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Hello! Happy (almost) winter! As we start to wrap up the year, we come to you with….a new Brownstone event! Introducing Wrap It Up: An AO3 Tag Exchange! Sign-ups close November 26th.

This will be similar to our summer switcheroo, with a few fun twists; instead of exchanging prompts, participants will be exchanging ao3 tags. The author can take their given tags in any direction they choose (as long as it loosely fits the winter vibes theme)! 

Also, this will be an anonymous exchange: you’ll post anonymously and gift to your prompter, and reveals will take place after all fics have been posted.

Timeline: 

Sign-ups close on November 26th, and you’ll get your assigned tags on December 1st

Fics should be around 1-3k (minimum 1k, can be longer but try not to get too crazy :D)

Fics are due on January 10th

Posting will take place between mid-January and early February (exact posting dates will be released once we have an event headcount) 

For ease of mass communication, you must be in The Brownstone discord server to participate in the event. Don’t worry, we don’t bite! FAQ’s and the link to join are in this post.

Also, we've now joined bluesky! If you wish to share the word of any events we are hosting, or you want to tag us in something you created for an event, you can find us here!

Thank you, and we can’t wait to see what you create!!!

[thebrownstone]

Thank you to all who participated in this year's firstprince week! If you haven't, please check out the firstprince week tumblr and twitter tag and our ao3 collection to see all the wonderful work people have made this year! It has been amazing to see what everyone created. If you haven't had the chance to post your firstprince week fic, the collection will be open for one more week.

Lastly, we did a couple of things differently than we did last year so we ask if you could fill out this feedback from. This way, when we start preparing for firstprince week 2025, we can take into account your preferences!

[thebrownstone]

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Today makes the middle of firstprince week! Can't wait to see what everyone has done with: “i can’t do this again.” and hot or cold.

Please check out the ao3 collection and browse the tumblr tags to see what everyone has come up with thus far. There is some incredible talent in this fandom.

[thebrownstone]

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Day three of firstprince week is here! What has everyone done with: in a different universe and blood, sweat, and tears?

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Day two of firstprince week is upon us! We can't wait to see what day two brings with: silver or gold and hurt/comfort

Thank you all who participated yesterday! If you have not done so yet, please check out the collection to see what fics have been shared thus far.

[thebrownstone]

FirstPrince Week 2024 - Day 1 -Lucky Secrets

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Prompt: "Did you get my note?" / Secrets

NSFW

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While Alex and Henry can be out in the open now, Alex did likes his secret notes to elicit endless teasing from Henry.

AO3

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It’s been a long time since they came out – well, were forced out of the closet – and since then, Alex and Henry have been allowed to attend the various events together as a couple.  It meant no more sneaking around into each other’s hotel rooms, they could just book one hotel room and know that they could go in together without worrying about who was watching.  It meant that they could be as appropriately affectionate as they want and not worry that someone’s going to spy them holding hands or the occasional kiss on the cheek and make it a big deal.  It's allowed, like any other normal couple. 

Which is everything they ever wanted.

Still, they do have certain responsibilities, so they can’t just hang out in the corner and make out no matter how much they want to.  They could also admit that they can be a bit distracting for each other.  Hence agreeing to split up inside the ball room of this event, determined to not distract each other too much.

Alex still likes to have some fun with him, though.  Which is why he’s taken to slipping little notes into Henry’s pocket whenever he steals a chance to walk by him and steal a kiss. 

The notes start very PG.  I really like you in that suit.

But as the night wears on they get more and more flirty and slowly go up the rating scale until his last note was rated R.  Every time I watch your mouth wrap around your bottle of beer, I imagine that it’s your mouth on my dick.  Any chance you wanna make my imagination come true?

He’s been watching Henry ever since he slipped that note into his pocket, so he’ll spot the exact moment that Henry finds it. 

Sure enough, some ten minutes later, Henry’s companion walks away, and Henry reaches into his pocket.  He reads it, and blushes so beautifully that Alex is straight up grinning when Henry’s eyes snap up to find his. 

Alex winks at him and tilts his head towards the door. 

Henry makes a show of checking his watch before he nods and then brings out his phone. 

Alex grins as he sees Henry’s text: You’re a demon and menace.  Meet me in our room in ten minutes.

It’s exactly what he was hoping for when he left that note.  So, he sends a thumbs up and make his way around the room to say goodbye to a few people before slipping out.  He’s grateful that the event in this case was in the ballroom of their hotel, which meant that it was easy to get back up to their room in the expected ten minutes. 

