#the rwrb book 😭😭😭😭

[redwhiteandmorallygay]

[klainelivin]

look at these idiots when they got caught kissing😭

[camelotsheart]

it is an eternal curse of mine to see a tall dark haired man and a popular blond guy be in a close relationship and then immediately label them as incarnations of merlin and arthur. i am so sorry to all my friends who will have to put up with all of my screaming once the red, white and royal blue show comes out. i apologise to my parents who have already put up with me screaming while watching the trailer

[kidovna]

Day three of asking if you’re going to be doing the new Henry POV chapter fanart 

I did draw something for it. @clea-art commissioned this as soon as I read the chapter!

[rockingtheorange]

*HIGH PITCHED SCREAMS*

From PrimeVideo on Instagram

[userautumn]

My want-it-not-to-be-toxic trait is Casey McQuinston making me believe Texas can be blue. Inject that hope and optimism and WORK into my veins.

Texas CAN be Blue!!! We are speaking that into existence, babe. Texas will be Blue for the first time since 1976, insahallah and amen!

[mulderscully]

i've forgotten if they're green or they're blue (5/5)

tags: firstprince. rated e. multichap. timeloop/magical realism. multiverse. angst with a happy ending. book/movie smash up. complete. 18k.

summary: When the worst snowstorm New York city has had since the Great Blizzard of 1947 snows Alex and Henry into their Brownstone, Alex falls into a bizarre dream and awakens in a world much like his own. Only it seems like he's suddenly five inches shorter, five years younger and why is Henry the only person who can tell? 🎄

AKA, Movie Alex falls into Bookverse before he and Henry got together.

[READ FROM THE BEGINNING]

In the dimly lit room, the soft creaking of the weathered floorboards echo with each step as Alex finds himself trapped in the labyrinth of his own thoughts. The air hangs heavy with uncertainty, mirroring the weight on his shoulders as he paces back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, his mind entangled in a web of how.

How can he explain something he can barely grasp himself?

Since he was a child he's always had an active, sometimes too active, imagination. That inner child still exists in everyone. Sometimes when sleep drunk, that degree of sleepy where everything is funny, he's had Henry confirm that; yes, he would still love him if he were a worm, or if he got shrunken to the size of a mouse.

("I would carry you in my pocket, dear.")

So. There's that.

READ ON AO3

[hemali-smh]

AN INCOMPLETE LIST: THINGS I LOVE ABOUT HRH PRINCE HENRY OF WALES

1. The sound of your laugh when I piss you off.

2. The way you smell underneath your fancy cologne, like clean linens but somehow also fresh grass (what kind of magic is this?).

3. That thing you do where you stick out your chin to try to look tough.

4. How your hands look when you play piano.

5. All the things I understand about myself now because of you.

6. How you think Return of the Jedi is the best Star Wars (wrong) because deep down you’re a gigantic, sappy, embarrassing romantic who just wants the happily ever after.

7. Your ability to recite Keats.

8. Your ability to recite Bernadette’s “Don’t let it drag you down” monologue from Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

9. How hard you try.

10. How hard you’ve always tried.

11. How determined you are to keep trying.

12. That when your shoulders cover mine, nothing else in the entire stupid world matters.

13. The goddamn issue of Le Monde you brought back to London with you and kept and have on your nightstand (yes, I saw it).

14. The way you look when you first wake up.

15. Your shoulder-to-waist ratio.

16. Your huge, generous, ridiculous, indestructible heart.

17. Your equally huge dick.

18. The face you just made when you read that last one.

19. The way you look when you first wake up (I know I already said this, but I really, really love it).

20. The fact that you loved me all along.

red, white and royal blue - casey mcquiston

[voidstilesplease]

rwrb movie came out a week ago and I'm not done freaking out over it and now the percy jackson series just dropped a release date and that thirty-three second clip already looks perfect? I'm thriving

[purpleshadow-star]

So, in preparation of the movie coming out next month, I reread Red, White & Royal Blue. I just finished it, and then I rewatched the trailer for the movie, and tbh, I have some concerns.

The thing I love so much about the book is the emotion. Alex and Henry are complex people with deep emotions. Confident on the outside, but struggling and nervous and anxious on the inside. Sure, the trailer looks fun, but I'm really hoping the more vulnerable sides of Alex and especially Henry are going to be shown in the movie.

The trailer also makes it seem like Henry doesn't like Alex either, at the beginning? Like, at the beginning of the book, the fact that Henry never really started out their interactions with antagonism like Alex did stuck out to me so much. Henry himself even says it! We know that Henry liked Alex the whole time, and it's shown through the fact that he always tried to be civil while Alex was the one who started their conversations with snark and sarcasm. That's why Alex enjoyed the moments when Henry would let a bit of fight come out. That's why it was such a noticeable thing to Alex when Henry snarked back at him during his first visit to England post-wedding.

In the trailer, it makes it seem like in the beginning, Henry doesn't like Alex just as much as Alex doesn't like Henry, if not more so. Movie Henry seems so openly antagonistic towards Alex, especially in the cake scene, and tbh it just feels wrong to me. The failure to portray Henry's feelings for Alex and his reluctance to participate in Alex's antagonism like the book does (especially considering we were seeing Henry through Alex's pov) makes me worry about whether or not Henry's more complex emotions will be shown in the movie at all, and Alex's too for that matter.

