#reggie is on his way

[narcissusbrokenmirror]

Willex but they're both non binary.

They talk about how as a kid, it always felt weird being a young man, and growing up, their mind shifted when someone referred to them as "that guy" as if they just remembered how they are perceived.

Willie talks about in school, classmates would mock him for putting his hair on a braid and teachers would say he should cut it if he wanted to look respectable, he didn't, he felt pretty with his braided, he liked brushing his hair slowly and curling strands around his fingers, he started to give a middle finger to anyone who made fun of it, but he did wondered "what if i do look like a girl" and the thought never felt weird on his skin.

Alex talks about how he never could quite grasp what it meant to be a man, he used to think he'd never understand and would never fit in, but he figured out that if he tried to hard to act and look like a guy, he'd blow it, so he (unconsciously) took the mannerisms and the slang boys around him used, it wasn't an effort, it wasn't an effort to be around his sister and her friends and the girls at school, til someone called him out and said "boys don't act and don't speak like that" and suddenly he felt like being torn apart, thinking of every move and word and how they appeared to others.

Willie mentions the portion of androgynous kids at his neighborhood and how confident they looked but also how they never floated above the world, simply existing as if none saw smth wrong with them, Willie felt safe under that thought. Alex talks about sneaking into clubs and dancing the whole night and how none cared the way he moved, except to cheer him on it, dance always blurred the lines between masculine and feminine moves, he was just Alex, til someone in the club would compliment him and finish with calling him "girl", with no ounce of mockery, while that didn't made him feel right, didn't made him feel wrong either.

Neither of them ever showed a problem with liking "girl stuff", it was never a secret that Alex had a thing for pink and none in his band ever said smth bad abt it, Willie knew the adults always criticized his hair, his pierced ear and all his bracelets, but he didn't care it was just them being old, most of kids his age were getting those.

Things only became quite clear when they became ghosts and entered the new queer generation, that talked loudly about gender non conforming people and mixed up pronouns. Sure it sounded like a whole mess, but Willie was all about the mess. Alex was startled by how everything came to surface so fast and had a ton of questions.

Julie was already used to answering his questions, so after explaining what gender non conformity is and non binary different labels to Alex and Willie, she proposed to make experimentation party. Flynn was invited, the boys were there to mess around, everyone was trying on makeup and painting nails, cross dresing, some harmful mockery was made by Luke and Reggie but dutifully corrected by the girls, leaving even Willie and Alex with a new lesson. God, how awful was their time? Of course Luke and Reggie apologized, even Alex apologized because he never thought that jokes like were actually harmful.

After their little party, it wasn't unusual for them painting nails, even Reggie was wearing more eyeliner before their gigs (hell knows how he applied it without a mirror) but it was for fun. It felt different for Willie to have his nails painted and putting on girl shorts, for Alex, it was about intertwined terms when referring to him. It felt so new to both of them, and different, and old. It felt like realizing he was gay again. Willie was the first to tell Alex he didn't felt like he was boy entirely, like it was okay for him to behave like one, but he didn't felt attached to it like an identity, Alex said it was okay and that he'd still be his boyfriend.

As Willie started to present way more androgynous than before, now as a conscious decision, Alex started to question himself about that, spiraling again about what changes he'd had to adapt to if he thought about his gender identity. It was so easy for Willie, just changing without really changing. But for Alex, it carried multiple questions like, would that make him not a guy anymore? Would he still be gay? Would he have to come out again? What if he asked to change pronouns? "You don't have to do anything." Julie said. "There aren't rules to be non binary, hon, you see me? I'm genderfluid but i just love being girly." Flynn said. "And if there were, they certainly wouldn't apply to us." Willie said. Alex wanted to give it a chance. He didn't wanted to make a big deal out of it, so he just gave everyone a heads up before starting practice.

"She as in...girl?" Luke asked when Alex told he was going by he/she now. "Yeah." Alex didn't felt like explaining everything inside of it, sounded too complicated for the first conversation they were having about it. "Cool. Is that it?" And before Alex could say yes, Willie called out and said he was also changing pronouns, going only by they/them. Sure, everyone said. Reggie got confused and had the same questions Alex did when he spiraled about it, Alex said it didn't had to change anything, he was still alex, still gay, still their drummer, "whatever change it is, it's good change." They said. Alex agreed.

