Posting has begun for Keyboard Karaoke, a RWRB songfic exchange! You can read from the collection. We’ve got a fun mix of songs, so for a preview of what’s coming, check out our event playlist (below). We’re so excited for everyone to be able to read all the fics!

new rwrb fic! "a little burnt, a little beautiful" (M, 3.5k, oneshot) a study in angst, addiction, and the bonds of family through tumultuous times #rwrbsky #rwrbfic

will I finish this draft or will the draft grab my hair call me baby and toss me off the side of the bridge? jury is out

Too many changes had taken place in the past week. It was setting my world off-axis. 'What's going on?'

bright young women. I'm full of rage. 5 stars.

happy death day arthur fox, you will always be famous <3 🦊 henry pov 🦊 grief and introspection 🦊 kidfic (but the baby is mostly a prop) (like the skull in hamlet) archiveofourown.org/works/66779410 #rwrb #rwrbfic

Happy father's day to firstprince dads and firstrprince dads ONLY #rwrbfic archiveofourown.org/works/66502894

Introducing April Showers Bring May (De)Flowers, an NSFW fic prompt event! The event is simple: spin 3 prompts from the prompt wheel, write a fic inspired by them, and post your fic to the ao3 collection between April 28th and May 4th with the prompts in the notes. LINKS BELOW! Happy writing!!!

the phrase "narrows [their] eyes" had totally escaped me while writing for the past month, but the action hadn't. my characters have been doing a lot of squinting. they should get their eyes checked.

considering changing from third person limited to third person omniscient 17k in. someone take me out now.

pov you've written 12k this month on a decade-old fic

I’m consciously uncoupling from my Duolingo streak… I WILL BE A SLAVE TO IT NO LONGER.

modern tragedy: an author wrote one series consisting of four of the best fics you've ever read, then stopped writing for the fandom

Happy WIP wednesday from these two seeing eachother for the first time in 30 years!

people say “you need to start living in the real world” but they forget that the real world includes lupines and lightning bugs and ginger beer and starlight and sea coasts and Renoir paintings and Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos and fog banks and foxes playing in snow.

(pretends to be shocked)

AND if I happen to start seeing the drarry vision in the process ... look away

if I start reading wolfstar fic in these trying times, everyone needs to look away

thirteen year old me had serious balls for writing hp fic in first person

Character death but he gets better

Time to get FANCY. 1904. www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=8...

entering what I believe to be good-faith conversations with the big yellow eyes leering hungrily at me in the deep dark woods

this is about putting a man in a situation

Books

Sad bear, painted using @maxulichney.bsky.social's watercolor brushes. #Illustration

and if I write student!alex & ta!henry pwp. what then.

I can work with this

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie

me and my cider against the dan and phil show #dnptit

June & Bea big sisters based on the book #rwrb

some more notes/doodle drawings - this time with lawyer alex! 😙😙 #rwrb #firstprince

Introducing "Wrap It Up: An AO3 Tag Exchange!" Participants will exchange their favorite ao3 tags, for their gifter to take in any direction within the winter theme! The exchange is anonymous; reveals will take place after fics have been posted. Sign-ups close Nov 26.

what does my name mean to you? #rwrb #firstprince

come on in, the water's fine!

hello #rwrb bluesky! founded in 2022, we are a discord server centered around the novel Red, White & Royal Blue! inspired by Alex and Henry's home mentioned at the end of the novel, we do our best to be a safe space for the rwrb fandom <3 for FAQs and the link to join: thebrownstone.tumblr.com

Your writing will get better, every time that you write it gets better, even if you don't notice it. You will look back and see how far you've come and much you've improved and you will learn to love not only the 'end product' but the process to get there

☄️

there is nothing better than recommending your favorite book to someone and them coming back and telling you they loved it. absolute cocaine of a feeling. put that shit in my body immediately

Life is short. Write that novel. Paint that painting. Try new recipes. Learn black magic. Go into the forest at night. Summon a demon. Earn that demon's trust. Become best friends with it. Brag to everyone else about your new cool demon best friend. Knit that sweater.

today I offer you a merman prince and a pirate. tomorrow? who knows... #rwrb

If anyone’s looking for alternatives to GoodReads, I highly recommend StoryGraph. It’s owned by a black woman, and the platform is so much more accessible and easy to use.

Freddie Mercury wrote "I want to ride my bicycle" as a rebuke of American city planning

good, very sad, soup

y’all ever just live for the hope of it all?

hi, I'm quinn! you may know me as ifigo on ao3, or as a mod on the brownstone server for rwrb! if you don't know me and this somehow finds you, I'm glad to meet you in this new light!