Why Do You Look So Happy? (5.2K, one shot) - A S2E4 au in which Wille follows Simon out of the Forest Ridge dining room
You're Every Colour Of The Rainbow (6.3K, one shot) - When Simon is looking for some peace after a long day of volunteering at the Stockholm Pride, he finds Wille instead
Skinny Dip In Water Under The Bridge (5.6K, one shot) - Wille doesn't chase after the car, and he runs into Simon three years later in a coffee shop in Stockholm
Love That He's Like This (Hate That I'm Like This) (4.1K, one shot) - Simon has been secretly in love with his best friend Wille for months, and when Wille finds a picture Simon took of him sleeping he is forced to confess his feelings
Is It New Years Yet? (5.5K, one shot) - Wille and Simon are both bored at a party on New Year's Eve but they find each other and spend the hour before midnight together
Starry Eyes Sparking Up My Darkest Night (2.2K, one shot) - Ever since getting sick Simon has always had the same hoodie for his bad health days, but now he's gotten himself another one because he misses his new boyfriend
It Felt Like Freedom (As He Was Leaving) (7.8K, one shot) - When Simon runs after he finds a ring and shares the sleeping compartment of his getaway-nighttrain with Wille, the two quickly find out they have more in common than their destination
I Didn't Choose This Town (I Dream Of Getting Out) (3.1K, one shot) - A season 1 AU in which Simon's towel gets stolen after rowing practice, so Wille and him connect a little bit earlier
Brighter Than The Sun (You're Untouchable) (30.8K, 3 chapters) - When Wille talks about Simon on Felice's reaction channel and Simon slides into his dm's, Wille finds out just how right they were for being a Simon fan all this time
Sticky Little Words (They Hurt And They Heal) (15.8K, one shot) - When a lonely Wille starts university and gets off on the wrong foot with Simon, it takes a while for them to realise how much they actually like each other
You Can't Get Rid Of It ('Cause You Remember It All Too Well) (5.2K, one shot) - An alternative to S2E2, where Felice saw Simon taking Wille's orange sweater and Wille confronts him about it
The Longing Needs The Leaving (post-S1, 22K, 5 chapters) - During Wille's remaining two and a half years at Hillerska he learns more about himself, makes friends and imporant decisions, and eventually finds their way back to Simon
You Can Feel It On The Way Home (9.3K, one shot) - Wille and Simon are roommates during their first semester of university and Wille slowly realises that Simon might just be the best person they've ever met
a universe in which Wille has a chronic illness, and Simon is his boyfriend
How'd We End Up On The Floor, Anyway? (2,5K, one shot) - When Simon sleeps over at the start of their relationship, Wille passes out in the middle of the night and they get to know each other and their relationship a little better
Time's Just Pocket Change (That I'm Wasting Away) (2.3K, one shot) - Wille has a chronic illness flare-up, and he sleeps the days away with Simon by his side
With You By My Side (2.6K, one shot) - Wille struggles with his chronic illness towards the end of a busy week and Simon is there to comfort him
And: my Wilmon fic recommendations from 2023, 2024 and 2025!
you must remember that you're gonna continue to find things (art, nature, people, etc) that amaze you and ground you and you're gonna be glad to be alive to experience it
i do think we should normalise being like. platonically enamoured with someone. perhaps i love and admire you dearly and there's nothing romantic about it
people will say “they’re only friends” and then show me two people who would crawl through broken glass to hear the other laugh once. two people who have memorized each other’s coffee orders, fears, childhood stories, and emergency contacts. two people who would haunt each other’s houses as ghosts. be serious.
