Jazzy (she/her)

these times of woe afford no time to woo

[srnileforme]

THAMEPO + HANDS

THAMEPO (2024-2025)

[chinzhilla-archive]

No one can quit being who they really are. Not even a prince(ss).

[pamouche]

You and I aren't even anything to each other. So everything we've been through meant nothing? — Simone de Beauvoir, Inseraparable: A Never Before Published Novel | Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights | Lana del Rey, Who Am I To Love You? | 29 August 1904, Letters of James Joyce | Orestes by Euripides (trans. Anne Carson) | Edith Södergran, The Moon's Secret | Amy Lowell, The Fruit Garden Path | Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

Jack & Joker: U Steal My Heart! EP 7

[intergalacticmca]

One of my favourite things about Young Royals and its characters is how much it romanticizes being utterly ordinary.

Stories often focus on characters who are exceptionally good at something or who are more ambitious than the average person. Even in the teen shows I’ve watched, these young characters always seemed to have their dream career and dream university figured out at a young age and I could never relate to that because I had none of those things figured out as a teen. It always felt like pushing this narrative that teenagers need to have their entire lives figured out before their brains are even fully developed.

None of the characters in YR seem particularly ambitious and in fact, the main character’s journey is a story of anti-ambition. When he is introduced to Simon, it is precisely Simon’s ordinariness that draws Wille to him. Sure, Simon is a very talented singer, but it’s never indicated within the series that he has dreams of being a pop star. It’s just something he likes to do. Simon is motivated by very ordinary things - he wants to do well in school so he can have better opportunities for himself, he wants to take care of his family, he wants to hang out with his friends and play video games. He’s a dedicated student but not necessarily valedictorian. It’s not his ambition that Wille is drawn to but his integrity and kindness and warmth.

Wille had a chance to be extraordinary - to be Sweden’s first gay king - but being extraordinary has never been Wille’s ambition. Wille’s ultimate goal and dream within the series’ narrative is to be free to make his own decisions and live his life as he pleases. He just wants to kiss his boyfriend and get drunk at parties and live his life one day at a time instead of spending every moment of his life preparing for an inevitable future he doesn’t want. In the end Wille is extraordinary not for his ambition, but for his bravery to reject the expectations thrust upon him and throw himself into the unknown and see where it takes him. Wille had a whole future in front of him as crown prince and future king - he’d never have to work a day in his life and would have people advising his every move - and he rejects that. This lack of ambition is not portrayed as a moral failure, but a necessary step in Wille’s journey to personal self-discovery and fulfillment of his own desires. His desire right now is simple - be free with Simon, but that doesn’t mean his dreams end here forever. He deserves peace and tranquility after all the trauma he’s been through without having to worry about where or who he’s gonna be in a few years. He deserves time to just exist.

None of the characters know where they’re going when they drive away at the end. We as the audience don’t know what careers if any these characters will find themselves in, but that’s also not important to this story. The series is saying you don’t have to have everything figured out when you’re 17 and you don’t have to do something just because your parents think they know what’s best for you and even if you don’t know exactly what you want to do, that doesn’t mean you don’t have the agency to know what you don’t want.

It’s not a moral failing to want the simple things in life or to be ordinary, and I love that Young Royals celebrates that. It shows the beauty in simple moments that feel revolutionary to a person - touching the person you love, forgiving someone and making amends after a hardship, whooping with your friends in a car as you drive into the summer and celebrates them. Ultimately these are the moments that make life worth living.

[glassamphibians]

nico’s new kids

[soobrownie]

Taejun on Suchwita + text posts

[bevioletskies]

my school president: “best of” edition ↳ tinn/gun + hugs

“Thanks for always being by my side. After today, whatever shitty rules there are, they can’t stop us.”

[phuwins]

YOUNG ROYALS (2021-) dir. Rojda Sekersöz HEARTSTOPPER (2022-) dir. Euros Lyn MY SCHOOL PRESIDENT (2022-) dir. Au Kornprom

[beomgyu01]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHOI BEOMGYU 💜🧸 (insp)

[bevioletskies]

You know that…Tinn likes me, right? And I like him too. He’s nice, Mom. He’s been so supportive. When I was competing in Hot Wave, he helped. Whenever I feel bad and…down, he always makes me feel better. I just want you to know that I…I’m dating Tinn. Are you okay with that? Honestly, Mom. I have no problem at all with Heart being deaf. He understands everything just like everyone else. I just started [learning sign language]. I still make mistakes when I use it. We mostly talk through written messages. Nothing is too difficult, Mom. I love it when I’m with him.

GEMINI NORAWIT & FOURTH NATTAWAT in MY SCHOOL PRESIDENT (2022) and MOONLIGHT CHICKEN (2023)

[seatawinan]

MY SCHOOL PRESIDENT + SONGS

[dadsjimmysea]

[valentinoknives]

[peaceoutofthepieces]

I think it’s very powerful what you put on Twitter the other day actually, where you said “apparently some people on here know my sexuality better than I do”, because I just don’t think that anyone on this planet has a right to anyone’s identity on any level. I think that was such a powerful statement to put out there.

[inrainprose]

I swear I'll stop but Pran really said to his mother "you made me bear your hatred, your pain and your failure, you made me bear it all and you were wrong, you shouldn't have, it made me miserable, it's the reason why I am the way I am - reserved and repressed and with a hard time connecting to myself and to others. You did this to me."

And Pat really told his father "I did as you asked, did as you said, I trusted you and I obeyed even if I didn't want to, even if it hurt me and others around me, when you knew all along that you were in the wrong, that you were lying to me, how can you demand any respect for me now, how can I forgive you?"

And I'm supposed to get over that how??

[alinok]

How often I wonder if you are thinking of me at exact moment I am thinking of you. — Tyler Knott Gregson

[notyourbae365]

The church scene in The Half of It is hands-down one of the best confession scenes in cinematic history, for SO many reasons that I will not list for everyone’s sake, I do not accept criticism on this topic