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23 | multifandom 🌈 | I draw and write, sometimes yell for young royals most of the time at this blog :)

[irlplasticlamb]

i must not fear. fear is the mind-killer.

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[liar-or-lawyer]

and that's emotional blackmail

[yr-thisisnotfake]

Simon's hugs for Wille

Simon always puts his arms around Wille's neck or on his shoulders.

During their last hug in season 1, Simon isn't doing that. He is okay with a hug BUT his arms are around Wille's torso. Like: I still like you but nothing is like before.

It takes a while for them to hug again in season 2 and even then Simon just hugs Wille's torso. As if he were still not fully convinced of his decision of what he wants. Full of concern how they can be something.

Their second hug is just a reaction of Simon. To put his arms around Wille. For a second.

During their last hug in season 2 his arms are finally again around Wille's shoulders. He made his final decision. He accepts and welcomes Wille and all the intimacy between them back in his life.

[wanghsuihsuisatelier]

[emberc]

S1 Fanart Vibes 💜

Artist: july_jo

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[wanghsuihsuisatelier]

This could be off my mind, coast side or om om och om igen it’s very hard to decide

Reference:

[wanghsuihsuisatelier]

I attempted to draw this wille thrice, at the third time I finally get the closest to it. (Oh the other attempts were hideous! But this one isn’t, I’m way more satisfied with this result so I shall show it)

It was a challenge for myself to sketch a sorrowful face, because it wasn’t easy to portray this expression — a heart piercing sorrow and despair that lies beneath a graceful mask that has crack all over it. If we can see it, Simon definitely saw it clearer — yet he’s so strong to stood his ground in front of this wille, even though he loves him so much. I adore Simon a lot for that.

Once again I’m so impressed by Edvin’s fantastic acting. He’s the first actor I saw that slay with pimples and acne (I’m not very educated with dramas and films! Let me know if there’s others), and those flaws melt it into his character seamlessly that lead to perfection. Definitely a prince. 👑

[loren91]

Hur har du drömt att det ska vara?

[wanghsuihsuisatelier]

Whenever your hand touches mine, I'd let you ruin the rest of my life

Ever since you said out my name, I haven't heard it sound the same How do I stop my heart from beating for you? When you stopped all of my wounds from bleeding it's true

If you’re deep into this rabbit hole of Young Royals metaphor, you will understand according to the metaphorical lore (the ‘water’ metaphor analysis written by wonderful tvmicroscope, their articles never fails to give my brain orgasm every time and tempt me to munch on YR over and over again) wilmon should’ve never hug under the snow even though they’re living in Sweden...

But hey! Hear me out, we can give the frostbite snow a new perception! What about they are hugging and tied together with the fated scarf, two against the worlds cold and cruel feelings their relationship? It make sense doesn’t it!

I'm falling head to toes into wilmonbliss's edit recently, as they always manage to make the most heartfelt edit with the perfect song.

[darktwistedgenderplural]

I fully support the water = feelings metaphor, it's a very common one - it's in Heartstopper, RWRB, SKAM, Sense8 and countless other movies & shows. (Sharing hot beverages is a common variant.)

LOVE your art! 💖💜💜💖 And your interpretation of the metaphor definitely works!

[wanghsuihsuisatelier]

You’re right! And young royals did it in a more subtle way in my opinion. If I’m not wrong I think most of the water metaphors used in the media/lit include all forms of water (heartstopper and RWRB in snow), but in YR is especially implied these raw feelings comes in liquid form of water, which is the ‘realest/rawest state’ of water. It’s just my little thought after reading these analysis articles and my observations throughout the excessive rewatch! I think how creatively YR team twisted this metaphor closer to wilmon’s exceptional bond is very brilliant, makes me love the show all over again!

I’m happy to hear you loved it!! It made my day 💜💜

[wanghsuihsuisatelier]

Whenever your hand touches mine, I'd let you ruin the rest of my life

Ever since you said out my name, I haven't heard it sound the same How do I stop my heart from beating for you? When you stopped all of my wounds from bleeding it's true

If you’re deep into this rabbit hole of Young Royals metaphor, you will understand according to the metaphorical lore (the ‘water’ metaphor analysis written by wonderful tvmicroscope, their articles never fails to give my brain orgasm every time and tempt me to munch on YR over and over again) wilmon should’ve never hug under the snow even though they’re living in Sweden...

But hey! Hear me out, we can give the frostbite snow a new perception! What about they are hugging and tied together with the fated scarf, two against the worlds cold and cruel feelings their relationship? It make sense doesn’t it!

