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Due to a lack of interest, the 5sos fic exchange is officially retiring.  This blog will remain up so that previous fics can still be easily found and celebrated, but no future fic exchanges will be planned from this blog for the foreseeable future.  If someone else wants to run one, they are free to!

Thank you to everyone who has participated over our 4 rounds!

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As an additional note: this round would not include trying to pair people with someone they haven’t written for previously!  After so many rounds, it is too difficult to do so while still matching people who are compatible 

Interest check!

Hello everyone!  In order to determine if/when fic exchange will occur this year, I need some input from the community.  Please take one minute to fill out this google form!  Even if you don’t want to participate this round, that is valuable information for me

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Interest check!

Hello everyone!  In order to determine if/when fic exchange will occur this year, I need some input from the community.  Please take one minute to fill out this google form!  Even if you don’t want to participate this round, that is valuable information for me

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Writer sign-ups and song submissions close at 11:59 pm CST on Saturday, October 8th!

Sign up as a writer HERE.

Submit prompt songs HERE.  Please include the song title and artist!  The current prompt list can be found here.

Guidelines | FAQ | Schedule

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Now that all fics for the summer 2022 exchange have been posted, I thought it’d be fun to take a look at some stats for this round and the exchange as a whole!  If you want to know how many total words were posted for this exchange, the distribution of pairings, and a few other miscellaneous facts, keep reading below!

Fics for the summer 2022 round of the exchange can be found HERE, and previous exchange fics can be found HERE.

14 fics were posted for this exchange, making it our second-largest one yet! Four writers had never participated in the exchange before, while two have participated in all of them up to this point.  Everyone had just under two months between receiving their assignment and posting day.

161,495 words were posted for this exchange!  For context, this is more words than are in The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien (156,198).  Across all four exchanges, there has been a total of 758,288 words posted!  This is more than the entire Lord of the Rings series including The Hobbit (576,459).  This is also more than the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer (587,246).

The fics for this round range from 2,605 words to 27,244 words, ensuring that there’s a wordcount for everyone!

The most common pairing for this round was a tie between lashton and mashton!  Both pairings had 4 fics written for them.  Cashton had the least amount for this round, given that there were no cashton fics.  There were 2 cake fics, 2 ot4 fics, 1 malum fic, and 1 muke fic.

Over all four rounds of the exchange, there have been the most fics written for lashton, totaling 17 of the 54 posted fics, or 31.5%.

This round, the fic ratings were as follows:

General: 1 Teen: 9 Mature: 1 Explicit: 3

Across all rounds of the exchange:

General: 2 Teen: 36 Mature: 7 Explicit: 9

As you can see, teen is clearly the most common rating for exchange fics!

Word counts over all four rounds of the exchange were distributed as follows:

1k-4k: 3 fics 4k-12k: 27 12k-25k: 19 25k+: 5

The majority of writers tend to write something between 4,000 and 25,000 words for this exchange!  That could be a reflection on writer and/or reader preference, or on the two month timeframe.

Overall, the exchange continues to produce a variety of fics when it comes to pairing, rating, and length.  Hopefully this trend will continue in the future!

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5sos Fic Exchange - Summer 2022

We had 13 wonderful fics created for this round of our biannual exchange!  There’s a collection on AO3 that can be found here, and tumblr posts are linked in this masterlist!  Remember to show the author some love if you read by leaving kudos, comments, and reblogging their post!

Lacuna - 27k, E, Cake, written by @ashtcnirwin for @crossedwiress

So Luke doesn’t mind having Ashton in his life.

He really enjoys it, actually.

What he has yet to find a reason for enjoying, however, is the fact that if he’s invited to third wheel Michael and Ashton, Calum is usually invited as well.

In which Luke needs a place to live, Calum needs a roommate, and they don’t exactly dislike each other, they just don’t exactly like each other either.

