#YOUNG ROYALS

[sjmonswjlle]

YOUNG ROYALS | 3.02

[annefolklore]

This is so beautiful omg 😍😍

Some Young Royals´fanart i´ve done in the past months you can commission a b&w drawing like these here:

https://ko-fi.com/chioink#buyCommissionModal

[grounded-parasocial]

CHEATING

Sometimes someone breaks one of their hearts. Sometimes they break a heart. Sometimes the cheating is all in the feelings. But one thing’s for sure, in all of these stories, there’s some questionable choices 🙈. Good thing it’s fiction!

▪️We Left Footprints When We Passed By (E, 132K) @in-amor-veritas

▪️Summer of Love (E, 112K) @embracedthevoid

▪️The Road Not Taken Looks Real Good Now (E, 90K) @stretchoutfics

▪️It’s really good to hear your voice saying my name (T, 54K) @girls-are-weird

▪️There are many names in History (E, 68K) @prplewille

▪️The Balcony Scene (E, WIP 19K) @lollygirlpops

▪️Is It Over Now (E, 75K) @iwouldnevergetintofanfic

▪️Monotony Blues (M, WIP 54K) @stardiveatnight

▪️Say a prayer for me in the dark (E, 62K) by witchjeons

▪️Känsla (K, 297K) and Language of Roses (E, WIP 471K) by despassurlaneige

▪️I know I’m your masterpiece (E, 89K) @pwdd1

▪️Taking Me Back (E, 53K) / Felt Like a Sin (E, 6K) by wilmonlibrarian

▪️Campfire Hearts (T, 17K) @simons-purplehoodie

▪️Should’ve Said No (and you might still have me) (T, 52K) @bigalockwood

▪️Hate Me Like You Love Me (E, WIP 46K) @in-amor-veritas

▪️Never Not You (E, WIP 6K) @pagegirlintraining

▪️Crossing Lines (E, WIP 9K) @iwouldnevergetintofanfic

▪️Where we left off (T, 84K) @gulliblelemon

▪️Revolution O (M, WIP 190K) by starryskiess

▪️Please, Please, Please (Let Me Get What I Want) (E, 7K) @vvachillessongvv

▪️Every Night Fantasy (M, 681) @starvalisedham

▪️Foolproof (M, 73K) @iwouldnevergetintofanfic

▪️another chance (M, 95K) by starrystoryteller

▪️Good Luck, Babe! (T, 37K) @in-amor-veritas and @prplewille

▪️Now we’re knee-deep in this mess (M, 18K) @prplewille

▪️Something Real As Pain (E, 61K) @crownedwille

Thank you to all our generous and talented fanfic writers! 💜

*As always, it’s a community, add any additional fics I may have missed!

[ireneaesthetic]

Pointing out little moments and details of the last yr scene.

wilmon endgame • episode 6

the camera work is so on point - it follows wille around moving frenetically, as to emphasize the hurry and the tension.

simon gets in panic mode for a sec. he was never over wilhelm but definitely thought their relationship was.

at first he looks ... scared - not of wille but of what he feels for him at this point. he's still in love but they got to the finish line, they broke up with no idea of when or if they will talk to each other again, there's no reason for wille to chase after him if not to change something.

it makes his thoughts spiral, but somewhere in his little heart he has a lot of hope too and that's why he steps out of the car to hear what he has to say.

these words really mean everything and i'm glad they're told directly to simon. it's such a sigh of relief for wilhelm to get this off his chest and mean it for real: he's doing something for his own sake finally - to be free, to be happy, to be in control of his own life for once.

he never got to choose anything - somebody else has always done it for him - but he no longer has to be afraid anymore.

simon is just as relieved and the proudest: he proved over and over again to care so deeply. to see wilhelm constantly hurting inevitably hurt him too.

he knew wille was brave - he actually told him once - and he was so right. it takes a lot of courage to do what wille just did.

shut up he's adorable :') playing with his fingers and trying not to break into a smile. he wants to look calm and collected but his heart is jumping out of happiness.

