#yr polls

As we know, students at Hillerska do extracurricular activities to get extra credit on their grades. Most of our named characters have chosen rowing, riding and/or choir, but it just occurred to me that we have no idea about Alex or Maddie!

Let's have a poll with some other activities that we see extras doing in the show, plus some options available at the real Swedish boarding schools. For the sake of this poll, please assume that all the necessary facilities exist but were simply never shown.

Inspired by a conversation with @sadhappylady

One of the more tragic things about season 3 for me is the way Sara burns out on her passion for horses. Areas of special interest and/or hyperfixations are something that matters so much to AuDHD people like Sara.

In the first season we see how much Sara lights up around Rousseau, and how special that bond is. By the second season she’s fighting to keep him close by, or at least make sure he goes to a nice family. She melts down when he’s sold. But by season 3… so much of that light is gone, and it makes all the post-s2 grief so much heavier. It’s not just that she’s lost an interest; it feels (to me as a viewer) like a piece of her whole self has been severed away.

I see some post-canon speculation that suggests Sara will get back into working with horses one day—it’s still a job she has in post-canon fics, for instance. For me, personally, these speculations can feel a little surprising and abrupt if not accompanied by some explanation of how Sara finds her way back to horses, and how interacting with horses looks different for her since she left Hillerska. Sometimes these speculations can even feel motivated by a desire to have Sara go back to her “safe” early season 1 self. But Sara has had so much growth and evolution since season 1, and her interests are part of that. Even if she finds her way back to horses post-canon, why would it look exactly the same?

One thing I also wonder about is what hobbies Sara might pursue next, and what kinds of things could potentially become new special interests. We got all of eighteen episodes with Sara during a small slice of her teenage years. But there’s a whole world out there and a whole future ahead of her, and there could be more things she is interested in.

Anyway, I’ve created a poll about future hobbies for Sara.

Regardless of what you pick, feel free to reblog for reach and put your thoughts in the tags. I put pretty broad categories here so I’d love to hear people’s more specific headcanons.

Please reblog so we can reach as many people as possible and learn which one is the most anticipated Wilmon scene in S3 in this fandom <3

Edit after S3 promo (Oct 16):

Sexy times at the castle ❤️‍🔥😜

GIFs from @drs295

Whenever Wille puts on a top, he does it arms first. I always thought that was a Wille / Edvin thing, but I've never seen anyone comment about it. Then I thought maybe everyone does it that way and I'm the weird one. This is very serious and very important to know so I've made a poll. Please feel free to re-blog for a larger sample size