I love them on purpose

The RW&RB sideblog. Because apparently now I collect obsessions...

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I like to keep my fandom content organised, so this is and will remain an Alex/Henry blog.

For those who have other interests, however, I also have;

stuckytoyoulikeglue feat. Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes from Marvel (this is my main blog)

geraskmewhatpleasesme feat. Geralt/Jaskier from the Witcher Netflix series

And for everything else (especially Heated Rivalry), there's mastercard tcnm-on-tmblr

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Locking eyes across a crowded dance floor, subtlety level: Non-existent

Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

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Red, White & Royal Blue (2023) Henry looking at Alex

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Well it would have been rude not to say hello, since we were in the neighbourhood and all...

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Holy fucking fuck.

I think I just combusted 🥵💀

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Red, White & Royal Wedding is officially in production!

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taynick always making each other lose their minds 🤭 they're soothing us ❤️‍🩹

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THIS IS NOT A DRILL

We are SO BACK

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OMFG!!!

Look at them!

LOOK AT THEM!!!

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Fucking eyelashes

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So, I have access to the movie for the first time in a while, and though I don't have time to watch the whole thing right now, I thought I'd skim through a few highlights just for funsies.

Needless to say, I quickly ended up here...

And I don't even know if I mentioned this previously, because it's been ages since I last posted, but I love how you can almost see Henry's brain re-engaging after he pulls away from that last kiss. Probably internally yelling something along the lines of 'What did I just say? Casual, my arse.'

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Just had a thought (which I may have had before, but if I did I don't remember, so I'm sharing it again)... Alex knows Henry's just a teensie bit stressed during this whole meeting, and he's already seen Henry go to play with his ring only to recall he doesn't have it any more... So here Alex is, letting Henry play with the ring, even though it's still on his own finger 🥹

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The sixth floor turned out to be quite the disappointment... 😂

[Photo taken on the ground floor of Printemps Homme, Paris]

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Happy new year!

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Having never really given it much thought, I always sort of assumed that Henry's pause was to think of an answer, and the smile that follows simply a reaction to his imagined life, only then I actually thought about it and I realised...

Henry already knew the answer, because of course he did. He's miserable, trapped in a world where he has to hide away all the parts of him that truly make him who he is. He knows exactly what he would be, given half a chance, only no one ever asks. Or, at least, if someone had asked him before, it was undoubtedly in an interview where he'd have had to lie through his teeth and give a palace approved response.

And sure, Henry prompted the conversation with his own question, but Alex still took the bait, still cared enough to ask Henry back and give him the chance to answer, to say it out loud and expose this little part of his heart to someone else.

It's still bittersweet, because it is and, at this point in his life, he believes it always will be, an unattainable fantasy, but at least, for once, he gets to share it with someone outside his tiny inner circle of Bea & Pez. And not just anyone either, someone who matters, who won't dismiss him or assume he's joking. He gets to tell someone who he is and have them hear him.

No wonder he smiles.

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Every year for my best friend's birthday I design her a card. Every year I end up putting more time and effort into making it, aiming for something that will make her both smile and swoon and, whilst it is always 100% worth it, it is getting a little out of hand at this point.

I spent weeks planning this and hours watching youtube clips to find the perfect screencaps to use (such a hardship, truly), but I'm pretty chuffed with how it came out so now that I've given it to her, I thought (with her permission) that I'd share it here too!