#social media young royals

[raincitygirl76]

This scene gives me chills every time. Yeah, in 1.06, in the final scene, a song about revolution played while Wilhelm looked stonily into the camera. Yes, in 2.01 we saw Wilhelm publicly humiliate August, and have a panic attack while on speakerphone with his mother and her most senior advisors. We’ve seen him rebel already.

But in 2.02, the stakes escalate dramatically. Wilhelm has to put his body on the line, because the consequences of his phone call the previous episode include physical force.

This scene also shows how power corrupts. Malin is supposed to protect Wilhelm from physical danger, and instead she inflicts it. She’s following orders from Jan-Olof, not manhandling Wilhelm for kicks. And I suspect that offscreen, at some point before Jan-Olof’s arrival, the Queen spoke to her son’s bodyguards on the phone and told them to follow Jan-Olof’s instructions no matter what they were.

The queen and Jan-Olof were clearly anticipating the possibility that Wilhelm might resist physically. If they hadn’t, Jan-Olof would’ve needed to call Kristina and ask her what to do next when Wilhelm sat down at his desk and gripped on tight. Jan-Olof didn’t even pause, which means he and the queen had already made it clear to Malin and the male bodyguard in the hallway that the Crown Prince was to be taken back to Drottningholm even if he physically resisted.

Those are still illegal orders, even if they’re from the queen, but Malin does what she’s told. I don’t know that I blame her too much. If she told the Queen and the Marshal of the Realm that they were giving her an illegal order and she wouldn’t follow it, she’d just be immediately removed from the Crown Prince’s security detail and replaced with another bodyguard who would follow orders. Malin would be perceived as “not a team player”, and her career in law enforcement would be badly damaged.

And if she blew the whistle on being given illegal orders by the queen and the marshal of the realm, her law enforcement career would be over altogether. There’s a reason whistleblowers are rare: retaliation. So yeah, Malin shouldn’t have used physical force on the boy she’s supposed to take a bullet for. But in the real world, she’s unlikely to put her career on the line for a temperamental 16 year old.

Especially when she knows Jan-Olof would just find another bodyguard to carry out those illegal orders, Wilhelm would be transported to Drottningholm anyway, and she’d have torched her career for nothing. Judging by her friendly greeting to Wilhelm and willingness to do him a favour in 2.05, she probably feels kind of guilty about having followed orders to subdue him by force. But she still did it.

That said, clearly Jan-Olof, Malin, and Joakim (I think that’s the name of the burly male bodyguard who’s posted just outside Wille’s door) are not monsters, and neither is the queen. They weren’t expecting this MUCH physical resistance. They clearly also weren’t expecting the Crown Prince to go into a dissociative state on the floor after his physical struggle with Malin caused his snow globe to smash. If they were monsters, they would’ve taken advantage of him no longer physically resisting to bring out zip ties.

I think the scene works brilliantly as shown. Malin and Wilhelm struggle, the snow globe goes flying, then Wilhelm is transported into a flashback of the day Erik gave him the snow globe. By the time we hear “Crown Prince” from Jan-Olof and we’re back out of the flashback, Wille is on the floor of his bedroom, in shock, picking up the broken pieces of glass. Nobody is manhandling him any more.

But I will always wonder who lost their nerve first after the snow globe smashed and Wilhelm dissociated. Joakim was still outside the door, holding back the curious throng. So it must have been either Jan-Olof or Malin who looked at the distraught boy on the floor cradling a broken ornament, and said, “I don’t think this plan is going to work. We need to explain to the queen what’s happening.”

It could’ve also been practical reasons that they didn’t break out the zip ties when Wilhelm stopped struggling and started trying to put the broken snow globe back together. Yeah, they can restrain him, but there are 20 Hillerska students in the hallway outside his room, they all already heard a ruckus, and they all have camera phones. Joakim can tell them that.

And if Joakim starts confiscating phones on Jan-Olof’s orders, that will cause an even bigger uproar, and more students will arrive with THEIR phones. They’d need to lock down the entire student body, all the teachers, and all the staff, to make absolutely sure nobody filmed them dragging the Crown Prince out. They don’t have the manpower for that. And if they brought that kind of manpower to Hillerska, the locals would notice, and the media would start asking questions. Maybe even send helicopters.

