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stood on the cliffside screaming (give me a reason) | M | 2.5k

TW: Su*cidal Ideation (but no attempt or serious consideration)

Henry doesn't know how long he's been sitting on the cliffside. Time moves differently when his mind is fighting itself. Seconds take hours. Hours take minutes. And the minutes are fickle, haunted things—here and gone in a blink, in the slow drag of an inhale, in a single beat of an aching heart.

for @shesfromboston <3

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stood on the cliffside screaming (give me a reason) | M | 2.5k

TW: Su*cidal Ideation (but no attempt or serious consideration)

Henry doesn't know how long he's been sitting on the cliffside. Time moves differently when his mind is fighting itself. Seconds take hours. Hours take minutes. And the minutes are fickle, haunted things—here and gone in a blink, in the slow drag of an inhale, in a single beat of an aching heart.

for @shesfromboston <3

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and all of this wild joy | 4.3K words | Rated T

Part 4 of the Matchmaker Kidfic series

“Brie.” Alex wraps his hand tighter around Henry’s ankle, needing the connection to keep him steady. “Do you… do you think you want a sibling?” “Yes,” Brie says, sounding certain. Like she’s been thinking about this for a while. “A little one. Like Aunt June and you.” The thing is, Alex and Henry have talked about it. They both love Brie more than the entire universe, but they also would love another child. They’ve looked into adoption a few times, considered how they’d handle the process if they ever decided to go for it. There’s money saved back that they haven’t decided on a use for, but that’s always been an option. This is the first time the idea has felt real, though.

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and all of this wild joy | 4.3K words | Rated T

Part 4 of the Matchmaker Kidfic series

“Brie.” Alex wraps his hand tighter around Henry’s ankle, needing the connection to keep him steady. “Do you… do you think you want a sibling?” “Yes,” Brie says, sounding certain. Like she’s been thinking about this for a while. “A little one. Like Aunt June and you.” The thing is, Alex and Henry have talked about it. They both love Brie more than the entire universe, but they also would love another child. They’ve looked into adoption a few times, considered how they’d handle the process if they ever decided to go for it. There’s money saved back that they haven’t decided on a use for, but that’s always been an option. This is the first time the idea has felt real, though.

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and all of this wild joy | 4.3K words | Rated T

Part 4 of the Matchmaker Kidfic series

“Brie.” Alex wraps his hand tighter around Henry’s ankle, needing the connection to keep him steady. “Do you… do you think you want a sibling?” “Yes,” Brie says, sounding certain. Like she’s been thinking about this for a while. “A little one. Like Aunt June and you.” The thing is, Alex and Henry have talked about it. They both love Brie more than the entire universe, but they also would love another child. They’ve looked into adoption a few times, considered how they’d handle the process if they ever decided to go for it. There’s money saved back that they haven’t decided on a use for, but that’s always been an option. This is the first time the idea has felt real, though.

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BRIE AND GRAHAM/CHEESE AND CRACKERS I’M DYING OVER HOW FUCKING CUTE THAT IS 🥹🥹🥹

AHHHH TY TY I THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE TOO CHEESY (PUN INTENDED) BUT I'M SO GLAD IT WORKS AGDHFKLFLSL

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and all of this wild joy | 4.3K words | Rated T

Part 4 of the Matchmaker Kidfic series

“Brie.” Alex wraps his hand tighter around Henry’s ankle, needing the connection to keep him steady. “Do you… do you think you want a sibling?” “Yes,” Brie says, sounding certain. Like she’s been thinking about this for a while. “A little one. Like Aunt June and you.” The thing is, Alex and Henry have talked about it. They both love Brie more than the entire universe, but they also would love another child. They’ve looked into adoption a few times, considered how they’d handle the process if they ever decided to go for it. There’s money saved back that they haven’t decided on a use for, but that’s always been an option. This is the first time the idea has felt real, though.

