#wilmon is my comfort ship

[mymitochondriaforpresident]

“I can…show you.”

5 more minutes 🥺

[shathebicon]

I call wilmon my comfort ship a whole lot for a ship that hasn't had a day of comfort

[bluedalahorse]

Good morning everyone from the comfort of my own home and not a camping trip!

I should finish my saraugust kinktober this weekend, right? Like I should be able to get that done?

The recent cosplay thread makes me think what I would do for a YR cosplay, and I honestly think it would be like, pajama bottoms and my black turtleneck sweater and a horse plushie. And then (assuming I finally get my hair cut to its normal length again, which I’ve been putting off because it costs money) I could easily be Sara Who Has Stolen August’s Sweater.

(Stealing clothing items is about my favorite ship trope and I’m a little jealous that only wilmon got a sweater-stealing plot point. That’s ok though because this is precisely why fanwork culture exists and I can put ideas into fics and the like.)

[mymitochondriaforpresident]

Edvin: *exists*

Omar: ✨😆☀️🥰☀️😊✨

BROOOOOO! Bebé lindaaaa.

[willesworld]

twenty questions for fic writers

Omg this is so fun thank you @zee-has-commitment-issues for the tag! I love these!

How many works do you have on AO3? 111 total and 34 YR fics (and there's more on the way!!)

What’s your total AO3 word count? 403,737 (terrifying but cool!)

What fandoms do you write for? Only Young Royals right now. I don't have the brain space for literally anything else.

What are your top 5 fics by kudos? (Going with just the YR fics)

feels like

erik's baby

a bit like us

I only want you near me

when the heat comes

The top 4 are Autistic!Wille fics which makes me feel INSANE and AMAZING.

Do you respond to comments? Why or why not? I used to respond to every single one (and I wish I still did), but I'm honestly so tired and burnt out with life so I don't have energy to do it anymore. But I do read every single one, and they make me IMMEASURABLY happy.

What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Hmm I think most people would say tense but I'm also quite partial to the angst in It's almost like the deep cuts make us beautiful.

What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Ooh this is interesting because I loooove hurt/comfort with open endings. But I also think that most of my fics have happy endings (because I'm a sap at heart). I think under gentle hands is very nice, and so is I only want you near me.

Do you get hate on fics? Very occasionally, but I don't think it's happened in this fandom. :)

Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Uhm... yes. I don't actually like men. So. That's interesting. I'm also on the ace spectrum. Also interesting?!?!?! But, yes, I have written smut, although I try to make it more about the feelings and intimacy than the actual sex. And I have another smut fic coming that I hope to post soon😖

Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? I do not lol. I don't really vibe with crossovers.

Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I know of?! I hope not.

Have you ever had a fic translated? Once or twice in the Harry Potter fandom yes, but not in the YR fandom!

What’s your all-time favorite ship? Wilmon Wilmon Wilmon Wilmon. I love them. They have my heart.

What’s a wip you want to finish, but doubt you ever will? Hmm... probably this Autistic!Wille series who has a special interest in stars/space/astrology. I have so many hcs and ideas for that series but I honestly lost interest in writing it.

What are your writing strengths? I think I'm good at writing dialogue and natural conversations!

What are your writing weaknesses? Probably any descriptions or exposition. I don't know how to write the things that I can just see in my head. I also wish I was better at light hearted writing. My dearest friend NerdGirl07 has such a gift for hitting all the emotions while still mixing in some lightheartedness, and I would love to steal this skill from her.

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic? Yes. I do it. Why not?

First fandom you wrote for? Shadowhunters 🥲

Favorite fic you’ve written? While looking back through my YR works for this tag challenge, I was actually so proud of myself and the fics I've written hahah! I really do like many of the things I've written! Some highlights though are The daisy follows soft the sun (soulmate AU), the taste of lace & you (fem!wilmon smut I'm actually so proud of this one), and of course the autistic!wille alternate universe (which i hope to work on again soon).