If Malin and Joakim drag the Crown Prince out of Forest Ridge, either unconscious, or struggling in restraints, and put him in a waiting car, it’ll be all over Instagram Live within 5 minutes. It would be a massive scandal. Malin and Joakim would probably get fired, so would Jan-Olof, and the queen might be subject to a parliamentary inquiry into her possible abuse of power by giving illegal orders to police officers whose salaries are paid for by the Swedish taxpayers.

Malin would suddenly be a lot less willing to take the queen’s illegal orders, if it meant her face ending up all over the internet and the newspapers as part of a police brutality scandal. I still don’t know if it was her or Jan-Olof who first said they had to call the queen and say they needed a new plan, though. I doubt we’ll ever know.

Wilhelm put his body on the line for his rebellion, and it actually succeeded. It wouldn’t have succeeded against the KGB, for example, but the KGB didn’t have to worry about the internet, the free press, or grandstanding politicians the way Kristina and Jan-Olof do. But also, Kristina, Jan-Olof, and the bodyguards weren’t expecting him to really COMMIT to resisting physically.

They were probably all expecting him to make a huge fuss, but eventually give in. It’s not surprising that’s what they expected. In 1.01, Wille didn’t want to make the televised apology and claim he was enrolling at Hillerska of his own free will. But although he complained loudly and bitterly at first, once the cameras started rolling, he did what he was told. He hated every moment, but he backed down and said his lines.

In 1.06, he desperately didn’t want to do the interview with the journalist where he claimed it wasn’t him in the video and he was straight. He told Kristina flat out he wanted to say nothing at all, and just have a relationship with Simon. But eventually, reluctantly, he did what he was told yet again. A new set of lies for the media and the public, written by PR professionals for him to recite out loud like an actor.

In S1, we see Wilhelm repeatedly rebel against authority, and in the end, his rebellions always, inevitably fail. He second-guesses his own judgment, he allows his mother to convince him lying is the only way out, he always blinks first. And in 1.06, him losing his nerve and failing to follow through on a promised act of rebellion means he loses Simon’s trust, and Simon ends their relationship. So we get the song about revolution playing in the last few moments of S1, suggesting Wilhelm will fight harder next season, will stop giving in.

And the suggestion is right. In 2.02 he has yet another conflict with the royal court and his mother. But he resists, and for the first time, his resistance actually works out for him. A 16 year old gets into a battle of wills with the marshal of the realm, two two highly-trained law enforcement officers, and, by phone, his mother. And yet in that battle of wills, THEY blink first.

It’s probably less about him and more about the 20 Hillerska students outside his room with camera phones, but nevertheless, he defies their will, he defies physical force, he doesn’t lose his nerve and give in at the last minute, and he gets the outcome he wanted. His success in 2.02 in breaking free foreshadows the events of 2.06. In his jubilee speech, Wilhelm successfully defies his mother and the royal court again, stops obediently reading out lies written by a PR person, finds his own voice, and finally tells the truth.

But in the process of that first successful rebellion in 2.02, Wilhelm loses the the last gift his brother ever gave him. He also loses the illusion that his bodyguards are there to protect HIM. And he loses the illusion that his mother won’t have her staff use physical force on him if he doesn’t cooperate with what she wants. He probably needed to lose those illusions, in order to reach the point in 2.06 where he can successfully rebel again.

But it’s a painful scene anyway. He seizes control of the situation, he rebels successfully for the first time, but it all comes at a price.

Scenes I love in season 2 - part 1

[love-isthebestthingwedo]

Simon's Month 2024 💜 Day 28: birthday @youngroyals-events

[cupofteainme]

So many weird choises with the social media plot. It didn't work for me for three reasons.

First: It's stupid

The royal court left Simon and Wille completely alone to deal with the media. The court with a massive PR-team relies on the troubled 16-year-old prince to keep his boyfriend's social media behavior in check. Okay. I guess everyone in the court were busy trying to bring some life into Ludvig while Kristina was too sad and no-one thought to give her pills before episode six 🥲 (good thing that hearing how bad parent she is cured her depression)

I read a theory that leaving Wille to handle Simon's social media was intentional on the court's part to drive a wedge between Wille and Simon. It's a good theory if you believe in the evil monarchy (I guess Lisa does). I didn't see any indication about it in the show though. In episode 3 after Simon posts the First of May photo, Farima tells Wilhelm, "Talk to him. Or we will." This makes me think that it was Wilhelm and Simon in the first place who denied the court to have any contact with Simon. That I can believe at some level.