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and all of this wild joy | 4.3K words | Rated T

Part 4 of the Matchmaker Kidfic series

“Brie.” Alex wraps his hand tighter around Henry’s ankle, needing the connection to keep him steady. “Do you… do you think you want a sibling?” “Yes,” Brie says, sounding certain. Like she’s been thinking about this for a while. “A little one. Like Aunt June and you.” The thing is, Alex and Henry have talked about it. They both love Brie more than the entire universe, but they also would love another child. They’ve looked into adoption a few times, considered how they’d handle the process if they ever decided to go for it. There’s money saved back that they haven’t decided on a use for, but that’s always been an option. This is the first time the idea has felt real, though.

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em dash is so fucking sexy. puts her in a paragraph 8 times.

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If you’re LGBT reblog and tag with your opinion on beer.

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setting up a tiny detail in one chapter to pay it off in the next few chapters feels sooo devious like oooh i can't wait to write the small little reference here that 70% of readers will miss but 30% of readers will cheer for

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come out and haunt me, i know you want me

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Bob: Why did the chicken cross the road?

John Walker: I don't know, why?

Bob: To get to the idiots house. Knock, knock?

John Walker: Who's there?

Bob: The chicken

John Walker: Listen you little shit.

Yelena: Whoa, Whoa, calm down.

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ELIZABETH OLSEN AS WANDA MAXIMOFF — DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS // (2022)

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fic pride tag game

thank you for the tags @suseagull5914 @anincompletelist and @dizzymisslizzie <3

Rules: list and link the top ten fanfictions/series you’ve written that you are most proud of x

love thorns all over this rose | E | 104k baby's first long fic 🥹

Alex wasn’t made to be the type of person that will cook someone breakfast in the morning. Dancing around with someone he loves in his underwear isn’t something he gets to have. He’s awful at remembering anniversaries and inept at thinking of grand romantic gestures. Candlelit dinners, handmade cards, buying flowers—it’s just not what he’s built for. And that’s fine. Alex doesn't need any brave hero to save him, and he sure as hell was never meant to be anyone else's prince charming. That's why this—his thing with Henry—is the perfect solution.

but daddy, you love him | M | 16.4k I thought I wasn't a kidfic person, but this is my kid.

Alex peers up at Henry’s face, the familiar tenseness in his jaw and mildly disinterested eyes nowhere to be seen. Instead, Henry’s expression is open and borderline delighted, like Brie used an extra strong shot of sorcery to draw Henry in and melt the ice that he usually stays locked behind. Suddenly, Alex’s vague crush on an unapproachable coworker feels realer, all because he’s standing there and looking at Alex’s daughter like she hung the fucking moon. He’s treating the most important person in Alex’s life—his entire goddamn heart—as if she truly matters to him, giving her fist bumps and smiling at her and telling her she’s beautiful like her dad. It’s doing weird things to Alex’s chest and making his palms sweat even in the air conditioned office, and he can’t decide if he’s okay with that development or if he wants to stick his head in Brie’s Easy-Bake oven.

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we broke all the pieces (still wanna play the game) | E | 8.5k gay chicken, my beloved. my legacy, probably.

“Henry.” Alex crawls over and braces his hands on Henry's thighs, sitting up on his knees so that he can meet Henry's gaze. His own lips curl automatically when he sees that Henry is already smiling, but he schools his features into a more serious expression. “Do you want to play?” “Do you?” Henry reaches out to push a curl away from Alex's forehead, trailing a finger down the side of his face and making Alex shiver. He leans down until his mouth is beside Alex's ear, and Alex feels lightheaded all of a sudden, his breath held hostage in his lungs. “Because you're going to lose.” Alex shoves him away, shaking his head as that challenge reverberates in his brain and sparks fire in his veins, accelerating his heart rate as he grins. “You're fucking on, Fox.”

(looked to the sky and said) please, I've been on my knees | M | 7.5k the prophecy is THE inspo song, tbh.

