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cupofteainme · 2 days

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I've been so happy with queer representation in Young Royals. I also have notes. Here are some musings about season three.

We didn't get to see many ripple effects of Wille coming out in the show, but trust me, the world changed the moment he held that speech at the end of season two.

Nils and Stedrica

Nils found the courage to come out to his best friends. We don't know how much he was directly affected by Wilhelm. The common struggle with restrictions and the the graduation seemed to tighten the bond between August, Vincent and Nils. Honesty was a strong thread of the season. Wille's confession inspired students to come forward about iniations, later even August yelled at people to stop arguing and to just be sad about Hillerska closing—to be honest about their feelings.

We can make a mental leap and say that Nils was affected by these events and found his courage to be more honest. He also complimented Wille on his bravery and asked the prince if he regretted coming out and Wille answered with a firm no.

I liked how Nils said that he 'sleeps with guys'. You could see how hard it was for him to tell him friends. In season two Nils uses the word 'gay' about himself to Wille. I like how YR shows how people can use different definitions of themselves in different situations or choose to be unlabeled. I got a feeling that this was a huge first step on Nils' journey to accept that part of himself.

Stella and Fredrika are minor characters so they didn't get much screentime regarding their romance. Them ending up together was motivated by something the show explored in season two with Simon, Marcus and Wilhelm—jealousy. While I enjoyed Rosh being frustrated with her gaydar, Stedrica's arc left me wanting. In season two, Stella told Sara that she hesitates to make a move on Fredrica in fear of losing her beast friend if they break up later and things get awkward.

In season three we weren't shown what made Stella feel like she and Fredrica have a good enough chance to succeed in their relationship to put their friendship on the line. It's a shame. I would have loved to see some character development.

The audience is introduced to the sexual side of Stedrica straight after the white party when emotions ran high, Rosh was there to hit more on Stella and the teens were drinking and partying their hearts out. At the time of Stedrica's hook-up Wilmon were broken up, demonstrating exactly what Stella was afraid of—losing the other person completely. We can say that Wilmon didn't set up an encouraging example for them.

Even though Frederica's face looks blissful with Stella, I'm left wondering, am I supposed to read their kissing as a passing fancy that they can play down as part of their friendship again. ("every girl makes out with her best friend while drunk")

I was hoping for some connection to the main story with their arc. It could have been something with honesty, one remark from Stella to Madison for example: "I can't keep lying to my best friend."

Choosing the foundation

Queer matters were lifted to the table and discussed in the scene where Wille needs to pick his charity. Good for Simon for encouraging Wille to use his platform. I especially loved hearing that Wille knows how his love for Simon is changing the world. Not bad for a sixteen year old who's been out of the closet for five seconds.

Let me say this clearly: Queer people don't have to represent a group they identify with, not even Crown Prince Wilhelm. A young person's identity is rarely so strong yet, that they have the strength to carry the public's negative reactions. We saw how much online hate hurt Simon. He and Wille both have the right to protect their identities and relationship. Simon deserved better help with his social media.

Wille told Simon in season one that he doesn't want to say anything (referring to the sex video). At the end of season two, Wille took it back in his speech, but his attitude didn't change. It was a part Wille wanted to keep as private as he could. Over time, Wille could talk about both his mental health and his queerness more openly and in a way that would affect change. He has time to do so when he grows up.

I thought that the pressure for Wille to use his queer identity for good press would have come from the monarchy. It was mentioned once when Farima talked about new royalists and then dropped altogether.

I don't know why YR wanted to differ from the real Swedish monarchy in this instant and rule out LGBTQIA topics as political, when in real life the Crown Princess has taken a stand for them. (Plot reasons, duh, but it's irritating. I was under the impression that for example the amount of LGBTQIA rights and the discrimination LGBTQIA people face are on the same level in real life Sweden and in the YR universe. When one detail doesn't match, it makes the whole foundation wobbly).

