#zouis fest 2023

[zouisfics]

ZOUIS FEST 2023 - MASTERPOST

you wanna be on top? (NR, 6k) by @disgruntledkittenface 

Cool Kids Never Have The Time (T, 6k) by @quelsentiment

Pageant Material (G, 7k) by @ladyaj-13

Never Stop Dreaming (G, 14k) by @rockstarlwt28

It’s Alright If It Makes You Feel Alive (E, 13k) by @larry-hiatus

Slide Away (G, 7k) by @djtommotomlinson

the missing piece that makes me fit (T, 17k, Zayn/Louis/Liam) by @so-why-let-your-voice-be-tamed

Right Back To Where We Started From (T, 32k) by @fifthnormani

Please go show these fics some love and leave kudos/comments 😊

[1dficfests]

No Deadlines:

🗓 Larried In Vegas Fic & Art Fest @larriedinvegasficfest (ao3)

🗓 1000 Feelings For Which There Are No Names @1000feelingsfics (ao3)

🗓 1D Dick Prints & Grey Sweatpants Fest @ 1dgreysweatpants (ao3)

🗓 Harry Is Louis’ Baby Fic Fest @harryislouisbabyficfest (ao3)

🗓1D Handkerchief Fest @1dhankyfest​ (ao3)

Coming Soon:

🔔 HL Mpreg Fic Fest @hlmpregficfest​ (autumn)

Prompt Submissions:

💡Villain Harry Fest @villainharryfest (sign-ups: 10th November)

💡Purely Smut Fic Fest @purelysmutfest (until: 4th December)

No Sign-Ups Necessary:

⏳1D Trick Or Treat Fest @1dtrickortreatfest (until: 29th October)

Sign-Ups:

⌛Omega Harry Fest @omegaharryfest (until: 30th October)

⌛Louis Rare Pair Fest @louisrarepairfest​ (stay open, due: 1st November)

⌛1D One Liner Fic Fest @1d-oneliner-fest​ (stay open, due: 4th November)

⌛One Direction Big Bang @onedirectionbigbang (authors until: 4th November, artists until: 2nd December)

⌛The Show Fic Fest @theshowficfest​ (stay open, due: 9th November)

⌛Not Just Smut Fic Fest @notjustsmutficfest (until: 17th November)

⌛1D Christmas Fest @1dchristmasfest

⌛Zayn's Album Fic Fest @zaynsalbumsficfest (due: 12th January 2024)

⌛1D Song Fic Fest @1dsongfest​ (stay open, due: 25th February 2024)

⌛1D Alpha Louis Fest @1dalphalouisfest​ (stay open until: 30th June 2024)

Writing:  

📝Bottom Harry Fic Fest @bhficfest​ (posting: 13th November)

📝1D Daddy Bratty Fest @1ddaddybrattyfest​ (posting: 1st December)

📝1D Rom-Com Fic Fest @romcom1dficfest​ (posting: 6th December)

📝1D Soulmate Fest @1dsoulmatefest​ (due: 31st January 2024)

📝Second Time's A Charm Fic Fest @secondtimesacharmfest (due: 6th March 2024)

📝1D Dystopian Fest @1ddystopianfest​ (due: 28th April 2024)

📝1D Teamwork Fest @1dteamworkfest ​ (due: 31st May 2024)

Fics:

📚1D Reverse Bang @1dreversebang​ (ao3)

📚Not Just Smut Fic Fest @notjustsmutficfest (ao3)

📚Secret Larry Valentine @secretlarryvalentine​ 

��Girl Direction Femslash Festuary @girldirectionfest​ (ao3)

📚Top Harry Fic Fest @topharryficfest (ao3)

📚Harry Rare Pair Fest Round 3 @harryrarepairfest (ao3)

📚1D Religion Fest @1dreligionfest (ao3)

📚Omega Harry Fic Fest @omegaharryfest (ao3)

📚One Direction Big Bang Round 6 @onedirectionbigbang (ao3)

📚Faith In The Future Fic Fest @faithinthefutureficfest (ao3)

