so I learned recently that you could rename the boys in the chatroom...
drop yours too I'm curious 👀
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hi help me pls rec me soft animal fics maybe hybrid fics shifter fics or just fics with cuddly pets i want to be comforted today :( thank you so much !
Hi, anon, so I'll rec you a few here, but if you want a full rec of these, just send me another ask and I'll add the request to my pinned post!
What To Do With Magic Beans by LadyLondonderry / @londonfoginacup
Harry tends to mess up a little. Send him for berries and he comes home with a new pet, send him to sell his favourite cow and he comes home with a pocket of magic beans.
Who knew those things actually worked?
Or, a Jack and the Beanstalk AU featuring Harry as Jack, Louis as a prince, Zayn as a nanny, Liam as the reasonable one, and Niall as whatever the fuck he's doing.
Also, a giant teacup.
Cool Cats by @fallinglikethis
There’s a gorgeous boy sitting there, staring at him. His hair is longish, tucked back by a cloth headband, his eyes are a brilliant blue that make Marcel question if he’s ever actually seen real blue before or just cheap imitations of it. And his lips, thin and pink, are just slightly open, almost as though they’re inviting Marcel’s kiss.
“Oh,” the boy breathes in surprise and the tone is enough to wake Marcel from his momentary stupor. He realizes that the boy is staring at his ears and suddenly kisses are the furthest thing from Marcel’s mind.
Marcel exhales harshly and pulls out his chair, sinking into it and crossing his arms over his chest. He lifts his chin defiantly. “Alright, let’s have it.”
“Have… what?” The boy asks wide-eyed and, fuck, even his voice is beautiful. It’s got this delightful rasp to it that makes Marcel wanna purr.
“Whatever jokes or insults you’re gonna say. Let’s just get them over with now and out of the way,” Marcel says.
The blue-eyed cutie just sits there, staring.
Or
Sometimes, Marcel can have nice things.
Hey Look, Ma by @lululawrence
“I’m so sorry,” a deep voice said.
Louis made sure he’d only dropped his hat, reached down to pick it up, and was dusting it off when he finally looked up.
“It’s alright...mate…” Louis had seen this man before. He was gorgeous. He lived somewhere in the area, because Louis would often pass him on the street heading home from the tube or the nearest bus stop.
And now, here he was. Standing in all his fluffy, curly haired glory in front of Louis, apologising for nearly bowling him over.
“I really am sorry, though. Let me get you a coffee to make up for it?”
Or the one where Louis is a hybrid who agrees to go on a blind date with his neighbour's colleague's son the same night he literally runs into his dream man. Surely this isn't going to end well... or is it?
Ever Since by @letsjustsee
Louis once again went to leave, but before he could reach the door he heard Barkley jumping off the bed behind him. The giant dog accosted Louis before he could get through, nudging Louis’ legs with all his weight and making him stumble, and Louis had to grab the doorframe to steady himself.
“What the heck, Barkley?” Louis was mostly talking to himself, aware that Barkley couldn’t actually understand him, but he had never witnessed the dog acting so oddly.
He turned around when he heard a quiet murmur coming from the bed.
“What?” He hadn’t been able to make out what Harry said, but at Louis’ question he sat up in bed, hair already wild from the pillow, eyes heavy, and Louis’ stomach gave a little flip.
“He wants you to stay.”
Or, a very fluffy AU where Louis finds a lost dog that he wishes he could keep - until he meets his owner, who he wishes he could keep more.
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muppet babies au????? i’m intrigued
The muppet baby au is the first AU in an installment of four fics regarding your [ngl mostly my and my siblings favourite wrestlers] as infant and young children. It is an au where nothing hurts and everything is cute and sweet. Think of it like a little episodic TV Show with linking characters and storylines. With a couple of OCs sprinked in for our own enjoyment! The cast include
Maddie Orton [OC]
- Shes 5
- a tiny doctor
- autistic and dyslexic
- baby adopted sister of Randy Orton
- Parents: Triple H/Shawn Micheals [Adopted the Orton/Rollins children after their birth parents died in an accident]
Finn Balor
- Hes 6
- always full of chaos
- thinks hes immune to being told off because his ma runs the daycare [that is fundermentally untrue]
- Likes to be lavelled as Irish
- Bites but for fun
- parents: Ma and Pa Balor
Samuel 'Sami' Zayn:
- 5
- Translates Generico to everyone else
- Isnt too good at making friends
- probably doesnt sleep enough for a kid
- Wears his hat and glasses
- Always has his fingers in his mouth
-Parents: Edge and Christian
El Generico:
- age: 4
- barely speaks so its mostly sounds [Danhausen and Sami can understand]
- Dances and always on the move, cannot sit still
- sleeps on tables
- He always has the lucha mask on [adults are sure hes posessed by some kinda mexican wrestler and is thus an "old soul"]
- refuses to believe the young bucks are seperate people
- gets emotionally attached to things that arent human
- Parent: Excalibur
Kevin Owens:
- age: 7
- the kind bully very much
- is very loud when he wants to be
- Likes the slide so he can scream at people from the top
- refuses to say hes samis friend [they are though, he will push you in the mud over it]
- Parent: Chris Jericho [we found this funny when we were planning]
Aleister Black:
- Age: 6
-Draws on himself and runs around in his pants
- Has lost a tooth
- Draws terrifying things, should probably be put in therapy over it but shhhh
- literally an old soul, speaks very well for a six year old
-gets strangely emotional if things fo wrong
Parent: AJ lee [we kinda ran outta parents here shush]
Aleks Page [OC]
- age: 5
- Has a crush on tiny aleister
- British [confused about everyone else and sami but thats normal for Samuel]
- Likes to be outside
- Somehow becomes convinced that her and Adam Page are related because they share the same last name
- Tries to drink her little weight in juiceboxes
- wildchild
Parents: Her bio mum and dad [catholic nurse and stay at home dad]
Balor:
-Age: 7 1/2 or 7000 nobody is really sure
-"Around finns age" supposibly
- sleeps like hes dead
-His hair always sticks up like hes got little devil horns
- Understands Generico and Danhausen just doesnt tell anyone
-Parents: Brodie King
Randal "Randy" Keith Orton:
- 10
- the eldest kid at the daycare
- eats bugs and things to look cool
- plays with the younger kids cuz hes forced too
- loves his sister but will never tell her
-Overprotective
-parents: Triple H/ Shawn Micheals
Seth Rollins:
- Age: 4
- the youngest of the Orton trio
- gets roped into shit Randy does
-Has asthma
-Jumps off talls things
- wears terrible clothes because Shawn dresses him
- Steals the colouring supplies
- Him and Mox were in the same care home, bugs Mox about if their friends or not every week
-he has unlimited power
- wants a dog, no you will not argue with him
-parents:
Jonathon 'Jon' Moxley:
-Age: 5
-pretends hes not allergic to cats
- constantly covered in bandaids- always has one on his nose
- has ADHD and gets anxious about going to new places
[Regal sits in for his first day of daycare]
- Calls Regal dad, things regal will send him back if he screws up
- Regal teaches him origami
- Gets nosebleeds and is way too calm over it
- Doesnt like tiny MJF
-loves Rain
- ADORES FROGS
- scared of the dark but pretends that he isnt
-Calls tiny Gernerico "champ" and pats him on the head or back
-Will eat and bite everything
- eats the paper on sweets
- likes dragons
- never wears his coat, always wears boots and either mismatched socks or no socks
- Number dyslexic
- Parent: Willam Regal
Rhea Ripley:
-age: 8
- plays violin and plays things like the phyco theme
- spooky child
- tall for her age so everyone thinks shes older
- wears spooky looking earrings
- Parent: Lita
Darby Allin:
- Age: 4
- Friends with Generico but doesnt know what hes saying, makes up his own conversations
- Throws and jumps off everything
- sucks his thumb when hes asleep
- paints his face with the paint that isnt face paint
- friends with Seth cuz they both throw themselves off high shit for fun
-parent: STINNNNGGGGGG
Adam "Horseboy" Page:
Age: 4 [but hes almost five]
- wears tiny cowboy boots
-not so social, more anxious. likes to colour with the girls