That said, LGBTQIA rights don't exist in a vacuum. Sport and health foundation is a brilliant and super topical place to advance non-discrimination and inclusion in sport. Wille could advance LGBTQIA rights without drawing attention to himself when he's underage, perhaps still figuring out his identity and in his first relationship with a boy.

I can't stress enough how impactful it would be to have a queer Crown Prince (or King!) patronage a sport foundation. We can see that the pictures in the launch event of the foundation are taken with diversity in mind. Even if this is a PR strategy on the Court's part, people far removed from the court are going to work in those charities every day. And what do people think about when they see Wille's name and title associated with the foundation? The answer is not a straight boy playing football.

I hoped that YR would have shown in more concrete way that Wille understood the positive impact his queerness brings to people. We got a moment like that with Simon on the First of May when he was asked to take a picture. He got to feel like a role model. Wille could have had a similar encounter at his birthday or even at Hillerska. I feel like the show very carefully avoided to give Wille any good experiences related to the monarchy.

Is there homophobia at Hillerska?

There is a disconnect in how much hate we see Simon get, how Wille is not allowed to support queer rights versus how casual and obvious being queer is to Hillerska students. We saw girls at Hillerska openly kissing next to August in season two. Nobody batted an eye. The students of Hillerska knew it was Wille in the video and there was gossip but no negative reactions.

Young Royals seemingly treats queerness as a neutral or positive thing—even the biggest bully Vincent is not a homophobe and supports Nils when he comes out. Simon's parents are cool with their son being gay. Wille gets personally no backlash after his speech (or at least we don't see him be affected by it as Simon is).

Season three paints a very gloomy picture in contrast. 1. Simon gets mostly negative comments online. These comments hit to where it hurts, into the intersection of Simon's identities (latino lover) and his aspirations with music (chacing clout). 2. Queen Kristina falls sick straight after her son comes out. 3. Erik took part in homophobic hazings that were a tradition at Hillerska.

We don't get to see instances of this homophobia in the school or in the interactions between students except in s2e4 in 'Wille to the table' scene when the Forest Ridge boys celebrate Wille kissing Felice (and conforming to the heteronormativity). It tells us that being straight is the preferred option.

Young Royals claims that homophobia is in the walls, it lives in traditions and institutions. I partly agree. Homophobia needs also people to survive and everyone at Hillerska was shocked and appalled by the hazings. That made it kinda feel like YR put homophobia on-call for plot reasons.

Where is my big scandal about homophobic monarchy?

The journalist in Sweden might have had a keen interest about the disappearance of their Queen from active duties especially when it coincided with Wilhelm's historical coming out speech. Any accusation about the Queen's homophobia would have been devastating for the Monarchy in a country where support for same sex marriages is over ninety percent. (Go Sweden!)

Media would also have a field day about the hazings and their connection to Erik. It's very recent history. The media would wonder if Erik was a victim and/or the perpetrator. No way there would be radio silence. The burning question would be if the freshly out-of-the-closet Crown Prince suffered from homophobic hazing as well.

In season one, Wilhelm had to give a statement about a video he denied being in. In season three Wille has just come out and it turns out that his school has messed up homophobic traditions, the Queen is unable to perform her duties and it's confirmed that somebody filmed the Crown Prince with another boy and uploaded the video. There is nothing 👀

Queer up!

Wille's character is not only queer for loving Simon but queer in the broader (queer theory) meaning of questioning the prevailing conditions by bringing in new ideas, like in season one: 'What if I just want to be with him and not say anything?'

Wille never had the tools to question his position morally or academicly. At the same time he always knew what he wanted at the emotional level. Simon helped Wille with these questions. They had talks about the monarchy and Wille said he was learning from Simon.

Simon was the catalyst for Wille to find his voice and to figure out what he wants his life to look like. More than that, Simon's character allowed the viewers to look into the life of the rich and powerful through queer theory's lens: questioning, revealing, challenging status quo.

