Young Royals Events

An account to host events in the Young Royals fandom.

[youngroyals-events]

YOUNG ROYALS EVENTS 2025-2026 CALENDAR

Hello, everyone! Here's our event calendar for the rest of the year, as well as the first months of 2026. We'll keep this post pinned in our blog, adding links to it as the events approach. We hope this will help you plan yourselves better and not have to rush much.

As a reminder, unless specified otherwise, all events are open to all kinds of fanworks, as well as all characters or ships.

Thank you for joining us in these events, we're very happy with the response and very excited about our future events.

November -

First week: Drabble/Doodle Challenge guidelines

Last week: Drabble / Doodle Challenge posting

December -

Young Royals Masquerade guidelines

February -

Valentine's Day secret admirer event

March - Masquerade guessing results

April 30 -

Wilmon Day

May 1-16 -

Sign-ups CLOSED for the Young Royals Gift Exchange 2026

August 1 - Gift Exchange gifts revealed

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YR Gift Exchange 2026 - Requests

All requests for the gift exchange have now been made public! Check them out here if you're thinking of making a Treat.

Treats are extra gifts that anyone can make based on the above requests, whether you signed up for the exchange yourself or not. They don't need to meet the same minimum requirements as an assigned gift, and can be submitted at any time up until works are revealed on Sat 1 August.

If you're taking part in the exchange, reblog this post to let your followers know if you're open to receiving Treats!

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Assignments are out!

Assignments for the Young Royals Gift Exchange 2026 have gone out! 🎉 You should have received an email from AO3 - if you haven't had yours yet, please check your spam/junk folders, and then let us know if it's still missing. You can also find your assignment in your AO3 dashboard.

Assignments are due by Sat 25 July (23:59 CEST). If you have any questions about how to fill your assignment or how it all works, please check the exchange FAQ or get in touch with the mods.

You might have specific questions you want to ask your recipient. This is an anonymous exchange, so please don't contact them directly so as not to spoil the surprise! Instead, feel free to contact the mods and we can ask questions on your behalf, or you could drop an anon ask on their tumblr.

All requests will be made public shortly for Treats - we'll put the link in a separate post you can reblog.

Good luck and have fun!!

[youngroyals-events]

YR Gift Exchange 2026 - Sign-ups Closed

Sign-ups are now closed for the Young Royals Gift Exchange 2026! Thank you so much to everyone who signed up.

If you meant to sign up (or to edit your sign-up) but just missed the deadline, please contact the mods asap by emailing youngroyalsevents [at] gmail [dot] com, or you can message @andthatisnotfake or @oneofthosebells here on Tumblr.

Assignments will go out from AO3 sometime in the next day or two - the exact time will depend on how smoothly the matching process goes. We'll also use the email address you have registered on AO3 to contact you if we have any questions about your sign-up, so make sure you can access it over the next couple of days.

We'll post again here when assignments have gone out. Good luck!

[youngroyals-events]

Young Royals Gift Exchange 2026 Sign-ups are OPEN!

Thank you to everyone who posted something for Wilmon Day! Tag us in any late submissions and we'll continue to reblog.

Moving on from Valborg to 1 May: sign-ups are now open for the YR Gift Exchange 2026!

This is a multimedia gift exchange along the same lines as a 'Secret Santa' type exchange, and you can request/offer fanfiction, fanart, images/gifs, video, podfics and fanmixes. Everyone is very welcome, from newbies to old hands! The exchange is open to all ships (or no ships), characters, ratings and themes.

Sign-ups are open from now until Saturday 16 May, 23:59 CEST (that's Stockholm time). You can edit your sign-up as many times as you like until the deadline. Assignments will be due in late July.

You can find all the dates and details at the profile page. The sign-up process is simpler than it might first look and there are instructions on the form itself. There's also an example sign-up here for anyone who would like a bit more detailed guidance.

Let us know if any questions, and please reblog and spread the word!

[youngroyals-events]

When filling out the Offers part of the signup form, if we are doing one offer where we list all the characters we're willing to create for, do we also need to list all the potential relationships of those characters that we're willing to do? or do we leave that blank if we're fine with any relationship between those characters? or do we select Any for relationships in that case?

sorry, I hope this makes sense XD

That does make sense! Listing the relationships you want to create for helps improve matching - it means that the algorithm will rank you as a better match for someone who requested the same relationship(s).

However if you're genuinely happy to create for any combination of relationships between these characters without preferences, then do tick the 'Any' relationship box - this will have the same effect.

Thanks for the question!

[youngroyals-events]

I have a doubt regarding the Young Royals Gift Exchange 2026. I'm not sure if you answered it before, but I couldn't find clarification on the blog 🙏 Do I need to write ALL the offers I post? If I give three offers, will all three absolutely be matched or is it an at-least-one-match scenario?

Thanks for the question! No, you only need to create one new fanwork as a gift for your assigned recipient. It doesn't have to be the exact request you matched on either, you can fill any of their requests if another one catches your eye.

You're guaranteed that your offer (or one of your offers if you have more than one) will match one of your recipient's requests on characters and types of fanwork. You might match on more than that, but it's not guaranteed.

Do read over the FAQ and the Rules if you haven't already, which explain the minimum requirements for your gift and how to sign up.

[youngroyals-events]

Just three days left to sign up for the Young Royals Gift Exchange 2026! Find all the details here.

Sign ups will close on Saturday 16 May at 23:59 CEST (what time is that for me?).

Who's in?

Already signed up!

On my way!

Still deciding on my requests/offers

Not planning to sign up but might make a Treat

Unsure/on the fence/I have questions (ask them here!)

Voting ended onMay 15

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One week left to sign up for the Young Royals Gift Exchange 2026! Find all the details here.

Who's joining us?

