#yr Alexander

[young-royals-confessions]

This dude Alexander really got blamed for drugs, nearly was kicked out, was befriended by the crown prince who he then realized is the one who framed him, and nearly went to court for August just for him to not have a single line in s3 💀 poor guy

[waltybrainrot]

alexander thirdwheeling is canon cause i said so

[frogprinsen]

Alexander: I know it was you who framed me so I kidnapped your pet snake, and I will not give it back until you apologize!

Wilhelm: I don’t have a pet snake.

Alexander: Oh.

Alexander: Hm. Well then, I just broke into your room and removed a snake.

Wilhelm: Oh. Okay. Thanks.

Alexander: You’re welcome.

[in-amor-veritas]

some of y’all need to stop confusing your fanfiction headcanons about characters with them in the actual show. It feels like sometimes that you’re complaining how they didn’t act the way you thought they would bc you expect them to be the way they are in fic

[sflow-er]

En lue iltapäivälehtiä, mutta nyt ostaa täräytin Plus-tilauksen kuukaudeksi saadakseni lukea taustoittavia juttuja pressaehdokkaista. Jos jotakuta kiinnostaa taustavaikuttajien ajatukset Stubbista henkilönä ja johtajana, alla poimintoja ja lopussa kuvakaappaukset koko jutusta.

[Briefly in English: Bought access to one of the tabloids for a month to read longer stories about the presidential candidates. This one is about the candidate I don't support. It chronicles his career and people's opinions of him as a person and leader. Some quotes and the full story below in Finnish.]

Otsikko on tosi sensaatiohakuinen, itse juttu on neutraalimpi. Aika hyvin se silti tukee käsitystä Stubbista omahyväisenä ja ylimielisenä päsmärinä, joka perehtyy kunnolla vain niihin asioihin, jotka sitä oikeasti kiinnostaa. Tässä poimintoja:

”Turhamainen itsekeskeisyys, itsensä korostaminen”, kokenut ulkoministeriön virkamies arvioi Stubbin aiempia heikkouksia.

– Hänelle on tärkeää se, miltä hän näyttää, miltä hän vaikuttaa, eräs politiikan vaikuttaja arvioi. – Oma henkilökohtainen brändi, sen mahdollisimman voimakas esillä olo on tärkeätä, toinen sanoo.

Stubbin nuoruusvuosilta esiin nousee toistuvasti maine entisenä koulukiusaajana. Sen loi Helsingin Sanomien Nyt-liitteen artikkeli vuonna 2008. – Se oli kaikista pahimpia hurjimuksia koulussa. Se oli pahimpia koulukiusaajia. Sellainen niin kuin mitä jengi pelkäsi, koulutoveri muisteli HS:n toimittajalle. Stubb on sittemmin puolittain ottanut vastuun kiusaamisesta. Hän on pyytänyt anteeksi käytöstään, mutta kiistänyt kiusanneensa systemaattisesti. – Jokainen kiusauskerta on liikaa, Stubb sanoi Iltalehden haastattelussa. Myöhempinä aikoina Stubbia ei ole syytetty kiusaajaksi. Useat Iltalehden haastattelemat henkilöt pitävät Stubbia reiluna ja ystävällisenä, tarkoituksellista ilkeyttä he eivät hänessä tunnista.

[EDIT: Lisäsin tähän mukaan ton puolittaisen vastuunoton, @torillatavataan kommentti aiheesta ja mun vastaus löytyy reblogeista!]

Toiset näkevät, että voitto puheenjohtajavaalissa ja pääministerin pesti tekivät Stubbista ylimielisemmän. Päätöksiä ei tehty enää aina yhdessä porukalla. – Silloin tapahtui jotakin, entinen edustajatoveri Kimmo Sasi sanoo. Stubbilla oli laajat kuulemisprosessit, mutta ne eivät Sasin mukaan välttämättä vaikuttaneet päätöksiin. Presidentinvaaleissa Stubbia vastaan kilpailleen Hjallis Harkimon (liik) mukaan Stubbin puheenjohtaja-aikoina oli tapana lähettää tekstiviesti kansanedustajille, miten eduskunnassa kuului äänestää. [...] sittemmin päivänpoliittinen lika on ehtinyt karista hänestä. Sasi arvioi myös Stubbin ylimielisyyden karisseen.

