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slow burn by anincompletelist (soldouthaz) for caterpills
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
28 Nov 2025
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“We pride ourselves on being a supportive, tight-knit community here, Mr. Claremont-Diaz,” Srivastava says placidly, “which, conversely, really narrowed down our choices for part one of your research experience.”
“And what might that be?” Alex asks.
Srivastava’s head tilts, eyes slanting between he and Henry with as close to what he ever probably gets to modestly contained glee. “Enemies to lovers, of course.”
or, with both promotions and sanity on the line, henry and alex are tasked with being the test subjects for a social experiment in which popular romance tropes are put to the test. it works, and then it doesn't, and for however many books alex has erroneously judged by their covers, this one might just be worth getting lost in enough to keep.
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northern lights by anincompletelist (soldouthaz) for wi22iou
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
21 Dec 2025
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A doctor of mine suggested purchasing a journal, but I’ve proven to be more egotistical than I initially thought. Selfishly, I like the idea that all of this won’t simply be shoved into a drawer or a box or an attic someplace, eaten up by dust and time. I like knowing that someone else is on the other side of these, living and breathing and loving. I hope you stay that way for a long, long time, Alex. (And that you learn sometimes to be a bit selfish, too.)
May your gratitude be plentiful, and your silences all be good.
With love,
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21 Dec 2025
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He doesn’t go more than ten feet before the glint becomes more solid, and finally resolves into, yes, a mailbox. Thank fuck. There are letters on the side that he can’t quite make out until he gets closer.
A name: FOX.
“Are you fucking kidding me?” Alex shouts into the white void. The snow muffles most of the sound. Of all the fucking people.
(After an ill-advised attempt to get off the mountain before a snow storm hits, Alex finds himself stuck for god knows how long sharing the too-large house of his least favorite neighbor. Good thing there are lots of bedrooms, so at least he can stay far away from Henry Fox. Right?)
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21 Dec 2025
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Let's Take This Offline by jafffacakes for DezInTheCloud
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
19 Nov 2025
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5+1 rival co-workers
5 times Alex and Henry put a pin in it, and 1 time they circle back
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Henry claims it was an accident.
Not including someone in an email chain, when the someone is Alex and the email chain is the link and deadline for submitting your department’s budget request for the next financial year, that’s fucking sabotage.
So not only did Alex miss out on the chance to request an increase in budget, which he fucking needs because his team are working incredibly long hours and he needs to hire more people and also find some ways to streamline their processes, he actually lost budget. No new staff this year, no process simplification, just a team that’s overworked and underpaid and mad at Alex about it.
And, okay, Henry did send him a Teams message — so sorry Alex, it was an accident — the day the new budgets were shared and Alex realised he’d missed a cut-off he’d never been advised of. And that was it. Didn’t offer to give Alex part of his own budget, or to loan him an extra staff member to help out. Didn’t even find him in person to fucking talk it out.
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13 Dec 2025
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let the body keep the score by caterpills for looking4orion
Fandoms: Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston
19 Nov 2025
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Alex is lost. The next logical step would be to try to track him down, like, in person. But he’s not going to do that. That’s insane behavior. Those are the actions of someone who doesn’t know how to take a hint, even though Alex can’t scrub the words you’re incredible from his mind. He’s folded and refolded the note a hundred times in an effort to forget.
James wouldn’t write that if he didn’t mean it. Right?
But Alex is not, he is not, going to prowl around the city with irrational optimism that James will also be out on the same street.
He's not that desperate.
Or: Alex's one unforgettable night with a mystery guy named James turns into a search across New York City to find him again. He's just missing a key few details along the way.
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13 Dec 2025