- the newest kid on the block
-horse girl
- has little butterfly jeans
- owns my little ponys
-knows everything about cowboys and horsies
- has sawdust in his hair sometimes
- anxious cowboy but squashed into tiny
- has resting sad face
- cries randomly a lot
- still has a pacifier and a weighted horse toy
parent: Beth Pheonix
Maxwell Jacob Friendman:
- Age: 4
- tiny asshole
- has hayfever and it makes him mad
- bullys Maddie and pulls her hair
- refuses to do things that are "not fun"
- wears expensive looking clothes
- jewish and has adhd
- always wears his scalf
- Parent: Stephanie McMahon [we also found this funny]
Matthew "matt" Jacksonville aka Matt Jackson:
- Age: 7
- basically a small lab as a human being
- always seen with little kenny and his brother
- always super happy to show off his shoes, bullys over people for their shoes
- wears the loudest brightest clothes
- little sunshine baby
- likes to read
- is in dance and tumble classes
- has braces [hes not happy about it]
- autistic, gluten and lactose intolerent [Matthew simply, cannot pick a struggle]
Parents: mama and papa Buck
Nicholas "Nick" Jacksonville aka Nick Jackson:
- Age:5
- Also wears the loudest brightest clothes
- Holds tiny mattys hand when they travel anywhere
- has a stuffie bird he carries everywhere
- also autistic
- atill plays with baby toys cuz theyre free stim toys
- falls over a lot
- parents: mama and papa buck
Kenneth "kenny" Omega:
- age: 7 [older than matthew]
- tiny traumatised child
- wets himself a lot due to trauma
- is suprisngly happy despite troubling homelife
- has tiny curls, wears little ponytail
- in chronic pain
- has a little backpack filled with baby and kids pain meds
- brings comic books to school to show friends
- always with tiny bucks
- plays hockey
-Parent: Don Callis [we dont talk about it, it hurts]
Edward [Eddie] Kingston:
- Age: 9
- friends with tiny kevin because theyre both filled with rage
- small new york accent
- makes friends with Mox
- that kid who always wants to see gross stuff cuz it looks cool
- plays baseball
- never seen without a plastic hat
- Parent: Mick Foley
Wheeler "Wheels" Yuta:
-Age: 2
- Mute
- is left at daycare because regal needs to work
- follows Mox around
- communicates through sounds and laughter
- sits on Moxs little bike while he rides it
- toddles like the sims toddlers
- knows a little sign language
- autistic
-tomboysih
- Parent: Willam Regal
Daniel Hausen:
-Age: 6
- speaks Generico, sleeps under the tables that Generico sleeps on
- keeps all his baby teeth and carries them around
- plays dolls with hangman
- spooky child
- calls the children by their full names [Jon is Jonathon]
- also plays with the not facepaint paint
-will get himself into really weird "how the fuck did that happen?!" situations
-Parent: Excalibur
HOOK:
-age: 3
- selective mute
- doesnt know what to do with the weird demon that keeps trying to make friends with him
- anger issues
- climbs trees to be alone and doesnt know how to get down
- needs to be persuaded to eat food that arent chips
- fucking ADORES dinos my guys!
- reads the same dino book over and over again
- punch first, ask questions later
-parent: Taz
Lukas "Luke" Gallows and Karl Anderson:
- ages: 8 and 7 respectfully
- two half of a whole idiot
- Luke is the tallest in the little kid class
- Karl has esxma and wears gloves so he doesnt itch it
- weirdly facinated by tiny kenny and little buckles
- Parent: AJ Styles [like BC, get it?]
Orange Cassidy:
- Age: 6
- that one kid that just, doesnt care
- sensitive to light, so wears sunglasses inside
- likes wearing jeans
- can sleep anywhere at any time
-shows emotions rarely
- Parents: Excalibur
Charles "Chuck" Taylor:
-Age: 8
- isnt eager to move up to the big kids club
- has rosacea
- naturally comedic gold
- that kid that laughs in awkward situations
- really likes being helpful
- sarcastic
- "you ever warm up to talk to people?"
- southern friends with little cowboy
-Parent: Tony Schiavone
Trent ? Barreta:
-Age: 7
- kindly that kid that knows nothing
- asks tiny chuck questions
-tiny chuck carpools with him
- literally the most agreeable kid yall could meet
- drives around in one of those like, tonka cars
-Parent: sue
Adam Cole [Toddler]:
- Age: 5
- little smug child
- its very clear shes an only child
- thinks her hair is very pretty
- off and on again friends with the tiny elite
- is actually kind when you get to know her
-padengt queen
-Parents: Claudio and RJ City
Jack "jungle boy" Perry:
- Age: 3
- also loves dinosaurs
- carries around a stuffed lunchasauras
- climbs trees and knows how to get down
- helps nicky indetify birds
- like the best hair on a little one
- parents: Edge and Christan
Ruby Soho:
- age: 5
- tiny punk baby
- isnt to be left alone with scissors
- knows lots of myths and stuff
- also draws on herself
- once ate a thumbtack
- friends wiht little eddie
- parnet: Aubrey Edwards
Julia Hart:
- Age: 2
- also speaks very well for a two year olf
- seems to be able to read minds
- likes her big hat and enjoys dressing up
_ has kind eyes and the opposite of a resting bitch face
- has spikey teeth
- Grown up: Brodie King
Jay:
- AGe: newborn
- originally fostered by Regal
- ends up being adopted by mama and papa buck
- hangs out in the nursery/little play area with the younger ones
- Maddies cousin
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hewwo cat and mouse! :3
i’m trying to find a fc for a character of mine, can you please help? he’s meant to be ginger, but with the vibes of someone like jason momoa(?) … i hope this isn’t too vague! if i have any more info to add i’ll send it in a different ask, thank you -🍍 (pineapple anon)
Toby Stephens (1969)
Brett Tucker (1972)
Kris Holden-Ried (1973)
Sami Zayn (1984) Syrian - has posted pro Palestine content! ❤️❤️❤️
Krondon (1976) African-American - has albinism.
Kristofer Hivju (1978)
Jidenna (1985) Igbo Nigerian / English, German, Dutch.
I was going to suggest Sam H*ughan found out he said sorry for signing a letter accusing Isr*el of war crimes because "it didn't condemn H*mas" 🙄🙄
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what really inspired the babe music video though...
So if you’ve read my babe mv analysis you know it’s one of the world’s loudest and best gaylor proofs in existence. What I want to explore here however is why 5-6 years after Swiftgron was over, is Taylor digging up the grave another time to drag her ex.
Seriously stop and think about it. Why on God’s gay earth did Taylor decide to Swiftgron her ass off in 2018. When she’s supposedly moved on to the London Lover and happy?
The simplest explanation is that Babe is about Dianna so Taylor made sure people knew that. And hey that’s completely possible.
However it’s Christmas and I’m feeling generous so buckle up for some crack and reaching. (read: this is mostly a joke post so don’t come for my neck for playing around and making it. if you don’t like it don’t read✌️)
What if Taylor painting herself as the desperate other woman in this music video all about Dianna has a meaning further than it just worked out like that? What if Dianna was cheating on Winston with Taylor in a late stage illicit Swiftgron affair 👀👀👀???? (no I don’t think IA is about dianna, she doesn’t take runs)
Taylor said herself that “the narrative is never truly over” about her and Dianna so right after she and Karlie broke up why wouldn’t we expect a Swiftgron fling:
Babe was released in late spring of 2018 so let’s try and pin down when this Swiftgron tomfoolery could have taken place...
We know Dianna was in London at the beginning of 2017 (with Carey Mulligan no less, a friend of Taylor’s!)
Thanks to @swiftiesleuth‘s (who is probably going to make fun of me for this theory but THAT’S FINE W ME) realistic Kaylor Timeline we know Taylor was hiding out in London at this point in time as well:
3 January 2017 - Taylor diaries that she’s “essentially based in London” and that “we have been together and no one has found out for three months.” (This could be three months with Joe from September 28 OR three months from Tily’s Halloween party. Either way, not Karlie).
8 January 2017 - Taylor and Zayn film the I Don’t Wanna Live Forever MV in London.
So the question is, can we build a theory about Swiftgron having a late stage affair simply because they were in the same city at the same time? Well if Kaylors can claim Kaylor got engaged solely because Taylor was not papped while Karlie went on vacation then I say YES! Tis the damn season!!!
