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a heart that's broke is a heart that's been loved

FirstPrince | NR | 893 words | 1/1

Throughout his life, Alex has been thrown into a lot of things he wasn't prepared for, so one would think 50 years would have been more than enough to prepare for this moment.

Of course, it isn't.

Because Henry is dying.

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Or, Alex and Henry grew old together, and the worst thing about loving someone is facing the inevitable moment you lose them.

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the stars shine down on you - FirstPrince

G | 1/1 | 2,330 words

“Who are you?”

“My name is Henry, Protector of the Cosmos.”

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A Mario Galaxy inspired AU where Henry is Rosalina, David is a lost Luma, and Alex is the human that finds him.

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RWRB but Henry is the body double of the Prince of England, not the Prince himself (the "Angus" from the bonus chapter of this AU, if you will). Prince Edward really is a stuck-up, one dimensional dickhead, but Henry– Alex finds that Henry is a far more interesting person to be around.

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resisting the urge to start ANOTHER fic, because "why did you invite me to your wedding" by kevin atwater would make a phenomenal firstprince au fic

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we'll grow together (so don't you give up)

FirstPrince | 950 words | 1/1

You're tired now, lie down

I'll be waitin'

To give you the good news

It might take patience

And if you don't wake up

I'll know you tried to

~ What They’ll Say About Us, FINNEAS

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Henry has cancer. He and Alex discuss the future they might never have.

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let's fall (let's shock them all)

FirstPrince | T | 1/1 | 1,538 words

Of all the places, Alex is going to die in a Waterstones.

He came to London with June and Nora to sightsee, avoid getting crushed on the subway, and try to convince June the tea time alarm is real. Not get lost in a bookstore, then fall in love.

Or, a bookstore meet-cute AU (but it's more of a meet-disaster, and Alex is a ridiculously hopeless romantic.).

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all will be as it was before

FirstPrince | T | 1,259 words | 1/1

Henry passes away at 74.

Alex dies a decade later, and oh…what a joy it is to see his husband again.

(FirstPrince reunite after death, and it's very sappy.)

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god, it's just not fair of him (to make me feel this much)

FirstPrince | T | 1/1 | 4,299 words

Alex has spent most of his life loving Henry. Since he first learned of the Fox-Mountchristen’s plan of returning home to Wales, he’d given up hope of it ever amounting to anything.

Until he receives an email.

A little gift fic for @theplayfulfairy 🫶

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Can't stop thinking about Vampire FirstPrince

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ACD but he runs one of those tiktok accounts where they serenade people on dating apps with personalised songs via voice message

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Thinking about rwrb (crack genre) au ideas I'd read/write, and just hear me out for a second here: Strictly Come Dancing/Dancing With the Stars. The one you go for determines whether Henry somehow ends up on SCD, paired up with a rather attractive American latin champion pro dancer, or Alex ends up on DWTS after a lost bet with June and Nora, paired up with an annoyingly handsome British ballroom champion pro dancer.

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I think I'm gonna reblog all my fic ideas and thought dumps over here from now on. Just so I don't lose them in the billion and one general reblogs I have there.

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Cwtch!

It can mean a cubbyhole or a cupboard, but it's usually used to mean a cuddle, especially with those you love. It's a Welsh word, and it's one of many words I tend to forget are not English ahah. It feels like home.

open tag because I'm awfully low on people to tag I'm afraid (my lovely moots are all tagged above) 😭

Quick ! Think of a word you like ! 

Not necessarily your favorite word, it doesn’t even have to be a word you usually like ! Just a word that right now, at this moment, you look at and think “ooh what about this one”.

It can be a word you find funny, pretty, strange, scary, anything really ! You don’t need to tell me why you choose that word (though I’d love to know if you want to tell me), just give me a word ! 

(It’d be lovely if we made this into a chain but there’s no pressure <3)

uhhhhh sanguine? (literally the only word that popped up into my head rn but it’s prettyyy and sounds like summer to me in some inexplicable way 😌✨)

oh sure! Tagging @daydream-of-a-wallflower @silence-between-seconds @re-is-back-in-black @jaaklops @annotated-catastrophe @vintagetee13 @cherryswift13 @dandelions-fly-in-summer-skies @lost-in-reveriie @moonlightt444 @art-of-fools @good-oldfashioned-lover-girl @addsalwayssick @miseryoforpheus @justafanbutcurious + anyone else who’d like to join in :)

(but no pressure ofc <3)

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Songs that I would kill to see inspire cathartic FirstPrince fanfics

(A little ramble about songs that inspired fic ideas! New Year's fast approaches and I intend to write more next year, so maybe I'll have a proper go at these sometime. But until then, I'll let these stew here. Bonus chapter spoilers [ish?])

Photograph (Cody Fry) – Specifically as the "In February 2026, a flu sweeps through Park Slope." section of the bonus chapter. Henry-centric, one of those character deep dive type things. Henry pacing the house, thinking about all the time they've spent together over the years. Henry watching Alex in that window seat, thinking about all the man has done for him. Pure tooth-rotting fluff. Almost frustratingly sweet.

You Are Enough (Sleeping at Last) – Love love love this song and I think it'd be really nice to see it as a "It's 2025, and Henry has a bad day." fic. Specifically the end of the excerpt where Henry tells Alex "You don't have to do it, you know." Alex grappling with the idea that he doesn't always have to keep giving and giving and giving.

Je te laisserai des mots (Patrick Watson) – Typical, and this is just a personal comfort song, but since Henry knows French... I always imagine a little drabble where Alex has a bad day or he's ill or he has trouble sleeping and Henry is singing softly to him to try to help him sleep. And alright, maybe Henry isn't really the best singer but he can still hold a tune well in my heart ok

Soulmate Song (Carson James Argenna) / Run Away With Me (Ben Fankhauser) – I think these two could fall under the same premise. An AU maybe? Same forbidden romance aspect as canon, obviously, but different stakes. Alex-centric; Alex would be the one asking to run away. Very Crowley in Good Omens-esque. Very sweet, a little desperate. I would love to see them actually run away together.

Grow As We Go (Ben Platt) – I think it would make a good exploration of their relationship in terms of grief and struggle. Seeing each other at their lowest and still promising to be there, still staying, still supporting in their own ways. Maybe a 5+1 or a two chapter, one of each of them dealing with their own struggles?

Honourable mentions (aka, I can't always explain my reasoning for these, they would just make sense):

Simply The Best (Billianne)

Better Days (Dermot Kennedy)

Pointless (Lewis Capaldi)

i don't want to watch the world end with someone else (Clinton Kane)

Forever You (Dennis Van Aarssen) (Dennis is like my favourite singer ever so I might be biased but this is such a good song for them imo)