Whatever direction their ways ago after the ending, Wille's and Simon's love will continue to make a difference.

#also gay sex is holy #long post #young royals analysis #young royals #young royals does queerness so well #stedrica #nils young royals

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absentlyabbie · 11 months

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this post from @imwiremother got me imagining vampires who take humans as familiars, but not in a renfield way.

the familiar is a blood donor, sure, and gains things like extended life, somewhat enhanced healing, maybe a little increased stength or slightly faster speed, etc, but the sweetest part of the deal for both is a different exchange entirely.

the vampire and familiar share a connection which, when the familiar opens themselves to it, allows the vampire to share certain experiences and sensations. such as the taste of a strawberry, or the warmth of sunlight on the skin, the decadence of chocolate. but it has to be the choice of the familiar to share their experience. they can unilaterally shut down the sharing connection, as a sort of failsafe against abuse.

it's a positive symbiosis which encourages the vampire to provide comfort, safety, health, pleasure, and joy for their familiar, ensuring through self interest if nothing else that the familiar is well cared for and given the best life has to offer so that the vampire may experience the echoes and edges of it, which without a familiar is denied them and eventually lost to them.

quite literally the vampire living vicariously through their familiar. and the familiar gets the better end of the bargain to balance out being on the lower end of the power balance between them.

#vampires #fiction musing #fiction #i'm just saying #immortal vampire and their mortal best friend with extended lifespan #sharing together in comfort and pleasure and looking after each other's wants and needs for the good of them both #vampires with familiars are more human themselves for having that slender thread of connection with humanity and life #it makes vampires better and enriches their long lives and it keeps humans safe from over-predation and most cruelty

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badheart · 6 months

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Saying goodbye to Bleach.

After much thought, I finally realized I'm done with Bleach, still hold it dearly and all (with a few fav characters), but for roleplay I rather completely focus on my OCs & Modern Verse now and even there is my time a bit limited. Reasons I did quite a follower clean up, and I've yet to determine what I do with Kugo... He's still part of the team, just not sure what role to give him in modern, or just OCify him (but then again I rly cling on his name, just no bleach verse for sure anymore, the air is out)

The rest who stayed will feel no difference to my blog (I mean there wasn't anything bleach themed since a good while). To the ones I have yet to interact with, I am really just tired and lazy, so my plotting skills suck quite a bit atm. I rather not disappoint, so no hurry there. Nowadays are a lot quite busy anyway.

#╳ ——「 ooc.」#my fav characters have barely screentime or ded 😭#also looking back i never quite knew what to do with my bleach muses - had more casual threads #thinkin of some plots and drama for modern is easier

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solarisgod · 2 months

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There's truly something so special about writing a couple with your partner, I must say.

#𓁹 ༑ ࿐ྂ ⩇⩇ : ⩇⩇ ⚠︎ [ 𝙴𝚇𝙸(𝚂)𝚃 : 𝙶𝙾𝙳 ] * ‹ OOC . ›#[ idk I'm being such a massive lovey dovey gay sap here but ]#[ I've always feel and think it just makes me feel more intimate and connected with my beloved ]#[ and like seeing ourselves in some of the things our couple muses does and say to each other and what they go through side by side ]#[ which makes the relationship between our muses and what they mean to each other more meaningful and personal ]#[ idk idk I'm just looking at the recent tickling thread between Micah and Warlock and it makes me feel so happy and soft ]#[ I love my beloved so much I can never say this enough ]#[ bkhsknlkdkjnlgsdlbgnsdgms okay byeskgbdjsgndsgl ]#[ (//ω//) ( 〃▽〃) ]

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curiouskinetic · 7 months

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Man recent story events have gotten me thinking about Sora's really unique position in the world. Born from a human and a god, she can understand human emotions with no problem because she is one. But on the flip side she understands why the gods have a hard time relating to said humans, because she is one.