Let’s look at social media clues. Dianna seemed to be in on Rep promo. You want proof? Well what else could she have meant when she posted a photo captioned “please don’t eat the daisies” a few months after the London affair. We know Karlie called Taylor daisy so perhaps social media criminal mastermind Dianna “queen of shade” Agron was trying to humiliate Karlie because Karlie smirked at her at that fashion show in 2015:
Emboldened by her own crimes she then flexed her insider knowledge of Rep promo by posting video of her singing on instagram with the caption “Zombie Love” a mere three days before Taylor appeared in the LWYMMD music video dressed as a zombie in the OOTW (a song about Dianna) dress. Why is Taylor a zombie in specific outfit? Because Swiftgron is back from the dead of course:
Not only that but in the music video she buries the Taylor in the met gala dress from 2014. She attended that met gala with Karlie. RIP KAYLOR LONG LIVE SWIFTGRON!??!?
Now positively DRUNK with power, Dianna seems to stalk Karlie to an event only to tauntingly call her goooeeoeoeooueuueugoussssssss to her face, the queen of manipulation and psychological warfare has struck again!!! This happens in Feb 2018 a mere matter of weeks before babe is dropped as a single.
We of course know Dianna admits to her own commitment issues on instagram two days before Babe drops but what if she is referencing her commitment issues not with Taylor but with her husband Winston because she is cheating on him with Taylor at this point in time or did some time in 2017???
Taylor releases babe and then later the music video seeming to be screaming to the whole world that yes she is cucking Winston Marshall and she wants you, your mom, and your cat to know about it!
Dianna voices her support of this by posting this to her IG stories at the end of May:
We know Taylor’s symbol was a snake during the rep era and she couldn’t trust just about anyone but, Dianna was letting her know to trust in her!!!
I’ve always suspected DBATC is a Swiftgron song due to the lyrics “i look through the windows of This Love, even though we boarded them up” -that references the flood that happened in Clean that taylor says she and the London Lover (or Karlie) boarded up the windows of after the storm in CIWYW.
I see you everywhere
The only thing we share
Is this small town
What if “i see you everywhere” is literal? because they’re sneaking around and actually seeing one another in a literal since?
My heart, my hips, my body, my love
Trying to find a part of me that you didn't touch
Sounds like an affair to me!!!
When she says “the morning comes and you’re not my baby” she’s saying speaking present day because Dianna is still married to Winston.
and while Dianna seems to love rubbing Karlie’s face in it, like the evil villain we all know she is, Taylor likewise seems to like to rub Winston’s cuck status in his face in it since she adds a song he wrote about Dianna to her me! playlist in June of 2019:
look at the other songs she taunts him with “glad he’s gone”, “just friends”, “hey, ma”, “open my mouth”!! she’s sick!!!
Winston has had enough of this and he and Dianna split in July of 2019 though it doesn’t go public for a year.
To add insult to injury (and to personally attack tumblr kaylors all over the world) Taylor performs false god at SNL, a song she wrote about her and Dianna’s late stage affair with Dianna in attendance.
So in summation, perhaps Taylor is referencing Dianna so much recently because they hooked up more recently than 2013 and that’s why Taylor paints herself as the other woman in the Babe mv and has become obsessed with adultery lately. Because maybe Dianna was cheating on Winston with her 😌😌😌.
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não sou o anon sobre larry 2015, mas se quiser responder essa ask com esses links eu vou amar :)
oioi!
eu tenho só esses.. eu queria achar mais links! se alguém tiver mais e quiser compartilhar :)
além desses acima, tem esse dois que respondi na ask passada:
louis e harry julho de 2015
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the pleasure is all mine:
Nome: Gabriel Alves Grimaldi
Idade: 1*
Nacionalidade: eu tenho dupla nacionalidade, nasci na Itália ( Veneza) mas moro no Brasil (São Paulo) desde os meus 2 anos.
Cantoras fav: Ariana grande, Dua lipa, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Hudson, Doja cat, Cardi B, Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera, Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Celine Dion, Adele, Janet Jackson, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Britney spears, Diana ross, Alicia keys, Anitta, Ludmila, IZA, Glória groove, Ivete Sangalo, Pablo vittar, etc..
Cantores fav: Harry styles, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Lil Nas x, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Elton John, Shawn Mendes, Bruno Mars, Caetano veloso, Cazuza, Tim Maia, Chico Buarque, Vinícius de Moraes, etc...
Grupos e bandas: Now United, BlackPink, Jonas brothers, Nirvana, The Beatles, Queen, Mamonas assassinas, etc...
Livros favs: Saga Harry Potter, Saga Crepúsculo, Como eu era antes de você, A cinco passos de você,A culpa é das estrelas, orgulho e preconceito, dom quixote de la mancha, o pequeno príncipe, o senhor dos anéis, vermelho branco e sangue azul, com amor Simon, o azul é a cor mais quente.
Eu sei falar Inglês, espanhol, português, italiano e um pouco de francês.
Quero fazer um intercâmbio para os EUA, e fazer faculdade de moda na França, pretendo fazer faculdade de direitos em alguma facul americana
Eu não irei falar sobre as minhas séries favoritas pois são muitas rsrs, o mesmo sobre os meus filmes favoritos, se eu sentir vontade outra hora faço algo separado haha
Eu sou bissexual, amo garotas com cabelo curto, raspado ou longo, eu tenho preferencia em garotos haha
Eu quero adotar 4 crianças, 2 meninos e 2 meninas:
1-Gael
2-Luna
3-Anne
4-Noah
Eu acho que isso é tudo sobre mim haha
Eu tenho o sonho de viajar o mundo também.
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Ciao! Sono nuova qui su Tumblr e non so ancora bene come si usa haha. Allora:
• Io mi chiamo serena, sono una directioner since 2013 (avevo smesso di seguirli ma ho ripreso dopo la pausa) ☆
sono una larrie
// ot5 ~ ♡
• stan:
Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, Zayn malik, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Shawn Mendes, Tylor Swift, Katy Perry, Ariana Grande, BTR, Queen, Bruno Mars, Doja Cat, One direction as a band, Charlie Puth, Pitbull, Dua Lipa, Gazzelle, Calcutta, Ariete, Psicologi, Giusy Ferreri, Fedez, Flo Rida, Billie Eilish, Selena Gomez etc.....
Mi piace leggere -> ff > y&b, caya, ymmaicy, smk...
Tutti ben accetti, this is a safe place, anche per le antis, sempre che portino rispetto ovviamente!
💌
Ciaoo <3
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catching up on tagging games !
I’ve been tagged in a bunch of tagging games and I’m gonna steal @theleavesoflorien idea to put them all together in one post !
So thank you to @theleavesoflorien @maybeasalways @allwaswell16 and @maggieisalarrie for tagging me !!!
I tag anyone that one to do any of those ones !
FIRST
(imma mix two there and pick 15 from my Daily Mix 1)
rules: list (and/or create content for) 13 songs that you’ve been vibing to lately
+ You can tell a lot about someone by the type of music they listen to. Share 20 songs by putting your favourite playlist on shuffle.
1. More Than Words - MNEK / 2. Fragile - Camélia Jordana / 3. Un Jour Sans Fin - Fievel / 4. Dreams - Ella Eyre / 5. Adore You - Harry Styles / 6. Rumour Has It - Adele / 7. I Don’t Mind - ZAYN. / 8. Dance Alone - Tayla Parx / 9. Pretty Please - Dua Lipa / 10. Kill The Lights - Jess Glynne & Alex Newell / 11. Missed Calls - MAX ft Hayley Kiyoko / 12. Second 2 None - Mura Masa ft Christine in the Queens / 13. Honeysuckle - Greyson Chance / 14. Easy - Troye Sivan / 15. Glad He’s Gone - Tove Lo
SECOND
List which 5 TV shows make you feel better
1. GBBO
2. Derry Girls
3. Community
4. The Umbrella Academy
5. SKAM
THIRD
A person’s favorite color, favorite animal, and favorite flavor of ice cream can say a lot about them when considering the answers as a whole.
I’ll go with lilac, cats or deers and finally okay ice cream will be either matcha/geinmacha or chunky monkey !
FOUR
Talk about some of the good things that have happened to you in 2020 so far
- Started writing fanfic again !
- Made new wonderful friends online and IRL
- Finished (another) MA though I’m still waiting on the final grade
- Got over my fear of driving and just started trying it out
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A handshake can quell political unrest and stifle impending war. It can, with a bit of spit, validate a gentleman’s agreement, end a years-long romantic relationship or send a young heart racing. But it all depends on the two parties involved.
Daisy, 21, felt a seismic jolt when Harry Styles, 25, wearing a striped jumper and rings on three of his five fingers, clutched her hand two days after this year’s Met Gala in New York, when she served him gelato at the shop where she worked.
