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taynick bestiesm is out of this world
please stop I’m already dead!!!! (X)
rwrbonprime name a better cast, i’ll wait (no i won’t)
In celebration of RWRB getting nominated for an Emmy lol
When you’re trying to watch RWRB but your family member walks in on you:
“But we were ever so careful, dear.”
is alex claremont-diaz going to be a father?
While y’all were going feral on the new RWRB poster for the LA screening (believe me, I was too lol), I found a connection between that and an old promo poster. This has to do with Taylor and Nick behind the photo shoots.
I’m sure in the first pic, the photographer or Matthew told Taylor and Nick to look and act horny. As we can see, Taylor has one hand on Nick’s hip and the other planted firmly on the wall and Nick is tugging on Taylor’s tie. They look at each other with lusty eyes and the photographer took the picture.
In the second pic, we see Taylor and Nick smiling widely and in the same position (minus Taylor’s hand on the wall). I want to believe that these two goofballs started laughing the second the photographer took the picture from the first one. Just the idea of looking at your friend seductively like that makes you crack up and finding the whole situation so silly. Either Matthew or the photographer were looking at the boys and thought this was Alex and Henry coded and decided to a take a picture of that, too.
Was the old promo picture taken as T&N or A&H? I don’t know. But I will say that this is another piece of evidence of why T&N were the perfect choices as A&H.
Voting is closed, I really hope our little film won. At least it deserves that 😔❤️
We fought hard and this isn't over yet 💛🌹
Come on, RWRB fam!
Our boys and this movie deserve it!
RWRB has been nominated for another Glaad award! This one's for the inaugural ‘Queer Fan Favorite’ category.
Voting is open now through April 17, with the winner to be announced and honoured onstage at the GLAAD Media Awards in New York on May 11.
VOTE HERE, or try this link
Currently writing a parents!firstprince fic, which you can read here.
I asked on Chapter 3 of the fic, but I wanted to ask here, too.
I wanna know what are your baby names for Alex and Henry’s children.
Mine are:
Arthur Claremont-Diaz Fox (boy)
Eleanor Claremont-Diaz Fox (girl)
ME SPENDING MY ENTIRE DAY ON TIKTOK SCROLLING THROUGH RWRB EDITS, TUMBLR RWRB TEXT POSTS, TWITTER RWRB DISCOURSE, AND RWRB IG UPDATES
Here’s mine:
top 3 rwrb moments that live rent free in your head and occupies 90% of your waking thoughts?
I'll start:
Who of the two was the most mean, the most evil, and the ABSOLUTELY WORST to the main couple (Nick and Charlie/Alex and Henry)?
jonathanstills Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️
Lover x RWRB
Part 2: Paper Rings
The moon is high
Like your friends were the night that we first met
Went home and tried to stalk you on the internet
Now I've read all of the books beside your bed
The wine is cold
Like the shoulder that I gave you in the street
Cat and mouse for a month or two or three
Now I wake up in the night and watch you breathe
Kiss me once 'cause you know I had a long night
Kiss me twice 'cause it's gonna be alright
Three times 'cause I've waited my whole life
I like shiny things, but I'd marry you with paper rings
Uh huh, that's right
Darling, you're the one I want
I hate accidents except when we went from friends to this
Uh huh, that's right
Darling, you're the one I want
In the winter, in the icy outdoor pool
When you jumped in first, I went in too
I'm with you even if it makes me blue
I want to drive away with you
I want your complications too
I want your dreary Mondays
Wrap your arms around me, baby boy
Lover x RWRB
Part 1: Cruel Summer
It's new, the shape of your body
It's blue, the feeling I've got, and it's ooh, whoa-oh
It's a cruel summer
It's cool, that's what I tell 'em
No rules in breakable heaven but ooh, whoa-oh
It’s a cruel summer with you
I'm drunk in the back of the car
And I cried like a baby comin' home from the bar
Said, "I'm fine, " but it wasn't true
I don't wanna keep secrets just to keep you
And I snuck in through the garden gate
Every night that summer, just to seal my fate
And I scream, "For whatever it's worth
I love you, ain't that the worst thing you ever heard?"
RWRB TEXT POSTS: PART 37
RWRB TEXT POSTS: PART 17
nick put his heart and SOUL into henry like seeing so much more Henry pov in the movie…his facial expressions were just so devastating and he really played to the fact that Henry is such a deeply emotional person with so much fear and love to give and he encompasses all of that SO WELL I could scream about it forever
RWRB TEXT POSTS: PART 1
PART 2
PART 3
PART 4
PART 5
PART 6
PART 7
PART 8
PART 9
PART 10
Wow 😍
I have another observation and meta post on the film and its staging. Do people want to hear it? Are you sick of me yet?
Don’t care, my blog, you’re getting it anyway.
So. Paris.
“The key stays on during sex.” Yes. Lolz.
But.
