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[myheartalivewrites]

Seven Sentence Sunday

Once again, my biggest thanks this week goes to past me for getting her shit together to get this post ready ahead of time, because weekends at my house are like fucking Glasto at the moment and Sunday me is really fucking tired.

Here are not-seven-but-near-enough sentences from Day 4, pt. 2: Among the Orange Trees (aka Chapter 5 of Foxden Park) in which, well. WELL. Things. Happen.

Henry’s walked as far as the stone wall opposite the doors Alex came in, a wall that must be shared with the house proper. He turns, and something in his posture makes Alex slow down, take a moment. It’s been a day-long game of cat-and-mouse, chasing Henry, trying to get near him, and now it’s finally over, the urge to push yields. A trickle of longed-for patience. “You know, this whole thing makes no sense,” Alex starts. “You’re the one who… well, the one who stuck his tongue in my mouth.” Henry flinches. “And then you ran from me, you ran all day long, in fact, and now you’re cowering in the corner like you’re a maiden and I’ve come to steal your virtue. Doesn’t that strike you as unfair?” Henry looks up at the glass roof, as if it could possibly provide the answers he’s looking for.

Also, can I just tease the background pic @fromkenari chose for the moodboard? Because I love it.

Kudos to the one person on ao3 who called it Chekov's greenhouse 😂 I love that. If you’re here, wave lol!

Thanks for the tags @kiwiana-writes @suseagull04 @blueeyedgrlwrites @faketrex @porcelainmortal

Trying to tag only people I know are actively working on stuff right now bc I don’t want to pressure anyone so: @thesleepyskipper @14carrotghoul @welcometololaland @indestructibleheart @stereopticons

@fullsunsets @sparklepocalypse @cha-melodius @duchessdepolignaca03 @henryspearl

@heysweetheart-writes if you fancy sharing please do! And if I haven’t tagged you but you want me to see your snippet go ahead and tag me!

Have a good Sunday night everyone x

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WIP Wednesday

The Gemini Game by foux_dogue (book-verse)

@na-dineee: A new WiP from an author whose talent I absolutely celebrate. At the royal wedding, Henry asks June to dance - and both Alex and Nora almost fall off their chairs in jealousy. The fact that this is the beginning of a close friendship between June and Henry doesn't make the coming months any easier for Alex (and Nora). What an interesting approach: the tension is enormous, Alex is desperate and June is oblivious. Or is she? Big recommendation!

Foxden Park by @myheartalivewrites (book-verse)

@na-dineee: It's on - A Royally Big Bang ( @aroyallybigbangrwrb )! It begins with a story from myheartalive, who I really appreciate as an author. And ta-da, it's a Victorian AU and features all of the Super Six. Chapter 1 starts off promising, and promising are also the tags, as: Country Games, Boating, Horse riding, Other kinds of riding, ahem... But also: Minimal angst and Happy ending. It's going to be long (9 chapters) and it's going to be absolutely glorious!

the full spectrum of human emotion by @firenati0n (book-verse)

@celeritas2997: Inspired by 'The Proposal'. Alex is Henry's very capable assistant and also the solution to Henry's immigration issues. Chapter 1 was just posted and I cannot wait to read the rest when it's posted! This fic is so much fun and also so full of heart. There were so many laugh-out-loud moments. Definitely a must read!

@heysweetheart-writes: I've been wating for this for months and I can't believe it's finally here and it's as good as I hope it was going to be. Roop is hilarious and it shows in this first chapter. I also LOVE the movie so I'm very excited about how this will unfold!