Tagging @piebingo @ishotforthestars @skydragon05 @altruistic-meme if you would like <3

[oneofthosebells]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

Thank you @malinthebodyguard for tagging me! 💜💜 I'm not really on tumblr much at the moment for various reasons, but I can never resist a quiz.

(It's not a secret that oneofthosebells is a burner pseud I created just to write YR fic for Reasons I won't bore you with here, so the below is combined across pseuds.)

How many works do you have on Ao3?

67 (25 fics, 41 vids, 1 podfic)

What's your total Ao3 word count?

Just over 430,000

What fandoms do you write for?

I tend to be monofannish, so only Young Royals right now! My main fandom for a few years before that was Ballum (an EastEnders pairing), and I've written for various other sources over the last 20 years including several one-off fics in tiny fandoms for Yuletide.

Top five fics by kudos:

Incognito Mode - Young Royals

Salt and Vinegar - Ballum

Easy to Love - Ballum

The Picture Thou Hast Made - Ballum

Breaking News, Breaking Free - Young Royals

(Taking the executive decision to exclude my 20-year-old Harry Potter fics from the list above because...well. You know. I won't delete them from the internet because I don't believe in doing that, but honestly, if anyone's still reading them in 2024, ngl, kind of judging you. There are SO MANY fics out there not based on books written by massive transphobes, go read those.)

Do you respond to comments?

Usually! I tend to be all or nothing - I try to reply to every comment, but if I'm struggling to keep up, I sometimes end up not replying to any at all for a few weeks and then it feels daft to reply after that long.

What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

None! I don't like angsty endings, happy endings all the way round here. Probably the only one that even vaguely counts is Say a Little Prayer, which is a missing moment from canon from a very angsty episode - but even though it ends on a sad note, if you know the show you know they get married a few days later so it's still not that angsty.

What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Hoping that if I can get my writing brain into gear I will soon be able to give several YR fic answers to this question...!

From my non-YR fics...almost all of them? But let's say Beginner's Luck because of the light-hearted romcom vibes throughout. (Or maybe My Heart Won't Let My Feet Do Things They Should Do, because it's not just happy from a ship pov, but also has a character coming to terms with his hearing loss, taking up dance again for the first time since he was 12 AND standing up to his homophobic, ableist dad.)

Do you get hate on fics?

Not recently, doesn't seem to be much of a thing in YR fandom thank goodness! In the past...yeah. (Soap opera fandom is toxic af.)

Do you write smut?

Yep. Not very well. 😂 I put it in stories that seem to need it, but mostly I tend to go for a M rating rather than E because it's really not in my comfort zone to write the explicit stuff. Never written PWP. (I tried to, once, but it ended up full of feelings and a bit of plot anyway!)

Craziest crossover:

Never written a crossover, never really wanted to. I keep my fandoms separate lol.

Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Hope not! Not aware of it if so.

Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope.

Have you ever co-written a fic before?

No, but I'd love to. Me and a friend kicked around an idea a few times, but never came to anything.

All time favourite ship?

Eep. Please don't hate me if I don't say Wilmon! I love them to pieces, I really do, but honestly I hyperfixated on their story and the show as a whole rather than them as a couple if that makes sense (which is probably why I don't really read/write non-royal AUs).

Gun to my head, all time favourite ship: Christian/Syed from EastEnders.

What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

There are many YR WIPs on my hard drive, but honestly I'm still hoping to finish all of them one day! So I'll say Not Giving In, which I do really want to finish but alas canon kind of killed my love for the characters (especially Jay who plays a big part in the last few chapters), so chances are high I never will. Will be the first and probably only fic I'll ever properly abandon, which I feel gutted about. Blegh.

What are your writing strengths?

Oh god, what a horrible question. 💀 Probably dialogue? Keeping a plot moving along? And people usually seem to like my characterisation, I've had comments in previous fandoms along the lines of 'could be an actual episode of the show' (which I'm taking as a compliment rather than a dig at my unoriginality lol).

