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The text reads: “You don’t need to rush your healing. And you don’t need to apologize for not being okay.”

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this is from a "manipulation advice" video and it's just so fucking funny to me. why didn't I think of responding to insults like this

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(through gritted teeth) sometimes what's good for your mental health isn't another do nothing day or a little treat sometimes what's good for you is putting in some of the work. Not all of it at once but sometimes you have to finish that essay or at least take the next step or you have to clean your room or at least dust the shelves or you gotta do the laundry or at least put it all in the hamper and it's not fun and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks and it sucks but you have to because i read a post on the internet that told me that's what being nice to yourself is sometimes

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kira cyan

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Everything is stupid right now

Go do something nice for yourself

Bonus if it involves being kind to a stranger

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crisp glass of water moodboard

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— 1D Monthly Fic Roundup —

Hi, and welcome to the 1D Monthly Fic Roundup for May 2025! Below you’ll find 1D fics that were all published this month. We hope you’ll check out these new fics! If you would like to submit your own fic, please check this post on how to submit or visit our blog @1dmonthlyficroundup​. You can find all our other posts here.

Happy reading!

＊ Just a little taste, Babe! by Blue_Green28 / @bluegreen28fics [E, 9k, Louis/Harry]

Harry wants to go on a date but needs his best friend and roommate Louis to taste-test his flavoured lipstick beforehand. They both are more into it than they thought.

or, just some good old idiot roommates in love.

＊ is this just fantasy? by @tracksuitponytail [M, 7k, Harry/Louis]

While stranded at an airport between tour stops, Louis discovers that Harry has been secretly reading fanfiction. Not just any fanfiction. Will 30 minutes in a sleeping pod blur the lines between real life and fantasy—and change the way they see each other for good?

＊ Hush, Hush, We Both Can't Fight It by @louislittletomlintum [E, 8k, Louis/Harry]

“Why would you want to do all that? Like, get strung up or whatever?” Louis asked objectively. “Surely would kill your boner, takes a lot of time, doesn’t it?”

Harry shrugged, clearly thinking about it as he stared over Louis’ head. “I dunno. I think it sounds dreamy. Like… what a build up, right? Someone taking the time to purposefully tie you up, make all the knots. Looks so pretty too. Then like, imagine you’re just bound, like… can’t do anything. You’d have to trust that person so much, cause they could do whatever they wanted to you, once you were tied,” Harry explained slowly.

Louis hummed with intrigue, leaning in to kiss Harry’s neck because he wasn’t aware of his boyfriend's interest in the subject at all. “Yeah? Sounds like you’ve considered it, lovie,” Louis murmured to him.

“Yeah,” Harry sighed, then giggled a bit. “Maybe,”

or the one where louis ties harry up for the very first time

＊ Tell Me Now, Is It So? by @louislittletomlintum [E, 28k, Harry/Louis]

“Who’s the kid?” someone spoke up, and when Harry looked for the owner of the voice he knew so well, he felt like his jackrabbiting heart almost completely stopped.

The man was… beautiful. Harry had never really thought that about a man, because that was a bit of a queer thought, but Harry felt like this was objective. He was beautiful in the way a stained glass window in a church was, or a meticulous oil painting in a museum. Undeniably so.

“The kid, Tommo, is Harry Styles. And he’s our new runner,” Nick announced, patting Harry’s chest.

or the one where harry comes to work on a pirate radio ship in 1966 and gets a lot more experience than he bargained for

＊ the perfect sky is torn by @disgruntledkittenface [NR, 6k, Louis/Harry]

Louis and Harry both think it's a coincidence that strange things start to happen when they break up.

It's not.

＊ Springbrooke by skipper / @skipperxao3 [M, 98k, Harry/Louis]

Springbrooke is a small town, rich and filled with perfection. 

At the start of his senior year, Harry, an omega with no desire to fit in, meets Zayn, an Alpha with no desire to stand out. With him, he makes a pledge to survive one year, his final year at Springbrooke High, and he’s determined to make the best of it. He struggles through new relationships along with the old, discovering the true meaning of love and friendships in ways he never expected. 

To Harry, each day that passes is one day closer to breaking free and his chance to leave without looking back. Though he soon learns, in the end, it’s not leaving that matters, but what you take with you when you go.