Take My Paw - 13k, T, Malum, written by @youngsingingheart for @jbhmalumm

A kitten and a puppy meet in a place full of other kittens and puppies.

i’ll be patient despite our racing hearts - 5k, T, Mashton, written by @calumsclifford for @lukemichaelcalumashton

The thing is, Michael and Ashton aren’t not friends. They do things that friends do. They enjoy each other’s company. They have the same taste in music. They have good talks. “You can be friends with your boyfriend, Michael,” Calum says, exasperated.

or, Michael and Ashton are accidentally fake dating

take my hand (now and forever) - 2k, T, Mashton, written by @jbhmalumm for @calumsclifford

It doesn’t take him long to find Ashton.  He’s sitting along the stream, toes dipping in the calm water.  The moon casts a light so gentle over his profile that Michael’s breath almost catches in his chest.  They’re a long way from the time they fell in love, but in moments like these, when it’s the middle of the night and Ashton’s features and whole demeanour radiate youth and innocence, it feels like the first time Michael looked at him and realised he hadn’t thought of him as a friend in a long time.

or: mashton, camping, and late night talking

since we can’t hook up tonight - 5k, E, Lashton, written by @lifewasradical for @killmytimes

As much as he may nearly count down the hours until he gets to speak to Luke again, that doesn’t mean that Luke is doing the same for him.  Now that Luke is off touring and seeing new people and amazing sights, maybe he’s forgetting about the people waiting at home for him.

Maybe he’s forgetting Ashton is waiting at home for him.

But Ashton reminds himself again that just because he’s a hopeless fool for Luke doesn’t mean that Luke feels the same about him.  Quite the opposite, honestly, because he knows that Luke doesn’t feels the same about him, or they wouldn’t be in this position right now, friends with benefits instead of more.

Daydreams - 6k, T, Mashton, written by @daydadahlias for @babush-cat

It’s not Michael’s fault the owner of Fletcher’s Flowers is so good-looking. And no one—Luke—should be able to blame him for wanting to come to the shop and admire the pretty buff man with large delicate hands as he assembles bouquets or pets his cat.

you erode all my edges (and make me into love) - 4k, T, OT4, written by @bandsanitizer for @daydadahlias

For all the people Ashton has loved, it never quite crossed his mind how differently love exists. That sure, somewhere within the love between friends and family, romantic partners and the kind of love you extend to random people that come through your life, Ashton definitely put together that not all feelings of love are the same.

But when it comes to loving Michael, Calum, and Luke, Ashton has found that it’s not quite as simple as clearly-cut categories between labels on relationships. He might even consider it wrong to confine the feelings he has for them—in both degree and complexity—into something as simple as just romantic infatuation or as cut-and-paste as seeing himself with them for the rest of his life. Ashton definitely does, don’t get him wrong, but for all the love he’s experienced and given, it’s strange to come to an awareness that even when you think love is the same—even when you might even want it to be—it’s not.

That, to Ashton at least, it’s less of differences in relationships and more of differences in people that we love, that inspire us to love differently.

Off-stage - 6k, T, OT4, written by @lukemichaelcalumashton for @bandsanitizer

“So we’re kissing each other on stage now?” Ashton asks while they sit around eating their dinner after the show.

Luke chokes audibly on his California Spring roll, forcing Michael to give him a few thumps on his back.  With watery eyes, he glances at Calum, sitting across from him and finds him grinning back smugly.  Neither of them say anything.  It’s Michael who says, “yeah, what was that about?” looking directly at Calum who shrugs nonchalantly.

“Dunno, I just felt like doing it,” he says, leaning back on his palms, still looking at Luke.  “Luke doesn’t mind, do you, Luke?”

The truth is Luke does mind.  He minds a lot.  Not because he doesn’t like it, but because it messes with his head–leaves him feeling a little floaty and distracted.

Or 3 times the boys kiss Luke on stage + 1 time Luke kisses them all off stage.

in your ocean, i’m sinking - 11k, T, Cake, written by @crossedwiress for @4thbrighteststar

Luke’s eyes are a little too bright when you look into them for too long. It would be easy to fall into them.

Calum wonders whether it would be more like hovering in a lovely blue sky, sunrays warming his face and very soul, or perhaps maybe drowning in a chilling ocean, cold waves enveloping his body.

A part of him, a reckless part of him, is willing to fall if only for the glimmering hope that it would be the former.  