What are your writing weaknesses?

Beautiful prose. Metaphor, simile, imagery, description, all of that. None of that's in my wheelhouse at all. If I could get away with writing fics that were 95% dialogue and 5% 'shrugs, nods, stands up, sits down' stage directions I absolutely would.

Thoughts on dialogue in another language?

Eh, I'm not a big fan. With YR fics, I kind of take the view that if you're writing in English, you're essentially translating the entire fic from Swedish into English anyway - so why leave the odd phrase untranslated? It's distracting more than anything else. But it's not a red line or anything, I don't mind it too much in other people's fics.

First fandom you wrote in?

I won't lie: alas, Harry Potter. See above for my feelings on that now.

Favourite fic you've written?

No false modesty here, it's this one: The Picture Thou Hast Made. I wish I'd given it a better title lol as it might have got more attention, but super proud of this fic, probably my best ever attempt at balancing humour, fluff and angst. (Cough, it's an AU that's probably still enjoyable without any canon knowledge, just saying.)

Mind you, one of the YR WIPs currently lurking in my hard drive might just push it into second place... 👀

No pressure tags:

Hmm, lots of people seem to have already done this one! How about @piebingo and @peakotp (no pressure at all) or anyone else who'd like to and hasn't been tagged yet.

[mymitochondriaforpresident]

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This is all I ever wanted. Kissing in public.

[sillyunicorn]

red white and young royals blue

this post has nothing to do with rwrb, i just thought it'd be a funny title

inspired by this post about queer ships having a red character and a blue character (which was inspired by this one) so ofc i saw this post and went looking for evidence that my blorbos fit the mold and oh do they!!

So, please join me on my completely unscientific gathering of red!simon and blue!wille evidence :) (i'd also love a full analysis of color in YR including the other characters but i'll leave that for someone else) let's go:

red and blue checkin' each other out at the party

red when he's thinkin' about/talkin' to simon

red gas station when wille goes to meet simon

red when simon's playing piano at his dad's place

more simon in red

linda's car is also red

blue when simon reaches out to wilhelm

(also I'm obsessed with the movie dialogue that happens here mirroring the wilmon situation... "I'm getting a little freaked out here, what are we gonna do?" "We're gonna get out of here. we just need to keep our heads... this is about us now.")

linda in red as she greets simon

wille in red as he asks simon about staying with him for the weekend

wilhelm back in blue after breaking things off with simon

simon's dad in red when confronting him about the drugs

a blue bike takes simon to wille

(light) blue sheets on wilhelm's bed (bonus simon's wearing a blue shirt under his hoodie and wilhelm's boxers are blue too) (and yes the curtains are blue too)

wilhelm in blue leaving simon in bed (and making plans to hide that simon was there)

omg is linda wearing red and blue?? in the golden that always suffuses lovely intimate wilmon moments? she might as well be wearing a "team wilhelm" pin (she's also saying "you're always welcome here" right here)

Also it’s kind of hard for me to tell what color wilhelm’s shirt is here actually but imma say they’re in blue and red again

blue wille blue walls (w red accents)

red lamp and curtains at simon's house

red towel and shirt(?) or smth in the foreground when simon comes to see wille

blue scarf on his way to the castle

simon on the red blanket as his mom's comforting him (:sob:)

simon on his blue bed cover next to his blue painting when wilhelm texts him

blue sky on the phone with his mom

simon's red school uniform and wilhelm's blue scarf both barely peeking out... OKAY i'm gonna stop there with season 1 for now...

someone with a bigger brain than me come tell me what it all means

[lumosatnight]

Slash Ships To Get To Know Me

Thanks @bleepbloopbotz for the tag (x)! Suppose I'll just go with what I mostly read in fanfic. Gotta say I'm pretty basic when it comes to my comfort ships.

