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get him alone by congee4lunch
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
05 Nov 2023
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Alex looks at him, like Henry’s a speck of dirt on his pristine chinos. “Why would June send you to check up on me?”
“Because I’m her best friend and you’re her brother?”
“I always said she has bad taste.”
“Well,” Henry smiles. It feels as placid on his face as it probably looks. “I would say the same thing, but family doesn’t account for one’s taste, unfortunately.”
in which henry fox is june’s childhood best friend and alex claremont-diaz is june’s younger brother. as the years pass, they tolerate each other at best and are downright destructive at worst. until they begin falling into each other's beds.
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19 Oct 2024
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Leaving military service and taking up Crown Prince duties full-time has left Wilhelm stressed, frustrated, and extremely miserable - and that's without even mentioning the massive sexuality crisis lurking under the surface. He turns to camshows to help take the edge off, and maybe explore some of those repressed feelings a little bit further.
It was never meant to lead to an all-consuming obsession, falling in love, and a whole load of shit hitting the fan.
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Bookmarked by Sharoned
26 May 2024
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Love Game: when a player wins a game without allowing their opponent to score a single point.
Since that fateful US Open semi-final, there have been two words used to describe TK Strand: 'unfulfilled potential'. There's a chance for redemption in there somewhere, and TK is willing to do whatever it takes to fight his way back.
Carlos Reyes finds himself in New York City due to the widely held belief that although he's rocketed up the ATP rankings, he'll never be good enough training out of Austin. Carlos might be Austin all the way down to his bones, but he also wants to win.
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The tennis AU that no one asked for, but I wrote anyway, because I love tennis and I also love feelings.
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- Part 1 of Game, Set, Match
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hold on (get ready for the ride) by babygirlgalitzine
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
02 Mar 2024
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Alex joins a Championship football team during the winter transfer window. It’s the biggest move in his career, and he’s nervous about proving his worth, especially because of the team he’s joined. It was once managed by his footballing hero, Arthur Fox. He played at the club, and later managed it for a number of years before his untimely death. Henry, having come through the ranks at the club, is their club legend. He’s their top goal scorer, the first name on the team sheet and captain. He’s adored by fans and players alike. Henry is also gay, which is somewhat of an open secret. The players and staff know, but Alex doesn’t until later on. Alex believes that he’s straight, until one night with Henry that makes him question everything.
or, a footballer au
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25 Feb 2024
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all so human with our guards down by maxbegone
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
11 Jan 2024
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“Constant fear is debilitating,” Alex tells him later on. The sun has risen, though it’s barely prominent through the dark clouds in the sky. “Even in the world we live in now, you need to find the things that make it feel…normal.”
Of course, Alex isn’t even sure that makes much sense, and he thinks about doubling back on what he just said with something stupid and word-vomitty, whatever pops into his head first, but Henry beats him to it. Much more suitable, and it puts Alex’s mind at ease:
“I’m starting to think you’re right.”
The world ended three years ago. No more all-night study sessions, no more drag brunch and mimosas, no more societal expectations.
But out of everything Alex was expecting from an apocalypse, Henry sure as hell wasn't it.
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24 Feb 2024
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Paper Chains by myheartalive for lizzie_bennetdarcy
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
01 Jan 2024
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Day 751 (Alex)
Henry is… Well, if Alex is being honest, Henry is everything to him.
But it’s kinda hard to explain.—
Day 1
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———I have no idea how to summarise this one, folks. The best I can do is… Alex and Henry's journey from awkward beginning as colleagues, to best friends, to spending time apart and finally to finding each other again.
But it’s not as straightforward as that.
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20 Feb 2024
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Baby (Let Me Put On a Show) by SatinBirds
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
26 May 2024
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It’s been five months, and still Alex is never completely prepared for Henry’s performances. Private or otherwise.
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Henry is a night dancer, and he’s everything Alex wants.- Language:
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17 Feb 2024
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One of the world’s largest retailers is opening a store on his street. A bookstore. He looks down at the article in his hand again and catches sight of a phrase: “We hope that people will see this as more than a bookstore, and hope to foster a sense of community.” As if Henry Fox-Mountchristen has any concept of what community means.