📚Momrry Fic Fest @momrryficfest (ao3)

📚Loummy Fic Fest @loummyficfest (ao3)

📚Wankfest @wankersday (ao3)

📚1D a/b/o Fic Fest @1daboficfest (ao3)

📚1D Pride Fest @1dpridefest (ao3)

📚Zouis Fic Fest @zouisfics (ao3)

📚1D Astro Fic Fest @1dastroficfest​ (ao3)

📚Title and Trope Fic Fest @titleandtropeficfest​ (ao3)

📚1D Tour de Fic Fest @1dtourdeficfest (ao3)

📚1D Watersports Fic Fest @1dwatersportsficfest​ (ao3)

📚Wordplay @wordplayfics​ (Poem, Run, Stable, Forge, Constraint)

📚Bottom Louis Fic Fest @bottomlouisficfest​​ (ao3)

📚Seven Seas of Harry and Louis Fest @sevenseasofharryandlouis (ao3)

📚1D Country Fic Fest @1dcountryfest​ (ao3)

📚Omegaverse Kinktober @omegaversekinktober23 (ao3)

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Last updated: 27th October 2023

Please let me know if I’m missing something!

[ladyaj-13]

LadyAJ’s 2023 Fics

This year I wrote 16 new stories (and one new chapter on an old one!) across five fandoms - One Direction, Endeavour, Kingsman, The Eagle and new-to-me Ted Lasso. Details below, I hope you’ll check some out - I like to think there’s a bit of something for everyone. 

One Direction

Bloom - T, 28k, Louis/Liam

Do you like historical AUs? Do you like awesome art by @whatagreatproblemtohave? Then you’ll like this, written for the One Direction Big Bang.

In early 1970s Oxford, Detective Sergeant Louis Tomlinson has to deal with the dual pressures of a case that hits too close to home, and the arrival of new colleague Liam Payne. Payne is both the bane of his existence and, uh... dangerous. Very dangerous. His eyes, that is. His lips. The way he stands.

A story of rain and cobblestones, cigarettes, and repression. And the sunshine after the storm.

In Shining Armour of Trackie and Trainers - T, 9k, Louis/Harry

Because who wouldn’t love white knight Louis coming to their rescue?

Online dating isn't exactly working for Harry. In fact, it couldn't really be going much worse. But then the door of the bar opens, and the pack of friends walking in parts and - that’s Louis Tomlinson.

Louis fucking Tomlinson.

Pageant Material - G, 6k, Louis/Zayn

Watch me throw Miss Congeniality and Kacey Musgraves together, shake it up, and give it a Zouis twist. Written for the Zouis fest.

Louis flicks a nearby switch, lighting the bulbs around his mirror in a soft glow. The buttery yellow catches on the edges of his cheekbones, sharpening the dip. He looks more grown up this year. Some of his baby fat has melted away, and he sucks in his cheeks to see what he might look like by twenty five if this pattern continues. Then he crosses his eyes and sticks out his tongue.

Or, the Zouis teen beauty pageant AU.

The Way to My Heart - T, 6k, Louis/Harry

Fluffy, funny AU Larry with lots of Nouis friendship on the side. Written for the a/b/o fest.

Louis' having a bit of a dry spell, until he bumps into an attractive alpha in the supermarket and leaves with his number. It was a hard bump. Very... muscular.

The only problem is, said alpha asks Louis to cook for him - which is not exactly his skill set.

Feeling Feline - T, 4k, Louis/Niall

Nouis, my beloved, with shelter-worker!Niall and magical cat transformations. Written for the Louis rare pair fest.

“I’m telling you,” drifts through the cracked door, and Louis’ ears prick, twitching with interest. “There’s something wrong with that cat.”

“Have you talked to Liam?” asks another voice, worried. Louis thinks it’s the tall one with curly hair. Taller one. They’re all tall when you’re ten inches high.

“Not medically wrong,” the blond one says. “But I swear, and I know this sounds nuts, but I don’t think he’s a cat?”