this comes after the are you sure you're over me? - breaking up was all it took for wille to think that simon must not love him anymore: to earn love and for everything to be perfect in order to deserve love is what his family and royal life always taught him - but simon's what the hell do you think? proves him so wrong.

the tears in his eyes i cannot - this is the face of a man who's bursting out of love, he adores simon this much.

they crush into the hug like they've been dying to do it. what a moment it must be for them to close the distance.

in this hug they find what they both were needing the most.

they hold on to each other. emotions are so overwhelming and it's written all over their faces - it feels too good to be real.

it's almost scary to let go now and i love how they tighten the hug at the same time, clinging to make it last longer.

and they're at the same height so simon has to be on his tippy toes ahsjkh.

oh the beauty in simon feeling every emotion to the fullest and letting them all out. he doesn't hold himself back and it is truly heartwarming to watch.

this hug is healing - he's giving joy to be back in wille's arms, proud of wille for putting himself first, relief because the fear of losing him was too much to handle.

the single tear drop and the pure disbelief in his expression. he caresses wille's cheek and keeps looking at him like he's the most precious thing.

doing the triangle method - again. old habits never die huh.

wille letting simon choose to whether kiss him or not.

it's our simon we're talking about, the one that risked it all and initiated their very first kiss bc he liked wille that much already, so could he possibly not do that now? he obviously does and can't help but smile into it.

they can't get enough of kissing and wandering hands. it's like their only way to make this become more and more real.

fair to say they're kinda obsessed with each other's hair!

love love looove the transition from them kissing in secret in the dark of the night to them kissing freely out in the open in the daylight - the most beautiful metaphor.

completely different plot points but the feelings involved are so familiar - reunion kisses are very much their brand: there's longing, passion, need to savor the moment to make it last.

and this time it can really last forever.

something super special about simon not replying with i love you too but sticking to i love you - it is not just reciprocal.

this shot haunts me. it's from the documentary and idk why it wasn't used in the final cut, i'll make space for it here anyway!

wille can't stop smiling and simon never takes his eyes off of him - he's emotionally overwhelmed by the way he bites his lip and his chin trembles. my heart.

no ray of sunshine between them could ever distract me from wilhelm diving into this kiss with his eyes open.

simon is definitely being pulled closer by the waist here and i take it very personally.

i was already full on sobbing when this part of the scene came up - sara and felice calling them out bc they are too caught up in their own bubble.

they still take one more moment to just look at each other so fondly tho and try to get a grip on what has just happened.

i get you wille! simon is the loml too.

this shot is sooo!!! hillerska in the sideview mirror as they drive away - time for the last bittersweet goodbye.

all of them are wearing white, they're driving off in a white car, most carefree than ever - sounds a lot like freedom and fresh start.

some things never change - they're the most comfortable and happy when they can be just them, just like this.

god knows where they're headed but it doesn't really matter as long as they're together.

wilmon endgame babyyyy.

they've been through so much but come so far eventually. it's the end of young royals but the beginning of a new chapter in wilmon story - the best one - and it's only theirs to write from now on.

it's still going to be tough, storms are still about to come their way and ruin plans, life is a mess but at least they have each other. they're holding hands in a we are in this together kind of promise and it's so reassuring to know.

it was a hell of a ride but love and hope wins - and there's truly no one who deserves it more than them.

time to appreciate the comparison between wille the perfect crown prince and messy hair with undone shirt wille!

he looks at the audience for the very last time with the most content smile and we can tell he really is - ready. to leave us behind, to face the future, to experience life in the way we've seen him fight for before.

wilmon breaking the fourth wall together at the end would've been insane, but it feels so right to focus on wille actually: it's always been just him, it all started with our eyes on him and his journey, the choice to abdicate is for his own sake and not for simon - he said it himself - so for him to be alone in the closing shot makes the most sense to me.

wilhelm finally getting his own little family of people who loves and values him, simon sharing life with the person who's made him feel seen and cared for - this is honestly the best finale we could’ve ever asked for.

