★ . . . ❛ ━━ BEN CHILWELL x FEM!READER.
( MASTERLIST! )
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yourinstagram name another plant enthusiast, i’ll wait. 🙋🏽♀️🪴
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katrinefogtfriis plantemor! 🌾🩶 ( plant mother )
yourinstagram min smuk! 🌸 ( my prettiest )
user if she doesn’t get any cuter
user thats so cute 🥹
sophiaamelia i love this! 😍
yourinstagram and i love you 😙
joaofelix79 i like plants too just saying…
yourbestfriend and your flirting attempts needs an update just saying…
cmpulisic i knew you would say smth like that 😭😭
user CACKLING
user lmao she’s back
user smh he can never get a break
user this is so funny
masonmount benchilwell mate your house is a freaking jungle those leaves slapped my face so hard i’m not even kidding 😭
kaihavertz29 now i’m picturing you getting slapped and i can’t stop laughing
user no bc same i’m literally shaking
benchilwell bro i face planted into a 3 feet tall plant don’t complain 😒
user poor things 😭😂
yourbestfriend benchilwell you deserved it
benchilwell yourbestfriend 😐
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benchilwell 😍🥵🔥
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user holy mama im gay
user SLAYY QUEEN
sasha__rebecca gorgeous!! 🤩🤍
yourinstagram love u sash! 💞
user 😍😍
helenespilling fineste dama jeg vet om! 🔥😩 ( prettiest woman i know )
yourinstagram fineste danseren jeg vet om 😉 ( prettiest dancer i know )
odegaard.98 yourinstagram enig! 🤩 ( agreed )
vegardharm nei nå må du slutte 🔥😍 ( now you have to stop )
yourinstagram slutt jeg rødmer 🫣💞 ( stop i’m blushing )
laurennjjames beautiful as always! 🩷
yourinstagram got it from you 🫶🏼
user lauren is so smol i love their friendship!!
user y/n is collecting celebs like infinity stones
yourinstagram i’m gonna pin this comment 🤭
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user NOT THE WINE
user christian has me dying
user they’re all so unserious i love them
masonmount without me 🥺
yourinstagram if you didn’t leave chelsea then maybe you could’ve gotten the invite 😊
masonmount ouch 😣
chelseafc 🫣
manchesterunited pls don’t get us involved
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user SHE DID NOT
user YN APOLOGIZE NOW
user how did you managed to get chelseafc manchesterunited to get here pls-
yourinstagram user i have no idea 😭 now i’m gonna have 12 year old football fans coming at me
user a punch in the throat— same
user poor mase shshs
yourbestfriend ok but why does the smashed wine bottle look so aesthetic? 🫢😩
marcusrashford and what’s wrong with man utd
yourinstagram i just don’t like your team don’t take it personally
yoursister what did that wine do to you?
yourfriend a lot… 🫣
benchilwell she was so drunk that she thought that the wine bottle was thor’s hammer and smashed it on the floor 💀
sophiaamelia she cried so much after that thinking that she “destroyed” thor’s hammer 😭
reecejames poor wine 😞
yourinstagram *poor me 🖕🏻 reecejames
kaihavertz29 so much happened last night i don’t even remember half of it rip
cmpulisic it went so far that we all crashed at a fancy party and bought 16 bottles of wine
rlc lmaoo now i remember 😭 memorable
user what is going on with this comment section
user i’m so confused
user pls how did we get from man utd to thor’s hammer?
user idk but i’m cackling my ass off this is so funny
user don’t act surprised y/n’s comment section is always a mess and we’re here for it
user it’s like watching a comedy show fr
user can someone get me updated of y/n and mason’s friendship my heart aches just thinking about it pls why am i so invested
user pls- me too the comment was too far
user right? like why would she say that
user he already got too much on his plate rn
user she’s so annoying
yourbestfriend you guys are taking this too far pls it’s not even that serious 😭
yourinstagram user mase is doing just fine he’s sitting behind me giggling at the comments
masonmount no bad blood guys! ❤️
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Subtext and Culture, Young Royals, Season 2, Episode 2
Episode 2 probably picks up the day after the first episode...
Subtext: ...and in the first shot of the episode, we see Malin literally stalking Wilhelm as he's making his way to classes. Of course, Malin has already been informed by the royal court that they're pulling Wilhelm, which is why she's keeping a close eye on him.
Subtext: since Wilhelm isn't answering his phone, the Queen called the principal, and is using her to get Wilhelm to talk to her. However, Wilhelm is completely uninterested, and distracted by a certain someone's singing coming from the music room. This directly mirrors how S1E3 started...
