#wip: vegas fuckup

[kiwiana-writes]

for the AU fun facts game, an accidental marriage AU

I mean. As I do in fact already have one of these in my WIP folder I'm going to cheat, just a little 🤣 I hope you don't mind!

ONE: When Alex sees it on the Fake Friendship Agreement, he assumes the Vegas visit is a joke. Zahra points out how many opportunities there are in Vegas for bros-being-bros photo ops, including candids. Alex asks if he's going to be allocated a gambling budget and she throws a pillow at him.

TWO: The idea of a weekend in Las Vegas with Henry is like... marginally less terrible after the trip to London and the cupboard and the clearing the air, but... still. He's still Prince Henry: stuffy and boring and the antithesis of a fun Vegas time.

THREE: In retrospect, the vodka shots were where it all went downhill. It's all a bit of a blur after that.

FOUR: When Alex wakes up, more hungover than he's ever been in his life and naked as the day he was born, Henry's arm slung over Alex's stomach, Alex thinks nice and then what the fuck and then okay, it could definitely be worse. (That jinxes it.)

FIVE: Philip, at least, is so angry about the 'getting married without permission' part he almost forgets to be angry about the 'married a man' part.

[Send me a potential AU and I’ll tell you five fun facts that would happen in a story.]

[kiwiana-writes]

Yes, I know this is early but I'm literally missing Wednesday this week -- I fly out of LAX on Tuesday night and land in Aotearoa on Thursday morning local time.

Distract me on my 13 hour flight by asking me any of the above questions for any of the list of WIPs I currently have as long as my motherfucking arm (titles are exactly as they are in GDocs):

The way we get into each other's bones

The Last Five Years || The Next Five Years

[arranged marriage redux]

[Bodyswap]

[D&D flirting]

[fetlife lol]

[Halloween Huh]

[Hands free]

[Henry writes]

[horny soulmates]

[Leverage AU]

[Orpheus and Eurydice]

[Oxford slut era 5+1]

[Rafael prequel]

[Shaan/Zahra]

[Vegas fuckup]

As sure as the dawn brings the sunrise

Auroras and sad prose

Buzzing through my veins

Chantilly lace and a pretty face

Climb up and meet the sky

Hold up, rewind, knock me off of my feet

Just one moon (and one golden sun)

Rafael is surrounded by disaster queers [Actor AU verse]

Secret Agent Raf 5+1 [Actor AU verse]

What's left of me in our little vignette

Years of dreams just can't be wrong

BUT even though I'm doing something slightly different this week, I still wanna see what y'all are up to so please tag me in your snippets!!! @affectionatelyrs @cha-melodius @clottedcreamfudge @cricketnationrise @daisymae-12 @dumbpeachjuice @happiness-of-the-pursuit @hgejfmw-hgejhsf @indomitable-love @inexplicablymine @lilythesilly @maxbegone @myheartalivewrites @nontoxic-writes @orchidscript @rmd-writes @sherryvalli @smc-27 @stereopticons @tintagel-or-cockleshells @welcometololaland and, as always, anyone who wants to play! (If you take the open tag please tag me so I can see!!)

WIP Ask Game!

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[kiwiana-writes]

finish, take, react and twitch please MJ

FINISH

From angstapalooza:

Alex opens his mouth to reassure him—which is, at least, something he can do without lying—but Cash holds up a hand before he can finish.

TAKE

Perhaps unsurprisingly, this appears a bunch of times, but just for you let's go with the Anastasia AU:

Once upon a time it would have been a relief, but now, with his home being ransacked and his mother’s hand trembling in his as they rush down the plush, red-carpeted stairs Henry has been running up and down ever since he could walk, he’d give anything to take back all the times he wished away his public life.

REACT

From the Big Secret Collab with @indestructibleheart (note that the square bracket isn't, like, a spoiler, it's just me not stopping to think about details as I wrote this bit lmfao):

Henry fumbles the [whatever he’s holding], barely reacting when it tumbles to the floor.

TWITCH

Also appears quite a lot, so let's go with the fic currently titled [Vegas fuckup] haha:

The corner of Henry’s mouth twitches, just slightly, but it’s enough to send a frisson of something unnameable through Alex’s stomach; some kind of weird satisfaction at making Prince Perfect’s veneer crack just a little.

[Send me a word, if it’s in my wip document I’ll answer your ask with the sentence that it appears in]

[kiwiana-writes]

Vegas Fuckup??? Are they getting married in Vegas???

YOU MUST KNOW THEY ARE.

I just... there is something deeply fucking funny to me about them having to do some sort of appearance in Vegas early in Operation Pretend To Be Friends (like, definitely pre-Thanksgiving) and causing a completely DIFFERENT kind of international incident.

Because like... HOW does that happen. Where the fuck are the PPOs. The marriage licence bureau is only open till midnight. Did June and Nora know. Under real life rules for royals shit would massively hit the fan if Henry married ANYONE without permission from the queen, let alone... a guy, while blitzed out of his mind in Vegas. Everything about this concept is so fucking ridiculous and as you know, that's my favourite flavour to write.