＊ To Thee, I Claim My Own by skipper / @skipperxao3 [E, 24k+, wip, Louis/Harry]

Outside the threshold, the House of Alpha Tomlinson is nothing but a distant dream. The walls are high, holding in the hope and power every simple man has. It is a place that young Harry Styles, at one time, longed to be. To secure his entrance, he naively made a remarkable deal of protection. But as years pass, working in the home has introduced him to a world of unparalleled despair with no means for escape.

However, after a chance encounter with the Tomlinson Alpha heir, he is given a new outlook to his undeniably bleak future. Despite their differences, with every moment Harry spends with Louis, he sees life form before his very eyes, his Omega clinging desperately to the new Alpha. As time passes, their growing companionship brings feelings he never believed he would live to experience. Ultimately, leading to a choice he never expected to make.

With Louis, Harry finds strength to discover if he can fight for their potential. But with that, comes a greater risk, which in turn, may be too great a loss to endure. As he implores into his future, Harry knows he'll either have a chance of something great with Louis, or break a deal that protects all he holds dear.

＊ Don't play with me ('cause you're playing with fire) by LovelikeLou / @purrrhazza [M, 293k, Harry/Louis]

Louis leaves his hometown as soon as high school ends to travel the world. Not entirely ready to take on the world on his own, he stumbles head first into an unexpected whirlwind of restless green eyes, dark secrets and more love than he could ever imagine. Part 1 of Don't play with me series

＊ Don't let me go ('cause I'm tired of sleeping alone) by LovelikeLou / @purrrhazza [M, 2k+, wip, Louis/Harry]

After leaving Harry behind to take care of his mum and sisters, Louis tries his best to navigate life and mend what is broken. Part 2 of Don't play with me series

＊ The Lives We Make by @wishingforloushair [E, 104k, Harry/Louis]

After the arrest of Simon Cowell, life seems to have returned to normal for Louis and Harry. Their relationship is flourishing, and they’re both excelling in their roles at the Agency. When Harry gets a late night phone call from Zayn who’s at risk of imminent harm, the information he discovers leaves him questioning everything about Louis, the man who promised two years ago that there were no more lies.

Unbeknownst to them, they’ve become embroiled in a race against time in a sinister plot orchestrated by dangerous people who will do anything to keep them silent. The answers lie in the past, but for Louis rehashing his life is a painful experience fraught with regret and nightmares. When he’s forced to though, he’ll do just about anything to save the people he loves. Part 3 of Truths at Play

＊ (but maybe all along) i'm afraid by localopa / @voulezloux [T, 39k, Louis/Harry]

Romantic love couldn’t be real, he concluded at 14 when a girl in his year asked him to the Sadie Hawkins dance, blush sitting high on her cheeks as she stumbled through her prepared speech. He had seen the look she gave him many times from others in their year. The infatuation, the giggling, the coy shyness. Year 10 love always faded into nothing, and soon two partners were as good as strangers in a matter of weeks. The girl, for what it’s worth, took the rejection in stride, though he could see the prickles of tears welling in her eyes as she turned away from him.

The cycle would continue with her, as it does with everyone. Her feelings for Louis will fade until she feels nothing for him, and he becomes another faceless boy in her journey to find her love, even if he didn’t think that love truly existed.

Romantic love is a myth, Louis asserts to himself in the mirror every morning. Romantic love is a myth, and he is not in love with Harry Styles.

or the five stages of realizing you’ve been in love with your best friend, who definitely doesn’t feel the same, this whole time.

＊ Forever at Your Feet by larry_hiatus / @emilarry [E, 52k, Harry/Louis]

“Don’t fight it, darling,” Louis breathed, thumb stroking over Harry’s cheekbone. “You’re so very special. I can see it, and God can see it. He wants you to have this opportunity, he wants you to be ultimately purified. He wants you, cherub.”

Or the one where Harry’s in a sex cult, and he’s the leader’s favorite.

＊ I'm Fed Up With Pretending To Be Fine by patdkitten / @babyarcanacasey [M, 25k, Louis/Harry]

Harry Styles accidentally comes out in an interview following the news that his former bandmate (and secret ex-boyfriend) Niall Horan got married to another man. His personal assistant Zayn Malik suggests they lie low for a bit while Harry's agent cleans up the mess. Zayn's even got a suggestion: he has a friend named Liam that is a manager at a bed and breakfast/working farm in the middle of nowhere in Wisconsin. Once there, though, there's a complication: the owner of the bed and breakfast is a really attractive shifter by the name of Louis Tomlinson, who just wants a quiet life with his daughter Ariel. And, oh yeah, things are awkward between Zayn and Liam, and Louis isn't happy Zayn's staying with them.