Alex very narrowly does not break something.
(When global mega-retailer Mountchristen opens a new location—led by the infuriatingly attractive and insufferable Henry Fox-Mountchristen—near his LGBTQ-focused bookshop in Soho, Alex's comfortable life is turned upsided down. Luckily, he has one of his best friends to turn to: a guy he met online and knows only as H. Meanwhile, Henry is battling against his family to make a positive difference in the world and falling further in love with a man he's never met. But... what if they changed that?
Yes, it's a You've Got Mail AU.)
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Bookmarked by Sharoned
10 Feb 2024
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“I picture myself in a small house by the sea, overlooking the water. Writing and reading all day and taking David on long walks and swimming every day. Somewhere really quiet, where there’s not a lot of people. And where nobody thinks of me as Henry Mountchristen.”
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Fed up of working under his grandmother, Henry quits his job in London, dropping everything for a writer’s life by the sea. He’s desperate to focus on his work and produce something worthy, but a mouthy American with a beautiful smile and a chin dimple has other plans.
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This fic is fully written and clocking in at around 75k. I’m going to try to update on Saturdays and Wednesdays until we’re done, hopefully bringing us to the end of one long, gay summer ✌️
*UPDATE: this is now complete and safe to binge 😊
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01 Feb 2024
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good love helps me feel it by emonlispenardstreet
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
08 Oct 2023
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“Thirsty?”
Alex looks down at the glasses as if he’d forgotten they were there and laughs. Now that Henry is looking properly, he sees that Alex’s gaze is a little glassy—he’s not drunk, but he’s definitely on his way there. “Two of these were for June,” he objects. “Besides, Your Majesty, it’s a party.”
“My proper title is ‘Your Royal Highness’; ‘Your Majesty’ is reserved for the Queen,” Henry says tightly on autopilot.
“Oh, thank you for the etiquette lesson,” Alex shoots back, his voice full of sardonicism.
“You’re welcome.”
“Fine.”
“Fine.”
“Fine.”
God, Alex is… he’s… insufferable. Henry is suffering.OR: After Henry's family is captured by an evil dictator, he's sent into the Prince Protection Program where Agent Ellen Claremont assigns him to blend in at the safest location she can think of: her house.
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- Part 1 of prince protection program au
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20 Jan 2024
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Alex is smart and witty and kind and clever and driven…but graceful, he is not. Several stints in the ER within one semester can confirm this unfortunate fact. The only good thing to come out of wracking up his out of pocket co-pay is the gorgeous nurse with beautiful eyes and a killer smile. Maybe breaking several bones is kinda worth it.
Basically: several times Alex was a clumsy wreck and Henry had to patch him up.
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- Part 1 of Jump Then Fall
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18 Jan 2024
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Talk Too Much (Firstprince) by orphan_account
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
10 Dec 2023
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Henry Fox has been a successful actor since he was a child. However, with great success and power comes great responsibility and social media presence. When Henry starts receiving death threats online, Orion Agencies hires a well known ex all-American track star, Alex Claremont-Diaz, to be his bodyguard. Henry doesn’t want to appear weak– it goes against everything he stands for– so he requests one thing, and that is that Alex is referred to as his boyfriend.
A fake relationship that becomes a little something more. A crash course in international relations. A near death experience.
Will Alex and Henry be able to triumph over the tragedies thrown at them by their job?
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18 Jan 2024
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something weird happened (that might change my life) by looking4orion
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
17 Jan 2024
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Exactly how much wine has he had tonight? He wasn’t sure what to think or how to react, only the sudden realisation that he had to stay really still because if he moved and Henry realised what his fingers were doing, tangling like that in his curls, he might stop, and Alex was quickly becoming aware that he didn’t think he wanted that to happen.