[WIP tag game]

[kiwiana-writes]

tell me about [vegas fuckup] please?? 👀👀

Okay hear me out, pal. HEAR ME OUT. What if, during Operation Pretend We Don't Hate Each Other, like early on, like soon after London, there was a contractually obligated something in Vegas? And what if, hypothetically, hear me out, there was a lot of alcohol involved? What fuckup could POSSIBLY occur under those circumstances?

[AMA about my WIP list!]

[kiwiana-writes]

i am LATE but since last week you gave me a snippet of horny soulmates (i'm already obsessed), details on vegas fuckup???

Bwahaha. There is very little written of this, though I did give a brief overview here, but have a little snippet:

“That,” Alex tells him flatly, “was the most boring-ass white people shit I have ever seen. And I was at your brother’s wedding.” The corner of Henry’s mouth twitches, just slightly, but it’s enough to send a frisson of something unnameable through Alex’s stomach; some kind of weird satisfaction at making Prince Perfect’s veneer crack just a little. “Remind me to invite you to a polo game sometime. I think you’d enjoy it immensely.” “Fuck you, Your Highness,” Alex says brightly.

[WIP ask game]

[kiwiana-writes]

Weekend WIP Game

@welcometololaland has invented a new WIP game and we're all blessed for it.

Rules: List your WIPs below (if you only write one fic at a time, feel free to include future WIPs/ideas!) then answer the following questions. Then, tag as many people as you have WIPs (or more). (If you're an artist or other non-fic fandom creator, questions can be found here!)

1. WIP List: Sigh.

-The Last Five Years || The Next Five Years -The way we get into each other's bones [Angstapalooza RWRB Edition] -[Alex & Bea fake date] -[arranged marriage redux] -[Bodyswap] -[D&D flirting] -[fetlife lol] -[Findom] -[Hands free] -[Henry writes] -[Henry/Alex/Liam/Spencer] -[Hockey bf Henry] -[horny soulmates] -[Leverage AU] -[Orpheus and Eurydice] -[Rafael prequel] -[Shaan/Zahra] -[Vegas fuckup] -As sure as the dawn brings the sunrise -Auroras and sad prose -Buzzing through my veins -Chantilly lace and a pretty face -Climb up and meet the sky -Hold up, rewind, knock me off of my feet -Just one moon (and one golden sun) -Rafael is surrounded by disaster queers [Actor AU verse] -Secret Agent Raf 5+1 [Actor AU verse] -What's left of me in our little vignette -Years of dreams just can't be wrong

2. Which of your WIPs is currently the longest? The way we get into each other's bones [Angstapalooza RWRB Edition]

3. Which WIP do you expect will end up the longest? The Last Five Years || The Next Five Years - it's designed as a duology, so idk if each individual fic will beat out angstapalooza, but the duo definitely will, and y'all will want to read them together (unless you love pain I guess??)

4. Which WIP is your favourite to write/the most enjoyable to write? Why? It changes day to day but right now I have @clottedcreamfudge going fucking feral at me over [Hockey bf Henry] at any given hour of the day which definitely makes it really fun to just... write a snippet and immediately be shrieked at.

5. Which WIP do you find the most intimidating to write? Why? For some unknown reason, Years of dreams just can't be wrong which is the Anastasia AU?? I don't know why it's fucking with me so much, but it's very rude actually.

6. Which WIP do you experience the most self-doubt about. Why? The way we get into each other's bones [Angstapalooza RWRB Edition] -- it's gonna be a balancing act in terms of not being gratuitous emotional pain etc

7. Which of your WIPs will you seek out a beta/sensitivity reader for? Why? The long ones: The way we get into each other's bones [Angstapalooza RWRB Edition], The Last Five Years || The Next Five Years, [Leverage AU]. Maybe a few of the others depending on how the plot spins out.

8. Have any of your WIPs been struck by the curse of writer's block? ...have you seen the length of this list?

9. Which WIP has your favourite OC? Tell us about them? [Rafael prequel] is the only one that has any OC of substance right now lol

10. Which WIP is the sexiest? In terms of what is actually on the page right now, not what is planned to be written, it might actually be [Henry writes] right now.

11. Which WIP is the angstiest? The way we get into each other's bones [Angstapalooza RWRB Edition]

12. Which WIP has the best characterisation (in your humble opinion)? ...I mean I hope all of them lol. For fun let's say Chantilly lace and a pretty face

13. Which WIP has the best scene setting (in your humble opinion)? Climb up and meet the sky, the vintage plane fic my beloved.

14. Which WIP have you worked the hardest on? The way we get into each other's bones [Angstapalooza RWRB Edition], though Years of dreams just can't be wrong has given it a surprising run for its money.

15. Which WIP do you have the highest expectations for? Why? The way we get into each other's bones [Angstapalooza RWRB Edition] -- I wrote a fic lovingly deemed angstapalooza for another fandom and people collectively lost their shit over it, so... idk I guess y'all love pain???

