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Briefly, he considers pulling out his phone and dropping Intro to Fiction and Poetry.
In the end, he forces himself towards the cafeteria. Maybe lunch will make him feel better, maybe it will help him make sense of the way Wilhelm had just spoken to him. So casual and kind, like he had never ripped Simon’s world in half and ground his heart into dust.
But maybe that’s exactly what Simon had always been to him: casual.
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Or: Wilhelm is the love of sixteen-year-old Simon's life. Until he's not. Then, half a decade later, they meet again in a university classroom.Bookmarked by thepickwicks
25 Mar 2025
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your breath lives in mine, even if it's been a while by allforyoumylove
Fandoms: Young Royals (TV 2021)
10 Oct 2024
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Wilhelm isn’t sure exactly when he fell in love with his best friend. All he knows is that it’s taken root deep inside him, that he loves Simon always and unwaveringly, even when he hates everything else. But the timing is cruel. He’s found what he wants, only for it to slip away before he gets the chance to hold on.
Because Simon–his sunny, doe-eyed, halo-haired Simon, whose face could stop time, whose fierce determination is matched only by the tenderness of his touch–is leaving.
or: the best friends-turned-friends-with-benefits-turned-long-distance-boyfriends fic no one asked for.
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18 Mar 2025
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After adult life has squashed the creativity out of him, aspiring author Simon Eriksson meets an anonymous stranger online who helps him to find the joy in writing again. Together, they start to write Simon's childhood fantasy novel: an epic tale of bravery, found family and two boys falling in love against all the odds. Sometimes, if we're lucky, life imitates art.
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- Part 1 of Your Words Next To Mine Universe
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17 Mar 2025
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“Unfortunately, Mister Eriksson, sorry isn’t good enough. The attention you’ve brought to our institution, not just from the press but from our royal family, cannot be swept under the rug.” The headmistress sighs, like this is a challenge for her. “Students from better circumstances have been expelled for less.”
“You mean,” he says, sullen and small, “students can who buy their way out of trouble.”
In which Simon — freshly broken up with the Crown Prince, with a viral sex tape on the Internet — faces punishment at Hillerska for dealing drugs on campus. Wilhelm uses it to win him back.
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09 Mar 2025
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When Crown Prince Wilhelm gets sent to Hillerska for his last year of school, his presence properly stirs things up for his new fellow students. While Simon isn’t exactly thrilled about their newest addition and really doesn’t get the hype, he’s hopeful that things will eventually calm down and go back to normal.
Yet, for some mysterious reason, the prince seems to have it in for Simon and appears intent on pissing him off in every way possible. At the same time, Simon’s bestie Felice gets more and more serious about her crush on the prince, putting him in an increasingly awkward position.- Language:
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20 Feb 2025
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[podfic] what we are, it doesn't matter by oneofthosebells
Fandoms: Young Royals (TV 2021)
14 Apr 2024
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The first time he hears it, he thinks he’s just imagining the sound of his name being shouted in the distance. But then it comes again and immediately before Simon even turns he recognizes the voice. He experiences his second heart attack of the week when he sees Wilhelm racing wildly after the car, shouting his name.
Simon’s eyes widen and he turns quickly back to the front, staring at the road in front of them as his mind races in tumultuous directions.
What is he doing? Why is he doing this?
They’ve already done this back and forth, so many times. He’s already cried all that’s left of him, felt the pain of longing and heartsickness so deep like it’s been embedded into his skin, like it’s been wrapped around his bones, the words inked into the ribs around his heart.
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A Simon POV of that final scene.
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14 Feb 2025
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“What tattoo were you thinking of anyway?”
“Okay, right, so…” Wilhelm straightens up, pulling himself back into the conversation. He squeezes his eyes shut for a moment as though trying to concentrate. “Right. So this was my first thought, in big letters all down this arm: ‘Fuck The Monarchy’.”
Simon bursts out laughing.
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A fic where tattoo artist Simon encounters a very drunk Prince Wilhelm looking to make some bad decisions.Bookmarked by thepickwicks
14 Feb 2025
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Sweet, lovely, persuasive little thing. Wilhelm felt intoxicated every time he so much as thought of him. His mouth ached with the need to say Simon’s name, his lips burned with the memories, and his heart twisted with a tenderness that made him feel almost fragile.
He could only pray it was a temporary madness that would fade with time, because he knew too well that nothing could come of it, not really. Still, he was certain he'd never felt this way before. And he was careful in his assessment, too: he’d always rolled his eyes at the characters on TV shows who whispered, lovesick and doe-eyed, “I have never felt this way about anyone ever.”
Wilhelm is caught in a consuming infatuation with someone who can never truly be his. Struggling to reconcile his feelings, he tries to ignore the longing, but it lingers, a constant ache beneath the surface. Meanwhile, Simon is overwhelmed by the burdens of his work and the unresolved ghosts of his past, leaving little room for anything else. As he navigates his tangled emotions, love seems like the last thing on his mind — until, perhaps, it isn’t.
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- Part 2 of futile devices
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10 Feb 2025
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“I can’t believe you did that,” Omar says, pressing a champagne glass into Edvin’s hand in the green room.