**Rules**: Name at least five (but no upper limit) slash (M/M) ships you love. Each from a different fandom.

1. Drarry (Harry Potter)

2. Johnlock (Sherlock)

3. Dreamling (The Sandman)

okay but Dream/Corinthian is steadily climbing my list

4. Wilmone (Young Royals)

5. Geraskier (The Witcher)

I also enjoy them in a poly triad with Yennefer

[kuiinncedes]

wilmon & 002 for the ask game? :)

yeeee wilmonnn ty for the askkkkk :DDD

when i started shipping them: UM hm idk if i have like an earliest point where i started shipping them ,, i think i lowkey was like just going along w it for a while i was like ya these things are cute but ok y'all have known each other for 2 seconds kinda thing lol (which isn't like uncommon for me XD) but i think what like rly made it for me were like the rly happy giggly scenes ,, like the walk along the water and the scene i think like in bed the morning after they sleep together lol but they're just smiley and giggly and ya def those scenes for me even tho they're kinda late into the season lol 🥹

my thoughts: i rlyyy like how they developed in s2 like how they ended up finally being on the same page :'') i feel like i have given many thoughts in the rest of this lol so i'll keep it short lmao :P

what makes me happy about them: the giggly shit !!! when they can just be happy and in love and u can see that they just like ,, LIKE each other so much and like spending time w each other :''D

what makes me sad about them: the way they just !! can't rly be happy together LOL s3 pls but like how they just get together and then get fucked over by fucking august (i'm kinda in the middle of an s1 rewatch rn but i can't continue bc august is just so fucking infuriating lmfao)

things done in fanfic that annoys me: idk if i can rly think of any lol

things i look for in fanfic: besides . hurt/comfort lol have been looking at a lottt of 'wilhelm abdicates' fics recently lol and kind of in the same vein like future au single parent wilhelm fics (that usually are after he has abdicated lol) also post s2 fics !! :D

my wishlist: for them to be happyyyyyy in s3 plsssss :DD like edvin and omar have said in interviews i want them to smile LOL

who i’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: ;-; no one eheh it's ok to be alone lol

my happily ever after for them: OOH .. hm i saw a post that i agreed with that was saying how wille would actually be a great king and despite me reading abdication fics LOL i think as long as wille is like ok ,, them starting that revolution and like changing the monarchy would be pretty cool :DD and i think abdication might make everything they went thru in s2 a little ,, pointless-feeling lowkey even tho it would make their lives simpler maybe,, but it kinda seems like the show is going king route so yea :D

[bluedalahorse]

Anon, I want you to be able to enjoy fandom on your terms. You should get to enjoy Wilmon as much as you want. They are very well-written and well-acted and lovely!

I’m responding because I sense I might be one of the people who writes posts that bother you. My first favorite character in the show is Sara (she means so much to me as neurodivergent rep!) and my second favorite character in the show is August. Wilhelm, Simon, Felice, Rosh, Ayub, and Kristina all tie for third, because I can’t pick! I also ship sargust, not in a Happily Ever After Everything Is Fine Actually way but in a “this dynamic is hella interesting and it makes my brain do fireworks” way. I talk a lot about why I enjoy the characters I enjoy, and often I feel this weird pressure to present my love for what I love in this detached, intellectual way so I don’t come across as a Weird Fangirl Who Endorses Problematic Things. I’ve been trying to express my emotional attachment to them more, and find the people who genuinely want to talk about them the way I do, so that I can actually curate my fandom experience. But it’s harder, especially in a small fandom where we’re all here together in a little neighborhood.

I understand that you were blowing off steam with your post, and I want to say that I empathize with that. I think we’re all trying to find the people we can talk to about the parts of the series that interest us most. We’re all trying to find the people that we vibe with—the people whose fics we want to read, the people who might like the fanfics and meta we have to share. We all join fandom to feel a sense of community. When we feel like we can’t find that community, or like our part of the community is looked down upon or frequently misinterpreted, it can be frustrating, and we want to blow off steam about it. That’s natural, and as some of my friends say, sometimes a little bit of kvetching is good for the soul.

