#wilmon deserves better than that

[mymitochondriaforpresident]

3 more days until I’m free from this Hell.

#March 18th…the date that you are💜 #young royals #help! i’m in Hell and i can’t get up! #since they insisted on giving us this cliffhanger (granted i don’t exactly know what it is cause i’m a sneaky bitch) #then the finale better be fucking fire #or else it’s bad writing. and we can’t really have that now can we. :) #wilmon deserves better than that #i mean edvin already confirmed wilmon endgame in future with their three weiner dogs!!!! #let’s see #👀👀👀👀👀👀 #🌭🌭🌭

[misfithive]

The thing that gets me about this scene is that even after everything Sara did, Simon is still protecting her by not telling their mom what happened at all. And protecting his mom because he probably doesn’t want to worry her or involve her in all the drama. It makes me sad because he really is carrying so much in the family. I’m glad Simon has Rosh and Ayub to talk about things with but being 16 and taking on all that responsibility to look out for everyone else is a lot and people need to give him more credit for that.

#like he is obviously a great brother for that because Linda would be mad af #but it still is so unfair to him #my baby deserves the world and for someone to put him first for once #simon eriksson #young royals #omar rudberg #wilmon #prince wilhelm #also im petty i love my siblings but idk i probably would have said sara ruined everything lmao he’s better than me #even besides telling august if he didnt wanna get into the drug stuff it is hurtful enough that she knew it was him the whole time #truly. sweet soul i swear

[cupofteainme]

Hot take, but why did the creators of the show leave Simon hanging with the internet hate he got?

Racist and homophobic hate speech is a form of violence. It's always the perpetrators' fault, not Simon's, not Wille's and not the monarchy's. The royal court could have helped Simon, Linda or Wille could have done more. (I blame curfew and phone limitations in Wille's case.)

Simon was deeply impacted by the hate comments, he felt like everyone hates him and even that he doesn't want to be anywhere anymore.

I think it's irresponsible to use the social media plot as the thing that took away most of Simon's agency in regards to Wille and the monarchy and then never address it again.

Did Simon stop seeing all the hate after he deleted his socials? Did he make a new account after he broke up with Wille? Did the situation realistically ever get better for him? I'm not sure what the show wants me to believe.

There must be so many platforms where Simon's and Wille's relationship and for example Simon's parents are discussed including the newspapers and magazines (as seen in season 1). I don't think Simon was able to shield himself from all of that.

We know that the students and even Marcus talk to the press. The media might have found out about Wilmon's break-up. Soon after the ending the world is going to find out that they're back together again and that Wille is stepping down from his duties. Even if you'd believe that Wille did it for himself, the general public in YR universe will have a hard time to do so since it alligns so well with Wille getting back together with Simon.

Simon will likely be in for an even bigger onslaught of hate speech. He might not directly get the comments, if he keeps his socials private, but online spaces and magazines will be full of those speculations. Somebody threw a rock and smashed his window in episode three. The threath of people approaching Simon on the street is real.

I hate to see how Simon was left in a situation that hurt him so much at the end of the season. Wille telling his mom that he doesn't want to be King didn't solve Simon's issue with hate speech. (The only benefit in this regard is that supposedly Wille has more time and emotional capacity to be there for Simon.)

Simon deserved better than being treated as a plot device and anti monarchy mouthpiece.

#so many discarded plots and this is one of them #I think it's irresponsible to introduce this issue and then drop it since hate speech is a real problem with so many queer kids #unlike monarchy #young royals #yr s3 #young royals analysis

[nbrook29]

Some thoughts on s3

I just need to get it off my chest:

I missed the casual intimacies this season. We got so many Wilmon seasons being cute, and yet I missed those little things in between, something that a better director would come up with, something we had in season 1, some improv

I don’t know whether it was a directorial choice or Edvin’s choice, but Wille comes off as an asshole multiple times this season. There’s some warmth about him missing, some tenderness. Even the questionable lines on page could’ve been saved by a different acting choice, different delivery and more of that caring that was present in Wille’s character in previous seasons. Fr, I felt sorry for Simon several times. He doesn’t deserve to be a punching bag

Can Wille FOR ONCE STOOD UP FOR SIMON PLS when he is being mocked smh

Sara and August getting back together (cause I'm assuming this is going to happen) is something I don't understand at all - it's not going to magically be ok now for Simon and Felice that she's dating him so??? And his explanation for his behavior was basically that he was bullied as a first year so he wanted to be on the other side xd Not to mention that he calls people like Sara "poor white trash" in this very season

