Down To Be a Distraction by QuickedWeen (6.5k, E)

The English national team is on the brink of winning the UEFA final and it all hinges on a penalty kick from team captain and national hero Louis Tomlinson, who was forcibly outed in the press right before the tournament. The whole country holds its breath as the goal sails through.

Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, up-and-coming model Harry Styles and the team captain have been dancing around each other for years. Harry decides, on this particular night, that he's had enough and Louis deserves a reward that only Harry can give him.

Additional Tags: Model Harry Styles, Football | Soccer Player Louis Tomlinson, Football | Soccer Player Zayn Malik, Manchester United, English National Team, UEFA European Championship, Outing, Smut, Exhibitionism, Public Blow Jobs, Nonverbal Communication, Under-negotiated Kink, Getting Together, Wordplay Fic Challenge (One Direction), Wordplay Fic Challenge 2022 (One Direction), Posh & Becks AU, Minor Zourry if you squint

Written as a part of the @wordplayfics challenge for the prompt "Particular."

Down To Be a Distraction

by QuickedWeen

The English national team is on the brink of winning the UEFA final and it all hinges on a penalty kick from team captain and national hero Louis Tomlinson, who was forcibly outed in the press right before the tournament. The whole country holds its breath as the goal sails through.

Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, up-and-coming model Harry Styles and the team captain have been dancing around each other for years. Harry decides, on this particular night, that he's had enough and Louis deserves a reward that only Harry can give him.

Words: 6538, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: One Direction (Band)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik

Relationships: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson

Additional Tags: Model Harry Styles, Football | Soccer Player Louis Tomlinson, Football | Soccer Player Zayn Malik, Manchester United, English National Team, UEFA European Championship, Outing, Smut, Exhibitionism, Public Blow Jobs, Nonverbal Communication, Under-negotiated Kink, Getting Together, Wordplay Fic Challenge (One Direction), Wordplay Fic Challenge 2022 (One Direction), posh & becks au, Minor Zourry if you squint

via AO3 works tagged 'Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson' https://ift.tt/rBDcCmg

the way people online talk about autism is getting really weird, like do they know that neurotypicals still have interests? that someone being passionate about a hobby doesn't mean they're autistic? you guys know that right

i know people are good because of this: the universe often assigns me side quests. in a circular strangeness; despite my inability to locate my-own-anything, i am almost-always finding someone else's lost things. dogs, coats, phones, cash, laptops. it happens so often it's almost tiring; suddenly being looped into a tiny amount of detective work.

but when i'm with other people who are not used to this: the response is almost invariably delight. yes, maybe they are simply thrilled by the mystery. it's just... they light up so much. i think maybe more... i think they like the opportunity to do something kind.

a few weeks ago, i was at a bar and i found a wallet as soon as we stepped outside. i felt nervous to ask for help, worried i would be holding up the night. i picked it up and said go on without me, i should help this get back to its home.

instead, three people pulled out their phones - to find him on facebook, to help cancel his credit cards. two people went back into the bar to tell the bartender, two others went calling down the street. group texts, facebook posts, instagram stories. people, without even seeing what happened, start offering help to me. fifteen minutes and: someone knows someone who knows the guy. the cheer that went up - just for finding him, just for this small thing. someone gets him on the phone. strangers dance around me, hopping on their feet - are you the girl that found that wallet? good for you, that's a good thing you're doing/same thing happened to me and somebody did what you're doing and i thank god everyday for people like you/i can't believe you found him so fast this is so exciting

i gave it back to him in a parking lot. i watched his shoulders sag with relief. there was cash in it still - he checked the pocket, and then sheepishly held the money out to me. i didn't take it. i held up my hands. "it's no problem, man. i know you'd do the same for me."

i don't know him, to be honest. i don't know if he is the same kind of person i am. but he nodded at me.

and i know people are good. i know people are good, because the way this story ends isn't surprising. we wave goodbye awkwardly. my friend loops their arm around me.

"i can't believe we got it back to him," they said. "i'm going to be riding that high for weeks."

gay people judging you

I am very sick so this is the last thing I am going to say on the subject. The instigating event for miles heroism & eventual escape the narrative quest was saving a cop from death. Miles’ goal and journey is to alter reality so that cops do not have to die in his story and spidermen can save the cops they care about. Core to the central plot of atsv is a view of cops as sympathetic & heroic individuals in need of saving instead of as a tool for enacting state violence and perpetuating systemic oppression. Which is copaganda.

🐍 • Always the scholar

Time-lapse on TikTok

Oscar Your Staring

the night's so blue

So I noticed something in Harrow the Ninth. In chapter two, when John is trying to console Harrow over having lost Gideon, he puts his hands on her shoulders, and he says "Gideon Nav did not die for nothing."

Harrow feels "a hot whistle of pain run down [her] temporal bone," which is, we know now, Harrow having a stroke as her skull alters her brain so that she hears him say 'Ortus Nigenad' instead. And she replies to him in kind, using Ortus' name. So the interesting bit is John's reaction, look:

He had his hands on her shoulders the whole time. Physical touch negates lyctoral blindness, and she had a stroke while he was touching her. That look on his face. Is he working out an emotionally taxing anagram, or is he taking a good look at her and working out what the hell just happened? Then he says Gideon's name again, like he's running a test, and Harrow has another stroke. That's exactly the same test Mercy performed to figure out what Harrow did to her brain in chapter twenty-nine.

He knows. He's known about the lobotomy since chapter two. He thinks she did it to forget her grief and guilt, and he thinks he understands.

Which means when he 'notices' the lobotomy in this scene:

He's not really noticing it for the first time at all. He's calling attention to it. He's just told Harrow that she didn't open the Tomb, that she's wrong about the events of her own life, and then he deliberately 'discovers' and points out her brain damage to seal the deal.

John Gaius uses: Gaslight! It's super effective.

this clip and this clip alone, I can't get enough of it

playing with dionte's hair bc i'm procrastinating

(13 pages) Forlorn

If you ask me this, buckle up.I will be giving you a presentation of my ocs for the next 4 hours.

Kingdom Hearts 2 - Halloween Town Drive Forms

i need vashwood to be down silly stupid for each other like vash will stop talking mid sentence and just trail off when he looks at wolfwood for too long and the right kind of smile from vash will make wolfwood trip over his own feet. stupid awooga ass men. perpetual honeymoon phase while simultaneously fighting like an old married couple on day two and being two seconds away from divorcing at any moment. so stupid in love.