I'm falling head to toes into wilmonbliss's edit recently, as they always manage to make the most heartfelt edit with the perfect song.

[emberc]

You made this art? Those paintings are beautiful! Wow! I can imagine a snowy hugging-kissing-forehead resting scene now!

[wanghsuihsuisatelier]

Yes I drew it!! I’m so happy that you liked it 💜

Indeed wilmon hugging in the snow will be devastingly romantic and beautiful! but we shall see if it will happen (is the ahem, water metaphor overanalyzed or true, it shall be revealed in 2024)

[wanghsuihsuisatelier]

Whenever your hand touches mine, I'd let you ruin the rest of my life

Ever since you said out my name, I haven't heard it sound the same How do I stop my heart from beating for you? When you stopped all of my wounds from bleeding it's true

If you’re deep into this rabbit hole of Young Royals metaphor, you will understand according to the metaphorical lore (the ‘water’ metaphor analysis written by wonderful tvmicroscope, their articles never fails to give my brain orgasm every time and tempt me to munch on YR over and over again) wilmon should’ve never hug under the snow even though they’re living in Sweden...

But hey! Hear me out, we can give the frostbite snow a new perception! What about they are hugging and tied together with the fated scarf, two against the cold and cruel feelings from the world? It make sense doesn’t it!

I'm falling head to toes into wilmonbliss's edit recently, as they always manage to make the most heartfelt edit with the perfect song.

[wanghsuihsuisatelier]

“What did you dreamed about?”

“I can… show you.”

I’ve always wondered, if dancing with you feel the same as dancing on you.

[grapehyasynth]

young royals duolingo, 6/?

(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)

[wanghsuihsuisatelier]

It takes a fool to remain sane

[darktwistedgenderplural]

Is it easier to empathise with Wille?

I have a LOT of empathy with Wille. His vast loneliness, his anxiety, and having less than stellar parents resonates deeply with me.

This post is NOT about empathising with Wille or not. It's about power, hierarchies and privilege, and what they do to our empathy and who we empathise with. The very themes of Young Royals itself.

We all live in hierarchical cultures. Privileges are unevenly distributed; some have more, most have less. Privilges are interesting because they shelter us from experiences, which in turn makes us less emphatic. We see it in August, Felice and Wille, all being blind to the realities of people outside their sheltered world of privilege. Right, "Simon would go to the police so he shouldn't know who posted revenge porn of him on the internet" Felice and Wille?

Prefering one character over another isn't wrong in itself of course!

On the other hand, to empathise with Wille while NOT noticing Simon's suffering, or disregarding it as less important indicates a certain amount of privilege. Not to mention not even recognizing Simon as a whole human being with his own needs and wants, but merely something Wille deserves, a reward for his suffering.

It's a mindset we've been brainwashed with through culture since the beginning of patriarchy (some 5-15K years ago). For gender reasons I was somewhat aware of it, but not explicitely until the #metoo movement of 2017. I've watched so many movies and series where the female characters is a reward for the hero.

It's what we're taught, so of course we normalise that one person can act like a reward or comfort for someone else's pain and suffering. Doesn't Wille deserve comfort when he's hurting? Don't I deserve comfort when I'm hurting?

The problem is the word DESERVE. When we feel like we deserve something from someone else, it's time to take a step back and check if the other person is okay with giving that comfort, and if we're offering comfort in return when needed. That was another lesson Wille had to learn. And he did! Very curious about season 3 and how well he learnt that lesson!

Living in Norway means on a global scale I have massive privilege. Yet on a local scale I barely have any privileges at all. It's impossible to ignore the class issue to cheer for the white boy, because my life is profoundly affected in a negative way by the very class systems that Young Royals is critical of.

To quote my fav indigenous Saemien/Sámi artist, actor, author, slam poet and activist Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen: "How do you endure, you ask? When the truth is that to live as a Sámi is a political act in itself. That just by breathing, I revolt."

It's impossible for me in any way, shape or form to empathise with Wille at the expense of Simon's emotions and integrity. I empathise with both; hierarchies hurt people in both ends of it. Wille is selfish for a long time, and though I empathise, I can't defend his behaviour. On the other hand, Simon had no one else to fight for him against the system of power and privilege so clearly rigged against him. It's the exact same system that is failing to protect disabled people from adverse health issues and social exclusion, perpetuates generational trauma and poverty, and continuing the massive ongoing cultural genocide of my own people in both Norway and Sweden.

Just like Simon, I lack the privileges required to shelter me from the realities of life at the bottom levels of the patriarchal hierarchy.