＊ Three Word Phrases, Skipping Stages by Worldsofdreamers / @fulldivein [E, 4k, Niall/Zayn]

Third time is the charm, or so they say, would their third attempt at making this work stick?

After all, a lot had happened in the five years since they'd been together last.

Only time will tell. Part 2 of Whenever, wherever

＊ I Keep Holding On (this stormy life) by Worldsofdreamers / @fulldivein [M, 1k, Niall centric]

Behind the last two songs on heartbreak weather. Part 1 of Chasing The Clouds

＊ All I Needed Was Someone by Worldsofdreamers / @fulldivein [NR, 1k, Louis/Harry]

Misunderstandings flare drama in public, but behind closed doors, they've never been more in love.

＊ Love was a sweeter song by Worldsofdreamers / @fulldivein [M, 2k, Zayn/Niall]

A road trip home and surprises for the future. Part 3 of Whenever, wherever

＊ For what it's worth (I'm sorry) by @ineverateakiwi [NR, 42k, Harry/Louis]

Harry is happy. He loves his daughter, has his dream job and the best friend in the world, so he doesn't understand why the universe decided to punish him by bringing Louis Tomlinson back into his life.

Louis Tomlinson abandoned everything - including the love of his life - five years ago and never allowed himself to look back as punishment. However, after a lot of pressure from his friends (and therapy), he decided to come back to correct his past mistakes. He just didn't expect to discover that he has a daughter he's never met. Now he needs to fix his past relationships and build a new one with the smartest little girl.

A story about mistakes, love and the courage to forgive.

＊ Take My Medicine, Blue by @signofcomfort [E, 14k, Louis/Harry]

Louis is feral and his doctor suggests bonding. Go figure.

OR

Harry is obsessed with Louis and Louis is too, but more so that Harry is obsessed with Louis' cock and can't keep himself away from it. Good thing Louis is there to fulfill his need, thoroughly!

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

- Louis / Harry -

🩵 Note to Self by @berzerkshires

(E, 42k, canon omegaverse soulmates) When he saw Harry for the first time in many years at the Euro finals, and Harry grabs Louis' hand, lacing their fingers abruptly to help him out of the way of a drunken fan. They immediately know.

🩵 All I've Ever Known by @haztobegood

(E, 34k, Pride & Prejudice au) “It is a truth universally acknowledged that anybody that wants to live in a tiny home must be lacking in both taste and sense.”

🩵 In This World (It's Just Us) by we_are_the_same / @so-why-let-your-voice-be-tamed

(T, 33k, fantasy) Louis participates in a scientific study, but everything is not what it seems.

🩵 Voice from the Grave by harryanthus_annuus / @harryanthus-annuus

(E, 30k, mystery) When a body is found in Harry's drawing-room, it's practically bound to spark notoriety in the public increasingly morbidly fascinated by the diminished gentry. But assets are easier lost than class.

🩵 Too Young by @jaerie

(E, 18k, omegaverse) accidentally bonded as 8 and 10 year olds, Louis starts resenting Harry once they were old enough for him to realize what had been taken away from him and now they're roommates who fuck out of obligation

🩵 My Home And My English Rose by @nauticalallusions

(M, 8k, established relationship) Everything is uncomplicated, perfect, even, until Harry gets an offer to become a famous musician if he goes to Nashville. Louis supports him, as always, with his decision to go and make it big, but it’s never as easy as it seems.

🩵 The Tokyo Surprise by @srldesigns6277

(E, 8k, canon) Harry surprised his fans by running the Tokyo Marathon, so Louis surprised him in return.

🩵 Always Darkest before the Sunrise by LadyLondonderry / @londonfoginacup

(NR, 7k, historical) “Harry Styles, ward of the church no longer, you are under arrest for the use of witchcraft against the innocent townspeople of Salem, Massachusetts.”

🩵 is this just fantasy? by @tracksuitponytail

(M, 7k, canon) While stranded at an airport between tour stops, Louis discovers that Harry has been secretly reading fanfiction. Will 30 minutes in a sleeping pod blur the lines between real life and fantasy—and change the way they see each other for good?

🩵 the perfect sky is torn by @disgruntledkittenface [Quote post]

(NR, 6k, crack) Louis and Harry both think it's a coincidence that strange things start to happen when they break up. It's not.

🩵 Unmatched by @elleseekeepdriv

(E, 6k, exes) the one where Louis and Harry are exes but they match on Tinder.

