thank you so much!!! i wrote that fic so long ago, it genuinely means so much to me that you still love it enough to keep rereading it 3 years later 💕it has almost 7000 kudos on ao3 and really, it’s a little bit insane to think that. from the bottom of my heart thank you, thank you, thank you very much a lot. 💓
3: What’s your favorite line of narration?
god, i wrote this fic so long ago that i had to skim through it to remember 😭maybe this one?
Because Louis just gives. He gives and gives and never expects anything in return. He gives Harry his light on a daily basis, shining it enough that Harry feels warm and happy inside every day. Even when he was eighteen and Harry was sixteen, in the dingy X-Factor bathrooms, Louis gave him, a boy he barely knew, a bit of his light and a fond smile, and Harry had felt warm all over, and confident enough to think that, hey, maybe I can do this.
5: What part was hardest to write?
i guess the whole “harry needs to come-out” aspect was a little difficult! the humble origins of the call or delete fic was that it was only supposed to be the call and delete segment, around 1k/less than 1k words that i wrote for princess! i showed it to her and she was like “okay, then what happens?” and i was like “idk!!!!!! it’s not supposed to be full-length!!!!!!!” and so i just continued the segment and at first, ended up writing a lot of little happy scenes between harry and louis and then i decided it needed an overall plot or else people would get bored! so i had to manoeuvre a bit of scenes to incorporate the coming out and it was pretty difficult but yeah!!!!
11: What do you like best about this fic?
i really liked the call or delete segment! and the ending, when harry starts discussing coming out with his team, and when he actually does, building up to harry posting the photo in color on instagram. i knew, since i incorporated the coming out within the fic, how i wanted the fic to end, and at the time i was writing chronologically so i was incredibly excited to be writing that part!
12: What do you like least about this fic?
looking back at it, there’s actually a lot of things i would change about this fic–there’s a lot of the narration that i probably thought was funny then but make me cringe when i read it now. i guess i also would’ve added a little more depth and gravitas to the whole thing? and probably connect the call and delete more to the overall plot. i would probably also lessen the smut tbh 🤷🏻♀️ but hey! we’re always growing and learning as people and people seem to still enjoy it so