The storytelling is all over the place. It's a montage of scenes (cute ones and fights) that don't have logical follow-ups

Boyfriendy scenes from ep1 and 2 was adorable, but as the season progresses it's difficult to enjoy them when they keep NOT communicating about things that matter and when your opinion on Wille's behavior takes a dive

It's funny how most people thought the Royal Court is gonna be so against Wilmon etc and it's gonna be the biggest problem between them, but it turned out to be not that at all. And yet, Wilmon STILL doesn't work as a couple, and they don't face problems together, they just fight. As someone here already said, they're in lust more than in love tbh

#young royals #yr #young royals s3 #wilmon

[the-words-we-sung]

First impressions after watching season 3

So after being super patient all day yesterday, I finally managed to get back home and binge watch season 3 last night \o/ I'm just gonna put a few of my first thoughts here for now, I'm gonna need to rewatch everything to have more detailed and coherent thoughts 😁 But first of all, I wanna thanks Amber 💜 (@amailboxlemur) for being the best spectator and companion to my live reactions 😂 It was super duper nice to be able to share these with you while I was watching and going through all the emotions 😱 So I liked the season!! It was a lot a lot but I really enjoyed it!! It made me cry, it made me laugh, it made me blush... All the rainbow emotions 💜

Here is my reaction at the end of episode 5, and I think it sums up pretty well my feeling at that moment :p

So a few randoms comments (I will write more about each episode after rewatching them, which I intend to start doing tonight because I neeeeeed to watch it all again):

[It's not spoiler-free so don't read if you haven't watched the season yet!!]

⁂ Simon was incredibly sad this season and it broke my heart. Seeing him cry just made me cry. He was so lost and broken, I really can't wait for the last episode to see him get better (yes I'm an eternally optimist person so I believe he will be happier!!)

⁂ I wasn't expecting the Micke/Sara storyline but I think I liked it! It gave us a new perspective into the Eriksson family dynamic and I felt so so bad for Sara at the end

⁂ I loved to see Simon being truly angry at his sister!! Baby boy is so used to being nice and forgiving, so it was really refreshing to see him actually be mad and stand his ground about it!!

⁂ Wilhelm Wilhelm Wilhelm. My poor boy is a mess! He was so hopeful at the beginning, thinking he could finally have it all, but yeah it was obviously not gonna be smooth sailing. He's such a messy, broken, angry teenager this season and my heart cries for him. He ends up hurting Simon quite a lot but I cannot be truly mad at him. He's a broken boy trying his best :(

⁂ Which leads me to his family: arghhhhhh. So I was hoping that we would get some more info to understand Kristina at least a little bit, but she's just truly awful this season. And the Duke is not better. I hate them for how they behave with Wilhelm. And on a more personal note: I always saw my own mother in Kristina, but this season it's even more flagrant, and gosh does it make me mad for Wilhelm. His lashing out at them at the end of episode 5 was as painful as it was good to see. I've been in his situation. I've yelled like him too many times to count. So I hurt for him. He deserves so much better. Nobody should have these kind of people as parents :(

⁂ The Erik stuff made me so sad!!

⁂ The whole school situation was a bit frustrating at time but it was interesting to see the characters reacting to it all. Felice is a queen and deserves so much better than her "friends". And Vincent can rot in hell 😠

⁂ They're all incredible actors!! And the show is beautiful as usual. I am slightly disappointed with the music (no song captured me as well as the ones in season 1 and 2, but maybe I just need to watch the episodes a few times for that to happen ^^)

⁂ All the cute scenes between Wilhelm and Simon were just the best. Seeing them be silly boyfriends was the best. And yeah, the chemistry is still chemistrying hard between Edvin and Omar :p

I'm gonna stop my list of first reactions there, but I'll continue in more details episode by episode! Overall I think I like this season, though the ending killed me and the week to come is gonna be the longest week ever ^^' I am not really worried about the last episode. I trust the show. I do believe Wilmon will be endgame. And I think not everything will be wrapped up neatly but I do think the ending will be satisfying. So can't wait \o/

#young royals #wilmon #prince wilhelm #simon eriksson #yr season 3 #my first reactions #amailboxlemur #I'm so glad I was able to not watch it completely alone #and to be able to freak out with a few people #because it was a lot of screaming and a lot of emotions #let me tell you xD #I really loved watching it all unfold #and I went in spoiler free #so I wasn't prepared for anything xD #my analysis #I feel so much for Wilhelm #and for Simon #they were both so unwell #Wilhelm is so broken #and Simon so sad #I wanna hug them so bad

[young-royals-confessions]

My biggest Wille confession is my most alienating one: I didn't want Simon to give Wille yet another chance until the very last scene of S2E6. I'll explain myself! I know his circumstances are terrible and all but they way he constantly played with Simon's boundaries and didn't even acknowledge his wrong doings until almost the end? It was a no for me. Simon deserved better and no, I don't mean Marcus either.

