$#*! I See

Meet the inspiration behind the side characters of Queried Sick!

Queried Sick 🧡🧡🧡 😷 Pandemic 📚 Publishing 👨‍❤️‍👨 Coworkers to Friends to Lovers 🏳️‍🌈 Bisexual disasters 📱 Texts/Emails on the page 📺 TV dates 🫂 Found family + Anxiety and Rheumatoid Arthritis Rep

If you tag “MC has cancer” rather than just “cancer”, your work will make it past filters.

Carefully curated filters designed to protect one’s peace, mental health, etc.

So, if you’re including potentially triggering things, don’t make it into a sentence. Keep it short and simple.

And @jazzerdoc told me it reminds her of a fic by @dumbpeachjuice and I read it ofc and loved it so I read pretty much everything they have written and yeah I am in love so I read the new short fic No Hablo Español and I loved it and it made me miss nyc and i… yeah i drew sth for it haha:

People are angry. Trump voters are angry. About government layoffs that impacted people who they KNOW were performing their jobs with distinction, about the removal of support for their disabled kids in their schools, about the halt of cancer research, about food prices and recalls and the spread of disease, concerns about national parks’ longevity for future generations, about the suspension of aid.

People are angry. The same people that voted for Trump, or stayed silent about their political leanings until this point, are posting videos of Trump and Elon and calling them liars. They’re posting videos of impacted workers talking about the important, widely overlooked, jobs they do that contribute to the underlying foundation of American’s health and safety. I’ve seen reposts of Methodist, Baptist, and Catholic church statements condemning Trump’s actions and reminding him of the “moral imperative to assist those in need” that all humans should have regardless of faith.

People are angry and they’re saying “this isn’t what I voted for,” or, if they were of the quieter minority in these deeply republican communities, they’re saying, “Hey, look what you voted for. Look what you’ve done.”

It’s the most ✨wonderful✨ time of year! AKA time for the annual RWRB Christmas fic exchange that I do with some friends every year. Would you believe that this is our fourth year doing this?

For the next 8 days, we’ll be posting a fic anonymously each day to the Don We Now (Even More) Gay Fanfiction collection on ao3. I’ll update this post with the links to each fic as they go up. The author reveals will be shared before New Year’s Eve ☺️

I’m so excited to see what everyone’s come up with!

Day 1: Home for the Holidays || M || 9.3k || a gift for @indomitable-love

When Alex discovers that Henry's Christmas plans involve staying in their apartment alone, he does what any good roommate would do and drags Henry along to his family Christmas at the lake house. It's a win-win situation, since everything is better for Alex when Henry is around. Henry is his person. Completely fucking platonically, of course.

PS. If you're looking for more firstprince holiday fics you can find our earlier Christmas fic exchanges here: 2021, 2022 and 2023

cc: @welcometololaland @three-drink-amy @clottedcreamfudge @everwitch-magiks @athousandrooms

History in the Making

A Red, White, and Royal Blue Zine

It has been so wonderful to work with this talented, passionate fandom over the past months to create this piece. Happy 2nd birthday to Red, White, and Royal Blue. Two years ago this book took all of our hearts by storm, and this is our celebration of its enduring effect on our lives—on our own histories, so to speak.

Read the zine here: https://bit.ly/3uPOryv

Cover design by @caitybuglove23​ Layouts and Formatting by @scone-lover​ Dividers and Frames by @ru-dimental​

The first fic is here! Thank you to everyone who submitted prompts - hoping to get everything done and wrapped up before October. Happy September, everyone!

little self indulgent comic dedicated to my two favorite bisexuals :)

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Thanks, as always, for supporting my work. I’m excited to share more of my creative journey with you. 💖 -V-

Am I the last RWRB stan to know about this???

The place where Henry talked about Orion, where Henry asked Alex who he'd be if he were an anonymous person, where Henry couldn't hold his feelings back anymore and they came tumbling out in the form of the most iconic kiss in history, and where Alex faced his feelings for the first time,