#wip wednesday #rwrb fic recs #firstprince

[firstprince-ao3feed]

Foxden Park

by myheartalive “Yes, Alex, what a terrible destiny,” Nora says. “To be hosted for a week by all these charming rich people, who have bent over backwards to accommodate us, including sending their own carriage into town to fetch us. How very dare we drag you into their nefarious scheme.” — Invited to a week-long house party at the Duke of Windsor’s country residence, Alex Claremont-Diaz does not expect to find anything to enjoy about his time there. What he does find is Lord Henry, the duke’s younger brother—and a boatload of things to learn about himself. Seven days in the country in a duke's house. What could possibly happen? Words: 4372, Chapters: 1/9, Language: English Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Alex Claremont-Diaz, Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Beatrice Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, June Claremont-Diaz, Nora Holleran, Percy "Pez" Okonjo, Philip Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Martha Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Catherine Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor, Original Child Character(s) Relationships: Alex Claremont-Diaz/Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Victorian, Getting Together, Smut, Explicit Sexual Content, the Super Six go Victorian, House Party, Country Games, Croquet, Boating, Hunting, or more like failure to hunt, horse riding, other kinds of riding, peacocks are birds of prey, according to Alex anyway, Banter, Hand Jobs, Blow Jobs, Anal Sex, Coming Untouched, Happy Ending, I have read a lot of historical romance novels and IT SHOWS, References galore, it’s not a Bridgerton AU, but it’s not NOT a Bridgerton AU, minimal angst, Alex POV via https://ift.tt/vNWMrZV

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[myheartalivewrites]

Foxden Park (E rated, ~50k)

Chapter 1: Arrival

“Yes, Alex, what a terrible destiny,” Nora says. “To be hosted for a week by all these charming rich people, who have bent over backwards to accommodate us, including sending their own carriage into town to fetch us. How very dare we drag you into their nefarious scheme.”

—

Invited to a week-long house party at the Duke of Windsor’s country residence, Alex Claremont-Diaz does not expect to find anything to enjoy about his time there. What he does find is Lord Henry, the duke’s younger brother—and a boatload of things to learn about himself.

Seven days in the country in a duke's house. What could possibly happen?

—

It’s time to kick off the @aroyallybigbangrwrb with Victorian shenanigans! One big-ass house, horse riding, garden games, sex in inadvisable places and two hot guys, falling in love. It's 8 chapters plus an epilogue, posting weekly on Wednesdays. Featuring gorgeous moodboards by Ally @fromkenari

Here it is on ao3. Enjoy!

#foxden park #rwrb fanfic #rwrb fic #my writing #firstprince #rwrb #red white and royal blue #a royally big bang #arwrbb

[myheartalivewrites]

WIP Wednesday

Hi @suseagull04 @tailsbeth-writes @duchessdepolignaca03 thanks for tagging me today and thanks to @bitbybitwrites @firenati0n

@indestructibleheart @zwiazdziarka @kiwiana-writes @welcometololaland for tagging me on Sunday, I 100% meant to do it, but was too tired in the end.

Here's a snippet from Chapter 2 of Foxden Park, which went up earlier today. In which croquet goes very, very wrong for Alex (but also very, very right). Featuring my favourite OC, 🦚.

They walk deeper into the copse, still shifting the vegetation to search for the ball. Alex finally spots a glimpse of red and yellow in the middle of a thick mass of weeds and walks over to dig through it. He’s bent over, preoccupied with pushing some nettles aside with his mallet—which is probably why he doesn’t see it until it’s too late. A loud, repeating squawk rings through the copse—right next to Alex’s head, or at least it feels like it—and Alex lets off a shriek of his own to match. He straightens up to find the peacock—this must be the same one as yesterday, he’s sure of it—barely two feet away from him, staring with clearly murderous intent. He takes three quick steps back, gets his feet tangled in some roots, and falls on his ass for the second time this afternoon, landing fully in the patch of nettles. “Mr. Claremont-Diaz?” Lord Henry’s concerned shout reaches him, the sound of rushed steps in his direction following suit. The man himself appears through the trees, a few feet to the right of the peacock, face creased with concern. “Mr. Claremont-Diaz, are you alright? What happened?” “What happened?” Alex shrieks. He does not take his eyes off the threat. “What happened is you people think it’s a good idea to encourage these beasts to roam free around your property, and they keep assaulting me at every turn! How am I supposed to function like this, how do any of you? There is no place of safety!”