– Hän ei välttämättä ministerinäkään ollut valtavan syvällinen. Asiat olivat ilmaistavissa aika yksinkertaisina pointteina. Minulle jäi kuva, että se ei ollut pelkkää tyyliä, vaan hän ehkä lähestyy asioita aika yksinkertaisesta näkökulmasta, kokenut ulkoministeriön virkamies arvioi.

Osa uskoo, että Stubb pysyisi presidenttinä pilttuussaan. Osa uskoo, että näkyvyyttä janoava aktiivinen presidentti ajautuisi törmäyskurssille hallituksen kanssa. – Riippumatta siitä, mistä poliittisesta liikkeestä pääministeri ja ulkoministeri tulisivat, luulen että [Pekka] Haaviston kanssa olisi helpompaa, eräs vaikuttaja arvioi. Leppoisa presidentti Stubb ei olisi, hänet pitkään tuntenut virkamies arvioi. Stubb on vahvatahtoinen, vaativa ja kärsimätön, vaikka julkisuudessa hänet tunnetaan leveästä valkoisesta hymystä ja rennosta imagosta. Myös suhde lehdistöön voisi kuherruskuukauden jälkeen käydä vaikeaksi, eräs vaikuttaja uskoo. – Mitä vahvemmin maailmaa tarkastelee omasta henkilöstään käsin, sitä vaikeammaksi mediasuhde yleensä muodostuu.

Stubbilla on vahva oma tahto ja paljon energiaa. Hän perehtyy asioihin, jos on kiinnostunut niistä. Jos kiinnostus lopahtaa, perehtyminen on vaikeaa. Stubbin paineensietokykyä pidetään hyvänä.

Ja vielä koko juttu:

[readinsilenceplease]

😮‍💨

[clayvedevs]

Why is alexander shevchenko so little brother shaped?

[bluedalahorse]

Drabble Challenge #2: Alcohol (Alexander)

Part #2 of Makes the Medicine Go Down, a story told over seven drabbles from seven different POVs. You can read the sequence from the beginning over at AO3.

While the overarching story concerns Vincent, I’ve included glimpses of multiple characters’ futures.

This drabble challenge was organized by our pals at @youngroyals-events. Enjoy!

Alcohol (Alexander)

Alexander shows off, paying for everyone’s alcohol at young Hillis alumni socials. He can afford it, and it’s more powerful than pouring the drinks.

He keeps a mental list of topics his inebriated schoolmates bring up.

Like how Vincent is obsessed with being married.

“You need a wife.” Vincent plops down between Henry and Walter and clamps an advising hand on each of their shoulders. “They remember birthdays. They know what to shop for. They’re organized. Wives? Are a life hack.”

So wives are first years for life after graduation. Alexander keeps the thought to himself and orders another round.

[icarusbetide]

i love making fun of alexander hamilton for the unhinged, stupid decisions he made. but i can't help but feel for him when i think of his background and how it always haunted him. not even getting into the shitshow that is his family history, just the fact that his immigrant status continued to serve as easy ammunition and he never really was "one of us" no matter what he did?

like that letter he wrote to gouverner morris in 1802 where he said:

"Every day proves to me more and more that this American world was not made for me."

it hit me hard, even if he was being dramatic. i'm probably projecting but i think it's a sentiment a lot of immigrants, even today, can relate to. really need to find that interesting paper on west indian stereotypes at that time and how they were alluded to against him.