Except Alex didn't changed that much apart from being referred as her, being called girlfriend occasionally by his partner, and Reggie ranking girl petnames, Alex was okay with princess but not with dollface. Especially when Reggie added a southern accent to it. Willie changed, a hundred times, going back and forth. Alex liked their changes and celebrated each one.

So Alex and Willie were most definitely not girls, but they weren't exactly attached to being guys either. They were just ghosts. A ghost drummer, a ghost skater and each other's ghostfriend.

#julie and the phantoms #alex mercer #willie jatp #willex wednesday #gender non conformity #flynn is genderfluid i dont make the rules (or do I?) #reggie is on his way #i should defo put this on ao3 #nb boyfriend that wears same outfit forever vs nb boyfriend that picks a new gender to match each one of their outfits #and they r both so real

[galentir]

Luke sketches! Absolutely adore his big round smile and silly hair

#julie and the phantoms #jatp #luke patterson #jatp art #jatp fanart #digital art #my art #his hair is so fun to draw #you can just go wild with it and basically draw his bangs in any way you like #it doesn't matter really it's just a mess either way #I love it #and his :D smiles in addition to the puppy eyes #just gives me so many dog vibes #he's on the same boat with Reggie on that one

[jupitermelichios]

so you've probably seen the news that riverdale ended with the main 4 in an actual, canonical, poly relationship

and that's amazing for a bunch of reasons, including the fact that the number of canon poly relationships on tv are miniscule and also it brings the number of canonically straight main cast members down to 1. Ethel is legitimately the show's token straight representation. love that for her

but to get the full impact of that news, you really also need to know that in order for the polycule to form:

Jughead's transdimensional angel girlfriend has to destroy multiple other timelines to create a new stable timeline for the polycule to live in. timelines destroyed include the one where jughead is immortal and trapped forever in a bunker underneath riverdale, and one where tony and fangs's magical timetravelling gay baby is fighting an evil wizard for control of a train full of evil ghosts

Jughead's magical transdimensional angel girlfriend then returns to the newly created main timeline, and restores the main cast's memories of all the other timelines, which she does by forcing them to watch the show riverdale. That is not a joke or a metaphor she even goes to the trouble to bring a colour tv back to the 1950s so they can watch in colour, except for Clay and Julian, because they did not exist in any of the previous timelines and they're sad about it and refuse to watch a show they're not in.

(Well, Julian technically did exist in the original timeline, but only as a ghost possessing a haunted doll, which doesn't really count)

(Also for some reason as well as the main cast, she makes dilton doily watch it, despite his only contributions to the show being a) dying as a human sacrifice in the og timeline, b) trying to blow up the planet and then dying because of it in the rivervale timeline, and c) gay kevin telling people he has the biggest dick in the 1950s tlmeline, and honestly, I feel like it would be kinder to just not show him any of that)

(ethel does not get to watch riverdale, because she did the only sensible thing any riverdale character has ever done and fucked off to a normal town to have an actual life, because as well as being the token straight character, she's also the token sane one)

After watching Riverdale, all of the main cast except Jughead and Betty decide it sucks and they hate it, and ask tabby to rewipe their memories and only give them the cute bits and not all the serial killers and shit, because the writers have run out of time for subtle metaphors and they weren't sure the audience had fully grasped that the entirely last season of the show is a weird metacommentary on the criticisms people have of the show riverdale so they're just straight up going to have archie andrews look straight to camera and say that the show should have been more like the comics

also I have no idea how only showing them the happy bits works, because that removes 90% of the entire plot so I assume they just have a bunch of completely out of context sex scenes and meals at the diner and nothing else. possibly also some musical numbers, idk if I'd count those as happy memories personally

Betty and Jug chose to keep their memories of the Gargoyle King and Betty's 2 long-lost secret gay serial killer brothers because they're edgy (and also because the writers are annoyed at all the people who say the show should be more like the comics, so they have the smartest characters say they liked the actually and everyone else is being a wimp about all the serial killers, because again, we have run out of time for subtlety)

