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skinsharpenedteeth · 5 years ago

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Do you believe in ghosts?

Just a quick little ditty based off the prompt: Does your character believe in ghosts? Have they ever seen one?

A/N: I’ve been writing a lot of smut lately so I’m taking a fluffy palette cleanser. Sweet stuff ahead. TW: Mentions of abuse

“Do you believe in ghosts?” Alex asked into the crisp darkness of the desert as he stared straight up at the stars. The sky was glorious that night, bright in the way only a clear night sky can be, still and silent in the way only winter could be with things too smart to brave the cold staying in and sleeping until the sun could warm the earth for them. Alex wasn’t smart and didn’t feel particularly brave. He hadn’t told Guerin, but the biting cold of the truck bed was acting as an ice pack for his back which he wouldn’t be surprised to see bruises mottling tomorrow morning. He turned his head as the silence stretched on and looked over at Michael laying beside him. His eyes were closed and he might’ve been sleeping.

“Guerin,” Alex said his name a little sharply. Michael opened his eyes and turned to look at him, expression serious and solemn. He seemed to be considering the question before speaking.

“I don’t know. It’s hard to discount it as fantasy the way you do with vampires or werewolves. We know there’s more to this universe than just humans and amoebas out in space somewhere, but ghosts? Ghosts seem like they could be a thing,” Michael answered finally. He shifted onto his side and pulled the blanket that was covering them both higher onto Alex’s chest. They were both fully clothed with double layers, jackets, and warm knit caps for their late-night desert date, but it was still January and the blankets were a welcome addition. Alex stayed on his back, not relishing the stiffness he’d have to fight when it was time to move later. “What about you, love?”

Alex sighed and turned his eyes back to the sky. He let a small smile tug at his lips as he felt Michael’s warm hand find his under the blankets before pulling it up to hold it against his chest while he waited on Alex to speak. Neither of them had remembered gloves and the cold made their fingers ache and stiffen if they didn’t keep them relatively warm.

“I want to believe there’s something… science says the energy and heat of our body just dissipates or transfers to other living things… I don’t know if I can accept that completely, but sometimes I want to…” Alex spoke to Guerin as much to himself. He'd been considering what it would be like to not exist a lot recently. He’d wondered if his heat would dissipate, his lifeforce fade into particles meant for other living things, or if he had enough spite in him to hold those parts together and haunt the living.

“Have you ever seen a ghost?” Michael asked and Alex could see him still watching him from the corner of his eye.

“After my mom left. I woke up one night and went to the bathroom and on the way back I thought I saw something in the hallway. It didn’t last long and I could’ve still been asleep, I was only 8, but for a moment I was convinced it was my mom’s ghost. I ran to my brother Greg’s room crying and he let me sleep with him and told me we’d call mom the next morning to make sure she was okay. Turns out she was fine. I have no clue what I saw that night, who that ghost might’ve been, but it wasn’t my mom…it just… it felt like family for some reason,” Alex said the last part quietly, embarrassed and sure Guerin was going to tell him how stupid he was. He wiped at his nose absentmindedly with his free hand and was shocked at how cold his septum ring felt against his skin. Michael stayed silent and when Alex dared to sneak a look at him, he saw that his eyes were distant and his focus internal.

“Hey,” Alex said, pulling his hand free from Michael’s so he could cup his cheek and bring his attention back up to the present. He hated when Michael got too deep in thought like that. It felt like he was losing him. Michael’s eyes immediately darted up to meet his at the first warm touch of his palm against Michael’s cold cheek. He smiled and turned his head, kissing the base of Alex’s thumb with cold lips.

“Sorry. I got lost in my head,” Michael admitted quietly, his smile turning shy as he kept eye contact with Alex. Alex started to shift to turn on his side and hissed quietly as his muscles pulled, reminding him that his night had started with a forceful discussion about house rules and personal conduct. He pushed through it, gritting his teeth and completing the turn onto his side so he could mirror Michael’s body with his own. Michael’s hand slipped under the cover and found it’s way under his shirt to his waist, making goosepimples erupt all over Alex’s skin.

“Ass,” he teased as Michael scooted his body closer to his and wedged his knee between Alex’s. His body warmth was welcome and Alex felt the sigh of contentment roll out of his lungs the second he was cocooned between Michael and the blanket. Michael’s thumb pet the dip of his waist absentmindedly as Alex got through a round of shivers that had been brought on by the change in position, exposing previously warmed spots to the cold fingers of the night air. To distract himself, he pushed his own hands under Michael’s shirt and grinned maliciously as he heard Michael grunt and felt his muscles contract almost violently against his frozen fingers. “That’s what you get for being an ass. Fair’s fair.”

“I guess,” Michael conceded through clenched teeth, but he didn’t push Alex’s hands away. He let them move over his stomach and chest from warm spot to warm spot, jumping only a little when Alex found the places where he was more sensitive to any touch, not just cold, searching fingers.

“So what about you?” Alex asked once he’d found a place to rest his hands on Michael’s stomach. Michael’s muscles quivered under his, but he unclenched long enough to try and answer Alex’s question.

“Me what?” Michael asked a little breathless, a huff of fogged air billowing between them. Alex smiled up at him, pleased that he was letting himself be uncomfortable to warm Alex’s hands. It was so sweet it made Alex’s chest feel tight.

“Have you ever seen a ghost?” Alex asked, wrapping one of his marginally warmer hands around Michael’s back to draw him closer. Michael scooted until there was barely an inch between their bodies and took his hand off Alex’s waist to grab the blanket and pull it over their shoulders. He huddled down as close to Alex as he could be until their mingling breath made Alex’s skin feel warm and damp.

“I have never seen a ghost, but I’ve seen enough demons to last a lifetime,” Michael finally replied, tone light and joking. Alex knew it wasn’t all a joke, however. He’d seen the cross shaped scars on Michael’s forearms and then small cigarette burns that littered his back and shoulders. Before he could talk himself out of it, he leaned forward and pressed his lips to the hollow of Michael’s throat. He let his mouth stay there, trying to push through his skin onto Michael’s how much he understood what growing up had stolen from him before he pulled away. Michael found a way to worm both of his arms around Alex’s shoulders and he held him closer, letting him keep his face pressed against Michael’s skin and wrapping him in the warmth from their bodies. “We should go ghost hunting someday, just to see if we find anything.”

“Yeah, maybe after high school?” Alex suggested, raising his voice a little to be heard through all the fabric surrounding him.

“Yeah, when it’s warm,” Michael agreed easily. Alex smiled against him and hummed his agreement to the plan. They laid out there for another hour before they became too cold for even Guerin’s unnaturally warm temperature to keep them both from shivering. Alex looked out across the empty, dark desert before Michael turned on the headlights and ruined their night vision. It was so quiet and alien when it was this dark and still, he imagined briefly that they were on an alien planet somewhere, just the two of them. Then he wondered if aliens had ghosts or if the idea of ghosts even ever crossed their minds…

#malex fic #malex #michael guerin #alex manes #high school years #fluff #tw: mentions of abuse

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cracknoir · 4 years ago

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JOHN COLE SPECIFIC HEADCANONS

so this is more an intro thing to a half-formed character i’ve had in my brain for FIFTEEN ENTIRE YEARS (maybe like, four tops)

basically he’s a rootin tootin cowboy

fought in the civil war (on the good side but i forget what one that is)

seventh son of a seventh son so that means he has 6 brothers and 6 uncles - this is why he does what he does, as only seventh sons can hunt the ghouls

i kinda “artistically borrowed” most of this junk from these old books i used to read called the spooks apprentice except that was set in like old timey england (yuk) and i thought it’d be cooler as cowboys

he’s married to a witch who is like Classic Wizard Of Oz witch she’s green basically

he has a horse called catherine and a crow that follows him about and gives him advice. the crow does not have a name but john is still Very Attached. it sits on his shoulder sometimes, and it’s always in the vicinity. if he’s inside, sometimes it taps on the windows

he’s probably one of the last of his profession??? i sort of have it in my head that the whole thing started with the church waaaaaayyyyy back and sort of started dying as a profession when industry hit

he’s met aliens before

he’s met the devil too

even tho he has a long list of accomplishments he spends most of his days exposing scammers - over half the time he gets asked to visit a town it’s humans at the cause of the shit he’s investigating

this song is John Cole vibes

i don’t know how john cole’s story’s going to pan out, but he’s going to meet jimmy at some point, and i know he’s going to be resurrected in the modern day as like, a rotting zombie mans but idk the whole story behind that junk yet

he’s very empathetic. if the creature he’s talking to can be reasoned with, he’ll always choose that before going in guns blazing

this song by the same guy is also very john

was very religious until he became an official seventh son - i think that’s what i’m calling them?? i was contemplating just lifting spook from the book before but tbh spook means a fed???

probably has a weird almost occultish tattoo on him somewhere -- shoulder i’m thinking

being john’s dealt with: “bigfoot” (ape mountain creatures, not supernatural), skinwalkers, vampires, werewolves, demons, ghosts, zombies (not modern zombies, he’s dealt with both Haitian zombies and these like ghoul things that come out of their graves out of spite - these ones are harmless mostly, just spooky), witches (his main area of expertise), skinwalkers, standard ghosts, goblins (only a couple of times, they come over on boats like rats), he’s also dealt with some sort of cult that does something spooky, also sea monsters and river gods, OH AND A SWAMP MONSTER, i got a thing in mind for a swamp monster he meets.

he spent two years lost in africa, living with a hunter gatherer tribe

so this is really an early early early draft thing i wrote YEARS ago but he has an alien living on his land that makes moonshine (i have nearly brought this character over a million times, i’m intending if i ever do it to use paul from paul - like, this guy is classic alien gray, the reason i want to bring over this sort of dumb element is cos i have it in my head that the aliums in this universe have like this universal awareness type deal that i think would be really cool to write) - also worth noting that john thinks the aliums are just demons, so he might reference spacemen but he thinks it’s all hocum

the crow i mentioned earlier is a very useful ally to john for a pretty simple reason. u kno i’ve realised lately that leaving out explicit detail is better for writing so doing these informal things is better so i’m not wasting information cos i can just ramble but basically in my head the crow caws twice if there’s danger and once if it’s clear - the crow can pick up on energies and junk (a lot of like spooky stories from the american woods notes how quiet it is, and i been out in the woods a lot lately and u do notice there’s ALWAYS birds, like this background song you sort of tune out, if that’s not there, and the sun is setting, the woods get bad)

oh! he can talk to trees! or maybe not talk to trees, but he can read a trees personality, and it’s mood, feel it’s history - not see it, he doesn’t know what the tree has seen unless it wants to share it with him

and that also reminds me, he doesn’t have powers, he has senses. all down to that seventh son of a seventh son thing

ok i’ve rambled enough if ur reading this ur a champ and i love u

#do i have a headcanon tag yet??#it's high noon motherfuckers cowboy o'clock

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pasteltraitor · 4 years ago

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PINK, monster, bones and vampire! <3<3<3 lov u

ty for the asks!!

-chill 80s kid

i was born in the 2000s but am mostly fairly chill

-cant decide if youre an alien or a ghost but either way youre other worldly

you'll never know my true form >:D

-invented heart shaped sunglasses

i wish i owned heart shaped sunglasses 😔

- clown(affectionate)

🤡💕💕

-lobster

lobster

-insane! <3

u know it im a fucking cycle path im the focking jonker bby

-*insert weird cat picture*

this is my fave cat picture cause i feel like this cat sometimes

-best hot takes and jokes that mae you say why are you booing me? i'm right!

hot take i like cold pizza in the morning

-crow friend

caw caw bitch

-collects cool things

u wanna see me lego ninjago minifig collection that i mostly stole from my brothers 😎

-woha wait actually super talented

asdhkakjshajs ur so talented too ily <3<3

-good taste in beverages all things considered

if i dont drink water for awhile it makes water taste better so drink water less often (joking pls drink water guys)

-stays up too late and probably doesn't get enough sunlight

ur one to talk whens the last time u went to bed at a reasonable hour?? hmm??

-badass outfits

sigh i wish i cant afford to buy clothes i want one day though....

-way more creative than you get credit for

aaaaa ty!! ilysm <3<3 u too

#thetraitorspeaks #friendo #charlotte-likes-cuddles #ask game #long post #tysm for the asks!!#<3<3<3

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jae-writes-fanfiction · 5 years ago

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Requests for my 33 days of Halloween event are now open! The fics will be posted each day starting October 1st until November 2nd. After the event a Masterlist will be uploaded. The prompt list and easy requesting links are under the cut!