I was hoping Wille would set the record straight with Nils at least (not only he lied at Simon and told him he wouldn't do the statement, all he had to offer him after doing that was a secret relationship which he offered right after betraying him and insisted on it after being told no) but he didn't and never outright rejected Nils's disgusting offer either. 

Don't get me wrong I love Wille and I feel for him and his heartbreak but I would've liked if he had done a lot of stuff different. Per example, defending Simon from Vincent's violent verbal attacks as a way to show he cared about Simon to the others? He obviously wouldn't have wanted to confirm Simon was more than a one night stand which seems to be the general consensus among the students, but he could've shown he at least considered him a worthy friend.

He knows everybody would bend over backwards for him and yet he never used that power to benefit Simon in his rather sad school situation. I felt that for the most part he truly left Simon alone to deal with the consequences of the video even at school, a place where he got more leverage than the average student.

He wanted Simon to acknowledge their love/relationship when it came to the Marcus Situation but he couldn't even acknowledge Simon's presence in his life when it mattered. (Not going into him withholding information and outright lying to Simon cause that has been talked about already)

Thankfully he got to right his wrongs by the end and in a rather spectacular way but it was a close call for me to lose all my interest in wilmon being endgame. Oops.

This was brought to you by the reblog a moot did of a post of Edvin having no good words for Wille. Because I agree with Edvin but my moots don't know 🤫

#wilhelm #yr s2 #young royals #edvin ryding

[zee-has-commitment-issues]

" HENRY AND WALTER ARE LISTED AS AUGUSTS FRIENDS ON THE WIKI IM GONNA THROW UP- ", "they deserve better"

did we watch the same show lol henry and walter were awful classist idiots why are we surprised, i think fanon has seriously impacted people's views on these people.

Can someone please tell me when it stopped being ok to post jokes on this website? Clearly I missed the memo.

Also, you're just wrong. Yes, Henry and Walter were classist, but they weren't awful or idiots. They're both canonically quite intelligent. And we do, in fact, see them do good things. They canonically admit to noticing Wilmon before the video and they chose not to say anything. Henry is canonically the only person at Hillerska to talk to Wille about something other than the video after it's released. They also are visibly annoyed with August multiple times throughout the series.

Even if I didn't love fanon Henry and Walter, no one deserves to be labeled as "August's friend." That is simply the worst thing you could be categorized as.

here's a character analysis I did on Henry before I started learning about the fanon him. 👍

#ask #anon #henry and walter #young royals #henry young royals #walter young royals #we don't need to be rude anon #we clearly watched the same show

[brownbitchshit]

Honestly, I wouldn’t mind if s3 were the last season. Would I love a s4? Sure. But a 10 episodes long s3 is what actually I want. Mostly because of selfish reasons because by the time (should it renews) s4 will come out, I'll probably be 30. And I dont know how much my life will allow me to be obsessed with my not-so-little Swedish show! So I wanna see the end while I am in love with this show.

Also it'll be good for the story line as well. Trilogies are always classy. Ideally I would have loved to see 3 years of Hillerska or maybe an aged up version of Wilmon and them getting married and what not. But should we get S3 as final, we might at best will see them graduating Hillerska and maybe Wilhelm giving another speech. Which would be pretty good. Maybe an abdication in the horizon? Who knows. But hopefully it'll be a good ending even if it's not a royal wedding.

It's also good for the cast because we probably haven’t realized how good this series has done for both Edvin and Omar's career. Edvin said in an interview that he did some auditions in UK and I really hope he breaks out in the mainstream Hollywood scene. He will rock it and he's so deserving. And Omar's music career has definitely taken a flight internationally. His songs are being streamed in spotify like crazy. He will soon become a big thing in European music scene. And ofc his acting career is looking good as well. So they both might not want to be tied up to this series for so long.