Having had his memories restored, Jug's like "oh hi tabitha, my secret transdimensional angel girlfriend, I haven't seen you for months, I've really missed you. I'm so glad you're you're back. i love you so much"

And she responds by telling him that she'd chosen to write herself out of the timeline when she fixed in, and she has to return to the great big diner in the sky (not a joke, heaven is a diner in the riverdale universe and, it is heavily implied, also in our universe, so that's something to look forward to), so she freezes time halfway through kissing him and just nopes out of time and space. which is also how I would handle all break ups if I had angel powers tbh

since jug is now single, and all 4 of them just got multiple timeline's worth of fucking one another mainlined straight into their brains, the main 4 decide to all start dating

(they are probably inspired to do this in part by betty's sister, who in the new timeline is a burlesque performer who's stage name is Polly Amorous)

As far as I can tell from the last episode, they tell gay kevin about this and literally no one else, for reasons known only to themselves

also genuinely can't tell if this was the writers wanting a poly relationship for them, or if they just couldn't be bothered with the internet slap fights that would have followed them picking individual monogomous ships to be endgame

they also, hilariously, refuse to say that archie and jug are dating, I assume due to network restrictions, despite archie being canonically bi at this point, so betty's just like 'well sometimes I go to veronica's and we fuck, and the boys do... something we're not going to talk about'

the final episode of the show is a flash forward where as a now old betty is dying, jughead's ghost shows her memories of their teens, in which it's reveal that she has just straight up forgotten about being in a poly relationship

literally she looks at her teen self and is like "wow, I seem weirdly close to veroica jughead and archie" and Jug's ghost has to be like "because we were dating. how do you not remember that we were dating? what the hell? did I mean nothing to you?!"

also old betty specifically seeks out reggie and is like "hey you know how me and you dated, and you and veronica were together for years in multiple timelines, and you archie keep declaring your undying love for one another and nearly fucking, well we're all dating and we specifically decided not to invite you, sucks to be you" and walks away and I have no idea why she did it. justice for reggie

anyway RIP to the greatest television show ever made, it was so gay and so deranged and so meta, and there really will never be anything quite like it again

#reggie never did anything wrong in his life ever #yes including that time he was a drug dealer #riverdale #truely The show of all time #i want the i'm a weirdo speech on engraved on my tombstone #people look at me like i'm insane when I tell them it's all a metaphor #but seriously #it's all metaphors all the way down #people ask me a lot what riverdale is about #and now that it's ended #i can officially confirm #cosmic horror #riverdale is cosmic horror #and i'm not even joking about that #the final 2 seasons of the show are about characters gaining meta knowledge of the story they're in and going insane because of it #but who are the old gods in this cosmology you may be asking? #you #you are #the audience

[touchlikethesun]

james would be the kind of dad that everyone thinks is like the super chill one, but in reality he’s kinda overprotective and just a bit controlling because well you have to be consistent with children everyone knows that.

meanwhile, no one expect regulus to even raise his kids himself, but he’s always the one that breaks as soon as one of his kids pulls out the puppy dog eyes.

like i see it being a very common conversation in the potter household once harry’s born, just “reg, did you let harry have biscuits before dinner again?” “james, look our son in the eyes, and tell me if you can say no to that face” *harry immediately puts on his best innocent expression trying to help his papa out* and james just has to shake his head and resign himself to being the disciplinary one for the next 17 years.

#i know a lot of people think it’s the other way around #but i have my reasons #one i hc that while james was spoiled by effie and fleamont they still had like Rules that were always enforced #so james basically ran the house but there were certain things that his parents refused to budge on and once james becomes a parent #he emulates their parenting style #meanwhile reg grew up with walburga and orion and literally wasn’t allowed to do anything and was punished for even asking #so he doesn’t have a model for what good strict parenting looks like #so instead of risking at all treating his kids like how he was treated by his parents he just lets them get away with everything #reg wouldn’t be strict he’s be too worried about becoming his parents #jegulus #reggie #jamie <3 #jegulus raising harry #marauders #james potter #regulus black

[enhanced-operatives-division]

