I Think It's Fair To Say That At This Point People Who Still Support Israel Don't Care What They Do.

Whatever.

lol yeah the suggestion is that now that he's stepping down, he's basically... good ??? mental health-wise ?

Which makes no sense for a number of reasons:

We still have the fact that his brother died less than a year ago, *and* that he's coming to terms with new, disturbing revelations about his brother

His parents, while apparently suddenly willing to change and self-reflect, still left their 17 years' worth of damage on him

And so did the monarchy up until this point

Also, stepping back from the line of succession *does not* mean he's leaving the royal family. He's still their kid. It's not as though the monarchy is going to stop impacting him in the future

Still the revenge p**n sex tape, hello? The whole world saw him blowing his future boyfriend (and obviously that was never properly resolved when it comes to Simon's mental health, either)

... The fact that no adult, including at the school, seemed to actually CARE about this massive betrayal and sex crime? (With the exception of Linda and weirdly, sort of August's step-dad.)

Ongoing internalized homophobia, which we witnessed throughout all 3 seasons, which does not magically go away once someone is no longer Crown Price

and more, I'm sure

** Wille still needs ridiculous amounts of therapy !!!! ** And I will never get over the fact that in Season 3 he basically just... stopped going? His only therapeutic needs came in the form of reconciliation with August? And where is Simon's therapy in all of this? (Not just about the sex crime he endured but also about literally everything else, including his childhood before that point.)

This is a quick thought because I'm in the process of coming to terms with Young Royals as a whole (and it will take a while) but I really didn't like what they did to Wille's mental health.

The final conclusion is, I guess, that his Crown Prince role was too much of a burden and he needed to be freed. I.. don't think it's a well thought conclusion and it was handled badly. I'm pretty sure in s2 it was shown that mental health is resosolved by therapy and working on yourself, not running away from your problems.

Now we are scraping all of that because..? (Yeah, I know exactly why)

I like to be charmed and seduced by stories, but too much of unrealism will always pull me away from the story. Season 3 was a mess and I'm refusing to give any excuses to the thing that does not deserve that much credit.

This. Is. Everything.

Inspired by this post (thank you for reblogging it @andthatisnotfake ):

Pirate AU where Simon is a pirate or privateer captain on a ship he owns together with his childhood friends Ayub and Rosh. One lucky day they manage to capture the previously capered flag ship of the Swedish Royal Navy, and its handsome pirate captain.

What he doesn't know is that its captain is none other than the Swedish Crown Prince in disguise.

None of them knows what the Crown Prince looks like (no cameras for another century or so) when he's not dressed up as the Crown Prince.

Simon falls for the handsome pirate captain he's captured. Wille is a revolutionary like him, who hates the monarchy with a passion as strong as his own. Add lots of steamy sex in the captain's quarters - pirates are hot, sue me.

Simon slowly realises Wille isn't who he says he is. His manners are too posh, his behaviour too strange. And then maybe Simon finds his signet ring, or a letter from his late brother. Or maybe he gets it when he learns that...

...Crown Prince Wilhelm pirated his own ship, because he doesn't just want a revolution, he's planned a whole coup with his trusted friends Felice Ehrencrona and Alexander Bragé. A coup against the Queen and the court, and the Noble families led by the Horn af Årnäs family. With the goal to forcethe hand of the Swedish Parliament Riksdagen to abolish the monarchy in favour of a new Swedish Republic.

Felice becomes the first President of Sweden. Simon and Wille sails into the sunset, living happily ever after.

Chapter 5: A Friend From Finland

Simon hated him. He hated that Wilhelm made his skin buzz in a way he had not felt in years, had not even considered. He hated that Wilhelm looked at him with respect and regret and arrogance all at once, daring Simon to look closer, begging him to. Whimpering sheep one moment, biting wolf in the next. He hated that Wilhelm was the personification of everything he stood against, and yet Simon wanted him anyway.

♠️ Read Chapter 5 | Start from the Beginning ♠️

alexander bragé appreciation post

"LOVE OF MY LIFE" 😭😭😭😭😭

Anybody else sad and angry about the treatment of Wilhelm and Simon as characters and wilmon as a relationship in s3 and how much they were done dirty?

How Wille was such a shitty friend towards Felice and a shitty bf towards Simon, deliberately ignoring both of their troubling predicament and feelings about Sara in pursuit of his own happiness and was never there for them and put his own issues behind for once, no, it was always Simon and Felice who had to swallow down their own feelings and support him even when they weren't feeling good and he never even seemed to notice or care.

I hate how Wille was painted as extra selfish and self-centered this season and unaware of his privileges and not once truly acknowledging and recognising that and his own faults and taking responsibility for his actions. Or being interested in speaking up and inspiring change and not wanting to hold up the status quo. And stopped going to therapy and working on his anxiety and other problems. I hate how he regressed from S2 and any of his growth and parts of his character were ignored for the message they wanted to convey. I love him to bits but S3 Wille is not my Wille. Honestly it's character assassination and it makes me furious.

And there being such an emphasis on the negative and the narrative making Simon suffer so much and be so miserable for most of the season. It sucks. Also Simon reacting the way he did to online hate, him being uncharacteristically naive and clueless and putting so much weight on what people say on the internet about him. I understand it's something that affects you and they're both teenagers who don't always behave rationally and their situation is a lot to handle but I still expected from Simon to understand their circumstances better because I think of him as clever and smarter than to be against having a private insta and responding to trolls.

I want to put a huge disclaimer that this is not me hating on the characters! I love them both and that's why this behavior is so upsetting to me. I'm not so much judging them, I'm more judging the writer's decisions for these character developments.

If you have to twist your characters like that to make your plot work and bring across your message then maybe that plot is not working...

And how wilmon was never allowed to have good communication and growth but only had fanservicey makeout moments in between the fighting and always talked past each other and were not truly able to be there for each other and work with each other as a united front and have meaningful conversations about their lives and get to know each other better, which is all we wanted from s3. But instead they were torn apart and their relationship made worse and worse, only succeeding on proving how incompatible they are and what a terrible couple they actually make.

And no, it was not necessary to do all these things. I absolutely refuse to accept the argument that this is all the crown's fault and that's the excuse for Wille's behavior and they could've never been happy and Simon has to give himself up and lose himself. No. That is a choice. The writers decided this is the only way they can bring their message across and get to the outcome they wanted. I'm not saying there shouldn't be any conflict but we could've had problems and drama that built off of what has been established in s1 and s2, showcasing the growth they both went through and find a way for them to work it out and be genuinely happy boyfriends in the season. The writers just didn't want that.

It truly makes me upset that I can't even enjoy their "happy"/makeout scenes because they are only enjoyable out of context but I can't appreciate them for real because it doesn't actually feel earned and they were only little reprieves in midst the miscommunication and Wille and Simon were not really in a good place for almost all of it.

And now I'm supposed to be happy for them and believe that everything is fixed and better in the future without them having given me any indication about it in the show? Ignoring facts that will always be true for them. Being in the public eye. Having to deal with hate comments. Wilhelm always being a part of the royal family. That allegedly they don't have to deal with any of that in the future anymore?

They specifically made this arc and made their gap and differences so wide and severe in s3 to tell me they are not capable of working through and handling these things together that will realistically always be a part of their relationship no matter what but I'm supposed to be rooting for them?

Like any of their mistreatment is justified and worth it for the "happy" ending they got and makes it all okay. It is not, they were done dirty and they (and we) deserved better.

if there’s something season 3 did perfectly was Simon’s character, I love how his care for social issues was fully explored, and the fact that he tries to show wille several times the actual power of his privilege is so important and this scene is the perfect example of that!