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I am so enthusiastically obsessed with the idea of Julie and the phantoms s2, but I need them to understand that the best (only) way to do that is to pretend that the last 4 years didn't happen. no time jump, no recastings (if they can help it), no explanation on why Carlos was 9, but now he's 14, none. just simply pretend s2 came out right away. give me one. "Wow, you grew fast since dinner." "yea I ate my veggies," and then simply move on. it would be perfectly comedic and simply nothing would be better

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Isaac Henderson + Text Posts

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luke and reggie singing into the same mic, noses basically touching, while making eye contact the entire time was actually insane

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my experience of being in this fandom since 2020

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some of you were never standing on the edge of great and it shows

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my tablet pen broke a couple months ago so here u go with some traditional jatp sketchies from recently!!

Willex reunion at a concert + julies 💜

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what do you mean this isn't how it went?

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do you ever just think about how alex died with his parents thinking he was dating luke?

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IF I COULD TAKE US BACK!!!! IF I COULD JUST DO THAT!!!! AND WRITE IN EVERY EMPTY SPACE THE WORDS 'I LOVE YOU' IN REPLACE THEN MAYBE TIME WOULD NOT ERASE ME

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Imagine your OTP where Person A works in retail and Person B keeps coming into the shop and asks for help with the most ridiculous things. + if Person A loses it one day and confronts Person B about their motive feels like Willex to me, please and thank you.

Willie pressed himself up on his toes and down again, as if that would relieve the pressure of his uncomfortable dress shoes. He wished he could just wear his beat up kicks, but that wouldn't mesh well with the image Caleb wanted to convey with his store.

And since Willie worked there as a way to earn a bit of cash and avoid having to work at the club, he had to deal with the shoes. At least he didn't have to cut his hair and got to choose his shirt and tie.

The other bonus was that he had direct view of the nerd store across the hall in the mall where his jib at the suit store was.

Now Willie did appreciate the odd nerdy thing, but his main focus in that store was just under six foot, had golden blond hair, and an affinity for pink.

Willie had tried every way to talk to Alex in hopes that he would manifest the courage to ask him out.

The first time he had just gone over to introduce himself, welcome them to the mall, and ask if they wanted to hear the gossip about the other stores there. The next time was to ask if he could use their microwave in return for letting them use the private bathroom attached to his work.

But those interactions would only get him so far.

The next time he went over, holding up two ties, and asked Aled which one he should wear. Totally noticing on how his eyes were glued to the line of his throat and top of his chest exposed where he hadn't buttoned up his shirt. Points for him, and he loved how Alex stuttered through choosing the goldenrod coloured tie.

The next time he went over asking Alex for a good started Pokemon since he had just started playing the game. Unfortunately, Alex directed him towards Reggie for that since he was hopeless at video games, and Reggie could talk your ear off about anything. But it did get Willie interested in catching a Bidoof, if only because the name made him giggle.

After that it was a game of finding out exactly what Alex's area of interest and nerdiness lay. So every time they were working the same shift, Willie would come over and ask about something different.

"What class would you recommend for a beginning D&D player?"

"What's the conversion rate of sheep to wood in Catan?"

"What's the best version of Monopoly?"

"Do you guys have any idea how Magic the Gathering works?"

On and on, but every time, Alex would direct him to one of the other guys working though he did always smile and blush whenever he looked at Willie-and usually convinced him to add to his sock collection at least once a week, all while throwing his own employee discount on it for him.

Then one day, Willie moseyed into the store on his break, veering right towards Alex. "So did you get a cavalcade of Funko pops based on the new anime adaptation yet?"

Alex whirled around, glaring at him. "What is your deal?"

"What?"

"Every day, or almost, you come in here, and it's always something inane or weird or I dunno... do you get some sick joy of making fun of the nerds or something?" Alex exploded.

"No!" Willie exclaimed. "I'm a nerd! Or well, kind of one, given the love of cartoons from my childhood and obsessive sock buying."

"Then why do you keep coming over here and asking me about all this other stuff?" alex asked, shoulders still stiff as he looked at Willie.

"Because I like you dummy!" Willie said with a laugh. "I've been looking for any excuse to come talk to you in hopes you might engage in conversation with me and then maybe we could go out sometime."

"Oh... oh!" Alex replied. "I like you too!"

"Then how about we get an Orange Julius and you can tell what nerdy stuff you are into?" Willie asked, offering his arm.

"Through in a soft pretzel and it's a date," Alex replied, looping their arms together.

It turned out that Alex wasn't much of a nerd, but Reggie needed staff, Alex needed money, and he did like dancing games and Trivial Pursuit.

