ensues

🌊 The Stationery Cupboard by little_obelia / @littleobelia

(M, 1k, workplace sex) IT technician Louis pays a visit to the Croydon branch to install some risk management software and to possibly finally do something about his crush on hopelessly awkward loan manager Harry.

- Rare Pairs -

🌊 Nothing's Ever Set In Stone by @lululawrence

(NR, 8k, Louis/Pedro Pascal) Unknown: Hey, is this Louis? I’m Pedro, the owner of the car you hit this morning After a quick back and forth during which Louis apologized repeatedly, he thought that would be it.

🌊 some version of you by croisblue / @forwhatiam

(M, 3k, Zayn/Louis) It’s almost been a month since Zayn up and disappeared from Louis’s life.

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I hope everyone has had a great ends of summer. I ended June with only two fics on this list, so I figured I'd just wait another month for it to have a couple more on it. Summer is always my busiest season, so hopefully now that fall has set in (at least here) I'll get to do some more reading! Hopefully something on this list will catch your eye. Happy reading!

❃ Cannonball by @haztobegood

Louis/Harry | 100 | G | Drabble, Summer

Harry reads by the pool.

I'm always amazed when people manage do set such a clear scene with so few words! Just lovely!

❃ The Sun Knows We're In Love by @homosociallyyours

Louis/Harry | 600 | Drabbles, Snapshots, Childhood Friends to Lovers

Summer 1999 | 100 | G At his family's new beach house, Harry meets Louis for the first time.

Summer 2007 | 100 | G Harry fears that Louis is going to leave him behind. That isn't what happens at all.

Summer 2013 | 100 | G Louis brings a boyfriend around for the summer. So does Harry.

Summer 2019 | 100 | G Harry watches Louis get married, unfortunately.

Summer 2024 | 100 | G After the news of Louis' divorce, Harry finally lets himself return to his family's beach house.

Summer 2025 | 100 | G It's Harry and Louis' first summer of many as a couple.

Oooh, I loved getting snapshots of their lives and them figuring out their feelings!

❃ Stuck in a Hellevator by @nooradeservedbetter

Louis/Harry | 985 | T | Office AU, Misunderstandings, Enemies to Lovers

Okay, so Louis might not be the easiest person to be around either. But it’s not his fault Harry from finance was hired around April’s fools, and he had to prank him by attaching that sign that said dumbo on him, it was all in good humour and he didn’t mean anything by it. But Harry from finance took it personally, and nothing Louis could say would sway him.

A delightful way to clear up their misunderstanding!

❃ Yes, (task)master by @uhoh-but-yeah-alright

Louis/Harry | 1.2k | E | Humiliation Kink, Daddy Kink, Dom/Sub

Harry accidentally spills ice cream on Louis' shoe. Louis makes him clean it up and only gets dirtier.

Amused Louis and desperate Harry is a great combination. Absolutely filthy, I love it!

❃ Would Walk The Aisle For You by @galacticlarry

Louis/Harry | 6.1k | T | Friends to Lover, Fake Relationship, 5+1 Times

If Louis had to make a list of all his problems, his mum trying to set him up with every gay man ever would be very close to the top. What happens when Harry volunteers to be his fake boyfriend just to get her to stop? Or the five times Louis and Harry pretend to be in love and the one time they realize they actually are.

There's fake relationships and then there's this. Holy shit Louis is dense, but I'm glad he figured it out before the wedding at least.

❃ i was getting kinda used to being someone you loved by orphan_account

Louis/Harry | 8.3k | T | Friends to Lover, Fake Relationship

His hand clamps down over Louis’ mouth as firmly as he can manage. “What do you want? C'mon, you have my full attention now. What. Do. You. Want.” Louis manages to look apologetic as he licks slobbery circles around Harry's palm until he lets go. “Pretend to be my boyfriend,” he says, dramatically gulping in as much air as he can breathe. “I’m sorry, what?” “This bloke just came up to me, said he’d give us fifty quid to be in his music video.” “And you said what? ‘Sure, just let me coerce my friend into it with uncomfortable amounts of PDA and blackmail’?” or Louis has a brilliant idea. Harry begs to differ. Until he doesn't.

