#davy zlatic

[miasmultifandomdump]

Just Like It Was Before from Bandstand is SO GOOD because so much art from that era romanticized the idea of a post war-life and Bandstand takes that and then contrasts it with the gut-wrenching reality that soldiers were coming home from a harrowing and traumatic experience with scars both visible and invisible and with the loss of so many others in the war. It shows how hard everyone's trying but they're just failing because the goal isn't attainable. You can't send boys to battle and expect them to come back the same. It's fair that people just wanted things to go back to normal, but that was never going to happen.

[johnnysdrums]

Bandstand Headcanon

Johnny loves the movies. It’s one of the few things he can remember stuff about besides music. He knows the names of a bunch of stars and remembers movie quotes. He annoys the band by constantly quoting movies. He also has the biggest crush on Gene Kelly which him and Julia both gush about and see every new movie with him in it together (also Judy Garland because Johnny is an OG friend of Dorothy).

[the-cryptid-finch]

Me trying to explain Bandstand to anyone: A family isn't always your blood. It isn't just a mother and a father. Sometimes a family is a depressed bisexual war veteran, the widow of his best friend, an alcoholic double bass player who likes Shakespeare, a drummer with memory problems, a gay lawyer who likes checkered trousers, a divorced dad of two who has OCD and a trumpet player with anger issues.

Literally anyone else:...what?

[yourfaveisqueerandreligious]

davy zlatic from bandstand is jewish (headcanon) and bisexual (headcanon)

submitted by anon

[joyfulsoda]

THE EPILOGUE FOR BANDSTAND GOES OVER A SPAN OF AT LEAST FOUR YEARS? HELLO?

The beginning scene takes place a year after the events of the radio contest. We know Act One and the majority of Act Two (everything but the Epilogue) take place in 1945, so that means the Epilogue starts in '46 (see image below).

But we suddenly jump forward FOUR YEARS to not only when The Rainbow Room has opened again, but they've ALREADY PERFORMED THERE?

That's it. That's the post. The band is still together after, like, five+ years. This is fine. This didn't make me almost start crying out of happiness. (<- complete and utter sarcasm.)

The band is so happy together... Oh, they're such a found family...

[the-river-rix]

Johnny Simpson edit

[broadway-shenanigans]

Nick: Gang, get in here. We’re going to New York City!

Julia and Wayne, confused: New York City?

Donny, excited: New York City?!

Nick: New York City!

Davy, shouting from the other room: SHUT THE FUCK UP!

[anyashappytobehere]

it is finally up!!! i promise i didn’t forget!!!! welcome to at last!!!!

[randofanficrecs]

Today's random fic comes from the Bandstand - Oberacker/Oberacker & TaylorNavigation and Actions fandom, Pulled Me Apart (I'm So Open) by aintweproudriff

Chapters: 3/3 Words: 4,674 Fandom: Bandstand - Oberacker/Oberacker & Taylor Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Johnny Simpson/Davy Zlatic, Nick Radel/Wayne Wright, Donny Novitski/Julia Trojan, past Donny Novitski/Michael Trojan Characters: Davy Zlatic, Johnny Simpson, Donny Novitski, Julia Trojan, Nick Radel, Wayne Wright, Jimmy Campbell Additional Tags: Sharing a Bed, cliches, canon typical nightmares and trauma, canon typical alcoholism, the whole dnb is gay and there's nothing you can do about it Language: English Summary: "They did make their way up to the room, Davy holding out hope the whole way up that Donny had been wrong about his mistake and the two of them were actually getting a room with two beds. Upon opening the door, however, Davy had to let go of that wish. One bed, clear as day." OR I love to write tropes

[the-river-rix]

Man something that always kills me is that even in the midst of a panic attack/implied flashback Donny notices Davy/Wayne’s defeatist/suicidal remarks and makes a point to encourage them/reach out to them later in right this way (“they’ll say right this way/you’ve been fighting for far too long”)

It never ends.

[baura-bear]

i am not suffering from what some people call alcoholism. i'm LOVIN' EVERY MINUTE OF IT!

[fo-ryourconsideration]

Today’s character that selfshippers should consider F/O-ing is:

(via @followingthefanfiction)

Donny Nova, Wayne Wright, and Davy Zlatic from Bandstand!

[joyfulsoda]

Sometimes I think about Jimmy and Donny's dog tags flying out from underneath their shirts when they preform Welcome Home (Finale) in the pro-shot and it hurts every single time I think about it. All of the guys have lost friends, but Jimmy and Donny are the only ones who actively say something about what happened to the people they'd lost during the show, so it means a lot to me that they specifically have this happen. The rest of them are wearing theirs too, but there's just something so unbelievably heart-wrenching about the way that Donny and Jimmy's noticeably fly around.