[rebestie4life]

Wilmon baking together

[bluedalahorse]

I feel like there’s some meaningful stuff here about Sara and August’s relationship, so I wanted to reblog and lift those up here! Sara has traditionally been unfairly slammed by the fandom, even though her actions were meaningfully different from August’s in season 2. And a lot of times saraugust is held up as this ontologically evil foil to wilmon, even though both pairings juxtapose the capacity to be sweet and loving with some pretty intense teenage flaws.

Personally, while I understand why they happen, I’ve always been a little wary of discussions of “is Sara a bad person/is August a bad person.” I understand why this framing works for some fans, but it doesn’t work for me. Mostly because a while back, Omar was talking in an interview, and he talked about Lisa’s writing philosophy being that there aren’t good and bad people in her stories, there are people in her stories who are capable of good and bad actions. Now, authorial intent can only go so far, I get that. But I do think this is a theme that underpins the series. I think they did a great job of showing Sara’s complexity and growth over the season. I do think there were some fumbles to August’s writing in season 3 that led a portion of the audience to believe he never changed, ever, over the course of the series. I think the show would have benefitted from him and Simon having a chance to do restorative work outside of their relationships with Wille. At the same time, I don’t think season 3 was without growth for August. @sflow-er’s post on the Fleabag parallel does a great job of breaking down August’s arc. I’m not saying any of this negates the harm August does—far from it—but I do think the show is inviting us to envision a better future for August where he grows and changes, especially in our fanworks.

And that’s what I want to talk about in this reblog: fanworks. It’s been a long time since people were acknowledging the saraugust nuance in season 2, and ultimately how fascinating the pairing is, but there’s still only 96 fics tagged Sara/August on AO3 and only a few are actually about them.

I think, what I’m sad about most when it comes to Young Royals fandom, is that there is no fanworks community around Sara and August the way there is for wilmon, at least on tumblr. There are individual people who are interested in their dynamic, and some of them create fanworks from time to time, and some of us reach out to one another and have meaningful and wonderful one-on-one conversations in our inboxes. But there’s very few reblog chains about them where people are just expressing fun headcanons, there’s very little circulating fanart, there’s some gifsets and edits but they don’t circulate as frequently, no fandom events or challenges themed around them, no following and cheering on of Malte and Frida’s careers, (to my knowledge) no epic multichapter saraugust fics we discuss together and swoon over and make starry eyes over.

To be clear: I don’t think I’d ever expect saragust to have the same size of following wilmon does. There are many factors that make wilmon more popular, first and foremost being that August does real legitimate harm and is annoying and kind of sucks. Like, hey! I get it! Not everyone is going to like him, and that’s perfectly okay. And then there’s the fact that not everyone who’s drawn to an m/m show is going to feel excited to ship a f/m pairing. As @crownedwille points out, fandoms sure can do some stuff when female characters are involved. Of course saraugust will get smaller numbers.

But as someone who’s been tracking the saraugust breadcrumbs in fandom for a while, and has been following their tag on AO3, what I’m noticing is not exactly a natural absence of interest in the pairing. It’s more like I see a lot of people who have an interest in the characters and the dynamics, but something about the way YR fandom interacts socially reinforces the notion that you keep your saraugust feelings to yourself. Or, for a while if you were expressing those feelings, you were encouraged to express them in ways that are full of apologies and disclaimers. When you’re spending all your time doing that, it becomes a lot harder to create fanworks. Like, even in the tags of this post, I see a lot of people saying they liked them or found them interesting or cute or they’re hooked in by the drama or whatever else! Clearly the enjoyers exist and are out there. I think the discourse (and the harassment of actors/writers/creative team on social media) has died down a lot since the finale and there’s more space to like the characters, but I also think that some of the patterns of fandom interaction that sprung up post-S2 have had a continued impact on how people express themselves.

And yes, it’s important to be mindful of the morally dubious sides of this pairing, but we can do that while creating space for people to openly enjoy it through fic and headcanons and edits and such the way that many people in the fandom openly enjoy wilmon, even if it’s a smaller group of us. (Heck, some people enjoy saraugust because of the moral dubiousness and that is part of a Valid Fandom Tradition of enjoying morally dubious pairings.)