She barely even understood just how long her life was going to be when she realized that humans couldn't go through it all with her. That so many of the friends she's made will be gone in such a short amount of time, but she will keep going.

It doesn't stop her from caring so much about these people. Even though she knows how badly it will hurt when they're gone, she can't stop herself from getting attached. Having some non-human friends does help soften the blow, but it's going to be devastating for her when she reaches her first century.

Meanwhile she's still trying to figure out what she wants to do with her life, what her purpose is, why she was born, how to control her power-- and it's scary. She's scared she's going to hurt someone without meaning to, scared she'll never find her true purpose, scared that she will never truly find a place where she belongs, where she's happy.

Most of these things no one even knows she struggles with. Even her closest friends only see through the cracks on rare occasions. She rarely talks about it. God I just. I want to explore these topics with her more, I want her to be able to work through some of these things because she deserves to!!

#ooc #headcanons #not exactly but its the only musing tag i really have lmao #anyways yeah i want to write her exploring all of these topics #coming to terms with both her humanity and godhood #though so far she seems so much more human than god-like #which is intentional because she doesn't understand what it means to actually BE a god #but yeah i want to write out more of these in threads it would be so fun dfkhjdf #pry her open with a crowbar and take a look inside!!

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lctibule · 2 months

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i'm still on this blog btw, it's just low activity by default and that activity only gets lower during those times when i'm getting even less than usual done on byan's blog

#u know. those times like now where writing as a whole is just slow #this is why I end up giving up on every blog other than byan's...#I'm already slow as shit on the blog for the muse I think about 24/7... I'm GONNA be worse on blogs for anyone else #but that's also why I've just shoved everyone else together here & am not suuuuper looking to expand far outside mutuals I already have #bc I don't wanna disappoint anyone :x ...more than I already do lmao #but I also!! wanna give my other kids some love sometimes. idk.#IDK this is just a blanket apology & heads up that this blog is SLOW AF ACTIVITY #...and a reminder to myself to add that info to my pinned oops :x #drafts have been collected & I will get to them eventually bc I honestly am more excited about threads here than it might seem #I justtttt have to be in the right mood/headspace ahdgksg #♡ ⁄ 𝙾𝙾𝙲

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jiahlgc · 11 days

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INTRODUCING.. MOON JIAH!

.. profile . bio . plots . points ..

Q2 Threads Tracker.

Events.

tba

Random.

@shxlgc (starter)

@yujinlgc (q1 continuation)

@lgcjino (q1 continuation)

Events Requirements.

tba

#『 .. ooc. 』#( jiah is the one who needs more threads out of my three muses so i would love to make her interact more )#( she's a social butterfly but i'm making her look a tad recluse for not giving her friends )

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arachnidiots-a · 7 months

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going forth, unless we've discussed it, please don't assume your muse knows peter is spider-man. there's some obvious exceptions to this ofc and it's something we can discuss one on one, but peter is not going around giving away he's spider-man. he's also not likely to unmask and reveal himself as peter when he is spider-man!! pete's main verse is post-no way home. nobody is meant to know, he's going to try and be much more careful about that!

and if you’re wondering what your muse might be doing with peter and what might prompt them to talk or hang out and you’re stuck POP IN MY IMS!!! it’s also new york & peter has a million odd jobs. knock knock it’s peter parker your plumber

#this also means any connections pre-no way home are forgotten to all but peter!#felt like making a teeeny post because i do want to stick more to that side of him of trying to juggle both! and i have not been good @ tha #current threads are mostly fine i dont actually think it's much of an issue but i'd have to look over stuff again #but if the thread mentions him being suited up at all-- respect that your muse probably doesn't know! or come talk to me! come develop!#we can chat about it with some hot cocoa!#RAMBLING NONSENSE / ooc

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aparticularbandit · 22 days

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And then I look at actual statistics across my fics and it's actually doing BETTER than average, doing BETTER than the vast majority of my fics across the board, so like.