🩵 Squeegee and Skin by finelinefeelings

(E, 6k, pwp) Harry is a self proclaimed exhibitionist. Louis comes to clean the windows. Harry does what Harry does best.

🩵 Oblivious Hearts by FelintoGirl

(G, 5k, friends to lovers) Harry and Louis are roommates in Uni, Louis is in love with Harry and he tries to leave hints/does gestures to try and tell Harry but oblivious as always Harry doesn't realise them 

🩵 some fights you’re never gonna win (keep your eyes off him) by boyfriendstages

(E, 5k, established relationship) Harry can be good at sharing—when it comes to expensive perfume, designer heels, or maybe even the last sip of his drink. But Louis? Louis is not up for discussion.

🩵 Skulls and Crossbones by sweetkalachuchi / @neverforpickles

(G, 3k, omegaverse) “Thanks for the tea, mate… but uh, why did the steam turn into a skull and crossbones when you stirred it?”

🩵 Smells like heaven, feels like luxury by marshashlands

(G, 2k, omegaverse) one direction are touring, and well, louis get a habit of making a nest out of his best friends clothes. until he catches him, that is…

🩵 Let Life Take Its Time by Worldsofdreamers / @defences-down

(T, 1k, friends to lovers) Ever the doting best friend, Louis has been looking after Harry for a few days, when Harry lets a secret slip.

🩵 Doppio by @reallynotmemoi

(NR, 1k, uni) Louis had one job — to reach out to the pretty boy he fancied and ask him out. Easy as pie… or so it should have been. Sequel to Expresso.

🩵 everyday a little more alive by 5sexualhomos / @hogwartzlou

(T, 1k, uni) Louis and Harry have hated each other all four years of being in rival frats. One day their friends make them realize maybe they don't actually hate each other as much as they think they do.

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🩵 Football, Dancing, Same Game by LiveLaughLoveLarry / @loveislarryislove

(T, 2k, Zayn/Liam) Li was a boy, Z was another boy, can I make it any more obvious? Li was a football player, Z did ballet, what more can I say?

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Gay Awakening AU

~ LOUIS ~

🌈 Elle Me Dit by QuickedWeen @becomeawendybird (3k, E)

Louis Tomlinson is engaged to the first guy she met and started dating in college. On the night of her bachelorette party she and her best friend/Maid of Honor, Harry, get drunk and wonder what they're missing out on.

🌈 When You Know, You Know by scratchyscribbles @jaanwangji (4k, G)

He has been thinking a lot lately, but mostly his thoughts are all scattered about, barely making any sense but successfully giving him a headache to nurse.

Or, Louis has questions he doesn't know how to find the answers of, but he isn't one to back down.

🌈 The Orchards of Jessop by jaerie @jaerie (15k, E)

At age 40, there isn’t much excitement in widower Louis Tomlinson’s life, but wasn’t that the reason he’d moved to Jessop Island in the first place? Back then he hadn’t thought retiring before he reached 30 and moving to the countryside would mean that he’d be doing it alone. Now, just to fill the space, he welcomes lodgers into his home that pass through working as temporary labourers at the orchards just up the road. They’ve all been young adults eager to start lives of their own after one last summer of freedom. All of them have been much the same, coming and going from Louis’ house with just enough social interaction to keep the house from feeling so empty. But when a global pandemic shuts down the world, being quarantined with a quiet twenty year old who keeps to himself might turn out to be an awkward arrangement. By the time the restrictions have been lifted, their relationship has developed into something Louis isn’t quite ready to give up. With their twenty year age difference, Louis has to be prepared for the inevitable outcome when the reality shatters the private world they’ve been living in. He’s not sure he’ll be able to let it go.

🌈 Are you mine? by rxselouis (22k, M)

Louis was sure he had life all figured out, until his path crossed Harry’s. A philosophy student, wearing all kinds of clothing and sneaking into Louis’ dreams more often than he’d like to admit. He tried to push it all away, but at the end it got him. Hit him very hard even.

