When Henry Met Alex

📚 a RWRB rom-com AU mini fan event 🍿 Posting: 20th-31st August, 2026 ✨

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Back for another year!

When Henry met Alex: a RWRB rom-com AU mini fan event!

Rom-coms have a way of giving us a bit of reprieve from the doldrums of life. We had so much fun last year that we're dusting it off and taking up another opportunity to enjoy some meet cutes and love matches.

The rules are quite simple for this event, and can be found below with the FAQ. As it was last year the event is open to all RWRB pairings and to both art and fic creations.

If you have any questions as we move along don't be afraid to ask, either here, or out in the wilds where you may find us.

Excited to see what y'all come up with this go around!

We'll be posting reminders and other helpful posts as the event gets closer.

Feel free to tag us if ya post snippets of whatever you're working on.

Taylor @tailsbeth-writes & Mel @onthewaytosomewhere ❤️🤍💙

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✨ 5 weeks to go! ✨

August 20th, we delve back into your fave rom-coms with the RWRB gang.

We cannot wait to see your rom-com aus. First time hearing about us? Check out the rules & FAQ. Everyone is welcome 🥰

[4rthurfox]

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This is incredible!

If fic isn't your thing, you're more than welcome to create art instead, maybe like this wonderful poster piece from @4rthurfox 💖💍

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Is it getting hot or is it just the RWRB rom-com event steaming things up?

Beat the heat and make this a rom-com weekend to get inspired Cue up the movies or pull something off your TBR - either way let it inspire you

Still have a month and half so plenty of time to let something take hold! (Posting starts August 20!)

Need ideas check out the post here

Or if ya need a rules refresher find them at the pinned post here

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We're getting closer - but not quite countdown close!

if you're still looking for ideas or needing to find something your brain really latches onto take a perusal of some of the lists on this post

and if ya need a refresher on the rules - check them out in the pinned post

We are so excited to see what y'all might be cooking up!!!

If ya have any questions feel free to reach out!!

Mel & Taylor

[when-henry-met-alex]

We're getting closer - but not quite countdown close!

if you're still looking for ideas or needing to find something your brain really latches onto take a perusal of some of the lists on this post

and if ya need a refresher on the rules - check them out in the pinned post

We are so excited to see what y'all might be cooking up!!!

If ya have any questions feel free to reach out!!

Mel & Taylor

[when-henry-met-alex]

happy pride loves!!!!

We're roughly 2 and a half months from posting starting this year!!

Have ya started thinking about what ya might wanna do?

Are ya tapping away at the keyboard trying to make the words just right?

OR

Maybe ya need a bit of inspiration - This is the post for ya!!

A few rom-com (movie & book) lists to help ya out

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if movies are ur thing ...

LINKS FOR MOVIE ROM-COM LISTS

first up a GENERAL LIST: Rotten Tomatoes list of The 200 Best Romantic Comedies of All Time then let's break it down BY DECADES: 2000’S Harper's Bazaar's Definitive List of the Best Romantic Comedies Made in the 2000s 90's (truly a heyday of romantic comedies) Buzzfeed's 31 Rom-Coms From The '90s To Binge The Knot's A Complete List of '90s Rom-Coms to Watch on Repeat Shine Daily's list of 90s Rom Coms 80's slash.com list of The 14 Greatest '80s Romantic Comedies Ranked Shine Daily's list of 80s Rom Coms perhaps ya want some LGBTQ MOVIE LISTS: Rotten Tomatoes search for lgbtq romcom Rotten Tomatoes Best LGBTQ+ Movies of All Time Buzzfeed 14 Of The Best Queer Rom-Coms To Watch

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perhaps ya wanna try ur hand at a book instead ...

LINKS FOR ROM-COM BOOK LISTS

Penguin Random House The Rom-Com Book list Goodreads Popular Romcom Books if ur lookin' for LGBTQ books we have some of them too LGBTQ BOOK LISTS: Epic Reads Queer Rom-Coms That We Guarantee You’ll Fall Hard For  Goodreads Queer Romance Book Lists  Rolling Stone The 20 Best Queer Romances of All Time 

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💖 We hope you're just as excited as us that When Henry Met Alex is back!

Looking for some inspiration? Check out the collection from last year's event.

Our rules & FAQ can be found here. 💖

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Anyone feeling extra hyped after the CMQ news this week?

