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This is the masterpost for my RWRB fics! I have a pinned post like this on my other blog for my MCU fics, and I wanted one for my newer stuff, so here we go! I'm making it unrebloggable for easy editing purposes, but you're welcome to interact in other ways!

At the bottom of the post there will be a list of the tags I use to tag my WIP Wednesday and Seven Sentence Sunday posts, as well as random posts that I make where I'm just talking about the fics I'm writing, so that you can look through the tags for individual fics and get a glimpse of the behind-the-scenes process!

(All my fics are currently locked due to scraping, but you can still read them with an AO3 account!)

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Posted Fics

It's Nice to Have a Friend

Two boys meet on a beach, build a sand castle, write letters, and fall in love.

After Everything, I Must Confess I Need You

When Alex dares Henry to tell him to leave, Henry actually does. Neither of them could have predicted what happens next.

passing notes in secrecy (i was enchanted to meet you)

Five times Henry and Alex passed notes to communicate, plus one time they talked out loud.

You Wanting Me (Tonight Feels Impossible)

Alex devises a plan to make Henry jealous at the New Year's Eve party. Minor miscommunications occur. (Part 1 of the New Year's Day Duology)

Like Flowers In The Springtime, Every Day Is Valentine’s (That’s What Your Love’s Like)

Henry discovers that his boyfriend loves flowers, but has never received a bouquet as a gift, so he makes it his life's mission to rectify this clearly grievous oversight.

New Year's Day (You and Me, Forevermore)

Alex and Henry get to wake up in each other's arms on New Year's Day and spend the morning basking in the afterglow. (Part 2 of the New Year's Day Duology)

This Could Either Break My Heart or Bring it Back to Life

Alex's date stands him up. Henry takes him out instead. Chapter 1: The date from Alex's POV. Chapter 2: The date from Henry's POV.

Faithful Friends Who Are Dear to Us

Set between chapters 8 and 9 of It's Nice to Have a Friend, Arthur takes his family to Llwynywermod for Christmas after his diagnosis. He takes a quiet moment to chat with Alex while Henry is preoccupied with holiday fanfare.

I Didn't Mean to Do It (But There's No Escaping Your Love)

Alex, Henry, and the things they do for each other that strengthen the bond between them in ways neither of them ever imagined.

Prince & Knight

G | 3,601 words | Complete Alternate Universe - Non-Famous | Single Parent Henry | Fluff Posted Apr. 14, 2026

Henry takes his son to a new library story-time program, and falls a little bit in love with the man who reads the stories.

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WIP Oneshots

Like Paris After Midnight, Dancing in the Moonlight

Post-Canon | Fluff | Romance | Holiday/Vacation (writing stage)

The Paris trip outtake from the flower fic

Like A Hope I Couldn’t Place (‘Til the Day I Saw Your Face)

Alternate Universe - Soulmates | Canon-Divergence | Hurt/Comfort (writing stage)

Henry is terrified that Alex might be his soulmate. Alex's greatest hope is that Henry is his.

why'd you whisper in the dark (just to leave me in the night?)

Canon Divergence | A/B/O Dynamics | Whump | Hurt/Comfort (writing stage)

When Henry runs away from the lake house, Alex develops a nasty case of Rejection Sickness.

currently untitled WIP

Pre-Canon | A/B/O Dynamics | Whump | Hurt/Comfort | Family Feels (writing stage)

Henry running away from the lake house wasn't the first event in Alex's life that's given him Rejection Sickness. (this is a prequel to the previous fic)

Your Eyes Look Like Coming Home

Alternate Universe - Non-Famous | Writer Henry | Model Alex (outlining stage)

Henry is a writer living in Paris who falls a little bit parasocially in love with the model in an advertisement that he walks past on his daily route.