Fine Line - G, 1k, Louis/Nick Grimshaw

It’s present day, it’s canon compliant, it’s just long enough to read while waiting for the bus assuming it’s not got stuck in traffic.

Telling his family was always going to be a big deal, but doing it alone was a sacrifice he could make.

He never thought they’d fall about laughing.

In The Dark - T, 666, Gen

Choose your own character in this spooky snippet written for the trick or treat fest.

It’s the dreams.

He’d be fine without the dreams… suggesting things. If he could face all this - whatever this is - with a clear, rested mind.

Bound - G, 619, Liam/Zayn

Vampire AU? Check. 

Months should pass like hours for a vampire, but to Zayn they’ve felt endless. Now, finally, it has come. The day he takes his consort.

Endeavour

Tread Carefully into my Life - T, 29k, WIP, Morse/Jakes

See? I told you it’s not abandoned. Maybe 2024 is the year I finally finish this canon rewrite where Jakes stayed - in the meantime, enjoy nearly thirty thousand words of their on/off up/down shenanigans!

He can't help the way his eyes drift across the room, to Morse in his shirtsleeves, arms crossed across his body. It’s a defensive posture, which is no surprise, but otherwise he looks collected. Calm. Like facing down man eating beasts is all part of the job, and despite the evidence of today, it most certainly is not part of the job.

Tigers. For the love of God, give him an axe murderer any day.

Stepping Out - G, 9k, Morse/Jakes/Joan

Established polyamory with the Oxford disaster trio. Jakes didn’t leave.

“You know what I haven't done in ages?” Joan asks, punctuating her question by flinging her legs up and leaning dramatically backwards against the sofa arm. Peter almost spills his tea. “Gone dancing. We should go.”

Kindred - G, 2k, Gen

Ohhh series nine. Pre-slash Morse/Sam if you really squint.

Sam Thursday, Morse, and the power of orange juice.

Offcuts - G, 2k, Morse/Jakes/Joan

With this final instalment, the series is complete. As a whole it's almost 32k, so if you like Endeavour and polyamorous relationships, set aside a Saturday and dive in.

Snapshot scenes of life with the trio.

Adding it Up - G, 887, Morse/Jakes

Let’s return to series three, because Jakes.

Fred’s been a copper for a long time. It’s in his bones at this point, a habit so engrained he can’t turn it off. Like Morse with his beer and Jakes with his cigarettes, Fred’s addiction is piecing things together. Even when he’d rather not.

Ted Lasso

Would You Rather - G, 1k - Colin & Jamie, Roy/Jamie

It had to happen! Diving into a new fandom is always a pleasure.

"I’m talking about percentages. Like, yeah, you’re gay. So maybe you’re at like, eighty, ninety per cent. But if I say who’d you rather fuck out of Ms Welton, Keeley and Maisie from the canteen, you know what you’d say, right?”

Colin is beginning to think Jamie doesn’t know what gay is. "Erm, no."

Squeegee - M, 525 - Roy/Jamie

Short and snappy ;)

Jamie’s beautifully vocal in bed, but long, pitchy squeaking is new.

Kingsman

The Honeypots - T, 5k - Eggsy/Harry

Partial AU with undercover, honeypot spy shenanigans and obliviousness? I wrote it for a reason. I mean, it’s right up my street.

Eggsy is MI6. Harry is Kingsman. They have each been tasked to seduce a suspected rival intelligence agent.

The intelligence part may be overselling it.

The Eagle of the Ninth

Winter Sunlight - G, 1k, Marcus/Esca

I think writing a fluffy, happy gay farmers fic is actually a requirement of this fandom. Here’s my offering.

“How is it,” a familiar voice mutters drowsily, muffled by the drape of skins and fur, “that after all these years, you still can’t manage a proper lie in?”