This was so sweet! The pining, they just needed a little push!

❃ Call It Fate by sunnychaos

Louis/Harry | 11k | T | Strangers to Lover, Famous/Non Famous, 5+1 Times

Five times Louis attends Harry Styles’ concert unwillingly because his sister drags him along and one time he attends his concert as his boyfriend.

Gah, this was so sweet! I love that Louis managed to charm Harry enough to make him remember him years later without realizing it.

❃ to what happened in monaco! by @boyfriendstages

Louis/Harry | 19.1k | E | Omegaverse, PWP

Louis is used to looking after difficult guests at Palais Solstice in Monte Carlo. He’s not used to looking after a spoiled, glitter-brained omega who smells like heat and trouble, sprawls out in uncontained clothes, and doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing to Louis (and Louis’ inner alpha). So. A week in Monaco, a job Louis can’t walk away from, and the slow slide from irritation to something much filthier.

This was quite something. I'm not usually one for people dumb Harry, but I enjoyed this one!

❃ Grace, Too by @taggiecb

Louis/Harry | 50.7k | Age Difference, Farmer Louis, Boss/Employee Relationship

That's What I'm Here For | 46.8k | E Louis Tomlinson is a dairy farmer on a tiny farm in eastern Canada. His wife of nearly thirty years has left him and his children are all grown up and out of the house. Louis needs help running his business but has no idea where to even start looking. Luckily for him his children know just the man for the job.

Armed with will and determination | 1.9k | G A pov switch to see how Harry felt about Louis declaring his feelings for Harry.

Born Ready For You | 2k | G Harry and Louis' life gets turned upside down once again with an unexpected visitor.

This was lovely! I love how naturally they fall into each others bubble, even with the age difference.

❃ Our Sentences Will Never End by eversincezourry

Louis/Harry | 111.8k | E | Prison AU, PO Harry, Addiction

"How long have you been a probation officer, Harry?" "Almost a year." He pauses, "Why?" Louis hums. "I could run away right now.” Harry purses his lips. "Do you want to?" or Louis served five years, and now, he’s determined to stay out of Rikers Island. Then there’s Harry, his probation officer, who sees more than just a troubled past. But as their relationship blossoms, the lines between duty and desire blur.

This fic was quite the journey! I quite enjoyed the character growth, and post time skip I was genuinely so happy for both of them!

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Different Than You Do

by galactic_larry

Alternate Universe | Friends to Lovers | Idiots in Love | Fluff and Angst | Fluff | Angst | Pining | Love Confessions | 2k

Louis and Harry have been friends for a little over four years. Louis has been in love with Harry for most of those years, even if he didn’t want to admit it at first.

What happens when he impulsively decides to tell him?

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Happy Fan Fic Writer Appreciation Day 2025!

The first lines of some amazing fics by some of my favorite 1D writers! Since I've done this post for so many years, this year I limited it to fics that were published in the last year or so. Please check out the past years' lists here where you'll find even more incredible writers! Thank you to every writer in our fandom for your gifts of fic to us all!

The moon was peeking at Louis’ wolf form as he crossed into the Styles pack’s territory.

Louis tapped his fingers against his thigh, anxious for the meeting to move along.

“God, it’s good to see you again.”

Louis sighed, his mug clinking on the counter when he set it down as he caught sight of a freshly showered Harry casually strolling back to his room naked. 

Holding therapy sessions through a thick haze of incense in the living room of the therapist’s apartment isn’t the most conventional of choices, but it was one of the reasons Louis warmed up to the concept. 

“This one, right?”

Louis woke slowly.

It had always seemed so easy and straightforward.

It wasn’t supposed to be like this.

Harry Styles sat with his head leaning against the wall, crackling the strawberry gum he was chewing while watching the athletic fields.

When the clock strikes midnight on the eve of December 24th, Louis Tomlinson’s birthday present starts singing out the song of the summer tanager.