❤️ Memento Mori and Happy Haunting ❤️

Requests are open until October 3rd at 11pm EST. Cick here to request any mix of the prompts below, any additional dark content/holiday specific content is more than welcome- just make sure to include a character/fandom I write for!

Telling Scary Stories/Watching Scary Movies

Carving or painting Pumpkins

Corn/Hay Mazes/Apple picking

Trick-r-treating

Decorating for Halloween

Walking through Haunted Houses/Going to Haunts

Decorating Sugar Skulls/Preparing for Dia de los Muertos

Holding a Séance/using tarot cards

Vampires

Werewolves

Demons (also Incubus/Succubus)

Witches

Frankenstein or his monster

The Mummy

The Headless Horseman (Dullahans)

The Fair Folk/Fae/Faeries

Cryptids (mothman/Bigfoot, etc.)

Aliens/UFO’s

The Holiday Special: This genre is family friendly and focus on the warm and cozy feeling associated with the holiday and bringing people together. It features found families, and wholesome couples.

The B-Movie: This genre embodies trashy fun! Like a frat/sorority party filled with drama, sex, booze, and a little Halloween or horror flavor. Blood, guts, missing limbs/heads, broken bones, and other over the top/cheesey effects feature in this genre.

Haunted House/Ghost Stories: There are many types of ghosts and hauntings, this genre has them all wrapped up in a nice little package house. This genre features ghosts that don’t know they’re dead, the people who can see them, and the spooky practice of covering mirrors.

Found Footage: A series of vignettes that tie together at the end. Can be scary or not scary- it’s just moments tied together by a person/thing.

Slashers: Sometimes people get stabby. Usually in a very creative way. Chainsaws, chase sequences, masked antagonists, and the occasional bout of people consumption in this genre.

Musical: Music is the foundation of this genre, if requested the fic will be based partially on a song, or include references to music. (You may request which song if you’d like.)

Final Girl (person): The lone survivor in a horror movie, or the last person standing after the apocalypse, the ultimate badass.

Memento Mori: Reminders of the dead, or things long gone (relationships/places), can include personal items such a locks of hair/jewelry typical of Victorian mourning or things like memories that also haunt people and force them to recognize their own mortality.

The Void is Calling: This threat to the characters’s is much closer than they think…it might even be coming from inside the house. It can feature a phone call or texts from an unknown number or letters with no postmark/stamps.

The Sin Factor: Doing certain things (having sex, drinking, etc.) makes you less likely to survive the story.

Killing Boys: The leading lady is out for revenge, queer Bonnie and Clyde style.

I See Dead People: One of the characters can see ghosts, and cannot escape them.

Already Dead: A character is not aware they’re a ghost and must reach out in order to pass on. Or, a character knows they’re a ghost and refuses to pass on.

Black Pearl: The characters knew the treasure was cursed, yet they tried to find it anyway. Was it worth? Could it ever have? (Bonus: can include actual pirates.)

Falling to Pieces: Something is already rotting away, it might be the house, it might be a relationship, it might be the skeletons in the closet, or worse something under the floorboards.

Science Fiction double feature: Science can be just as scary as the stories we tell. Maybe it’s an experiment gone wrong, someone alone on a space ship, or a dark corner of an autopsy room- our characters must learn that just because they can doesn’t mean the should and sometimes dead is better.

Funky Physics: Whether it’s never ending hallways, looping rooms, doors to no-where, or a slightly wrong alternate dimension- our characters must try to navigate a changing landscape that they can’t predict.

A Haunted House

The oldest Cemetery in town

A ghost town/ an abandoned building late at night

The Paris Catacombs

The middle of the woods

A particularly empty stretch of road after dark

A castle/manor in the middle of nowhere with minimal occupants

A masquerade ball/costume party

An alley between surprisingly deserted city streets.

Salem Massachusetts

#im at work currently so my queue is still posting i will pin this and reblog it for time zones #if this flops were all gonna pretend it didnt happen #freakyfics #halloween fanfiction event #requests open

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marvelspookytoberprompts · 6 years ago

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Click to see a better quality of the prompts!

Quick reminders of about Marvel Spookytober Prompts:

You don’t have to use every prompt that is given for each day, doing one prompt is perfectly fine (but big kudos if you do manage to include all five (5) prompts)!

If you don’t like a certain prompt for one of the days, feel free to swap it out with one of those bonus prompts.

If you would like for us to reblog your content, then please use the hashtags: #marvelspookytober or #marvelspookytoberprompts and please state which day and prompt(s) you have completed.

You can also include your content in our AO3 collection which can be found here.

You are free to combine prompts with this event with other events, as long as the other mods are fine with it of course!

These prompts are free for everyone to use, but this blog will only be reblogging Marvel related content.

All prompts have been transcribed below the cut:

Prompts go in the order of:

Scary Movies/ Kid-friendly Movies / A Costume / Halloween Words or Tropes / Sentences or Dialogue.

Day 1: Ready or Not / Halloweentown / Witch / Ghosts / “I’m not scared.”

Day 2: Scream / The Nightmare Before Christmas / Mummy / Haunted Houses / “Ghosts aren’t real.”

Day 3: Saw / Beetlejuice / Vampire / Corn Maze / “Who wants to tell scary stories?”

Day 4: The Blair Witch Project / Monster House / Werewolf / Skeletons / “Let’s go ghost hunting.”

Day 5: It / Hocus Pocus / Banana / Costume Party / “Why are you hanging out in a cemetery late at night?”

Day 6: Midsommar / Edward Scissorhands / Clown / Bobbing for Apples / “We’ve been listening to ‘Monster Mash’ for 4 hours now. Please, I’m begging you, play something else.”

Day 7: Halloween / ParaNorman / Pirate / Trick-or-Treating / “We all go a little mad sometimes.”

Day 8: Insidious / The Addams Family / Dinosaur / Pumpkin Carving / “I swear this house is haunted.”

Day 9: Us / The Haunted Mansion / Scarecrow / Playing in Piles of Leaves / “I’m not wearing that costume.”

Day 10: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / Corpse Bride / Disney Character / Demons / “It’s your fault we’re in this mess.”

Day 11: The Babadook / Ghostbusters / Wizard / Witching Hour / “Have I mentioned, I fucking hate Halloween?”

Day 12: The Cabin in the Woods / Sweeny Todd / Mermaid / Goosebumps / “Don’t leave me alone!”

Day 13: The Conjuring / Dark Shadows / Queen or King / Horror Movie Marathon / “Do you believe in ghosts?”

Day 14: Annabelle / Hotel Transylvania / Power Ranger / Bats / “Are we lost or do you know where we are?”

Day 15: A Quiet Place / Warm Bodies / Bigfoot / Spiders / “Halloween is better than Christmas.”

Day 16: The Silence of the Lambs / Frankenweenie / Mothman / Webs / “I hate Halloween.”

Day 17: Carrie / Twitches / Video Game Characters / Black Cats / “I hate costumes, just get me a shirt.”

Day 18: House of Wax / Phantom of the Multiplex / Bee / Skeletons / “I heard a noise.”

Day 19: Hush / Don’t Look Under the Bed / Cat / Black & Orange / “I know they’re just stuffed animals, but doesn’t it feel like they’re watching us?”

Day 20: Gerald’s Game / Mom’s Got a Date with a Vampire / Mouse / Candles / “I love you, but I’m terrified right now.”

Day 21: Paranormal Activity / Tower of Terror / Candy / Tombstones or Cemeteries / “Looks like we’ll be stuck here for a while...”

Day 22: A Nightmare on Elm Street / Casper / Flapper / Pumpkin Spice Lattes / “Oh my gosh, is that blood?”

Day 23: Friday the 13th / The Poltergeist / Fairy Tale Characters / Caramel Apples / “Please take off your mask.”

Day 24: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre / Sabrina, the Teenage Witch / Couple Costumes / Candy Corn / “Run!”

Day 25: Pet Sematary / The Mummy / Group Costumes / Bloody / “Scary movies are for chumps.”

Day 26: Jennifer’s Body / Coraline / Angel/Devil / Casket / “Who are all my candy?!”

Day 27: The Witch / The Little Vampire / Crayon / Cauldron / “Why are you so determined to see this ghost?”

Day 28: Child’s Play / The Scream Team / Aliens / Owls / “Is this your way of telling me you’re a monster fucker?”

Day 29: The Grudge / Goosebumps / Cowboy/girl / Pumpkin Patch / “Mmm, I dunno. Corn mazes are kinda lame.”

Day 30: The Shining / Under Wraps / Cavewoman / Grim Reaper / “Your enthusiasm for this holiday makes me believe you fuck pumpkins... Do you?”

Day 31: Rosemary’s Baby / Monster Family / Dragon / Cabin in the Woods / “Where’s the originality for costumes these days?”

Bonus 1: Psycho / ‘9′ / Inflatable Costumes / Curses & Spells / “Who or what are you supposed to be?”

Bonus 2: Gremlins / The Witches / Ninja / Monster Under the Bed / “I want no part of this group costume you all have planned.”

Bonus 3: Rec / Return to Oz / Zombie / Evil Lairs / “That’s such a creative pumpkin carving!”

Bonus 4: Hereditary / Ernest Scared Stupid / Ghost / Broomstick / “I’m sorry but I can’t take you seriously when you’re wearing that.”

#marvel #fandom events #marvelspookytober #marvelspookytoberprompts

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eevee-eclair · 5 years ago

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Tomb: have you ever been in a graveyard late at night?, Vampire: what do you want to dress up as for Halloween?, Witch: how long is your hair?, Zombie: do you believe in an afterlife?

1. Yes, and I saw some cool deer :)

2. I’m going as Remy! (No surprise there, I hope)

3. Past my shoulder blades. (It’s long)

4. A) Yes and no? I feel like there’s some large timeline and we’re just thrown into it every rebirth? That or reincarnation? But sometimes I like to think there is a world beyond us, excluding things like aliens and alternate universes. It’s complicated for me since I haven’t been raised with heavy religious practices and I’m kinda iffy about stuff like that.

4. B) Ghosts? Oh yeah! We’ve got our own poltergeist named Skittles with they/them pronouns!

#eevee says things #ask

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scribblesofanaricat · 5 years ago

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75 music-y writing prompts

(free to reblog; shoot me some if you want to see my sucky writing ;-;)

What the hell’s your name? What’s your pleasure and what is your pain? (Green Day - Homecoming)

And I know it must be late, been gone since yesterday. I’m not like you guys, I’m not like you. (Blink-182 - Aliens Exist)

‘Cause I don’t have a reason and you don’t have the time. (Linkin Park - Final Masquerade)

When the leaves fall and the woods call and the moon seems to kiss me goodnight. (Cavetown - Rain)

I hold hands with cosmic entities. (Scott Helman - Sweet Tooth)

No one laughing at your back now, no one standing at your door. (Beck - Lost Cause)

Dancing on cold feet, marching on cobbled streets. (Barns Courtney - Sinners)

Tell me that I won’t feel a thing. (Green Day - Give Me Novacaine)

You wanted in and now you’re here, driven by hate, consumed by fear. (Drowning Pool - Bodies)

Kick the door ‘cause this is over, get me out of here. (Simple Plan - No Love)

Sometimes solutions aren’t so simple, sometimes goodbye’s the only way. (Linkin Park - Shadow Of The Day)

Clutching my cure, I tightly lock the door. (Linkin Park - Breaking The Habit)

Well, no one here is getting out alive; this time I’ve really lost my mind and I don’t care. (Green Day - Having A Blast)

I’ve been drawn into your magnet tar-pit trap. (Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box)

Singing, I can hear them singing. (Green Day - Before The Lobotomy)

Throw my emotions in the grave, hell, who needs them anyway? (Green Day - Burnout)

You’ve come this far, you’re all cleaned up, you’ve made a mess again. (All Time Low - Missing You)

A gunshot rings out at the station, another urchin snaps and left dead on his own. (Green Day - Welcome To Paradise)

They don’t have to understand you, be still. Wait and know I understand you, be still, be still. (Flyleaf - Again)

Don’t you think it’s funny how they tell us how to live? Don’t you think it’s funny how we’re all delinquent kids? (Benny - Little Game)

I’m on the run from a thief I let into my head. (Thousand Foot Krutch - Fly On The Wall)

Your crusade’s a disguise. (Linkin Park - No More Sorrow)

I knew you back when, and you, you knew me. Now I think you’re sick and I wanna go home. (Green Day - Emenius Sleepus)