“I know, it was shockingly easy to infiltrate your concert, you should get someone on that,” Edvin says, smirking and doing absolutely nothing to take the glass from Omar’s hand, instead wrapping his fingers around Omar’s and tangling their pinkies together along the stem.
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10 Feb 2025
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Simon didn’t think he’d see Wilhelm again, even if it was nothing but a glimpse of his face. He doesn’t even know if Wilhelm recognized him — for all he knows he has moved on, too, and forgotten all about what happened between them. At least that’s what Simon hopes, in a way. Over the years he has learned that the best way to cope with the trauma that was his seventeenth year of life was telling himself two things over and over again: he was always meant to be miserable and Wilhelm didn’t love him.
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Simon has grown up, and somewhere along the way, he's lost himself.
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04 Feb 2025
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some Wilhelm pov snippets from Land Between Our Bodies
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- Part 3 of land between our bodies
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21 Jan 2025
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It is 12.15 am and you’re listening to Late night Vibes with Simon on The Vibe FM, 104.6. I’m your host Simon Eriksson and I will be here with you all night. So for all you night owls, insomniacs, night shift workers, let me keep you company. I promise to only play good music and that we’ll have a good time.
Wille wishes he could sleep, would give just about anything to end the sleepless nights, escape the racing thoughts that have taken over his tired mind. By accident he stumbles upon a late night radio show one night and suddenly finds himself longing for the company of a boy he's never met.
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18 Jan 2025
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"Did you know they actually got Prince Wilhelm to agree to host? Well, I guess ex-prince Wilhelm now, but he’ll always be a prince in my eyes. He’s grown up to be quite handsome too.”
Prince Wilhelm? Simon’s previously semi-calmed nerves start working themselves up again, like a twisted cord of faulty wires sparkling underneath his skin.
Oh shit
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The one where Wille and Simon end up co-hosting Musikhjälpen 2026, raising money for charity and accidentally falling in love in the process. All for the good cause.
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18 Jan 2025
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Or: 5 times Wille and Simon weren't ready to be in love and 1 time they were.
When their kids get into a fight at school, single dads Simon and Wille are brought together at a meeting with the teacher. As the experienced professional that she is, she suggests a joint craft activity to repair the damage that was caused. Both Wille and Simon expect sticky paste fingers and potential meltdowns but surprisingly enough discover that they have more in common than they thought. Their friendship starts out easy, yet the growing attraction between them threatens to make things a whole lot more complicated.
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17 Jan 2025
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The initiation scandal breaks before Wilhelm is enrolled at Hillerska. Erik finds himself having to win the public's approval and recruits Wilhelm's help, along with a Hillerska student who might raise Erik's profile within the LGBTQ+ community: Simon Eriksson.
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- Part 1 of Ally Wherever You Land Universe
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14 Jan 2025
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it's a long road home (and we've got far to go) by peonyrose
Fandoms: Young Royals (TV 2021)
13 Jul 2024
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A leap of faith taken on a hot, bright day in June, and a promise made five years later. Seasons change, the world turns, and love must follow.
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Six months of Simon and Wilhelm's lives, five years apart.
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12 Jan 2025
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Leaving military service and taking up Crown Prince duties full-time has left Wilhelm stressed, frustrated, and extremely miserable - and that's without even mentioning the massive sexuality crisis lurking under the surface. He turns to camshows to help take the edge off, and maybe explore some of those repressed feelings a little bit further.
It was never meant to lead to an all-consuming obsession, falling in love, and a whole load of shit hitting the fan.
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29 Dec 2024
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Sometimes it only takes a single look to know – this is the one I want, this is the one I will love to the end, this is the one to ruin me. Wilhelm, the Crown Prince of Sweden, is caught by a pair of dark, defiant eyes, as the song rises higher, echoing through the stone church like a holy hymn.
OR what if Wille was the older brother, born to be the Crown Prince?
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22 Dec 2024
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“Do you think I’m gay?”
Felice considered it for a moment. “Well, I don’t know. Do you like boys?”
That was the one thing Wilhelm couldn’t seem to answer, no matter how hard he tried. So instead of answering it, he let go of a sigh.
“What makes you say this, sweety?” She asked softly, caringly.
“Something with Simon,” he explained. When she frowned, he added, making sure to keep his voice low enough for only her to hear: “I did this weird thing yesterday. This… sex thing. To him. And I can’t stop thinking about it.”
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A school camp takes them to the woods, leaving Wilhelm face to face with his sexual awakening - and it’s not pretty.
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20 Dec 2024
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“You jumped in after me?” He asks, bewildered. Simon can't stand him. Or at least, Wille thinks he can't. He's always giving Wille these incredulous looks, or otherwise sweeping him with a truly disconcerting gaze, like he's sizing Wille up. Or x-raying him, seeing right through his skin, down to the bone. He’s always wondered what Simon sees– what he thinks. It's unnerving.
“Well, I wasn't about to stand there and watch you die. Think of the legal implications.”
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Wille falls through some ice, but Simon is there to help him
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13 Dec 2024