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Reblog if you think it’s okay to platonically say “I Love You” to your friends

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@youngroyals-events Here is my little contribution to kick off Wille’s month. The prompt was ‘sandwich.’

Wille always uses too much butter. He always uses too much butter and then has to scrape the crumb covered remnants back into the tub. He slices the cheese too thinly, too, and the cucumber slices too thick. ‘A bit messy,’ according to Simon. Some things never change.

And some things change more than you could ever imagine. Wille doubts he’d even recognise that boy now, the one who’d always hidden all of himself, slowly inching out into the light, slipping a sandwich under the desk to his secret lover. Prince Wilhelm feels forever ago, a character in a story he tells about other people.

He finishes up and wraps the sandwich in two napkins, as is their tradition. It’s not a long journey. The sun rose about an hour ago, bathing the hills in warm golden light. He’d laughed when Simon first mentioned retiring to the country. They’d looked at so many houses, bickering good naturedly the whole time, but now he has to admit, he does enjoy the quiet.

He parks the car by the gates and walks stiffly up the narrow path. One foot in front of the other. Things take him longer, now. He spreads the picnic blanket out and settles himself onto it. His knees can just about manage a few minutes.

The headstone is beautiful. Understated and elegant. A choice he wishes he’d never had to make, but a good choice, nonetheless. He reaches into his jacket pocket, smiling as he brings out the little parcel wrapped in purple.

“Hi Simon,” the grass is real, here. Lush and damp with dew between his fingers, “I brought you a sandwich.”

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#I love their hugs so much #young royals

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It makes me happy when they listen

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What’s your favourite line from good omens?

The invisible and unbreakable one that joins Crowley and Aziraphale.

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one of the things i love about young royals is that the s1 tagline being “love or duty” leads you to believe this is going to be like all of the other cliche royal/commoner modern romances where the journey ends with wilhelm realizing he can have both

but then the show is actually an interrogation of how the protagonist cannot maintain his role within the monarchy and have a healthy relationship because no one can be a fully realized individual within a hierarchical colonial institution AND coming into queerness is a stepping stone to the self realization that ultimately frees him AND it is actually the antagonist who gets trapped within the monarchy (while also losing love) proving that upholding the power of the ruling class is a narrative punishment instead of a reward… perfect show

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Wille & Simon || 3.04 ♥️🤎

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The person I reblogged this from is awesome as fuck.

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Compilation of clues that August would get the crown

Many of these have already been discussed, but I was trying to think of how many there were and decided to put them together in one place. If there are others, please add!

The baggage metaphor. August trying to take the suitcase from Wille. Wille's unwillingness to let it go until Erik tells him to do it (possibly Wille finding out about Erik which allowed him to finally let go of the obligation he felt to be crown prince). And in the end August and Erik have the baggage and Wille has no baggage.

This discussion about how August would be better with crown prince duties and Wille suggesting they trade places

August holding the King when he plays chess (can anyone else confirm? I've seen different people say he's holding the King in both scenes, but I know absolutely nothing about chess)

The not so subtle lyrics

The crown imagery

And finally, the queen giving the frog (frog prince) necklace to August.

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The idiots

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🥺❤.

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List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you. Spread the positivity!

I have no idea what I reblogged from you, but hi!

In no particular order: 1. @toast-jpg

2. @starcrossedmoony

3. @reetahskeeter

4. Skiing/snow

5. Art

I have a bad habit of making my friends my everything but also, it makes me happy and they're good friends so

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online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't think anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

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Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

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“So why is Hillerska getting shut down?”

These two:

#power besties #young royals

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how does one go on knowing that simon was letting go of the love of his life (him begging to keep fighting, heartbeats labored and painful with sorrow) because they were good, but there was no place for them in this kind of life. that simon was letting go of wille's hand aware that his wille would keep drowning in the murky sticky waters of the crown prince's hurt, but having to take the risk anyway, to give them both the chance to swim to the surface. that, despite the agony like glass shards with every breath, he had the resolution to give them up, and wille the maturity to accept it.

and that in the end the only thing left for simon to do, if he wasn't allowed to have wille's handsome face in his life, was to make sure, tenderly, that even the tips of his fingers remembered it.