Subtext: ...but unlike those happy times, Wilhelm doesn't join Simon in the music room, he walks away, giving Simon space.
Culture: Different countries have different birthday songs, and the girls are of course singing the Swedish birthday song Ja må hon leva.
Culture: In Sweden, cheers are fourfold. Three cheers is something that the treacherous Danes do, and we of course have to be different. In some Denmark-adjacent regions of Sweden it's common to do a threefold cheer, which proves they're all Danish traitors.
Subtext: It's extremely uncommon in Sweden to have to re-take a year of school, which is why the other girls are so surprised that Sara isn't the same age as them. In Sara's case, it's because she was severely bullied at Marieberg and missed too much school.
Subtext: For the other girls, this is nothing, and even though they try to smooth it over, the implication is that Sara will have to pitch in an equal amount for each of their birthdays, and that is way beyond her means.
Culture: Simon is singing Cumpleaños Feliz, which is the most common birthday song in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a Spanish version of the well-known English birthday song Happy birthday to you.
Culture: Pabellón is a traditional Venezuelan dish, which means we can safely assume Linda is from there as well. This is of course a reference to Omar himself being from Venezuela.
Subtext: Sara is consistently denying her family and roots, and choosing her new, rich friends, which is why she'd rather spend her birthday at the Manor House than at home.
Subtext: Sara said she needed new riding pants way back in season 1, but her family couldn't get her new ones until a special occasion like her birthday. But of course the other girls can afford a much more expensive gift just like that, and Simon's disappointment is immediately visible.
Subtext: And to make matters worse, Sara is asking to exchange the lesser pair of pants for cash, because she thinks she needs money to keep up with her new friends.
Subtext: Then again, Rosh and Ayub are treating Sara like crap, giving her a quick grats before quickly moving on to gossiping about Marcus.
Subtext: A throwback to season 1 where Sara accuses Simon of always putting other people before himself, and since Marcus actually seems to have his shit together, Sara joins Team Rebound, pushing Simon to get over Wilhelm.
Cinematography: The colour of Simon's clothes signals how he's feeling. Purple means he's feeling close to Wilhelm, but yellow means he's feeling independent and like himself. In this scene he's wearing a purple shirt over a yellow sweater over a purple t-shirt. Make what you will of that mess.
Culture: It's PE class, and the kids are playing Innebandy, or Floorball. This sport is extremely common in the Nordics, and is often used as a stamina exercise, because it's a very simple team sport that doesn't require a lot of technique. Literally everyone in Sweden has played it at some point.
Subtext: Wilhelm ignores Simon and instead passes the ball to Walter, who fumbles and allows the other team to score, which is the show telling us that Wilhelm shouldn't ignore Simon because he'll lose that way.
Subtext: Isn't it funny that it's always the people at the top of a hierarchy who are the most insistent on the usefulness of that hierarchy for everyone else?
Subtext: Villain era Wilhelm is making more moves that will backfire spectacularly.
Subtext: Simon wants Sara to sit next to him so that Wilhelm has to sit somewhere else. Unfortunately for him, Sara has to sit with Felice.
Blink and you miss it: Wilhelm takes off his red sweater and hangs it on his chair.
Subtext: Some nice foreshadowing for the final scene of the season where Wilhelm does tell the truth for a change.
Subtext: The principal has of course already been informed that the Queen is pulling Wilhelm from Hillerska, which is why she's saying goodbye to a confused Wilhelm.
Blink and you miss it: Simon swipes Wilhelm's sweater while the teacher is busy taking Felice's phone.
Subtext: The frog prince snowglobe from season 1 makes a comeback! This object symbolises how trapped Wilhelm feels by his crown, his royal duty.
Subtext: August wants nothing more than Wilhelm to be gone from the school, so that he can stop sucking up to him, and restore the order and discipline that Vincent is whining about.
Subtext: Malin, no! How could you?! She's a police officer, she can legally manhandle Wilhelm, but though the optics aren't exactly good in this case.
Subtext: They struggle, but at the end the glass breaks, the prince is finally set free, and can kiss his... prince?
Culture: Swedish doesn't have generic words for grandparents. Instead, you have to specify exactly which one of your four grandparents you mean; mormor, morfar, farmor, or farfar. Erik says "morfar", which means the Queen's father, which means Erik got it from the previous King of Sweden.
Culture: Wilhelm and Erik are probably playing the game A Way Out by Swedish game designer Josef Fares. It's the same game Simon can be seen playing in S1E1, and it's a tragic co-op game that ends by one of the players killing the other player.
