#that's...a lot of fics

[whenyoucallmelover]

everything i read this month, all wrapped up! ✧˚ · .

oneshots, under 10k :

・Lapful Of Lou, @itsnotreal (2k)

tags; drunk confessions, first kiss, friends to lovers, idiots in love

・I could be lucky, @yourlionheartx (3k)

tags; meet cute, fluff, valentine’s day

・Unplant, @hellolovers13 (4k)

tags; plant mom harry, strangers to lovers, neighbors, meet-cute

・14/09/2019, MediaWhore (4k)

tags; tired tired sea coda (omg?!?!?!), recovery, scotland, famous harry/non famous louis, tw: past alcohol abuse, implied suicidal thoughts

・Literally Falling For You, @neondiamond (5k)

tags; proposal, valentine’s day, fluff and smut, domesticity

・Click, @allwaswell16 (5k)

tags; college/university, roommates

・Never Thought I'd Be Missing the Heat, @larry-hiatus (5k)

tags; harry misses louis, hurt/no comfort, sad, no happy ending, post breakup, angst and smut, tw: smoking, panic attack

・(your smile is) on every face, @justanothershadeofblue (5k)

tags; famous louis/non famous harry, first meetings, fan harry

・i come alive when i hear your voice, thepriestthinksitsthedevil (7k)

tags; mute harry, single dad louis, songwriter harry, baker louis, friends to lovers

・It's Thursday. Let's Get (un)Dressed, @bananaheathen (9k)

tags; fashion influencer harry, genderfluid harry, tiktok hater louis, tw: referenced transphobia 

one part, over 10k words:

・Make Me Feel, @bananaheathen (10k)

tags; sculptor louis, muse harry, awkwardness, pining, nude modeling 

*favorite of the month!

・Wed’n Walk (Or, We Went to Amsterdam Together), @hellolovers13 (11k)

tags; friends to lovers, fake marriage, pining louis, cheating (not between h/l)

・make me your future history, @guccistrawberries (20k)

tags; valentine’s day, baking, exes to lovers, frat boy louis, fluff and smut

multi-part:

・Head Over Feet, Lilithecozyfrog (5/10, 14k)

tags; up and coming actor harry, actor louis, famous louis/non famous harry, co-stars

・With A Little Kindness, @jacaranda-bloom (8/8, 33k)

tags; strangers to lovers, fluff and angst, rich louis, poor harry, single parent harry, marry

・Mirror Touch, pinky_heaven19 (9/9, 58k)

tags; mirror-touch synesthesia, thrift store owner harry, radio host louis, hurt/comfort, strangers to lovers to friends to lovers???

・an everlasting eclipse, @nobodymoves (2/2, 63k)

tags; anne of green gables au, friends to lovers, pining, found family, tw: loss/abandonment trauma

・You Can Hear It In The Silence, @imogenleefic (31/31, 235k)

tags; enemies to friends to lovers, angst, housemates, gay panic, slow burn, tw: epilepsy/seizures, internalized homophobia

smut:

・Your Page Was Blank But I Read It, @letthemusicmoveyou28 (3k)

tags; smut with feelings, light angst, rimming, grammys, light sub harry/dom louis

・Feelin' It Out, @itsnotreal (3k)

tags; first date, handjobs, light degradation, face fucking

・wild love twisting all over for you, @angelichl (6k)

tags; pornstar harry/pornstar louis, spanking, bondage, subspace, aftercare

・no one's gonna know, jishler (9k)

tags; sub harry/dom louis, daddy kink, semi-public, sex toys in public, orgasm delay/denial, bondage/shibari

・For you, I would fall from grace, @lunarheslwt (14k)

tags; service kink, sub harry/dom louis, praise and humiliation, cock warming, daddy kink

・A Simple Twisted Fate, Cyantific (18k)

tags; smut with plot, pain kink, daddy kink, sub harry/dom louis

[king-nyx]

Say it with me now

You are never late to a fandom. Your fic is never "invalid" for being "late". Your fic doesn't need a high word limit. Your fic does not need a high standard. Your fic does not need to be highly popular. Your fic isn't less valid than a popular author's fic. Your fic isn't inheritly bad. Your fic is amazing. Your fic is valid. The only thing that matters is that you're having fun. Fandom is not consumption and consumerism. Fandom is fun, free and for the people. Fandom is not a popularity contest. We're all nerds at the end of the day.

[noelledeltarune]

EVERY SINGLE DAY there are MILLIONS of characters in their late 20s who get falsely accused of being father figures to teenagers when in reality the description of "weird older cousin" or "step-sibling that moved out before you were born" is 1000000x more apt

[emberfaye]

You know what?

I love you, fics that take months to update. I click on the newest chapter and have no memory of this place and get to go back some chapters and rediscover how much i love everything about this story.

I love you, fics that take years to update. I think of you fondly, and know your names, go search for you and see an update from this year and scream, diving in uncaring of any missed details (i will finish the update and read you in reverse because this is a treat you have bestowed)

I love you, fics that probably will never update again. Thank you for being a roman empire for my mind, thank you for teaching me about the ephemeral fandom experience, for inspiring a thousand million what if-s, for being a comfort read and a nostalgia read and a reread.

I love you fic writers, who jump into projects and stories with enthusiasm. I love you when you succeed in pumping out those chapters and that love doesn't go away when you stop.

I love you fic writers who post and then get in your own head and never feel confident enough to update, whether it's at all or whether it's just that one story.

I love you fic writers, who have a fandom or media hurt you to the point of abandoning or having a hard time with their WIPs.

I love you fic writers, who lose interest or have life changes or illness or bad memory. Thank you for being part of the fandom, a core part of the fandom. Thank you for the time spent in the fandom.

I love you, fic writers who try out something new and then stop. You're so valid.

