#YOUNG ROYALS BABY

[butterflybanana123]

happy one year since young royals season 3 wrapped <3

[caroliendsk]

Happy 2 years of Young Royals season 2 (and happy 2 year anniversery to me being a fan of yr) I can't be thankful enough for all the things yr has given me and all the lovely people I have met through it. This show will forever be in my heart<3

[devotionalwilder]

Wilmon on Instagram 💜

(and many young royals inside jokes)

[moonys-chocolate28]

Young Royals you ruined the word "revolution" for me and i love you for it

[thatsmybook]

I don't understand how two people can be so different but have exactly matching smiles and expressions.

Well, no, I do. They have complimentary energy when they work together.

Love this moment. Young Royals Baby YRForever 👑💜👶💚💜💚💜

[novamilano1]

"It takes a fool to remain sane !" The fool, the jester and the journey towards truthfulness and acceptance of difference ! Open your eyes baby ! Let’s be brave together ! Young Royal analysis.

So it all started with a question that arose in the Kingdom (long live the Kingdom !), a group of fans discussing all things related to YR, playing detectives and throwing spaghettis all around to see what sticks (Kingdom TM). What does the drawing Sara makes mean, what to do with this strange Nordic Nisse ( a playful winter Gnome who loves to play tricks) under this blazing sun ? A winter gnome around Christmas makes sense. But what about the sun ?

The image reminded me of a court jester and of the tarot card where the fool is represented by the sun.

So we dived together, we found many interesting conclusions and today, I would like to go further, first to link it to the main song “it takes a fool to remain sane” and to link this carnival theme to the Valborg’s theme present in the S3 trailer. Let’s dive.

The song first chosen to represent the love story, the one that could be sung, the one destined to mesmerize the Handsome prince was “Symphony” by Zara Larrson. Then they switched it to “It takes a fool to remain sane” by the Ark. It’s the first song we hear in YR, in the church, with a Solo by Simon. It’s an important song.

And the song continues a little bit in the next scene where Wille and Eric rediscover their inner child, play the fool by running up the stairs trying to escape the PR circus and the scrutiny. The song invites Wille and all of us to be the jester, to play it like a harlequin, to “take it to the stage in a multicoloured jacket /Take it jackpot, crackpot, strutting like a peacock/Nailvarnish Arkansas, shimmy-shammy featherboah /Crackpot, haircut, dye your hair in glowing red and blue”, Yeah Go  Simon ! Go Wille ! Go Wilmon ! (It's strange to see Wille in pink or in studded jackets etc. but I kinda like seeing him experimenting his true self, be brave etc. Embrace the madness baby ! )

So the song invites us to be different, to “be brave, to break down the walls of attitude” just for the sake of it. It invites us to not be afraid “to feel strange, to feel ashamed, to seem strange, to seem insane, to gain weight, to seem gay”. The song tells us that it’s “your right to laugh at me”, that it will not prevent me to “feel brave, because ridicule is no shame”.

Simon the gay, Wille the rebel to rules and Sara the autist embody the outsiders, the free thinkers who dare to be different, to not care about the look, to speak freely, to find one’s voice even if this is a painful journey. The struggles to be the fool in order to stay sane, the journey to be able to speak one’s truth is hard, leads to a steep hill.

To speak freely, to question the conventions, the traditions is exactly the role of the court jester. He has to open everyone’s eyes to the madness of society. Sara does it quite naturally. Wille endlessly attempts to do so with his parents (to no avail so far) thanks to Boris. He questions their reality. He opens his eyes and try to take them to also open theirs and question appearances. In a carnivalesque society where the jester has its own place, the roles can be reversed. The  fool can be a king, the gender boundaries have no meaning, the class divides are pointless.

So what’s the link to Valborg  ? Valborg is quite different. It has another meaning. But there is also a fire that ends the obscure times to lead to the light. And the carnival where the jester reigns normally ends with a bonfire where you burn all the old meaningless symbols. The fool and everyone are invited to dance and chant around a fire to start a revolution, i.e a reversal of roles, a new life, a new beginning.

So thanks to YR and  the Ark, we all know what we have to do:

Do, do, do what you wanna do Don't think twice, do what you have to do Do, do, do, do, let your heart decide What you have to do That's all there is to find 'Cos it takes a fool to remain sane Oh, in this world all covered up in shame

[remy-lys]

the absolute choke hold that this tv show about the crown prince of sweden and his tiny latino boyfriend has on my emotions is starting to look a little unhealthy

[young-royals-confessions]

They've given us s3 promo 3 Wednesdays in a row!

But the Finale being a week later is stressing me out man. Ep5 probably has the biggest cliffhanger known to humankind

And when did omar and edvin both say baby?

Both on Twitter!

[a050ngel621005]

Sealed somewhere in my heart

[butterflybanana123]

I love them

Simon: Abolish the monarchy! 😠

Everyone: Yes! it’s an archaic system built on the unlawful and unethical subjugation of people -

Simon: And it makes Wille sad ☹️

[butterflybanana123]

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[caroliendsk]

Happy 1000 day anniversary to the show that saved my life❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 I'm gonna miss you...

[vague-homosexual-crimes]

YOUNG ROYALS FINAL SEASON RELEASE DATE JUST DROPPED

[omartinyosef]

HOLY SHIT I DIDNT KNOW I NEEDED THIS THANK YOU SO MUCH

Solangelo Young Royals

[novamilano1]

Here are some intertextual references:

https://www.tumblr.com/whatintheeverlovingfucketh/677924141776666624/episode-2?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/thedecadenceofwar/701313961218523136/the-kiss-of-the-muse-young-royals-a-meta?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/wasitroyal/720027467746770945/sorry-its-that-i-overthink-a-lot-so-even-just?source=share

Thanks ! I will check it out ! Really nice !

[remy-lys]

simons making eye contact with the camera and it makes me slightly uncomfortable, he looks like he knows something, why is this messing with me so much???? omg why is he looking at me like that??