Subcategory: Holiday WIPs

I Don't Need a Christmas Tree (All I Need is You Next to Me)

Post-Canon | Hurt/Comfort (emphasis on comfort) | Recovery from Illness | Holidays (writing stage)

Alex's recovery from appendicitis in the flower fic

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Chaptered WIPs

All's Well That Ends Well

Pre-Canon/Canon Divergence | Childhood Friends to Lovers | Epistolary | Fluff and Angst (writing stage)

A sequel to my very first fic, It's Nice To Have A Friend, picking up immediately where chapter 10 leaves off and taking Alex and Henry through the next year and a half of their lives — school, therapy, coming out, and learning how to be international icons when all they really want to be is themselves.

You Could be My Forever-Night Stand

Alternate Universe - College/University | FWB to Lovers | Prince Henry/Non-Famous Alex (writing stage)

Inspired by this art: Alex may be Henry's last Oxford boy... but he's the first one that matters.

All That Really Matters

Canon Retelling | Kid Fic | Hurt/Comfort | Family Feels | Fluff (writing stage)

How would canon be different if Alex was a single parent?

i picked the petals, he loves me not

Canon Retelling | Hanahaki Disease | Whump | Angst | Hurt/Comfort (writing stage)

Alex contracts Hanahaki Disease after Henry rejects him at the Rio Olympics.

(keep reading for blog nav tags)

#my fics #my wips #rwrb #rwrb fic #alex claremont diaz #henry fox mountchristen windsor #firstprince

tiny-wins-and-gold-stars

⭐To all the fanfic writers out there, a little gold star!⭐

ambiguouspuzuma

Writing prompt? No. Writing much delayed.

scarlct-vvitch

grace, who has been alone for five minutes: oh my god. an alien! im not alone anymore! i hope he wants to be friends :)

rocky, coming up on 50 years of solitude, imprinting on grace in ways baby ducklings can only dream of: if you leave me to sleep where i can't watch your heart beat i am blowing up this tunnel with us both in it

#phm

verenakauer

I feel so many feelings about Rocky during the first contact. He wants to connect SO BADLY. Do Eridians have horror stories about scary aliens? If they do, Rocky doesn't care. He wants this alien to be friendly. He does everything he can to accommodate. Here, a little gift I'm sending your way at the speed you're comfortable with. Please be there. Here, the next gift is going right into your airlock so that it's easier for you to catch. Please don't fly away. You made a strange gesture with your limb, I'll make my robot make that gesture back. Please belive that I'm friendly. Here's a tunnel to connect us, I'll make sure you can breathe in it. Please come meet me. I'll let you choose the material for the wall separating us; I'll rebuild the whole wall if it makes you more comfortable, no trouble, just please let's talk. You're all alone on your ship, I can hear it, please come sleep here where I can watch you, it's unsafe for you to be alone. I'm alone and scared, it's been 46 years since I felt safe while sleeping, please please please watch me sleep too. I'm very vulnerable when I sleep and I trust that you won't use it against me. I want to visit your ship, am allowed, question? I'm moving in with you. Let's save the stars.

#phm

90108s

the world is counting on you [ get it as a print here! ]

[ID: An illustration of Ryland Grace from the Project Hail Mary film adaptation. He’s in side view, wearing the mustard-yellow overall, looking at a glowing crocheted earth hovering over his hand. A warm light shines over him. Behind him is the Hail Mary spacecraft. The background is outer space, filled with stars. END ID]

#phm

thecraftgremlin

Where’s that one post that’s like Reasons Why My Wife Cried This Week and when are we gonna get a fanfic of that but Ryland Grace.

stargirl-and-potts

Reasons my human has cried:

* New student, very small. Grace said it was pebble. Pebble is small Earth rock. Pebble likes name.

* He found out Eridians have no gender rules.

* Students brought him mineral sample. After he stopped crying he said he loves show-and-tell game. Human naming conventions oddly literal.

* I told him Earthsun grew bright.

* I took him up atop atmosphere bypass elevator to look at stars.

* He woke up from nap and found me still with him. I did not wait on his chest; he says I am heavy like “elephant” and he “couldn’t breathe.” I laid my arm over him instead, kept him close, feeling safe. He said “cuddle” was warm.