Based off this post...<3

#changed the text a little bit because i love you masc presenting lesbians i love you sm #however #it's Reggie. #ANYWAYS #i don't draw him much because a friend was looking through my sketchbook and said that he looked like a “Dilf-y Mario” #and I haven't fucking recovered #also im not sure hat to do with his hair #hair doesnt make sense to me though tbf #i can't draw it the way i draw fur so it's just. strange to me #alas #anyways bringing starstuck content to the fandom is also my solem duty shoutout to those two who only exist in a very specific au to me #the rarepair ever dear lord #[agent moose's art] #ieytd #i expect you to die #john juniper #agent phoenix #reginald crane #the handler #OH YEAH BSL FOR PHOENIX!! YEAH! #i want to improve my own BSL since im english and it's the only other language I've been able to pick up #and so im practicing with phoenix #do i think phoenix is british? no absolutely not #where do i think they're from? they spawned in /j #anyways #ENOUGH RAMBLING IN TAGS #sorry it's like a safe space for me #boring ass caption then all the fun stuff is in the tags #starstruck

[ineffablecollision]

Taskmaster US - Alex Horne [1/2/3]

#alex really likes his fingie!! #and the way he shoved the cake in?????? what a dude #also that one interaction with reggie... we could've had so much but alas #taskmaster #taskmaster us #tm #tm us #alex horne #cw food #all that jazz

[jpg-of-dorian-slay]

headcannon that sirius black never cries. he gets angry and he yells and smashes things. his magic flies out of control and he says the most hurtful things. but no matter what happens, remus has never seen him cry.

and then one day the daily prophet announces that regulus black has died. and for the first time in eight years of knowing him, remus watches sirius breakdown and sob on their kitchen floor.

#this is not well written pls send help #regulus black #sirius black #the black brothers #wolfstar #sirius and regulus #these guys make me sad #i’m procrastinating again and of course it’s these idiots who’re contaminating my mind #but yknow how young wizards can’t control their magic? #that still happens for sirius #bc he never learnt to fully process his emotions so he still loses control like that #has smashed multiple light bulbs #someone help him #but yea #reggie’s death broke him #and i’ll stand by that #and i don’t think remus would have understood #like he’d have been supportive the whole way through #but yea it just doesn’t make sense #yknow what i mean? #i love these guys

[thebibutterflyao3]

I keep seeing skits of McGonagall trying to punish Sirius by taking away James.

My mind automatically adds Regulus rubbing his hands together and whispering, “Finally, he’s all mine.”

While Peter and Remus are staring at him curiously, wondering if he means his sibling bond with his brother or James.

#the answer is yes #Reggie gets what ​Reggie wants #don’t stand in his way #you will get hurt #sirius black #regulus black #james potter

[winter-came]

[altered version of:] "mothers and daughters existing as wretched mirrors of each other: i am all you could have been and you are all i might be." -by honeytuesday

#one of these days me and/or agentbluefox are gonna unleash a hell upon you #the unholy rant about how reggie and five are actually a little too similar #just think about it #maybe that's also one of the reasons his siblings have a beef with him all the time #somewhere deep down they KNOW he is like reggie #who got closest to five? #luther and klaus #who also made their way to be close with reggie one way or another? #five founded a commission which is basically just a group of well trained soldiers to do as he says #what was the umbrella academy for reggie? #THE VERY SAME THING #both ruthless effecient doing it all for love #yes actually reginald did it all for his abigail #rings a bell??? #just...THINK ABOUT IT #umbrella academy edit #number five #umbrella academy #tua #the umbrella academy #tua edit #five hargreeves #tua sad #the boy #five hargreeves sad hours #five hargreeves sad #reginald hargreeves #number five edit #number five sad #number five sad hours

[innytoes]

🐝: What if Tomorrow Comes

What if Tomorrow Comes

Reggie knows he's a Sci-Fi Geek, and he's proud of it. Besides his encyclopedic Star Wars knowledge, he was also big into apocalypse movies. And books. And comics. It's why he was assigned his Little Brother, Carlos, through the programme.