“He decided on a small mint chocolate gelato and I made his and the one for his friend and I said, ‘Can I just say I absolutely loved your Met Gala look’ and he said ‘Thank you very much! What’s your name?’ And I said, ‘Daisy’ AND HE FUCKING EXTENDED HISHAND AND REACHED TO SHAKE MY HAND AND I ACTUALLY FUCKINGSHOOK HIS HAND WHAT THE FUCK,” she wrote on Instagram after The Shakening. “Like I didn’t even say anything to gas him up besides ‘I loved your met gala look’ and his fine ass went and shook my hand! WHAT A BEAUTIFUL FUCKING HUMAN BEINGTHAT HE IS GOD BLESS HIM AND I HOPE HW [sic] LIVES FOREVER.”
For Harry Styles, a handshake can be a romantic gesture, conjuring a potent reverence in its recipient, like the time he met Gucci’s creative director Alessandro Michele. “He was as attractive as James Dean and as persuasive as Greta Garbo. He was like a Luchino Visconti character, like an Apollo: at the same time sexy as a woman, as a kid, as a man,” Michele told me, hastening to add: “Of course, Harry is not aware of this.”
No, Styles has no idea the power he wields. In person, he’s towering, like someone who is not that much taller but whose reputation adds four inches. Styles has a sedative baritone, spoken in a rummy northern English accent, that tumbles out so slowly you forget the name of your first born, a swagger that has been nursed and perfected in mythical places with names like Paisley Park, or Abbey Road, or Graceland. Makes complete sense that he would be up for the role of Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming biopic. He was primed, nay, born to shake his hips, all but one button on his shirt clinging for dear life around his torso. Then the part was awarded to another actor, Austin Butler.
“[Elvis] was such an icon for me growing up,” Styles tells me. “There was something almost sacred about him, almost like I didn’t want to touch him. Then I ended up getting into [his life] a bit and I wasn’t disappointed,” he adds of his initial research and preparations to play The King. He seems relaxed about losing the part to Butler. “I feel like if I’m not the right person for the thing, then it’s best for both of us that I don’t do it, you know?”
Styles released his self-titled debut solo album in May 2017. The boyband grad was clearly uninterested in hollowing out the charts with more formulaic meme pop. Instead, to the surprise of many, he dug his heels into retro-fetishist West Coast ’70s rock. Some of the One Direction fan-hordes might have been confused, but no matter: Harry Styles sold one million copies.
Despite its commercial and critical success, he didn’t tour the album right away. He wanted to act in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk. To his credit, his portrayal of a British soldier cowering in a moored boat on the French beaches as the Nazis advanced wasn’t skewered in the press like the movie debuts of, say, Madonna or Justin Timberlake. Perhaps he was following advice given by Elton John, who had urged him to diversify. “He was brilliant in Dunkirk, which took a lot of people by surprise,” John writes in an email. “I love how he takes chances and risks.” Acting, unlike music, is a release for Styles; it’s the one time he can be not himself.
“Why do I want to act? It’s so different to music for me,” he says, suddenly animated. “They’re almost opposite for me. Music, you try and put so much of yourself into it; acting, you’re trying to totally disappear in whoever you’re being.”
Following the news that he missed out on Presley, his name was floated for the role of Prince Eric in Disney’s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. However, fans will have to wait a bit longer to see Styles on the big screen as that idea, too, has sunk. He won’t be The King or the Prince. “It was discussed,” he acknowledges before swiftly changing the subject. “I want to put music out and focus on that for a while. But everyone involved in it was amazing, so I think it’s going to be great. I’ll enjoy watching it, I’m sure.”
The new album is wrapped and the single is decided upon. “It’s not like his last album,” his friend, rock ‘n’ roll legend Stevie Nicks, told me recently over the phone. “It’s not like anything One Direction ever did. It’s pure Harry, as Harry would say. He’s made a very different record and it’s spectacular.”
Beyond that, Styles is keeping his cards close to his chest as to his next musical move. However, the air is thick with rumours that his main wingman for HS2 is Kid Harpoon, aka Tom Hull, who co-wrote debut album track Sweet Creature. No less an authority than Liam Gallagher told us that both big band escapees were in the same studio – RAK in north-west London – at the same time making their second solo albums. Styles played him a couple of tracks, “and I tell you what, they’re good,” Gallagher enthused. “A bit like that Bon Iver. Is that his name?”
Harry Styles met Nicks at a Fleetwood Mac concert in Los Angeles in April 2015. Something about him felt authentic to the legendary frontwoman: grounded, like she’d known him forever, blessed with a winning moonshot grin. A month later, they met backstage at another Mac gig, this time at the O2 in London. Styles brought a carrot cake for Nicks’ birthday, her name piped in icing on top. By her own admission, Nicks doesn’t even celebrate birthdays, so this was a surprise. “He was personally responsible for me actually having to celebrate my birthday, which was very sweet,” she says.
Styles’ relationship with Nicks is hard to define. Inducting her into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York as a solo artist earlier this year, his speech hymned her as a “magical gypsy godmother who occupies the in-between”. She’s called him her “lovechild” with Mick Fleetwood and the “son I never had”. Both have moved past the preliminary chat acknowledging each other’s unquantifiable talents and smoothly accelerated towards playful cut-and-thrust banter of a witch mom and her naughty child.
They perform together – he sings The Chainand Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around; she sings the one allegedly written about Taylor Swift, Two Ghosts. One of those performances was at the Gucci Cruise afterparty in Rome in May, for “a lot of money”, Nicks tells me, in a “big kind of castle place”. She has become his de facto mentor – one phone call is all it takes to reach the Queen of Rock’n’Roll for advice on sequencing (“She is really good at track listing,” Styles admits) or just to hear each other’s voices… because, well,
wouldn’t you?
Following another Fleetwood Mac concert, at London’s Wembley Stadium, in June, Nicks met Styles for a late (Indian) dinner. He then invited her back to his semi-detached Georgian mansion in north London for a listening party at midnight. The album – HS2or whatever it’ll be called – was finished. Nicks, her assistant Karen, her make-up artist and her friends Jess and Mary crammed onto Styles’ living-room couch. They listened to it once through in silence like a “bunch of educated monks or something in this dark room”. Then once again, 15 or 16 tracks, this time each of his guests offering live feedback. It wrapped at 5am, just as the sun was bleeding through the curtains.
Even for a pop star of Styles’ stature, pressing “play” on a deeply personal work for your hero to digest, watching her face react in real time to your new music, must be… what?
“It’s a double-edged thing,” he replies. “You’re always nervous when you are playing people music for the first time. You’ve heard it so much by this point, you forget that people haven’t heard it before. It’s hard to not feel like you’ve done what you’ve set out to do. You are happy with something and then someone who you respect so much and look up to is, like: ‘I really like this.’ It feels like a large stamp [of approval]. It’s a big step towards feeling very comfortable with whatever else happens to it.”
Wading through Styles’ background info is exhausting, since he was spanked by fame in the social media era where every goddam blink of a kohl-rimmed eye has been documented from six angles. (And yes, he does sometimes wear guyliner.)
Deep breath: born in Redditch, Worcestershire, to parents Des and Anne, who divorced when he was seven. Grew up in Holmes Chapel in Cheshire with his sister Gemma, mum and stepdad Robin Twist. Rode horses at a nearby stable for free (“I was a bad rider, but I was a rider”). Stopped riding, “got into different stuff”. Formed a band, White Eskimo, with schoolmates. Aged 16, tried out for the 2010 run of The X Factorwith a stirring but average rendition of Stevie Wonder’s Isn’t She Lovely. Cut from the show and put into a boy band with four others, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik, and called One Direction. Became internationally famous, toured the globe. Zayn quit to go solo. Toured some more. Dated but maybe didn’t date Caroline Flack, Rita Ora and Taylor Swift – whom he reportedly dumped in the British Virgin Islands. (This relationship, if nothing else, yielded an iconic, candid shot of Swift looking dejected, being motored back to shore on the back of a boat called the Flying Ray.) One Direction discussed disbanding in 2014, actually dissolved in 2015. They remain friendly, and Styles officially went solo in 2016.
It’s been two years since his eponymous debut and lead single, Sign of the Times, shocked the world and Elton John with its swaggering, soft rock sound. “It came out of left field and I loved it,” John says.
After 89 arena-packed shows across five continents grossed him, the label, whomever, over $61 million, Styles had all but disappeared. He has emerged only intermittently for public-facing events – a Gucci afterparty performance here, a Met Gala co-chairing there. He relocated from Los Angeles back to London, selling his Hollywood Hills house for $6million and shipping his Jaguar E-type across the Atlantic so he could take joyrides on the M25.
