#fun though

[meraki-yao]

RWRB Movie Analysis: The Placement of Alex's Speech

Alright I’m really fucking sick of people complaining about the placement of the speech. (I swear, I write half of these essays out of irritation. But I’m happy while doing it so it all checks out)

Two things.

Regarding Henry’s consent

Use context clues people. Henry says, “Your speech was beautiful. Made me very proud to be your boyfriend.” It’s clear that Henry approves of the speech.

Again, what can be shown explicitly is restricted by the format. The point of Henry’s montages during the speech is to show how trapped and helpless he is in the situation. (for more, I wrote about it here.) The scenes need to keep that atmosphere/feeling of isolation and pain. If let’s say, we have a scene where the prime minister asks Henry about admitting and coming out, it would take away the consistent feeling of Henry’s pain. Cinematically, it won’t work. But that doesn’t mean in universe, it didn’t happen.

Also, Alex fucking loves Henry with every inch of his soul. He’s willing to fight for them, but he’s also willing to be patient for him. After getting his feelings sorted out and knowing with 100% clarity that he’s in love with Henry, he is never, ever going to do something that so obviously would hurt Henry. He would rather get hurt himself than hurt Henry. (Corresponding Book Quote: “Alex wants to go to war for this man, wants to get his hands on everything and everyone that ever hurt him.”) He wouldn’t make the speech without knowing Henry is okay with it. He just wouldn’t, that would straight up be out of character. So the fact that he did, means one way or another, he has Henry’s consent. And Henry later approving the speech in the piano scene, proves that. (It’s completely possible that the script itself meant to explain it this way, but if at any point they might have explicitly discussed coming out, my guess would be the Kensington breakfast scene, Prime, I’m coming for your hard drives—)

Regarding the placement of speech

There are two reasons for this.

One irl reason, is again, the format of the medium, and movie story telling. You want the tension to continuously build, increase and move upwards, then get a big but concrete resolution, and then this part is over. Having the speech as a conclusion after the balcony wave will not feel as well resolved as directly having the speech, then ending this part of the story with the big, big protest and balcony wave.  

But there’s a diegetic/ in universe reason as well.  

A lot of people, especially those who complain that Movie Alex is a himbo (also spite writing an essay on that, WIP, stay tuned), forget that Alex is a budding politician, and in fact, is a damn good one.

He, despite being kind of confused about his sexuality (read this essay for more), figures out Miguel’s flirting is mostly trying to get his statements for his articles, and in a fairly polite and classy way, Alex declines. (The state dinner slip was because he was way too entranced by Henry) He was a speaker at the DNC. His Texas campaign ultimately won Ellen the election.

When is comes to these things, he knows what he’s doing, and he’s good at what he does.

Making the speech before the crown can make a statement, was a strategic move.

Henry told Alex about his grandfather’s stance on this during the Paris date. He also told, well, yelled at Alex about the pressures he has from the crown during the Kensington confrontation. Alex knows the King will disapprove of their relationship and attempt to shove Henry into the closet.

So he has to be the one to control the narrative. He needs people to listen to, and believe in his, or rather, their side of the story.

And here’s a bit about human psychology. When receiving a new piece of information, our first impression and subsequent judgement of said information tends to be persistent. If we are provided with a second piece of contradicting information, we will tend to treat the second piece with much more criticism and suspicion. The mindset would be “prove to me the first one is wrong” instead of “Which one of these is right”.

Therefore, for Alex to get more people on his side, he must speak first.

(I almost imagine this is the reason the White House blocked communication with the palace. That bugged me for a while, until I thought, if the White House doesn’t block communication and receive a demand from the palace, they aren’t really on grounds to refuse it without a diplomatic mess. It’s the equivalent of avoiding talking to someone you don’t want to approach with the excuse “Oh my phone was off sorry”)

Imagine it. If the crown does what the King originally proposed and claims all the emails are fabrications and denies that Henry is gay and in a relationship with Alex, then Alex’s speech will be viewed through tinted glasses of “this is a fabrication, this is a lie” and it will take much more persuading for people to believe in Alex, because their first judgement of the issue, would be the crown’s lie of a narrative.

But by making the speech first, people’s first judgement of the issue, would be Alex’s explanation, of it being an invasion of privacy, and of it being true. Even if the crown denies it, with the first judgement being Alex’s narrative, it would make it much easier to see through the lie, because in people’s head, they already assumed that Alex is telling the truth.

By making the speech first, Alex has won both himself and Henry, the pen to write history.

Making the speech first is in no way Alex disrespecting Henry.

By playing politics and strategy, Alex is protecting Henry in the most familiar way he knows.

#rwrb #red white and royal blue #rwrb movie #alex claremont diaz #henry fox mountchristen windsor #henry hanover stuart fox #firstprince #nicholas galitzine #taylor zakhar perez #rwrb thoughts #i am so sick of people criticising these things without actually thinking #alex fucking loves henry alright #i usually write from henry's pov because I get him more #first time writing alex pov #fun though #got to pull out my psyc notebook for this lol #rwrb analysis #meraki essay

[subtle-as-an-earthquake]

happy 10 year anniversary to alex band guy ✌🏻

#apparently it was posted 10 years ago today? or yesterday? idk #insane that it's been a DECADE #it's still a wild mv lmao #a real doozy #fun though #arctic monkeys #why'd you only call me when you're high? #alex turner

[rebelrainfall]

i'm so excited we're doing hyperspecific polls again i have been WAITING

#hyperspecific poll #is this too specific? not specific enough? i don't know? #fun though #pls reblog for greater reach i want to knowwwww #polls

[rosvl]

great blue heron

#my art #am not used to using inky brushes #fun though

[black-and-yellow]