So maybe he had a zombie apocalypse plan. And a Triffid apocalypse plan. And an alien invasion one, a nuclear disaster one, a Mutated Mole Rats one, an Asteroid Crashed Into The Moon And Pushed It Closer To Earth one...

He hadn't expected all those things to happen at the same time. But his first order of business: get Carlos safely back to his family.

Fake Fic Ask Game

#julie and the phantoms #fake fics #I wrote a thing #except I did not #reggie peters #carlos molina #do not think about the feels of Carlos obsessing over worst case scenarios after what happened to his mom #instead of ghosts #reggie like: fuck my parents our plan is to find the molinas and get them to safety #of course he picks up his friends along the way they all know Reggie Has A Plan and that plan starts with 'meet at the studio' #just sunset swerve riding through the apocalypse in their beat up van #willie's on the roof with a slingshot

[crimescrimson]

The Scorned Hacktivist Wrench in Watch_Dogs Legion: Bloodline (2021)

#Crimson's Gifs: Watch_Dogs #Watch_Dogs #Watch_Dogs Legion #Watch_Dogs Legion Bloodline #Watch_Dogs Bloodline #Wrench #Reggie Blechman #Reginald Blechman #The Wrench #Ok so Ive reached the mission after playable wrench's first mission in the bloodline dlc #I kinda gave up on the main game because its fucking boring to me #Anyways Marcus' name is on his jacket #Theres 3 voicemails from Marcus varying in worry and ending with the last dated pre-bombing so im scared #But also Marcus calls him baby #Please... Watch_Dogs 4 please let them end up together #Anyways im enjoying Bloodline way more then main game I just wish it wasnt glitchier then the fucking first game that came out in 2014 #I will say tho splitting up San Fran Dedsec years before Bloodline feels Wrong #Like those guys were family wym the only one Wrench seems in contact with is Marcus #Missed opportunity having Wrench and Aiden in a game and not including Marcus and T-Bone at the least #Glad Jordi is still seething over his aging boyfriends coma tho #Good luck to Aiden explaining that one to Jackson!

[galentir]

Reggie and his many thinking faces

#julie and the phantoms #jatp #reggie peters #jatp gifs #this is the first time I ever made gifs it took me so LONG #thankfully I managed to figure out the basics (at least) because this was way more complicated than I thought it was gonna be #but that's why I love his dorky expressions in here this is exactly how I sat in front of the computer

[maryoliverdotcom]

conan gray wrote sirius black the way taylor swift wrote lily evans

#wish you were sober is him with remus #memories is him with orion and walburga #astronomy is him and reggie #family line is just him as a song #heather is him and remus again #never ending song is just HIM #“yours” could be him and his family or with remus either way its fckin heartbreaking #“jigsaw” is him and orion because this kid is me and we both have daddy issues #SUMMER CHILD IS HIM ARGUE WITH THE WALL #“footnote” is him to remus before going away to azkaban #“people watching” is him watching reggie build a loving relationship with james while he's just watching remus from the sidelines #“overdrive” is him with the rest of the marauders but especially james #“comfort crowd” is him. just him #“fight or flight” but platonic is him and reggie like the “someone new” is the other black cousins taking his place as siblings #“(can we be friends?)” is him with james<3333 #“little league” is him and reggie </3 #“THE OTHER SIDE” IS JUST HIM AND YOU CANT CHANGE MY MIND

[touchlikethesun]

no the reason sirius gets angry at james for being with regulus is because. sirius knows james is a kind person with strong morals. he also remembers regulus as a kid, sweet and kind, before he was forced to hide all that, change or be crushed under their parents expectations. but if james is with regulus, then something of that kid must still remain. if james is with regulus, that must mean that regulus was never completely a lost cause. if regulus opened up to james, that must mean that james did something right where sirius did it wrong. it hurts sirius, because he thought he was the person that knew regulus best and thought that he was the only one capable of saving regulus, so when he failed, well that meant regulus was too far buried already. but here’s proof that that wasn't true. so it must be that sirius just wasn’t good enough.

sirius gets mad at james because james was somehow better than him. sirius gets mad because regulus is the one choosing james over him. sirius gets mad because this is just one more example of how hes failed regulus over and over again.