Do you lock yourself in your room with the radio on turned up so loud that no one hears you screaming? (Simple Plan - Welcome To My Life)

I need to find a place to hide; you never know what could be waiting outside. (Green Day - Restless Heart Syndrome)

Got my fears in a suitcase. I locked them away in a place they wouldn’t find. (All Time Low - Nightmares)

It’s not worth it, it’s not working. You wanted it to be picture perfect. (Thousand Foot Krutch - Take It Out On Me)

I wanna be a celebrity martyr, the leading man in my own private drama, hurrah, hurrah, the hero of the hour. (Green Day - Bang Bang)

Don’ be afraid. I’ve taken my beating, I’ve shared what I’ve made. (Linkin Park - Leave Out All The Rest)

In a burst of light that blinded every angel, as if the sky had blown the heavens into stars. (Linkin Park - Iridescent)

I forgot my name again; I think that’s something worth remembering. (Cavetown - Devil Town)

Crooked spine, my senses dulled past the past of delirium. (Green Day - Brain Stew)

How it feels to be forgotten, but you’ll never forget me now. (Skillet - Back From The Dead)

I can’t quite put my finger on it, but it’s like a child that was left behind. (Green Day - The Forgotten)

The lights are on, but nobody’s home. (Linkin Park - Talking To Myself)

Do you remember when we learned how to fly? (Paradise Fears - Battle Scars)

Running out of service, in the blood I fell. (Green Day - See The Light)

And when the storm’s gone, I’ll all torn up inside. (Blink-182 - Story Of A Lonely Guy)

The devil told me “no room for cheats”; I thought I’d sold my soul, but he kept the receipt. (Bring Me The Horizon - Doomed)

I never knew how much it would hurt to feel. (All Time Low - Some Kind Of Disaster)

Trust is a dirty word that comes only from such a liar. (Green Day - Church On Sunday)

I’m deafened by the silence. Is it something that I’ve done? (Simple Plan - Astronaut)

I can’t begin to end the fight. I’m afraid to feel the fire from inside. (Fight Or Flight - First Of The Last)

Stumbling through a thousand stars and neon cars break through my skull. (Cavetown - Candle)

Why does it feel like night today? Something in here’s not right today. (Linkin Park - Papercut)

It’s scratching on the walls, in the closet, in the halls. (Skillet - Monster)

Forget-me-nots, second thoughts live in isolation. (Green Day - Are We The Waiting)

What if I’m not a part of the see and be seen? (Worriers - They/Them/Theirs)

Are there any survivors? Am I here alone? (Passenger - Survivors)

Time stands still, but I cannot. (Set It Off - I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead)

Tell us a story that’s by candlelight, waging a war and losing the fight. (Green Day - Song Of The Century)

Every second I waste is more than I can take (Linkin Park - Numb)

The sticks and the stones that you used to throw have built me an empire. (Bring Me The Horizon, Throne)

But seldom do these words ring true when I’m constantly failing you, like walls that we just can’t break through until we disappear. (Rise Against - Saviour)

This world will never be what I expected and if I don’t belong, who would’ve guessed it? (Three Days Grace - Never Too Late)

All the vampires walking through the valley move west down Ventura Boulevard. (Tom Petty - Free Fallin’)

What if I just tried not to remember? Would it matter at all? (Skillet - Would It Matter)

Billboard on the rise in the dawn’s landscape, working your insanity. (Green Day - The Static Age)

Just two kids, stupid and fearless. (All Time Low - Time Bomb)

Feel the rumours follow you from Monday all the way to Friday dinner. (Wrabel - The Village)

Are you dead? Sometimes I think I’m dead, ‘cause I can feel ghosts and ghouls wrapping my head. (Cavetown - This Is Home)

This house is haunted. It’s so pathetic. It makes no sense at all. (Blink-182 - Stay Together For The Kids)

They’re gonna rip off your heads, your aspirations to shreds, another cog in the murder machine. (My Chemical Romance - Teenagers)

Where do we begin, the rubble or our sins? (Bastille - Pompeii)

The insurgency will rise when the blood’s been sacrificed. (Green Day - Know Your Enemy)

It’s all the same down in the capital, all the suits and cladded feet. (Sam Fender - Play God)

You can run, but you can't hide. Time won’t help you ‘cause karma has no deadline. (Bring Me The Horizon - True Friends)

So we all stand enthralled by this bland curtain call. (Set It Off - Kill The Lights)

Here we are at the top of a hill, a hill that’s quietly crumbling. Been a while since you dressed for the kill, the kill that sent me tumbling. (All Time Low - Kids In The Dark)

I can’t sit back and wonder why it took so long for this to die. (Sum 41 - In Too Deep)

I’m learning to resist becoming more than you ever were. (Five Finger Death Punch - Hard To See)

Lost in a tangle, it’s freaking me out, burning lights and blackouts. (Green Day - Forever Now)

Half the words don’t mean a thing. (Linkin Park - Bleed It Out)

I’m not insane, just irrational...but isn’t that the same? (Cavetown - Poison)

There’s so much more; you can reclaim your crown. (Lauren Aquilina - King)

#ari rambles #mine #writing prompts #music prompts #writeblr #you're welcome to send as many as you like #just please remember to send them in separate asks so I can post them separately

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ghosticalz · 7 years ago

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Isnt it exciting??? if you read somewhere at the 2nd last paragraph, would you like to join the theory time?! don't forget to join the fun ;3

My first design of all my Ocs.

Here are the explanation and some facts

● Zinzin(2016) - first, he supposed to be the leader of the dark cult summoning ghosts and stuff and he supposed to be Minmin's cousin( later changed to Minmin's lil brother cant remember the reason why)

● Minmin(2016) - She is basically a nerd. Her interests about aliens and some science stuff make she met with a vampire boy named Hamton

In the comic, she has a very good grades at school but in the end she ended up suicide (jumping from the top of the building on src - 40s) after that her death cause Zin(her little brother) depressed.

● Hamton(2016) - a vampire boy who is very rich but a coward formerly Minmin's boyfriend. We dont have much information about him but we know he lives the smell of new books. He disappeared after Minmin's death.

There once was a video on tumblr about Hamton went on party with the aliens and landed on the sun and died. Unfortunately even the author not quite sure that video should be official or unofficial. However the video got deleted.

● Jamin(2016) - surname was Hokian before the author put him into in comic. And then changed his name to Jamin Chularin instead of James Hokian.

He is a young man that dont know what to do with his life or even his purpose. Even though he looks so calm he deeply trying to survive the world of nowadays society. Always taking a part time job and make money for himself.

Jamin is an orphan when he was 7. Both of his parents died from Tsunami in Phuket(2004) after that his grandma(†), uncle(†) and his aunt took care of him.

We dont really know about his age, but probably his parents and Zin's parents are very close so that's one of the reason why Jamin and Zin seems to be so close to each other.

● Killy( late 2014 ) - the first sketch of killy is on my sketch notebook if you scroll down to the last photo, that's the first drawing of Killy.

Killy is one of my favorite ocs. He is a little psychopath. Got an inspired by Jhonen Vasquez's comic called I feel sick, JTHM, and Squee.

I didnt plan any story or plot when i first making that comic called Killy Death (with a shitty grammar) and it ends in 2015 or 2016

It turns out well so i continued the comic. Later, in mid 2017 i make a reboot of Killy comic called Killy Valentino.

● Darling Dear(2015) - my favorite female ocs. She is a crazy witch who kills men to make a meal for another men. She is very good at cooking but down in her kitchen is such a horror. She only save her love for a vampire demon name black. She keeps killing those men who fall for her to make a meal to teach them a lesson, but she has gone too far. That's why she is a crazy woman.

Mostly spend her time in a laboratory, making love potion and death potions and stuff which she's enjoy making them. Even interested in science and magic.

First was supposed to be a sweet cute horror fantasy comic about 2 brothers, a rich ghost and a handsome vampire falling for a witch. But for me i think that's too normal boring and cliche, so here I created a dark comedy romantic homicidal love story for a witch who kills man to make a meal for another man and make a meal out of that man for another man until her love interest, vampire dude comes to her.

Unfortunately, The story of witch girl was never a comic due to the time and efford. But sure enough that one day, the author (or i) will look back at this and bring her to the comic too.

At least i hope so. If ppl will like dark humo

● Zik and Lukas(2014) - the oldest Ocs of mine(comics) zik is the demon were banished from hell cause he is a trouble maker and Lukas is the angel who is so grumpy and bad so the god banished him to human world.

They met together later when the comic start. Was a very good friend.

This comic was quite successful in russia, ukraine countries.

But then i stop cause of the word 'copycat' which i dont wanna be like that.

I abandoned those two character and move to my very own comic Killy Death. And know waiting for them to come back. Probably they would be so mad at Zin and Lee or Jamin.

Maybe all of my characters ocs are the reincarnation of the old dead Ocs, Who knows?

My comics are all in the same univerese just different world and story, they could have lived in the same neighborhood.

Make a theories. Maybe your non sense could be the key of all Eyeb0nez's comic universe.

You know Darwin is a dimension traveller, right? And what's my name again? I give you a tiny hints in a comic background ;3

Try to find it and have fun.

That's it for today, if sometimes i clean my room and found an old sketch book to re think if my memory, then maybe later, i'll show you my old ocs and some other stuff. Hope you enjoy reading this and dont forget to comment down below c;

What do you wanna know next? Feel free to ask me anything down below in the comment section. Have a nice day! Good night! ;3

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thevalicemultiverse · 5 years ago

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Get To Know the Muse(s) -- Alice & Victor

season: Alice -- early spring; Victor -- late spring

color: Alice -- blue and red; Victor -- blue

pie: Alice -- strawberry; Victor -- apple

fruit: Alice -- strawberries; Victor -- apples

ice cream flavor: Alice -- strawberry, chocolate, Neapolitan; Victor -- chocolate, Rocky Road, Cookies & Cream

breakfast food: Alice -- pancakes with syrup; Victor -- French toast and hard-boiled eggs

alcoholic drink: Alice -- Nothing; Victor -- Nothing (neither of them drink)

soda flavor: Alice -- Dr. Pepper; Victor -- root beer

scent: Alice -- Floral scents, catnip; Victor -- Tree scents, dog smells

flowers: Alice -- Roses, lilies; Victor -- daffodils, bluebells

animal: Alice -- cats, rabbits; Victor -- dogs, butterflies

movie: Alice -- The Truman Show (I think she’d find the main character relatable, and the whole movie fascinating); Victor -- Ghostbusters (a fun sci-fi/fantasy about busting ghosts! He also likes the sequel and the reboot)

tv show: Alice -- QI (it’s a show about weird facts and suchlike; right up her alley); Victor -- Castlevania on Netflix (I have personally not seen it, but I’ve heard good things, and it’s about vampires and kick-ass lady magic users and going up against evil -- he’d probably enjoy it)

book: For modern verses, anyway: Alice -- Monstrous Regiment from the Discworld series (she likes and relates to the main cast a lot); Victor -- Dragonsong from the Dragonriders of Pern series (he’s always wanted a pet dragon, and he relates to Menolly more than he thinks he should)

fairy tale: Alice -- Cinderella (she has a whole new appreciation for what the title character went through after Houndsditch -- also the mental image of Bumby getting his eyes pecked out by birds in the appropriate versions); Victor -- Snow White (he can’t help but feel a kinship with the princess who shares his color scheme -- plus he’s sometimes wondered if running off to a house of dwarves in the woods wouldn’t be better for him than his home life)

genre of music: Alice -- “moody” songs (like with heavy bass beats, dark lyrics, stuff like that), but she’s also fond of parodies; Victor -- classical (especially piano numbers), big musical numbers

genre of movies: Alice -- fantasy, comedy; Victor -- sci-fi, fantasy

genre of books: Alice -- fantasy, mystery; Victor -- fantasy, horror

Pick one.

hot or cold: Both prefer hot

juice or soda: Alice prefers juice; Victor is more likely to get a soda

tv or movie: Both would pick movie

movie or book: Both would pick book

late night talk shows or reality tv: I don’t think they’d like either, but if there was nothing else on, I think they’d pick reality TV -- might be more interesting, should provide plenty of opportunities to mock the television

twitter or instagram: I think both would prefer Instagram; Twitter would provide too many opportunities to annoy them

trees or flowers: Alice prefers flowers; Victor prefers trees

philosophy or psychology: Both are more into philosophy (Alice in particular doesn’t like psychology for what I hope are obvious reasons)

ocean or lake: Both are more familiar with lakes, at least in the real world; the Deluded Depths are fun in Wonderland, though!