As someone who’s currently feeling a little burned out on wilmon by itself and doesn’t really have a desire to read works centered on them, but who’s still in love with the broader YR world and its characters, especially my two favorite characters—I am desperate for a little bit less saraugust discourse and a little bit more joyous fannishness about them. I’m not entirely sure how to make that happen. I’ve been writing fic, blogging about the characters, creating ask games, posting pictures of the plushies, and also doing some other stuff behind the scenes. But I often don’t post or reblog as much as I could for fear of discourse returning, and I feel disconnected from fandom most of the time, even though I have some strong individual ties to individual people. (I also feel like I may have burned some bridges at times when I was upset.) It’s a bit of a sisyphean conundrum, isn’t it? I wish I could wave a magic wand and make more fanworks and community happen around this pairing in particular, but also around other pairings and characters on the show for the fans who want those other pairings and characters. I just wish there was a little more variety in the characters and pairings talked about.

Anyway, I don’t have any answers and it’s time for me to acquire groceries for the week, so. Blue out.

There's so much discourse around Sara and August. Whether they were good together or not. Whether they loved each other or not.

What we tend to overlook is the fact that they talked to each other. Enough that they knew each other.

He wanted someone to talk to and he thought about her. So he went to find her and he knew to find her in the stables. Then he immediately proved to her that he was someone "safe" by petting her horse. She misunderstood his invitation that evening but he didn't make her feel bad about it. We know she talked to him about the Felice Horse Selling Thing™️ because when she comes to say that Felice was officially selling the horse, he just said "I thought you already knew that" because she had already told him.

Sara talked to August. The same why August talked to Sara. He opened up about the drugs and why he used them. He opened up about being Wilhelm's back up. He opened up about his guilt and about feeling like a horrible person.

She talked to him about her horse and about Felice. Two things that she considers the most important in her life. She also opens up to him about wanting to fit in. Wanting to "be like him" meaning that she wanted to be like the Hillerska crowd.

They talked to each other.

So like, yes, they did horrible things. They are bad people. But they aren’t incapable of caring. And they aren't entirely self centered. That's what makes their individual betrayals even more heartbreaking. Because we know they're capable of caring and they made the choices they did anyway.

[kruemel8]

Hur mår du?

[gulliblelemon]

Sunday Snippet

From chapter 5 of And I Need You Now Tonight.

Shrugging, Wille looked down at his feet. “I’m not here much. I used to stay in the office a lot, my brain was always a bit quieter there.”

Something heavy settled in the pit of Simon’s stomach. “We all thought you were just married to the job, you know. Always working.”

Wille gave Simon a tight smile. “Oh, no,” he said. “The work is fine. But I mostly just… didn’t want to be alone.”

“Weren’t you alone at work though? In that massive, secluded office of yours?”

“Not always,” Wille said, and raised his eyes to meet Simon’s. A crackle of tension passed between them.

And oh. Fuck.

[books-books-smolderinglooks]

Young Royals 3.06 - love of my life.. 💜

[sjmonswjlle]

YOUNG ROYALS | 3.02

[wildcalendula]

center of attention

[bigalockwood]

“Just for the next hour – can we just pretend that this could be forever? That this was more than two days, after which our paths won’t cross again?” Simon asked, lips still tantalizingly close to Wille’s, and how was he to ever say no to Simon?

Wille refused to fully digest the words, because accepting their meaning would break his heart, not when he knew Simon meant them, not when he knew Simon was brave and strong enough to act on them, unlike Wille, who felt like he was falling apart in all the wrong ways.

Wille nodded.

There might be no tomorrow for them, but he wouldn’t miss out on right now because of that.

“Then let’s pretend,” he whispered.

I can’t quite believe that I’m writing this but… this is the final chapter of Growing towards the light.

Grab your tissues, grab some snacks, settle in…. And enjoy this. Thanks for coming along on this trip. We’re incredibly thankful for all the love you’ve shown our baby. 🏕️🌲💜

And thanks to Roo @sobadbad once again for the incredible header. 💜💜

Read chapter 5 here (and fair warning: this is the reason gttl is m-rated).

