#rwrb politics

[duchessdepolignaca03]

Rule Britannia

A FirstPrince Political AU by DuchessdePolignac

Summary:

Philip is King and Prince Henry is living his best, openly gay, tabloid-fodder life. But something doesn't feel right to Alex about the progressive fantasy the Hanover-Stuart-Foxes are selling.

Or: where Henry is a political courtesan fucking for King and Country, and Alex is the diplomat who foolishly and earnestly falls in love with him. Can Alex understand Henry's motivations, and can he live with the reality of being in love with a high-power courtesan with dangerous clientele? Or: A long and long-winded meditation on sex and power, and power and sex.

Mind the Tags (includes implied/referenced dubious consent and non-con, referenced underage sex, alcohol and drug abuse, sex work. See full tags list).

Ao3 Link to full fic

nineteen: Profane (latest chapter)

Chapter links under the cut

one. Impertinence | two. Tanzania | three. Aftersun | four. Serenade

five. Seismic | six. Generations | seven. Spiralling

eight. Homecoming | nine. Compromise | ten. Idyll

eleven. Beguiling | twelve. Orbit | thirteen: Intelligence

fourteen. Kinship | fifteen. Multitudes | sixteen. Psychosocial

seventeen. Revelations | eighteen. Sentimental

nineteen: Profane | twenty | epilogue

[dailyflicks]

#mood

[jvdas-iscariot]

[corpsephrog]

if only we had alex claremont diaz rn

[fallingforfictionalmen]

WHERE IS ALEX CLAREMONT-DIAZ WHEN YOU NEED HIM

[purple-mushroom-cap]

alex claremont diaz get your ASS to texas rn you gotta turn it all the way 🏃‍♀️💨

[cultofsappho]

🔮 Manifesting a Blue Election Tomorrow 🔮

Red White and Royal Blue for obvious reasons

A compass for some direction for this country for once

A crystal ball and runes for foresight

Black Salt for warding negative enegries

The Wheel of Fortune card for life cycles, luck, and turning points

The Queen of Swords card for intellect, wisdom, and judgment

The Queen of Pentacles for a down-to-earth, mature, and nurturing woman

but remember in order to manifest we still need to Act! And we only have one day left to do so! If you are a US citizen and you have not already voted, you can look up your polling location and hours HERE

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[ikarakie]

nah i get that lady from rwrb because imagine you open a wardrobe and the prince of fucking england is in there half naked. i, too, would need to sit the fuck down

[high-quality-assorted-chaos]

cmon guys we need blue texas. do it for alex claremont diaz

[scrollonso]

THE PROPHECY.

[swirlingyouintomypoems]

Please dear lord let this be the year of a red white and royal blue-esque political miracle

[thefomodefinition]

🎶 I'm dreaming of a white Christmas blue Texas 🎶

[honey-bri-books]

"Please, tell me another joke." Ellen says. "I want so badly for you to explain to me how this is funny."

Alex opens his mouth and closes it a couple of times.

"He started it," he says finally. "I barely touched him - he's the one who pushed me, and I only grabbed him to try and catch my balance, and - "

"Sugar, I cannot express to you how much the press does not give a fuck about who started what," Ellen says. "As your mother, I can appreciate that maybe this isn't your fault, but as the president, all I want is to have the CIA fake your death and ride the dead-kid sympathy into a second term."

CH. 2 ~ Red White and Royal Blue ~ by Casey McQuiston

[swiftiesbuddie]

Feeling very patriotic right now (I just bought a ‘History, huh’ shirt)

[ajdrawsig]

me this election season

[ririsasy]

Trait that I love from Alex is that how good a first son of the us he is and how genuinely and passionately he's interested in politics. He didn't think his duty to his country or his position is a burden, he proactively want to participate and to contribute whatever he could, and it's so refreshing to see that his portrayal wasn't just some ungrateful delinquent who came to power and butchered all the opportunity because he's just too occupied with his own things, honestly surprised that he literally could be role model in this character that's not all focus about his love interest with Henry alone.

I love in this scene how he quickly agreed to Zahra's suggestion to host a correspondents' dinner even though Zahra just said it as sarcasm but not for Alex, every opportunity is a good opportunity for him.

How thoughtful he's with spending tax payer money? On useless stuff?

Or when he was so desperately want to help with his mother's campaign and be taken seriously going as far as writing a 14 pages memo no one asked for because he has the vision about the future of his own generation and he want someone to implemented it. Henry was right to be jealous at Alex being so active in making a different in his own capacity while Henry was stuck with cutting ribbons and smiling and looking more like puppets than anything else.

Alex also studied the opposition party and see what they have to tell, I love all the subtle way they showed that Alex's life is politics and even when he was thinking about Henry not replying to his chat, he's doing it while observing their rival, this is like building up pathways in the future if they ever want to go to a sequel it won't be surprising that the challenge in their relationship could be about Alex and his dream. Could be foreshadowing of what Henry said about trading one prison to another, even though I know that Alex will do everything in his capacity to protect Henry and their relationship from all of this. They could always have both lives as long as they support and have each other's back. Love and live in their own terms.

Last note because tumblr could only hold 10 gifs, I love how Alex didn't even think about using his privilege not until Nora suggested about it to him. Just from this conversation with Nora, his comment on the wedding cake at Phillip's wedding, or his Turkey tradition opinion, it's all good indication that Alex didn't use facilities or spending money recklessly. He's thinking of everything so carefully so he didn't accidentally spending money that's not his own, a really honest man and I adore that part of him so much.

There are so many other clips where Alex just being shown as this driven young man who takes his life seriously, I love all the montages during his campaign in texas, how he helped with the community, learning his speeches on the mirror, giving speeches so eloquently.

I know it's only in fantasy that someone could be this responsible when they're in position of power, but I just can't stop thinking how rich this character is actually, he is his own person even without Henry, and that's why his love story with Henry as a prince becomes even more compelling to watch, because we could buy his character as a president son, with his own drive and dream that just happened to be in love with a prince.

I just really love Alex Claremont-Diaz and I want to see more of him. I mean what's not to like about him? He is handsome, super smart, a thorough gentleman, basically the embodiment of a knight in shining armor that's really suitable to save Henry from his lonely castle and showed him a whole new world. They are a match, and that's why Henry x Alex is more realistic couple than any other "fall in love with a royal" story to me because there's no power imbalance between them, not only Alex's deserved Henry, Henry seems like the luckier one to have Alex in his life.