16. Do you dream about any of your WIPs? Yes. And then I wake up and can't remember enough to write it down and then I cry.

17. Do any of your WIPs have particular complexities that your other fics don't? Oh for sure! The Last Five Years || The Next Five Years has the non-chronological chapter order baked into the format, so making sure the chronology is right and that readers can follow where we're at is a complexity. [horny soulmates] has one of those worldbuilding things where the less thought you put into it as a reader the better because otherwise it's a Problem so trying to make sure it makes sense without being horrifying if you think about the real world implications is a balance lmao. What's left of me in our little vignette has some time-related fuckery. [Orpheus and Eurydice] is written in verse, so. You know.

18. Which WIP is the funniest or has the most humour? In terms of what's actually written right now, probably Hold up, rewind, knock me off of my feet? But I like to think they're all funny lol.

19. Do any of your WIPs contain outside POVs or a deep dive on a character other than the main ship? How are you finding that process? [Henry/Alex/Liam/Spencer] runs through all four listed POVs which is fun and also requires a lot of pondering about whose POV we have when for maximum impact. [Rafael prequel], Rafael is surrounded by disaster queers [Actor AU verse], Secret Agent Raf 5+1 [Actor AU verse] are all Rafael POV, but the latter two are actor AU verse so I have a bit more leeway -- the first one is is canon compliant, though, so teasing out the little info we get about him and building the timeline is a beast of a job. [Shaan/Zahra] is fully epistolary so doesn't technically have a POV I guess.

20. Tell us one thing we don't know about one or more of your WIPs. The way we get into each other's bones [Angstapalooza RWRB Edition] is a prologue + 10 chapters and all those chapters are titled already lol, because I've never approached something in a normal order in my life.

Definitely NOT tagging as many people as I have WIPs holy hell but let's go @affectionatelyrs @celaestis1 @cha-melodius @clottedcreamfudge @cricketnationrise @daisymae-12 @dumbpeachjuice @happiness-of-the-pursuit @heybuddy-drabbles @hgejfmw-hgejhsf @hypnostheory @indomitable-love @inexplicablymine @lilythesilly @maxbegone @myheartalivewrites @nontoxic-writes @orchidscript @rmd-writes @sherryvalli @smc-27 @sparklepocalypse @stereopticons @suseagull04 @tintagel-or-cockleshells

[kiwiana-writes]

WIP ASK GAME

RULES: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

The Last Five Years || The Next Five Years

The way we get into each other's bones [Angstapalooza RWRB Edition]

[Alex & Bea fake date]

[arranged marriage redux]

[Bodyswap]

[D&D flirting]

[fetlife lol]

[Findom]

[Halloween Huh]

[Hands free]

[Henry writes]

[Henry/Alex/Liam/Spencer]

[horny soulmates]

[Leverage AU]

[Orpheus and Eurydice]

[Oxford slut era 5+1]

[Rafael prequel]

[Shaan/Zahra]

[Vegas fuckup]

As sure as the dawn brings the sunrise

Auroras and sad prose

Buzzing through my veins

Chantilly lace and a pretty face

Climb up and meet the sky

Hold up, rewind, knock me off of my feet

Just one moon (and one golden sun)

Rafael is surrounded by disaster queers [Actor AU verse]

Secret Agent Raf 5+1 [Actor AU verse]

What's left of me in our little vignette

Years of dreams just can't be wrong

“Tag as many people as you have WIPs” lol fml. There definitely aren’t 30 people in this list but I’m not counting haha. Tagging @affectionatelyrs @celaestis1 @cha-melodius @clottedcreamfudge @cricketnationrise @daisymae-12 @dumbpeachjuice @happiness-of-the-pursuit @heybuddy-drabbles @hgejfmw-hgejhsf @hypnostheory @indomitable-love @inexplicablymine @lilythesilly @maxbegone @myheartalivewrites @nontoxic-writes @orchidscript @smc-27 @stereopticons @suseagull04 @tintagel-or-cockleshells @welcometololaland

[kiwiana-writes]

WIP Wednesday

@cha-melodius tagged me for WIP Wednesday and I thought I'd do something a little different. I've been so hyperfocused on posting the Much Ado AU that my WIP folder has kind of... exploded out of control in the interim. SO! Below the cut is the list of every document in my RWRB WIP folder, exactly as they're titled in GDrive (with one exception, because I REALLY wanna hold onto that title until it's posted lol). Feel free to ask me anything about any of these! Maybe that will help me focus on actually finishing a couple rather than bouncing between a dozen different ideas... maybe 😂

[Eros and Psyche]

[Goddammit @ships-to-sail]

[Hands free]

[Leverage AU]

[Reality slipping]

[Relationship leak redux]

[Shaan/Zahra]

[Vegas fuckup]

As sure as the dawn brings the sunrise

Auroras and sad prose

BBH

Hold up, rewind, knock me off of my feet

TLFY||TNFY

Years of dreams just can't be wrong