So overall, it is actually better to end it while they have time rather than getting one extra season only to get cancelled later and having no closure. I am happy should this rumour came true. But ofc not opposed to s4/5/6 either if it ever were to happen.

#young royals #wilmon #edvin ryding #yr season 2 #omar rudberg #wilhelm simon

[partytricks]

young royals s3 thoughts (SPOILERS!!!!)

- first and foremost i think they tried to fit waaaayy too many things into this season. it feels like they wrote two seasons worth of content and instead of trying to cut plotlines that were unimportant to the overall narrative, they just said fuck it lets do them all. and it...did not work

- LOVE the idea of wille's speech having repercussions outside of wilmon and the royal family, and i love that the hazing was addressed, but again the whole reveal about erik and august felt like it was just thrown in to have sympathy for august and to lead to wille's breakdown at the bday dinner (which like...he had more than enough reason to do already). i do like the idea of erik actually being fucked up behind the scenes, but i wish they would have hinted at it in season 2 or something instead of just dropping it out of nowhere. idk

- WHY DOES IT FEEL LIKE THEY FORGOT ABOUT WILLE HAVING ANXIETY AND PANIC ATTACKS UNTIL THE LAST COUPLE EPISODES???? his anxious habits and the physical toll that stress takes on him were pretty consistently shown in the first two seasons and then suddenly not a thing until the halfway point???????? like idk something about that really bothered me. my one big hope for this season was that wille would get to address his panic attacks but it seems like theyre just not gonna acknowledge it, which i guess is true to real life anxiety it's just something you live with, but it was teased to be such a crucial thing about wille that im a little disappointed its not getting explored

- wilmon cannot communicate to save their lives and i feel like neither of them are ready to be in a relationship. they have a good dynamic and you can tell they care about each other, but they never look at issues from a dual perspective, only as an individual. and then when they call each other out they just get defensive. i think they only want the lovey dovey fun part of a relationship, and they cant accept the fact that things WILL go wrong and they have to work through it TOGETHER

- ive seen a lot of people say that wille got really mean out of nowhere this season and i kind of disagree?? yes, his aggression is def at the forefront of almost all his scenes, but we've seen in the past two seasons that he doesnt know how to deal with stress and takes frustration out on other people. it's just that now he's constantly stressed and therefore on a hair trigger. is it right of him?? no. but does it make sense?? yeah, for me at least

- i HATE that wille's anxiety is constantly pushed aside because it "isnt princely" but the MINUTE that kristina has mental health issues she gets to step back from her duties and see a therapist, get meds, etc... now to clarify, i hate it because wille deserves better and its so hypocritical. i LOVE that it was included in the story because you really get to see plain as day just how much wille's family does not give a shit about him. he was so worried about his mom because he knows what it feels like and wants to be there for her when she never was for him, but she cant even make eye contact with him. and his dad is no better. that scene where wille calls to ask about erik and his dad just goes "yeah i cant think of any of erik's flaws he was perfect" EVEN IF YOU THINK THAT YOU DONT SAY IT TO YOUR OTHER KID???? who, to wille's point, is CURRENTLY YOUR ONLY SON.

- simon dealt with a lot of shit this season, and he was right to be scared of wille during his blowup at the royals, but CALL ME CRAZY i think he couldve waited until like, idk, the NEXT DAY?? to breakup with him???? yes, wille has been an ass to simon this season and taking family drama out on him, thats not cool, but striking while the iron is hot is an AWFUL idea. bring it up while wille is in a more rational headspace and not as riled-up. like simon my bby i was with you til then

#young royals spoilers #young royals #young royals season 3 #uhhhh if i think of more ill add it

[theydonthavenames]

I swear Young Royals broke me. It broke all of us. Will we ever be able to consume a piece of media that involves any romantic relationship without comparing it to YR's Wilmon? I hate to say that but Marcus-Simon relationship and their chemistry, for that matter, was doomed for a failure and prone to critisism, especially in a show like YR where chemistry between two main characters is off the charts and through the roof (I honestly haven't seen this magnetic pull between two actors, ever. I loved Nick & June from Handmaids Tale, but even they are ruined for me now. ***Update* I revisited. They are not ruined🥴*** Even HS- I loved the plot, vibe and the whole show but sorry chemistry was meh for me! Forgive me, I'm truly broken). How YR manage to find two actors who have that amount of chemistry is beyond me. Omar and Edvin are chemistry geniuses in my eyes. Prime example, opening of ep 5 Omar pulled chemistry with a fucking sweater!!! And Edvin had a chemistry 'with himself' - not like that!- but watching this scene you just knew Wille is thinking of Simon and it was magical and electric even though he was alone in the scene. Those guys are unreal.

