#wish you were here
I can be mean to myself
Like I’m mean to everybody else
At least no one can say I’m not fair
It’s a messy life but we only get one
And I’m trying my best
To do it right
Good things are coming
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.
.
at least that’s what everyone keeps telling me.
sea skin by sarcangel | G | 995
a boat, zouis, selkie!zayn
come down, i’d follow you by coffeewordangel | G | 1699
Prompted anonymously with, “mermaid zayn gets caught in liam’s fishermen’s net”.
I took a slightly different angle with it.
Wish You Were Here by alittlewicked | G | 2492
From time to time, Louis got a peculiar feeling in his chest. Like something was literally tugging at his heartstrings. It was like the urgent need to be somewhere, like a niggling feeling at the back of his brain. That vague notion that something… or even someone was waiting out there for him to finally catch up to them, to come home.
Or: The one were Louis is looking for home and finally finds it in Harry, the selkie.
Songs of the Sea by Anony_Moouse | T | 14626
“Hello.” The man says, his voice low and rumbling. Liam’s town is small. Even he, who speaks only to those he must, knows the faces of each person by sight, if not by name. This man is strange.
“Are you lost?” Liam asks. The man’s smile remains but his forehead creases, eyebrows drawing together as he blinks at Liam.
“I am not sure.” He says slowly, glancing over his shoulder towards the sea.
Liam is a fisherman living on the Irish Coast. He lives a quiet life; happiness a luxury he hasn’t known for years.
But a stranger knocks on his door with nowhere to go. An odd, happy man, Harry brings to Liam’s life a joy he hadn’t known possible.
But his presence couldn’t have anything to do with the seal pelt, tucked away in the far corner of Liam’s home…
Leave Your Damage Behind and Gone by QuickedWeen | T | 15673
It’s the spring of 1882 and Sir Louis Tomlinson is a simple man with simple needs. Money. Running an old estate and dairy farm costs money, and he would much rather focus on his science experiments than take a trip to the Exposició Universal de Barcelona to beg for funding especially when everyone there is English anyway.
He’s taking a walk one night to clear his head when he comes upon something mysterious on the beach that may or may not change his life forever.
love him (if he wounds you, if he tears your heart to pieces) by sailorharry | M | 17910
Niall has a secret – he’s not exactly normal. He loves the ocean a bit too much, loves the taste of salt in the air and the cold wind whipping at his face. Zayn loves Niall – more than he should, more than he has ever loved anybody – and he loves Niall’s secret just as much, even if it threatens to tear their band apart.
wake the morn and greet the dawn (with hearts entwined and free) by mixedfandomfics | T | 21364
It was a great storm that sent Harry ashore. Grandmothers professed they had not seen its like in a generation, and fathers lost their sons to the sea.
Water shows the hidden heart by noellehenry | M | 30995
The wind turns slowly into a storm, tugging at the roof and the door. Howling and moaning around the house. The dripping has become a stream of water, pouring through the roof. Louis checks on the bucket, he might need his fish bucket too tonight. He sits down again in his armchair near the hearth when there is a desperate knock on his door. Louis quickly gets up. The screens block the windows, so he can’t see who is brave enough to go out in this terrible weather. He unlocks the door and quickly asks: “Who is it ?” No answer, but another insistent knock. He opens the door carefully and nearly faints. In front of him stands a tall, lean, wet and naked young man, shivering in the ice cold wind. Louis steps aside and motions for the stranger to come in.
A selkie AU set in Ireland in the 1930’s.
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“I seek love, yet I hide from it when it reaches out.
I seek the warmth of a lover but cower when it surrounds me.
I seek the words laced with honey but accept those filled with poison.
I seek eyes filled with adoration but find an empty space in front of me.
I seek someone in my sheets, my hands roaming to find someone, but only stumble upon blankets and cold sheets.
I seek a smile but find myself drowning in tears.
I seek a life filled with love but find myself running away when it finds me.
I wish upon the stars to find what I am seeking to find me before I yield and cower again.
I pray there comes a day where I’ll stumble upon all the things I yearn for and that the warmth, the smile will grab me with so much strength that I will have no choice but to accept it with everything in me.
Because for once, I’ll allow the love I run away from to fill me up with everything I wished upon the stars, and for once, I’ll smile without any fear.
It’ll look me in the eyes and tell me that what I had been seeking was just waiting for me to accept myself and be free of the chains.
The smile and the crinkle beside their eyes will tell me that I was everything they too were seeking for, and they were glad we found each other in a place that had no place of running away.
I seek for you, and I pray you also seek for me.
I wish upon the stars that when we find each other, it will all be enough.
Because baby, you’re all my wishes upon the stars.”
- g.d. (the stars)
photoset:Master Zhang’s Tieguanyin Tea Fields, November 24th 2014
Daping, Anxi, Fujian, China
#wishyouwerehere
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Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd
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How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We’re just two lost souls….
Photography by Mehrshad Rajabi
I still remember how every time we would look at the stars we’d dream of each other.
All the breathless moments turned ice cold and with each breath came a thorn in the heart.
Wish You Were Here is a hot air balloon ride.
Swoop over these procedurally generated islands, looking down on the birds and trees from your high altitude perch.
And come down to explore, finding strange messages in bottles and all kinds of other secrets.
Wish You Were Here is available to download for free on itch.io.
Here’s my final piece for @andythelemon’s “Wish You Were Here!” travel zine for anime & video game locations. I chose Itomori from “Your Name” which, tbh if you’ve seen the movie, might not be the best place to travel to actually. ☄️✨
