im still rolling on the floor about willes "no you're right is not that bad. except i lost the love of my life and got the school closed and probably killed my mom. but yeah Felice it's not THAT bad" speech. he's such a fucking drama queen.

actually the Erik plotline is so sick and twisted like- imagine finding out that the person you've been putting on a pedestal all your life, who felt like your only friend at times in your life and whose approval and guidance you seek even after their death, might have been fundamentally against you and actively supported the mocking, humiliation and hurting of you and anybody like you. And they cannot change or explain themselves to you or make it up or do anything to make it better or make you understand. And you cannot even be mad at them because they're not around anymore and you miss them too much to be angry.

SIMON COMING INTO WILLES ROOM WITH A 17TH BIRTHDAY CUPCAKE SINGING HIM CUMPLEAÑOS FELIZ????? Adorable. Show stopping. Never been done before.

"I don't even know if he would've liked me" can I just be shot

ANOTHER music room fight NOOOO 😭

also Simon‘s outfit in e5 (yes you know which one) is RIDICULOUS. I get why but omg these trousers with that jacket?!?

she says it herself. Kristina can’t be Wille’s mother and “boss”. in that one sad phone call in e3 she’s already saying “if i can’t handle it how are you meant to”. Wille also can’t be crown prince and Simon’s boyfriend. It’s hurting both of them, trying to put these lives together in a way where they don’t fit.

(what’s the point of all the foreshadowing if there’s no revolution? no abdication or general downfall of the monarchy? the broken crown? if it all stays the same and wille takes over wtf was the point?)

PLEASE SHE'S SO DONE LFMAO

August's story is not "good boy turned bad at Hillerska" but something so much more complicated.

I've been thinking a lot about August and the revelations in S3. About how Erik and co played an even bigger role in his indoctrination and development into a toxic mess of a young man than I had imagined - but how it's also important to remember that didn't happen in a vacuum.

The new information doesn't cancel out the old, it just completes it.

August will have still grown up in the highly patriarchal, misogynist, elitist system of the aristocracy, with a very specific view of the world and his place in it. Idolising his father, whose tux he is fittingly wearing when he gets "awarded" the bad boy trophy. A man who taught him by example that death was preferable to failure - and seemingly turned him against his mother, as we could infer from S1E3. A mother who then essentially dumped him off at Hillerska after his father's death and left him feeling like the only woman in his life failed to support them both.

It's precisely these kinds of views, values and experiences from his early life that will have primed him for the culture of abuse at Hillerska (which his father will have also attended back in the day). Made him so desperate for the older boys' approval, vulnerable to their abuse, and susceptible to the awful patterns they impressed upon him. Erik and the others' part in messing him up is horrible and bigger than we thought, but that doesn't cancel out his parents' part any more than his own victimhood excuses his victimisation of others. He's got many intersecting and partially overlapping cycles to break, and I really hope we see him take more steps down that road on Monday.

I may write a longer meta post on him after the finale. For now, though, I'm just going to engage in some shameless self-promo and point to my old analysis post with more thoughts on his upbringing and worldview as well as the backstory one-shot I wrote in the run-up to S3. (It's set two and a half years before his arrival at Hillerska and focuses on his father's horrible influence, as well as his parents' marriage as a possible model for his seemingly contradicting views of women and romance. It remains compatible with canon apart from a few details - please check the tags for content warnings, though).

young royals 3 OFFICIAL stills via netflix nordic's twitter account!! aaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!

I am OBSESSED with Wilmon‘s height difference! Why is this the cutest thing ever?

"I can understand that the thing with Simon has been life-changing for you."

"It's not about him. It's not about Simon, mama. Its... it's this role. It's always been this role that's been the problem. For me."

THE WHOLE FUCKING STORY!!!! WILLE'S PROBLEMS HAVE NEVER BEEN BECAUSE HE LOVES SIMON BUT BECAUSE HE'S A PRINCE!!!!! AND HE'S FINALLY SEEING THAT!!!!!!!

I don't know where we're going, but I'd like to be by your side

Are you bored yet? (ft. Clairo) - Wallows

Young Royals as Textposts - S3 PROMO

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Ahhhh I'm so excited to be back making these :) I have emassed quite a large sum of posts and headlines to use, but if you find any that you think are cool and want me to maybe use feel free to send them my way!!

Thinking about how even their first kiss this season was very Watched with all their classmates wondering about them, compared to the TOTAL freedom of that last kiss and the people still around are the ones whose opinions actually matter