In which Calum and Luke go on a road trip to New York, featuring: pining, bad jokes, and far more coffee than is advised.  

there’s no need to run and hide (when the world leaves a scar) - 10k, T, Lashton, written by @jurassicworjd for @lifewasradical

Luke is a new intern, and he gets along with pretty much everyone he works with. Well, everyone except for Ashton Irwin. Ashton is cold, and doesn’t give him the time of day. Certain events keep on bringing the two together whether they like it or not, and eventually, Luke finds out why Ashton is so cold.

i wanna tell you so (how to hold my heart) - 25k, T, Mashton, written by @babush-cat for @igarbagecannoteven

Ashton turns to greet him, faded red hair swishing gracefully with the motion until the gentle waves settle and frame his face, all sunny grin and perfect dimples and sparkling hazel eyes and Michael hates Calum he hates him so much.

“Oh hey, it’s my favorite customer!” he says with his stupid cute voice constantly sounding on the verge of laughter and happiness and sunshine.

Michael hopes his face isn’t as red as it feels, averts his eyes to shield them from the powerful glow Ashton always seems to emanate, “You say that to all your customers.”

Michael is a programmer by day, a vigilante’s guy in the chair by night, and a full-time admirer of the cute barista down at the coffee shop he frequents, and sometimes he wonders if everyone around him is way too dramatic or if he’s missing something.

or, this technically still counts as a coffee shop au

burnt eggs & broken promises - 5k, G, Lashton, written by @igarbagecannoteven for @jurassicworjd

“…So after a month or two of getting hounded by people, I may or may not have invented a fictional boyfriend.”

Luke glanced up at Ashton with worried blue eyes, as if he was expecting to be berated for lying. Instead, Ashton shrugged. “I can see why.”

or,

Ashton’s always found his roommate, Luke, nothing but aggravating, but when they make a deal where Ashton has to pretend to be Luke’s boyfriend for a night, his opinion starts to shift slightly…

i don’t wanna dive too deep or i’m never comin’  back - 22k, E, Lashton, written by @killmytimes for @ashtcnirwin

luke goes to the gym for the first time and unexpectedly meets the most beautiful boy he’s ever seen.

true love in 3D - 16k, M, Muke, written by @4thbrighteststar for @youngsingingheart​

Michael turns around, too, and he swears it’s like something out of a romcom.  Luke Hemmings turns out to be a gorgeous 6′2 man with eyes so blue and the fluffiest blond curls he’s ever seen.  Michael feels his heart rate bump up, up, up, faster, faster, faster, and his mouth goes dry and his eyes probably widen a little too much, but he barely registers the nerves.  Instead, his brain takes note of exactly three things: the massive violet bush against his back that threatens to swallow him if he swoons, the smell of the rum that Jack is holding next to him, and the single clear thought his head will allow right now - this summer just got a lot more interesting.

A muke cate’s brother songfic.

Thank you to all of our participants for your amazing fics!

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true love in 3D

Michael turns around, too, and he swears it’s like something out of a romcom. Luke Hemmings turns out to be a gorgeous 6’2 man with eyes so blue and the fluffiest blond curls he’s ever seen. Michael feels his heart rate bump up, up, up, faster, faster, faster, and his mouth goes dry and his eyes probably widen a little too much, but he barely registers the nerves. Instead, his brain takes note of exactly three things: the massive violet bush against his back that threatens to swallow him if he swoons, the smell of the rum that Jack is holding next to him, and the single clear thought his head will allow right now - this summer just got a lot more interesting.

A muke cate's brother songfic.

pairing: muke

word count: 16101

rating: m (for implied sexual content)

ao3 link

for @youngsingingheart as part of the @5sos-fic-exchange. it's an honour <3

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This round’s theme is...

Song fics!

Every fic for this fest will be inspired by a different song or line from a song!  To avoid duplications, each song or line should be submitted to this blog to be added to the google doc.  Any song or line can be used, regardless of artist, genre, or release date!

Prompt submissions and writer sign-ups open on September 10.  Please see the fic fest blog for the full schedule, guidelines, and faq page!

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5sos Prompt Fic Fest

This winter, all slash fic writers are invited to join in the prompt fic fest!  Writers and spectators alike can submit different prompts for a particular trope or theme (which will be announced soon!), and writers will pick from that list and write a fic!  Follow this blog ( @5sos-fic-fest) for updates!

Schedule:

September 3: Theme announced

September 10: Writer sign ups and prompt submissions open

October 8: Sign ups and submissions close

October 9-15: Writers claim their prompts

December 3: Check-in 1

December 17: Check-in 2

December 31: Posting day!