#my own personal headcanon #i’ve read like one or two fics that really lean into this aspect of it #and i absolutely love it #i don’t think sirius would ever get mad at reg in a million years #not because of this not actually mad #because well reg is his little brother… #and i think this is much more interesting than sirius getting mad because reg is a deatheater #not that writing it that way is bad it’s just a different character choice #tho i will say that can be the outside reasoning the reason sirius tells james or like yells at him for but #it’s not the core issue #reggie #sirius #the black brothers #jegulus #marauders #jamie <3 #james potter #regulus black

[enhanced-operatives-division]

i would love to hear about the ollie and handler crack ship here’s a silly doodle as well

LOVE THE DOODLE YOU SEE THE VISION!!!

Also this got my ass to design Ollie so:

(Love him - Also redesigned Reggie for this too so thanks!!)

And idk if it's moreso a crackship or a rarepair that only works in an AU (HACKS up Starstruck), but Reggie's line of "...and I hope Ollie made it out too. I hope a lot of things." It's totally me reading into it but like,,,,I want them to talk because Ollie is not dead to me in my heart of hearts.

Maybe the only change is like Reggie taps into the communication on the radio in Hot Water instead of using the earpiece, so Ollie ends up hearing him also? And they end up getting along really well (with Reggie having to jump through a couple hoops to be like "haha what agency..."). There's an Agency base in the South-East coast of Australia and maybe the Agency ends up adopting him after he washes up on the shore with the escape pod (after HEAVY questioning).

Alas take a doodle of my own:

Transcript (it's just canon lines):

Ollie: "She's being controlled, it's not her fault."

Reggie: "Agent, I have 0 experience dealing with giant security squids."

#idk i know realistically JJ and Reggie will probably never interact so like this is the one I can root for right? #<- ollie is probably still at the bottom of the ocean #alas. i think they could be silly together. because like. idk. they have the same vibe to me #i feel like they would have a GREAT TIME at a barbeque actually #i digress #in terms of the art though!!! Ollie!!!!!!!!n #I've never drawn dreads before shdjdkf i had to redraw the hair on that first one genuinely about 6 times #idk it came from like. if he's been underwater for a long time dread would prolly be somewhat convinent in terms of hairstyles #also we don't talk abt how ollie probably knew fabby because it's implied she was working down there???? #tbh she probably hated himshsjekdld he would be clueless #and uhhhh back on my I can't draw reginald crane in a way im happy with ever. an example ahdkdlf #I've liked exactly 1 drawing of him I've ever done i think i need to do a completely different design over just the little tweaks here idk #anyways ty for the ask sorry it took so long to answer you can see why lmao #it was fun though!!! like i say it got my ass to draw ollie finally and i do like his design #ieytd #i expect you to die #[agent moose's art] #reginald crane #ollie ieytd #oh ship name ummmm #hm #earpiece??? uhhhhhhh radio signal???? idk #leavung it for now im so bad at naming things

[aj-lenoire]

apparently the reason may december is being snubbed during awards season is because a lot of actors REALLY didn’t like what it had to say about actors who take on the roles of real people, and the idea that a bunch of former theatre kids might be sensitive about criticism of the industry they work in is, to me, just so shocking

#hey guess what every industry has problems but the answer is not to ignore and snub people who comment on them #also #it almost seems wilful because for me the main takeaway was uhhh abusing kids is bad?? #a white woman was able to continue abusing a boy/man of colour by infantilising herself to him and the entire world #like the natalie portman as an actress thing seemed more the catalyst of other things in the film than the main point #the whole media circus and the desire of the public to know every detail is kind of secondary to watching this young man #—​who in so many ways still behaves and thinks of himself like a child—come to terms with the fact he’s been lied to and failed #just utterly failed by everyone who supposedly is there to protect him #idk i really liked it and charles melton deserves an oscar for that performance #reggie from riverdale held his own against julianne moore and natalie portman like holy shit #something something charles melton’s character never had his own voice as a child and now as a grown man still doesn’t #he is spoken over by his wife/abuser and by the media who document/frame/characterise his history and now by natalie portman’s film #may december #aj abstractions