water park or amusement park: I think they’d both prefer an amusement park, though one with water rides would be a good compromise

cats or dogs: Alice is a cat person; Victor is a dog person

fresh water or sparkling water: Both prefer fresh water

sugar or honey: In tea, I assume? I’d say both prefer sugar, though they both will eat honey

cookies or candy: Both prefer cookies (though Victor will definitely not say no to candy)

bath or shower: Alice prefers showers; Victor likes baths (even if he’s too long for most bathtubs!)

morning or night: Both tend toward night (even in verses where one of them doesn’t have to be nocturnal)

running or walking: Both like walking (particularly together); both tend to end up running from something at some point. XD

piercings or tattoos: Eh, I can’t see either of them getting either. . .but if it came down to it, I could see both going for a tattoo over piercings.

frozen yogurt or ice cream: Both prefer ice cream, but this doesn’t mean they won’t eat frozen yogurt

vanilla or chocolate: Both prefer chocolate

caramel or butterscotch: Both like caramel

art or music: Alice falls on the art side; Victor falls on the music one (though he’s also an accomplished artist, and Alice likes his music a lot)

t-shirt or button down: Alice is more likely to wear a plain t-shirt; Victor prefers a button-down

text or call: I think both prefer text -- less pressure that way, and Victor in particular finds it easier when he can do a draft or two of what he wants to say

ghosts or aliens: Both prefer ghosts (and are more likely to encounter them everywhere except my Sims game)

Have they ever.

ridden a motorcycle: Depends on the verse, but I’ve stated in the past I like the idea of Secundus!Alice getting her own steampunk motorcycle and roaring through the streets with a mildly-terrified Victor XD Most of the time, though, neither of them have.

stolen something: Again, verse-dependent -- most of the time, I’d say no for both, but the Catch Us!pair probably steal things from their victims, and just for survival purposes, while Londerland Bloodlines!Alice will occasionally pick up “vendor trash” to sell to Fat Larry. (Not so much once she starts getting money from more legit sources, though.)

eaten an entire pizza by themselves: Alice, probably not. Victor, yes. XD (Though it was over an entire night)

made a prank call: I can’t see either of them being the type, so no.

broken a bone: Somehow, neither of them have. Victor is as shocked as anyone about this. (Though he has sprained his ankle.)

fallen asleep during a concert or movie: A concert? Not to both? A movie? Not in theaters, but I can see them maybe falling asleep watching a super-late movie one night at home. (Cute mental image, actually.)

walked out of a movie because it was so bad: I personally think they’d stick it out to give it the MST3K/Rifftrax treatment (quietly) unless it properly offended them. So neither has done so yet, but it’s a possibility.

been on the phone with someone for longer than 2 hours: No, if only because I can’t think of any situation where they would have to be.

dined & dashed: Traditional form? No, neither. But Londerland Bloodlines!Alice has occasionally had to just grab a convenient person to drink from when she was low on blood. Sort of counts?

held a gun: This is verse-dependent -- the vast majority, no. But I’m sure the Catch Us pair have used guns on occasion (if their victim has one to wrestle away, anyway), and Londerland Bloodlines!Alice learned how to shoot to protect herself on the mean streets of L.A.

ding dong ditched: I can’t see either doing this -- except maybe Catch Us!pair, or Londerland Bloodlines!Alice, as some sort of distraction while they do something else. (LB!Alice is a master of Obfuscate, after all. . .)

gone skinny dipping: Nooope for both. Nope no never.

cried during a movie: Yes, though Alice generally hides it a bit better than Victor. She’ll only openly cry if she’s alone, or with people she trusts (generally Victor, add in Victoria, Emily, Lizzie, Bonejangles/Sam, Richard, and Christopher depending on verse).

smuggled food into a movie: Alice would, Victor wouldn’t -- but only because Victor can consistently afford concession prices. And to be honest, he’d probably help Alice smuggle in food if she asked.

lied to get a job: No -- if only because neither of them has ever had to (Victor of course comes from super-rich stock, and Alice generally either has a job given to her/forced on her, or picks something she knows she can get without lying)

practiced lines in front of a mirror: Victor has, for when he has to be Social with his parents -- it doesn’t usually help much, as his anxiety gives no shits about how much he practices. I can’t think of a situation for Alice to do so, but maybe if she needs to rehearse something difficult to say sometime. . .

tried to see how many marshmallows they can stuff in their mouth at once: Not as of this writing, but somehow I think they might at some point XD

been kicked out of somewhere: Yes, though for different reasons -- Alice because she was making a scene while stuck in Wonderland; Victor because his parents were making a scene and he was “collateral damage.” Oh, and I guess Victor was essentially kicked out of Burtonsville in both Forgotten Vows and Secundus. . .and then decided he never wanted to go back anyway

been on a blind date: Does a blind arranged marriage count? Actually, in more modern verses, the two sets of parents WOULD set the kids up on a date without introducing them first, so -- yeah, I guess Victor has. Alice, no.

ghosted someone: No -- unless you count Alice disappearing from Houndsditch as such in the “Catch Us If You Can” verse. Victor’s probably been ghosted once or twice by women who didn’t wish to continue their acquaintance. Not a pleasant experience.

bragged about something they haven’t done: Victor, no. Alice. . .edge case, as she’ll brag about stuff she’s done in Wonderland, not the real world. Which, considering the stuff she can pull off in Wonderland, I say -- let the woman brag.

said i love you without meaning it: No, neither. Alice only says it when she means it, and Victor has meant it every time he’s said it.

gotten in a fight: Yes to both, though how often depends on the verse.

fallen asleep on a bus: I can’t see either of them doing it, if only because I don’t think either would ever feel comfortable enough to fall asleep. Too many people and not exactly plush seats are not conducive to rest.

Miscellaneous.

how do they take their tea or coffee: Alice takes her tea with a couple of spoonfuls of sugar and a quick dash of milk; Victor puts so much sugar and milk into his it can barely be called “tea”

what is their ideal date: Depends on the verse, but a few favorites are going to the park on a picnic (Forgotten Vows and Secundus); either going dancing or staying at home for a private dance party (Cuddlepile); and going to the movies (Londerland Bloodlines). I’d also like for at least one skating date to happen in some verse. XD

what are some of their guilty pleasures: Alice has probably read and enjoyed some romance novels -- it’s a guilty pleasure in the sense of “Lizzie would probably never forgive me for reading these.” XD Victor, depending on the verse, has penny dreadfuls or comic books, which his mother disapproves of but he reads on the sly. He particularly enjoys superheroes and horror stories.

longest they’ve stayed up for: This would be dependent on verse, but I’m sure that both of them have stayed up at least one entire day for some reason at some point

greatest talent: For Victor, it’s definitely his piano skills -- he’s got a nice well of natural ability, and he’s put in the practice to get really good at it. For Alice, it’s storytelling -- she knows how to weave a good yarn, helped a lot by that active imagination of hers!

strange habits: Less “strange” and more “informed by her past trauma,” Alice tends to triple-check every fireplace in her current home to make sure it’s out before going to bed. Yes, it was deliberate arson that took down her family home, but she still gets antsy over leaving flame attended. She also tends to rock on her heels when in deep thought. Victor of course has his tie-pulling and general fidgeting when he’s nervous -- I can’t think of anything off the top of my head that he might have that is stranger.

first job: Alice’s would be her stint at Bumby’s -- she was maid and dogsbody in exchange for her keep and a smidgen of salary. Victor -- well, does helping his father do the books at his fish business count?

can they do a handstand: Alice probably could if she practiced enough, though I don’t know how long she could hold it. Victor could only do it against a wall, and even then he’d probably tip over after a couple of seconds.

can they cook: Yes -- they both have a baseline of “I can make a couple of edible items,” and improve from there. Victor in particular grows to like baking.

do they have allergies: Alice does not, but Victor is allergic to artichokes. Nothing life-threatening, fortunately, but it does result in an itchy rash all over his face and neck if he eats them.

do they believe in love in first sight: Alice never did -- Victor is willing to believe at least in attraction at first sight, thanks to his experiences with Victoria and Emily. He’s not sure about true love, though.

have any special talents: Well, I already mentioned playing piano for Victor, and storytelling for Alice. They’re also both quite good artists! Alice works in pencil, while Victor works in quill pen and ink. Victor is also a MASTER at climbing, thanks to finding that going vertical often helped him get away from his bullies growing up. And I’m sure Alice’s way with sarcastic comments must count too. :p

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Tagging: Taken me long enough that I’m sure most people I would have tagged have been tagged. Take this as a general “if you want to do it, feel free!”

#~M: what’s going on here? (meme)#~M: when he was a boy (headcanon)#long post #sorry it took me so long!#just a bit more difficult when you're doing it for two characters #and some of the questions I hadn't really thought about before #I struggled with the favorite books and tv shows and movies and such for a while #and then you have to consider a good number of these are verse dependent #I think it all came together in the end though #~M: with this hand I will lift your queue

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faerytalesfromtheabyss · 6 years ago

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Faerie Books For “Folk of the Air” Withdrawals

In my opinion, Holly Black is the gold standard for faerie books. She writes faeries in a way that draws on folklore, yet makes sense in the common day. She has concrete rules that her faeries never break (eg. aversion to salt and iron, their magic can’t work against charms, they can deceive but can’t lie, etc.) Faeries seem different than humans and we are constantly reminded that they are alien creatures (Eg. Performing monstrosities, their morality, the way they speak)

When faeries use magic it seems so natural to the universe Black has created that it doesn’t really feel like magic. The one time someone uses a spectacular display of magic that could be perceived as overpowered (at the end of The Wicked King), it’s someone coming into his powers and truly accepting his role as a king.

I’ve already written a pretty extensive post about the other books in Holly Black’s faerie universe (Modern Faerie Tale Series, Darkest Part of the Forest, Spiderwick, etc). Check that out if you’re looking for more Holly Black books and want to learn about my suggested reading order.

Under the cut, I’ll talk about other YA faerie books and some resources if you want to learn more about faerie folklore. You should also take into account that I’m super picky about books. Even though I gave a lot of them low ratings, I don’t regret reading any of them. I’m just overly critical, and there are specific trends and tropes that really bug me. Definitely look on Goodreads for a more detailed summaries and other reviews.

Let’s address some of the most popular faerie books first:

The Dark Artifices by: Cassandra Clare

If you like Holly Black, you’ll probably like (and probably already know) Cassandra Clare. They both write urban fantasy and they're both part of the same writing group. They even went on tour together.

The Mortal Instruments and Infernal Devices have faeries in them, but faeries don’t become a central point in the Shadowhunter universe until The Dark Artifices.

I’m still slowly trekking my way through Mortal Instruments Part II so I haven’t gotten to The Dark Artifices yet. And since events that happen in Mortal Instruments directly affect the characters in Dark Artifices, you can’t really skip directly to this series.

Throne of Glass by: Sarah J. Maas

I honestly can’t address the faeries in this series because I’ve only read the first 3 books, but I assume they’re going to be pretty similar to the fae in A Court of Thorns and Roses. Luckily, I heard this series picks up in book 4, so we’ll see. I honestly haven’t been very impressed with the first three books.

Okay, so here are some books I can give actually give insight into:

A Court of Thorns and Roses by: Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Thorns and Roses (3/5 Stars)

A Court of Mist and Fury (5/5 Stars)

A Court of Mist and Fury (4/5 Stars)

A Court of Frost and Starlight 2/5 (Honestly, there was no plot in this novella)

This talking point doesn’t have to do with faeries, but it’s something I think people should be aware of before picking up this series:

There are a lot of issues with consent (or more accurately, the lack there of) in A Court of Thorns and Roses. I don’t want to go into that here so I’ll link to a Mostly YA Lit blog post that points out the issues I have with the first book. I think A Court of Mist and Fury started to broach the issues of consent in ACOTAR, but it didn’t explore this topic as thoroughly as I would have liked.

Personally, I wouldn’t call this a good faerie series. Most of the faeries act far too much like humans. So much so, that I sometimes forget that they’re fae. They just act like humans with super powers. Folk lore elements—like faeries not being able to lie and aversion to iron—are thrown right out the window. All the characters (especially in the later books) are way overpowered. For you writers out there, this book is a good example of how to not employ a soft magic system.

While I wouldn’t call this a good faerie series, I would still call this an alright series. A lot of people love this series.

