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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hard to say no to a Capri re-read ever, right? You know it's going to hit. "A kingdom, or this." "You were watching the road." She's just so good.....

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ok, this is such a good point! Casey could have dropped the world's most exquisite prose, but it wouldn't yet /feel/ like the words we've read over and over again for years.....

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

OMG THANK YOU for posting this NJ....just read it, felt so....underwhelmed? And then felt bad about feeling underwhelmed bc, like -- it's CMQ's! How could I not love it? Trying to remind myself that it's okay to pick and choose, even among the works of a beloved author...

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Right?! I have many questions....

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ok. Genuine concern. Been so excited for "RWRBPC" but....fic may have ruined canon for me? That A&H "Spice Diary" thing? Cute! Fun, fluffy, sexy. But without consulting bookmarks, I can think of ten cute, fun, fluffy, sexy FP fics I liked a /lot/ more? Is the fic in this fandom just... too good?

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also? That scene with the gray wall, did you see the lowest level of the 3D images in the cement are wine glasses? I feel like there's so much wine=blood=death... Plus the whole pregnancy horror subtext? I actually thought the bumps in the wall were to mirror the packets the pill used to come in...

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

👀🤯 /Damn/. That is so fucking dark and I *love* it! You know, that would maybe explain why the flowers were/appeared black?!

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

YES! Did you ever see the film Traffic? In that film, each character's scenes had a -- unifying color tint to them. I kept thinking: She's doing the same thing here but instead of different characters it's, like, different stages of awareness/self-knowledge/maturity?

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Sorry I'm kind of babbling here but it has occupied an outsize segment of my brain all day....

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wanna, like, read a long form essay on the costuming decisions ALONE -- and ANOTHER that places it in the context of ghost stories you don't realize are ghost stories/ghost stories that turn out NOT to be ghost stories but something worse (ie The Others/ Sixth Sense/ Turn of the Screw/etc)

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

OK I JUST LOGGED ON EXCLUSIVELY TO SEE YOUR REACTION 😆 It's fabulous -- I am *drowning* right now but still watched it twice this am and was like: This woman has read Jane Eyre, she has read Rebecca, this is a *mind at work*. Somebody give her a full fucking script to direct pronto....

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is now canon. (LOVE this, Lib!!)

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“Would you like me to go get a fucking referee?” 🤣🤣🤣 I mean....

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

HEYYYY!!! No, please, like -- it MEANS something now, you know? Wouldn't change a thing. (also hey, hi, how're you? ❤️)

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

WHILE AT THE SAME TIME Nora the numbers-obsessed girl can't handle emailing June, who she KNOWS is a writer, so she gets ACD to help...and Alex and Henry end up falling for each other! Epistolary-style. Ok, icky bc ACD is technically writing to his SISTER. But. I think there's something there?)

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

(AND AND AND omg can't you just SEE a double-Cyrano FP fic in which so-in-love June freaks out over sending an email to Nora, so she enlists her literary super-brain book club pal Henry to help...

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

That gives you a totally different ACD character as well as a different Haz. And I kinda can't believe how much changes bc of flipping that one little switch.... So I guess this is me asking how you saw that playing out? (And @whimsyhuh.bsky.social I really hope you write it! Cuz now I gotta know!)

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And I realized I couldn't guess what you'd answer. Like, Royal Aide feels like the obvious choice? But you like making non-obvious choices in your stories. But -- but then ACD is, like, really all about that hot prince bod? He doesn't care about Henry's mind or heart?

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

(Sidebar: How is there NOT a FP Cyrano fic out there somewhere already?) But what I need to know is: Do you still see Alex and Henry as endgame? Even if Henry cannot read/write? Didn't craft the emails that seduce Alex? Or are Alex and the ghostwriting Royal Aide endgame here?

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

And thinking about why we all seem to agree on which is which. (FSOTUS ACD? Eh, optional. Coffee-lover ACD? Mandatory!) But also: Illiterate Henry -- and a universe in which the emails still exist but were written by somebody else (?!) -- feels like such radical change? Like -- you Cyrano'd them!

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@everwitch.bsky.social I can't stop thinking about this. (Like, I logged on at work -- which I do NOT do -- bc I just had to, like, vocalize this.) So -- so -- so on the one hand, you're so right -- why is SOME of canon changeable and some of it sacrosanct? We should totally be challenging that.