Just an FYI—the original intention of this post was to challenge the way people say only friends, as though friendship is somehow lesser than other forms of love. As if being deeply known, cherished, and chosen by another person could ever be a small thing. Normalize profound platonic love. Some of the most fulfilling, transformative, and enduring relationships we will ever have are friendships. 🫶🏼
Let me tell you, I've taken lots of vacations by myself, and I've also taken lots of vacations with other people, and by far vacationing solo is the easiest, most stress-free vacation you can imagine. There's some kind of societal stigma against this. Ignore this. Vacationing by yourself is amazing. There is zero negotiation or compromise. You do exactly what you want to do when you want to do it. You eat whatever you want to eat, whenever you want to eat it. You pursue whatever tourist attraction you want, or none at all. It is the purest release from all obligations and responsibilities. You don't need to worry about whether anyone else is walking faster than you or slower than you and you've lost them in a crowd, did they want to do something different, have you railroaded them into doing what you want to do?
And it's easier to buy solo tickets to things. It's easier to squeeze into crowded bars. Everything about it is just so incredibly relaxing. Don't let society talk you out of it. It's obviously good to socialize and have friends and family who you want to hang out with and see, etc., etc., and it's okay if traveling solo just doesn't appeal to you at all. I'm just saying, I was just on vacation with people, and I had a great time, but we were out to dinner at the hotel restaurant and at the table next to us was a woman by herself having a glass of wine and eating spinach and artichoke dip for dinner while she read a novel and I was just like, honestly, I know that kind of dinner and it's so great lol. If you've ever wondered what it's like to travel solo, it's like that: dip for dinner and a glass of wine and a book lol
Theres a sentiment I'm noticing in the tags that I'd like to address. I dont think learning to love bugs with all your heart means forcing yourself out of discomfort you have with them overnight. It's about observing a different sort of being going about its life and deliberately trying to reframe your observations through a sense of wonder and delight. It's about cultivating a positive interest and curiosity for their ecology and behaviors. It's especially about trying to uncouple the value we find in them from how 'convenient' they are to us; to face head on the part of us that wants to assign moral evil to another organism who just happens to live life in a way that is not harmonius with ours. You can love insects in this way and still recognize your own health and safety needs. We are animals living side by side within a biosphere. This is how it is, sometimes.
I think this is important to cultivate because, if you are alive at all, you are coming into conflict with countless other people and things that dont owe you an apology for their existance and needs. If you are alive at all, you are encountering countless other people and things that harmful bias and personal discomfort have made repulsive to you. This is about bugs, but its also about way more than bugs.
It's hard to explain to the uninitiated that you can just go for a walk just about anywhere with a bit of green (and sometimes even in the heart of a city) and find like a dozen neat little unique guys if you're patient and observant.
People get really into bird watching but here's a secret: bugs are WAY easier to find than birds and they let you get a lot closer.
Try to approach the world with wonder and curiosity rather than fear and revulsion. Bugs are a great place to start.
I used to be very afraid of spiders...But I read a poem from the point if view of a spider, saying how she didn't knew being seen would cost her life and it struck a nerve, one day I saw one in my room and just... Observe, I told her to stay a bit far because I felt afraid and somehow she... Understood me(? That's what I felt, she always walked to another wall or to her home (a box in my room) when I went near, after a while I named her "Gorda" and talked to her daily
A year and a half passed and one day there was only her corpse and I cried and took her little body in my hands and put her in a little piece of cotton fabric, wrote a letter and buried her in the park nearby
Gorda and I became weird friend that just... Looked at each other, every day I miss seeing her
I truly recommend to just watch, and name and see what happens when you just exist near a bug.
I now like spiders, in honor of my gorda, my beloved, and that beautiful short poem that changed my perspective.
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I feel like people who are dismissive of sports don’t realize that they’re sometimes super condescending. like, okay, you didn’t like gym class and have personal grudges against the jocks from your high school! that doesn’t mean that other people are idiots for enjoying something that, when it’s at its best, can connect you to a broader community of fans and give you a chance to appreciate the athleticism that people are capable of when they spend years honing a specific set of skills. there’s something so valuable and human about sports that gets lost when you reduce it to “sportsball” or whatever