I Love Him On Purpose

chris~21~she/they main: @panace-at-the-disco rwrb is the peak of literature

[birdthatisbored]

I'm near 100% sure this post already exists but I just imagined Alex singing London boy to Henry and I literally cried laughing

[chemdoodles]

Henry and Alex from Red, White & Royal Blue. Commissioned by @ meganstags on insta.

[satorugojjo]

nobody immortalised retrospective disaster bisexual panic the way casey mcquiston did when she wrote Alex Claremont-Diaz when I tell you reading this idiot bb and his panic made me realize I was also a fucking idiot as a kid???? I-

[gelexia]

I really really really really really want to reread Red, White and Royal Blue and I think I’m gonna ignore all the books on my to-read list in order to do just that because I’m craving the gay royal and presidential scandal

[first-prince]

them: you need to write in the past tense and third person and stay consistent with one character’s POV if you want your book to be taken seriously

my wip: first person present tense with lots of sarcastic narration that switches POV every chapter :)

[susiephone]

i literally cannot stop. will reblog with the link once i’m done.

[susiephone]

LET’S GET META, Y’ALL

[madseance]

must a story have “plot”

is it not enough that I just, like, care about the characters a whole bunch

[saywhatjessie]

On this day in Red, White, & Royal Blue

[first-prince]

when you’re trying to write a lesbian makeout scene while vibing to king princess and the rain and your dad bursts in with your grandma on speaker phone

[birdthatisbored]

The only reason Casey McQuiston didn't put Henry's pov in rwarb is because his internal monologue would just be "gay, gay, I'm so fucking GAY" and you wouldn't be able to tell what's going on ever

[coolcurrybooks-deactivated20230]

All of these books are queer, but they all have back blurbs that don’t say they’re queer. While this can be a pain if I’m scouting for queer SFF, it can come in handy for people in a situation where they don’t want to be reading queer books openly. 

Please do note that I don’t have hard copies of the books on hand so it’s possible that an author quote or something mentions one being queer (I feel like this isn’t super likely, but I don’t want to rule it out). Some might also have author biographies mentioning that the author is queer. Also, some may be shelved as LGBT on Goodreads or categorized as queer on Amazon. So if you’re planning on asking for any of these as holiday gifts, I would suggest going to the Amazon page or where ever your relative is likely to buy it from and double check that it’s something you’d be comfortable with sharing openly. 

I wish I had more pansexual books, but the ones I know of tend to mention queerness in the back description. 

With the exception of The Spy with the Red Balloon, these are all books I have read or are currently reading. If you want to recommend others, feel free to do so in the replies!

You can find my other queer book recommendations here.

Links to the queer books database (or Goodreads if the book hasn’t been added yet) are available below the cut. You can find information on content warnings there.

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[first-prince]

I needed this today

[babydontthurtme]

when alex said what do you want, and henry said i want you- and then alex said,? then fucking have me, that’s when i died and i haven’t recovered ever since

[twohomessidebyside]

hrh prince henry fox mountchristen windsor rly said “im watching bake off while wearing a peely face mask” and alex’s only thoughts were that is cute and he is rich, not a singly itty bitty inkling of perhaps maybe my friend here is not a heterosexual man by some off chance

[sargent-major-jane]

why aren’t we talking about how that scene in carry on where baz is like “I’m very, very gay” and that scene in rwrb where henry is like “i’m very, very gay” are like the same and how these poor classical musician guys have the same Repressed Gay Rich Boy Energy and how they both spent the entirety of their teen years pining for their sworn rival, an oblivious bi dumbass who was totally into them the whole time and just didn’t realize it

[redwhiteroyalbluedates]

not to be a taylor swift stan on main but anyone ever thought about how dwoht is a firstprince song?

[twohomessidebyside]

too much wlw media is so quiet & subdued, i hope casey gives us screaming-loud gay ladies in summer 2021, just as loud and gay as rwrb. please.