I can relate to the urge to kvetch. Sometimes when I say something along the lines of “I know fandom is very focused on Wilmon and I wish Sara got as much attention as the boys do” I’m blowing off steam in my own way. Perhaps in these cases I could express myself differently. And sure, most days I can take the high road, and talk about the things in YR I enjoy and try and inspire others to think about that stuff too. Sometimes I can write the fics I want to see and read and be at peace with the fact that they’re automatically going to have a much, much smaller audience than the Wilmon fics, and that some people are probably going to think I’m a freak/apologist/whatever else for writing them, no matter how much I try to write a character like August with complexity and not excuse his actions. On a bad day, however, I look at the ease other people feel in terms of making friends and connections in fandom, and sometimes I get sad/feel isolated. I try to resist the urge to be snarky on my blog as a defense mechanism, but it isn’t always easy. I’m positive I fail sometimes, and come across as snarky anyway.

If my blog is one of the ones that bothers you, I apologize that I upset you with my comments. I want to clarify that this was not my intention, and at the same time I am sorry for my impact. I’m open to talking about this more in DMs if you feel up for it. I also understand if you’d rather not, and if you just feel more comfortable curating the fandom experience that’s right for you.

At the same time, I also reserve the right to talk about what interests me (and occasionally kvetch) on my own blog. We’re all trying to find our fandom people. I genuinely hope you find yours!

What's so wrong about just loving this show so much because of Wilmon and Wilmon only. I'm getting tired of seeing comments about how we're missing out if we don't study it and other characters to some super high degree. 😕

Nothing wrong with that! People can enjoy whatever parts of it they want. I'm not super interested in the non-Wilmon characters myself.

The comments today were in response to my asking what people would like to see more of in YR fanfic, but I'm not sure if you are referring to that.

[bluedalahorse]

I’ve been thinking about the fairy deal question of would you want more YR forever but the price is no longer having fic and I don’t know if I would change my answer but I’ve thought through my answer a lot more and I want to put so many more asterisks on it.

So for me I answered from a place of like… creative ethics, I guess? YR was Lisa’s story first, and she had a beginning and end for it and wanted to write it in three seasons. It’s obvious she cherishes it, but she has other stories to tell now. The actors gave us their all for three seasons, but they’re all growing up and will be moving on to new projects and I’m excited to see what they do next. So the notion of some fae queen putting Lisa and the cast and the crew in a magical prison of having to perform for us forever just feels… not so great. I know that’s not what the question was asking but now I can’t unsee the fae nightmare scenario. Blame Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell if you must!

On the other side of creative ethics is that I feel like what we call fanfic is intrinsic to the human condition, and therefore humans should be allowed and encouraged to do fanfic. Like centuries ago someone would tell a story about Robin Hood to their kids and then eventually one of those kids would tell a story to their friend like “ok here’s my Robin/Little John/Maid Marian OT3 hurt-comfort epic” and their friend would be like “excuse me no the vibe is Robin/Sheriff of Nottingham enemies to lovers” and then they would have had a ship war about it. Lisa et al might own the legal rights to Young Royals but everything about the way they ended the series felt like they were lovingly handing it over to the fans. They trusted us to envision an infinite number of futures for the characters. And that feels worth mentioning.

And, even if Lisa wanted us to never write fanfic again, I feel like we’d still have the right to write it, and we should probably write it more actually. I had a friend growing up who was on the secret underground Vampire Chronicles mailing lists Anne Rice disapproved of. I think this is badass.