Tagging everybody back plus @piratefalls @cha-melodius @sparklepocalypse @porcelainmortal @blueeyedgrlwrites

@onetwistedmiracle @thesleepyskipper @stereopticons @14carrotghoul @cultofsappho to share some of your work if you fancy!

#foxden park #my writing #wip wednesday

[myheartalivewrites]

WIP Wednesday

Thanks for the tag @suseagull04 @blueeyedgrlwrites! Fucking love doing WIP Weds when I'm in the middle of publishing a fic and don't have to think about it too much 😁

Here's an Alex and Pez chunk from today's chapter of Foxden:

“Uh. What would happen if I said I can’t ride?” Sir Percy cocks an eyebrow at him. “Can’t you?” “Not… not completely. I can sit on a horse—” he watches the gentleman across from them step onto a stirrup and swing one leg confidently over the horse’s back to settle into his saddle like he’s been doing this his whole life. Which, Alex realises, he probably has. “—but I think keeping up with the party might be beyond me.” Never mind holding a gun, and discharging it accurately. “You can sit on a horse?” The look on Sir Percy’s face does very little to bolster his confidence. “Yeah.” “And that is the extent of your equestrian abilities?” “Pretty much.” Sir Percy looks up the entire length of Alex’s body, as if taking the measure of him—and then his eyes twitch up to something behind him and twinkle. “Haz!” he calls out.

Not to set unnecessarily high expectations or anything, but this chapter has some of my favourite bits of banter in the whole fic, and banter is normally my nemesis. ✌️

Here it is on ao3!

Tagging: @fullsunsets @thesleepyskipper @rmd-writes @14carrotghoul @sparklepocalypse

@firenati0n @porcelainmortal @tailsbeth-writes @duchessdepolignaca03 @indestructibleheart

@welcometololaland @cha-melodius @caterpills @henryspearl @theprinceandagcd to share, but only if you fancy it! No guilt allowed in fanfic-is-a-hobby-land 😘

#wip wednesday #foxden park #my writing #rwrb fanfic #rwrb #red white and royal blue

[myheartalivewrites]

Seven(ish) sentence/inspiration Sunday

Hi everyone! Happy Sunday!

I'm gearing up to start posting my RBB fic soon, and so it feels like about time to start teasing it. It's a late-Victorian AU, set over a week at a house party at the Duke of Windsor's (aka Philip) house, where a mouthy American meets a blond English aristocrat--and just about everything he thought he knew about himself gets turned upside down.

This is Foxden Park:

“I maintain that you owe me big time for letting you drag me to this.” “No, but you’re my protector,” June says dramatically. “The guardian of my virtue, the keeper of the family’s honour! Without you, how could I ever leave the house safely? How could I be trusted to not ruin myself and drag the whole lot of us into disrepute?” He wiggles his eyebrows at her. Of the two of them, he’s certain she’s the least likely to cause any sort of reputational damage. “Do you know who this Henry is who’s just arrived?” “The younger brother, I think,” June says. “Bea says he’s a delight.” “Oh, great. Is he an earl too? A count? Please tell me he’s not a fucking prince.”

Inspo below--I'm working with an artist for this, but this is my own little collection of images for this fic.

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Have a good week! 😘

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[myheartalivewrites]

WIP Weds, Foxden edition

Here's the thing about this fic: I had a whole lot of fun writing it, and this chapter might be the one that brought me the most joy. Though I'm sure next week I'll be saying the same thing about Chapter 5 (I just reread it, and I fucking loved it). Also, how is everyone feeling about the slower posting rhythm? I'm enjoying it, it feels more relaxed, but I'm wondering about the reader's perspective.