But, back to the point... Sad to see people have a go at Tommy for his feelings about Marcus-Simon chemistry. Looking back at first few scenes, the chemistry was there and it wasn't bad, but for a YR fan, will anything else than Wilmon ever be good enough? I know that's not the spirit, but that's a fact. But on the other hand, I also think that was the whole point of the love triangle scenario, make us compare the two ships. Is Marcus better for Simon? Who does Simon feel more comfortable with? Who's got better chemistry? It's natural.

Anyway peeps go and watch Tommy Wattring PRP interview. He's a sweet, wholesome guy and gives some great insight into Markus character. Enjoy and give Tommy some love, he deserves it 💜

#what was the point of this post? #who knows #oh well #young royals #tommy wattring #Youtube

[snallavanta]

okay i’ve got some sleep, the thoughts are more coherent, the crying has somewhat stopped so here are my thoughts on the last ever season of young royals 💜 (with spoilers)

🐟 writing + pacing

the writing of season 3 is so so similar to the way they wrote season 2. there’s always this huge emphasis on something that the audience could probably care less about. season 2 was about rousseau and season 3 was about hillerska closing down. seriously, did anyone really care that much about these two events? anyway, this pushed a lot of the emphasis onto the school which i felt was unnecessary screen time wasted.

pacing-wise is also similar to season 2. it’s unbearably underwhelming in the first few episodes then it gets really fast-paced in the last 2 episodes. i don’t know how this effectively gets the writers’ point across because i would’ve definitely appreciated some breathing space between the break-up in episode 5 to wilhelm dropping everything in episode 6.

that being said, wille’s decision appears rather impulsive even though we as a viewer know that this decision was something he thought about for the past 3 seasons. being a part of the monarchy was never on wille’s wishlist (and we are painfully made aware of it at almost every moment) but the fact that the break-up happened just before that made it seem like he did it for simon. i think that could’ve been conveyed better.

🎹 music

oh my god the soundtrack this season is especially good. every single song was so perfectly chosen & it portrayed the emotions of the characters so well. i also love the idea that the sounds sound more mature too (no abc i’m the alpha bitch type of nonsense 💀) because the characters are growing and becoming aware of the world and their surroundings

one thing though: i am so disappointed they did not continue the ep4-ep6 song parallel. the season 3 song would’ve worked so well for any wilmon scenes pre-breakup

also WHAT SONG IS THAT IN THE TRAILER AND WHY IS IT NOT EVEN IN THE SHOW? that infuriates me so bad especially since the song is so good

👑 characters

BROOOOO wilhelm angered me the whole season. he was so selfish and kept on going "me me me"; i hated his guts. however, i love that there was a clear distinction between crown prince wilhelm and wille. it’s clear that whatever crazy rules was not his decision to make and he was simply the messenger, but he still could’ve delivered the message more sympathetically. at the end of the day, i’m glad that he could differentiate prince wilhelm from wille and decide for himself.

SIMON. MY BELOVED. MY POOR BOY. he went through so much this season and he didn’t deserve any of that. i’m glad he was happy in the end but i wished he freed himself from the shackles of the monarchy (even if that includes wille) earlier on. it was so disheartening to see him lose a part of himself to keep up with the royal court’s wishes.

i wished felice got more attention that didn’t involve the people around her. i wanted to see more of her—how betrayed she felt by sara, how she was treated differently compared to her peers. yeah, she got that moment about her hair and standing up for what’s fair as the only black girl in school but everything else was just about wilhelm or the rest of the girls. make my girl be more than just the supportive best friend!!!

stedrika. no words. they reek of superiority and i hated it. i am glad they finally got together in the end though

august. i don’t know what to say about him. i’m relieved that him and wilhelm finally got their peace. i am also relieved that him and sara finally got closure. and as evil as it may be, i am glad that he is the new heir for the monarchy as it was always what he’s wanted—even if he realised it too late that it was only the idea of being king that he wanted, not the actuality of the role’s responsibilities.

and finally sara. this girl struck a chord with me. everything she said this season just somehow resonated with me. maybe it's because i recently found out i have adhd so i could see myself in her but i just felt so connected with her and seen by her actions. all along she's been trying to do what she thinks is best for everyone, but she just needs some help doing it the proper way. i was so sad for her when micke abandoned her again because it really felt as though he was turning over a new leaf. and when she made up with felice, i was full on sobbing at that point

