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dear writers who are slower/take more time with their writing or writers who are on hiatus or writers who are trying to find their voice again, i see you and i love you and you are valid

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The person I reblogged this from deserves to be happy

I tried to scroll past this. I really did

#absolutely #thank you for all the joy your fics bring into my life

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Friends. Pals. Mutuals. You need to read this stunner of a poem my friend @indomitable-love love wrote about Henry going back to Kensington alone after the lake house.

Given the context, I should warn you that it is angsty, but it is beautiful and I cried and think you should all read it.

#she hurts me yet again but in the best way #there aren’t words to describe how much i love her writing #please please please go take a look!!

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a girl must see her special little character at least once a day lest she get consumed by rage and start throwing rocks at people

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WIP Wednesday

Sliding in under the wire, I was tagged by @clottedcreamfudge and @welcometololaland to share a snippet from a WIP:

He's tall; taller than Alex had expected him to be. Not that he'd been thinking about it, but in the moment he approaches, he towers over Alex in his soft cable knit wool and camel trousers that sit high on his waist with a sharp, defined pleat down the middle.

Who the fuck is this guy, spending his afternoon in a bar drinking beer and writing in a journal? It’s like he's just stepped out of a fucking Pinterest board full of pictures of ivy covered walls with the grain filter turned up to max.

He stands for a second and blinks, a gentle smile on his lips. Alex's hand tightens around his phone. He has the most crystal clear, impossibly blue eyes Alex has ever seen in his life. The blonde purses his lips, and Alex suddenly feels hot under his collar. He half wonders if someone turned the heating up in the bar. It was starting to get cold out.

'Hello,' he says. Smooth, crisp, unmistakably British. Which… well it makes sense actually. He hadn't clocked it before, but the other guy had been British too. With this guy though, Alex is half- waiting for someone called Gerald to pop out from behind him wearing a monocle, call him 'Sir', and tell him that the car has arrived for him.

‘Uh,' Alex says, extremely eloquently, 'hi.'

A lil not so lil (10k) bar au that’s actually fully written and will be up on ao3 whenever it has been beta’d and I put it there.

Tagging @juxtaposed-variety @fuckingyrs @soshesighs and anyone else who has not done this yet because I have no idea anymore. 💖

#i’m so excited for this #i love the idea of this au #!!!!

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what, like it’s hard?

The prequel to to the victor, the spoils aka the firstprince lawyer AU with a twist; featuring insurmountable rivalry, questionable decision making and more than a little tension. 

 After Henry stole the Atkins case from Alex, there’s no way Alex can ever forgive him. Ever. Henry is enemy no. 1, persona non grata. There’s absolutely no way that Henry and his quiet smiles, with his almost offensive politeness and his stupid accent and his stupid perfect hair can make up for this.

Or can he? —

lawyer au | multichap | E | 9/11 chapters

updating on Wednesdays and Sundays

Read on Ao3

PS. if you are allergic to wips, I get it - I am too. EDIT: The final chapter is half-written! I’ve written 10.5/11 chapters and the other two are one is outlined and just waiting for me to type the words. Rest assured this will be finished!

UPDATE 9/10/22: I’ve finished writing the fic!! It’s now complete 😊

Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8

Chapter 9

you can find the playlist ifyoustay made for this fic here:

#happy wednesday #i’ve been waiting all day for this #it’s all i thought about at work #whoops #i can’t wait!!! #AHHH!!

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The legacies people leave behind in you.

My handwriting is the same style as the teacher’s who I had when I was nine. I’m now twenty one and he’s been dead eight years but my i’s still curve the same way as his.

I watched the last season of a TV show recently but I started it with my friend in high school. We haven’t spoken in four years.

I make lentil soup through the recipe my gran gave me.

I curl my hair the way my best friend showed me.

I learned to love books because my father loved them first.

How terrifying, how excruciatingly painful to acknowledge this. That I am a jigsaw puzzle of everyone I have briefly known and loved. I carry them on with me even if I don’t know it. How beautiful.

#wrote a very shitty poem about this concept #part of it went #i learned how to love like that by loving you #& another part went #i’ll always carry parts of you with me wherever i go next & im learning to be okay with that #again very shitty #also i promise it was formatted better & with commas #realizing this can be so incredibly hard #she’s the reason i wear my hair curly

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happy october 2nd ❤️🤍💙

#red white and royal blue #rwarb

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autumn edition!

tea or hot chocolate, cozy books or halloween movies, plaid or corduroy, foggy mornings or twinkly nights, orange or black, pumpkin or apple pie, wool or velvet, picking fruit or carving pumpkins, libraries or coffee shops, cinnamon or peanut butter, spooky or cozy halloween, candles or fairy lights.

tagged by @indomitable-love !

tag: anyone who wants to! 🤍

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a little over a year ago i had emergency surgery to get my gallbladder removed. i went to my mom because i was in so much pain but she told me i was being dramatic and that it was just heartburn. when i went to urgent care in the morning i was seen by the doctor for less than 5 minutes when he told me he was calling the hospital to let them know i was coming and told me to go to the hospital immediately. if i had waited a few hours longer my gallbladder would’ve completely ruptured. i was lucky that we caught it before that happened. please please please listen to your bodies.