[uhoh-but-yeah-alright]

my 2023 fic fest participation

Thanks to my beloved Marigold @disgruntledkittenface for tagging me! She knows I was taking "a break" from fests last year but also that I can't entirely resist them 💞

Number of fests: 5

Numbers of fics: 9 of the 13 fics I posted last year were for fests

@girldirectionfest: just happy getting you stuck in between my teeth (Zarry | established relationship, tender bondage, anxious pillow princess Zayn & supportive pleasure top Harry | fic post)

@harryrarepairfest: Mangia Tucci (Harry Styles/Stanley Tucci | strangers to lovers, vacation sex, age difference, daddy kink | fic post)

@wankersday: Voyeur Eyes Only (Larry & Lilo & Zouis & Nouis | sex worker Louis, glory hole, masturbation | fic post)

@wordplayfics:

The Cats that Got the Cream (Larry, Lilourry | crack fic | fic post someday, girl, we’re gonna get to that place | Larry | gender expression exploration | fic post) Shoulder ‘n’ the Load (Larry, Louis/his bandmates | established relationship, hurt/comfort, PWP | fic post) The Doppel Effect (Harry & Louis | sci fi, dystopian future | fic post) Amenable (Zouis | established relationship, D/s, PWP | fic post)

@1dtrickortreatfest: Fruit Bat (Larry | magical realism, shapeshifting, sweet lil batrry | fic post)

Favorite fest/fic: Nothing quite compares to the Wordplay Challenge for me. Having to write a fic a week for 5 weeks based on a one-word prompt is bonkers and so much fun. It's my favorite writing thing every year. As for favorite fic, that's always so hard, but I'll say the fic I'm most proud of from fests last year was The Doppel Effect, because it was so outside what I usually write and I didn't let myself be scared off by the idea.

Fests you would love to do again this year (if they come back): I will absolutely always do Wordplay and Trick or Treat Fest I love them both so much - both writing and reading the other fics <3

I've been sick the past few weeks so I'm super behind on this and guessing everyone's already done this or at least been tagged but I'll tag a few people just case: @haztobegood @louisandtheaquarian @chai-hat-tea And anyone else who wants to do this, TAG you're it!

[larry-hiatus]

Reviewing my 2023 Writing Goals

I made a goals list in January of 2023, and now it’s time to look them over and see what I accomplished!

1. Sprint more - I’ve been sprinting a lot more in the @1d-library discord, and I’ve had a lot of fun with my friends there, who always encourage and support me! I almost always think to see if anyone wants to sprint when I am in the mood to write, and I think it’s helped!

2. Write a sequel - This was on my goals list two years in a row, and I actually did it for 2023! I knew for a while that I wanted to add another part to my threesome fic (Even If It’s Only For Tonight) and for the Zouis Fest, I wrote It’s Alright If It Makes You Feel Alive. I’m so happy with how it came out!

3. Join a new fest - I participated in a few different fests this year! One that I loved was the Title/Trope Fest, for which I wrote Lick the Knife. It was so different for me, and I loved the end result.

4. Finish my intersex ABO WIP - I actually didn’t work on this fic at all this year, but that’s okay! I haven’t had ideas for it, but who knows what the future holds!

5. Experiment with writing new kinks/smut content - I definitely did this a lot this year! I played around with canon inspired smut in my Center Stage Whore series, which was lots of fun! Some new kinks that I wrote about include religion, ageplay, sweat, and several fics with hand content!

6. Share a fic with a friend - Oh boy, did I do this one. Not only did I start sharing some of my fics with my IRL best friend, but I even let someone read my infamous waffle fic out loud to a group of my friends! They were definitely not ready for it 😂 But my best friend has been very supportive and encouraging of my works!

7. Run a Fest - In 2023 I started a new fest @1d-oneliner-fest, and I enjoyed it! I also brought back @1dsongfest for a second round, which is currently open! I’m still not the best at modding fests, but people join them hahaha.

8. Write at least one fic without smut - Surprisingly, I wrote four mini fics without smut. It was still a struggle for me, and it felt totally weird to do. Three of the fics were for Wordplay, and I’m ehhh about how they came out lol. The fourth fic is my favorite nonsmut fic of the year, she bit someone. It was super short for the Trick or Treat Fest, but maybe I’ll continue more in that universe in the future!

