literally anyone: hey what are you thinking about right now
me, at any given moment: i’m not like you. i can’t afford to be reckless. i wasn’t raised by a loving, supportive family like you were. i have centuries of history bearing down on my shoulders. my life is the crown, and yours is politics, and i will not trade one prison for another. i can love you, and want you, and still not want that life. i’m allowed. alright? and it doesn’t make me a liar, it makes me a man with some infinitesimal shred of self-preservation, and you don’t get to come in here and call me a coward for it.
RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE (2023)〡SUCCESSION S03E04
RED, WHITE & ROYAL BLUE ↳book > screen
“I’m not like you. I can’t afford to be reckless. I don’t have a family who will support me. I don’t go about shoving who I am in everyone’s faces and dreaming about a career in fucking politics, so I can be more scrutinized and picked apart by the entire godforsaken world. I can love you and want you and still not want that life.
I’m allowed, all right, and it doesn’t make me a liar; it makes me a man with some infinitesimal shred of self-preservation, unlike you, and you don’t get to come here and call me a coward for it.”
Alex takes a breath. “I never said you were a coward.”
1. The sound of your laugh when I piss you off. (@magsalecs)
2. The way you smell underneath your fancy cologne, like clean linens but somehow also fresh grass (what kind of magic is this?). (@alexshenry)
3. That thing you do where you stick out your chin to try to look tough. (@tylerposey)
4. How your hands look when you play piano. (@nostalgiaisabitchhuh)
5. All the things I understand about myself now because of you. (@userstede)
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. (@magsalecs)
7. Your ability to recite Keats. (@magsalecs)
8. Your ability to recite Bernadette's "Don't let it drag you down" monologue from Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. (@darwinsfinchesx)
9. How hard you try. (@sheisraging)
10. How hard you've always tried. (@stevenrogered)
11. How determined you are to keep trying. (@simon-eriksson)
12. That when your shoulders cover mine, nothing else in the entire stupid world matters. (@magsalecs)
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). (@sheisraging)
14. The way you look when you first wake up. (@magsalecs)
15. Your shoulder-to-waist ratio. (@gay-bucky-barnes)
16. Your huge, generous, ridiculous, indestructible heart. (@thomasbrodiesandwich)
17. Your equally huge dick. (@tylerposey)
18. The face you just made when you read that last one. (@uglygreenjacket)
19. The way you look when you first wake up (I know I already said this, but I really, really love it). (@magsalecs)
20. The fact that you loved me all along. (@magsalecs)
— I can't match you for prose, but what I can do is write you a list.
Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (2019) and Matthew Lopez (2023)
Credit to all the gif makers and editors, the real heroes of the fandom.
Robbie Taylor Hunt will probably go mostly under the radar but he needs and deserves all the props and praise for his work on Red white and royal blue.
intimacy coordinators deserve so much credit and he did an outstanding job with this film!!!
"I fell in love with a person who happens to be a man, and that man happens to be a prince. He has captured my heart and made my life immeasurably better."
(It was *I will not* not *won’t* but you get what I mean)
Henry saying “I won’t trade one prison for another” is probably one of the most devastating lines in modern cinema and it broke my SOUL.
Henry saying “I won’t trade one prison for another” is probably one of the most devastating lines in modern cinema and it broke my SOUL.
I have the absolute biggest crush on Nicholas Galitzine kshdjshfbx this just revived my obsession
I’m having a crisis I’m crying I hate this movie
Nicholas Galitzine has a sadness in his eyes that you only see in Eastern European gay porn
rwrb spoilers (??????)
THEYRE SO SO SO PERSONAL TO ME. Seeing queer people in love and happy and pure makes me feel joy only other queer people understand.
rwrb kinda spoilers
had me sobbing queer movies always leave me in depression
sorry to all the gaylors who follow me and didn’t want to hear about rwrb I’m just so they’re just so
IM GONNA THROW UP THAT MOVIE INVOKED TOO MUCH EMOTION
So I just finished the movie and it’s so good it’s so cheesy it has those moments that I laughed my ass off that I had to stop because a off Hard I was laughing. It’s a really good romcom and honestly Taylor and Nicholas have such a great chemistry that it was amazing. I can’t wait to rewatch it tomorrow and reread the book. ❤️