But Henry is not Alex’s. He won’t ever be Alex’s to hold and cherish and love. Because Henry chose someone else. That searing pain is why Alex has folded his limbs into a patio bench on their balcony, feeling petulant and hating himself for it. It’s the reason that he’s a quarter of the way into the bottle he’s holding and pouting up at the sky, looking for stars that he knows are there but aren’t showing themselves to him, like maybe they’ve abandoned him, too. He feels like he’s staring up at an endless expanse of darkness and wishing on fucking nothing, his prayers falling on deaf ears and getting forever lost in that infinite abyss.

with all these nights we're spending (my broken bones are mending) | M | 13.2k this one is just a personal favorite <3

It’s unexpected, and the softness that Prince Henry maintains is a shock to his system. It makes him want to say something, even if it’s only to ask how his day was or to request an explanation for why he spent nearly fifteen fucking minutes looking at Cupid and Psyche with a forlorn look in his eyes. When he moves on, Alex gazes up at the sculpture and tries to discern the magic that must have captured the prince’s attention, but he comes up with no answers. Which makes him want to ask more. But he isn’t supposed to.

one single thread of gold tied me to you | M | 13.4k baby's first AU 🥹

“Does it… make you frightened about your soulmate? Or add more stress for you to find… them?” Alex runs a hand through his hair and stops at his neck, squeezing. The pressure keeps him held together as he listens to Henry’s breathing on the other end of the line. “A little. I don’t want to – I can’t get it wrong like they did. Not that I’m not happy to exist or whatever, but everything is so strained any time we’re all in the same fucking room. I just don’t want that.” “I’m sure…” Henry hesitates. “I’m sure your soulmate will be the most wonderful thing, Alex. I can’t imagine anyone destined to be with you ever doing anything other than… well, other than loving you completely.”

I don't wanna dance, if I'm not dancing with you | G | 3.3k my first fp fic - the one that I daydreamed about for weeks <3

"You want me at a ball?" "I want you with me as often as possible," Henry says, immediately, as if it's obvious. Maybe it is. "But yes, it would be nice to have you there. I'm not necessarily actively trying to anger my grandmother, which you being there might, but... Well, she hasn't exactly extended an invitation but I have just as much right as anyone to bring a date and--" "Baby." Henry's rambling stops short on what nearly sounds like a gasp, and Alex grins to himself. Sometimes, his boyfriend is too easy. "Do you want me there?" "Yes." "Then I'll be there."

the altar is my hips (we might get away with it) | E | 3.7k the one I'm going to hell for xo

“We’re in a hallway in the White House,” Henry whispers fiercely, but a small whine slips past his lips as Alex starts stroking him, pure cotton material soft under Alex’s fingertips and contrasting the pronounced ridge of Henry's length underneath it. “In the residence, with us being the only ones staying on this side tonight,” Alex tells him, continuing his ministrations and grinning at the feeling of Henry hardening in his grip. “The closest secret service agents are on the other side of that door—” He jerks his head to his left. “—and around the corner at the bottom of this staircase. As long as you or I don’t sound like we’re in mortal peril, they’ll stay exactly where they are.” Henry swallows, and Alex has to bite back the temptation to follow the movement with his fucking teeth. “Right.” “So.” Alex tugs the elastic of Henry’s shorts down enough to pull his cock out. “Can you avoid sounding like you’re dying, your highness?”

you can run (but only so far) | M | 13.5k this one has a lot of pieces of myself in it <3

The next morning, Alex told his parents goodbye and Henry drove him to the airport, both of them sleep-deprived and solemn. Henry hugged him in the shadow of the Delta help desk and kissed Alex’s lips like Alex was his fucking oxygen, the only thing keeping him breathing. Alex was still hoping, reeling as he stared down the path in front of him that didn’t include Henry. It didn’t feel right, pressing his mouth to Henry’s and wondering if it might be the last time. Even on the other side of security, with his bag slung over his shoulder, Alex looked back. Henry was walking away, toward the giant glass doors, his head hung and his hands in his pockets. Alex watched him go, letting the tears fall from his eyes as Henry disappeared. His heart ripped from his chest as he took the most painful breath he’s ever taken in his life, because Henry was Alex’s oxygen, the only thing keeping him breathing. But Henry let him go. Henry didn’t ask him to stay. So Alex left.