Simon would want his autonomy, but I don't understand his naivety concerning social media, especially since he recently was a victim of a grave online violation and got unwanted attention because of it. I assumed that he was already laying low in regards to social media after the sex video.

Wille was trying to talk to Simon about not posting with sensitivity and he apologises that Simon must do accomodations because of his Crown Prince status. Why didn't Simon listen at all?

Second: It doesn't fit the narrative

I have a hard time understanding why Simon felt so erased after deleting his social media. It was never established in YR universe that social media meant so much to Simon unlike in the case of Felice, for whom it played a big part in season one. She used it to create a version of herself that she felt other people wanted to see. In YR posting on social media has often been about conveying an image: Felice at the stables despite not wanting to ride, August posing at the gym while suffering from eating disorder. It didn't fit the show's use of social media that an authentic person like Simon would feel so sad about deleting his account.

I got the impression that Simon used little social media. It was implied that it was for example his first song that he posted (he got a comment that was surprised he could sing). So social media hadn't been an outlet where he commonly shared his creativity. Simon seemed to be sorry to delete pictures of people he saw all the time anyway, family and close friends. It's not good storytelling that we didn't see any foreshadowing about Simon's feelings towards social media earlier in the show. 

Third: It breaks my heart

The part that actually makes me cry is that it was established in season one that Wille and Simon truly see each other despite their differences. Wille was the first one in Hillerska to treat Simon friendly and be interested in him and it made Simon feel special and seen. In the same way Simon saw Wilhelm as a person first rather than a prince. Isn't that a big part why we fell in love with their love? Isn't Wille the person that makes Simon feel seen and not strangers in his social media? 😭

There where so many things that created or could have created drama between them; the drugs, August, Micke, their different backgrounds, homophobia, classism. I don't think that Simon posting was a needed storyline in the show.

Sorry to be a complete romantic, but the way Simon looks at Wille from season one—I thought he'd happily toss his phone to the lake to finally be with this boy.

[young-royals-confessions]

I see people nitpicking Simon for being a drama queen for deleting his account completely while he still could keep it and just deactivate it.

But what would it change? It would still mean shutting Simon from the world, hiding his face, opinions, life experience, songs. It would still limit his participation to just observing, making him invisible, so what's the point keeping it?

About making it private ...he has too many subscribers to just get private without having to delete people manually and some of those people did support him so being deleted/blocked could rub them wrong. And too much fuss, honestly.

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[hawkinsunderground]

just got done binging young royals and I get what the hype is about now. Atp I just have such low expectations for any lgbt media bc it's always a sad ending, or doesn't feel authentic, or the acting is off, etc,. But the acting was great, all the characters felt real and 3 dimensional, and the intimacy between wille and simon???? perfection omg and they actually got their happy ending 😭This is one of the few shows where I wasn't sitting there after the finale thinking about all the things I wish they did differently

[plasss]

Simon and Wilhelm on February 14

— Wille arranges a surprise and hangs paper hearts in Simon's room that say how much he loves his boyfriend

— They cook pizza together. It turns out sloppy, but made with love. And there were a lot of them in the kitchen

— When they roll out the dough, they kiss. Faces and clothes are covered in flour, but it doesn't matter, because at the moment they have each other. And they can afford to dirty each other

— Wille can't get away from Simon. He looks at him for a long time as he selects a movie for the evening.

"Why are you looking at me like that?"

"How?"

"It's like I'm the whole universe for you"

Actually it is

[gnael]

how to get over an obsession with a show and its cast

[willesworld]

i’m so excited for the nonverbal!wille fic!

me too actually☺️

here’s a little snippet 💖

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The rest of dinner was a quiet event. Wille left his tablet in his lap and focused on eating his pasta. He made sure to thank Erik profusely when he was done and stood to clean up the dishes and kitchen after he had finished.

