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    my muses, acquired like bruises by

    Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston  

    27 Mar 2024

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    “I love you, Alex,” Henry says reverently, his eyes welling up with unshed tears. “I have loved you since I truly understood what love was. I’ve been in love with you for so long that it feels like it’s a part of me. I can’t part with it. You needed to know, Alex. After all this time, you needed to know.”

    “Sweetheart,” Alex says cautiously, tightening his hold when Henry tries to pull his hand away. “I love you. You know I do. More than anyone on this whole damn planet. I’m flattered; It’s just that, um, I’m straight?”

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    Alex thinks he's not in love with Henry when he confesses his love for him. But he is, isn't he? It's too bad he realises it after Henry starts dating someone else.

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    13 Jun 2025

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    Some Part of Me Came Alive by ,

    Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023)  

    28 Jun 2024

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    Henry has spent many lifetimes roaming this earth, far more than any other man he’s met. When he'd rejected Apollo’s advances and refused to be his lover, the jealous god cursed him with two gifts – immortality, and a soul mate Mark, a statue on his forearm, the promise of love but the curse of never knowing when, or for how long, his lover will be in his life.

    So he spends his life befriending artists, allows the great sculptors to cast him in stone and draw him on canvas and hopes it will lead him to the one who might have answers to it all. But as time moves forward and the world advances, so does Henry. He reads and learns, occupies his endless hours with knowledge and begins to think it was all a cruel joke, that Apollo just held love over his head and never intended for him to find it.

    He's visiting one of the sculptures of himself at the V&A, a direct likeness to the mark on his forearm when he feels it – a gaze that drops when Henry looks up, and when he sees the boy standing across the atrium, also admiring the statue… it all falls into place.

    Maybe love wasn't completely avoiding him, after all, he just was too impatient to wait for it.

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    20 Jul 2024