💜 ending

now straight up, i felt that the ending was sub-par. it was so rushed, i barely had the time to process whatever was happening. one thing i love about young royals is how thought out everything is, but the ending was so cliche. i love that wilmon got their happy ending but it was just... not executed in a way i feel was satisfactory.

also i love the montage that played but i don't think it was the best choice of media to use. wilmon was constantly on-and-off during those periods. it's weird to use those because they weren't really official during that time (at least not to the whole of sweden).

the only thing that really moved me in the last moments is wille breaking the fourth wall again with a smile on his face, his hair all scruffed and knowing that he is now free to live his life however he wants to.

overall, i would have to watch the series again to process it all properly but these are my thoughts as of now, 2-days post watching season 3 <3

#young royals #pls be nice to me 😭 i haven't remembered every single detail from the show because i watched it in 3 days 😭 #also these are just my opinions. feel free to have your own <3

[bluedalahorse]

Rambling? Venting? Idk. Vulnerability. Let’s call it vulnerability.

I don’t know if I want to even tag this because I’m trying to protect my verbal processing abilities right now and my eternal comfort movie Luca is playing in the background, so this isn’t going to be formal or polished the way I usually like to be when I’m posting, but… anyway, it totally kinda knocks me over that there are people out there who insist YR S2 wasn’t well written or Lisa is a bad writer or something because… something something our-oversimplified-version-of-wilmon-is-better-than-canon-nuanced-wilmon or some reason or other.

And I mean, when I say it knocks me over, I don’t mean it surprises me. That feels fairly standard for the internet and fandoms. I’ve been in fandoms long enough to know there’d be people with those takes. But I guess it knocks me over in… a Tired kinda way? A Deflated way? Something like that.

YR is special to me because of when I watched it the first time in summer 2021, and the things that were going on with me at the time. First, I saw it when I was completely burned out on Franchise Media (TM) and like, so incredibly exhausted from the MCU and how much everyone was still talking about it. It was refreshing to watch a show, not based on any existing IP, that delved into characters’ flaws and vulnerabilities, and that didn’t apologize for making you feel emotion and didn’t rely on quips or winking really obviously at the camera or whatever.

Second, I watched YR when I started my MFA in writing for children and young adults. The further I’ve gotten along in my program, the more I’ve felt that young people and adults alike deserve stories with moral complexity. And when we write young people as characters, the more we need morally complex stories for those characters. Teenagers live in a world that isn’t easy to navigate, and we do them a disservice when a story’s moral questions are too swiftly answered. As part of my program, I probably would have thought about issues of justice and human rights in YA lit regardless, but YR really pushed me to think of these issues in writing beyond just “good representation/bad representation.” (Which is important, but not the sum total of what authors should be focused on, and sometimes I feel like members of all fandoms overuse the word “representation” to justify their preferences. Sigh.) ANYWAY I love the way YR consistently resists easy answers and leans into its tensions. I love the way it’s always asking us, do you really want to find catharsis there? Certainly it doesn’t resolve issues by having superheroes shoot lasers at sky beams. I imagine season 3 will attempt to find some resolution for certain long running plotlines, but I also imagine what it doesn’t resolve will have the potential to open up some really interesting conversations, if we let it. Ugh, I just. Love dissecting the craft in this story! I love taking YR apart and seeing how it works.

Third, I discovered YR around the time I started to seriously think about ways in which I might be neurodivergent. (I’m doing my first intake call with a local neuropsych group in a few weeks.) While I have related to various ND or ND-coded characters before, Sara is pretty important to me because she was the first of these characters I connected to while exploring that aspect of my identity. I can see a lot of my child and teenage self in Sara’s arc; I wasn’t a horse girl but I did once beg my parents to send me to private school because I thought I’d be bullied less than in public school (they didn’t send me, because we couldn’t afford it.) I read novels set at boarding schools with a certain fascination because I imagined it as a place I could reinvent myself and be the best version of myself. I now know that I was romanticizing a pretty classist and elitist experience, but as a young person I didn’t really have the perspective to see and understand that. So I feel like I get where Sara is coming from, and I feel like her arc is such an important addition to the themes of the series. Like, we’re pulling the gilded veneer off of a really messed up system! Someone has to be drawn in by all that gold. When criticisms of season 2 boil down to “Sara had too much screen time” I like, can’t even be rational about it ahaha. (I hope people can forgive me this. I’m not saying Sara did nothing wrong, but I’m saying she has an important place in the story.)

