King Alex The First With His Stupidly Handsome Boyfriend Watch Me Spend The Next Few Months Replacing

Red White and Royal Blue: Iconic Scenes

The two scenes that in my opinion have made film history.

Alex and Henry lazing around at the lakehouse.

This may seem like nothing special, but note how they're out in the open sunshine, almost naked, in an attitude that leaves no doubt at the fact that they're a couple. Name me another movie or show that shows a same-sex couple in such a relaxed, natural attitude.

They have nothing to hide.

The final scene.

No big revelation, no impassioned declaration, no celebration of any kind.

To world-wide celebrities - Henry, who grew up in castles, and Alex, who spent these last years at the white house - retire into privacy in a simple, one-storey house.

They have each other, that's all they need.

This movie is marking a cultural change already now.

A Spring Afternoon

Happy 26th Birthday Alex🧁🎉🧁(I'm super late)

rwrb fic: i offer you explanations of yourself

Relationships: Alex Claremont-Diaz/Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor

Summary: AU. Fresh off a frustrating Grindr interaction, Alex heads to Texas to do legal work at the border for three months. While he’s gone, June and Nora meet Henry and Pez and become friends, making Alex feel a little replaced. Things get worse before they get better, because when he finally meets Henry, Alex realizes it’s not the first time they’ve crossed paths. Told through texts, lists, emails sent and unsent and even a GrubHub order, this is the story of how Alex and Henry get from a bad second impression to maybe the rest of their lives.

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hey next time i tell you i want to try exploring my newfound bisexuality remind me to go to a bar or a party or a midnight showing of the mummy at the sunshine but NOT GRINDR irl chaos demon i did warn you that grindr might be going into the deep end real fast, alejandro, but like spirit the stallion of the cimarron, your desire to figure out if liam’s drunk rambling was right could not be tamed irl chaos demon what happened?? i sent a picture of my face to this guy i’d been talking to for like a week, who i thought i was hitting it off with and he fucking ghosted me

Henry and his ties: (part 1)

Pink

Affectionate and soft, the adjectives given to the Prince of England's hearts

Blue and white stripes

Formal, navy is the color of authority and power

Blue and light blue stripes (Henry focus pls)

Simple but formal, two colors often used for work settings. Light blue adds friendliness

Grey

Conservative and conformative, add mysteriousness

Orange Copper

Wealth, copper indicates luxury and sophistication

Blue and silver stripes

Grace and elegance, Henry needed to be pretty for his date 💕

Carmine with green stripes

Love, red is associated with passion and sensuality but also prohibition (+ green can indicate outlaw lifestyle)

Sky blue with thin white stripes

Peace, sky blue symbolizes daydreaming and conveys serenity; white is associated with purity

Side addition: solid tie is the basic pattern that doesn't add anything to the tie and lets the color speak for itself; polka dot adds playfulness and/or sophistication; stripes mean classic and elegant but can differ from one another (Henry always wears the British type with stripes that run from left shoulder down to the right side)

E | 5K | FirstPrince Oneshot

They meet at a bar. Alex is young; fresh out of law school, sharp and charismatic and oh-so attractive. The sex is absolutely incredible, and Henry has no regrets. At least not until the morning after when he finds himself opposite Alex in a meeting — equipped with the painful knowledge that Alex’s boss thinks Alex’s only function in said meeting is to sit there and look all pretty. Somebody ought to call HR right about now. Or: when sexual relationships mix with professional ones, Alex and Henry make the most of it.

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for wip wednesday this week, i thought people might maybe be interested in the planning board i made for Arc 4! Censored scene titles to avoid too many spoilers~

kanban boards are great for outlines, cause you can drag and drop scenes around when you're planning to work things out better, and I like having a 'physical' visual like this, it helps my brain.

tags are plot threads, using the colourful tags plugin to colour-code them so I can see at a glance what's what, with main plots in brighter colours and subplots subdued to mark the distinction.

I have two markers to pull out scenes: major plot beats, and spicy scenes. I wanted each chapter to have at least one of each (though as you can see, I didn't always exactly succeed). doing that helped me make sure I was balancing my developments, and having the tags let me see if I was abandoning key threads halfway through (which in draft one...i definitely was!)

not in the screenshot is the final board, which is cut scenes, because i refuse to throw things away when i might need them later.

i’m going to say something that might make me seem ungrateful, but i think it’s true of many fic writers:

we want you to leave comments ON ao3.

we’re not angry or disappointed or anything like that when you leave qrts or lots of tags on our fic posts, not at all. we don’t NOT want you to message us to tell us how a fic touched you. but in addition to that, please consider just copying those words and posting them on ao3 as a comment.

why?

the reason is simple: leaving commentary in other places is ephemeral. story posts get pushed down. chats get pushed down in the list of chats, or worse, pushed up in lists of messages as the conversation continues. but comments on ao3 are easily accessible. and this is important because writers read and reread these comments regularly.

writing, especially writing longfics, is exhausting and drains your confidence over time. having a collection of people who enjoyed your past work at your fingertips is an excellent way to build yourself up when you’re feeling down. fic writers need this a lot.

i know over the past few years there’s this trend to be very descriptive with what is an “acceptable” comment. that’s all nonsense, as long as you’re not being an asshole, just say what’s on your heart.

but post it on ao3. please.

it’s 2024, and no one knows they’re engaged 💍 ✨💕

me: yeah I'm pretty close to finishing this fic

the fic:

where it all began….

this was the first rwrb art i ever made - tbh i thought it was a one-off and i never intended to post more art but as u can prob tell these lovesick homosexuals have taken over my life