It was the death of a rude boy

#fancied doing his side profile #i always give him a long nose #despite his nose being like #deadly pointy in canon #but whatever i can take artistic liberties #anyway this song slaps please listen to it #very mic #man could drop a killer move #bnha #hizashi yamada #present mic #mha #going on ponytown is a real wildcard #cause either im going to see the worst thing ive ever seen #or im going to have a very wholesome interaction #like I met someone dressed as Midnight and we had a 'no u' back and forth about whos was best #we both thought the others was better #but i've also seen someone dressed as jeffrey dahmer #horrid game tbh #fun though

[tapidrinks]

Coloured this creature my friend Xohu drew in roblox freedraw [:

#collab art #not splatoon #my art #it took so long help me #fun though

[ultimate-word-tournament]

some small ants march right up here to say

with their words that are small, green, and gray

to the wordsmith most fine

yet they say just one line

"Trick or Treat!" is the phrase for today

The wordsmith responds in kind

With meter and rhythm and rhyme

"Your gift for this day

is a spooky 幽霊 (yuurei);

a specter to you I've assigned!"

#trick or treat #man poetry is hard #fun though

[lenreli]

Day 3 - “In the car?” [Human AU]

[AO3]

Dream frowns, staring at Hob in the driver’s seat of the car, the vehicle parked as they figure out their next move. Dream groans and Hob rolls his eyes, talking on his phone for escape routes and safe-houses, and yes, the constant attacks on their lives are a bit annoying, but what’s even more annoying is Hob on his phone. 

Finally, Hob ends the phone call, and Dream pounces, feeling the gear shift stick into his stomach as he kisses Hob, who huffs into his mouth. “Now? In the car? After that?”

“Yes,” he breathes, moving from his seat to sit on Hob’s lap, and Hob moans as they kiss, hands going up to his arse.

“Can’t even wait until we get to the safe house,” Hob complains as his own hands go to the other’s brown-grey hair. “Insatiable,” Hob mutters, one of his hands going inside his pants. 

“That’s why we’re here, and definitely not because you could not get enough of me to completely disregard your country,” Dream points out, arousal building as Hob strokes him, his hands going down to the stubble of Hob’s beard as they share kisses.

“We’re both,” Hob pants as he kisses down Hob’s neck and Hob pats his side, pulling him away. “Back of the car, now.” 

Dream moves to the back, slipping through the middle of the car, with Hob joining soon after, the back door opening to let him in. Dream hums, smiling as he goes back on Hob’s lap, more space available. “We are both?” He asks, hands stroking down Hob’s sides, quickly going into the other’s pants, overjoyed as Hob arches into him. 

“You’re the one who abandoned a criminal empire to run away with this stupid spy,” Hob gasps, cock hard under hand and Dream makes a sound as Hob melts into the seat. 

“The stupid spy who managed to take out an entire platoon of people after us, and not even get dirty or bloody?” Dream purrs, his other hand going under Hob’s shirt, feeling the body hair as Hob pants. “The people I had, have nothing on your prowess.” 

Hob cries out, pre-come leaking over his hand as he strips Hob more quickly, “liar,” Hob chokes out, twisting into his grip.

“Not about this,” he whispers, pulling Hob into a loose kiss as Hob comes.

#dc #the sandman #dreamling #dreamling fanfic #dreamling smay #dream x hob #hob x morpheus #hob x dream #writing #not sfw #blah. words #fun though

[dudefrommywesterns]

country is good if you look in the right places

#typewriter dings #i have a good playlist going #i have one toby keith song. that guy is normally too murica for me (he's literally the courtesy of the red white and blue guy) but #i love this bar is fun #stupid surely #fun though

[confusedgoblin]

Boom! Fresh attack!

The freshest of bros!

#fresh #fresh sans #freshtale #fresh!ink #fresh!error #fresh ink #fresh error #my art #digital art #utmv #needless to say #i may never draw fresh ink again #there... there were so many colors and patterns #this drawing took like 13 hours #fun though #just took forever lol

[linksthoughtbrambles]

Brambles congrats!!! How about oot zelink staying up late?

Ask First

Link wouldn’t fall asleep—he would not—not with Sheik standing there looking so smug with those red eyes on him; that was definitely a smirk under that mask, and if Link wasn’t such a nice guy he’d have something snarky to say about it after this huge yawn.

“I’m going to win again,” Sheik said with even smirkier eyes—“that’s yawn seventeen and it’s only 3:51 am.”

Link made a face—“How the heck do you know it’s exactly- WHAT?!” Link cried as he watched a stone with a weeping eye rocket itself into the air, Sheik remaining unreasonably calm as it did; Link had to be dreaming (and had therefore already lost), so he shrugged, closed the distance between them, gently tugged that pesky mask down, and kissed Sheik—and got a nasty palm-strike to the chest: “YOU DON’T ASK FIRST?!”

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Epilogue: “NO FLIRTING, NO WARNING, NO NOTHING?!” “I thought I was asleep!” “What, you only kiss in your sleep?” “Yes! NO!” “I’ve never had a boyfriend who wouldn’t kiss me while conscious.”  “That’s not- wait, what?” “We’re still playing, by the way.”

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[Thanks for the fun ask, Ace! 😄]

#3 sentence fics #400 followers celebration #oot #ocarina of time #loz oot #drabble #romcom #I didn't believe people either when they first told me those sheikah stones could launch #turns out they can #whaaaaaaat? #fun though

[fishlung8877]

coool bird

#artfight 2023 #demon #furry #raven #crow #tengu #remembering how much I fucking hate linelesss art </3 #fun though #think it came out prettty goood as welll!