Fourth, @heliza24 and I were friends before YR, but we were able to take our friendship to a newer and more exciting level while collaborating on our fanfic. And now we have ideas for original pieces we can write, too!

Idk like. I’m not saying YR or Lisa are perfect. I’ve got my quibbles with like the occasional thing here or there. Season 3 could still let me down. But I love it because it’s a well-crafted story with dynamic characters and resonant themes. I love it like I love Tana French and Elena Ferrante’s novels. I love it like I love Revolutionary Girl Utena and the history of the French Revolution and Socrates’s Antigone and Oedipus. I love it like I love Adib Khorram’s Darius the Great is Not Okay. I love it like I love so many of the songs in Ragtime and Les Misérables. All of which have their own flaws, but really make something in my brain light up and be happy.

I’m not really sure what my overall point here is. I think I just wanted to express this because I am currently having A Lot Of Feelings about other things in my life, and this feels like a place to rechannel them. And maybe if you read this far you got a chance to know me a little better, too.

[waybeforeyourtime]

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Only 17% of my posts had no tags

#young royals - 136 posts

#young royals fandom - 60 posts

#wilmon - 52 posts

#young royals wilhelm - 38 posts

#young royals simon - 34 posts

#edvin ryding - 24 posts

#omar rudberg - 21 posts

#young royals s2 - 16 posts

#prince wilhelm - 14 posts

#young royals fanfic - 13 posts

Longest Tag: 134 characters

#do you all know that many times the people decrying the hate the loudest were actually the anons or sockpuppets spreading the hate too

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

There are 2 types of people right now in YR fandom.

Those who saw August in the opening and thought, "Aw, poor guy. Yes, what he did was wrong, but he really is sorry. Look at him! No one deserves to suffer like that."

And those who thought, "Good, you bigoted, misogynistic, self-centered piece of shit. You're only sorry because you lost your privilege of being close to the Royal family. If you still had your money and your power, you would step all over people like Simon. Eat your fucking broccoli alone, you loser!"

Me - that 2nd group is me.

Neither are right. Neither are wrong. It’s just different perspectives of a well-written character.

111 notes - Posted September 30, 2022

#4

I saw the first post pitting Heartstopper against Young Royals and immediately blocked.

That sort of attitude is ugly and unproductive. It feels that it comes from jealousy and the drive to win. That sort of influence can ruin fandom for people. Everything doesn't have to be BETTER THAN something else to be good. You can like something without hating something else.

And when you come out with "a is better than b" you come across as attempting to put yourself higher than b's fans, especially when you put it in the tags. But, you're not, so don't do it.

120 notes - Posted April 29, 2022

#3

I don't get everyone who thinks Simon was reduced to a love interest, then complain Micke's storyline wasn't there. So you wanted him to be reduced to being the kid with a shitty father? Oh wait you say but that's part of Simon's troubles, he needs to grow and learn from his issues with his dad. Well, that's what he did - grow and learn to weed out what everyone else wants or what they tell him to do - but with Wille's relationship instead.

I do not get how anyone watched S2 and didn't feel Simon's inner turmoil and struggles! I laughed out loud recently when I saw someone say it was out of character for him. Some of you all need to look at Simon in fandom vs Simon in canon. In S1, most of Simon's decisions came from him trying to please other people. That was a huge part of the story. At the end of the S1, Simon made a decision to walk away from Wille. Then in S2, he realizes that's not so easy - that he can't turn off his feelings and the situation is much more complicated. But he still let other people lead him around, he still let other people tell him what's best for him. And he overcame that. He learned to ignore the noise and look out for his best interests.

And why don't you all think that Wille was reduced to only a love interest for Simon? I mean every single conflict he had this season was because of his relationship with Simon. He literally called the Queen to freak out that Simon was on a date.

This is a love story - that's been established quite clearly. So yes the leads - both of them - are going to be "love interests" and their story surrounding that.

159 notes - Posted November 18, 2022

#2

169 notes - Posted October 14, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Simon: I really don't think I'm ready for a relationship. I'm very obviously not over my ex yet.

Marcus 🚩: cool cool. we'll be chill about this. no pressure. I'll just keep texting you constantly to hang out until you feel bad for me and say 'yes''.