I love you, WIP fics that may or may not ever get finished. Thank you for brightening my day in the way only you could have.

[iwasbored777]

Fanfic writers after watching the honda odyssey scene in Deadpool & Wolverine

[lazylittledragon]

if i had a nickel for every au spawned from twitter that i SWORE i was going to be normal about

[lgbtlunaverse]

Nothing will dispell the "the curtains were just blue" myth faster than writing something yourself, because the amount of pretentious symbolism i am putting in my silly little fanfics is ridiculous. I mean SO much with these words, literally every single one of them. This fic has twenty five typos and zero correct uses of punctuation but if there's curtains you bet your ass I put thought into what colour they were.

[imma-dragon53]

You’ve heard of “justice league doesn’t know Batman has kids”

Now prepare for “the Team doesn’t know Batman is Robins dad”

[mossy-box]

I wish gay people were real

[batsyheere]

I sometimes just imagine the first time Phantom is introduced to the league as like, a fellow big league hero. As someone who works with Justice League Dark and took down the Ecto Acts with his own team and allies to be included under the meta acts like aliens. He knows Constantine and Zatanna and is a pretty common name in the magical community now even if usually as his human form "just Danny".

And suddenly he is surrounded by these "big time heroes" and aliens and champions and most would assume he'd be overwhelmed or in awe. Maybe nervous, or weirdly fixated on being in space.

But here's the kicker- Danny is dead. Technically part of the category ecto-entity, ghost, and thus belonging to the Infinite Realms. He has met a vast variety of characters who are far more chaotic and legendary than these people who have so much interpersonal drama it looks like one of the soap operas Tucker refuses to admit he watches. Wonder Woman? Danny has lunch with Pandora and visits the Greek sections of the realms when he needs to research old prophecies. Superman? Kryptonite is like rock candy and the dead of Krypton are either very sweet or very condescending and Danny has seen both in the Boy Scout. The less said about the Green Lanterns the better. The Flash family are entertaining but also headache inducing because Danny has heard the complaints about the timeline. Half a dozen other heroes and vigilantes have their own dramas that Danny could pick apart at the source for the many issues that started said drama, and that's not even beginning on the issues with Batman and the weird galley of children he has who are sometimes even worse than the dark knight himself.

Meanwhile the League find themselves growing more concerned and horrified the more Phantom manages to reference his adventures and rather stressful start as a vigilante. Constantine hasn't been more entertained in years.

[tadfools]

You guys are commenting on the fics you read right? You’re at least leaving kudos on the Astarion smut and the pairs that have less than 20 fics for them too? You’re bookmarking stories you really like that are still being updated and ones that haven’t been touched in over a year right?

You know that even the smallest interactions are like cocaine to fic writers right? You understand how important a string of emoji hearts left behind on a chapter at three am is right?? Right????

You’re treating AO3 like a community and not a content factory….right?

[morganbritton132]

17 year old, CEO Tim Drake canceling a press conference and then putting out a statement like, “Sorry for canceling last min, Alfred said that he was going to run my laptop through the dishwasher if I didn’t clean my room. I think he’d do it :/. Also, wasn’t really in the mood. Cya -Tim.”

[frownyalfred]

want your favorite author to update but don’t want to be too pushy in their comment section?

here’s 5 things you can do to encourage them:

Reblog their fic link on tumblr (bonus if it’s with tags)

Bookmark the fic with a note about what you’re excited about/love in the fic

Recommend the fic to your friends or local discord channel

Draw art or create other media for the fic (as indicated by the author’s comfort level)

Leave them a comment when re-reading about the parts of the chapter/story that stood out to you the second time

[hxllo-hui]

Happy wedding Xie Lian! Ghost city’s here to celebrate

[retellingthehobbit]

Retelling The Hobbit Chapter 16: The Song of the Lonely Mountain First chapter / Previous / Next

To view full comic: Webtoon/A03 / Tumblr post with links to all chapters

Other blogs: TikTok/Instagram/Tumblr Sideblog

*crumbles into dust after finishing this* Thank you for reading! This The Hobbit webcomic adaptation thing takes a lot of effort to put together and I can’t tell you how much I appreciate every comment. I also really appreciate the people who’ve spread the word of this comic to their friends! <3

And finally, we’re at the Song of the Lonely Mountain! Within Tolkien’s canon, The Hobbit is an in-universe book that was “written” by Bilbo Baggins, who occasionally lies/embellishes/exaggerates things. The tonal differences between The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings are explained by Bilbo and Frodo/Sam being different kinds of storytellers, with different relationships to “the truth.” This idea is the core of how I’m adapting the novel!  Bilbo is an unreliable narrator who is literally ‘drawing’ from his own limited experiences;  the different art styles reflect the different perspectives of other characters.   The “dwarf art style” in this chapter is inspired by stonework/metalwork in general— but especially by a mix of art deco, Celtic art, and European folk art. 

The central tension of the comic is between Bilbo and Thorin, who each have wildly different ideas about what kind of  story they’re in. Thorin is in a grand fantasy epic, while Bilbo is in a lighthearted children’s book adventure.  The tragedy is, obviously, that only one side of the story ever gets to be fully told.

On a sillier note, a few years ago I had my first gay crush on a lesbian who sang while playing the piano. This chapter is dedicated to the piano lesbian. I hope they’re doing well, wherever they are. XD

I think I might need a bit of a break but I’m hoping for the next chapter, titled “Dawn,” to arrive on January 13th. And your comments/support really do help motivate me to get more done! ^_^

[hinamie]

"I'll show you every day that choosing to live was worth it"

some of my favourite scenes from @hijinks-n-lowjinks' fic things i would miss from the other side . this fic tore my heart out fr but like in a good way and i wanted to pay it homage the only way i know how <3