“I’m not over LA,” he insists when I ask about the move. “My relationship with LAchanged a lot. What I wanted from LA changed.”
A great escape, he would agree, is sometimes necessary. He was in Tokyo for most of January, having nearly finished his album. “I needed time to get out of that album frame-of-mind of: ‘Is it finished? Where am I at? What’s happening?’ I really needed that time away from everyone. I was kind of just in Tokyo by myself.” His sabbatical mostly involved reading Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, singing Nirvana at karaoke, writing alone in his hotel room, listening to music and eavesdropping on strangers in alien conversation. “It was just a positive time for my head and I think that impacted the album in a big way.”
During this break he watched a lot of films, read a lot of books. Sometimes he texts these recommendations to his pal Michele at Gucci. He told Michele to watch the Ali Macgraw film, Love Story. “We text what friends text about. He is the same [as me] in terms of he lives in his own world and he does his own thing. I love dressing up and he loves dressing up.”
Because he loves dressing up, Michele chose Styles to be the face of three Gucci Tailoring campaigns and of its new genderless fragrance, Mémoire d’une Odeur.
“The moment I met him, I immediately understood there was something strong around him,” Michele tells me. “I realised he was much more than a young singer. He was a young man, dressed in a thoughtful way, with uncombed hair and a beautiful voice. I thought he gathered within himself the feminine and the masculine.”
Fashion, for Styles, is a playground. Something he doesn’t take too seriously. A couple of years ago Harry Lambert, his stylist since 2015, acquired for him a pair of pink metallic Saint Laurent boots that he has never been photographed wearing. They are exceedingly rare – few pairs exist. Styles wears them “to get milk”. They are, in his words, “super-fun”. He’s not sure, but he has, ballpark, 50 pairs of shoes, as well as full closets in at least three postcodes. He settles on an outfit fairly quickly, maybe changes his T-shirt once before heading out, but mostly knows what he likes.
What he may not fully comprehend is that simply by being photographed in a garment he can spur the career of a designer, as he has with Harris Reed, Palomo Spain, Charles Jeffrey, Alled-Martínez and a new favourite, Bode. Styles wore a SS16 Gucci floral suit to the 2015 American Music Awards. When he was asked who made his suit on the red carpet, Gucci began trending worldwide on Twitter.
“It was one of the first times a male wore Alessandro’s runway designs and, at the time, men were not taking too many red carpet risks,” says Lambert. “Who knows if it influenced others, but it was a special moment. Plus, it was fun seeing the fans dress up in suits to come see Harry’s shows.”
Yet traditional gender codes of dress still have the minds of middle America in a chokehold. Men can’t wear women’s clothes, say the online whingers, who have labelled him “tragic”, “a clown” and a Bowie wannabe. Styles doesn’t care. “What’s feminine and what’s masculine, what men are wearing and what women are wearing – it’s like there are no lines any more.”
Elton John agrees: “It worked for Marc Bolan, Bowie and Mick. Harry has the same qualities.”
Then there is the question of Styles’ sexuality, something he has admittedly “never really started to label”, which will plague him until he does. Perhaps it’s part of his allure. He’s brandished a pride flag that read “Make America Gay Again” on stage, and planted a stake somewhere left of centre on sexuality’s rainbow spectrum.
“In the position that he’s in, he can’t really say a lot, but he chose a queer girl band to open for him and I think that speaks volumes,” Josette Maskin of the queer band MUNA told The Face earlier this year.
“I get a lot of…” Styles trails off, wheels turning on how he can discuss sexuality without really answering. “I’m not always super-outspoken. But I think it’s very clear from choices that I make that I feel a certain way about lots of things. I don’t know how to describe it. I guess I’m not…” He pauses again, pivots. “I want everyone to feel welcome at shows and online. They want to be loved and equal, you know? I’m never unsupported, so it feels weird for me to overthink it for someone else.”
Sexuality aside, he must acknowledge that he has sex appeal. “The word ‘sexy’ sounds so strange coming out of my mouth. So I would say that that’s probably why I would not consider myself sexy.”
Harry Styles has emerged fully-formed, an anachronistic rock star, vague in sensibility but destined to impress with a disarming smile and a warm but firm handshake.
I recite to him a quote from Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders about her time atop rock’s throne: “I never got into this for the money or because I wanted to join in the superstar sex around the swimming pools. I did it because the offer of a record contract came along and it seemed like it might be more fun than being a waitress. Now, I’m not so sure.”
Styles – who worked in a bakery in a small northern town some time before playing to 40,000 screaming fans in South American arenas – must have witnessed some shit, been invited to a few poolside sex parties, in his time.
“I’ve seen a couple of things,” he nods in agreement. “But I’m still young. I feel like there’s still stuff to see.”
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{Recently Read Larry Fics}
March 2020
These are all fics I read and enjoyed in March. There are 12 recs here in all and are in order by word count. You can also listen to my podcast to hear me talk about each of these fics as well as an overview of what was posted on ao3 in March! Please let the writers know if you liked the fics by leaving kudos and comments! Happy reading!
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💚 An Ever Fixed Mark, My_words_fly_up (NR, 66k, series, historical au, Victorian London, rich Louis, aristocrat Louis, prostitute Harry, hurt/comfort, hopeful ending, so much drama and emotion and everything you could be looking for in a Victorian au)
💚 thinking about the t-shirt you sleep in, @absoloutenonsense / nonsensedarling (E, 52k, a/b/o, omega Louis, alpha Harry, uni au, mutual pining, emotional hurt/comfort, friends to lovers, scenting, nesting, fluff and angst, financial issues, smut, bl, love how gentle Harry is with Louis)
💚 with no way out and a long way down, @so-why-let-your-voice-be-tamed / we_are_the_same (T, 31k, soulmate au, royal au, soulmarks, Prince Harry, strangers to lovers, arranged marriage, emotional hurt/comfort, mild angst, no smut, an interesting take on the trope!)
💚 Shine, @jacaranda-bloom / jacaranda_bloom (E, 13k, strangers to lovers au, scientist Louis, carpenter Harry, kink exploration, d/s undertones, smut, bl, very unique kink haha)
💚 a fire in us, @hereforlou (E, 12k, soulmate au, friends to lovers, long distance friendship, phone sex, masturbation, soulmarks, loved how their love grew in such an interesting way without having met)
💚 More or Less, @assisreal / saori (G, 10k, Louis/Harry, established relationship au, university, aromantic Louis, angst, coming out, Louis pov, a unique look at how Louis handles being ace within a relationship)
💚 Should Be, Meant To Be, @the-cheshire-pussy-cat / thecheshirepussycat (E, 9k, boss/employee relationship, sugar daddy Harry, CEO Harry, assistant Louis, smut, daddy kink, jealous Harry, bl, very hot whew)
💚 Sweet to the Soul, Health to the Bones, @wildhalos / wildhalo (T, 9k, secret admirer au, writer/model Harry, fluff, pining, poetry, strangers to friends to lovers, alternating pov, such a sweet fic)
💚 Rent Me For Valentine’s, lxrrytbh (M, 8k, fake/pretend relationship, barista Louis, hired boyfriend, family pressure, meet the family, bed sharing, smut, a fun take on the trope!)
💚 Your secret’s safe with me, @lightwoodsmagic (M, 7k, royal au, architect Louis, fanboys, Prince Harry, famous Zayn, friends to lovers, fluff, pining, humor, kiss, no smut, I adored this and it’s one of my fav things I’ve read this year)
💚 A XXX-Mas Miracle, @fallinglikethis (E, 2k, camboy Louis, Christmas, lingerie, masturbation, porn, chance meeting, one of my fav tropes written perfectly)
💚 Silicone Knot, @jaerie (E, 1k+, a/b/o, alpha Louis, verse Louis, knotting dildo, gender identity, camboy Louis, omega Harry, intersex omegas, secondary trans Harry, masturbation, so interesting and yet another amazing world from this writer)
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The Face - Volume 4 . Issue 1
A handshake can quell political unrest and stifle impending war. It can, with a bit of spit, validate a gentleman’s agreement, end a years-long romantic relationship or send a young heart racing. But it all depends on the two parties involved.
Daisy, 21, felt a seismic jolt when Harry Styles, 25, wearing a striped jumper and rings on three of his five fingers, clutched her hand two days after this year’s Met Gala in New York, when she served him gelato at the shop where she worked.