🌈 Oh, That's What I Want by lululawrence @lululawrence (38k, NR)

“Oh my god, does that mean we get to go dancing?” Liam asked, clapping her hands. “I’m 42 years old, Liam,” Louis said, her voice flat. “I don’t think the place to pick up men my age is at a club downtown.” “Where do you want to pick them up, then?” Zayn asked gently. “Wanna go to a classy bar? We can get all dressed up, show off the tits we didn’t have at 18, and see who we can find.” Louis pursed her lips. “That sounds a lot more my speed, but I was serious when I said I don’t have anything sexy. I haven’t felt sexy in at least a decade, I don’t think.” That made her pause. “Fuck. Our marriage really has been going downhill for a long time, hasn’t it? We had no idea that we’d somehow switched from romantic partners to roommates.” “All the more reason to go out and get you laid,” Zayn said, nodding to herself. Louis is 42 and newly divorced with her four daughters off to college when she realizes all the plans she used to have for her life no longer fit. Just as she's starting to figure things out, she meets Harry Styles who proves sometimes starting over turns out so much better than sticking with the original plan.

🌈 The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by kingsofeverything @kingsofeverything (110k, E)

Louis’ life is steady and calm, moored by his marriage, and tied to his hometown, but after a chance encounter with another man, it’ll never be the same.

~ HARRY ~

🌈 Waiting For The Winds To Change by j_klmnop (21k, E)

After leaving his husband, Harry retreats to a remote beach house owned by a friend to escape the tangled mess his life has become. Looking for nothing but a few weeks of peace and tranquility by the water, Harry plans to get his thoughts in order as he prepares to start his life over again. When a stranger arrives, seeking refuge from an approaching storm, Harry is thrust into a whirlwind romance full of self discovery, some hard truths and more than just a few realisations. As the waves come crashing in, their little bubble bursts and when Louis’ own secrets are revealed, Harry must decide if he’s ready to jump head first into something that could inevitably leave him heartbroken and right back where he started.

🌈 can't even think straight by shimmeringevil @shimmeringevil (34k, E)

His eyes are blue. Sharp cheekbones, long eyelashes and a doll-like face, pretty features contrastingly set in such arrogant disdain. Harry can’t stop staring at him. “Straight,” he blurts out when his eyes drop to the man’s mouth. “I’m straight.” “Thank you for sharing,” the waiter says dryly. The captivating movements of his lips form an even more captivating voice. “Y’alright if I grab your wallet for you, or is there anything else you’d like to get off your chest?” “No, um—no. Sorry. I mean, thank you. Thank you and sorry.” — OR — Harry is definitely straight, even if no one seems to believe him when he tells them. Things change when he meets a pretty stranger who patiently waits for him to figure it all out.

🌈 a little, then suddenly by HoldingOnToChaos @holdingontochaos (34k, E)

Gray-Asexual (demisexual) Harry falls in love and gets attracted to his best friend Louis after fifteen years of friendship.

🌈 but i could be your obsession by staybeautiful @harruandlou (45k, E)

Through the windshield he could see a maintenance road up ahead. “Turn in there.” As Harry was pulling off, Louis pulled open the glove box, dropping both their phones in the cup holders and rifling through the inside of it. “What’s wrong?” Finding the lube, Louis tossed it in Harry's lap. “You’re hot. It’s annoying.” It’s the summer before Louis' senior year of college and he’s spending it getting drunk with his friends, working an internship he hates, and hooking up with Harry, the ‘straight’ frat boy he met in January. There’s only six weeks until school starts.

🌈 Passing By by Larry_you_know @larryyouknow (48k, E)

Sometimes, people are in each other's lives just for the briefest of moments. They meet and then go their separate ways because being vulnerable is scary and it might be easier to not let anybody else in. But some people aren’t meant to be just passing by. Maybe when they open their eyes, they can learn things about themselves they haven’t known before. If they let their hearts speak they will find a way to be together. Or the one where Harry doesn't even know he's into guys until he meets Louis on a boat trip. There's something more to their friendship but it ain't gonna be smooth sailing.

🌈 I would rather go blind by ifiwasabluebird (79k, M)

"What are you doing here, Harry?" Louis asked with confidence, his gaze briefly flickering to Harry's plump lips, a momentary hint of desire flickering in his eyes. "I…" Harry's voice caught in his throat as Louis' gaze travelled downward, coming to rest on his chest. Without hesitation, Louis raised his hands from the desk, bringing them to Harry's chest, helping him button the one he had missed. When he attempted to pull away, Harry's hand shot out and gripped at his wrist. "You're shaking," Louis observed, his eyes shifting to their joined hands before returning to meet Harry's gaze, unwavering. "It's…" Harry cleared his throat. "It's you. You make me… I don't know what is happening to me." "What do you feel?" he whispered, his voice barely audible. "It's… warm," he began, shyly bringing Louis' hand against the centre of his chest over his shirt. "Here." His hand slid down to his stomach, their eyes locked in a powerful gaze. "And here." They remained silent for a moment, both captivated by the intensity of their connection. "Every time you're near me." Or : It's 1960, Harry is a freshman at Oxford, and he cross path with a flamboyant blue eyed boy that is going to change his life.