He’s first there, naturally, and he takes off his jacket and loosens his tie to get comfortable.  His shoes are left by the door and the second that he considers if he should pose or something, the door opens, and he’s pushed up against the wall with Henry’s lips on his and happier that his notes elicit this kind of response rather than what he’d been expecting.

It’s a deep and passionate kiss that has Alex weak at the knees.  By the time Henry pulls back, they’re both panting heavily.

“Did you get my note?” Alex teases after a second.

Henry’s eyes darken.  “Did I get your note you ask as if you don’t bloody well know?”

Alex grins.  “Have to entertain myself to get through these evenings with you so close yet so far away.”

“Do you now?”

“Naturally.”

“And you chose to entertain yourself by placing increasingly provocative notes in my pocket?”

“You didn’t find it entertaining, baby?” Alex asks, batting his eyelashes at him.  “Because the way you came in here kissing me like that suggests you liked it.”

Henry leans down and licks a stripe across his neck before he starts sucking a hickey.  With Henry’s body still holding him against the wall, Alex can’t wiggle way (but of course, he doesn’t want to).  It doesn’t matter that he’s likely going to get yelled at for getting a hickey because every time he looks at it, he’s going to remember Henry’s lips on his neck and the feelings of passion that his actions elicit.

Henry’s hands move their way down Alex’s button up as he continues sucking on Alex’s neck, clearly intending to undress him. 

Alex lets him, planting his hands on Henry’s waist and letting Henry take the lead.  Henry finishes his shirt and shakes it off of Alex, leaning back slightly with a glint in his eyes. 

Alex can tell without being told that Henry’s about to tease him relentlessly for teasing him all night which is exactly what Alex was looking for.  He grins at him, “What now, baby?”

Henry hums as he undoes Alex’s belt and pants.  “Think you ought to know.”

He doesn’t wait for a response as he pushes the pants down to reveal that Alex had gone commando. 

"Naughty boy, walking around important foreign dignitaries without pants,” Henry groans before he goes back to sucking on Alex’s neck. 

Alex knows he secretly loves it.  Something about knowing that whenever he wants to touch Alex there’s only one layer between him and Alex instead of two. 

“I was hoping to get lucky tonight, so I figured… no underwear, wanted my ass to look good.”

“It always does,” Henry murmurs against his neck, his hand teasing Alex’s cock. 

It almost feels like Henry’s wanting him to come from just his hand, but Alex knows better.  When he wants to spend the night teasing, he always starts here. 

Sure enough, as soon as he is about to go over the edge, Henry stops.

Alex groans.  “Baby.”

Henry gives him a kiss and lets go of him.  “Nu-uh, you wanted to tease me, now I get to tease you – which is exactly what you wanted.  On the bed.”

Alex steals a kiss before ducking out of Henry’s arms and moving to the bed.  He settles on his back in the middle and puts his hands up towards the headboard. 

“See, now, I didn’t even tell you to put your hands up,” Henry says as he moves to straddle Alex despite still being fully dressed.  His suit coat is on the couch in the room, his sleeves rolled up and he’s undoing his tie.  “Seems like my naughty boy wants to be tied up.”

“Always, baby.”

Alex can’t help grinning as Henry uses his own tie to secure Alex to the bed.  

“Good, love?”

“Perfect.”

Henry grins and he sits up and looks down at Alex running his hands over his chest as he admires him.  “You’re going to have a mark there in the morning.”

Alex hums.  “It’s worth the talking-to to feel like I’m yours.”

The spark in Henry’s eyes is exactly why Alex loves when Henry marks him up, and the kiss that follows feels like a reminder of how much he loves when Alex says he’s Henry’s.

The kiss breaks and Henry immediately begins kissing and sucking his way down Alex’s chest, leaving lighter hickeys than the one on his neck, but still hot as fuck and likely to last for days something Alex loves. 

Alex groans when Henry skirts Alex’s hard cock and instead kisses and sucks hickeys into his thighs instead.  He knows that all Alex wants is his mouth on his cock and deliberately keeping it from him.

"Please, baby."

Henry moves back up to be face to face with Alex.  "What's that, love?  You want me to suck more hickeys into your thighs?"

Alex shakes his head, wiggling at Henry's light touch on his marks.  "I want your mouth on my dick, asshole."