Emotional growth requires facing negative consequences for harmful behaviour. The older we are, the harsher the consequences need to be for us to learn. Look at August - on a path towards emotional growth, stopped dead in its tracks by the meeting with the queen. What he did was unforgivable imo, but I still hope he'll face the consequences required to learn and grow, because the alternative is so much worse for everyone else.

I much prefer emotionally immature boys to suffer the painful consequences of their actions, in order to mature into decent human beings - rather than being habitually coddled so that they never learn anything and continue perpetuating the patriarchy.

Wille wouldn't have learnt and grown unless Simon enforced his boundaries. The Wille who changed the speech wouldn't exist without having to face the painful consequences of his own actions, learning that other people's lives and emotions are just as important as his own.

[angelnicknelson]

FIRST LOOK AT YOUNG ROYALS SEASON 3

[piebingo]

More yr fanfic recommendations here you go!

All my loving (I will send to you) | chaptered | completed | by pagegirlintraining / @pagegirlintraining

“ Especially now that they’d been happily dating again for nearly ten months, Simon could’ve easily just teased Wille about being a drama queen and then kissed the pout off his lips.

He didn’t, though. Instead, he kept staring at Wille’s handwriting, usually scrawly but now tidy and precise, feeling his heart slowly break for the sad, lonely boy who’d written and never sent this letter all those months ago.”

In which Simon finds an unsent love letter from Wille and decides to reply in big style.

I have read this one many times, because it’s just that good. As is everything by this author. This fic is just full of love and sweetness and captures everything I love about wilmon and their love. Do yourself a favour and read it (again, if you’ve already read it).

You’re still the one | chaptered | completed | by queerfrogprince / @thewaterloovases

Simon and Wille meet on tumblr as teenagers, but when they lose contact, Simon doesn't think he'll ever hear from Wille again, much less bump into him in a supermarket in Stockholm one random afternoon. It's been five years, after all. He barely even thinks about Wille anymore.

But, it seems, Wille never stopped thinking about him. Maybe it's not too late to rekindle what they had at fifteen, after all.

AKA Simon has only ever loved two boys: Harry Styles, and Prince Wilhelm of Sweden.

If, like me, you can be a bit hesitant when real people are included in fics, this is one I recommend anyway! It’s really cute and feels a bit like an ode to tumblr. Wilmon starting as best friends will always get me. Also read the second one in the series!

The season of rebirth | chaptered | completed | by notalotgoingonatthisinstant/ @notalotgoingonatthisinstant

Simon knows two things:

1. Wille is the love of his life and Simon would have married him already if not for him being the Crown Prince. Plus, Simon knows that they won’t be treated like a serious couple by a lot of people until then. BUT,

2. Marrying Wille will be a spectacle that will change his life forever and strip him of his civilian identity, apart from giving the Queen and the Court the satisfaction of tiring Simon out.

But Easter is the season of rebirth, and maybe there is something poetic to be said about it triggering the death of Simon's civilian identity and the birth of Prince Simon.

This fic is a pure delight! It’s sweet and funny, and Wille is a little shit and Simon is Simon, and you should really check out this whole series actually.

See you (soon) | chaptered | completed | by gulliblelemon / @gulliblelemon

All of a sudden Wille didn’t hate everything. Or, he still hated most things. But he didn’t hate whoever this person was, singing with all his might on a sunny stage in front of hundreds of boring, judgemental spectators.

OR

Wille never attends Hillerska but is still dragged to the jubilee celebrations, where he sees an angelic choir boy for the first time and maybe falls a little bit in love. He drums up the courage to talk to him, and then does everything in his power to see him again. And Erik is around to tease him a little bit too.

This was very sweet (I like sweet fics, what can I say?) and I loved seeing how they would meet again and again. I love those kind of AU where they meet anyway, even if Wille doesn’t go to Hillerska. I suggest reading the whole series.

Simon-Appreciation-Posts | oneshot | completed | by DrogonTheDragon

Wille didn't mean for it to blow up as it did. He didn’t.

… or

Wille makes a secret Simon Eriksson fan account and it gets a lot more attention than he intended.

Listen, I love me some good media posts in fics, but I love it even more when Wille makes them because he’s obsessed with Simon. He loves to look at pictures of Simon! We’ve seen it! Anyway this a nice fun fic that brings the mood up.

Ours | oneshot | completed | by RubyIntyale / @earlgrey-lateatnight

He leaned over Simon’s bed to grab another pillow, something to rest his back against so the ridge of the mattress would stop digging in so badly.

Huh. That was weird. Why did Simon have…? Oh.

I love love love when people write that missing scene, and this one is amazing.

Other recs: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5