When I was 17 my appendix ruptured because I thought I was just having period cramps and didn’t go to the hospital so don’t tell me PMS symptoms are no big deal

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hellloooo

happy monday night! i just posted another fic (once again beta read by the wonderful @indomitable-love ). here’s the link! i hope you enjoy :)

#red white and royal blue #rwarb #rwarb fic #red white and royal blue fic #enjoy!

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I was told that I had to make more of these.

#i did Not ask to be called out like this #you can never have too many commas #why would i write research papers when i simply could write anything else instead

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hiii! i was tagged by @indomitable-love to do a snippet monday. however, today is friday and i didn’t see that i was tagged until early this morning. here is a little bit of a new fic that i’m working on. (warning, this has not been beta read & i’m running on about 3 hours & 20 minutes of sleep). regardless, i hope you enjoy! thank you @indomitable-love for thinking about me! 

He grabs Henry’s Earl Grey from their tea and coffee cabinet, then FaceTimes Bea. 

“How do I make Henry a perfect cup of tea?” Alex asks quickly, before Bea can speak. 

“Alex, I know that Henry’s taught you how to make a proper cup of tea. Everything okay? ” Bea questions.

“He has but I need this to be perfect, I can’t mess it up, and-” Alex starts but Bea cuts him off.

“Explain to me what’s going on.”

“I just came back from a stupid conference with the firm I’m doing Pro Bono work at and I was gone for three days and I came back about twenty minutes ago and I found Henry in his study and it was a mess. Like my level of mess. Papers and books and binders all over the desk and he has headphones in and he didn’t even notice me and this isn’t like him because he’s always so organized, I’m the one who has a study that’s complete chaos and this just isn’t him,” Alex rambles. He’s lucky his mouth does a pretty good job of keeping up with his too fast brain, his head is scrambled and he doesn’t know what to do with it. “I know what tomorrow is and I feel fucking awful because I’ve been away but I made sure to be here for tomorrow and I don’t know what to do. I don’t know how to comfort him so my mind immediately went to tea because that’s a comfort drink, right? And yeah he’s showed me a bunch of times and I watch him make it nearly every morning and sometimes I even do it if he sleeps in or he’s sick but I need this to be perfect I can’t fuck it up so I called you because you’ll know best. How do I make it perfect? I have the mug, the tea, and I’ve already put the teapot on,-” Alex thinks Bea may be saying something but his head is too busy thinking and so he continues talking. 

“Alexander Gabriel,” Bea half yells. 

That grabs Alex’s attention and his eyes snap back to his phone to look at her. Much like her little brother, she’s not often commanding. But the royal authority that runs in her blood showed itself in that sentence. 

“Keep looking at me. Take deep breaths with me, in through your nose and out through your mouth,” Bea demands. It’s a soft demand, it’s not a scolding. It’s just enough to make sure the only thing that has Alex’s attention is her. Alex takes those three deep breaths with her, his eyes closed. His eyes stay closed a moment longer as he shakes his head. When he opens them, he sees Bea staring back at him. 

“You with me again, love?” she asks. Alex nods in response.  “Good job, keep staying with me.”

i don’t know anyone on here so i’m tagging anyone who wants to do one of these! i’ll post a link when the fic is done & uploaded to ao3!

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hi! i decided to try my hand at writing a red white & royal blue fic. i don’t know if anyone will see this but i thought i’d put it out there!

here’s the summary:

Alex stirs slowly and before he’s even halfway awake he notices the empty side of the bed next to him. He reaches out to touch it – it’s not cold but it’s also not warm. He looks at the clock – 2:30 in the morning. He then registers the soft sound of a piano, and smiles. It's been three days of ‘too much’ as Alex calls it. Alex doesn’t know what brought it on this time, sometimes this just happens. But Henry's out of bed and at his piano, so it's a start.

Or

Alex finds Henry playing the piano in the early hours of the morning after Henry's had a few rough days.

if you’re interested in reading it here’s the ao3 link: this feeling inside

i hope you enjoy!

#red white and royal blue #rwarb #rw&rb #red white and royal blue fic #rwarb fic #it’s a hurt / comfort fic because i’m a sucker for those #i hope you enjoy!