Before washing the dishes, he made sure to put his pink elbow-high rubber gloves on and place his chewelry in his mouth to help him distract his senses from the food in the sink. Wille was never going to be a fan of the dishes, but at least he had ways to make it more bearable now. Erik always offered to clean the kitchen, but he always cooked, and Wille felt horrible about making him do everything around the apartment. Erik did enough already.

Once the clean up was finished, Wille retreated back to his room and sat at his desk, opening up his laptop and opening his YouTube page.

He wasn’t expecting anything, really. He only had just over 100 subscribers. But he still liked to check, fruitlessly hoping that his videos had somehow gone viral and Wille had accidentally become a super famous YouTuber. It was a strange hope because Wille didn’t really want to be famous. He just wanted to feel seen.

But to Wille’s surprise, he did actually have several new notifications. A new subscriber, a flurry of likes, and several comments. All from the same account.

@simonsings.

[wasteofart]

Screaming crying throwing up at work how am I going to survive the next 9 hours before I can go home

[paradisobound]

Well since Twitter is officially going to shit, and that means this is my only other social media app I feel comfortable using to get content, like this post or interact with it if you like and post content about:

Young Royals (the cast and the show)

Heartstopper (the cast, the comic, and the show)

I'm basic so that's gonna be about it so far lol thanks!

[because-they-were-bastards]

should have known this from the beginning since hes one of those characters on tv we're forced to listen to sing (dominic fike) but ive finally realized the problem. simon.....is fucking annoying

[idleness-24-7-blog]

My controversial wish for s3 is Linda don't accepting Wilmon.

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[girls-are-weird]

You manifested the gay gala moment!!! lol and your fic is amazing btw 💜

i guess i did 😄 the hug, you mean? i haven't had time to check out all the happenings at the gala (i only saw the big things, like who won which award and stuff, pass by on twitter), but i am here whenever the universe wants to acquiesce to my requests. 😉

and thank you! i'm very glad you liked it. thanks for reading! 🙂

[lexiesanatomy]

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does anyone know where i can find smaus? on twitter ig?

id use this:

hope that helps!

[dyinggirldied]

royal consort au brainrot

the royal consort au by @dcxdpdabbles makes me lose my mind so i have to share this so i can go to bed:

danny has his own wikipedia page though there is ongoing debate on whether they should use present tense (since he is alive) or past tense (seeing as he is engaged to the ghost king/high king of infinity realm)

some part of the social media romanticizes danny's situation as a hades and persephone or cinderella or both. you just know that some girls and boys out there are maddeningly jealous that danny manages to bag a king who is seemingly deeply in love with him.

unfortunately, he becomes a standard of beauty (twink, short, black-hair and blue eyes) because somehow rumors leak that phantom finds him the epitome of beauty. bruce is a bit worried since tim sort of fits the bill. in another city, billy batson/shazam is being teased by his adoptive siblings also for that precise reason

surprisingly, danny can be a charming speaker which people thinks it's part of why phantom fell in love with him.

bruce (and a portion of the world, including constantine) is concern since danny is still young (not sure how old he is in original prompt so i left it vague) and this whole thing; being the most popular public figure in the world and being haunted constantly by paparazzi, his joining with the ruler of the dead, the political between his home world and his future one, might damage his psyche sooner or later and bruce is trying to find a contingency plan for that.

and what's even is batman's contingency plans for this kind of situation, i don't know. im not that smart but clark, diane and constantine and the flash family will need to be there. to make sure bruce doesn't accidentally go too far.

also, this one comes like a hammer to my head but what if one day, danny feels an itchy sort of feeling in his throat but waves it off as a cold? he regrets it when barely a minute later he coughs out a palmful of blood. danny might be in outdoor place or in the justice league headquarter but the point is: everyone panics. especially once he loses consciousness.

this one can be branched off into two:

someone, either the leftover resentful giw or amanda waller, decides to poison him.

maddie innocently makes lunch for her son, after finding a new bag of spice for the meat. that spice contains blood blossom, which is deadlier for ghost (or half-ghost) if you eat it. of course, clockwork will ensure no one finds out danny is a halfa by making the machine detecting it as allergy, if a bit unsual one and danny will still live, if a bit disgruntle and so done with his half life already