And listen to the playlist here.

[glassdollls]

i would drive on (to the end with you) ch 14 update

after way way way too long of no updates, i come bearing gifts!!

(and for those of you that don’t know, i would drive on is my little fake dating wilmon fic that i’ve been writing for a while!!)

ch 14 will be coming very very soon!!! and, there’s gonna be a ch 15! i decided to split what originally was just going to be ch 14 in half, because i think that just makes the most sense for pacing, and it’ll help me get an update out faster after making you guys wait for so long.

so here’s a little ch 14 sneak peek for now, and if you need to reread ch 13 before you read ch 14, id recommend doing so soon! altho i will be making sure to include a little summary of the previous chapter in the a/n when i post ch 14 just in case, for anybody that doesn’t want to.

anyway, so so sorry for the wait, i hope this is good news for everyone and i hope everyone likes it when it comes out!! pls enjoy this little snippet, there’s some more on my twitter too if you’re interested!

They would’ve made the perfect couple, Felice and Wilhelm. Both their mothers gushing about how beautiful young love is when done correctly, at pretentious dinner parties where Wilhelm would flaunt his new girlfriend as she hangs delicately off his arm, a sparkly new dress draped over her shoulders and her hair styled nicely away from her face as people asked how they met and they spare all of the details.

He doesn’t want that. He doesn’t want to be shown off like a precious antique that only very specific people can touch, can look at. He doesn’t want to be paraded around like some sort of trophy that can be polished and admired but never actually loved, but he doesn’t want to be shunned either. He doesn’t want to be a piece of tangible evidence of the reason many of Wille’s relatives choose not to speak to him at all.

But, more than anything, he wants Wille. Even if the odds are stacked against them, even if he has to endure prolonged stares and backhanded comments for the rest of his life.

read chapter 13

read from the beginning

[phneltwrites]

Wilmon disagreeing on their anniversary date! Do you have thoughts on what they each think it is?

okay so!! This headcanon of mine is more of a bit between them than a real disagreement.

Wilhelm tries to say they're anniversary is the night Simon picked him up from the park and they said 'I like you' to each other and Simon is more committed to it being Not That than to any particular date.

Some other suggestions he has: movie night (first kiss), initiation party (c'mon they both knew it then), and their first lunch together, which Wilhelm finds really objectionable because in his mind he was on a Journey of Acceptance and Simon saying that he had him at 'hello' makes him feel silly for it having taken him so long (two weeks) to get it together.

background thoughts on this:

simon has some video trauma reasons for wanting it to be Not That night but I'm not sure how conscious he is of those

Simon backs off it being initiation party night when all of the details get public (which, Wilhelm is always like it was FINE and Simon is like they did what with you on a leash)

which leaves Simon strong on holding the line at movie night

both of them pretend the Christmas gap didn't happen

or the day of Wilhelm's speech would be a strong contender

[gulliblelemon]

Chapter 4

He made a beeline for Wille’s office. The blinds were down, but Simon knew he was in there, so he rapped hard on the door and waited for a reply. None came, so he hammered again.

“I know you’re in there, Wille,” he said. 

When there was still no response, he went to open the door himself, but it was wrenched open from the inside before he could get his hand on the handle. Wille was looking at him furiously.

“Can I help you?” he said, voice short and terse.

“Can I talk to you?” Simon said.

“I don’t have the time,” Wille said. “Send an email.”

Wille went to shut the door but Simon put his foot in the way. Turning to him with a face like thunder, Wille hissed, “What the fuck is your problem?”

“I just want to talk to you,” Simon said, dropping his own voice too.

“I have nothing to say to you,” Wille said. “Now if you’ll excuse—”

“Please, Wille,” Simon said. He knew he sounded pathetic, but clearly something about his tone cut through Wille’s annoyance, because his face softened marginally before he opened the door without a word and stalked away to lean on his desk.

Read chapter 4 on AO3. Or start from the beginning.