[young-royals-confessions]

I have tiny gripe with fandom and maybe the show a little. I love Simon to death but I don't understand why everyone thinks Simon was justified in being angry at Wille for having Alexander take the fall for the drugs. There is no other solution that saves Simon and that is not Wille's fault. Simon fucked up by dealing drugs. The options for the solutions were: let Simon feel consequences which would literally ruin his life or let Alexander take the fall which would be a blip in his life literally. I don't understand what else Wille was supposed to do? Or how is this situation his fault? I feel like everyone blames Wille for Simon's mistake.

[thatsmybook]

As talked about in this podcast episode of @peopledonttalkabout , the music room fight scene in season one episode five encompasses the entire dynamic and arc of Wilmon's relationship in Young Royals. Margaret and Anton point out that this is the first ever time that Simon calls Wille 'Prince'.

My thoughts about Simon's feelings towards Wille from the music room up until the hug at Lucia, is that in this period he views Wille as one of the elite kids all having each others' backs (once a brother always a brother) and using their privilege to scapegoat out of their mistakes. From the moment Wille accuses Simon of being low for providing these elite kids with drugs (which he took) is when the switch happens - from perceiving Wille as just himself to a Prince. Judging as low the lower class kid for providing drugs to the upper class kids who consume them is the equivalent hypocrisy that Simon spoke about in the first episode of the show. Simon: "Why is it called tax 'evasion' but welfare 'scam?' It's all right that rich people cheat, but when poor people do it, it's messed up. For rich people, it's not even called 'welfare' it's called 'deduction'." The language and perception is that one is superior to the other.

[Simon suggests that Wille thinks that his family's reputation and future is superior to Simon's. Wille pauses and doesn't answer and Simon takes that as Wille implying the Royal family's concerns are superior to the Eriksson family's. This comes full circle at the end of season 3 when Simon is struggling with his family's reputation being trashed in comments on social media and Wille dismisses his worries because his mother's health and the state of the royal family is more important. Wille's birthday and how he behaves towards Simon is an escalation of what is happening in this music room in Season one.]

Simon himself is in trouble with drugs because of the elite kids' need for alcohol and drugs and to prevent one of those kids from predating on his vulnerable sister because of her access to those drugs.

Wille going on to help August with his finance problems with just one phonecall in the next scene illustrates how this class of kids have each others' backs. (My first thought when I first watched this show was that Wille was now going to cover August's debt to Simon so Simon is no longer having to do what he's doing- but, no, Simon is not whose finances he's concerned about. Though, in fairness I doubt that Simon would have accepted Wille's financial help.)

Wille texts Simon that he understands that he is angry and he will fix the problem. Simon is still angry because in my opinion he's like "well of course you should- it's your problem to fix". And he's frustrated that now his fate at the school and future rests in this upper class kid's hands. He has no reason to trust this group of people, and he is still viewing Wille as a representative of them.

Then at Lucia when Wille tells Simon that they threw Alexander under the bus, he's angry again about this elite group using their camaraderie and privilege at a lower class kid's expense. (Alexander may be rich but he is lower class than the Society kids). When Wille tells Simon what he did to save Simon, he wonders what he owes this elite kids' representative in compensation. A thank you? Wille's groups' classicism did this to Simon in the first place. Now Simon has been granted a reprieve because one of these kids needs him as a friend/lover. He shakes his head because it's so messed up and goes against his principles, which waver, the longer he spends at this school.

Now, of course, Wille is not August and there are individual accountabilities amongst these group of elite kids, but throughout this whole period Simon not only perceives Wille as the Prince, but Wille grouped in with these upper class kids diabolically getting away with their misbehaviour. The show shows a montage of the Society all lying to the headmistress to blame Alexander and Wille is just one of them. That scene for me acts as the show reminding us - Wille IS one of them - they share the same values and principles. (Costuming and casting in that scene does a good job with the storytelling- they all look similar and are dressed in similar colours).