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Happy 28th! Here is my May 2025 fic rec, organized by word count, from longest to shortest. You can view my other fic recs here. Enjoy!

Come Home to Me by aquietlarrie / @aquietlarrie (261k)

set over a decade and between differing countries, harry and louis are childhood best mates where by the life choices they'd made in their youth, inevitably end up separated from one another. harry travels the world, whilst louis stays home at uni. as ever, life has it's ways of bringing them back together, but it's never the right time for them no matter how entangled with each other they become. unconditional, and at times, frustratingly blind through sheer stubborn will, the two of them navigate their early to late twenties together until they can no longer carry on and a decision needs to be made.

or an exploration into how the ages of seventeen to your late twenties can feel anything but stable. a realistic, and sometimes confrontational deep dive into healing yourself as a whole away from the one you love the most, sprinkle in a relationship dynamic where boundaries of said friendship are blurred with codependency and jealousy, and the complexities of such emotions are explored.

Shameful Company by blueskiesrry / @blueskiesrry (40k)

Harry remains impassive as he says, “I never said we were sleeping together.”

“But you have, right?”

He sighs heavily through his nose, figuring there’s no use in hiding it. Not if it means as little as he says it does. “Yeah. Sure. We’ve slept together.”

The smug grin is evident in Pippa’s voice. “And are you seeing other people?”

“Don’t see why we can’t. It’s not like it’s anything serious.”

Pippa hums. “Interesting.”

-

in which louis has always had clear intentions, harry has always been a bit of a brat, and it seems like everything yet nothing has changed since they broke up a few years ago. except now they're fucking.

The Orchards of Jessop by jaerie / @jaerie (15k)

At age 40, there isn’t much excitement in widower Louis Tomlinson’s life, but wasn’t that the reason he’d moved to Jessop Island in the first place? Back then he hadn’t thought retiring before he reached 30 and moving to the countryside would mean that he’d be doing it alone. Now, just to fill the space, he welcomes lodgers into his home that pass through working as temporary labourers at the orchards just up the road. They’ve all been young adults eager to start lives of their own after one last summer of freedom.

All of them have been much the same, coming and going from Louis’ house with just enough social interaction to keep the house from feeling so empty. But when a global pandemic shuts down the world, being quarantined with a quiet twenty year old who keeps to himself might turn out to be an awkward arrangement. By the time the restrictions have been lifted, their relationship has developed into something Louis isn’t quite ready to give up. With their twenty year age difference, Louis has to be prepared for the inevitable outcome when the reality shatters the private world they’ve been living in. He’s not sure he’ll be able to let it go.

Somewhere in the World There's You by eulogiseme / @eulogisemeao3 (5k)

Louis flattens the palm of his hand over Harry’s thighs, slowly curving them over the ferns that decorate his soft hips. He goes further over the smooth, hairless skin, fingers pressing down into his navel, then back up before settling to stop when his touch ghosts the sweet creature splayed upon Harry’s chest. It’s warm in a way that drives him mad—Louis can’t find this kind of warmth anywhere else in the world.

Hidden away from the world, Harry and Louis get a few days to themselves in Italy before they've got to leave each other again.

I'll Take Your Pain by suspendrs / @suspendrs (2k)

It’s kind of romantic when Harry thinks about it, feeling all the pain of the person he’s supposed to love for the rest of his life. Sure, it’s rather inconvenient when he’s in class and his soulmate gets kicked in the balls, or when he’s sleeping and his soulmate knocks his head or his knee off something. It’d be nice if the function helped them to find each other, but Harry supposes he can live with knowing that they’re destined to run into each other someday.

Or, soulmates have the ability to feel each other's pain, and Harry finds his after getting his arse waxed. (Or, the soulmate au crack fic I can't believe I actually wrote.)

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I hope May has been treating everyone well! Between work, life in general, and reading through the Hunger Games series with a friend, I haven't really had that much time or motivation to read fics this month. The ones I have read I've loved though! I hope you find something that looks interesting on this list. Happy reading!

❃ bright eyes, blue denim by @evilovesyou

Louis/Harry | 2.2k | G | Meet Cute, Shopping

Louis' favourite jeans have suddenly disappeared from where he always got them. Harry is a store manager with an affinity for customer care, particularly when the customer has bright blue eyes and happens to be very flirty.