That’s the key to his family home, and he took to wearing it when they moved into the White House. It’s not a massive extrapolation to say that it’s a way for Alex to feel connected to that home, to his roots.
I have already talked a bit about how this movie has staged and sequenced the different parts to show how they fall into their forever, there’s the kind of structural choices that make this ex-English teacher go absolutely feral, but it’s the framing of this which is what I would like to talk about this Sunday morning.
Because look at where that key is. Look how it is framed.
It is front, centre, and pointing right down at Henry’s chest.
If you’re looking for a bigger metaphor that Henry is Alex’s home then you’re not going to find it elsewhere.
The key is between them the first time they make love, it hangs down from Alex’s neck, aimed directly at him. I talked about the significance of the key before, how because of Alex Henry gets a key and a home and all that means. But Alex is wearing that key while in the White House because it’s his family home. Because he knows the White House won’t be his home forever. So he has that key as a reminder, as a link back to his roots.
And it is framed, so perfectly and clearly between them. That is a choice, that was deliberate. If Matthew hadn’t wanted it on show Alex would have taken it off or slung it around his back to get it out of the way. So the fact it’s there, hanging perfectly straight (ha) down and pointing at Henry’s chest, at his heart? It means something.
It means everything. Alex’s home won’t be the White House for much longer. And while the home in Texas will always be there for him? From Paris onwards that isn’t it. Home, as they say, is where the heart is. Alex’s key to his family home points to where his heart is and from this point on neither of the boys can deny that what they have is big and real and terrifyingly brilliantly forever.
And yes, he gives that key to Henry after the storming of Kensington Palace but…
Look at what’s on Alex’s nightstand. Here. Lemme give you a close up.
He takes the key off. After that first time (at least) he takes the key off and places it on the nightstand. He doesn’t need to keep a reminder of home with him because he’s already learning, already discovering that Henry is his home now. His home, his heart, is in that bed, curled into his side, learning about his history and his hopes and his dreams and why he does what he does because of what it means to him. After Paris Alex opens up to Henry in the biggest of ways possible, wanting to show him his life and his home State and share insignificant moments with him.
Alex is building a new life, a new home for himself post his mom’s presidency.
And the key literally pointed him in that direction.
literally anyone: hey what are you thinking about right now
me, at any given moment: i’m not like you. i can’t afford to be reckless. i wasn’t raised by a loving, supportive family like you were. i have centuries of history bearing down on my shoulders. my life is the crown, and yours is politics, and i will not trade one prison for another. i can love you, and want you, and still not want that life. i’m allowed. alright? and it doesn’t make me a liar, it makes me a man with some infinitesimal shred of self-preservation, and you don’t get to come in here and call me a coward for it.
RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE (2023)〡SUCCESSION S03E04
RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE ↳book > screen
“I’m not like you. I can’t afford to be reckless. I don’t have a family who will support me. I don’t go about shoving who I am in everyone’s faces and dreaming about a career in fucking politics, so I can be more scrutinized and picked apart by the entire godforsaken world. I can love you and want you and still not want that life.
I’m allowed, all right, and it doesn’t make me a liar; it makes me a man with some infinitesimal shred of self-preservation, unlike you, and you don’t get to come here and call me a coward for it.”
Alex takes a breath. “I never said you were a coward.”
AN INCOMPLETE LIST: THINGS I LOVE ABOUT HRH PRINCE HENRY OF WALES:
1. The sound of your laugh when I piss you off. (@magsalecs)
2. The way you smell underneath your fancy cologne, like clean linens but somehow also fresh grass (what kind of magic is this?). (@alexshenry)
3. That thing you do where you stick out your chin to try to look tough. (@tylerposey)
4. How your hands look when you play piano. (@nostalgiaisabitchhuh)
5. All the things I understand about myself now because of you. (@userstede)
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. (@magsalecs)
7. Your ability to recite Keats. (@magsalecs)
8. Your ability to recite Bernadette's "Don't let it drag you down" monologue from Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. (@darwinsfinchesx)
9. How hard you try. (@sheisraging)
10. How hard you've always tried. (@stevenrogered)
11. How determined you are to keep trying. (@simon-eriksson)
12. That when your shoulders cover mine, nothing else in the entire stupid world matters. (@magsalecs)
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). (@sheisraging)
14. The way you look when you first wake up. (@magsalecs)
15. Your shoulder-to-waist ratio. (@gay-bucky-barnes)
16. Your huge, generous, ridiculous, indestructible heart. (@thomasbrodiesandwich)
17. Your equally huge dick. (@tylerposey)
18. The face you just made when you read that last one. (@uglygreenjacket)
19. The way you look when you first wake up (I know I already said this, but I really, really love it). (@magsalecs)
20. The fact that you loved me all along. (@magsalecs)
— I can't match you for prose, but what I can do is write you a list.
Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (2019) and Matthew Lopez (2023)
Credit to all the gif makers and editors, the real heroes of the fandom.