Simon pushing past all this at Lucia to once again perceive Wille as himself to comfort him, because of Wille's loneliness, is testament to Simon's character. This is the reason their love story exists. Because Simon is a person with strong integrity but also one who gives people that he loves second chances. He is brave with his heart like that. In that scene at Lucia, I personally did not want Simon to forgive Wille for his classism both in the music room and concerning Alexander. But Simon cares enough for Wille to forgive him and move on.

This entire event is one of those instances that Simon is referring to in the tent in season three when he says that Wille does not recognise his own privilege at times. Deciding not to be part of the succession in the monarchy at the end of season three will not have rid Wille of his class status and innate classicism (however minor it is compared to the outright bigots at Hillerska). This, as a 17 year old, will take some time to unlearn. Many of us as adults are still unlearning problematic takes from the environments we were brought up in. I'm sure Simon will never miss an opportunity to call him out on it in their future.

[the-words-we-sung]

Wilhelm + touch - [part 7: s2e1] [part 1] - [part 2] - [part 3] - [part 4] - [part 5] - [part 6]

[unicornsaures]

woohoo happy valentines day! have some very rough sketches from yrs truly :3

..suggestive under the cut aha..!

[hvenart]

Since Young Royals is over I wanted to take a look at some characters and kinda explain how I interpret them as people. (this is hella long but I’m mostly praising the show and how they handled things cus I’m an optimistic girl who loves life)

First of all you have the students of Hillerska. Hated them.

Genuinely cannot stand most of them and I gotta be honest, I was cheering for the school to close down. The toxicity and pure classism that radiates of that school is sickening but I’m afraid not unrealistic. As Willhelm said it’s in the walls of that place, it’s impossible to get it out. Everyone in Hillerska loves to pretend everything is fine. As Wilhelm said EVERYONE IS FAKE. Not just Hillerska but the monarchy and that entire system is too. While there are most likely very close friendships in the school it seems like nobody really knows or tries to understand each other. They refuse to acknowledge the fundamental problems of the school and instead party and just see the school closing as a sad thing.

Vincent is a perfect example of that. I love how they showed that queerness never was a problem for him. Vincent was fine with Nils being queer cus it doesn’t directly effect the system. Simon being a socialist who can possibly talk about the issues of the school was. I also think that he sees August purely as his role. He sees him as a party animal and having connections to the royal family. That’s the role he fulfills so he’s confused as to why he wants to be more than that because position wise he’s in a perfect situation. Him not knowing what August wants as a person and not knowing his best friend was queer just shows to me how little they know each other. How superficial their friendship is.

Nils is interesting. He’s queer and him being a person of Color all give him an interesting position in the whole system. He probably has a little more empathy and is a little less out of touch than his friends (ex. he is the first person to talk about how fucked up their initiation was) but he chooses to ignore it. I think that for him the pros outweigh the cons because at the end of the day he’s still rich and at the top of the foodchain at hillerska so it makes sense that he has no desire to change anything. Which brings me to why I LOVE felice.

Felice is by far my favourite character (Simon is a close second). She very much could turn a blind eye to everything and be like everyone else but she doesn’t want to anymore. I think being a black girl in Hillerska gave her more sympathy and understanding of the problems but I think even then she could’ve dealt with it like Nils because lets be honest racism is everywhere. But she realises if it’s already this bad for her she can’t imagine how it is for the people of the lower class. It made her see how fucked the hierarchy is and realise how deep it is engraved in the school. She realises that not even her best friends want to truly understand her struggles because it’s awkward for them (I said in another post her friends weren’t as bad as Vincent but honestly they’re just as bad). That realisation made her not wanna go to New York. She doesn’t wanna ignore her problems like everyone else but face them head on and goes to Sara. The one person who at the end wasn’t fake to her.

Im absolutely in love with Sara and Felice’s relationship. They kinda parallel Simon and Wilhelm in a way because Sara was the first truly honest person in Felice’s life just like Simon was to Willhelm although Felice and Sara are the platonic version of that (and while I loved that it portrayed the importance of friendship, my lesbian ass was really wishing they would’ve kissed like the TENSION but that’s just me). I also think that’s why the betrayal of her with August was so painful. She couldn’t care less about August, she cared about the fact that the one person she thought she always could rely on did that to her.

