#fandom: young royals

[bibaybe]

Making Spotify Covers :: NOTP: Ruby/Casper

I'm just playin' games I know it's plastic love I'm here, I'll take the blame I'm careless with your heart

taglist: @eddysocs@ocappreciationtag@foxesandmagic@wordspin-shares@veetlegeuse@raith-way@oneirataxia-girl

psd / template

[waybeforeyourtime]

"I'm shocked - shocked I tell you - that Wille gave up his title at the end of the series! SHOCKED! Where did it come from?? It all just happened in the last 5 minutes! There were zero clues!"

Literally, the first promo.

[swanparties]

the fictional couple on my computer hurt me so bad i had to reconnect with nature

[demadogs]

Young Royals ◆ 1.05

[king-wille]

Analysis of Wilhelm and Simon's smiles in season 3

You can find the analysis for season 1 and season 2 in the links

[moonage-nightterrors]

i don’t get how most people are just. not in fandoms. like wdym u don’t get unhealthy obsessed with the media u consume and turn into an absolutely insane human being over ur blorbos? how are u so normal???

[svnraez]

shoutout to artists and fanfic writers, you guys really are the entire backbone of every fandom ever and i love you for it.

[leojfitz]

young royals rewatch: season 1, episode 1

I have all my friends here! Doesn't anyone care what I want? I don't want to go to some fucking boarding school! Why can't I decide how the hell I want to live? I want to live a normal life!

[inexplicablymine]

The power of fandom compels you

There are millions upon millions of words and art and creative production of media for consumption for free. Just because we care. Because something compels us, because something inspired us, made us feel something inside.

We surround ourselves with others who also get so excited about it, and I stand here atop a little mound of my own creation while we all gush over the things we love and I am reminded about how joyous and lovely it is to care.

[bibaybe]

Manic // still learning

Who I am, what I'm on Who I've hurt and where they've gone I know that I've done some wrong But I'm tryna make it right

taglist: @eddysocs @ocappreciationtag @foxesandmagic @wordspin-shares @veetlegeuse @raith-way @oneirataxia-girl

[grapehyasynth]

Wilmon + "Here, try this one"

continuation of this!! (dare: "you have to guess what flavor lip balm someone is wearing just by kissing them")

I've mostly been following the 5-sentence rule but I chucked it out the window for this one lads!!!

"Here, try this one," Simon can hear Fredrika murmur to Wille where they're huddled together in a shadowy corner, and he watches Wille's shirt stretch across his back as he stoops to look in the hand mirror Fredrika is holding between them.

When they return to the circle, Wille's lips are an iridescent pink and he's blushing under his freckles and acne. He keeps meeting Simon's gaze and then looking away, and he's pushing back his eternally disobedient bangs like a nervous tic. Which it probably is, Simon is realizing, and he wants to lean forward and rub Wille's knees reassuringly over his jeans, but that would be - that would be weird, certainly.

"What should I do?" he and Wille both ask Fredrika at once, and they glance at each other and share a small smile; Wille's mouth glistens, and Simon doesn't know much about the difference between lip balm and lip gloss but he thinks Fredrika is pushing the boundary here.

"You don't do anything," Fredrika, standing above them, says sternly to Wille. "Don't kiss him back or touch him or anything, it'll just distract him."

"So he just sits there like a wet fish?" Henry demands.

Fredrika ignores him. "You do whatever you need to figure out the flavor," she tells Simon.

"Within reason," Wille huffs.

"What are you afraid I'll do?" Simon teases him quietly, and it helps; Wille's shoulders soften on a laugh.

Simon shifts forward, still sitting cross-legged so their knees are touching. He can hear Wille swallow, even over the music playing on the portable speaker in the corner of the room. He lifts a hand to Wille's shoulder but waits for a small nod from his friend before he makes contact. Then he slowly slides his hand over the soft fabric of Wille's t-shirt and onto the warm, tense side of his neck.

He's afraid to move too quickly, but there's also a circle of people around them watching, so he ducks in, presses his lips to Wille's. He can feel Wille's mouth twitch against his, obviously wanting to respond, but he seems to remember Fredrika's rules and Wille's lips sort of freeze in an open-mouthed pout. Simon giggles into the kiss, he can't help himself, and Wille makes a slightly affronted noise in response.