fell through the ice (came out alive) | M | 7.4k what can I say, the TS inspired ones stick with me :D

“We both know you’re not upset about him, though. Right?” Henry can see the recognition in Alex’s eyes and knows there won’t be any lying or pretending here—Alex already knows the truth. “Does my reputation precede me?” Henry asks, his voice coming out softer than he intended. “Sort of,” Alex whispers. “But I’m also very perceptive.” “Hm.” “Did you have to break his heart?” Alex asks, and there is something kind in his eyes now—almost understanding—which Henry finds preposterous. There’s no possibility that Alex understands who Henry is, why he has to do the things that he does. “It’s what I do, I suppose,” Henry tells him, wary of the cracks in the ice ahead of him as he takes another step. “Or haven’t you heard?” Alex hums, not put off by Henry’s dismissal. “Have you ever considered that it might be a gift to have a heart that’s been broken by you?”

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one thing about me is I’m going to make weird noises about it

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Fic Nostalgia Tag Game

Thank you for the tags @caterpills @clockwrkpendrxgon @onpurposewrites @bitbybitwrites @onthewaytosomewhere and @miharaikko <3

Rules: Share the fic you posted as close to exactly one year ago as possible. You can just post a link if you like, but feel free to talk about it too! How did you feel about this fic then, how do you feel now? Do you love it, hate it, has your writing changed at all? Anything you’d do differently in hindsight? Go nuts!

Mine is right there beside him (all summer long).

Ah, my baby lifeguard!Alex fic. This was the only thing I posted in July of 2024, and it finished posting on August 3, 2024. It was originally meant to be a long one-shot. I wanted summer vibes, a beach town, whirlwind summer romance, and I thought I could do it in about 15k and post it, easy peasy.

And then I was 15k in and not even halfway through the idea. I decided to write smut (which still fucking terrified me at the time - thankful for growth for real). I wanted to make it a little angsty, a little devastating (with a happy ending, of course). For the first time ever, I thought, "Maybe I could do something a little longer. Maybe I could do chapters."

So, I did. It winded up being five chapters and 47k words. I was posting it as I was writing it, with @exitariel000 solidifying herself as the forever beta of my heart while she helped me work through it and figure out the ending. It was such a cool thing to put something into the world that had chapters, because I had put myself into the box of only writing one-shots for SO long and was terrified to do anything longer. I thought I couldn't do it, that I wouldn't be capable of writing something cohesive if it got too long, or anything that would pack a punch and still give a satisfying ending that made those chapters feel earned and worth it.

And then, this time last year, I started working on love thorns all over this rose, because I did the thing! I wanted to do it again. If you know, you know, but that fic then turned into a monster that I didn't expect - 100k+ words, 11 posted chapters (9 full chapters + a prologue and an epilogue), but it all happened because I did this fic first. Because I proved to myself that maybe I could write longer fics.

So while I know that if I did this idea again, I'd do things differently and probably create something better (I think I've really developed my writing ALOT in the last year, both in getting better and finding my writing voice, as cringy as that sounds), I have this fic to thank for love thorns, for the DWTS AU I'm outlining. It gave me the push I needed to do one-shots and longer fics, when I thought I would never be able to pull off the latter. It was the catalyst, and I'm really grateful for it even if I know I could probably pick it apart now if I tried (I'm not going to, though <3)

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@agostobuwan @anincompletelist @anyroomsrio @blueeyedgrlwrites @dani-dabbles @dizzymisslizzie @dreamtigress @everwitch-magiks @firenati0n @fullsunsets @henryspearl @heysweetheart-writes @inexplicablymine @itsmaybitheway @jmagnabo92 @milowren29 @msmarvelouswinchester @myheartalivewrites @ninzied @nontoxic-writes @orchidscript @pinkamour1588 @porcelainmortal @priincebutt @read-and-write- @softboynick @sophie1973 @stellarmeadow @suseagull5914 @thesleepyskipper @thighzp @thinkof-england @tinyarmedtrex @wordsofhoneydew + an open tag to anyone who wants to (just tag me in the post - I want to see what you say <3)