So, he forces his eyes back to the screen and tries to focus once again on Princess Leia and Han Solo instead of on Henry Fox. It doesn’t work. He wants so badly to lean into Henry’s body, encourage his fingers to keep moving through his hair … across his cheek, down the curve of his neck ... Suddenly, he’s wondering what Henry’s tongue would feel like on his skin, tracing the lines of his hipbones, licking stripes along the mounds of his thighs ... His mind jerks him back to the room and to reality. What the fuck?
Or: Oblivious Alex mistakes Henry for a pillow, things escalate from there.
Based on that one Reddit post.
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18 Jan 2024
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A last minute email outlining a construction project and an office rearrangement throws TK into a new environment for the school year. What starts off as an inconvenience quickly becomes a stroke of fate as it allows his path to cross with Carlos.
This is a look into their lives over those ten months.
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17 Jan 2024
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The Throne He Deserves by AnchoredArchangel
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
18 Jan 2024
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In London, standing in front of Kensington fucking Palace and its five hundred forty seven rooms in the drizzling rain, there’s no pretending anything is normal. Alex silently screams into the mental space labeled Future Alex’s Problems and the void screams back in perfect harmony.
Or: After weeks apart, Alex is sent abroad on official Okonjo Foundation business and comes face-to-face with the not-at-all new reality that Henry is a prince, and everything that comes with it.
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- Part 4 of The Consequences (of our Actions)
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16 Jan 2024
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☆it's a kind of magic☆ by Jaistiel
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)
01 Jan 2024
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Henry, the man who had asked if Alex's magic hurt him before asking if he used it for evil things. Henry, the man who seemed terrified of his magic, but also held a level of awe and wonder about it. Henry, the man who was likely scared out of his mind to share a tent with someone capable of the things Alex could do, but was offering anyway.
"Alex." He watched as Henry's eyes widened with shock, his jaw dropping open just enough for his full lips to form a small, perfect 'o' shape. "If you're asking me to share your tent and your blankets, I guess you should at least know my name."
The Medieval Magical FirstPrince AU you've been waiting for. Title is from the Queen song.
**ART from Pinko in Chapters 6 and 11! 🥰
Come scream at me on Twitter: @jaistiel
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roses, wisteria, and royal bluebells by coffeecatsme for railmedaddy, ifyoustay
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
03 Aug 2022
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If you could have anything in the world, anything at all, what would it be?
Alexander Claremont-Diaz has clawed his way into Hollywood despite all the hurdles in his way, and now he's starring in his dream movie—a queer romcom adapted from one of his favorite books, Roses, Wisteria, and Royal Bluebells. However, he barely has the chance to be excited before he finds out who his costar is. The privileged, white, bigoted Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor.
The last thing Alex wants is to be associated with Henry more than he already has to, but a fateful interview and a few choice words against Henry turns him into enemy number one in Hollywood. To fix it, he has to pretend to be Henry's best friend and show the entire world his comments were nothing but friendly banter. However, as he gets inevitably tangled up in Henry's life, he realizes not everything is as it seems, and Henry might be hiding his own demons that might change everything.
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- Part 1 of lights, camera, action
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- 30/30
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15 Jan 2024
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Where All This Love Comes From by carlos-in-glasses (stormwriting)
Fandoms: 9-1-1: Lone Star (TV 2020)
11 Feb 2024
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Six months after Gabriel Reyes’ death, TK grows concerned about Carlos’ drinking and brings him to a meeting at the Y. Afterwards, over omelets at the diner, the husbands open up to each other. TK reflects on meeting Carlos after years of addiction and self-destruction, while Carlos has continued to seek closure by uncovering two unknowns: The identity of his father’s killer, and how his father truly felt about Carlos as his son.
A single tear slips from Carlos' eye. Years ago, there was a young man in New York City called TK Strand and he had no idea that in Austin, Texas, a stranger called Carlos Reyes was aching, yearning, pining for exactly him. He had no idea how loved he was going to be by someone he had yet to meet. He had no idea how wonderful he was as a person with or without a partner – but he was about to find out. That's why you have to keep living, Carlos thinks, so you can find out.
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Bookmarked by Sharoned
29 Dec 2023