“He decided on a small mint chocolate gelato and I made his and the one for his friend and I said, ‘Can I just say I absolutely loved your Met Gala look’ and he said ‘Thank you very much! What’s your name?’ And I said, ‘Daisy’ AND HE FUCKING EXTENDED HIS HAND AND REACHEDTO SHAKE MY HAND AND I ACTUALLY FUCKING SHOOK HIS HAND WHAT THEFUCK,” she wrote on Instagram after The Shakening. “Like I didn’t even say anything to gas him up besides ‘I loved your met gala look’ and his fine ass went and shook my hand! WHATA BEAUTIFUL FUCKING HUMAN BEING THAT HE IS GOD BLESS HIM AND I HOPE HW[sic] LIVES FOREVER.”
For Harry Styles, a handshake can be a romantic gesture, conjuring a potent reverence in its recipient, like the time he met Gucci’s creative director Alessandro Michele. “He was as attractive as James Dean and as persuasive as Greta Garbo. He was like a Luchino Visconti character, like an Apollo: at the same time sexy as a woman, as a kid, as a man,” Michele told me, hastening to add: “Of course, Harry is not aware of this.”
No, Styles has no idea the power he wields. In person, he’s towering, like someone who is not that much taller but whose reputation adds four inches. Styles has a sedative baritone, spoken in a rummy northern English accent, that tumbles out so slowly you forget the name of your first born, a swagger that has been nursed and perfected in mythical places with names like Paisley Park, or Abbey Road, or Graceland. Makes complete sense that he would be up for the role of Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming biopic. He was primed, nay, born to shake his hips, all but one button on his shirt clinging for dear life around his torso. Then the part was awarded to another actor, Austin Butler.
“[Elvis] was such an icon for me growing up,” Styles tells me. “There was something almost sacred about him, almost like I didn’t want to touch him. Then I ended up getting into [his life] a bit and I wasn’t disappointed,” he adds of his initial research and preparations to play The King. He seems relaxed about losing the part to Butler. “I feel like if I’m not the right person for the thing, then it’s best for both of us that I don’t do it, you know?”
Styles released his self-titled debut solo album in May 2017. The boyband grad was clearly uninterested in hollowing out the charts with more formulaic meme pop. Instead, to the surprise of many, he dug his heels into retro-fetishist West Coast ’70s rock. Some of the One Direction fan-hordes might have been confused, but no matter: Harry Styles sold one million copies.
Despite its commercial and critical success, he didn’t tour the album right away. He wanted to act in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk. To his credit, his portrayal of a British soldier cowering in a moored boat on the French beaches as the Nazis advanced wasn’t skewered in the press like the movie debuts of, say, Madonna or Justin Timberlake. Perhaps he was following advice given by Elton John, who had urged him to diversify. “He was brilliant in Dunkirk, which took a lot of people by surprise,” John writes in an email. “I love how he takes chances and risks.” Acting, unlike music, is a release for Styles; it’s the one time he can be not himself.
“Why do I want to act? It’s so different to music for me,” he says, suddenly animated. “They’re almost opposite for me. Music, you try and put so much of yourself into it; acting, you’re trying to totally disappear in whoever you’re being.”
Following the news that he missed out on Presley, his name was floated for the role of Prince Eric in Disney’s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. However, fans will have to wait a bit longer to see Styles on the big screen as that idea, too, has sunk. He won’t be The King or the Prince. “It was discussed,” he acknowledges before swiftly changing the subject. “I want to put music out and focus on that for a while. But everyone involved in it was amazing, so I think it’s going to be great. I’ll enjoy watching it, I’m sure.”
The new album is wrapped and the single is decided upon. “It’s not like his last album,” his friend, rock ‘n’ roll legend Stevie Nicks, told me recently over the phone. “It’s not like anything One Direction ever did. It’s pure Harry, as Harry would say. He’s made a very different record and it’s spectacular.”
Beyond that, Styles is keeping his cards close to his chest as to his next musical move. However, the air is thick with rumours that his main wingman for HS2 is Kid Harpoon, aka Tom Hull, who co-wrote debut album track Sweet Creature. No less an authority than Liam Gallagher told us that both big band escapees were in the same studio – RAK in north-west London – at the same time making their second solo albums. Styles played him a couple of tracks, “and I tell you what, they’re good,” Gallagher enthused. “A bit like that Bon Iver. Is that his name?”
Harry Styles met Nicks at a Fleetwood Mac concert in Los Angeles in April 2015. Something about him felt authentic to the legendary frontwoman: grounded, like she’d known him forever, blessed with a winning moonshot grin. A month later, they met backstage at another Mac gig, this time at the O2 in London. Styles brought a carrot cake for Nicks’ birthday, her name piped in icing on top. By her own admission, Nicks doesn’t even celebrate birthdays, so this was a surprise. “He was personally responsible for me actually having to celebrate my birthday, which was very sweet,” she says.
Styles’ relationship with Nicks is hard to define. Inducting her into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York as a solo artist earlier this year, his speech hymned her as a “magical gypsy godmother who occupies the in-between”. She’s called him her “lovechild” with Mick Fleetwood and the “son I never had”. Both have moved past the preliminary chat acknowledging each other’s unquantifiable talents and smoothly accelerated towards playful cut-and-thrust banter of a witch mom and her naughty child.
They perform together – he sings The Chain and Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around; she sings the one allegedly written about Taylor Swift, Two Ghosts. One of those performances was at the Gucci Cruise afterparty in Rome in May, for “a lot of money”, Nicks tells me, in a “big kind of castle place”. She has become his de facto mentor – one phone call is all it takes to reach the Queen of Rock’n’Roll for advice on sequencing (“She is really good at track listing,” Styles admits) or just to hear each other’s voices… because, well, wouldn’t you?
Following another Fleetwood Mac concert, at London’s Wembley Stadium, in June, Nicks met Styles for a late (Indian) dinner. He then invited her back to his semi-detached Georgian mansion in north London for a listening party at midnight. The album – HS2or whatever it’ll be called – was finished. Nicks, her assistant Karen, her make-up artist and her friends Jess and Mary crammed onto Styles’ living-room couch. They listened to it once through in silence like a “bunch of educated monks or something in this dark room”. Then once again, 15 or 16 tracks, this time each of his guests offering live feedback. It wrapped at 5am, just as the sun was bleeding through the curtains.
Even for a pop star of Styles’ stature, pressing “play” on a deeply personal work for your hero to digest, watching her face react in real time to your new music, must be… what?
“It’s a double-edged thing,” he replies. “You’re always nervous when you are playing people music for the first time. You’ve heard it so much by this point, you forget that people haven’t heard it before. It’s hard to not feel like you’ve done what you’ve set out to do. You are happy with something and then someone who you respect so much and look up to is, like: ‘I really like this.’ It feels like a large stamp [of approval]. It’s a big step towards feeling very comfortable with whatever else happens to it.”
Wading through Styles’ background info is exhausting, since he was spanked by fame in the social media era where every goddam blink of a kohl-rimmed eye has been documented from six angles. (And yes, he does sometimes wear guyliner.)
Deep breath: born in Redditch, Worcestershire, to parents Des and Anne, who divorced when he was seven. Grew up in Holmes Chapel in Cheshire with his sister Gemma, mum and stepdad Robin Twist. Rode horses at a nearby stable for free (“I was a bad rider, but I was a rider”). Stopped riding, “got into different stuff”. Formed a band, White Eskimo, with schoolmates. Aged 16, tried out for the 2010 run of The X Factorwith a stirring but average rendition of Stevie Wonder’s Isn’t She Lovely. Cut from the show and put into a boy band with four others, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik, and called One Direction. Became internationally famous, toured the globe. Zayn quit to go solo. Toured some more. Dated but maybe didn’t date Caroline Flack, Rita Ora and Taylor Swift – whom he reportedly dumped in the British Virgin Islands. (This relationship, if nothing else, yielded an iconic, candid shot of Swift looking dejected, being motored back to shore on the back of a boat called the Flying Ray.) One Direction discussed disbanding in 2014, actually dissolved in 2015. They remain friendly, and Styles officially went solo in 2016.
It’s been two years since his eponymous debut and lead single, Sign of the Times, shocked the world and Elton John with its swaggering, soft rock sound. “It came out of left field and I loved it,” John says.