I also loved Sara this season. She’s a very flawed person yes but you could always tell her apologies were sincere. You could tell she had strong feelings for August but she was able to put Felice’s, Simon’s and most importantly her own feelings first. I was really scared they were gonna make her and August get back together in the end (especially with the conversation about giving people second chances in reference to her dad being also possibly about August) but they made sure to stick with her character development.

That brings me to August. He’s a really interesting character to me and I never know how to feel about him. He has done some horrible shit and at first I wanted him to suffer or do something big to try to make things right and I didn’t like how he never truly got his karma but I like how open they left his character. He obviously has some issues (eating disorder, trauma from his initiation,…) but he doesn’t ever delve deeper into them. He acknowledges the things he does and is obviously very sorry but just like the rest of the people in Hillerska and the Monarchy he ignores the causes of it. He never acknowledges his eating disorder. He’s probably aware that he has a problem (cus Simon pointed it out) but ignores it. He ignores the reasoning Sara gives for them not working out and gives her solutions that in the grand scheme will not change things. He still has huge respect for Eric despite what he did to him and the fact that it clearly left lasting traumas and just brushes it off. He longs for the Crown Prince role not even thinking about the harm that it can cause him. I said that he didn’t get karma but that’s not true. I think that the Crown Prince title is a curse and even if Wilhelm didn’t mean it that way, I think he got his final karma at the end by passing that curse down to him.

I love how they handled Wilhelm and Simon. Wilhelm had just like the rest of Hillerska and the monarchy the tendency to ignore things. Simon was the one who had to give him a wake up call and break things off. Simon forced him to face reality. He didn’t understand why Simon saw the title of Crown Prince as such a curse. Everyone ( ex. His mother) around him kept saying how much of a privilege it was that he never took a step back to question if it really was such an honour. His mothers words were so deeply engraved into him that it took him a while to finally be able to hear Simon. Simon wasn’t the reason why he didn’t want to be the Crown Prince, he just made him realise he never wanted any of this in the first place. It was never about Simon it was the fact that Wilhelm as a person was never really for the Monarchy. He loves his mother and the connection to his brother but he finally was able to let it go. He knows his brother still would’ve loved him but the perfect image of his brother the Crown Prince is gone. I don’t think he’s ever gonna forgive August but he has let it go and given him the title he so desperately wanted. His hatred towards him is not strong enough to keep the title of Crown Prince. In the relationship he was the one who needed to change. Sure Simon also went through growth and had to have a lot of understanding but it was Wilhelm who had to realise his core teachings and the way he thought of life were very flawed. He had to be his own person outside of the system that held him down so desperately. And even the mother understands that. She will always be part of the monarchy but she acknowledges that it nearly destroyed her and realises that she doesn’t want that to happen to her son and lets him go.

Hillerska, the monarchy and the classist hierarchy is not gonna change. But some people can. That’s why I think in the end there was no song about revolution. They didn’t have one. Sara, Felice, Wilhelm and Simon were the ones who truly got away from everything. They were able to get away from the schackles of the system and leave it behind. Even if Hillerska did reopen I doubt they would go back. They didn’t revolutionise anything other then themselves. There wasn’t a revolution but an evolution of themselves.

I think that’s a beautiful message. You can’t always change the bad things around you but you can change the things about yourself that were caused by the bad things around you. You can do and be better even when the world isn’t.

[melanieexox]

I'm learning way too much about NAC. I liked it better when I didn't know much about him on General Hospital.

[frogprinsen]

Alexander: August will be furious if he finds out you’re the one who sneaked out and pulled a prank on him.

Wilhelm: Don’t worry, we’ll cross that bitch when we get to it.

Alexander: Don’t you mean bridge?

Wilhelm: Sure.