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One week left to sign up for the Young Royals Gift Exchange 2026! Find all the details here.

Who's joining us?

[youngroyals-events]

Young Royals Gift Exchange 2026 Sign-ups are OPEN!

Thank you to everyone who posted something for Wilmon Day! Tag us in any late submissions and we'll continue to reblog.

Moving on from Valborg to 1 May: sign-ups are now open for the YR Gift Exchange 2026!

This is a multimedia gift exchange along the same lines as a 'Secret Santa' type exchange, and you can request/offer fanfiction, fanart, images/gifs, video, podfics and fanmixes. Everyone is very welcome, from newbies to old hands! The exchange is open to all ships (or no ships), characters, ratings and themes.

Sign-ups are open from now until Saturday 16 May, 23:59 CEST (that's Stockholm time). You can edit your sign-up as many times as you like until the deadline. Assignments will be due in late July.

You can find all the dates and details at the profile page. The sign-up process is simpler than it might first look and there are instructions on the form itself. There's also an example sign-up here for anyone who would like a bit more detailed guidance.

Let us know if any questions, and please reblog and spread the word!

[oui-oui-holly]

Happy Belated Wilmon Day 💜🧡

Hi! Here's a late (😅) addition to @youngroyals-events Wilmon Day event. Hope you enjoy. <3

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It's Friday and I'm Thinking About You

Read now on ao3. 4.5k words.

“Hej! The usual?”

“Oh! Yes, please.” And maybe I can get your number too? Say it, Wilhelm. Just fucking say it. 

Simon flashes a smile and disappears before Wille can get the words out. Again. Fuck. 

This, unfortunately, has been Wille’s Friday night ritual for going on two and a half years. One large cheese pizza, a coke, and a steaming pile of disappointment because he can’t work up the nerve to ask for Simon’s phone number. 

It’s basically tradition at this point. A depressingly pathetic tradition in which Wille comes here, week after week, to the Bjärstad Pizzeria, sits in the same worn vinyl booth, and not once has it been for the greasy, mediocre pizza. 

It’s for the waiter. 

Read more on ao3.

The artwork prompt I used is below the cut:

[youngroyals-events]

Young Royals Gift Exchange 2026 Sign-ups are OPEN!

Thank you to everyone who posted something for Wilmon Day! Tag us in any late submissions and we'll continue to reblog.

Moving on from Valborg to 1 May: sign-ups are now open for the YR Gift Exchange 2026!

This is a multimedia gift exchange along the same lines as a 'Secret Santa' type exchange, and you can request/offer fanfiction, fanart, images/gifs, video, podfics and fanmixes. Everyone is very welcome, from newbies to old hands! The exchange is open to all ships (or no ships), characters, ratings and themes.

Sign-ups are open from now until Saturday 16 May, 23:59 CEST (that's Stockholm time). You can edit your sign-up as many times as you like until the deadline. Assignments will be due in late July.

You can find all the dates and details at the profile page. The sign-up process is simpler than it might first look and there are instructions on the form itself. There's also an example sign-up here for anyone who would like a bit more detailed guidance.

Let us know if any questions, and please reblog and spread the word!

[dreamyelectronicmusic]

Hi hiiii! 🌼

How about "be with you" as a prompt?

Happy Wilmon Day! 💜💜

Happy belated wilmon day to you too, and thanks for the prompt!

“You’d really move to Madrid for me?”

“Simon. You know I’d love to leave Sweden for a few years and let everyone forget about me. I don’t care much if it’s Madrid or anywhere else, as long as I get to be there with you.”

Simon bites his lip. “Your Spanish isn’t good enough for university classes, though.”

“I can get a tutor, there’s still plenty of time. And there’s courses in English, too. Worst comes to worst, I can always be your house husband.”

“Not with your laundry skills you can’t.” Simon cocks an eyebrow. “Also, ‘husband’?”

Wille blushes.

This is my last Wilmon Day drabble. Thanks to everyone who sent a prompt 💜Read all my Wilmon Day drabbles here.

@youngroyals-events

[dreamyelectronicmusic]

id you're still doing prompt for Wilmon day! Thank you 💜

Princess or matcha

Thanks for the prompt, and sorry this is a day late! I combined both prompts 💜

“Do you want a snack? I can run to the bar.”

Simon, who’s been hoping Wille would ask, puts on his most angelic expression. “Iced matcha latte, please? And whatever pastry they have.”

“Sure,” Wille smiles indulgently.  “Sara? Do you want anything?”

On the sunbed next to Simon, Sara shakes her head. “I’m fine, thank you.”

Simon reaches for his lovely, generous boyfriend, pulling him down for a quick kiss.  “Thanks. Love you.”

“You know,” Sara muses as Wille happily bounds off towards the beach bar, “for someone so against the monarchy, you sure seem to love your princess treatment.”

Read all my Wilmon Day drabbles here.

@youngroyals-events

[hayits-k]

Wanderer Above a Sea of Fog

Very late contribution to Wilmon Day 2026 hosted by @youngroyals-events but seeing everyone's works gave me the push I needed to finish my own! Reference art work beneath the cut.

Even when dishes pile up in the sink. Even when video game controllers and their cords get left out for Wille to trip over. Even when Wille doesn’t hang up his wet towels or fold his clothes. Life is the greatest it has ever been. No monarchy, no press, just Simon and Wille. Simon whose piano playing drifts through the open door to Wille who sits on the balcony with a book. It was freeing. Or, my contribution to Wilmon Day 2026 inspired by Wanderer Above the Sea Fog, exploring a little bit of post-canon Wilmon

[young-royals-confessions]

Why did we pick today as Wilmon day?

I believe it was first proposed by @dreamyelectronicmusic in this post with these tags:

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We had forgotten this! Thank you @dreamyelectronicmusic.