"Naughty, naughty, Alex.  Good boys ask politely for what their heart desires."

Alex chokes on a chuckle.  Yeah, his heart is the one doing the desiring here. 

"Pretty please, baby. I'll be your good boy if you'd just put your mouth where I know you love having it."

Henry hums but doesn't answer.

Instead, he makes his way down Alex's body, darkening the spots already made and makes it back to Alex's cock quicker than before, but still avoiding it. 

He hears the sound of the lube cap opening, however, and knows that Henry loves opening him up while teasing his cock with his mouth. 

Alex gasps as Henry starts to tease his entrance and kisses the tip of his cock.  "Please, baby."

"Patience, love.  I'll take care of you if you just behave."

Alex wiggles as he pants, "I always behave for you, don't I, baby?"

Henry scoffs.  "Almost never.  Always my naughty boy instead."

"I am -" he's cut off by Henry's fingering inside him hitting that sweet spot and he moans.

"You are most certainly naughty.  More naughty than nice, as evidence by not wearing any pants to the gala tonight."

“You like it when I don’t wear boxers,” Alex counters and wigging his ass so his dick is more in Henry’s face.  He wants his dick sucked and he’s going to do anything to get that.  “Please suck me off, Hen.  I need it,” he whines. 

Henry chuckles as he works in another finger, and thankfully begins to showers his cock with attention.  It’s so hot unable to run his hands through Henry’s hair as he goes to work.  Licking and sucking and absolutely teasing Alex, bringing him to the edge with that magnificent tongue and magic fingers – once, twice, three times – before stopping just as he’s about to go over the edge…

“Please, baby, just… get in me already,” Alex begs.  “I’ve been good – so good…”

Henry grins as he pops off of Alex’s dick and moves to undress himself.  “You have been such a good boy for me, I suppose it’s time for your teasing reward.”

It’s hot seeing Henry stand and undress and note the tightness in his slacks.  It’s hot knowing that he’d been naked and at Henry’s mercy while Henry was looking surprisingly put together as he teased Alex. 

Now, though, the man looks just as wrecked and nearly tears his own clothes off.  Once he’s naked, he grabs the lube and lubes himself off as Alex watches greedily. 

“Yes… please…”

“As you wish, my dear.”

Henry rejoins him on the bed and slides into him rather easy after all that stretching and prepping as he teased Alex.  It doesn’t take long for them to adjust and he’s getting fucked hard and fast.  He wrapped his legs around Henry’s waist since his arms are still bound to the headboard and completely loses his mind when Henry wraps his hand around his dick and begins pumping.

“That’s it, love, you’re right there… come for me,” Henry pants as he, himself, lets go. 

Alex can feel Henry filling him up as he lets himself go with a cry of Henry’s name.  He feels just like he did after Henry’s first blow job on him, like he has no energy, no words, just sheer pleasure. 

He vaguely notes Henry slipping out of him and licking up Alex’s come on his chest as he unties him from the headboard.  “Feel good, love?”

“Yes, yes, baby, so good,” Alex says, slowly.  He’s starting to come back to himself as Henry kisses him up and down, massaging his hands and arms as he does. 

Henry gives him a kiss on the lips.  “Would you want to hop in the bath with me or do you want me to just get a washcloth?”

Alex hums and wiggles around a bit.  “Bath would be nice if it’s not too late – what time do we have to get up tomorrow?”

Henry smiles, softly.  “That would be later today, but I knew what I hoped to do to you, so not until eleven since checkout is by twelve.  We have time for a bath.  I’ll go get it set up.  You rest.”

“Thanks, baby.  This was fun.”

“Aren’t I always?” Henry teases, but its rhetorical.  They always have fun together, now and forever.

“Always.”

[thebrownstone]

My first entry for @thebrownstone 's firstprince week, One Little Note, is here!

This whole thing had started when Pez had dared him to do something he never in his wildest dreams had thought he would ever go through with. After all, he might have known he was gay as a maypole for his entire life, but he had thought that he would keep that knowledge buried for years to come, maybe even take it to his grave, only voicing it to people he implicitly trusted such as Pez, who, as part of the queer community himself, had never judged Henry.

But then Pez had found out he had a crush on Alex one day when they were doing their homework together, and it had all gone downhill from there.

Or:

On a dare, Henry confesses his true feelings.