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The funny thing is the Austin bat bridge turns up in other fic from time to time -- but for me, also, it's ITQITC that made it "real." God, I can't even listen to that song anymore, it's too evocative. (Nor "Ditmas," neither. B/c of @richhellle.bsky.social those tunes are forever marked!)

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Lifeguard Alex fic! FirstPrince+beach+a bonfire= Perfection archiveofourown.org/works/572496...

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ok this one she wrote FOR ME SPECIFICALLY so of course I adore it -- but, like, you will too! How could you not -- it's got extra helpings of Nora! And Dr. A writes the *best* Nora: archiveofourown.org/works/60526786

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you gotta fake it til you make it (and I did) - theprinceandagcd - Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023) [Archive of Our Own]

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This one -- in which jogger Alex falls in love with the Henry he spots in a window he runs past day after day -- just haunts me. Like, I think about it ALL THE TIME. archiveofourown.org/works/60695797

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transfixed by rose golden glows - theprinceandagcd - Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023) [Archive of Our Own]

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I know she's written kidfics that get a lot more love, but for me, this is THE kidfic in her catalog -- Henry's niece Sophia is judge-y and demanding and moody and so fucking real, I adore here: archiveofourown.org/works/61112383

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(you left me no choice but to) stay here, forever - theprinceandagcd - Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023) [Archive of Our Own]

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Love Thorns, her longest, is also dark, also dear to me -- sense a theme here? -- but , like, what makes the back half hurt so good is the deep joy and connection and the screen-incinerating heat of the first half: archiveofourown.org/works/642302...

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love thorns all over this rose - Chapter 1 - theprinceandagcd - Red White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue (2023) [Archive of Our Own]

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In recognition of Dr. A's natal day, may I present: My personal faves among the birthday girl's collection of FirstPrince stories! Read 'em! Re-read! Comment! Of all her soulmates fics, this is THE best imho: Sweet and thoughtful and the soulmate mark is cool: archiveofourown.org/works/73347421

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Look, lord knows I am a complete fucking novice here, but -- send yourself emails? About what you're GOING to write whenever you get that doc open? Or details, or lines of dialogue? (I'm not saying I do this in work mtgs but...I'm not NOT saying it either....)

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I walk into the club like: Whaddup? I got a big.....heart?

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Oh my god -- Eight Cousins and Rose in Bloom!! LOVE those so much! Prolly my fave Louisa May stories this side of Jo's Boy -- and wow, yes, the Mac-and-Rose story is SO ripe for first-prince-ifying! Although it must be said -- she did Charlie dirty! My kids to this day complain about his fate 😆

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sami's right, this year felt different. I think anyone who was in NYC that day still feels like it was pretty fucking recent. But it wasn't. It's hard to process. And Esquire mag really needs to stop pushing that damn Falling Man story on socials. I never want to see that picture ever again, FFS.

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

❤️❤️❤️ You are the sweetest! 🫂

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Just a head's up, y'all: The second @everwitch.bsky.social drops this one, my phone's going on DND and I'm canceling all my plans. Cannot WAIT to read this....

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

💯 (er....after Bowie, of course)

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Are you shitting me? THE Gillian Anderson? Blonde, hot, 50-ish, used to be on a TV show about aliens?

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

So pretty! I love that this photo makes Nick/Henry look -- a little bit mean? I know we all love soft boi babygirl Nick/Henry, but OG book canon Henry also has a lil bit of a dickish side too -- which Alex /loves/ -- and I feel like you can see it in this shot, this stare. V. hot.

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Ugh, so sorry Dani! That's the worst. I hope you're able to find a doc who will listen and actually help! (God knows they're few and far between -- and usually booked months in advance -- but there are some out there!)

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We are two countries divided by a common language. 😂 Most Americans probably know what it means? But it's in the category of words -- alongside, like, "forsooth" and "daresay" -- we would only ever use if wearing a corset and petticoat in some kinda cosplay scenario...

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Agreed. The wavy hair really works for him.

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

😆 So sorry about the fortnight from hell! Sounds awful. (Although "fortnight," at least to American ears, makes it sound awful in at least an interesting, slightly Gothic way?) Looking forward to squealing right back at you when you have time!

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

He is just ridiculously pretty. And could teach a graduate seminar on the power of accessories...

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ExitScariel @exitariel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yes! Hop in, we're going to the big top -- peanuts and pop corn are on me! 🥜🍿 Pez is the ringmaster, obviously...

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