Here’s where the fae queen would try to tempt me… they’d remind me that my favorite characters aren’t always featured as heavily in fanfic, and that sometimes they’re featured in ways that don’t vibe as much with what I love about canon. That I am more likely to get the characterizations I want from Eternal Canon. And I admit, I am very likely to click backward when I see stories where August is flattened to an uncomplicated villain, Sara and Felice are solely Wilmon’s cheerleaders/flatterers, and Good Mom Linda vs Bad Mom Kristina plays out with No Nuance. Among other things! Like, yes, sure, I know there would be a great temptation for me even just to see more incredible acting from my kids Frida and Malte. I do like watching what they do with their faces and body language. You’ve got me there, fae queen…

However! I am still not ready to surrender to the fae queen and give up fanfic just yet. Because the reality is, we’re all writing fanfic to express our relationship to the text and wrestle with it a bit, and that includes me. Getting to explore August’s continued recovery, and his relationship to family and friendship with Nils, is something that mattered to me. I enjoyed figuring out the balance of writing Nils in his early 20s, and figuring out what it would be like for him to openly date boys and have a boyfriend, while still not having him be like… a gushing hopeless romantic of a person who makes Pinterest boards for his wedding? And then thinking about another story I haven’t written yet, connected to that fic linked above, where Vincent ends up being the first to get married but also the first to get divorced, and his daughter has ADHD too and he’s seeing so much of himself in her, and he confesses late at night to Nils and August that he’s worried he’ll fuck her up the same way he got fucked up by his parents. And then, in the story I’m writing now, I found an opportunity to write Linda as like a full-on human who sometimes wants things for herself independent of her kids, but also that’s really fraught for her, for reasons. Also I want to explore Sara as a grown up—sometimes strong and sometimes vulnerable—and have her break free of toxic capitalism, because she’s gotten better at her relationships to people but she’s fallen into the “work should be your life’s calling” fallacy and her bosses are taking advantage of her. I have a lot of things I want to write. And those things matter too, even if I’m not always sure who the audience for them is, and even if I wish sometimes that they were fics available for me to read that I didn’t have to write myself.

So the fairy queen can go skipping off to play with some other mortal for now. I’ve got chores to do and a heatwave to avoid anyway.

[theydonthavenames]

Can I just quickly point out how Netflix and the rest fucked with us with the stills and trailer they released. They showed us everything yet we knew nothing and made us believe in exactly opposite of what happened. Have a look.

Didn't we all think here shit oh shit Simon is so happy vibing with his new bf at the party. RIP Wilmon, let Sircus reign. Well in the exhibit above the petty little gay bitch is making his almost-ex boyfriend intentionally jealous af and he was winning at it (or rather loosing as we found out later). And that smirk? Nothing to do with Markus, sorry not sorry.

Awww such a cute bff moment. Pahahaha. Little did we know we were about to be hit in the face with the biggest cringe moment of the season. I remember one or two souls saying well they look a bit sus cuddling on a bed like that, and the rest (including me) shouted noo! beauty of platonic friendship! We were played my friends. Lol. Just lol.

Look at this sequence. We thought first day back at school? Reunion moment? What is Simon smiling like that for? Well he's about to break our hearts in two and mend us again at the same time. That includes Wille, actually. We had no idea. Neither did Wille. 

The speech makes me lol as well. I don't think anyone was too excited about it. Everyone thought yeah another princely thingy, some shit speech, yawn, whatever. My ass! Who cried at the shitty boring speech? I'll go first 🙋‍♀️

Look at them, some dirty villain-to-half villain deal about to commence. The only dirtiness that commenced was in August's bedroom. And it was actually cute and fluffy af. This must be my most favourite twist this season.

Blue lights in the mirror? Finally August is about to be taken by the police!!! Yeah, party police. Let's move on.

Ohhh Sara baby what's wrong? Are you sad? Is Hillerska treating you badly? Are you having anxiety attack? Did someone hurt you? Listen people, she was horny. For August. Out of all the people. Seriously, wtf Netflix?!?!

I was obsessed with this pic. Aww Wilmon having such a cute couple moment, they're out and proud at Hillerska, not a secret anymore. Nope. Simon just momentarily forgotten he doesn't love Wille anymore and is supposed to move on but then he remembers it and jumps away coz he probably saw Markus looking at them like ???? Still a cute little moment.