Maybe you could go down an epistolary route for you WHMA entry 💌

[when-henry-met-alex]

💖 We hope you're just as excited as us that When Henry Met Alex is back!

Looking for some inspiration? Check out the collection from last year's event.

Our rules & FAQ can be found here. 💖

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💖📚🎬 We're just fanfic writers, standing in front of a fandom, asking them to get in the rom-com mood once again... 🎬💖📚

When Henry Met Alex is back for 2026, details coming soon!

[when-henry-met-alex]

💖📚🎬 We're just fanfic writers, standing in front of a fandom, asking them to get in the rom-com mood once again... 🎬💖📚

When Henry Met Alex is back for 2026, details coming soon!

[when-henry-met-alex]

Thank you so much for joining us for When Henry Met Alex! We've loved reading your submissions, you can read them all here 💕

Act like you care by @onthewaytosomewhere | How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days AU

I love you, but by @thinkingaboutelephants | Monster-In-Law AU

crushing on you for nearly forever by @onthewaytosomewhere | While You Were Sleeping AU

More of a Byronic Hero by @run-for-chamo-miles | While You Were Sleeping AU

I didn't know we were going to waltz by @suseagull5914 & @onthewaytosomewhere | Inspired by Cinderella Rom-Coms

May the Best Man Win by @clrmntdzfx | Made of Honor AU

Unbreakable Bonds by @suseagull5914 | The Vow AU

a love like the movies by @onthewaytosomewhere | Inspired by cheesy lines from various rom-coms

hail to the chief by @bitbybitwrites | The American President AU

And longer by far... by @dwell-the-brave | About Time AU

The Prince & He by @tailsbeth-writes | The Prince & Me AU

We are hoping to run this event next year so keep your eyes peeled!

Taylor & Mel x

@tailsbeth-writes & @onthewaytosomewhere ❤️🤍👑💙

[tailsbeth-writes]

The Prince & He

Alex Claremont-Diaz approaches his final year at University of Texas at Austin with absolute determination, that means no distractions. However, fate has other plans in the form of some pompous British transfer student he can't seem to shake off. AKA The Prince and Me AU 👑🎓❤️🇺🇸🇬🇧

Rating: T | WIP | New Chapters on Mondays | Part of @when-henry-met-alex rom-com AU event 💕

[dwell-the-brave]

NEW FIC ALERT

And longer by far… G | 2.3k 🕰 About Time AU 🕰️ There is no rom, there is no com - this is very feels heavy. 🕰️ Written for the When Henry Met Alex fan event, @when-henry-met-alex

You can read it ->HERE<- on Ao3.

[bitbybitwrites]

hail to the chief (when henry met alex - rwrb rom-com AU mini fan event)

cc @onthewaytosomewhere and @tailsbeth-writes

“Are you attracted to me?”

Henry Fox coughed loudly in surprise as he sipped his gin and tonic, which he had been handed the moment he entered the door. He carefully placed his glass down on a very conspicuous coaster branded with the gold Presidential seal that he spied on a nearby coffee table and stared incredulously at the person who just posed the question.

“I’m sorry, did you just actually ask me that?” Henry managed to ask after regaining his composure.

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- in other words, a firstprince AU based off a scene from the 1995 movie, The American President

Read it on A03 here

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Welcome to When Henry Met Alex: a Red White and Royal Blue rom-com AU mini fan event! A week where we celebrate RWRB and our fave love stories 💖

✨ Got a fic/artwork? Post in our Ao3

✨ Use the tag whma event on Tumblr & #whmaevent on bsky so we can share your fab entries!

✨ Not a writer/artist? Show the submissions some love, it's a love fest after all!

✨ Rules & FAQ, or DM or send an ask if you're unsure of anything

Mel & Taylor will be posting their own entries too, we can't wait to see what everyone shares 💖

Lots of love 💕

@onthewaytosomewhere & @tailsbeth-writes xoxo

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Thank you for all your fab submissions so far, what a love fest! Only a couple of days left ✨🩷

[onthewaytosomewhere]

a love like the movies

my last submission for @when-henry-met-alex

Alex, while pursuing his masters in history, gets more than he bargained for when he gets a visiting professor in one of his classes. He takes words from said visiting professor as a challenge, and what follows is somehow both silly and romantic. or Alex attempts to seduce Henry via cheesy rom-com lines

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