“I swear to god it’ll probably the end of the year before I get this right. I have until like October or something to get this right.”
niall’s reaction to the crowd singing this town (loudly) with him 😆 | tslot dublin n3 25.02.24
"We were always lucky that we had each other to share the experience with. I think we were the lucky ones. We could have all lost the plot because of all the madness that was going on around us. But we were all very good at calling each other out and we genuinely got on, were able to know each other's boundaries and suss each other out" — Niall Horan.
This rec will post on Thursday, February 15th, jokingly known as "Singles Awareness Day" -- so I wanted to play with that idea by making this rec be for fics that aren't ship-focused!
Give me your friendship fics, celebrating the beauty of platonic relationships. Give me your in-depth character studies of a single person and their experiences. Give me your self-love fics, where a character is exploring their own pleasure without needing or wanting anyone else involved. Give me your family-focused fics, looking at relationships with parents or siblings. Give me your aromantic and/or asexual characters, who are single and loving it -- or still figuring themselves out and learning what that means. Give me your OT5 shenanigans, running around backstage or goofing around hotels and giving all their minders headaches.
These fics do not have to be 100% free of any mention of romantic/sexual relationships, but any such relationships should be a small part of the fic -- almost a side ship, except that there isn't a main ship to be side to (or the main is platonic rather than romantic/sexual).