Anyway, here's a snippet from Day 4, part 1 - Manhunt which is available now (*jazz hands*) on an ao3 near you:

“Alex, what are you doing?” he says in something that is half-shout, half-whisper. “I’m going to talk to you. You can’t keep avoiding me forever,” Alex hisses. “What do you mean avoiding you? I’ve done no such thing.” Alex lets out a loud “Ha!” and pulls harder on his oars, feeling the skin of his hands start to chafe. “Nooo, of course not. You’ve just been conveniently absent or otherwise occupied all day.” He’s actually succeeding in getting closer, Henry’s boat only a few feet away. “You can’t get away from me now, and we’re going to talk about it.” “Talk about it? What is there to talk about?” Henry says, with a look of fear thrown back to the shore. Alex almost pities him—or he would, if it wasn’t for the fact that Henry has been messing him around since last night. Truly, Henry’s brought this upon himself.

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and as always anyone else who fancies joining in, do tag me if you like. Have a good rest of the week!

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[myheartalivewrites]

Seven Sentence Sunday

Got my shit together ahead of time to make sure I post this week! Here, for once, are ACTUAL seven sentences from Chapter 3 of Foxden Park (which I will go up on Wednesday), in which Alex watches Henry ride a horse and has feelings. And in which, later on, Henry looks for Orion.

He notices how thick Henry’s thighs are, the muscle presumably built onto his bones by the years of riding; how seamlessly he guides his horse with a light clench and a quick release. Alex finds himself unable to look away, and when Henry puts his weight forward on his stirrups and rises up to a near-stand as if to spot something in the distance his pants stretch tightly over his ass and. Oh. Alex is suddenly very aware of some more muscle, perfectly round, exquisitely carved by decades of exercise. At that, he bites the inside of his own cheek and forces himself to get a fucking grip. The confusion that’s been addling his brain since yesterday only seems to be getting worse, because he’s now watching a man’s ass bounce as he rides a horse and wondering if his hands would even be big enough to hold each cheek and he does not know what the fuck is up with that. Maybe it’s all the tea he’s been drinking, or maybe there’s something off with the British air.

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Seven Sentence Sunday

Hey, @kiwiana-writes @indestructibleheart @faketrex thanks for tagging me for this seven sentence Sunday!

I hope everyone who's reading along with Foxden is having fun, we're picking up speed relationship-wise, but the shenanigans continue. Day 4 is a big’un, so I’ve split it into two. Here are seven sentences from Part 1 - Manhunt, in which Alex makes a spectacle of himself while trying to chase Henry down and ends up going for an impromptu swim in the pond (and taking Henry along with him):

Alex allows himself one moment of serious regret before it’s pushed away by survival instinct. He kicks up, trying and failing to find the ground beneath his feet, and emerges back into the afternoon with an utterly undignified shriek. Henry is also resurfacing, only a few feet away from him, a look of unmitigated rage on his face, which—okay, maybe this time, might be earned. “Fuck, fuck, are you okay?” Alex tries. Henry, it turns out, is not okay. He is incandescent. “What the devil do you think you’re doing?” he shouts.

Fucked if Alex knows!

Weekends have been kicking my ass and I’m super super tired (which is why I got this ready on Weds when I was posting chapter 3) but please consider yourself tagged if I normally tag you or if you want me to see your snippet do tag me! I’ll try and do better next time

Bed time now 😘

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WIP Wednesday

Hi everyone, happy Wednesday! Thanks for the tags @indestructibleheart @kiwiana-writes @suseagull04

Earlier I posted the first chapter of my Victorian AU, Foxden Park, so here's a longer snippet from it, featuring Alex trying to be polite to Philip (aka the Duke of Windsor) and Martha (the Duchess, obvs), while secretly wishing he could blow the whole place up:

The duke abandons his game of checkers and crosses the room over to them.

“Howard, bless the man, was trained in my grandmother’s household,” he says, leaning over the low table and pouring his own cup of tea. “She is incredibly strict. I’m not sure we’ll ever be able to make the man loosen up, and so the rest of the household staff follows his lead, I’m afraid.”