Louis takes note of the cars lining the drive at Pembley House — five or six shiny posh numbers — and it’s nearly enough to send him back the way he came.

“Louis William Tomlinson, will you please quit rolling up your sleeves like that!”

It happened again.

It’s Friday the 13th.

Harry steps through the back door and out into the garden.

“This is my first live, so please be kind in the comments,” Harry says, squinting one eye, the live feed wobbling on Louis’ laptop screen as Harry apparently steadies his phone.

Growing up, Louis thought love wasn’t real.

Harry is not afraid to admit that she's a rather superstitious person.

Nesting was supposed to come naturally to omegas, but for Louis it never had.

The dappled multicoloured light, shining through the ornate stained glass window above the altar floods the grey flagstone floor.

Liam glances around the stuffy conference room, as he shifts a little uncomfortably in his chair.

Zayn doesn’t even notice the lift stopping.

The semester just started and he’s already over it.

Just put a sign on the window that says - not having a breakdown, im just here for the kid!

L: i know you like the blue shirt but that doesn't scream third date does it

Louis isn't sure if he actually has the aisle seat or not when he flops down in row twenty-three of the fourth plane that he has boarded in the last thirty-six hours.

Harry woke up with a smile on his face.

Louis sighs, unsatisfied, and wipes his sticky hand on a tissue after coming all over his belly.

Male, 30, can travel within the greater Manchester area

Harry knows exactly what having Louis’ attention does to an alpha.

Louis sank his hands into soft brown curls and tugged.

On Louis’ twenty-first birthday, he gets a call from the National Secondary Gender Services.

The first time Louis realised he might actually be in love with Harry Styles, was over a half-burnt piece of toast and an unreasonably charming bedhead.

Louis Tomlinson took a deep breath of the fresh air.

In all honesty, Harry had no idea what he was getting himself into this weekend.

Sweat drips down Harry’s temples as Louis leaps in the air. 

“I really don’t want to go,” Harry complains.

The click of the lighter breaks the silence, followed by a faint hiss, an eager inhale drawing the smoke into waiting lungs, a soft exhale releasing tendrils of gray into the still air.

Harry sits in his bedroom window, binoculars pressed tight to his face as he stares across the street. 

“You know what fuck you Louis, I’ve had it. We're done!”

“We’re sorry, the Demon you’re trying to summon is currently unavailable. Your ritual is important to us. Please hold--”

Harry winds a finger into one of the curls that grazes his shoulder as he stares at the jars of colored ribbons on the table in front of him. 

Liam narrowed his eyes from across the bar table.

Harry Styles sits in a discreet corner of the restaurant in the Sunset Tower Hotel in L.A., which seems a fitting venue to get to know the brightest upcoming star in LaLa land.

All things considered, Harry felt like he sort of had his life figured out. 

Waking up with the sun in his eyes seemed to be a regular occurrence.

There’s no greater love in the world than a soulmate.

“Morning, Louis."

Authors in order of first lines:

@loretheloner @haztobegood @so-why-let-your-voice-be-tamed @jaerie @forwhatiam

@disgruntledkittenface @lululawrence @reminiscingintherain @jacaranda-bloom @skipperxao3

@londonfoginacup @stylinsoncity @lunarheslwt @louandhazaf @tracksuitponytail

@juniperlightningwrites @kingsofeverything @voulezloux @freyaforestafay @homosociallyyours

@wishingforloushair @letthemusicmoveyou28 @uhoh-but-yeah-alright @evilovesyou @liminalkittyfics

@absoloutenonsense @all-these-larrythings @emmli28 @elleseekeepdriv @louislittletomlintum

@shimmeringevil @harruandlou @insightfulinsomniac @felinto-girl @becomeawendybird

@thelavendrhaze @crinkle-eyed-boo @galacticlarry @persephoneflouwers @loveislarryislove

@hellolovers13 @red-panda-28 @justanothershadeofblue @imogenleewriter @silverstuff50

@parmahamlarrie @srldesigns6277 @berzerkshires @badgerinbloom

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