#firstprinceweek, #firstprinceweek2024, #firstprince week, #firstprince week 2024. 

[thebrownstone]

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Happy first day of firstprince week! We can't wait to see what everyone came up with for day one: secrets and "did you get my notes?"

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Hi, the channel is part of our discord server, which you can join here. Once you're in there, you'll be able to access all channels, including the one for fic links.

Hi, I wanted to know if I could please put a link to a fanfiction I wrote about Alex and Henry here?🙂

Yes, of course! We have a channel specifically dedicated to fic links. You can send it in the channel ⁠"attached-bibliography" as long as you remember to add rating, word length, triggers, tags, and a short summary (we have a template pinned in that channel if you need help).

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Hi, I wanted to know if I could please put a link to a fanfiction I wrote about Alex and Henry here?🙂

Yes, of course! We have a channel specifically dedicated to fic links. You can send it in the channel ⁠"attached-bibliography" as long as you remember to add rating, word length, triggers, tags, and a short summary (we have a template pinned in that channel if you need help).

[thebrownstone]

Introduction | FAQ | Discord | Twitter | Collection Hi everyone! Reminder that the second annual firstprince week starts just one week from today, and runs from September 27th to October 3rd! You can find the prompts here and our faq here!

Each day has two prompts, and you're free to choose your favorite or use both, it's totally up to you! You're also free to interpret the prompts in any way you want, and we welcome art, fics, edits, etc. The only requirement is that whatever you create focuses on Alex and Henry.

Fics should be posted to our collection on ao3. Feel free to let us know if you have any questions, and we can't wait to see what you all create!

[thebrownstone]

will yall do a kinktober prompt list as well?

Unfortunately, no. Our upcoming event, firstprince week, runs from September 27th until October 3rd. We want to put all our focus onto this event and posting a prompt list that intersects with our already established prompt list event would only overwhelm people. However, I'm sure there is someone out there with a list if you search for rwrb or firstprince kinktober.

[thebrownstone]

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Now ushering in the second year of the annual fandom-wide event dedicated to the beloved ship of Alex Claremont-Diaz and Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor! This event takes place every day from September 27th through October 3rd. Each day has two different prompts which participants are asked to draw inspiration from. Participants may choose one of the two daily prompts, or do both.

Every prompt is designed to be vague so that each person can interpret it differently! There is no right or wrong way to participate. Whether you are an artist, a writer, a video editor, etc, you can join!

This event is not exclusive to members of our discord. Prompts below.

Day One - Friday, September 27th

“did you get my note?” and secrets

Day Two - Saturday, September 28th

silver or gold and hurt/comfort

Day Three - Sunday, September 29th

in a different universe and blood, sweat, and tears

Day Four - Monday, September 30th

“i can’t do this again.” and hot or cold

Day Five - Tuesday, October 1st

fairytale and little white lies

Day Six - Wednesday, October 2nd

heaven or hell and soulmates au

Day Seven - Thursday, October 3rd

“hey, look at me.” and gravestones

[thebrownstone]

Introduction | FAQ | Discord | Twitter | Collection

Now ushering in the second year of the annual fandom-wide event dedicated to the beloved ship of Alex Claremont-Diaz and Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor! This event takes place every day from September 27th through October 3rd. Each day has two different prompts which participants are asked to draw inspiration from. Participants may choose one of the two daily prompts, or do both.

Every prompt is designed to be vague so that each person can interpret it differently! There is no right or wrong way to participate. Whether you are an artist, a writer, a video editor, etc, you can join!

This event is not exclusive to members of our discord. Prompts below.

Day One - Friday, September 27th

“did you get my note?” and secrets

Day Two - Saturday, September 28th

silver or gold and hurt/comfort

Day Three - Sunday, September 29th

in a different universe and blood, sweat, and tears

Day Four - Monday, September 30th

“i can’t do this again.” and hot or cold

Day Five - Tuesday, October 1st

fairytale and little white lies

Day Six - Wednesday, October 2nd

heaven or hell and soulmates au

Day Seven - Thursday, October 3rd

“hey, look at me.” and gravestones

[thebrownstone]

Introduction | FAQ | Discord | Twitter | Collection

Now ushering in the second year of the annual fandom-wide event dedicated to the beloved ship of Alex Claremont-Diaz and Henry Fox-Mountchristen-Windsor! This event takes place every day from September 27th through October 3rd. Each day has two different prompts which participants are asked to draw inspiration from. Participants may choose one of the two daily prompts, or do both.

