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i think most of wilhelm's conflicts come from his refusal to take responsibility.
It's another thing that makes him a lot more realistic and complex as a teenage character. Bad things happen to him, but whenever he has a part on a bad thing happening he tends to point at other people and go "but look what they did to ME! isn't that worse? I'm not as bad as them! What do I have to be sorry for!"
For an easy example let's look at the video. It's awful that August filmed him, it's awful that August outed him, it's awful that his mother doesn't understand or accept him. But when he breaks his promise to Simon, he makes himself apart of the problem.
Simon, who has also been outed, who has also been filmed, who also faces criticism and homophobia (albeit not from his mother), now also has a boyfriend who lied to him and left him hanging. He had every right to request that distance from Wilhelm.
But Wilhelm doesn't get that. He's angry, he wants to throw a fit without actually making any change. He seeks revenge on August in petty, childish ways (still refraining from telling Simon what he did, which I get his reasoning but still isn't exactly fair to Simon) , he sees Simon with another boy and calls his mom yelling about how this is ALL her fault. Simon was right, he could have kept his promise, he could have told the truth, but he was scared. And rather than face that fear he lashes out. He stands on desks. He says he'll NEVER be the crown prince (and I mean,, he can avoid his duties but until he abdicates his right to the throne by definition he IS still crown prince so this is another childish claim).
He wants Simon to comfort HIM, to be there for HIM, but he doesn't want to acknowledge what he did wrong to fix that relationship, because acknowledging that might mean he has to fix what he did, and he doesn't want to do that either.
He needs to learn how to properly apologize and make his mistakes in order to fix his relationships.
very good analysis and I'll admit beforehand that I'm generally physically incapable of not defending wille (I'm not ashamed of it) but dare I say he refuses to take responsibility because he's never.....been given responsibility? you can't take what hasn't been given to you. he has never had a moment where somebody asks him "what do you want to do" and he says "I think we should do x" and everybody is like "ok x it is" so that then he's like okaaaay I decided that x is the approach we should move forward with and that's MY decision and I'm responsible for it. he's never been in control of something happening, his routine is just going along with what has been decided for him; he doesn't know what it looks like to be actually responsible for sth to then have to take responsibility for it. it doesn't help that so many of the situations he ends up in are direct causes of someone else's actions (august, kristina etc) it's like he has a muscle that he's never used and any attempt to use it just hurts and feels weird so he'd rather not use it all.
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Wilhelm arrives at Simonās door angry about the way his story has been told, only to find that one evening, grief and loneliness loosen their grip just enough for two men carrying different kinds of loss to recognize something familiar in each other.
But after Wilhelm leaves, Simon is left alone again in the apartment he once shared with his first love, caught between the ache of what he lost and the growing realization that someone new is beginning to matter.
Read chapter 4 on ao3!
p.s. In the comments last chapter, many of you were saying youāre intrigued to learn more about Simon, and what heās feeling. Be careful what you wish forā¦ and maybe grab a tissue š¤.
I recently rewatched season 1 and these characters are niggling at my brain even more than usual....
The show is about many things, but to me ultimately all the main characters' arcs explore the questions: What do we owe to ourselves? What do we owe to the people around us (especially those we love, but also others with whom we're connected/implicated)?
I'm thinking about how Simon flinches and bats Wille's hands away when he keeps trying to touch his face on the football field, the same night that Simon has the confrontation with his dad and Micke shoves him into the wall.
Thinking about Simonās face when Wille yells at him about the drug situation:
Whereas when Simon has serious conversations with Wille, he tends to be so quiet, controlled: their conversation at Lucia when he gives in and comforts Wille; the āI donāt want to be anyoneās secretā breakup; the āIām glad you said those things to them but maybe this just isnāt going to workā birthday breakup.
Obviously Simon holds his own. He has a temper as well, and raises his voice, and physically attacks August. He and Wille both escalate.
But when Simon says he can't do it anymore after Wille explodes at his parents and throws things, that's, what, 6 weeks? after Simon stood there as Wille made August kneel, execution-style, and pointed a loaded rifle at August's throat and forehead as he verbally threatened to shoot him ā and goes on to fire the rifle. (Wille is so deranged with rage here the screengrabs are unsettling so I'm omitting... also Edvin is phenomenal).
Iām not suggesting Simon is scared of Wille, or that Wille poses a threat to Simon. But Wille is volatile. Itās one of the things that makes him so interesting to me as a character. All of his jagged edges, discomforting impulses, hypocrisies, intense emotions he's been told he has to suppress to be acceptable, to be "good."
I feel like we focus on the ending as a hopeful moment of ālove is allā (and it can be that too!) but itās so much more interesting to me as an expression of how the show explores choice.
In those final moments, we see Wille and Simon each choose themselves. For Wille, it's to tell his mother he wants to step down. And for Simon, itās to follow his deep desire to give Wille ā to give them ā another chance.
Earlier in 3.6 when Sara tells Simon āyou were right to give people another chance, itās braveā hasn't been canonized the way other moments in the show have, but to me it's such a pivotal scene. Ostensibly theyāre talking about Micke, but of course itās about Wille too.
Simon knows it might all still fall apart, but he says yes anyway.
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For all that we emphasize how devoted Wille is to Simon (as he is!), the fact that Simon gets out of the car at the end, and puts himself out there ā yet again ā to hear what Wille has to say, and then takes the risk of saying yes is such a remarkable moment of grace. For both of them.
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There are lots of reasons why fandom is "quieter" now than it used to be. Some theories are more compelling to me than others, and they all have a different scale of impact. We'll never know for sure, of course, but I like to think about it. Thus, this poll.
Of the list below, which reason do you find most compelling or do you think had the biggest impact?
New entrants to fandom don't know the old ways
fandom olds didn't teach the newcomers how to fandom
covid/surge in fandom due to quarantine and lockdowns
"antis" and other harassment campaigns against creators
creators posting complaints about comments (people worry about commenting wrong)
rise of discord popularity - fandom is walled off from each other
tumblr porn ban and other reasons people left the site
capitalism turning fandom into a passive "view and move on" commodity
rules from social media impacting fan culture (eg. don't comment on old posts)
general state of the world / burnout
social anxieties in an increasingly complex online culture
"surveillance state" worries and not wanting to be perceived
Remaining time: 5 days 7 hours
This is an incomplete list, so if your most compelling reason isn't listed, feel free to add it in the notes.
Guys, former @/skamenglishsubs is on YR Reddit as @/henrik_se and they asked if anyone has saved their "Subtext and Culture" analyses of season 3. If any of you did, can you reach out to them?
the most essential part of a fandom are those people who immediately tell you to write it, draw it, make it when you share your ideas, you have no idea how many fanworks are born just because someone encouraged it
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heard a story about a guy renting out his flat to the same two people alternating week after week and of course my brain immediately went āwilmonā. so now iām imagining a situation where one rents the flat on the odd weeks, the other on the even ones because of work or something. and eventually they figure out itās always the same person coming in after them, so over time they start to leave little notes like āhey thereās some brownies in the fridge because i felt like baking but couldnāt eat them allā or āi think you left your shampoo here last week, itās by the sinkā and the like. maybe one of them misses a week and the other wonders what happened. and maybe, just maybe, thereās a mishap and one week they end up there at the same timeā¦
hopefully you guys are still excited about this in something like 6 months because i may or may not have spent the past half an hour drafting a rough plotline for itā¦
(if someone wants to come up with a reason for why wille and simon need to be renting a flat every other week hit me up)
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