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Epilogen Part 1 Links:

Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5

These links came from @edvinception's page. Thank you to the anon who dutifully sent them each week. We love and appreciate you both.

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I don’t think posting edits is a thing on tumblr but I made this just for fun a while ago and have nowhere to put it so 🤷‍♀️ kinda nsfw

Wilhelm x Lilith (Diablo IV Anthem) (feat. SUGA) Halsey

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online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't think anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

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"The magic fabric of our dreaming"

"The tragic fabric of our dreaming"

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"The magic fabric of our dreaming"

"The tragic fabric of our dreaming"

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Wilhelm: Simon and I have agreed to never go to bed angry at each other

Wilhelm: We've been awake since Friday

Simon: WELL IF SOMEONE WOULD JUST ADMIT THEY WERE WRONG-

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Imagining Wilmon still together years later reminiscing about the beginning of their relationship 😭 All the inside jokes and "I got a haircut? really?" "I was obsessed with you" "I was so nervous, I can't believe I did that" "sorry I stared at you so much. not my fault you're so beautiful" "I wanted to say it back" "I really felt like I was gonna die without you. my god was I dramatic" "you make me so happy" "I LOVE YOU"

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Boris: Wilhelm, do you want to talk about what happened during your childhood? That had to be pretty traumatizing

Wilhelm: Nope. I’ll just keep all my feelings right here *points to his chest*

Boris: And then?

Wilhelm: And then, one day, I’ll die

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My headcanon of the day is that Simon likes to sleep on Wille whenever he gets the opportunity. Sprawling out on top of him in bed. Resting his head on his shoulder while they hold hands in the back of the car. Getting all comfy in his lap while they watch a film at the Eriksson house or pretend to do homework in Wille’s room. Just generally using him as a lil prince pillow, you know? And of course Wille absolutely loves this behaviour and encourages it constantly :)

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Store Worker: Would a Mr. Simon Eriksson please come to the front desk?

Simon, arriving at the desk: Hello, is there a problem?

Store Worker: *points to Wilhelm*

Store Worker: I believe he belongs to you?

Wilhelm: I got lost :(

Simon: I didn’t even bring you here with me-

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I'M SO IN LOVE THAT I MIGHT STOP BREATHING DREW A MAP ON YOUR BEDROOM CEILING I DIDN'T SEE THE NEWS CAUSE WE WERE SOMEWHERE ELSE

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Just wanted to gush about how much I love S2 Wille. S1 Wille is a wonderful inception of his layered characterisation throughout the story, but S2 Wille is just so beautifully expanded that it is truly a delight to watch his journey as the Main Character. His grief is not downplayed in order to expand the narrative, but it is also not used as an excuse to push him further down an almost-addicting downward spiral of messier decisions. He learns from his mistakes and tries to be a better version of himself because of his overbearing grief. His love for Simon goes through tumultuous stages in a short span of time, but he never loses sight of the spark that he felt for Simon since the beginning, so real and so telling of his young heart. His relationship with his position goes from a very one-sided burden to something that he willingly chooses to carry on his own terms. His rage and anger towards August in S1 was given a chance to seethe, to burn August with its vitriol but not to the extent that Wille gets burned in the fire as well. He messes up with Felice, he messes up with Simon, but he also tries to be accountable for his actions without being too self-aware or too ignorant. S1 had it all in him, but he was just a boy trying to keep himself afloat after everything earth-shattering happened to him. S1 Wille is a beautiful kaleidoscope of grief and melancholy, but S2 Wille is a hopeful continuation with all its messy highs and lows, and how you just have to treat your protagonist with utmost grace and explore all their potential in order to make them and the story have substance and longevity. Ugh I just love this boy so much.

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Wilhelm: I don’t struggle with anxiety, it actually comes very easily to me.

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I love that Young Royals respects it’s audience. It isn’t dumbed down or spelled out. They aren’t always explicit and it’s on you to notice. It gives them space to make the story so much richer, because it doesn’t all have to be consumable from the surface level, there is space for deeper levels of development that you have to think about to unlock. It makes for more active engagement, which I think is a big part of why it’s fandom does so well; we can actually have fulfilling discussions about the media where we all get a deeper understanding of it, and we don’t need to invent fanons to get the connection we crave. It makes for a more cohesive fandom. It also feels rewarding when you figure something out, you had to work for that morsel and you appreciate it all the more. God they’re such a good team and I just will never get over how incredible the whole production it. They trust us, and I love them for it.

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From Simon's perspective, this scene had to be incredibly eye-opening. Wille is fully surrounded with the choir behind him, the press to his right, classmates and alumni to his left, his parents and the royal court straight ahead. Guards and faculty are lurking. He's fully exposed with nowhere left to hide.

And Simon, standing in the choir right behind the podium, can finally see from Wille’s perspective. He can feel the eyes of the queen and the royal court.  The principal. And it’s terrifying. The frame switches from a shot of the Queen and the royal court looking at Wille expectantly to a nervous Simon, who is absorbing the gaze. All of their classmates are looking and the press are preparing for their shots. He understands the pressure that Wille has been under.

Somewhere inside, Simon feels like he was incredibly foolish to ever expect Wille to face up to all of this for him.  He eyes queen’s teary-eyed smile at the mention of Erik. Feels more than sees the levers on which the Queen could pull to change Wille's mind. And then Simon sees the Queen and August exchange a look when Wille goes off script.

When Wille is finally honest, the gestures coming from the Royal court, together with all of the camera flashes, startle Simon. Their friends, even, are staring. Simon freezes. There are so many cameraphones—is the entirety of the third year class filming?

And Wille just did that for him.  Simon finally understands the weight of what he's been asking Wille to do this entire time—understands that Wille didn’t do what he did because he didn’t love Simon, but because he was in an impossible position. Which he just made impossible for himself for Simon. Even though Simon didn't even ask him to; Simon just told Wille that he's wiling to be a secret.

Wille does this because he knew that’s what Simon needs. He faces up to all of this horrifying pressure and attention and relentless examination for Simon.  Because he can't let Simon sacrifice himself—his unflappable self-worth, his honesty, his integrity—to go into hiding with Wille. As much as that's exactly what Wille thought he wanted. And he does this right in the moment where it becomes obvious to Simon why Wille did things the way he had. Simon understands exactly what it means that Wille is willing to face up all of this for him.

Then the song comes in with, "And you loved me; I could feel it." Because Simon realizes just how fucking much Wille loves him to go through with this in the face of the monarchy, the press, their peers, the fucking world. Even after Simon takes off all of the pressure on his side and agrees to remain a secret, Wille chooses the parts of Simon that Simon himself was willing to give up over the easy choice. Wille isn't choosing himself in this decision—he's not even choosing himself and Simon, who will inevitably face blowback in the aftermath—he's just choosing Simon. The truest version of Simon who he fell in love with.

I'm very new to this fandom, so this has probably been pointed out before. I just can't stop watching the show....

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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.

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ok so we have heartstopper, young royals, rwrb, and I love them all dearly but where are my lesbain stories? where are my cute little happily ever afters with my girls?