Every prompt is designed to be vague so that each person can interpret it differently! There is no right or wrong way to participate. Whether you are an artist, a writer, a video editor, etc, you can join!

This event is not exclusive to members of our discord. Prompts below.

Day One - Friday, September 27th

“did you get my note?” and secrets

Day Two - Saturday, September 28th

silver or gold and hurt/comfort

Day Three - Sunday, September 29th

in a different universe and blood, sweat, and tears

Day Four - Monday, September 30th

“i can’t do this again.” and hot or cold

Day Five - Tuesday, October 1st

fairytale and little white lies

Day Six - Wednesday, October 2nd

heaven or hell and soulmates au

Day Seven - Thursday, October 3rd

“hey, look at me.” and gravestones

[thebrownstone]

Introduction | FAQ | Discord | Twitter | Collection 

Do I have to join/be a member of The Brownstone discord to participate? 

No! Everyone is welcome to participate! The more the merrier! Please share this with anyone who may be interested in joining.

Is Not Safe For Work (NSFW, 18+) content allowed? 

Yes, just as long as content is properly tagged.

Is this event solely dedicated to either the book or the movie?

No! You can do something for either, just be sure to properly tag your works. If you write a movie fic, make sure to put it under the movie ao3 tag: Red White & Royal Blue (2023). If you write a book fic, make sure to put it under the book ao3 tag: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston. Please, however, do not cross tag if not applicable. 

Do I have to participate every single day? 

Nope! We know that can be a lot. Just do the one(s) that excite you the most if you can’t do them all.

Can I post more than one submission per prompt/day? 

Yes, of course! If you are inspired to create multiple projects for one prompt, that's incredible.

What tags should I use on sites other than ao3? 

On socials, we recommend using any of these tags: #firstprinceweek, #firstprinceweek2024, #firstprince week, #firstprince week 2024. 

 Is there a firstprince week ao3 tag?

Last year, members used the tags “The Brownstone Discord’s firstprince Week 2023”, “firstprince week 2023”, “firstprince week”, and others. These were all wrangled together, however it is not mandatory to use any such tags. On ao3, you can just add your fics to our collection.

Can I write a story in a language other than English? 

Of course! 

Should I post my works as chapters of the same fic or as individual fics?

Up to you! However, we recommend posting each fic as an individual work, especially if you end up writing a multi-chapter fic one day. We would suggest separating the fics for an easier reading experience for others.

Are there any requirements/suggestions about length for fics?

Nope! Feel free to write as much or as little as you’d like!

Can I create something that happens to involve a side ship? 

Sure, as long as that ship is secondary to firstprince. This is, first and foremost, firstprince week after all.  

I don’t make fanart nor do I write fanfic, what can I do to participate? 

Anything! Many things are still available to you even if you don’t want to write or do traditional art. You can make gif sets, fancams/edits, playlists, or whatever you can come up with. 

Can I post my submissions late? 

Yep! The collection will remain open for one week post the event.

Will there be other rwrb ship weeks? 

Maybe! We hope to do this again for other ships, but we want to focus on this event right now. 

If I have further questions, where can I ask? 

Feel free to submit a question through our tumblr ask box.

[thebrownstone]

Happy 2nd birthday to us!

In celebration of the server's anniversary today, we are announcing Summer Switcheroo: a prompt exchange event.

Running until July 21, with posting following shortly after, members will be asked to submit a one sentence prompt and will receive an anonymous one sentence prompt in return (partners will be announced prior to posting). Prompts may be a one sentence line of contextless dialogue ("Mamma mia, here we go again, I guess."), a one sentence vague plot summary (Alex teaches Henry to cook), a brief description with some tags (Fluff childhood friends-to-lovers Junora au that's so sweet, it'll make my teeth fall out), a short list of words that must be included (Somehow come up with a fic that includes all these words: marry, village, execution, hierarchy and reliance), or anything else you can think of. We encourage you to get creative!

If this sounds familiar, you may recall our anniversary event from last year. We’ve made a couple of minor changes, but this is still the same beloved event. If you enjoyed the event last year, or you want to participate for the first time, sign ups are now open! Sign up before June 27th to join and receive your prompt on July 1st. Sign up for is only available in the server, so please join to access the form. More information will be available upon sign-ups, and if you have any questions, feel free to ask in the server or DM a mod.