* Before class he heard younglings singing.

* He has plants in house from sprouts on ship. Plant grew “bud.”

* Engineers got seawater temperature right. He took off shoes and stood in water, sighing. He didn’t care about pants getting damp. Cried until shirt was also damp. Humans very endlessly wet.

* He missed “Doritos.”

* Adrian helped food scientists make taumoeba dried paste. Made it crunchy after heating. We fused it into triangle form. Told him it was Tauritos. That made him laugh-cry. Laugh-cry is rare and precious.

* He remembered Eridians have no gender rules.

* We made him celebration outfit. Used metals he calls pretty. He can see frequencies named “colorful” and “shiny.” These make humans happiest.

* I gave him hug when he wasn’t expecting it. Easier to hug close now with exosuit. Hug when Grace sitting down so he does not fall over.

* Told him to think long time, stay with me as long as he can.

#phm

cheeseanonioncrisps

Your partner came back from the dead after being missing for decades. Every one of their friends who they went with ended up dying a horrible death.

Now, somehow, their entire mental health is based on the continued life and happiness of this fairground goldfish that they picked up.

Neither of you know the first thing about how to care for even a healthy fish. This fish has been poorly cared for, has multiple diseases and the person who handed it over explicitly didn't expect it to live nearly as long as it already has.

You're frantically googling how to set up a fish tank, where to buy fish food, can you even take a fish to the vet? Your partner wants you to know that they're happy they made it home and survived their horrific ordeal, but also that if anything happens to the fish then they're going to kill everyone on this planet and then themself.

You're honestly wondering if you're even helping the fish, or just prolonging its suffering, but your partner will only accept medical help for their many injuries or engage in basic self-care once they're confident that the fish is being looked after.

So you get a tank. You set up a filter and all that stuff. You learn way more than you ever wanted to know about water temperature and ph and nitrate levels. The fish is safe. You start to develop some affection for the little guy. Your partner begins to recover. The fish begins to recover.

Which is when you learn that in its 'healthy' state, the fish regularly refuses to sleep when tired, keeps begging for food that is obviously unhealthy for it (and struggling to eat the food that you do provide because “it tastes gross”), and continually tries to persuade your partner to take it out of its nice safe tank so it can go explore the wonderful world of Outside, where the slightest mishap will kill it instantly.

Your name is Adrian, and you kind of wants to strangle this fucking fish, statement.

#phm

stealingpotatoes

I would give an arm and maybe a leg to see the PHM characters in your artstyle (no pressure)

PUT YOUR LIMBS BACK AND HOLD THIS INSTEAD

(links // tip jar!)

#phm

pris-cas

Lesson #19 Throw pt.2

Cause pt. 1 was kinda eh here is another

Credit to whomever came out with shaded stick figure Rocky I couldn’t find the og creator

First lesson Previous lesson Next lesson

Thank you to my awsome beta readers!

@xushibeetle

@the-asexual-winter

@stelosia

#phm

hydralunatic

The saviors constellation

dirty dirty dirty

is this anything

darksouls2-gendercoffin

can I come over and dodge roll into all your breakable furniture

#i showed my sister that one phm scene and she sent me this

freakytikigifs

Ryan Gosling and James Ortiz as Ryland Grace and Rocky

PROJECT HAIL MARY

macwisn00

PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026) | directed by Christopher Miller and Phil Lord, screenplay by Drew Goddard, based on the novel written by Andy Weir

#phm

starinthegarden

the first part of project hail mary is so funny to me because what do you mean grace asks ‘what’s project hail mary’ and it immediately cuts to stratt presenting a ‘what is project hail mary’ powerpoint. these cuts are diabolically stupid and i love them

#phm

robinminustherichard

This year is my 15th AO3 Anniversary! How long have you been on AO3? (hint: the day you joined is in your Profile)

1-2 years

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Voting ended onJul 21

#8 years next week !

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