Refocusing on his goal, Simon drifts down to suck Wille's bottom lip. One of Wille's feet twitches against his leg. He gets a good taste of the lip balm's fruity flavor, but for good measure, he slides his tongue along the surface of Wille's lip, then uses the tip to trace his top lip as well. Wille's chin tilts up, and something molten gushes through Simon's veins as an answering tongue - warm, slick - brushes his, and then Fredrika is clapping her hands together and announcing, "Time's up!"

"You didn't say there was a time limit," Simon protests, and their friends are laughing, and his hand is still curled around the back of Wille's neck.

"What's the flavor?" Stella calls.

"What?"

"The lip balm," Felice says, exaggeratedly slow.

"Oh, um." Simon finally releases Wille and brings his thumb up to his own lips, rubs at the moisture there, and tastes it. "Apricot?"

[thyblake]

Why are shows with gay people just like 10x better than any other in human existance?

Like every show with a gay person just automatically because revolutionary and has the most amazing fandoms with the most vivid, creative, awe-inspiring plots and word building.

Arcane, Good Omens, BBC Sherlock Holmes, Our Flag Means Death, Umbrella Academy, Shameless, BBC Merlin, The Last of Us, the list goes on!

But I feel like any other show, regardless of genre, just falls flat when it lacks the ✨crispness✨ of queerness. Am I the only one that thinks this?

[waybeforeyourtime]

This isn't directly related to YR but I want to bring it up after I've seen way too many negative comments about Edvin backing away from fans.

If you say or imply anything negative about someone for backing away from a space where they are harassed daily, then you suck.

Sometimes actors have a serious threat against them. Like this one. Sometimes, they can't tell you when law enforcement is first involved. Sometimes they simply aren't ready to discuss it and might never be.

But.. sometimes it's simply the pressure they feel from fans.

I know I'll never change the obsessive fans' minds. They have a mental illness that makes them unable to stop themselves. But oh I've seen many people, who should 100% know better, cross so many lines.

Harassment includes positive, yet extremely personal comments as well. Imagine every time you signed on you had hundreds of people telling you that you saved their life, that you are the only thing making them happy, asking them to talk to you, asking you extremely personal questions.

That would stress most people out, even those without an anxiety disorder. The comments are well-meaning but for the person receiving them, they are overwhelming. So, someone doesn't have to only be receiving hateful comments to want to take a break.

There there's stalking friends'/families' accounts, digging in deep for photos from years ago, looking for any sign of the actor or worse who they're romantically involved with. If the actor wants you to know, they'll tell you. That's it. It's that simple. So, please, please don't do this. Every actor I've talked to about this topic told me that it feels so creepy and extremely violating.

Yet, in fandom, we've come to consider that okay and normal. Just part of being a fan. All fans do it. Well, I'm here to tell you that they don't, you've simply found an echo chamber of fans who think like you.

In this fandom, it just blows my mind - given the canon material - that any fans have crossed these lines. Some people have praised Edvin for his portrayal of Wilhelm's anxiety and for being frank about his own and now have turned on him because he's backed off social media, accusing him of 'moving on' and 'not caring about YR anymore.'

tl;dr Actors are human. They are not objects that exist for your entertainment only. Their personal lives are not reality shows for you to watch. They don't owe you anything more than what is in their job description.

If you know your behavior is wrong, if it makes you feel uncomfortable, but you can't stop yourself, please talk to a mental health professional. Don't spiral into being one of these people.

[moonage-nightterrors]

me, finishing a tv show: ha! i enjoyed that a completely normal amount. i feel very normal about these characters. now i will go about my day as usual and not obsess over this

me, two days and several fanfics later: well shit

[jj-draws-stupid-things]

i’ve seen how it makes you feel…

[thehyacinthsgirl]

Wille is the most selfish thing Simon has ever wanted.

Throughout the entire series, Simon is always loyal to a fault, always taking care of everyone else — even when it’s inconvenient. The only time he does something for himself is when he is in pursuit of Wilhelm.

His whole life, Simon has had to sacrifice or share victories. Even his own voice, which should be entirely his own to sing with, is corrupted by the crown. But what Simon has with Wilhelm is purely what he wants, and has nothing to do with what anybody else wants. It isn’t about Linda, or Sara, or August, or the Queen. It’s just about the two of them — and Simon has never had anything in his life like that, something that is completely his. That belongs to him. That no one, other than Wilhelm, truly knows, truly understands how it feels.

And that’s why it is so different. That’s why it is so monumental, and why both Simon and Wille fight so hard to keep it. It is both of their true selves fighting for what they truly want.