"Sounds like a fun idea for our next date," Willie said with a grin.

"Only if you're in the mood to get your butt whipped," Alex teased back.

"Oh it's like that is it?" Willie stated. "Challenge accepted."

Alex beamed, but then looked at his watch and scowled. "My break is almost up."

"Well then let me bring you back and on the way I can catch you up on the latest happenings with th jewellery store guys."

"Man, fuck those guys," Alex said as they walked back hand in hand to their hallway.

"I know right?"

From then on, Willie didn't have to find excuses to come talk to Alex any more. But he did come by with gossip, kisses, and a choice of tie. Because there was nothing better than making his boyfriend blush-even more than a discount on funky socks.

#oh yeahhhh #julie and the phantoms #willex #linden recommends

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“Soyon An, our costume designer, you know, with the clothes - she really saw something in our auditions where I had the cutoffs and Jer had the leather jacket and Owen had the pink hoodie […] you know, all these things kinda came together and she ran with so much and found all these beautiful articles.” - CHARLIE GILLESPIE

#i love them i miss them

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Read it on AO3 here!

Taglist: @futurearchaeologyprof @kybee1497 @thenerdyfandomexplorer @sunsetcurbed @iti-iskuna @williexmercer @fireflyingaway @caswellseyes @homeinabookshelf @angelofarts @a-literal-supernova @remusjlupinmybeloved @valiantlyweepingdreamer @julie-n-phantoms @justxfolio @jukeboxtheatre @the-sunshine-queen-writes

Licking bath bombs (and other bad ideas)

Happy (belated) gift exchange @nebula-lad @jatpfebfanfest

I know this is so late, but I had a lot going on so I just wasn't able to finish this until now. Also this is not the drag fic I teased (I wish it was, trust me) but that somehow turned into an absolute monster of a fic with so much research that I had to pivot before you would have received your gift in November. So I wrote this instead!!

I hope you enjoy it!

Willex. 9.1k word. Rated T (warning for alcohol mention).

“Hi, welcome,” someone says next to him and Alex startles so much he steps to the side. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you,” the guy says apologetically, an easy smile on his face. Alex swallows and whatever he wanted to say doesn’t get out.

They guy’s wearing all black, a matching black apron around his waist, which made him kind of blend into the dark decor of the room. When Alex’s eyes travel upwards, he quickly finds that this employee is no less beautiful than anyone else in the store—warm, brown skin, high cheekbones, long, dark hair pulled back, and a friendly tilt of his head—and Alex decides he should not be looking at him like that for this long. Instead he focuses on the Lush lanyard around his neck, a trans pride button and a he/they pronouns button pinned just above their heart.

“Anything I can help you find?” the employee asks.

“Uh,” Alex responds dumbly. “Not really?” He doesn’t even know what he’s looking for. “I think I’ll take a moment…” to look around the store and also re-find my heartbeat, thank you very much. Alex has never been calm when faced with cute people.

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The one where Willie works at LUSH and Alex is overwhelmed while looking for a present.

AO3 link and taglist in the reblog!

#julie and the phantoms #willex #linden writes stuff #jatp 2024 feb fan fest

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Licking bath bombs (and other bad ideas)

Happy (belated) gift exchange @nebula-lad @jatpfebfanfest

I know this is so late, but I had a lot going on so I just wasn't able to finish this until now. Also this is not the drag fic I teased (I wish it was, trust me) but that somehow turned into an absolute monster of a fic with so much research that I had to pivot before you would have received your gift in November. So I wrote this instead!!

I hope you enjoy it!

Willex. 9.1k word. Rated T (warning for alcohol mention).

“Hi, welcome,” someone says next to him and Alex startles so much he steps to the side. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you,” the guy says apologetically, an easy smile on his face. Alex swallows and whatever he wanted to say doesn’t get out.

They guy’s wearing all black, a matching black apron around his waist, which made him kind of blend into the dark decor of the room. When Alex’s eyes travel upwards, he quickly finds that this employee is no less beautiful than anyone else in the store—warm, brown skin, high cheekbones, long, dark hair pulled back, and a friendly tilt of his head—and Alex decides he should not be looking at him like that for this long. Instead he focuses on the Lush lanyard around his neck, a trans pride button and a he/they pronouns button pinned just above their heart.

“Anything I can help you find?” the employee asks.

“Uh,” Alex responds dumbly. “Not really?” He doesn’t even know what he’s looking for. “I think I’ll take a moment…” to look around the store and also re-find my heartbeat, thank you very much. Alex has never been calm when faced with cute people.

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The one where Willie works at LUSH and Alex is overwhelmed while looking for a present.