I HONESTLY don't know why I feel this way.

Probably it is depression brain. I think I will blame depression brain.

#musings #bandit #i actually...am not going to lie i like looking at statistics for fic publishing just in terms of trends and whatnot #because numbers don't lie #(statistics do actually but that's more about the interpretations used with them than it is about the numbers #i digress)#like across the board in terms of hits/kudos/comments/bookmarks/subscriptions #it is doing SO MUCH better than the others #it is in top ten on comment threads which IS ACTUALLY A BIG DEAL #(i do not think it will knock ff or the bly manor fix-it fic out of their top two spot #that would require the same timing that those two did #which is being in the fandom at the beginning of something new happening (or the beginning of the fandom itself)#ff was a post-dsmom fix-it that started day of? one day after? the movie came out #bly manor fix-it started the day after the show dropped #timing is BIG on this stuff #again i digress)#so like clearly this is not actually a lack of engagement like i think it is!#i don't know why i perceive it that way!

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tenebriism · 10 months

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@pockethealcr ;; STARTER .

Whatever this SEMINAR is about, she's hardly paying attention, confident enough in her own intellectual capabilities to assume it's useless drivel that she already knows ( and will not use. ) Instead, she's not-so-discretely bundling up a piece of swiss chocolate into a sheet of paper, with a note that has the audacity to make her intentions known near immediately.

' Here, in case you are still upset with me for failing to show up to dinner the previous evening. '

#pockethealcr #[ i'm still getting her muse down. so i appreciate you giving me the opportunity #to test her out some more. :) i look forward to our interactions! ]#;mercytag #muse ;; MOIRA ( THREADS )#muse ;; MOIRA ( VERSE . PRE TALON )

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xcestlavie · 3 months

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full name . ramona celestina salazar nickname(s) . rae age/birthday . 31 02/16 ( aquarius ) gender/pronouns . cis woman she/her place of birth . cape may , nj current residence . downtown , cape may sexuality . demisexual / romantic

occupation . tarot reader / waitress at merlin's

aesthetics . one nail painted a different color from the rest, late nights spent dancing under the moonlight, and the smell of blown out candles

physical .

height . 5'3" build . slender hair color / style . brunette ; kept long and up when at work eye color . brown face claim . seychelle gabriel

mentality .

positive traits . independent , resourceful , outgoing . negative traits . stubborn , fickle , forgetful .

biography .

youngest of the salazar children she grew up knowing her mother was a subject best not to bring up, despite a parent down and with two siblings she never felt neglected or lacking from the affection of her father. her childhood was spent chasing her brothers on the beach before getting ice cream and living a normal life.

her schooling wasn't terrible, ramona wasn't a terrible student and she wasn't an exceptional one she just sort of coasted in the middle having the same three friends for most of her school career. she did the stereotypical thing in finding her favorite things in high school and it was her grandmother that introduced her to the occult. she found interest in tarot reading and stuck to it. college was something that didn't hold much interest for her and she honestly wanted to leave cape may but never could get the motivation to.

she bounced from waitressing jobs and a cashier at a grocery store before finding her footing at merlin's five years ago and loves every bit of it. she's the last cantu in town, her brother left for colarado after he graduated and her father when she was twenty-six to california.

head canons .

has a male gray tabby cat named augustus who she usually just calls gusgus. loves to read and most of her books are thrifted or picked up from garage sales, she has more books she needs to read compared to the amount of books she has read. has a morning ritual of running on the beach and she mainly listens to podcasts as she does. feeds all the stray cats she comes across. most of everything she owns is from her father or the thrift store. always wearing an amethyst necklace. and has one or two crystals tucked into her pocket or purse. collects tarot cards solely because of the art, her current favorite is one based on the hobbit. allergic to strawberries and will forever be looking for the one dessert she'd risk it all on. very much a ' look at the moon look at the stars ! ' girlie.

extras .

playlist . pinterest . connections .

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