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This winter’s slash fic event will be hosted over at @5sos-fic-fest!  The blog will officially be up and running shortly.

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this winter i will be hosting the first 5sos slash fic trope/themed prompt fest!  basically, writers and spectators alike can submit different prompts for a particular trope or theme, and writers will get to pick from that list and write a fic!  writing will begin in mid-late october and fics will post at the end of december

if you are considering participating, please fill out this google form to help choose the trope/theme!  this is not the sign up form, it’s to figure out what the fic fest will actually be!

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Thank you to everyone who responded!  This form is now closed.  The fic exchange will not run this winter due to multiple factors, but a different writing event will take place instead!  Stay tuned and follow @allsassnoclass for more information!

Hello 5sos writers!  In lieu of barreling ahead with another fic exchange in a few months without feedback, I would like to know if people are interested in an exchange or another fic event this fall/winter!  If you could, please take the time to fill out this google form for an interest check.  If you aren’t interested in any fic events, please still fill out the form!  There’s a button for that and that is still valuable information for me!

(Note: this form was made with slash fic in mind and some events listed may be limited to that content, but other events listed may be open to reader-insert or oc fic!)

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5sos Fic Exchange - Summer 2022

We had 13 wonderful fics created for this round of our biannual exchange!  There’s a collection on AO3 that can be found here, and tumblr posts are linked in this masterlist!  Remember to show the author some love if you read by leaving kudos, comments, and reblogging their post!

Lacuna - 27k, E, Cake, written by @ashtcnirwin for @crossedwiress

So Luke doesn’t mind having Ashton in his life.

He really enjoys it, actually.

What he has yet to find a reason for enjoying, however, is the fact that if he’s invited to third wheel Michael and Ashton, Calum is usually invited as well.

In which Luke needs a place to live, Calum needs a roommate, and they don’t exactly dislike each other, they just don’t exactly like each other either.

Take My Paw - 13k, T, Malum, written by @youngsingingheart for @jbhmalumm

A kitten and a puppy meet in a place full of other kittens and puppies.

i’ll be patient despite our racing hearts - 5k, T, Mashton, written by @calumsclifford for @lukemichaelcalumashton

The thing is, Michael and Ashton aren’t not friends. They do things that friends do. They enjoy each other’s company. They have the same taste in music. They have good talks. “You can be friends with your boyfriend, Michael,” Calum says, exasperated.

or, Michael and Ashton are accidentally fake dating

take my hand (now and forever) - 2k, T, Mashton, written by @jbhmalumm for @calumsclifford

It doesn’t take him long to find Ashton.  He’s sitting along the stream, toes dipping in the calm water.  The moon casts a light so gentle over his profile that Michael’s breath almost catches in his chest.  They’re a long way from the time they fell in love, but in moments like these, when it’s the middle of the night and Ashton’s features and whole demeanour radiate youth and innocence, it feels like the first time Michael looked at him and realised he hadn’t thought of him as a friend in a long time.

or: mashton, camping, and late night talking

since we can’t hook up tonight - 5k, E, Lashton, written by @lifewasradical for @killmytimes

As much as he may nearly count down the hours until he gets to speak to Luke again, that doesn’t mean that Luke is doing the same for him.  Now that Luke is off touring and seeing new people and amazing sights, maybe he’s forgetting about the people waiting at home for him.

Maybe he’s forgetting Ashton is waiting at home for him.

But Ashton reminds himself again that just because he’s a hopeless fool for Luke doesn’t mean that Luke feels the same about him.  Quite the opposite, honestly, because he knows that Luke doesn’t feels the same about him, or they wouldn’t be in this position right now, friends with benefits instead of more.

Daydreams - 6k, T, Mashton, written by @daydadahlias for @babush-cat

It’s not Michael’s fault the owner of Fletcher’s Flowers is so good-looking. And no one—Luke—should be able to blame him for wanting to come to the shop and admire the pretty buff man with large delicate hands as he assembles bouquets or pets his cat.

you erode all my edges (and make me into love) - 4k, T, OT4, written by @bandsanitizer for @daydadahlias

For all the people Ashton has loved, it never quite crossed his mind how differently love exists. That sure, somewhere within the love between friends and family, romantic partners and the kind of love you extend to random people that come through your life, Ashton definitely put together that not all feelings of love are the same.