SMJ’s strongest skills are writing characters and exploring characters’ emotions. Although I a ton of issues with this series, I would be lying if I didn’t say that A Court of Mist and Fury is one of the best YA fantasy books to explore PTSD, pain, and healing.

The Scorpio Races: by Maggie Stiefvater (5/5 Stars)

Unlike the other books on this list, this book doesn’t focus on faery courts. The Scorpio Races focuses on one very specific type of faery, the eich uisce, a type of man-eating water horse from Celtic folklore. Every year on the island of Thisby, people capture and train these water horses in order to race them.

Like Holly Black’s books, Stiefvater incorporates folklore but adds her own twist. She’s very consistent with the magic rules she sets on water horses. (Eg. Bells and red ribbons can calm them, they have an aversion to iron, etc)

Now some less popular faerie books: An Enchantment of Ravens: (3/5 Stars)

This book takes place in a fantasy world with humans and faeries.

Here’s the downside: The heroine and love interest are very typical YA characters. (It was written in 2017, but it feels like it was written in 2007). There really isn’t anything unique about the main charters, and they didn’t have much chemistry.

Now, here’s the good stuff: The book has a very interesting interpretation of faeries. If faeries try to make anything (even cook), they will start to crumble away and die. The faeries find humans valuable because humans are able to make crafts. Humans can become fae... at a price—they have to give up their art. One of the interesting things though is that the heroine, an artist, is opposed to becoming immortal because she would have to give up her art.

The Wicked Lovely Series: Melissa Marr

Wicked Lovely 2/5

Ink Exchange 3/5

The Wicked Lovely Series is an urban fantasy series where the fae live invisible among humans.

The first book is very preachy at some points. And there’s a disconnect between the feminist values that the author attempts to display and what is actually in the story (how the characters behave, the plot, etc). Also, the author breaks the rules she sets up in her universe. (Eg. Faeries aren’t supposed to be able to go near iron… Oh wait, the strong ones can. Oh wait, it looks like pretty much all of them can with little affect.) Both books have issues with consent and women being controlled by fae.

Why do I continue to read this series? I like the world Marr created. It’s dark and intriguing so many authors forget the manevolent nature of faeries. Marr also has an interesting interpretation of how fae would live in cities. It reminds me a bit of Holly Black’s Modern Faerie Tale series. Also, I like that the endings of these books are different than most YA. To avoid spoilers, I’ll say there’s some subverting of tropes.

Wintersong by: S. Jae-Jones (2/5 Stars)

Wintersong takes place somewhere in Austria or Germany during the late 1700s. It’s like a combination of Pan’s Labyrinth, the poem Goblin Market, alderking folklore, and some Beauty and the Beast/Hades and Persephone thrown in.

One of the things I like about this book is that the main character is ugly and that never changes. Seriously, YA has too many jaw-droopingly-beautiful heroines. Being pretty has nothing to do with your value as a person. Can I please have some average or ugly heroines with good self esteem or that achieve good self esteem?

The goblins and their home are dark and twisted ( think Under the Mountain if you like SJM or unseelie court or )

While the writing is beautiful, this book is riddled with plot holes and things that don’t add up. The first half of the book is great and has to do with the main character saving her sister from the Goblin King/Alderking. Then it drifts off into never-never land. The plot diminishes. You can also tell that this book was originally going to be written for adults and was changed (seemingly at the last minute) to YA.

Also, there’s a lot of weird issues about sex. The main character is fixated on the idea that having sex will make her a woman. Also, it has that shitty misconception about women bleeding when they have sex for the first time. No, that shouldn’t happen. Fantasy books (especially YA which is aimed at young women) need to get rid of that trope. There’s also some shit that the heroine will die if she has sex with the Goblin King too often because it draws on her life-force or some shit.

Seriously, why is sex handled so poorly in so many of these books? How hard is it to have consensual sex that is handled normally. Hint: It’s not!

I would like to take a moment to thank Holly Black for writing Jude as a character (and even Taryn) with agency in her sex life.

The Iron Fey Series by: Julie Kagawa

I’m currently reading the first book in this series. Let me tell you, it feels very circa 2010 YA. A half-human-half-faerie girl goes to a magical land to save her brother from faeries. It leans a lot on characters from A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Resources for Learning More About Faery Folklore

Faeries by Brian Froud and Alan Lee

This is a really good, quick resource if you want to take a crash course in faerie lore. (Eg. Common types of fae, charms and protections against fae, the courts, faerie hills, etc)

An Encyclopedia of Fairies by: Katharine Briggs

If you want to know anything about the faeries of Ireland and the British isles, you can find it in this book. There’s a lot of fun stories about different fae, too.

Abbey Lubbers, Banshees, & Boggarts by: Katharine Briggs

If you find Briggs’s other book overwhelming, try this one. It’s a lot of the same information but more condensed.

The Lore Podcast by: Aaron Mahnke

This podcast talks about folklore and everything paranormal (from ghosts and clairvoyants to vampires and werewolves). I recommend the entire podcast but here are a few episodes with information about faeries:

Episode 5: "Under Construction”— Folklore about the huldufolk (elves) of Iceland

Episode 11: ”Black Stockings”— Folklore about changelings. I’m going to warn you, this episode is very done but very, very sad

Episode 14: "The Others” — Folklore about “little people” in various cultures, including púcas (one of my favorite fae)

Some YA Faerie Books I have on my TBR:

White Stag by: Kara Barbieri

The Perilous Gard by: Elizabeth Marie Pope

The Folk Keeper by: Franny Billingsley

The Goblin Emperor: Katherine Addison

Glimmerglass by: Jenna Black

Wings by: Aprilynne Pike

Bitter Frost by: Kailin Gow

Tam Lin by: Pamela Dean

Fablehaven by: Brandon Mull

That was a long post, so I thank you for taking the time to read it! Please reblog and add your favorite faerie books (especially if they’re similar to Holly Black’s books)! And feel free to DM me or slip a message in my ask box if you have any questions or want book recs.

Hopefully something on this list will hold us over until Queen of Nothing comes out!

#the cruel prince #the wicked king #tcp #twk #the folk of the air #folk of the air #Darkest part of the forest #modern faerie tale #tithe #ironside #faery #faery books #book recs

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dean-bluesteel-winchester-spnfam · 6 years ago

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Shareable questions. All of them.

👽 Do you believe in aliens?Not in the aliens everybody else seems to believe in with UFO’s and all that crap.

👽👽 If so, what do you think they look like?They look like normal people, because... you know what. Ask Cas. He is practically an alien.

🤡 Do you have any phobias?Yeah. Snakes? Ugh. Spiders? Ugh!! Planes? UGH. (But it’s so funny the emoji for this one is clown. Perfect for Sammy.)

💀 What is your favourite thing to do?I... I have no idea. Maybe watching western movies with Cas? I never thought about this before, because normally there is just stuff that I have to do. Kissing Cas is for sure in my top 3 as well.

☕ Name the tastiest hot beverage.Ugh, you can’t tell anyone but I enjoy hot vanilla milk. I mean coffee. It’s totally just plain coffee.

🥛 Name the tastiest cold beverage.Beer.

😇 What do you believe is your most angelic quality?ANGELIC QUALITY. I don’t have one. Seriously, I don’t think I can ever be somthing as angelic.

👹 What do you believe is your most devilish quality?That I don’t wait to pull my trigger. I killed people before. Hell, I torture monsters all the time. I’m not any better than them.

🧜‍♀️ If you could be any mythical creature, what would you be and why?Mythical, well most of them are actually real, but whatever. ( Normally I’d say angel? But you know, not really worthy - so lets go with a monster.)I think being a mermaid would be cool? All day in the water, the other hot merpeople. Yeah I think that would be nice.

😻 Describe the sweetest moment you have had with a pet.The sweetest. When I was like 16 we stopped in a small town for a hunt. It took Dad almost 6 weeks to find the vampire, so Sammy and I had to go to school there. It was horrible. While Sammy of course had lots of friends, I didn’t. I skipped a lot of classes and waited outside for Sammy and there was the cute little dog living with an old man right next to the school. I petted him every time I waited and he ... was so happy to see me everyday.Sometimes I would even share my breakfast with him or walk with him, when his owner was too tired. God this was ages ago, but I was heartbroken, when we left that town.So never getting a pet again. Hurts just like hell, when they leave.

🌎 What is your most far-fetched ‘bucket list’ item?I don’t think there is one? Nothing is really far-fetched in my life. But I’d like to have a swimming pool.

🤔 Describe the most influential person in your life.Well he is not really from this world, but he always fights for the things he loved. He was born as a solider, but learned what it means to have a free will and there is no one else, who loves this unconditional.

🤯 Do you have a mental illness?Pretty sure, yeah. PTSD definitely. Maybe depression, too. I have panic attacks at night (when nobody sees them). Anxiety and stuff. I got it all.

🦄 If you could shape-shift into an animal at any time, what would it be and why?Huh, great question. Maybe a dog, I kinda was one before and it was kinda fun you know. Have an owner and all, must be nice.

🍣 Are you a sushi connoisseur?No ew. Why would I eat sushi when I can have burgers?

🤓 Do you consider yourself a nerd?Mhh. While I do call Sam and Cas a nerd all the time, I can admit that MAYBE I’m one too. Probably more of geek, but whatever. Maybe it already makes me a nerd saying that.

📆 Have you set goals for your life? Or are you just living life in the moment?I do have set goals, but I feel like I have to just live my life, since I could easily die any day. So maybe that are just wishes and not really goals. I take the days as it comes.

📆📆 If you have made goals, name a few.Wishes. They are wishes. I would love to be married (so close!!) and would like to have a big family one day. Get some kids, get some nieces and nephews. Maybe get all my friends back. Imagine Bobby babysitting my kids or Charlie teaching them how to cheat in games.

📆📆📆 If you’re living life in the moment, explain away.Ugh I explained it above. Hunter = big chance of dying. Again.

🤩 Name a famous celebrity you dream of meeting.I wish I could meet Led Zeppelin.

🌙 Are you a moon or sun person?Sun probably, but I do love them moon as well.

🚀 If you could travel back in time to any era, where would it be?I wish I would’ve gotten this question years back, because then I would’ve said, when the Cowboys were still a big thing. But honestly? That was just a big disappointment. I didn’t like the whiskey, I looked stupid and people hated me there. So no traveling back, thank you.

🚀🚀 What kind of life would you want in this era?Well I just wished it would’ve been as awesome as I always thought. Me being the cool sherriff and getting hot chicks. (Or Cas, but lets be honest. They’d kill us)

🦕 Do you wish dinosaurs existed in our modern world?Holy shit YES.

🦕🦕 If so, would you want a dino pet? Name the kind.I would love a dino pet!! Uhm... give me a triceratops.

🎃 Name your favourite holiday.I hate them all, but christmas was nice, when Mom was still alive.

😊 What do you believe is your most redeeming quality?That I never give up?

😴 Do you get enough sleep?No. Normally I get my four - five hours and I always say that’s fine, but it’s not. Seriously I wish I could sleep more. But you know, nightmares, hunting and all that crap. Maybe I should start with naps again.

🏈 Are you a sport enthusiast?Yes! While I hate to move my own ass, I love sports. Wrestling is amazing. (and yes that counts).

🦂 Describe your best friend.Oh easy. Big blue eyes, dark wild hair. Tilts his head way too often and can’t wink properly. Smiles so rare but so beautiful. Wants to help everyone and loves the nature. Has the biggest heart and gets hurt too often.

🥑 Fruits or veggies?Fruits.

🤞 If you could snap your fingers like Thanos from The Avengers, what would you make happen?Tha. Bring Iron Man back? No uhm, I’d kill every monster on earth. Make it peaceful.

😎 Do you consider yourself a cool kid or a total square?I wish I was a cool kid.

🍭 Do you have a sweet tooth?Yeah! Nothing better than some chocolate or pie, but it’s not as bad as Gabriel’s.

🏥 Do hospitals freak you out?Not really. I mean I don’t like them, but I’m so often in one, it kinda gets boring.

🍕 What’s the best pizza topping?Meatlover.

🧘‍♀️ When was the last time you did something just for you?Can’t remember.

🎣 Have you ever been fishing?Yeah a lot. Dad took me already when I was a kid.

👶 Do you want to have children someday?Yes. As soon as we are ready.

🥔 Name your favourite form of the potato.There is no favorite. I love them all.

🌵 Do you have a green thumb?Not at all. Glad Cas has.

🐩 If you have one, name your dream dog(s).Small ones... that don’t remember me of hellhounds?