Subtext: Except Wilhelm's feelings for a boy is the very thing that threatens the monarchy. Him being truthful is the threat.
Cinematography: No, Jan-Olof has been called in by the show creators to be a villainous personification of The System, thus allowing the Queen to become more sympathetic and more of a mother to Wilhelm.
Subtext: Ok, so the now more sympathetic Queen says that they fully accept Wilhelm being non-straight...
Subtext: ...and then she immediately blows it by calling a same-sex relationship "unconventional". Yeah, no.
Subtext: The problem is that Simon has explicitly said that he does not accept the situation of Wilhelm's position, so this isn't helping. Also, that eye-roll is fantastic.
Culture: Sweden is 69% forest, so if you want to say "In the middle of nowhere" in Swedish, the expression is "mitt i skogen" - in the middle of the forest. In completely unrelated news, 17% of Sweden is covered by European Blueberry.
Subtext: August's stress levels went up quite a bit since he thought he was finally gonna get rid of Wilhelm, but he got to stay, so August runs back to his ADHD meds.
Culture: Finally the show reveals another house at Hillerska, Granhult - Sprucewood. At the real-world boarding school Lundsberg, one of the houses has the very similar-sounding name Gransäter. "-hult" is a common part of Swedish place names, and it simply means a small forest or woods, so the translation checks out.
Subtext: What August says applies directly to Wilhelm, he has to give it all he's got to get Simon back.
Subtext: Wilhelm negotiated and compromised with his mother, getting some independence and agency back. So now he's trying to negotiate with Simon, offering a compromise to him. Unfortunately, it's not enough.
Subtext: Simon says he wants to stop ignoring Wilhelm, they have to be able to talk about the things they do together as friends. So this is where Wilhelm realizes rowing is one way he can stay close to Simon.
Subtext: Just like Rosh and Ayub interrupted Sara's celebration with more Wilhelm/Simon drama, Felice is doing the same here. At least Stella calls her out on it.
Subtext: Of course Stella challenges the intense heteronormativity of this game, while Fredrika is completely oblivious.
Culture: Tjejsnack literally means Girl Talk, and was a game that was sold in Sweden in the early 90's. It's a product of its time to put it nicely, and it's basically Truth or Dare made into a winnable board game. The original manual to the game says it's a game for girls ages 8 and up. Yikes.
Subtext: No, this is not how the game works, only the current player has to do a truth or dare, but Stella is just pretending everyone has to tell the truth so she can get the deetz on the others.
Subtext: Felice lies about how many people she has slept with in order to appear more proper and less promiscuous.
Subtext: Sara needs all the help she can get to figure out interpersonal relationships and sex and romance. Unfortunately, this is pretty shit advice, because just because you lust after someone, it doesn't mean they're a good person or that it's a good idea to have sex with them. You should probably apply a few more criteria before making that decision.
Lost in translation: The subtitles just cover the highlights of Felice and Wilhelm's text conversation, but it's rather long, so I put it all in a separate post: https://www.tumblr.com/skamenglishsubs/700474959215149056/felice-and-wilhelms-text-conversation
Subtext: Simon is sniffing Wilhelm's sweater while looking at his fish tank. He's clearly still in love with Wilhelm and thinking about the time Wilhelm visited him in Bjärstad.
Subtext: Inspired by this he starts composing his song, while wearing Wilhelm's sweater. But when he gets to the line "Can never forget all that was good", he realizes that he's never going to be able to move on if he's gonna keep wallowing in it...
Subtext: ...so he angrily takes it off, and reactively reaches out to Marcus, agreeing to the proposed movie date in an effort to move on.
Subtext: When Wilhelm visited Simon, he actually meant it when he said it was cozy. Simon just says it here to be nice, it actually isn't very cozy, so this is a sad mirror of season 1.
Subtext: I actually love it that Marcus is portrayed as a complete gaybro, he has zero stereotypical gay traits, he just likes cars and hunting and hiking and shit, and he just happen to like guys as well.
Subtext: Simon suggests horror because it's what was shown during the movie night in season 1 when he and Wilhelm kissed for the first time, so this is yet another throwback.
Subtext: Simon broke up with Wilhelm because the relationship was only on Wilhelm's terms because of him being a royal. He's trying to move on and have a rebound hookup with Marcus, but ironically Marcus isn't giving Simon what he wants either. Everything about this date is 100% on Marcus' terms, they're at his place, watching the movie he chose, and they're as intimate as he wants. There's no compromise here, and also very little chemistry.