But when it comes to loving Michael, Calum, and Luke, Ashton has found that it’s not quite as simple as clearly-cut categories between labels on relationships. He might even consider it wrong to confine the feelings he has for them—in both degree and complexity—into something as simple as just romantic infatuation or as cut-and-paste as seeing himself with them for the rest of his life. Ashton definitely does, don’t get him wrong, but for all the love he’s experienced and given, it’s strange to come to an awareness that even when you think love is the same—even when you might even want it to be—it’s not.

That, to Ashton at least, it’s less of differences in relationships and more of differences in people that we love, that inspire us to love differently.

Off-stage - 6k, T, OT4, written by @lukemichaelcalumashton for @bandsanitizer

“So we’re kissing each other on stage now?” Ashton asks while they sit around eating their dinner after the show.

Luke chokes audibly on his California Spring roll, forcing Michael to give him a few thumps on his back.  With watery eyes, he glances at Calum, sitting across from him and finds him grinning back smugly.  Neither of them say anything.  It’s Michael who says, “yeah, what was that about?” looking directly at Calum who shrugs nonchalantly.

“Dunno, I just felt like doing it,” he says, leaning back on his palms, still looking at Luke.  “Luke doesn’t mind, do you, Luke?”

The truth is Luke does mind.  He minds a lot.  Not because he doesn’t like it, but because it messes with his head–leaves him feeling a little floaty and distracted.

Or 3 times the boys kiss Luke on stage + 1 time Luke kisses them all off stage.

in your ocean, i’m sinking - 11k, T, Cake, written by @crossedwiress for @4thbrighteststar

Luke’s eyes are a little too bright when you look into them for too long. It would be easy to fall into them.

Calum wonders whether it would be more like hovering in a lovely blue sky, sunrays warming his face and very soul, or perhaps maybe drowning in a chilling ocean, cold waves enveloping his body.

A part of him, a reckless part of him, is willing to fall if only for the glimmering hope that it would be the former.  

In which Calum and Luke go on a road trip to New York, featuring: pining, bad jokes, and far more coffee than is advised.  

there’s no need to run and hide (when the world leaves a scar) - 10k, T, Lashton, written by @jurassicworjd for @lifewasradical

Luke is a new intern, and he gets along with pretty much everyone he works with. Well, everyone except for Ashton Irwin. Ashton is cold, and doesn’t give him the time of day. Certain events keep on bringing the two together whether they like it or not, and eventually, Luke finds out why Ashton is so cold.

i wanna tell you so (how to hold my heart) - 25k, T, Mashton, written by @babush-cat for @igarbagecannoteven

Ashton turns to greet him, faded red hair swishing gracefully with the motion until the gentle waves settle and frame his face, all sunny grin and perfect dimples and sparkling hazel eyes and Michael hates Calum he hates him so much.

“Oh hey, it’s my favorite customer!” he says with his stupid cute voice constantly sounding on the verge of laughter and happiness and sunshine.

Michael hopes his face isn’t as red as it feels, averts his eyes to shield them from the powerful glow Ashton always seems to emanate, “You say that to all your customers.”

Michael is a programmer by day, a vigilante’s guy in the chair by night, and a full-time admirer of the cute barista down at the coffee shop he frequents, and sometimes he wonders if everyone around him is way too dramatic or if he’s missing something.

or, this technically still counts as a coffee shop au

burnt eggs & broken promises - 5k, G, Lashton, written by @igarbagecannoteven for @jurassicworjd

“…So after a month or two of getting hounded by people, I may or may not have invented a fictional boyfriend.”

Luke glanced up at Ashton with worried blue eyes, as if he was expecting to be berated for lying. Instead, Ashton shrugged. “I can see why.”

or,

Ashton’s always found his roommate, Luke, nothing but aggravating, but when they make a deal where Ashton has to pretend to be Luke’s boyfriend for a night, his opinion starts to shift slightly…

i don’t wanna dive too deep or i’m never comin’  back - 22k, E, Lashton, written by @killmytimes for @ashtcnirwin

luke goes to the gym for the first time and unexpectedly meets the most beautiful boy he’s ever seen.

Thank you to all of our participants for your amazing fics!