Simon: okay but really I'm not ready for this. You're nice and I think we should -

Marcus 🚩: hey, no I totally get that. I'm so chill here. But let me bring up all your traumas to show you how broken you are: the video (which I didn’t watch 😉😉😉👀), your addict toxic father, how hurt your mother was. I hope that helps you see that you're the problem here, not me. I'm perfect and I love you, and we have the most beautiful relationship ever. Trust me and do what I say. I know what you need better than you do. Because remember I reminded you that you’re broken.

Simon: Okay, dude, like seriously, I'm done. I tried, and you're nice and all, but I don't want to be in a relationship with you.

Marcus 🚩: WHERE DID THIS COME FROM?! HOW DARE YOU NOT BE OVER HAVING YOUR MOST INTIMATE MOMENT SHARED WITH THE WHOLE WORLD. IT'S YOU, NOT ME. I'M THE PERFECT ONE HERE AND YOU WILL REGRET THIS.

223 notes - Posted November 6, 2022

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[piebingo]

ofc i do think they're endgame but from time to time i have my doubts and go "what if she gives them happiness but with other people and that's her way of giving us happy ending, like wille gets to be with a boy but it wouldn't be simon" but that's me reaching just to worry myself over nothing when there's no need. a happy ending for the show is wilmon endgame (we deserve it after s2 was mostly angst) and i agree i think what matters is seeing them end s3 together and we can imagine the rest of their future ❤️

Oh yeah, s2 was full of angst and I hope we (and them!!) can have a bit more love and lightness this season. Tho I enjoy the angst and am excited for how they will overcome the problems to come.

I think if there had been more than 3 seasons, them ending up with other people could have possibly happened, but with only 6 episodes left it would be a shot in the foot. We wouldn’t have the time to believe they’re better off with other people. S3 is about them working through everything together for once. At least I think that’s what we all want to see.

#ask #young royals

[misfithive]

They have so much to give us a good final season without adding anything new just to cause drama for either Simon or Wille, or both, to go through (as you said).

Idk I feel like at one point even that becomes repetitive and s2 was kinda criticized exactly for that. I don’t expect everything to go smooth, especially right after the speech and the following days, but to conclude the season and the whole series with just one final episode with them truly happy, it would be disappointing in a way. They deserve better than to get thrown at traumatic and anxiety inducing situation after the other.

Idk I’m scared it will all be too rushed and we will get wilmon sad and unhappy for most of it, once again. And august still at the freaking school, unpunished, by the second to last episode. It’s extremely annoying.

I know i have said this before but I need at least 5 minutes of wilmon fluff every episode i want hand holding, looking at eachother lovingly, hugs, wille with rosh and ayub again, them holding hands while at the royal meetings playing footsie under the table idc. I need to see them being on the same side and supporting eachother. and ofc i need wilmon endgame lol

My dream scenario is no wilmon fights at all (no one jump me i know this is too much to ask ) lmao ik communication does not improve over night + they will have a lot of stressors so I'm sure there will be fights but i hope when they argue they work to see eachothers side and actually apologize to eachother. Bc it's the last season this is our only chance to actually see them happy and smiling with eachother. I want to at least have some happy moments to hold on to when it's all over lmao

I get that there is going to be conflict and drama I guess I'm just hoping to see them be on eachothers side more than not now that they know what is like to lose eachother and find their way back.

That being said, Lisa is trying to convey a message and i respect however she wants to express it so i'm trying not to have too many expectations (at the same time i will cry if what u said happens and they are miserable all seasons and only happy at the very end!!! pls Lisa don't do that to me)

#misfit answers asks

[young-royals-confessions]

I might be the only one in the fandom who doesn't want wilmon endgame because I believe Simon deserves better.

Simon forgave so much stuff from Wilhelm. He seriously deserves better than a guy who will thrown him under the bus at the first adversity, who will gleefully admit he was in his room making out with his female bff but denied he was sucking off his boyfriend even if is was caught on tape and won't defend him against his snob classmates. Sure he admitted it was him in the sex tape at the end of S2.

But knowing him and his environment, he could always twist that on his benefit and leave Simon to suffer the consequences, again.

Personally, I don't think Wilhelm loves Simon as much as Simon loves him and I don't think S3 will show us a lot of chances for me to change my mind, what's with all the useless screen time given to secondary characters.

All in all I believe they will give more time to resolve subtexts storylines and they will screw Simon over. Again.

💔

#is anon the only one who doesn't want wilmon endgame? #wilmon #young royals #wilhelm #simon eriksson