This was so fun! I love their flirting!

❃ You're A (Total) Distraction by @lululawrence

Louis/Harry | 4.6k | NR | Deer Hybrid Harry, Girl Direction, Meet Cute

Harry’s hand sprang out and took the arrow back in her grasp, Louis’ entire face having lit up when Harry spoke. “Thank you for returning this to me.” “Well, it was my fault, right?” Louis gave her a big smile before glancing up at Harry’s ears and then over towards her target. “Fuck, are those all bullseyes?” Harry shrugged. “I haven’t checked on them yet, but maybe.” Louis’ eyebrows were raised. “I didn’t realize archery was such a big thing for deer hybrids.” Pursing her lips, Harry tried to figure out how much to say. Why was Louis talking to her? Why had she called out in the first place? Was it because she thought Harry was a freak, like so many other humans? “It isn’t for everyone,” Harry finally settled on. Or the one where Harry is a deer hybrid trying to prove to her clan she's more than what's expected. When she meets Louis, a human, she thinks it's just a one time thing. It's not.

I wanted to read something sweet, and this one really delivered! I've never really thought of deer hybrids before, so it caught my interest right away.

❃ Till Death Do Us Part by @louloubabys1992

Louis/Harry | 4.8k | M | Werewolf Harry, Human Louis, War

Harry sometimes wonders at his purpose in life. To hold a torch to his family name is one noble goal. To fight against those who wish to exterminate his kind is even nobler. He just wishes he was comfortable enough in his own skin to be able to do all that. It's not until Louis comes along that he realizes he doesn't have to do it all alone.

Oh this was intriguing! I love how Harry is the strong alpha to the world, but gets to be soft and vulnerable with Louis.

❃ You Put the Boom Boom Into My Heart by @kingsofeverything

Louis/Harry | 5.8k | T | Texas, Teenages, 1980s, 5+1 Times

Harry's been trying all summer to come up with a way to show Louis how much he means to him before he leaves for college. Or five times Harry fails to win Wham! tickets and one time he succeeds.

Gaah, this was so fun! The pining, the scrambling for the phone every time, and the blow up of pent up anxiety. I'm so glad they managed to get the tickets, and that they made a date of it!

❃ Superstition by @freyaforestafay

Louis/Harry | 6k | E | Girl Direction, PWP, Witchcraft

Harry has a pretty simple life: school, work at the local flower boutique, and Sunday night dance parties with her two black cats, Matilda and Anna, to RAYE’s 21st Century Blues. Everything fits, slotted in with the fabric fibres of her life—organised chaos, as she likes to call it. That is, until the moving trucks pull up outside Harry's apartment complex, and someone starts moving into the previously empty flat next door.

I do love a good girl direction fic, and this was great! I love Harry's witchy vibes, Zayn getting fed up and coming in with the best advice.

❃ the perfect sky is torn by @disgruntledkittenface

Louis/Harry | 6k | NR | Exes to Lovers, Crack, Scientist Zayn

Louis and Harry both think it's a coincidence that strange things start to happen when they break up. It's not.

This was just a fascinating concept, and such a fun read! They are inevitable, so the world falls apart with their relationship. Poor Zayn going full crazy scientist, making the connections only for them not to believe him!

❃ Sin creeps in. by @28goldens

Louis/Harry | 12.1k | E | Priest Louis, Devil Harry, Catholic Guilt

Father Louis has spent his entire life devoted to God despite the sins he keeps hidden—until a stranger, Harry, with honeyed words and a sharp tongue enters his confessional. As his faith unravels with every interaction he has with Harry, Louis is forced to choose between the life he’s built and the sin he can no longer deny.

This was something alright. Holy hell. I love that Harry is pure temptation, but it's still Louis choice to give in and fall. He is the one who has to break, make all the moves. Harry is there offering himself up to him, but never touching first

❃ the thought of you is wrapped around my neck by @louieshalo

Louis/Harry | 15.4k | E | Famous/Non Famous, Friends to Lovers, Dom/Sub

Harry bites his lip, glancing over at him; his eyes are still on the horizon, so Harry lets his gaze linger for a moment. The chill has flushed the tip of his nose and apples of his cheeks pink, and he looks so painfully pretty that it makes Harry’s heart hurt; this close, he can see a few patches of close-shaven stubble Louis’ razor hadn’t quite cleared away, and belatedly it strikes him that Louis must have shaved specifically for this. He’d certainly had noticeable scruff when Harry had been shamelessly ogling at him through the huge festival screens lining the stage earlier in the day. His teeth sink into his bottom lip to temper the satisfied little smile that blooms at the thought of Louis taking the time to neaten himself up for a night out with Harry, the idea sating the endless pit of need that Louis ignites in him just enough to quiet it for a short while. or, where Harry is desperately, stupidly in love with his best friend.