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i don’t wanna dive too deep or i’m never comin’ back

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pairing: lashton, mentions of malum and lierra friendship rating: explicit content: angst, hurt/comfort, smut, friends to lovers, college AU word count: 22k summary: luke goes to the gym for the first time and unexpectedly meets the most beautiful boy he’s ever seen.

notes: at last i come bearing my small contribution to the summer 2022 @5sos-fic-exchange for the lovely anna @ashtcnirwin. i was so excited to have the joy of writing my personal fave pairing and this idea went through many many lives before it became this finished version. i’ve fallen in love with these boys, and i hope you will too! thank you endlessly for your patience during such a difficult time in my life. my heart is so invested in this fic, and i’m so pleased to be able to finally gift it to you! also thank you to the brilliant hazel who organized this event. 💕

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5sos Fic Exchange - Summer 2022

We had 14 wonderful fics created for this round of our biannual exchange!  There’s a collection on AO3 that can be found here, and tumblr posts are linked in this masterlist!  Remember to show the author some love if you read by leaving kudos, comments, and reblogging their post!

Lacuna - 27k, E, Cake, written by @ashtcnirwin for @crossedwiress

So Luke doesn’t mind having Ashton in his life.

He really enjoys it, actually.

What he has yet to find a reason for enjoying, however, is the fact that if he’s invited to third wheel Michael and Ashton, Calum is usually invited as well.

In which Luke needs a place to live, Calum needs a roommate, and they don’t exactly dislike each other, they just don’t exactly like each other either.

Take My Paw - 13k, T, Malum, written by @youngsingingheart for @jbhmalumm

A kitten and a puppy meet in a place full of other kittens and puppies.

i’ll be patient despite our racing hearts - 5k, T, Mashton, written by @calumsclifford for @lukemichaelcalumashton

The thing is, Michael and Ashton aren’t not friends. They do things that friends do. They enjoy each other’s company. They have the same taste in music. They have good talks. “You can be friends with your boyfriend, Michael,” Calum says, exasperated.

or, Michael and Ashton are accidentally fake dating

take my hand (now and forever) - 2k, T, Mashton, written by @jbhmalumm for @calumsclifford

It doesn’t take him long to find Ashton.  He’s sitting along the stream, toes dipping in the calm water.  The moon casts a light so gentle over his profile that Michael’s breath almost catches in his chest.  They’re a long way from the time they fell in love, but in moments like these, when it’s the middle of the night and Ashton’s features and whole demeanour radiate youth and innocence, it feels like the first time Michael looked at him and realised he hadn’t thought of him as a friend in a long time.

or: mashton, camping, and late night talking

since we can’t hook up tonight - 5k, E, Lashton, written by @lifewasradical for @killmytimes

As much as he may nearly count down the hours until he gets to speak to Luke again, that doesn’t mean that Luke is doing the same for him.  Now that Luke is off touring and seeing new people and amazing sights, maybe he’s forgetting about the people waiting at home for him.

Maybe he’s forgetting Ashton is waiting at home for him.

But Ashton reminds himself again that just because he’s a hopeless fool for Luke doesn’t mean that Luke feels the same about him.  Quite the opposite, honestly, because he knows that Luke doesn’t feels the same about him, or they wouldn’t be in this position right now, friends with benefits instead of more.

Daydreams - 6k, T, Mashton, written by @daydadahlias for @babush-cat

It’s not Michael’s fault the owner of Fletcher’s Flowers is so good-looking. And no one—Luke—should be able to blame him for wanting to come to the shop and admire the pretty buff man with large delicate hands as he assembles bouquets or pets his cat.

you erode all my edges (and make me into love) - 4k, T, OT4, written by @bandsanitizer for @daydadahlias

For all the people Ashton has loved, it never quite crossed his mind how differently love exists. That sure, somewhere within the love between friends and family, romantic partners and the kind of love you extend to random people that come through your life, Ashton definitely put together that not all feelings of love are the same.

But when it comes to loving Michael, Calum, and Luke, Ashton has found that it’s not quite as simple as clearly-cut categories between labels on relationships. He might even consider it wrong to confine the feelings he has for them—in both degree and complexity—into something as simple as just romantic infatuation or as cut-and-paste as seeing himself with them for the rest of his life. Ashton definitely does, don’t get him wrong, but for all the love he’s experienced and given, it’s strange to come to an awareness that even when you think love is the same—even when you might even want it to be—it’s not.