After 89 arena-packed shows across five continents grossed him, the label, whomever, over $61million, Styles had all but disappeared. He has emerged only intermittently for public-facing events – a Gucci afterparty performance here, a Met Gala co-chairing there. He relocated from Los Angeles back to London, selling his Hollywood Hills house for $6 million and shipping his Jaguar E-type across the Atlantic so he could take joyrides on the M25.
“I’m not over LA,” he insists when I ask about the move. “My relationship with LA changed a lot. What I wanted from LA changed.”
A great escape, he would agree, is sometimes necessary. He was in Tokyo for most of January, having nearly finished his album. “I needed time to get out of that album frame-of-mind of: ‘Is it finished? Where am I at? What’s happening?’ I really needed that time away from everyone. I was kind of just in Tokyo by myself.” His sabbatical mostly involved reading Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, singing Nirvana at karaoke, writing alone in his hotel room, listening to music and eavesdropping on strangers in alien conversation. “It was just a positive time for my head and I think that impacted the album in a big way.”
During this break he watched a lot of films, read a lot of books. Sometimes he texts these recommendations to his pal Michele at Gucci. He told Michele to watch the Ali Macgraw film, Love Story. “We text what friends text about. He is the same [as me] in terms of he lives in his own world and he does his own thing. I love dressing up and he loves dressing up.”
Because he loves dressing up, Michele chose Styles to be the face of three Gucci Tailoring campaigns and of its new genderless fragrance, Mémoire d’une Odeur.
“The moment I met him, I immediately understood there was something strong around him,” Michele tells me. “I realised he was much more than a young singer. He was a young man, dressed in a thoughtful way, with uncombed hair and a beautiful voice. I thought he gathered within himself the feminine and the masculine.”
Fashion, for Styles, is a playground. Something he doesn’t take too seriously. A couple of years ago Harry Lambert, his stylist since 2015, acquired for him a pair of pink metallic Saint Laurent boots that he has never been photographed wearing. They are exceedingly rare – few pairs exist. Styles wears them “to get milk”. They are, in his words, “super-fun”. He’s not sure, but he has, ballpark, 50 pairs of shoes, as well as full closets in at least three postcodes. He settles on an outfit fairly quickly, maybe changes his T-shirt once before heading out, but mostly knows what he likes.
What he may not fully comprehend is that simply by being photographed in a garment he can spur the career of a designer, as he has with Harris Reed, Palomo Spain, Charles Jeffrey, Alled-Martínez and a new favourite, Bode. Styles wore a SS16 Gucci floral suit to the 2015 American Music Awards. When he was asked who made his suit on the red carpet, Gucci began trending worldwide on Twitter.
“It was one of the first times a male wore Alessandro’s runway designs and, at the time, men were not taking too many red carpet risks,” says Lambert. “Who knows if it influenced others, but it was a special moment. Plus, it was fun seeing the fans dress up in suits to come see Harry’s shows.”
Yet traditional gender codes of dress still have the minds of middle America in a chokehold. Men can’t wear women’s clothes, say the online whingers, who have labelled him “tragic”, “a clown” and a Bowie wannabe. Styles doesn’t care. “What’s feminine and what’s masculine, what men are wearing and what women are wearing – it’s like there are no lines any more.”
Elton John agrees: “It worked for Marc Bolan, Bowie and Mick. Harry has the same qualities.”
Then there is the question of Styles’ sexuality, something he has admittedly “never really started to label”, which will plague him until he does. Perhaps it’s part of his allure. He’s brandished a pride flag that read “Make America Gay Again” on stage, and planted a stake somewhere left of centre on sexuality’s rainbow spectrum.
“In the position that he’s in, he can’t really say a lot, but he chose a queer girl band to open for him and I think that speaks volumes,” Josette Maskin of the queer band MUNA told The Face earlier this year.
“I get a lot of…” Styles trails off, wheels turning on how he can discuss sexuality without really answering. “I’m not always super-outspoken. But I think it’s very clear from choices that I make that I feel a certain way about lots of things. I don’t know how to describe it. I guess I’m not…” He pauses again, pivots. “I want everyone to feel welcome at shows and online. They want to be loved and equal, you know? I’m never unsupported, so it feels weird for me to overthink it for someone else.”
Sexuality aside, he must acknowledge that he has sex appeal. “The word ‘sexy’ sounds so strange coming out of my mouth. So I would say that that’s probably why I would not consider myself sexy.”
Harry Styles has emerged fully-formed, an anachronistic rock star, vague in sensibility but destined to impress with a disarming smile and a warm but firm handshake.
I recite to him a quote from Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders about her time atop rock’s throne: “I never got into this for the money or because I wanted to join in the superstar sex around the swimming pools. I did it because the offer of a record contract came along and it seemed like it might be more fun than being a waitress. Now, I’m not so sure.”
Styles – who worked in a bakery in a small northern town some time before playing to 40,000screaming fans in South American arenas – must have witnessed some shit, been invited to a few poolside sex parties, in his time.
“I’ve seen a couple of things,” he nods in agreement. “But I’m still young. I feel like there’s still stuff to see.”
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Hey Look, Ma by lululawrence
“I’m so sorry,” a deep voice said.
Louis made sure he’d only dropped his hat, reached down to pick it up, and was dusting it off when he finally looked up.
“It’s alright...mate…” Louis had seen this man before. He was gorgeous. He lived somewhere in the area, because Louis would often pass him on the street heading home from the tube or the nearest bus stop.
And now, here he was. Standing in all his fluffy, curly haired glory in front of Louis, apologising for nearly bowling him over.
“I really am sorry, though. Let me get you a coffee to make up for it?”
Or the one where Louis is a hybrid who agrees to go on a blind date with his neighbour's colleague's son the same night he literally runs into his dream man. Surely this isn't going to end well... or is it?
Hybrid Louis; Human Harry; Cat/human hybrids; fluff; blind date (8k)
No Sweeter Innocence Than Our Gentle Sin by Teumessian
Harry’s hand grips Zayn’s wrist, and Louis grabs the other. It’s weird, frantic, just like a real club hookup. Which makes Zayn remember that he had questions.
"Hey, you guys know you could have just… asked me? You didn’t need to like… seduce me in a club," Zayn says as they trip up the stairs—Louis places a steadying hand on Harry’s lower back when it looks like he might tumble back off a step.
"We know," Louis says.
"But it wouldn’t have been as fun that way," Harry finishes.
[Harry and Louis want to have a threesome—specifically a threesome with Zayn.]
Harry, Louis and Zayn; threesome; recreational drug use; bondage; anal sex and sex toys (14k)
Reindeer Games by Throwthemflowers
Louis is a disgruntled elf and Harry is one of Santa’s reindeer. Featuring classic miscommunication, heaps of unrequited pining, gratuitous smut (with a bit of, shall we say, horseplay), a pinch of NYC holiday magic, and a sickening amount of Christmas Spirit.
Christmas fluff; Harry is a shape-shifting reindeer; Louis is an unhappy elf; ther is NO elf/reindeer smut (Harry is human for that); friends to lovers; pining (19k)
I Put My Dreams Into You, They’ll Grow by runaway_train
“You’re going to have to downsize this entire thing Harry.”
Louis is standing in front of Harry’s open wardrobe, hands on his hips, and the whole thing is filling him with absolute dread.
“But why?” Harry responds from where he is sat on his bed behind him. Louis doesn’t even have to look at him to know he is pouting.
Louis presses his fingers to his temples. “Because there isn’t enough space in my flat. You’ve been there, you sleep there at least four nights a week, you know this.”
Or
The one where Harry moves in. Sort of.