Subtext: Speaking of cursed hookups with zero chemistry, Sara forcing herself on August is throwback to when August did the same on her back in season 1.
Subtext: Everyone else is always talking about the Queen properly, but our hero Boris just refers to her as "your mom". Removing all the pomp and circumstance is of course his strategy to help Wilhelm open up, to make him feel like his problems aren't that special and unique, and that Boris might actually be able to help him.
Culture: For some reason there's a Chinese checkers board setup on his table. That's an interesting therapy tool, maybe, I don't know?
Also, Wilhelm decided to go to his therapy session in a $300 Comme des Garçons PLAY hoodie. As you do.
Subtext: Therapy takes time, and Boris allows Wilhelm to move at his own pace. Of course, Wilhelm's main problem is the lack of control over his life, so this should be very freeing for him.
Subtext: Wilhelm is still ashamed of having to go to therapy, or admitting he has a problem with panic attacks, so he pretends to put the folder back before he swipes it and hides it in his jacket.
Subtext: Vincent is a terrible human being. The show is busy setting up Chekov's Shooting Range by having him talk about going shooting and needing the practice anyway. And then he just casually mentions going to Zambia with his dad. Why Zambia? Because it's a hunting trip. Vincent is totally the kind of guy who could spend his winter break shooting an elephant or two instead of going skiing like a normal kid.
Culture: Of course they are wearing outfits appropriate for shooting, you can't come dressed as you like to an event like this, of course you have to dress up for it! As you do. Nice gloves, Felice.
Subtext: Wilhelm has to pretend not knowing Marcus' name to not come off as the crazy jealous stalker that he is.
Subtext: Everyone just loves giving bad advice to Wilhelm and Simon, and this time it's Felice's turn. Simon asked for space, so she's advising Wilhelm to encroach on it.
Culture: Letterman jackets or varsity jackets are absolutely not a thing in Sweden. The reason Vincent is wearing one is to show off that he has done a year as an exchange student in the US. I think the patches are completely made up, but at least I can make out the arm patch saying New Haven, which sounds on brand for Vincent given that the Ivy League university Yale is located there, which is where the US upper class sends their kids.
Subtext: Here comes The Theme again. Vincent wants to uphold the traditions of their house, but the main reason he wants to is that he was treated like shit by the third-year students when he was a first-year, so he wants to keep the privilege of being able to treat the new first-years as shit now that he is a third-year, thus perpetuating the cycle of abuse.
Subtext: Is there anyone reading this who does not know what Marcus Junius Brutus is most known for? Spoiler: He helped kill Julius Caesar by stabbing him in the back.
Subtext: Funnily enough, August is right, Vincent will be a lot shittier as prefect and captain of the rowing team.
Blink and you miss it: Villain Wilhelm smirks as his plan to depose August worked out.
Subtext: Felice and the girls all know that Felice is going to sell the horse, but they haven't told Sara, because they know how much the horse means to her. And Sara can't read social cues to save her life, so she doesn't understand why Fredrika suddenly offered her to help out and spend time with her horse instead.
Subtext: Vincent really isn't a fan of equality, so being forced to include first-year students in the competition instead of packing their team with all the strongest third-years is socialist nonsense to him.
Lost in translation: In Swedish, Vincent says "...även om ni suger dase". It means the same as the English subtitles, but it literally means "...even if you suck dick", which is a casually homophobic dig towards Simon and Wilhelm. That said, no-one in Sweden would use this expression when talking about oral sex.
Subtext: "...both mentally and physically, as you all know". Vincent's parade of awfulness shows no signs of stopping anytime soon, casual bodyshaming of Walter, throw it on the pile!
Lost in translation: In Swedish he says "som kan kötta!", which is hilariously untranslatable. It literally means to "meat" something, as in the sense of butchering, using brute force, or tearing someone to shreds. We're staying true to Vincent's douchebro brand here.
Culture: That's not a running trail, that's just a piece of random forest. It is quite common to have trails close to outdoor sporting areas like this, but I supposed there just wasn't one at this shooting location, so the show had to improvise?
Subtext: Wilhelm actually cares about keeping Simon on the team, because it's part of his plan of staying close to Simon in order to win him back, like Felice told him to. Instead he gives the lame excuse about Simon's PE grades.
Subtext: Yeah, no way this cheating plan is gonna backfire on Wilhelm, no way, no how.
Subtext: Simon avoids answering the question, because he doesn't want to tell Wilhelm about trying to move on from Marcus, so he pretends that he doesn't know know him.
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