That, to Ashton at least, it’s less of differences in relationships and more of differences in people that we love, that inspire us to love differently.

Off-stage - 6k, T, OT4, written by @lukemichaelcalumashton for @bandsanitizer

“So we’re kissing each other on stage now?” Ashton asks while they sit around eating their dinner after the show.

Luke chokes audibly on his California Spring roll, forcing Michael to give him a few thumps on his back.  With watery eyes, he glances at Calum, sitting across from him and finds him grinning back smugly.  Neither of them say anything.  It’s Michael who says, “yeah, what was that about?” looking directly at Calum who shrugs nonchalantly.

“Dunno, I just felt like doing it,” he says, leaning back on his palms, still looking at Luke.  “Luke doesn’t mind, do you, Luke?”

The truth is Luke does mind.  He minds a lot.  Not because he doesn’t like it, but because it messes with his head--leaves him feeling a little floaty and distracted.

Or 3 times the boys kiss Luke on stage + 1 time Luke kisses them all off stage.

in your ocean, i’m sinking - 11k, T, Cake, written by @crossedwiress for @4thbrighteststar

Luke’s eyes are a little too bright when you look into them for too long. It would be easy to fall into them.

Calum wonders whether it would be more like hovering in a lovely blue sky, sunrays warming his face and very soul, or perhaps maybe drowning in a chilling ocean, cold waves enveloping his body.

A part of him, a reckless part of him, is willing to fall if only for the glimmering hope that it would be the former.  

In which Calum and Luke go on a road trip to New York, featuring: pining, bad jokes, and far more coffee than is advised.  

there’s no need to run and hide (when the world leaves a scar) - 10k, T, Lashton, written by @jurassicworjd for @lifewasradical

Luke is a new intern, and he gets along with pretty much everyone he works with. Well, everyone except for Ashton Irwin. Ashton is cold, and doesn’t give him the time of day. Certain events keep on bringing the two together whether they like it or not, and eventually, Luke finds out why Ashton is so cold.

i wanna tell you so (how to hold my heart) - 25k, T, Mashton, written by @babush-cat for @igarbagecannoteven

Ashton turns to greet him, faded red hair swishing gracefully with the motion until the gentle waves settle and frame his face, all sunny grin and perfect dimples and sparkling hazel eyes and Michael hates Calum he hates him so much.

“Oh hey, it’s my favorite customer!” he says with his stupid cute voice constantly sounding on the verge of laughter and happiness and sunshine.

Michael hopes his face isn’t as red as it feels, averts his eyes to shield them from the powerful glow Ashton always seems to emanate, “You say that to all your customers.”

Michael is a programmer by day, a vigilante’s guy in the chair by night, and a full-time admirer of the cute barista down at the coffee shop he frequents, and sometimes he wonders if everyone around him is way too dramatic or if he’s missing something.

or, this technically still counts as a coffee shop au

burnt eggs & broken promises - 5k, G, Lashton, written by @igarbagecannoteven for @jurassicworjd

“…So after a month or two of getting hounded by people, I may or may not have invented a fictional boyfriend.”

Luke glanced up at Ashton with worried blue eyes, as if he was expecting to be berated for lying. Instead, Ashton shrugged. “I can see why.”

or,

Ashton’s always found his roommate, Luke, nothing but aggravating, but when they make a deal where Ashton has to pretend to be Luke’s boyfriend for a night, his opinion starts to shift slightly…

i don’t wanna dive too deep or i’m never comin’  back - 22k, E, Lashton, written by @killmytimes for @ashtcnirwin

luke goes to the gym for the first time and unexpectedly meets the most beautiful boy he’s ever seen.

true love in 3D - 16k, M, Muke, written by @4thbrighteststar for @youngsingingheart​

Michael turns around, too, and he swears it’s like something out of a romcom.  Luke Hemmings turns out to be a gorgeous 6′2 man with eyes so blue and the fluffiest blond curls he’s ever seen.  Michael feels his heart rate bump up, up, up, faster, faster, faster, and his mouth goes dry and his eyes probably widen a little too much, but he barely registers the nerves.  Instead, his brain takes note of exactly three things: the massive violet bush against his back that threatens to swallow him if he swoons, the smell of the rum that Jack is holding next to him, and the single clear thought his head will allow right now - this summer just got a lot more interesting.

A muke cate’s brother songfic.

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