Wille on the table, Wille on the table! They all cheer because all Hillerska ship Wilmon too! Not quite. All they ship is their own asses and maybe some heteronormativity. (Is that even a word?) Ugh.

Who's that???? Oh shit that's Markus. Must be Markus. Wille bumped into him at Simon's house 😱 Wille looks sad. I'm so stressed!!! Chill out people, it's only Simon. And Wille's just about to announce he can give up the throne for him. Nothing exciting, you know, just some domestic couple stuff.

And this moment? Looks serious. Simon looks sad? Is he comforting Wille? Has someone died? Well the only person who died at that moment was me okay?

They fucked with us. Or our clowning backfired. Decide for yourself.

[sflow-er]

Hi.

You can call me Sflow (not comfortable divulging my gender). Awkward millennial from the Nordics, self-employed translator, massive geek, still an early 2000s emo kid at heart.

I’m mainly here for the latest in my very long line of fixations: Young Royals. I’ve been in the fandom since July 2021 but only came out of lurking here in the early months of 2022. I still expect to keep blogging about YR now that canon has ended, but there will also be some posts about other media I'm interested in, various ace stuff, my native country’s politics, etc. I will continue to tag those posts ‘not yr’ for your convenience!

One reason I have such love for YR is that it reignited my creative spark: I'm Sflow on ao3 now. Fic descriptions and links are also available on a separate master list page (only works on desktop).

My magnum opus is an S1-compliant longfic called Other people’s secrets. It's an outsider POV of Wilmon, a personal growth journey for Henry, and an ace/allo romance between him and Walter. I'm proud to say the ship name Walty was coined by one of the readers!

(Description post with a few reader reblogs here, first chapter here.)

I've written a few shorter fics as well; they are alloace Henry fics in line with my headcanon of him. At present, I am reworking my Walter-focused prequel (WIP) in the main series while also writing an S3-compliant character study of an aged-up aroace Henry.

Oh, and I have also written a pre-canon character study on August. It’s called Årnäs, February 2016 and explores his upbringing and parental relationships (i.e. how he got so messed up).

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My blog is of course safe for all LGBTQIA+ people. I’m grey ace with demi tendencies; romantic orientation unlabelled/fluid since I accepted my asexuality and Realised Some Stuff about my history of attraction. Some kind of multiromantic I guess.

Thank you for reading! 💜

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Links to a few longer pieces of YR/fandom meta under the cut.

The posts marked in purple are obsolete after S3.

About Henry and Walter’s canon backgrounds (updated with Walter's last name!)

Some notes on the aristocracy in Sweden

Some thoughts on the hierarchy at Hillerska

About August’s upbringing, worldview and parents

Team "Let Wille Be Fully Himself And Parliament Decide What's Next"

YR S3 speculation: a layperson’s take on the criminal justice side

On writing niche YR fic and factors that affect the popularity of a fic

[faceofpoe]

I was about halfway through this musing on a fic opener when my brain went but what if Melshi? so anyway, no Melshi (yet??) but here's Dantooine Bix lol.

There was a crudely-crafted sign hanging on the wall just inside hangar number one. Rumor had it that it’d been placed the day the final pre-fab module was installed and the first slapdash squadron allowed to start trickling in alongside the construction teams, the barebones leadership overseeing the operation.

Further rumor had it that General Merrick hated the thing, but he knew better than to mess with his pilots’ routines and rituals, and somewhere along the way one such ritual coalesced around the sign, each of them tapping it for luck as they jogged to their respective crafts to prepare for the next mission.

By the time Bix, Wilmon, and Bee arrived at Dantooine base after a hasty evacuation from the outpost at Jaxti Prime, the thing was barely legible, worn down by several months’ abuse, and hanging haphazardly from one remaining screw.

For a week getting her bearings on the new base, marveling at its size, learning her way around the hangar and asserting herself into the maintenance shifts – overnight, always, except when emergency dictated – Bix watched the pilots, and the occasional crew, pay homage to the fading and dangling thing without so much as sparing it a glance.