AO3 link and taglist in the reblog!

#julie and the phantoms #willex #linden writes stuff #alex mercer #willie jatp #jatp fanfic #jatp 2024 feb fan fest

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having a secret signal for parties that means “Let’s go home now” sounds like and Alex thing to have

"Can we go now?" Alex asked Willie after a tour of the room.

"We literally just got here hot dog," Willie teased. "I know my dad's snooty friends aren't the most fun, but we did promise to come, so we gotta tough it out."

Alex groaned, but nodded into Willie's shoulder. Caleb had asked them to come to his party, meet some of the donors to the club, hopefully drum up some donations or repeat business. And given the man had been so accepting of their relationship-a far cry from Alex's own parents-well Alex felt like they owed him one uncomfortable night.

Alex just... wasn't a fan of social situations. Sure his anxiety meds were helping, but he was still uncomfortable playing nice with all these grand people for the sake of something he didn't really care about.

It reminded him too much of being trotted out for every cotillion and coming out party at his parents country club. Having to escourt young ladies through the crowds or a dance in hopes that this one would turn him straight, so the Mercers could climb the social ladder through their son's relationship.

Of course, that didn't work, so Alex was as gay as ever, with a great distaste for parties and all the falseness that came with them. At least here he didn't have to play it straight, but he still wasn't himself.

He clung to Willie as much as he could, but occasionally there was someone that Willie just had to meet and Alex got left nibbling on tiny quiches or drinking sparkling juice (since all the servers knew not to give him alcohol) and praying everyone would leave him alone.

But of course the old ladies always found him. The ones who wanted to know if he was related to the Newport Mercers or if they had met their charming son/nephew/ward, as if they could steal; him away from Willie.

Alex was always polite-a strained smile and excuses to get him out, but some of them didn't let him be, and he found himself cornered more often than not.

That's why they had the signal-he would look right at Willie, push back his hair and tuck it behind his ear-a totally normal gesture, but Willie knew it meant he was in need of rescue and quite possible evacuation.

"Hey Mrs. Abernathy," Willie said after Alex signalled him, a comforting hand on the blond's back. "I need to steal my boyfriend away, Dad needs us you know?"

"Well don't let me keep Caleb waiting," she said, shooing them off.

They got to the balcony, Alex gulping in lungfuls of cool night air, slumping down to sit against the wall. "Can we please go now?"

Willie looked in the room, catching Caleb's eye. He waved him off with a soft smile and Willie sighed with relief. "We've been released. But we do have to go back in there to get out. You ready?"

Alex sucked in a breath, nodding as he got back up. "Once more into the breach."

"You wanna watch Fellowship when we get home?" WIllie asked as they opened the door into the room once more.

"Only if we can watch the Director's Cut," Alex replied.

"No commentary though," Willie bargained.

"Fiiiiine," Alex sighed.

"You think we can swing by the kitchens to grab some snacks on the way out?" Willie pondered as they maneuvered through the crowd.

"We have snacks at home," Alex replied.

"Not mini quiches and bacon wrapped everything," Willie reasoned.

Alex stopped at that and they detoured to the kitchen where the chef was happy to load them down with containers of canapes, and with a wink, a bottle of the good bubbly that Willie slipped him a generous tip for.

"Let's blow this popsicle stand," Alex said as they exited through the staff door.

"At least we're out of the next few parties since they're during the tour," Willie reasoned.

"Thank goodness," Alex moaned. "It'll be a blessed relief even if we'll be stuck on a cramped smelly bus with our friends and no privacy."

"Don't think the signal will work there," Willie chuckled.

"We'll come up with a new one so we can escape to our bunk," Alex reasoned.

"Sounds good hot dog, sounds good."

#niceeee #julie and the phantoms #willex #linden recommends

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ALEX MERCER in JULIE AND THE PHANTOMS

Well, you know what else is so '90s? Being rude. Alright? Get woke. These are sensitive times.

#he <3

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All I did was try my best This the kind of thanks I get? Unrelentlessly upset They say these are the golden years But I wish I could disappear Ego crush is so severe God, it’s brutal out here

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Omg this is so random, but did you use a reference photo for this? Because I made a drawing of two Julie and the Phantoms characters a while ago in the exact same position just mirrored, for which I used a reference photo (that I mirrored). I feel like it might have been the same?

She aziracrow on my good until I omens (LOOK IT I MADE ART CRAZY RIGHT)

#absolutely beautiful fanart btw!!!!! #love all the details! #and their expressions!!!! #i just looked at it like *spiderman meme* “i know those poses!!!” #so now I'm curious #this would be such a fun coincidence #good omens #digital art