Alex knows less than zero about running a house like this one. He offers up what he thinks is a polite, sympathetic smile in response to the duke’s woes with household staff and the severe difficulties of his aristocratic upbringing, and chances a glance over to June and Nora in case one of them fancies coming to his rescue.

“That must be difficult, your grace.”

“Oh, no, it’s Philip, please. Like Martha said. This is not a formal occasion and to be honest there’s just too many your graces around here, and I often get confused if people are talking to me or my wife.”

The duchess giggles next to him and takes up the conversation.

“Now, I have to apologise, Mr. Claremont-Diaz, as the house party is rather female-heavy at the moment. We are expecting two more guests: my brother-in-law, who should have already been here to welcome you, but seems to be awfully late, and another family friend. You must know how hard it is to find suitable bachelors to make up a balanced party in the countryside.”

Must he? Alex has not a single fucking clue what she’s on about. Is he suitable?

“Oh, yes. I’m sure it is.” He’s going to pull a muscle trying to be on the level with these people.

Read the rest of Chapter 1 on ao3!

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Foxden Park (E rated, ~50k)

Chapter 4: Day 4, pt. 1 - Manhunt (art by Ally @fromkenari)

Soooo, following last week's events by the oak tree, today's chapter finds Alex determinedly trying to talk to Henry, and Henry even more determinedly avoiding him. Until Alex succeeds. Somewhat.

Anyway, here are Nora and Alex, on a rowboat (and their little boat chat is another of my—very many—favourite bits in this fic):

“Okay, Alejandro, what the hell is wrong with you?” “Uh—what?” “What do you mean what? You’ve been in this strange mood the whole day. You spent the morning wandering the house like a haunting, except you couldn’t find a victim to spook so instead you came back and sat there, jiggling your knee at about a thousand beats per minute. Then you spent all of lunch glaring at Lord Henry while he steadfastly looked anywhere but at you, and now you’re dragging me on some sort of rowboat chase. If I’m about to drown in this man-made pond, I think I at least deserve to know why, my friend.”

Day 4 at Foxden ended up being an eventful one, which means it's a two-parter, with part 2 coming next Weds. By the end of it, things will certainly be... different.

Here's the ao3 link!

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Foxden Park (E rated, ~50k)

Chapter 2: Day 2 - Lawn Games (art by Ally @fromkenari)

Bea in Chapter 2:

“Right! Croquet time!”

Alex and Henry in Chapter 2:

“I don’t mind,” Alex answers. “You can tell me what to do.”

Lord Henry’s face goes blank. He blinks twice, very slowly, and then looks away.

“Very good, then.”

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In which my influences show, Henry apologises, and Alex makes an ass of himself. But in an endearing sort of way. Featuring a posh picnic, Alex being a public hazard while playing croquet and the return of the peacock.

Read Chapter 2 on ao3!

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PS: this chapter comes with a bonus rec list for queer historical romances, because a single person asked me for recs and that's all it takes. Go nuts! And if you fancy leaving me some recs, please do! I gobble that shit up.

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Foxden Park (E rated, ~50k)

Chapter 5 - Day 4, pt. 2: Among the Orange Trees (art by Ally @fromkenari)

“You truly don’t know how to leave things alone, do you?” Henry says quietly, breath fluttering against Alex’s cheeks. The candle held between them flickers and goes out, pitching them into sudden darkness—followed by the tinkle of metal against stone as Henry drops the candlestick to the floor. “Do you want me to leave it alone?”

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Well. Well, well. Here we are. For a fic I plucked out of my list of ideas for this RBB specifically because I thought it would have lots of cool visual elements for artists to work off, the MAIN THING that happens in this chapter is the image that has been most solidly drawn on my mind from day 1. I always knew it was going to happen like this. And when I tell you that when Ally first showed me the background pic for the moodboard above I gasped *for real* I am not exaggerating.

I really fucking love how it all turned out.

Chapter 5 is up, go read!

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