When the last screw gave way and it finally fell with a clatter to the durasteel decking, it echoed around the nearly-empty hangar in the dead of local night. Bix glanced up sharply from where she was elbow-deep in an X-wing’s fried targeting array.

In the time it took to pry out the melted wiring, clamber down, wipe the grease off her hands, no one else had shown any interest in the thing lying there on the floor. So she wandered over, still feeling a little imbalanced in her footing, a little uncertain of her place in this newer, bigger hideaway, and grabbed the plastifoil off the ground and turned it over.

It took a minute, shifting the thing this way and that in the light and squinting at the fading lettering to make out the words:

Dantooine base est. with compliments of the Emperor & generous donation from Aldhani garrison.

A crude joke fit for a crude sign.

She could kind of see why Merrick didn’t like it – something taunting about it, tempting fate.

She took it back to her work bench, dug out a microlaser tool, and spent a painstaking hour engraving the lettering overtop the original handwriting. Wondering all the while whose idea of a joke it’d been, whether that person knew the important role it served at the center of the pilots’ pre-flight superstitions.

Wondering if the person who’d slapped it up on the wall was even still alive, or just another statistic of what felt an unending and impossible fight.

After putting the last touches on the lettering, she gave the metal a minute to cool down while she packed away the laser. Then she held it up, blew off the dust, shoved her goggles up on top of her head, and carried it back over along with her toolkit to re-mount in the same spot. Properly, this time.

Bix didn’t have much use for the ritual, the superstition of it. Had seen and endured and lost too much to assign fate or Force to the random and reckless unknown, who got in their ship for the last time and which ones came back burdened with the final moments of their fallen comrades seared in their memories.

But she knew better than to discount the comfort of that final offer of hope as they swallowed down their fear and hurried past.

One last glance at her handiwork, ignored by the scant crew milling about in the quiet of night, she nodded her satisfaction.

And she went back to work.

Rairpair Bix/Melshi rebel base fic and the utter psychological chaos that ensues when Cassian/Keef turns up one day

[allthefakepeople]

bestie heyy so taylor ghostwrote season two 13 years ago what else is new, so you get me rambling in your asks about it :')

anyway the INTRO ALONE like the references to getting in his car and being called beautiful and friends being jealous like. that's EXACTLY what happened in the first episode, basically in that order I'm-

and the fucking chorus and simon admitting he wanted a rebound with marcus to see if it felt like him and wille and "it's a roller coaster kind of rush, and I never knew I could feel that much, and that's the way I loved you" it's WILMON TO A T

and then the second verse!! marcus being close to linda and always texting and being nice and even the "talks business with my father" being him bringing up micke (unwarranted but that's a different story) and simon being comfortable!! but then the chorus and all the feelings kick in!!!

THE BRIDGE OH MY GOD simon not feeling anything close to what he had with wille and not thinking about how cheating on marcus will hurt him because he doesn't feel anything at all in their relationship but with wille!!! wild and crazy and just so frustrating, intoxicating, complicated!!!!!!

and the last chorus slowing down to just taylor singing alone because then simon and wille make up and get time to heal together in wille's room and simon realizing this feeling is what he's been chasing the entire time I'm going to be feral over this forever

ok bye going to update my wilmon taylor playlists now 😗

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BESTIE

I'M SCREAMING OVER THIS WHOLE THING BECAUSE EXACTLY

YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHTTT

like simon even called marcus perfect, like he's aware of how good marcus could be for him but it doesn't change the fact that he's in love with wille

like i had a feeling this song would come in to play in s2 but i didn't think it would fit THIS perfectly like... and the thing is i've been WAITING to be able to use this song for a ship for FOREVER (despite not liking love triangles and all that but you get what i mean)

i don't know how taylor swift watched s2 of young royals 13 years ago but i wouldn't question her talents at this point

ugh i gotta make an edit.... like i GOTTA... it's a NEED