This was great! I love how everyone else can see it, but them. The people around them commenting on their relationship, while they are both there pining for the other.

❃ Reduce Me To A Pleading Cry (Break The Skin and Tantalize) by taggiecb

Louis/Harry | 37.4 | Dom/Sub, CEO Harry, Younger Louis

As the CEO of Styles & Styles, Harry Styles cuts a brooding and handsome figure at the helm of a very successful business. His reputation for intensity is well known, but you would be intense, too, if you had to work numbers all day, give countless orders, and conduct endless meetings. When all you really want to do at night--ache to do--is give away the reins, let someone else make the decisions, be ordered around for once, just--let go. Harry has reached his breaking point when one touch from a man whose very stance commands attention leads him back to a place he thought he’d never return. Or Harry is a broody submissive boss, Louis is a natural dom who works in the mail room at Styles & Styles, Niall is a matchmaking oracle, and a slender, dark haired man stands mute at the coffee stand encouraging others to spill their secrets.

This one is a lot of fun! I love Harry being a sub CEO, needing to release some tension, and with Louis growing into his role.

[roseandbee]

— 1D Fic Quotes —

(Quotes from One Direction fics that make me want to scream into a pillow—a continuing post series)

“This is serious,” Zayn says, glaring at him. “There aren’t any Thursdays anymore, Louis.”

“There aren’t any…” Harry scans the board, trying to find what Zayn’s referring to. “Wait, what?”

“Haven’t you noticed? I stayed up to test it a couple of days ago. The clock flipped from 11:59 on Wednesday to midnight on Friday. I think it’s been doing it for a few weeks now. When’s the last time you saw a new episode of Grey’s Anatomy?”

“I don’t know, ten years ago?” Louis glances at Harry.

“Yeah, not since Cristina Yang left. Zayn, you’re probably just mixing up your days. That happens.”

“Especially if you’re not sleeping,” Louis adds.

“What were you telling us at the bar?” Niall asks, tilting his head. “Something about an atomic clock?”

“Don’t encourage him, Neil,” Louis mutters under his breath.

“Yes!” Zayn points his marker at Niall. “And look, look at this. Users have been reporting widespread GPS malfunctioning. Technologies like GPS rely on an understanding of space-time to function accurately.”

“So you think there’s a… space-time disturbance?” Harry asks, looking at the board again. It doesn’t look like anything to him. Just a bunch of clippings about unrelated events. And Harry really doubts that the issue, whatever it is, would affect pigeons.

-From the perfect sky is torn by  @disgruntledkittenface

48/?

[roseandbee]

I think if you can figure out what is causing Symptoms that the inside of your brain should go DING DING DING and then the Symptoms say Fuck, you got me! and leave

[roseandbee]

Embroidery by roniy1983

[roseandbee]

are you okay

is anyone

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Louis via Twitter. (24 May 2025)

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[roseandbee]

hi! I like threadable replies, but I've noticed that mention notifications are a little different since threadable replies were implemented (I think.) If I'm remembering correctly, we used to be able to click the notification of a mention in a reply on a post & we'd be taken to the reply that mentions us. Now, we click the notif & are just taken to the post itself. This is fine if the post only has a few notes, we can scroll through and find the mention in the replies, but if it's a post with a lot of notes it can be almost impossible to actually find the reply that mentions us. I've had multiple instances where I've been notified someone mentioned me in a reply and clicked on the notif only to give up and not be able to read what they actually said to me because there's hundreds of replies and I'm taken to the post itself instead of the reply I was notified about. I'd love if this could be changed so we could get taken to the actual reply when we click on the notification.

Answer: Hey there, @ecstaticallyelectrifying!

We believe what has happened here is that before there were threads, if you sorted replies from the newest, received a notification, and soon opened the post, the last reply would be at the top.

We agree that it has become harder trying to find the comment that notified you. This is because there is currently no available option to change the sort inside the threads—and because someone might be replying to an old reply (therefore not at the top).

The great news is that we have plans to improve this soon. Watch this space! You’ll get updates over at @changes, and hopefully, it won’t be too long until you hear more on this.

Thanks for your question!