Also, I noticed that in the scene where Alex and Henry talk in the kitchen at the palace during Alex's fisrt visit to England post-wedding, it seems like they took out what was important about that scene and replaced it with surface level antagonism and snark to really sell the whole 'rivals to lovers' thing or something. It's like they're trying to convince us that Henry sees Alex just as much of a rival as Alex sees Henry, when that's just not the case. In the book, that's the scene where Alex really starts to see Henry for the first time, even if just for a moment. Not the put together Prince of England, but the sleep rumpled, pajama-clad insomniac who just wants some ice cream.

In the move trailer, it shows Henry wearing a dress shirt and tie, and his tone is snarky when talking to Alex, when in the book, Henry is genuine and unsure of himself. This is another time when we see that Henry has never really tried to be antagonistic towards Alex out of nowhere. In the trailer, it seems like Henry is going to be acting in the opposite way.

I'm not saying the movie has to be a word for word exact portrayal of the book because I don't believe that. A good adaptation will inevitably have to change things, but it only works if the changes make the story better, or at least if they make sense. Right now, I can't see the benefit of changing Henry's character so much. The Henry that I saw in the trailer, at least at the beginning of it, honestly doesn't feel like Henry at all to me.

The last third or so of the trailer, especially the clip of (who I'm assuming is) Bea asking Henry if he loves Alex, gives me hope that they'll get into the more emotional sides of these characters, but tbh I'm still kind of worried.

(Also, side-note, I hate the fact that June's character was cut entirely. She was there for Alex when he needed her, and her character gave us more insight into the complexities of the first family. She showed us that kids of divorce can see things differently when it comes to their parents, and as a child of divorce myself who has had differences of opinion with my sibling, I loved seeing that in the book with June and Alex. And, of course, there was her whole dynamic with Nora. I hate that she won't be in the movie at all. I hope they don't also cut the fact that Nora is queer.)

I don't know, I was skeptical of the movie at first after just seeing the teasers (though, tbh, I'm always skeptical of book to movie adaptations at first. Maybe it's the Percy Jackson fan in me), but after the trailer came out, I had more hope. Now, after rereading the book and having all the details fresh in my mind, I'm worried again. I know that trailers are made of clips that often times make more sense in context, so I hope the movie itself gives us more than the trailer implies. It makes sense that they'd want to mostly show the happier, more fun sides of things in the trailer so people will want to watch the movie.

I get that they might just be trying to go for a fun, not super deep, silly, comedic movie kind of vibe, but tbh, as fun and silly as rwrb is, it's also so much more than that. Some of my favorite parts of the book are the more serious parts. The parts where we see Alex and Henry's anxiety and insecurities. I really hope the movie shows at least some of these moments.

I'm definitely still going to watch the movie once it comes out, but I'm kind of concerned about how the story, and especially the characterization of the characters, is going to be portrayed. Hopefully, I'll end up being concerned about nothing. The last third of the trailer suggests that this will be the case, and I really hope it is!

I think the movie can still be enjoyable even if it doesn't show us the deeper and more nuanced sides of these characters, but can you blame me for hoping to see the reason why I fell in love with the book in the first place, the deep emotions of these characters, portrayed on screen?

(Tbh, I kinda lost track of my thoughts here. I think I'm concerned about Henry's drastic change in character more than anything else. It's easy to believe that there are more emotional scenes in the movie that we haven't seen hints of yet because obviously they can't show everything in the trailer. Henry's characterization, on the other hand... we've been shown two different clips of him that explicitly imply that he will be much different than the Henry we see in the book, at least in the beginning. Again, context is everything, so maybe it'll make more sense in the movie, but I can't imagine what context could be given to make those clips of Henry character accurate. And tbh, imo, there's no excuse for replacing soft, pajama-clad Henry in the kitchen scene with a dressed, snarky version of him)

(Also, the election isn't mentioned at all in the trailer? Tbh I think the book could have integrated the political parts a bit better than it did, but I still enjoyed it, especially at the end with election night. I guess if they set the movie in current day, an election won't make much sense, but the election and the stress and responsibilities that come with it add so much to Alex's character, and I honestly hope it's still included in the movie)

[jakeperalta]

in hindsight it is amazing that I managed to get two literature degrees because I am terrible at remembering any details of any book I read

[every-aj-needs-an-angel]

Lines from RWRB that made me laugh out loud/inadvertently snort tea up my nose

Chapter 14

“I’m flying at fasten-seat-belts right now”

Like a dashing hero here to rip bodices and mend war-torn countries

“Nicotine patch, bitch”

“I’m a one-man bisexual wrecking ball”

“Aggressively pink, innit?”

“I wonder if they’ll have you do a line of skincare products like Martha”

@estrellami-1

[queenhelenblackthorn]

apparently if you buy an ebook on google books they can change the cover whenever they want. I'm gonna strangle someone cause why did my rwrb cover just change to the amazon movie poster!!!!

[merrrrrrrrry]

Helllo I ask 🤲🏼🤲🏼

[cranberrymoons]

still absolutely reeling this morning over the discovery that the reason I always try to do a long slow morning where I hang out in bed and drink two cups of coffee and one of tea is because I accidentally folded that into my personality 12 years ago after reading an Andrew Garfield fanfiction written by CASEY MCQUISTON WHO THEN WENT ON TO WRITE RWRB

[titsthedamnseason]

WVERYTHING ABOUT THE CLOSET SCENE WAS PERFECT. THE WAY THEY WERE SMUSHED TOGETHER, ALEXS FACIAL EXPRESSIONS, THE CONVERSATION