#waterloo letters

[alasforher]

Euripides, from "Orestes”, An Oresteia (trans. Anne Carson)

Red, White and Royal Blue (2023) dir. Matthew López

[waterlooletterwrb]

Re: Paris?

I know I said i would post one at time, but democracy won and we will have to talk about all of the same titles together!! are you ready??

Do you guys ever think about how not only Henry is a mortal like us who answers his crush at an inappropriate time, but how Alex answered him only 13 MINUTES LATER? That boy waited the whole day for his prince and didn't hesitate to show it!

By this first set of emails we know clearly they were already together by the time... but do you guys have any theories of how it started? Hope they show it in their movie!!

Ps.: I truly LOVE how they change their titles everytime!

Read the first one here!

[clockwrkpendrxgon]

henry fox, this one’s for you

[fallingleaves-46]

there's a certain comfort you get every time you read this scene. it portrays that no matter how bad of a situation you're in, there's always light at the end of the tunnel, shining bright. they went through 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭 and came out (literally) stronger, shining brighter than ever. i love them so much.

[fromkenari]

Waterloo Letters #4 (4/4): Hometown stuff

Re: Hometown stuff A [email protected]                9/4/20 8:31 PM to Henry H, Fuck. I’m so sorry. I don’t know what else to say. I’m so sorry. June and Nora send their love. Not as much love as me. Obviously. Please don’t worry about me. We’ll figure it out. It just might take time. I’ve been working on patience. I’ve picked up all kinds of things from you. God, what can I possibly write to make this better? Here: I can’t decide if your emails make me miss you more or less. Sometimes I feel like a funny-looking rock in the middle of the most beautiful clear ocean when I read the kinds of things you write to me. You love so much bigger than yourself, bigger than everything. I can’t believe how lucky I am to even witness it—to be the one who gets to have it, and so much of it, is beyond luck and feels like fate. Catholic God made me to be the person you write those things about. I’ll say five Hail Marys. Muchas gracias, Santa Maria. I can’t match you for prose, but what I can do is write you a list. AN INCOMPLETE LIST: THINGS I LOVE ABOUT HRH PRINCE HENRY OF WALES 1. The sound of your laugh when I piss you off. 2. The way you smell underneath your fancy cologne, like clean linens but somehow also fresh grass (what kind of magic is this?). 3. That thing you do where you stick out your chin to try to look tough. 4. How your hands look when you play piano. 5. All the things I understand about myself now because of you. 6. How you think Return of the Jedi is the best Star Wars (wrong) because deep down you’re a gigantic, sappy, embarrassing romantic who just wants the happily ever after. 7. Your ability to recite Keats. 8. Your ability to recite Bernadette’s “Don’t let it drag you down” monologue from Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. 9. How hard you try. 10. How hard you’ve always tried. 11. How determined you are to keep trying. 12. That when your shoulders cover mine, nothing else in the entire stupid world matters. 13. The goddamn issue of Le Monde you brought back to London with you and kept and have on your nightstand (yes, I saw it). 14. The way you look when you first wake up. 15. Your shoulder-to-waist ratio. 16. Your huge, generous, ridiculous, indestructible heart. 17. Your equally huge dick. 18. The face you just made when you read that last one. 19. The way you look when you first wake up (I know I already said this, but I really, really love it). 20. The fact that you loved me all along. I keep thinking about that last one ever since you told me, and what an idiot I was. It’s so hard for me to get out of my own head sometimes, but now I’m coming back to what I said to you the night in my room when it all started, and how I brushed you off when you offered to let me go after the DNC, how I used to try to act like it was nothing sometimes. I didn’t even know what you were offering to do to yourself. God, I want to fight everyone who’s ever hurt you, but it was me too, wasn’t it? All that time. I’m so sorry. Please stay gorgeous and strong and unbelievable. I miss you I miss you I miss you I love you. I’m calling you as soon as I send this, but I know you like to have these things written down. A P.S. Richard Wagner to Eliza Wille, re: Ludwig II–1864 (Remember when you played Wagner for me? He’s an asshole, but this is something.) It is true that I have my young king who genuinely adores me. You cannot form an idea of our relations. I recall one of the dreams of my youth. I once dreamed that Shakespeare was alive: that I really saw and spoke to him: I can never forget the impression that dream made on me. Then I would have wished to see Beethoven, though he was already dead. Something of the same kind must pass in the mind of this lovable man when with me. He says he can hardly believe that he really possesses me. None can read without astonishment, without enchantment, the letters he writes to me.

McQuiston, Casey. Red, White & Royal Blue: A Novel (pp. 301-304). St. Martin's Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

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[waterloo-carte]

[andromedaskies]

ain't karma a bitch?

6,237 words | 1/1 | Alex & Nora, Alex & Miguel, Alex & Zahra, Nora & Ellen | for @fandomtrumpshate

Miguel Ramos is a journalist. And he’s proud of it.

He goes all the way. He is a detective, an investigator, a Robin Hood of knowledge, if you will. Digging into crevices that nobody else can be bothered to look at, forcing his way through doors nobody else has the guts to unlock. To show the people what they need to know. To be the first to break pieces the world will scramble over. To find satisfaction in watching the careers of his subjects crumble, all because they weren’t careful enough, and he knows where to look.

It's fulfilling.

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The movie's email leak, told through the POVs of Alex, Nora, and Miguel.

[planesky]

Ok so with everything happening with RWRB this week, the teasers and trailer and I also reread the book and all of that inspired me to write reactions and how people were affected by Waterloo Letters (Alex and Henry’s email getting leaked) and so I did it.

I wrote a fanfiction called Waterloo Letters Across The World, it’s a collection of stories of people and how they were affected by the letters and it’s on Wattpad.

Waterloo Letters Across The World

Waterloo Letters are one of the most important historical events of the 20s of the 2000s, it changed the world's perspe...

I would love it if you’d try to read it, it still going but it already has four parts. (Spoiler: the forth part is the best one by far so try this one specifically.)

If you tried, thank you very much and if not, that’s ok too.

Xoxo

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