🍂 Winter, spring, summer or fall?Summer and spring. I hate hunting in the winter or fall, but then again it gives me an excuse to hide into even more flannels.

🐳 Does the ocean freak you out or entice you?Entice me.

🐚 Ever been scuba-diving or deep-sea fishing?Nope! but Scuba-diving sounds amazing.

📸 Do you take a lot of photos?Ehhh I never really did, because why would I? Now I take pictures of Cas or Sam all the time. They hate it.

🎵 Name your three favourite artists/bands.Led Zeppelin, Motorhead, Metallica.

🎵🎵 What about your three favourite genres?Rock, Rock and Rock.

🎸 Can you play an instrument(s)?Never had the time, but I would love to play the guitar.

🔬 What was the best class in high school?P.E. I wanted to be a cheerleader, but couldn’t for obvious reasons.

🔬🔬 What about the worst class?Every other class. I was bad at everything.

🕹 Name the video game you have wasted the most time playing.Never played one.

🕹🕹 Name your favourite video game.I don’t think I even know one.

🔪 Do you have an interest in serial killers or do they just freak you out?Ohh Sammy boy has some real interest about serial killers! Holy shit. I don’t care mostly.

🦗 Do bugs give you the heebie-jeebies?Yes. God there was one time Sammy and I were caged in with a milliion of bugs and NOPE. Never again.

🎱 Confess the last wish you made on a magic 8 ball.Please let Cas love me back.

😑 Describe the most annoying thing ever.I’m so easily annoyed. You ever hunted some asshole ghost completely wet because he threw you into a pool? Fucking annoying to walk back to Baby for three miles in wet clothes. But also small things, when nobody listens to you. When there is a mess in my kitchen. When people assume stuff without knowing me.

☺ Describe the greatest thing ever.Waking up late and cuddling more into the warm sheets, while Cas tightens his arms around me. I love to pretend to be still asleep, just to see what he does.

🏠 Growing up, how was your home life?It was hell. I was practically an adult at the age of six. I mean I love Sammy more than myself (which is not hard btw) and I would take care of him anytime, but I never had... friends or fun and all that jazz.

😜 Are you silly or serious?Silly. But I can be serious if needed.

🥩 Steaks: Well-done, medium-rare, or still mooing?Medium-rare. But lets be honest, I eat every kind.

🍄 In your opinion, are mushrooms tasty little morsels or just a dirty fungus?Ew. I wouldn’t know, I don’t eat that stuff.

🥑 Best way to eat an avocado?To not eat it. :)

⛪ Are you spiritual?Haha, I have no idea how to answer that one.

⛪🕌 If so, describe your beliefs.Well?!?! I obviously believe in everything.

🍔 Burgers or dogs?Does that question imply, people eating dogs is a normal thing? Burgers.

😤 Describe something that gets under your skin.Unfairness.

🧟‍♀️ Do you think the world will end in zombies?Apparently it does, because that is just what happened.

🐉 Is there a dragon you chase?Yes.

🥞 In your personal opinion, should food be free to everyone?YES. Seriously.

🐍 What animal are you scared of, if any?Spiders and snakes. @anangelamuse-castiel-spnfam

#that took me ten years of my life #oh god #Cas remember that I love you

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stylinsonlibrary · 7 years ago

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Halloween Fic Rec

Includes: fics where it’s Halloween, Alien fics, Demon fics, Supernatural/Ghost fics, Vampire fics, Werewolf fics, Witch fics, and Thriller fics! Happy reading and Happy Halloween!

HALLOWEEN FICS

Made Just For Me (2k)

“What the fuck are you doing?”

From where he’s sitting on the floor, Harry chooses not to answer. Instead, he continues laying out old newspapers around him. He layers them so they completely cover the carpet, leaving no space for anything to stain.

“Harry,” Louis’ voice comes again. “What are you doing?”

“I’m getting ready to carve a pumpkin,” Harry replies simply, still not looking at Louis.

“But…why?”

Or, Harry and Louis carve a pumpkin.

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene (2k)

When Louis takes his son trick-or-treating in a stormtrooper costume, little does he know by the end of the night he will end up gaining a Luke Skywalker, a Chewbacca, and a Rey. He doesn't mind the additions, and if Rey's very hot dad wants to come along as well, he doesn't mind that too much either.

What Goes Up, Ghost Around (2k)

Harry and Louis have a habit of falling into each other time and time again. Harry thinks he'd be more angry if it wasn't so good.

I'll be your trick if you'll be my treat. (2k)

Harry and Louis have been married for a while. Lately they have a problem in finding time for each other. As they plan to attend Niall’s Halloween Party a bit of trouble and dirty deeds occur.

Halloween Night (3k)

Harry and Louis spend Halloween night in. Just something absolutely cute and fluffy because I'm in a Halloween mood tonight!

Everyone's Waiting for the Next Surprise (4k)

"Is that a banana in your pocket or are you just excited to see me?"

Harry jumps and almost drops the bottle he's holding in his hands and whips around to see Spiderman leaning up against the doorjamb to the kitchen. Harry can't see his face due to his mask, but he knows this guy has got to be deadly attractive if his body is anything to go by. He’s clad head to toe in a skintight spandex suit that hugs him in all the right places. His thighs are so thick, Harry wants to put his face in between them. And what the hell are these shots doing to him?

He stumbles a little when he reaches out to place the bottle back on the counter. And when did he become such a lightweight? He gently strokes along the bottom part of his banana costume that's sticking out between his legs and lowers his voice as best as he can. "I am very excited to see you. Banana's got a thing for men who are also spiders."

Or the one where Harry goes to a Halloween party dressed as a banana and meets Spiderman.

Tricking and Treats (4k)

Louis takes his sisters Trick or Treating and just so happens to knock on Harry's door.

A Boo-tiful Relationship (5k)

Louis is hopeless in the kitchen and his daughter is demanding a smorgasbord of spooky treats. He gets help from the most unlikely teacher.

Beep the Horn (5k)

“Listen, I’ve tried to be helpful," Niall said. "But it's been three years. It’s time for you to make the move. There’s only so much encouraging I can do before it starts to get repetitive. And annoying.”

“I feel so loved,” Louis deadpanned.

“Of course we love you, Lou,” Zayn said. “We just need you to tell Harry how you feel so you can stop feeling so down on yourself.” Or, the one where Harry dresses as Miley Cyrus for Halloween, and Louis is the tiniest bit in love with him.

This is Halloween (5k)

Louis hates frat boys. Harry Styles is a frat boy. Therefore, Louis hates Harry Styles right? The Greeks on campus are throwing a carnival on Halloween night. Louis crafts the perfect plan to prank Harry at the carnival, except, things don't quite go quite as expected. What do you get when you toss two boys who hate each other (except they don't), a hay maze, and a prank gone wrong into a bubbling cauldron? Read to find out!

Turquoise Pumpkin (5k)

Louis is just trying to do the best he can for his daughter and along the way, he meets the most mesmerizing man.

My Arms Are Hungry For You (6k)

“Sorry, don’t tell me you’re actually a fan of the Red Devils,” says another voice, and Harry looks beyond Nick to see a guy standing there, taking long sips from a bottle.

“I-I am,” Harry stutters, pulse racing at the sight of him. His face is covered in white makeup, and he’s wearing a well-fitting white shirt, black pants, and a long black cape, a set of fake teeth in his mouth. “Don’t tell me you’re actually a vampire.”

Or the one where Harry and Louis meet at Nick Grimshaw's Halloween party and things go better than anyone could have expected.

Fallen treats (6k)

Harry hates both Halloween and Louis Tomlinson. He does, however, love his little sister a lot. Hence why he puts on his ears and his tail and joins her, her friends and their big brother for a round of trick or treating.

Some Day My Prince Will Come (7k)

Everyone thinks we came to this party as a couple because our costumes match. What’s your name?

Faith, Trust, and a Little Pixie Dust (7k)

Louis loves Halloween. Harry hates everything about it, but he loves Louis. And Niall loves vodka and glitter so there's that.

Or the one where Harry has been pining for his best friend and roommate for years. It takes a costume party, an Irish fairy and a sprinkle of pixie dust to give this fairytale prince his happy ending.

Kryptonite (8k)

Louis watches with hooded eyes as Harry’s adam's apple bobs up and down a few times, before licking his lips and slowly bringing his eyes back up to Louis’.

Even in this lighting Louis can see how dilated his pupils have become, and imagines his must look similar.

“Are you wearing lace under your top, Lou?” Harry asks, voice deep with a rough edge that sends a shiver down his spine.

“I’m wearing lace under my everything, Harold.” he says coyly, batting his mascara laden lashes slowly.

For the first time in all of the years they’ve been working together both Louis and Harry are single at the same time. With their company’s annual Halloween bash just around the corner, both men decide it might just be the perfect time to take a risk, and maybe get a little risqué with their costumes in the hopes that the reward might be each other.

it's only you that matters (10k)

“I never used to care for Halloween, but now it’s my favorite holiday and, fuck, there’s no one else to blame except for you. You’ve made not only Halloween, but every day of the year better for me because I get to spend each and every one of them with you.”

The one where Harry and Louis meet on Halloween and Halloween somehow becomes their thing.

Baby I got the power (12k)

“That’s not actually half bad, you know?”

“What?” Louis asked, furrowing his brows.

“Yeah like it is silly, sure but so is this whole idea,” Zayn added. Liam made an affronted sound. “No offense Liam but you have to admit. It is a bit silly. But Power Rangers and nostalgia... Louis really has a good idea right there.”

“I’m a little offended by that, Zayn, I’ll admit but you might be onto something there.”

Or where they dress up as Power Rangers and Harry is the Pink Power Ranger.

It'll Be (13k)

Louis has always wanted children and he decides he's done waiting for love to come first. However, after adopting a baby girl just days after she's born, he quickly realizes how hard parenting is. Louis hires Harry to be his Nanny, and it all works out great. Until Louis falls in love with him.

haunted house (series; 19k; 2 works)

Float Down Like Autumn Leaves (Stay Now) (16k)

Sometimes life plays more tricks than treats on us. Sometimes we plan our future and hope for the best but our world is turned upside down. Sometimes the crispy air of October brings the smell of pumpkin spice candles instead of dead things- and sometimes, when it’s meant to be, there’s absolutely nothing we can do about it.

The AU in which Louis has a 6 year old daughter with a costume emergency that puts her school's annual Halloween party at risk, Halloween decorated cupcakes are hard to find and tall men look absolutely ridiculously cute in giant vegetables costumes. Co-starring Harry, who makes really good food for the kids. Featuring Niall, who works in a bakery but has a part time job as a babysitter. And as much as he doesn't believe in love at first (or second) sight, Louis is really infatuated and really wouldn't mind seeing Harry again.

ALIEN FICS

Got This Feeling In Our Souls (8k)

Louis sat up, awoken by something he couldn’t quite put a finger on. He scrubbed at his eyes, unsure if he was actually still dreaming or if he was awake. He didn’t dream often, but when he did they were always vivid like this. Louis opened his eyes and squinted through the darkness before jumping back, his heart racing.

Dream or not, there was a person sitting in the chair in the corner of the room. The chair that usually was only used by Charlie while Louis slept.

“Who the fuck are you and how did you get in my apartment?” Louis asked, voice a bit more squeaky than he’d like to admit. Suddenly there were two flashes of green, and the world went black again.

Alien Roadtrip! (16k)

For the first time in his life, Louis doesn’t know where he’s going. Harry doesn’t mind.

OR: roadtrip with desert feelings, too much snack food, and empty motels. Harry is definitely absolutely not an alien. That would be ridiculous.

Alone in a Sea of Stars (21k)

He shifted his helmet, where it was still in his hands, watching the fluorescent lights shine off of Harry’s hair and reflect off his skin.

Louis knew he would have to let Harry leave, but before doing so he licked over his dry lips, asking genuinely, “So are you going to follow me back to the ship again tomorrow or…?”

Harry smiled in reply, dimples going all soft and sweet. “Going to wait until right before you close the doors again so you have no choice but to keep me.”

Louis felt his skin warming and a small laugh bubbling up from his chest, as he bit down on his lower lip to stop his smile from growing. He cleared his throat, “I don’t know what you’re talking about. I could probably kick you out right now if I wanted.” The thing was, Louis knew he wouldn’t. He could wait at least ten more minutes before he let Harry leave. Maybe even twenty.

A King Beside You (25k)

When the aliens invade, the last thing Louis expects is to fall in love.