Honorable mention: this was not a set goal until the very end of the year, but I posted 30 fics in 2023! Very proud of being able to reach that number ☺️

Overall, I think I did really well this year! Couldn’t have done it without all my amazing friends and readers!

[rockstarlwt28]

Zouis | Fluff | WIP

I’m thrilled to be a part of the @zouisfics fest! We’re going back to the 70′s when it was all about rock ‘n’ roll and where the acts of service became the making of a blossoming relationship.  Due for submission: May 2023.

@thebreadvansstuff @lunarheslwt @larrysballetslippers @beelou @allwaswell16 @1d-library

[ladyaj-13]

Pageant Material by LadyAJ_13

Fandom: One Direction

Pairing: Louis/Zayn

Tags: Alternate Universe; Beauty Pageants; First Kiss; OT5 Friendship; References to recreational drug use

Rating: G

Length: 6.7k

Summary: Louis flicks a nearby switch, lighting the bulbs around his mirror in a soft glow. The buttery yellow catches on the edges of his cheekbones, sharpening the dip. He looks more grown up this year. Some of his baby fat has melted away, and he sucks in his cheeks to see what he might look like by twenty five if this pattern continues. Then he crosses his eyes and sticks out his tongue.

Or, the Zouis teen beauty pageant AU.

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Written for the @zouisfics 2023 Zouis fest! Check out the rest of the fics here.

[larry-hiatus]

30 Fics From 2023 - Fic #13

It’s Alright If It Makes You Feel Alive

Posted June 12

13,125 words || 2,463 hits

Summary

Louis has only ever been a dom when it comes to bedroom activities, but after seeing his boyfriend Harry get dominated by Zayn during their threesome, Louis asks Zayn to fulfill a secret wish of his.

About the fic

This fic was an idea I had very soon after I wrote its prequel. I started it over a year before it was finally published, and I was so glad to get it completed for the Zouis fest. The fic changed a lot along the way, but I really like how it came out. I especially enjoyed writing from Zayn’s POV and exploring Louis’ emotions from the outside. Fun fact: This fic was originally going to contain flogging, but then I wrote a different fic involving flogging, and I don’t like repeating myself! So this one was changed, but I think it worked out nicely. Additionally! This is my first ever 1D fic that didn’t directly include Harry!

My favorite comment

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[Check out the other fics here!]

[zouisfics]

SCHEDULE

Prompt submissions: October 10th — October 16th

Sign-ups open: October 17th,  5 p.m. CEST (ongoing until the posting deadline)

Check-in: April 10th — April 16th

Fics due: May 26th

Fics start posting: May 29th

RULES

Fics must have Zouis as the main pairing (either romantic or platonic), but other pairings are allowed, including polyamorous relationships that involve Zouis.

Authors must be 18+ at the time of sign-up if they wish to write NSFW content.

Prompts will be assigned on a first come, first serve basis. You’re welcome to use your own prompt as well.

There is no minimum or maximum word count.

Fics must be posted to AO3 as completed works (no WIPs allowed).

The fest is not anonymous, so feel free to reveal snippets prior to posting.

The fics won’t be moderated for content, but authors are kindly asked to tag any potential triggers carefully, and to give their fic the appropriate rating.

Using a beta is encouraged but not required. Feel free to get in touch with the mod if you’re not sure how to find one.

Please respect the schedule for signing up and posting. Let us know ASAP if you need an extension, or if you want to drop out.

LINKS

Sign-up form

Prompt list

Ao3 collection

[zouisfics]

SIGN-UPS ARE NOW OPEN!

Make sure to double check the rules and schedule before signing up. You can find the list of prompts here, but you’re also welcome to use your own prompt.

Sign-ups will remain open until the posting deadline on May 12th.

SIGN UP HERE

[zouisfics]

PROMPT SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN!

You can now submit a prompt (or several!) HERE

Click here to find the list of submitted prompts, which also contains the unclaimed prompts from the previous round of the fest.

Submissions will close on October 16th.

[zouisfics]

*clears throat* in light of recent events, I am considering running a second round of the Zouis Fest in 2023

Is this something that people (especially authors) would be interested in?