by @louisandtheaquarian / zita17
for @wordplayfics
e/m - 28k - hl
Five unrelated fics, each set in a different decade from the 1950s through the 1990s, and inspired by a different unreleased HS1 song.
It’s September 1957, and beat poets Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles blow off some steam during a reading. Very loosely inspired by Howl, Ginsberg, Cassady, Kerouac, and the asterisks in Medicine.
It’s September 1967, the flower children have taken over the Haight, The Beatles are learning to meditate, and their American counterparts travel to a cliffside California ashram to do the same. Louis just didn’t expect it to be the new home of their old band member—and his ex, Harry. Harry never expected to see his childhood friends again, and even though they’re writing songs within earshot of his cottage, he still doesn’t have to - he can just stay inside and meditate. Except Louis keeps playing his song. Inspired by Baby Honey, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, the true story behind The Beatles’ Dear Prudence, CCR, and the countercultural revolution.
It's September 1978, and the king of glam rock, Harry Styles, sneaks into the show of a man who's defining a whole new genre called punk rock and who, okay, also happens to be his ex. Or, well, it's complicated. Inspired by Complicated Freak, Velvet Goldmine, whatever David Bowie/Mick Jagger/Iggy Pop/Lou Reed had going on, and a dash of Louis at the barricade.
It's September 1982, and the morning after the Back to School Battle of the Bands finds coworkers and arch-rivals, queer punk revolutionary Louis and disco-loving nerd Harry, forging an unlikely truce. Inspired by Oh Anna, The Breakfast Club + assorted other 80s teen movies, and the queercore movement.
In September 1991, Q&A Magazine publishes a cover story and interview with Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson, the stars of the ground-breaking queer indie drama, Muse of Fire, but the real story behind their ‘friendship’ isn't quite what makes it onto the glossy pages. Inspired by Talk, My Own Private Idaho - the film and its filming, whatever River and Keanu had going on in a 1991 Interview magazine cover story, and the underbelly of early 90s Hollywood and The Viper Room.