Part of the Advertising AU series; explicit sexual content; explicit language; workplace relationship; smut; fluff and smut (6k)
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MY AWESOME PLAYLIST: 2019
This is the tenth year I’ve posted my Top 100 Songs of the Year. This will also be my last post on Tumblr. Feel free to follow me on Twitter. Later! ✌🏾
[SPOTIFY LINK: HERE]
100. Lil Nas X - Old Town Road [Feat. Billy Ray Cyrus]
99. Daniel Caesar, Brandy - Love Again
98. Maren Morris - Kingdom of One
97. Danielle Brooks - Black Woman
96. PUBLIC - Make You Mine (Acoustic)
95. Vanlves - Pyramids
94. Annie Murphy - A Little Bit Alexis (From Schitt’s Creek)
93. Davido - D & G [Feat. Summer Walker]
92. Denzel Curry - RICKY
91. The Lumineers - Salt And The Sea
90. YUNGBLUD - original me [Feat. Dan Reynolds]
89. Wiley, Stefflon Don, Sean Paul, Idris Elba - Boasty
88. Cynthia Eviro - Stand Up
87. HVOB - Sync
86. Camden Cox - Somebody Else
85. Sho Madjozi - John Cena
84. Flume, London Grammar - Let You Know
83. Dua Lipa - Don’t Start Now
82. Majid Jordan - Caught Up [Feat. Khalid]
81. Ben Platt - River
80. Bon Iver - Hey, Ma
79. Emily King - Caliche
78. Jenifer - On oublie le reste [Feat. Kylie Minogue]
77. The Rescues - Hold On
76. H.E.R. - Could’ve Been (Remix) [Feat. Tone Stith]
75. Summer Walker - Come Thru [Feat. Usher]
74. Ólafur Arnalds - momentary
73. Kim Petras - There Will Be Blood
72. P Money, Giggs - Where & When
71. Stormzy - Don’t Forget To Breathe [Feat. YEBBA]
70. Celeste - She’s My Sunshine
69. Nathy Peluso - Natikillah
68. Lana Del Rey - Fuck it I love you
67. FKA twigs - holy terrain [Feat. Future]
66. Panic! At The Disco - Into the Unknown
65. Skrillex, Boys Noize, Ty Dolla $ign - Midnight Hour
64. FINNEAS - I Lost A Friend (Marian Hill Remix)
63. Sleeping At Last - Atlas: Eight
62. James Blake - Tell Them [Feat. Moses Sumney & Metro Boomin]
61. Freya Ridings - Lost Without You
60. City Girls - Twerk [Feat. Cardi B]
59. Megan Thee Stallion - Cash Shit [Feat. Da Baby]
58. BTS – Make It RIght
57. Klergy - World On Fire
56. Sasha Sloan - at least i look cool
55. Jolin Tsai - 玫瑰少年 "Womxnly"
54. Kimberley Tell - Lo Que No Me Dices
53. Chris Brown - No Guidance [Feat. Drake]
52. Missy Elliott - Throw It Back
51. Banks - Till Now
50. Cassian - Same Things [Feat Gabrielle Current]
49. Lennon Stella - Love Can Kill
48. RY X - YaYaYa
47. Selena Gomez - Look At Her Now
46. SHAED, ZAYN - Trampoline
45. Lauren Jauregui - More Than That
44. Sam Smith, Normani - Dancing With A Stranger
43. ROSALÍA - Con Altura [Feat. J Balvin, El Guincho]
42. Leikeli47 - Bad Gyal Flex
41. Felix Jaehn - Love On Myself (Keanu Silva Remix) [Feat. Calum Scott]
40. Harry Styles - Lights Up
39. Lizzo - Tempo [Feat. Missy Elliott]
38. Alex Benjamin - Let Me Down Slowly [Feat. Alessia Cara]
37. Tierra Whack - CLONES
36. Marques Martin - Dinner Date [Feat. KAMAUU & Brandon Black]
35. Dua Saleh - Sugar Mama
34. Ashley O (aka Miley Cyrus) - On A Roll
33. Beyoncé - Before I Let Go
32. Kasawn Woods, Tinashe - Don’t Stop
31. Tinashe - Know Better
30. DaBaby - BOP
29. Gemitaiz, Madman - Karate [Feat. Mahmood]
28. Normani - Motivation
27. Solange - Way to the Show
26. EXO - Obsession
25. Mark Ronson - Don’t Leave Me Lonely [Feat. YEBBA]
24. Raiche - Complicated
23. Billie Eilish - listen before i go
22. Cardi B - Press
21. Ina Wroldsen, Dynoro - Obsessed
20. Ms Banks - Snack [Feat. Kida Kudz]
19. Logic, Eminem - Homicide
18. Doja Cat - Rules
17. The Bonfyre - U Say [Feat. 6lack]
16. Dawn Richard - Sauce
15. Beyoncé - ALREADY [Feat. Major Lazer, Shatta Wale]
14. Teyana Taylor - How You Want It?
13. Ariana Grande - needy
12. Patrick Watson - Here Comes The River
11. Billie Eilish - i love you
10. ROSALÍA - A Palé
9. BLACKPINK - Kill This Love
8. Ariana Grande - break up with your girlfriend, i’m bored
7. Summer Walker - Girls Need Love [Feat. Drake]
6. Beyoncé - BIGGER
5. Billie Eilish - WHEN I WAS OLDER
4. Diplo, IAMDDB - Mira
3. Clairo - Bags
2. Mahmood - Soldi
1. Labrinth, Zendaya - All For Us
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Absolutely Smitten
by Hazzaczuwa
Adopcja Clifforda była próbą poradzenia sobie Louisa ze swoją samotnością, żywotny pies miał rozweselić jego życie i nudną, dzienną rutynę. Cóż, na pewno nie oczekiwał tego, że Clifford spowoduje, że spotka jednego, dziwnego mężczyznę, który ma obsesję na punkcie swojego kota, z którym wychodzi i gotuje.
Jakimś cudem Louis bardzo szybko się w nim zakochuje.
Albo Louis wyprowadza swojego psa. Harry wyprowadza swojego kota. Smycze się zaplątują, tak samo jak uczucia.
Words: 2990, Chapters: 1/6, Language: Polski
Fandoms: One Direction (Band)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: M/M
Characters: Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, Clifford Tomlinson, Princess Styles
Relationships: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson
Additional Tags: Strangers to Lovers, louis has a dog, harry has a cat, Editor Louis, Chef Harry, Domestic Boyfriends, Pet Names
via AO3 works tagged 'Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson' https://ift.tt/2XNCfAD
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**thank you so much to the authors who helped make this fic fest a success! all of the fics can be found in the smut free 1d fic fest collection on ao3**
⭐Dwell In My Disaster by Harryskiwiposes
Louis & Harry | Rated: Mature | 9K
The Agency had three simple rules:
1. Always be professional, no matter the circumstance
2. Always get the job done and get it done quickly
3. Never let your emotions cloud your judgment or get the best of you
As the Agency’s top contractor, Louis Tomlinson had always, always followed the rules...until the day he met Harry Styles.
⭐(I pray to God I didn’t waste) all my good years by we_are_the_same
Liam & Zayn | Rated: General | 7K
Liam goes to sleep in a world where Zayn has just left One Direction. He wakes up somewhere quite different.
⭐Hey Look, Ma by lululawrence
Louis & Harry | Not Rated | 9K
“I’m so sorry,” a deep voice said.
Louis made sure he’d only dropped his hat, reached down to pick it up, and was dusting it off when he finally looked up.
“It’s alright...mate…” Louis had seen this man before. He was gorgeous. He lived somewhere in the area, because Louis would often pass him on the street heading home from the tube or the nearest bus stop.
And now, here he was. Standing in all his fluffy, curly haired glory in front of Louis, apologising for nearly bowling him over.
“I really am sorry, though. Let me get you a coffee to make up for it?”
Or the one where Louis is a hybrid who agrees to go on a blind date with his neighbour's colleague's son the same night he literally runs into his dream man. Surely this isn't going to end well... or is it?
⭐sugar, butter, flour by EmmyLouWho
Louis & Harry | Rated: Teen & Up | 6K
Louis watches Harry start to pour icing onto his half-raw, still hot cookie, and tries to hold in his groan. He isn't sure if they’ve ever had a contestant on the show who tried so hard…and yet completely failed at every single step.
You can’t rig the show to help a contestant, he tells himself. Even if they’re adorable.
Or - a Nailed It! AU
⭐You Got a Heart So Big by livvywritesgay
Louis & Harry | Not Rated | 5K
The thing is, Louis is not a cat person, never has been. He grew up with sisters and dogs. Also, the cat doesn’t even like him. Hates him, some might say.
Basically: Louis' ex leaves him with a pregnant cat, and Harry helps birth the kittens.
A tweaked “Listen, I really don’t like you, but you have kittens, so I’m going to be over a lot.” au
⭐There's Nothing I Can Do (I Only Wanna Be With You) by chaoticallyyours
Louis & Harry, Liam & Zayn | Rated: Teen & Up | 6K
Roommates Harry and Louis both consider themselves matchmakers. Louis' latest crusade is finding the perfect match for Harry, despite the admittedly disastrous results. With just a little bit of help from their friends and a lot of whining, Louis realizes that the best match for Harry might just be the person already sharing his flat.
OR: Louis is a dumb gay who doesn't realize he's in love with his best friend. Until he does.
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