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I can't wait it out, I'm going crazy here.

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JANE GREY & GUILDFORD DUDLEY in My Lady Jane [8/?] 1x05 — "I'm Gonna Change the World"

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a fp girldads ficlet

their daughter loves to read.

she quotes lizzy bennet from a very young age. she writes weirdly poignant poems about things like trees, and the mushrooms they found on david’s walk that they wouldn’t let david—or clem for that matter—eat.

“no idea where she gets that from,” alex likes to say.

(one day she asks what a torts is and is that the same as the torte cake daddy likes to make and why not. alex can’t really blame henry for all of clem’s odd reading choices after that.)

the kid likes books. alphabet books. love story books. law books (apparently). cookbooks. animal books.

even books for math class.

“if 1 fish and 1 fish make 2 fish,” she says, “then what do daddy and papa make?”

“an apple?” alex guesses.

“no!” frowns clem. “a clementine. duh!”

henry is laughing. clem says, “but why not TWO clems?”

henry takes alex’s hand. they both try hard not to smile.

for history class clem asks if someone from the secret service can come for show and tell. grandma ellen is out of town.

“sure,” grumbles alex. “why would you ask your old papa, he’s only governor of your home state.”

amy, who’s in the private sector now, does him a solid and goes instead.

for science class clem asks if he and daddy can both go. as trees.

she’s wearing a headband with a stuffed goomba attached by a small metal spring. it’s actually david’s so it doesn’t really fit.

she stands in front of her little classroom holding hands with tree alex and tree henry.

“i’m a mycelium,” clem says. she’s just lost a tooth and has a bit of a lisp. it’s adorable. “these are my dads. they are trees.

“i’m a mycelium because they’re big and i am small and they take care of me so that i can grow. but sometimes i can take care of them too.

“if one of them ever gets brown leaves or needs water i can get my other dad to come help. but 10 out of all the 10 times—”

(she’s learning her fractions; alex is so proud.)

“—they’re so happy together and love me so much. and because i’m a mycelium i’m part of how they love each other too.”

henry dabs at his eyes while clem’s classmates and her teacher applaud.

“sweetheart.” alex dries henry’s cheeks with a green felt leaf from his hair. “her speeches always make you tear up, huh.”

“yes, well.” henry gives him a watery smile. “that part she gets all from you, my love.”

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RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE (2023) dir. Matthew López

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Family pictures📸

Day 10 of rwrxmas!!!

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a little office christmas au

it’s a monday in the office, which is arguably one of the worst things.

and then, as henry goes to prepare his first cup of tea for the day, he sees the actual worst thing, which is this:

someone has planted a sprig of mistletoe above the doorway to the office breakroom.

this is a problem. the breakroom, firstly, has henry’s favorite water dispenser, which dispenses just the right degree of hot water for his tea.

now he has to use the other, less ideal dispenser because he will not be caught under that door next to someone horrid. hunter, for instance.

or, even worse: his office crush, alex, whom henry has only just recently got up the courage to speak to during lunch breaks, and now he can’t, and now his tea will be all cold.

he wonders who’s responsible for this. whoever it is should consider themselves lucky if henry never finds out.

“did you know,” henry says to pez one day, “mistletoe is actually a parasitic plant?”

“whoa,” says alex, passing by his cubicle. “who are you, scrooge?” he laughs his easy, beautiful laugh as he walks away.

henry rather wishes he could fling himself into the nearest paper shredder.

he knows it wasn’t pez’s doing; it’s exactly the sort of thing pez would proudly admit to if he could.

perhaps it was hunter? the thought is a bleak one.

but then henry spots nora and june putting the mistletoe to good use, which, good for them, and which solves that mystery, henry supposes.

one day henry has to double back to the office. he’s left his keys. he expects the place will empty.

except that it’s not, because alex is there. he’s taking the mistletoe down. he looks strangely crestfallen.

“what are you doing?” henry demands before alex can toss it in with the rubbish.

alex glances up, caught.

“it was you?” henry asks. “you’re the one who put up the mistletoe?”

“it was wishful thinking on my part anyway,” says alex.

“what do you mean?”

“you called it a parasite,” alex reminds him. “and”—he looks downcast—“you started making your tea somewhere else, so.”

“oh,” says henry, rather lightheaded. “oh.”

.

alex is still holding the mistletoe when they kiss for the first time. he drops it, forgotten.

henry keeps it at his desk now. he drinks his tea, which is perfect, and smiles every time alex swoops by his cubicle to sneak in another kiss.

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2k CELEBRATION

Janeford + pink for @guildfordd

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Sabrina Carpenter wearing BOB MACKIE – A Nonsense Christmas (2024)

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Bryan: We are P8.

Charles: WOOHOOHO!!

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If i was born as a blackthorn tree i'd wanna be felled by you, held by you

firstprince. pwp. movieverse missing scene. rated e. 3.9k for @ninzied 💖 happy belated bday 🥺

"Even now, Alex's mind can't help but race. It's simply what it does, with or without his permission. He hears the word love, in Henry's voice, over and over. I can love you. My love for you."

Still, the ratio of I love you's is off. Technically speaking. If he drops the can then he has one straight forward admission. If he ignores the semantics. But the semantics matter of his brain, and he wishes they wouldn't. He trails behind Henry as they quietly wander back to his rooms, barely holding hands. He suspects the reason Henry allows him to tangle their finger tips together is because it's so late that most of the palace is asleep. Even the staff. He can't fully tell if he's being held or lead, but he'll take anything Henry is willing to give.

Anything.

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Ice Skating⛸️

Day 6 of rwrxmas!!

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for @ninzied

"Oh," Alex says finally, faintly, touching one hand to his lips. Then: "Shit." [insp]

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what’s the first song on ur wrapped playlist that starts with the first letter of ur name

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It's so pure, so strong.

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he’s so proud 🥲

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Int: how does that kind of thing get smoothed out between drivers [Max and George] when you've had that intensity?

Lando: “I hope it doesn’t get smoothed out… I hope they stay fighting and arguing, because it’s amusing to watch”

a man of the people 😭