Cosmic Love (27k)

Sudden chills rake over his body yet again, making him stay rooted to the ground. Static in the air makes every hair on his body stand up straight. That’s when he notices something a couple feet in front of him lying on the ground. It’s what appears to be a person, weird white beams snaking around them like Christmas lights. Louis’ heart rate picks up. Is the person alright? What are they doing here? What the fuck is happening? Or: Louis lives in a small, desert town in the middle of nowhere Texas, yet a strange visitor manages to find Louis among the stars.

alien harry (series; 2 works; 36k)

Beautiful & Strange (40k)

Over the top of Niall’s cackles, Louis heard Zayn say: “I think it’s…. A spaceship.”

Louis and Niall turned to him in bafflement. Zayn put his hands up in surrender. “What! It’s clearly floating, so it’s not a rock, and it’s not made of wood or plastic or metal.”

Louis didn’t even bother telling him that, no, of course it’s not a spaceship, this isn’t the x-files.

OR: A story in which Harry is an alien looking to be found, and Louis does the finding. (And vice versa.)

Glow (41k)

Alien AU, with a hint of Royal AU. A summer barbecue at the Tomlinson’s is interrupted by a naked visitor from a peaceful planet far, far away. Can an alien and a human survive a summer together for the sake of the human race?

Won’t sleep (48k)

Roswell!AU: After a situation at the pub escalates, Louis almost dies, but Harry is there to bring him back and nothing is ever the same again.

through struggles, to the stars (80k)

Louis is a Starfleet captain trying to find his place in the universe. Harry is a prince just trying to do what’s right.

A Star Trek-inspired AU.

DEMON FICS

My Sweet, Sweet Love. (1k)

Louis is an angel. Harry is a demon. They fall in love. Its forbidden.

Two different versions of the universe (11k)

Harry is a demon, captured by hunters. but not just any hunters. Angels. Louis is his angel.

A bit of happiness (11k)

Harry is a new angel, given a task to help a troubled kid, Liam, but a certain little Demon keeps getting in the way.

Run Like the Devil (series; 157k; 2 works)

SUPERNATURAL/GHOSTS FICS

we've got unfinished business (6k)

“Maybe we have a ghost,” Harry suggests, frowning when Louis laughs. “Lots of people have them, you know.”

“Harry, ghosts aren’t real,” Louis snorts, shaking his head as he makes his way back to the kitchen. Harry pouts for a moment, until he hears Louis shriek on the other side of the door.

Or, there’s a ghost in Harry and Louis’s apartment that seemingly just wants them to date.

Just Around the Corner (7k)

Louis' routine life is interrupted by the repeated appearance of... something. A ghost? A stranger? A hallucination?

Veni, Vidi, Amavi (10k)

Harry remembers why he stayed now, why he’s always had that feeling of waiting. He was holding out for Louis, his soulmate. He was keeping his promise.

You and Me and the Devil Makes Three (10k)

AU. Louis moves in next door to Harry. Louis has a ghost, Harry has an extra futon and a crush.

Poison Me With Love (11k)

Gemma hums for a couple of seconds, and then, she gasps. “What if your flat is haunted?”

“Gemma, that’s not funny,” Harry says.

“No, I’m serious. I was just watching a show about it the other day. There’s, like, spirits and stuff that roam around different places. Maybe one of those spirits lives in your flat.” She says it like it’s such a common thing that Harry rolls his eyes. His sister would be watching shows like that, but Harry doesn’t appreciate that she’s telling him all this, not only because Harry is already spooked, but also because he lives alone in a flat that has weird things happening to him, and the last thing he needs is to be losing sleep over wondering if there’s some sort of spirit living in his home.

Or- There are strange things happening in Harry's flat and he's determined to figure out the cause.

you look so good in blue (20k)

“You don't believe in ghosts, do you, Mr. Styles?”

If he's honest with himself, Harry's not sure what his stance is on the subject. So he just smiles and shrugs before leaving. After all, he's never actually met a ghost, that he knows about. Besides, even a ghost wouldn't bring him down on how affordable the rent on the flat is.

Or: Harry Styles hears about a perfect flat from his roommate Zayn's boyfriends and decides to sign the lease. The only problem is: the flat has a reputation for being haunted. It certainly doesn't help that Harry's cat is seeing things as soon as they move in...

Gracious Goes the Ghost of You (25k)

And there it was again. That heaviness, that shift in the air that makes everything feel just a little slower. It’s like just moving forward makes him sore from the exertion. It’s not in the least physical, it’s his heart and mind and soul that feels stretched and pushed too far. It’s those moments, where his heart feels like it’s thudding only because it still can, that Louis feels the itch to glance at the clock. When he aches to know how long it’s been and maybe a part of him is wondering how long it will be. If this time, when he checks the clock, he’ll feel the same shame for his long stint of grief, but it will be followed by some sort of pride. He’s made it this far, and “because it still can” is a perfectly good reason for his heart to keep beating.

“What are you thinking about?” Harry asks.

Louis hums, shifting a little to rest his head on top of Harry’s. “Is this your new question?"

“Yeah,” he whispers, softly.

“Just… thinking about how long it’s been. And how long it may be before it doesn’t hurt so much anymore."

Harry is a ghost who comes to visit. Louis feels like a ghost, himself. In forgiveness, they find their way back to life.

Across The Lines (28k)

With a camera in hand, Louis sets off on the road trip of his life to explore the most famous haunted houses of the UK. Things don't exactly go to plan.

The Haunting of Louis Tomlinson (31k)

“I'm not afraid of ghosts,” Louis said.

Every single magnet unstuck itself from the fridge and fell to the floor in a clattering cascade.

“I'm only a little afraid of ghosts,” Louis said.

OR: Louis is a plucky Gothic Heroine, Harry is a Mournful Spirit, and Big Country Houses are full of mystery and suspense, as Big Country Houses ever are!

Psychic / FBI (series; 57k; 2 works)

Ghosts in the Attic (series; 36kl 2 works)

Through Eerie Chaos (102k)

For as long as anyone can remember, Old Hillsbridge Manor has always been believed to be haunted. Everyone in the village agrees and keeps a respectful, fearful, distance. New in town after a bad breakup and an internship that led to disappointment rather than a permanent job, Harry Styles figures taking pictures of the decrepit building could be a great new creative project. Or at least a much-needed distraction while he searches for a job and crashes at his parents’ new house. No one warned him about the apparitions though; about the music, the laughter, the people who flicker and vanish when you call after them, the echoes of a past that should be long gone… Harry has never believed in spirits but even he can admit that there’s something weird going on. What starts as mere curiosity evolves into a full-blown investigation and soon enough, Harry finds himself making friends with an aristocrat from the 1920s and struggling with finding the best way to tell him that he’s dead.

The Ghost Hunter AU where Niall lives to prove ghosts are real, Zayn is a skeptical librarian and Harry gets caught up in a century-old mystery and catches feeling in the process.

VAMPIRE FICS

Howls Like A Beast (You Flower, You Feast) (16k)

France, 1754. Château de Versailles.

“You don’t love me,” Louis had said, utterly blasé as he callously fractured the heart of a Harry that was just barely eighteen.

“I do,” Harry had insisted pleadingly, green eyes already watering.

Louis had rolled his eyes, exasperated and flippant in the way only beautiful, young boys could be when faced with the affections of a baby prince. He had run his finger down Harry’s cheek then, had forced him to look into his eyes as he delivered the final blow.

“You’ll change your mind once you’ve seen more of the world,” Louis had teased, pressing a brutally delicate kiss onto Harry’s lovely, pure cheek. “Once you’ve been properly defiled.” He had whispered filthily, delighted by the gasp he heard, the frantic pink blush that had rested high on Harry’s cheeks, the power he had felt at knowing he could make the Crown Prince squirm.

Can I just be the same? (17k)

“Are you skint?” Louis studied his face. “I can give you the bloody bus fare home, Harry. You don't have to walk.” His voice was soft. Caring.

Harry stopped, his body tingling. Fuck. He shouldn’t have crossed the road. Keep walking. Always keep walking.

“I’m not skint, but thanks for the offer. There’s not many kind people like you around. You’re lovely, you know that?” Harry reached his hand out tentatively, cupping Louis’ elbow and squeezing. “Thank you.” His voice hitched a little.

He’d roamed the country for centuries, coming in and out of people’s lives, never able to forge bonds. Or, if he did, breaking them and suffering the pain of lost love. That was his life forever. Stuck in this limbo with not one other person in the whole world who cared about him. So the kindness of a stranger really hit home, and this stranger with the bluest eyes and brightest smile was making Harry feel alive again. Reminding him of what he was missing

Harry is a two hundred year old Vampire with no one in the whole world and Louis is the kind hearted stranger who comes into Harry's life bringing something that Harry had missed. Love. But Harry is forever running, can Louis be the one to change all that?

Darkest Night Hour (24k)

After spending thirty-five years hiding out with his face buried in ancient vampire texts, Louis comes back to New York City. While Louis is adjusting to city life in the modern age, Zayn just wants his clan to finally win at trivia nights. Louis needs to make a major decision and he's running out of time. The last thing he expects is to meet someone like Harry, who might be the solution to all of their problems.

Carnelian (30k)

“It’s a donor matching center for humans and vampires.”

“Vampires.” Louis snorts. “Like pretend vampires, like for people who think they are vampires?”

The humor clearly lost on Zayn as he answers calmly, “No, real vampires.”

“There’s no such thing as vampires.” Louis rolls his eyes. “You’re fucking with me or something.” Louis flicks his cigarette to the ground.

“I’m not.” Zayn speaks, his tone harsh and deeper than Louis remembers. “There are vampires all around you. We are quite civilized beings. We have careers, business, and we enjoy nights out on the town just like humans do. We aren’t savages. We blend in with the rest of the world. However, no advancement in science has fixed our one problem that makes us different than humans...We still need blood to live and we love it fresh from the source.”

Louis finds himself donating blood to the most beautiful being he's ever seen.

I Will Never Rust (38k)

What was Harry meant to say? Yes Louis, I’d date you. I want to make you come repeatedly so that must mean I have a thing for you yeah? No. Because it doesn’t mean that, because Harry refuses to get attached to anyone he wants to fuck.

Harry wants to suck more than just Louis’ blood but Louis refuses to sleep with Count Dickula.

Into The Meadow's Dawn (42k)

But it is noon and the clouds are sweeping across the sky, a breeze making the ride home pleasant and the short walk from the station bearable. And upon opening the box a white, inconspicuous letter has plunked to the floor. And the reason for Harry sinking against the cool walls is not drunkenness or exhaustion from work or a sneaking wariness of life, no. It’s the sending address. There is none. Just a name. In scrawny writing.

Love, Louis is what she zeroes in first. Love, Louis. A sob forms in her throat. She will be back, it says, Louis will be back. On the second of June. Waiting in front of the French café they used to work in during the late eighties, at midday, if it still stands, it says. If not, she will be waiting anyway, it says.

Or: It's been three decades since Harry had last seen Louis. She hasn't been coping too well, with being alone in a city that used to be their home, with taking care of herself, with finding her purpose in the world. It's summer now and the flowers are blooming all around her, throwing her back into memories she'd rather keep locked away. Of course, this is when the letter arrives.

Among the Humans (129k)

A gothic, modern day vampire romance between a young human named Louis Tomlinson, and Harry Styles, ancient vampire and gentleman.

Creatures of the night come with more trouble than they wish to make it seem.

WEREWOLF FICS

Heart Devoured by alittlewicked (4k)

When Louis came to, it was with a start, claws sunken into the mattress below him and the foreign but somehow familiar scent of vanilla and cinnamon deep in his lungs. With blood rushing heavy in his ears, he rutted down into the soft bed and whined breathily at the relief the movement brought him.

“Come on, Lou, look at me!”

Carefully he rolled over and slowly blinked his eyes open for the first time that day. And came face to face with Harry, Niall’s business partner and the most beautiful boy Louis knew.

Or the No Control / Werewolf AU with fairytale elements and some fortune cookies where Louis is a new werewolf suffering from awkwardly popping claws and ears at all times that wakes up to Harry (who he may or may not have a crush on) in his bed when all he can remember is taking a little frog home with him to help him over a break-up.

Being Human by jacinth (series; 3 works; 8k)

fortune’s fools by dramaturgicallycorrect (8k)

It’s about respecting the night and the reason they’ve come together. It’s a rite of passage, as it were, a symbol of status, and that’s the only thing that keeps Louis from skiving off and going for a run with Liam.

And he knows Lottie would chew off his left arm if he kept her away from the first All Hallows’ Ball she’s eligible for. So he keeps himself plastered to her side as soon as they step into the foyer, works hard at keeping his claws at bay once they’re behind enemy lines. It’s a hard habit to unlearn, but he’s trying.

Louis likes an armistice as much as the next lad, but until he sees some sort formal treaty, he generally trusts the vamps about as far as he can throw them. Which is, admittedly, quite far, but not far enough. He’s here to represent the pack, and that’s all. He won’t pick a fight. But he will finish one if it starts, he has to. The war resumes at sunrise anyway.

Or two immortal households, both alike in dignity.

I Would Follow You (To the Moon and Back) by Dick (20k)

Everyone has baggage, some people sleepwalk, some have obsessive exes, and others turn into anthropomorphic wolf-like monsters that destroy furniture and run rampant in the forest. Perfectly normal.

Or the one where Harry and Louis have been dating for six months, Harry is a werewolf, and it’s a full moon. This time they’re going to get it right.

break open the sky by karamelised (20k)

Being a werewolf isn’t always easy. Especially if you have no idea what you’re doing.

or a Werewolf au. Harry might be a werewolf, but he still wants to experience Uni like everyone else. Turns out he learns a lot.

Out of the Wild by jaerie (21k)

Louis has spent most of his life as a wolf in the wild, Harry has spent most of his life as a human in the city. Their worlds collide during the audition process for the hottest new singing competition. What happens next should have expected.

night changes by colourexplosion (series; 2 works; 44k)

But Please, Don’t Bite by shyserious (series; 2 works, 128k)

amaryllis by hattalove (146k)

“Where are we?”

“Um. A little while out of London?” Niall tries, seemingly the only one willing to not be mysterious and provide Harry with information, and. Oh.

“London London? As in, the capital of England London?” he asks, just in case he’d misheard.

“No, the other London,” Louis laughs, low and biting. He comes closer finally, the moonlight just enough to reveal a sharp-cut jaw and pale skin. “Sorry, Pup.” Nobody’s ever called Harry a “pup”. Frankly, he finds it quite insulting, but he lets it slide to try and comprehend his current crisis.

or the one where harry gets bitten by a werewolf. louis is the mysterious not-quite alpha, liam and zayn have Things going on, niall is their token human, and together, they watch a lot of TV.

WITCH FICS

what’s inside your imagination (is as real as anything else) (3k)

“Hey!” Niall shouts suddenly, scaring Harry nearly out of his hat. “We like your costume!”

The ghost turns to glance at Niall, producing a hand from under the sheet and giving him a thumbs up. Harry can’t help but laugh a little more, the casual gesture adding to the entire vibe of the sunglasses-wearing ghost.

The ghost looks at them for a moment longer before turning and disappearing into the crowd again, and Harry sighs. “I love Halloween,” he says thoughtfully.

Or, Harry’s a witch who likes to pretend he’s a human pretending he’s a witch, and Louis’s the human in a not-so-clever costume that keeps catching his eye.

Always Darkest before the Sunrise (7k)

Salem, Massachusetts, 17th century.

“You have attacked without need and without mercy, you have used arts so dark they are of the Evil One, and for that you cannot be allowed to walk free.”

What?

Harry starts struggling. It’s no use, he’s not even doing it with any sort of rational plan, the whole town at this point stands between him and freedom, but the words leaking from the preacher’s lips are filling him with a bile more sickening than he’s ever known.

“Harry Styles, ward of the church no longer, you are under arrest for the use of witchcraft against the innocent townspeople of Salem, Massachusetts.”

Babe, There’s Something Lonesome About You by patdkitten (8k)

Louis is a hedge witch, who lives a lonely, solitary life. He’s quite happy with his shop in Door County, selling New Age magics to the tourists. He also has his cats and his birds to keep him company. But his best friend Liam thinks he needs someone around, and he’s got just the person: Liam’s friend Harry is coming to the area for the tourist season and since Louis has all this space….

Love Potion Number 9 by noellehenry (9k)

Harry is a witch, albeit a clumsy witch. His spells never work out quite as he expects them to and his potions are at least hazardous. He is, however, talented in the kitchen: his pumpkin pie cupcakes are heavenly. He bakes them as a welcome gift for his new hot neighbour…

Dusk Till Dawn by larryandgaystuff (9k)

Packed Lunches, Sticky Fingers and Accidental Levitation (10k)

Harry Styles is a skilled work-from-home potionist five years out of university with a steady job, a house, and… eight kids.

He also might be heading towards a breakdown if he doesn’t get a bit of help.

Enter a meddling pixie and an old university friend he might or might not have had a lot of feelings for.

Bewitched by ReadInTheAM (11k)

Louis is a modern day witch. No, he doesn’t have green skin or pointed hats and he definitely doesn’t have warts covering his face.

However, he does have a cat familiar, Harry.

And though Louis’ witchiness doesn’t bother his normal life, he does get into some trouble while he was out of the house. Or at least, Harry does.

Down Comes The Night (12k)

Harry Styles is a not-at-all-magic resident of 23rd Century London in possession of a very weird cat, an occult store, and the budding friendship of an attractive homeless man named Louis.

There’s a miracle afoot.

taken by the wind by lightofathousandstars (12k)

When he decided to move to London with his sister, Harry thought he would finally get to learn how to control his magic. He couldn’t possibly have predicted that he would fall for her neighbour.

Or the one where Harry is a clumsy witch and Louis is making everything worse just by existing.

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic by oopsiedaisy (12k)

“I bet,” Harry says softly before adding, “I could help you maybe? With your magic?”.

“Oh yeah,” Louis asks and motions her head towards the burnt flowers still smouldering in their vase. Harry’s top lip quirks up on one side, “Hey. That was a real life magic show I put on for you.”

“Well what are you gonna teach me then Houdini?”

Louis is a witch with no magical powers who joins a local coven she finds on craigslist. Harry is the earth witch convinced she can help Louis find her powers with flowers, baby mice and everything nice.

Witch Harry by QuickedWeen (series; 2 works; 15k)

Harry Styles is a witch who owns the best flower shop in Manchester. Lottie Tomlinson is planning her wedding, and brings her brother along to her first appointment. Both men have been having a bad day and sparks fly.

Burn by anchortied (21k)

Louis is plagued by nightmares of being burned at the stake. Every time he closes his eyes he can see the flames, smell the smoke, taste the acrid smell of his own death in his nostrils. There is nothing he fears more than this.

Besides being something other than what he truly is. Which is, to say in the very least, a powerful witch. One of the most powerful in in the world, as far as he knows. His magic can’t even be matched by Liam, who learned quicker than anyone he’s ever met, or Niall, who’s magic fire could burn through a whole village in a mere moment if he wanted to.

When Louis meets Harry however, he realizes that his magic isn’t as strong as he thought. And as he tries to navigate through this magic, and the trials of friendships and lost loves that come along with it, Louis finds that being powerful is more of a plague than he realized. A plague that infects more people than he is comfortable with.

(A Witch AU based off of The Craft -a very loose interpretation)

Nocturnal Creatures Are Not So Prudent by patdkitten (24k)

Louis spins a finger in midair, like he’s indicating someone to turn around, staring pointedly at Liam as the faucet turns itself on and the can rinses itself in the sink behind him. Liam, moon burn him, doesn’t rise to the bait, choosing instead to lean back on his stool and wrapping his hands around his own mug.

“Anyway, like I was saying and that you were ignoring, there’s this new club near my school and I want you to go with me. Could do you some good, getting out once in awhile.”

Louis is a white witch with a little black cat named Hemlock and a best human friend Liam (they’re a lot like Samantha Stephens and Louise Tate). When he’s dragged out to a new club Liam’s heard about from a friend and classmate, Louis comes face to face with that which witches do not touch: a charming vampire by the name of Harry.

love is divine by stylinsoncity (25k)

Being a witch doesn’t help when it comes to unrequited love.

parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme by MediaWhore (series; 2 works; 27k)

The one where Harry is a cursed witch living in a small town and Louis is the Detective Inspector who crossed his path.

A Practical Magic AU

Bewitched by Snowy38 (28k)

“I’ve got Louis.”

He didn’t mean it to come out that menacing but the naturally deep lilt of his voice wasn’t helping. The female on the other end of the phone gave a hysterical squeal.

“Please! Don’t hurt him!”

Harry frowned, lip protruding sullenly in mild offence.

“I’m not-I’m not going to hurt him,” he argued.

“What do you want?” The woman cried, voice wobbling with emotion.

Harry frowned.

“I want Louis,” he answered because wasn’t that much already obvious? Maybe Louis’ family were just really thick.

Work of Magic by Bekita (34k)

Even though centuries had passed since the Spanish Inquisition and the burning of Witches, these beings with magical powers still existed, in seclusion, always trying to avoid the attention of the persecuting Hunters.

The Sweetest Incantation by smittenwithlouis (40k)

Harry has been alive for decades, and yet he’s never been as confused and dumbfounded. He’s a witch, for God’s sake. Can’t get much weirder than all the magical things he’s experienced throughout his lifetime. Never in a million years, however, would he have expected to be mere inches away from a hybrid. Or: Harry is a witch who’s still working on developing his powers and Louis is a werecat who falls into his life and turns it upside down.

i never did believe in the ways of magic (though i’ve a feeling it’s time to try) by binarysunsets(55k)

Louis can’t shake the feeling that there’s something in the woods, pressing close and watching him with a heavy gaze. It makes him antsy, fills him with jitters. He wants to run, or scream, but he knows to do so would only put him in danger if there’s actually something out there after all. He’s sure he’s just imagining it, but his heart nevertheless pounds in his throat.

When Louis Tomlinson goes on a songwriting retreat to the Laurentian Mountains of Canada, this isn’t how he expects his evening to go.

or the au where Louis is a singer who has been cursed to never make music again and Harry is a reclusive witch of the Canadian mountains who’s going to help him break the curse.

domestic monsters by g_uttertrash (series; 8 completed works/1WIP; 234k)

THRILLER FICS

And then there was love (23k)

A crime story in which Louis makes ridiculous jokes about Harry's bum and loves Ben Winston's dog; where Harry blushes and may or may not be dark!Harry under the dimples and curls; where the world-famous author sleuth Jessica Fletcher joins One Direction to their music video set.

And how lucky is that, as there seems to be a killer on the loose.

What Happened to 'Never Say Die'? (28k)

The 80s were one of the best decades to be a teenager in America. Just ask anyone who's seen a John Hughes movie. Louis would beg to differ. At least today he would, while he was stuck cleaning out his family's basement - part of his grounding after a senior prank gone wrong. But when he finds a box containing details of the biggest unsolved crime in Luna Hills, he and his friends decide to sneak out for one last adventure before they're all off to college. That is, as long as the mayor, who also happens to be Louis' mother, doesn't stop them before they discover the truth.

Or, a coming of age American AU inspired by classic 80s movies like The Goonies and Stand By Me where everyone has a secret and no one wants to get caught.

my heart, in deadly rhythm (42k)

There exists somewhere a very, very small list containing the names of people who don’t want Louis Tomlinson dead. Harry Styles may or may not be one of those people.

(or a Spies!AU in which Liam is the Wade to Louis' Kim Possible, Zayn seduces people for intel, Niall is an expert at blowing things up, and Harry is more than a bit famous in his particular field... or infamous, actually. And Louis? Well, Louis just wishes people would quit trying so bloody hard to kill him all the time.)

Last Day Alive (42k)

Harry Styles was born to the leader of the Following - the organization that keeps their world peaceful and just. Without the Following, the world would only return to the ways of the Old Times and all of them would come to an untimely end. Or, so he thought, until he meets Louis, the leader of the Rebellion.

End Game (54k)

Harry styles is the most feared man in London, notorious for always getting everything he wants. All of that changes when Louis comes around and opens his eyes to a new, beautiful side of the world.

I Walk the Line (55k)

Professor Louis Tomlinson is the leading researcher in his field. Harry Styles is Louis’ recently hired grad assistant. Sparks fly between them but something doesn’t add up when it comes to Harry, and Louis is determined to find out what.

What happens when everything Louis thought he knew comes crashing down around him? Is he doomed to repeat his past mistakes? Or will he learn to follow his heart and find a way to forge his own path, alongside someone he’s not sure he can trust, but who might just be the best thing to ever happen to him.

#halloween #larry stylinson #larry fic #larry fic rec #masterpost #stylinsonlibrary

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