They were the only ones to make it out of their respective situations, too (the grenade accident and the ship explosion). Their dog tags were ALSO the only ones to make it out.

When the tags fly out, it makes me think of the line "sing because you need to sing". They've all gone through so, so much. And with the Finale, they're finally allowing themselves to let go of *ALL* of the rules because they just *NEED* to.

This leaves them vulnerable, and their tags are emblematic of that. We only see other tags from the guys in the band when they are equally vulnerable (Counterpoint/Pie Jesu, Proud Riff).

Welcome Home (Finale), for Donny and Jimmy, while it makes them feel vulnerable and the dog tags visually represent the people they've lost... They continue to push through and play just because they *NEED* to. They don't *HAVE* to do anything for that competition. They could have walked away. But they went up there and played their hearts out not just for themselves, but for EVERYONE they've lost.

They did it for Michael. They did it for Jimmy's crew. They did it to take care of Julia, like Michael wanted. They did it for the people Davy lost, the people Nick lost, the people that Wayne and Johnny lost. But Jimmy and Donny were the characters whose losses were directly, verbally, specifically established to have directly influenced their waking thoughts, and THEY are the ones whose dog tags fly out.

Because just like they were the only ones to get out alive, their tags are some of the only ones that came back from their respective tragedies (the grenade incident/the ship explosion). And they are letting themselves be vulnerable, they are letting their tags fly out because they *NEED* to play; they *NEED* to tell not only their stories, but the stories of their lost loved ones, whose memory they carry with them with their own tags, since they weren't able to get their fellow servicemen's after their deaths.

God, I know this fandom is super dead, which is unfortunate, but I hope this makes sense.

[the-river-rix]

Donny’s greeting being “hiya!”

Beth Leavel

Nick joining the line of the rest of the band in right this way late (showing his emotional walls)

The choreography motif of Michael’s last moments

The use of blue light in dream/fantasy/flashback sequences

The lighting in general

“If it ain’t on the page it ain’t on the stage”

Wayne showing discomfort when he’s touched by anyone except Nick

“I survived mustard gas AND pepper spray I guess that makes me a seasoned veteran “

Davy being a Shakespeare buff

Julia supporting and knowing Jimmy is gay (welcome home finale, letting him in her hotel room but not the other guys)

Jean Ann Ryan trying to steal the spotlight every chance she gets

June Adams x Oliver

“I’m so embarrassed your mom is probably a gourmet cook.” “My mom passed when I was 14.”

Donny’s autistic coding

Adding on to his autistic coding “if you want to be band leader you need to learn how to talk to people “

All of Donny novitski (the song) but especially all of the “cream rises”

great things about Bandstand (feel free to add your own)

"it's radio, what does it matter?

Laura's high notes

"consider that an order, you screwy nutcase"

Davy's jokes

"sing because you just need to sing"

literally every second Beth Leavel is on stage

"don't. teach."

Jimmy's little glasses

"No, that’s shitty. Irksome is your use of the word irksome"

Corey's awkward little laugh

"wait... I gotta transpose"

Julia clutching Donny's jacket in This Is Life

"...what day of the week is Sunday?"

Donny's continuous disdain for Frank Sinatra

"it's a good thing you're one of the best, because putting up with you is an endurance test"

Johnny dancing with Julia

"and I'm never allowed to admit there is nothing remotely heroic about it"

all of Julia's waredrobe

"And stop picking up my clothes! If I wanted them in the drawer, I'd put them in the drawer!" (bonus: Wayne trying to hide his smile)

"dO i NoT kNoW TeLL mE tHE niGhT"

Wayne being a Donny x Julia shipper

"it's a solo, it's selfish by definiton!"

"you know, there’s a fine line between jazz and bad"

"this is life with the craziness of, the reality of, the necessity of being madly in love with you"

[the-river-rix]

A little detail I love about each member of the Donny Nova Band:

Donny- His usual greeting is “Hiya!”

Wayne- He is less touch adverse w/ ppl he’s close with and when he is excited/happy

Johnny- Smiles at the audience at the end of welcome home (finale)

Davy- puts his hat on Julia’s head at some point and it’s really cute

Jimmy- that thing he does when he’s mad where he kinda huffs and clenched his fists (I can’t describe it)

Nick- his reaction during band in nyc when Julia says the line “a lady doesn’t let just anyone into her room”

Julia- her line during breathe right after her and Johnny dance I can’t remember exactly what it is but it scratches my brain

[gleedreamcasts]

Bandstand

requested by @therealgalwaygirlofconnacht

Blaine Anderson as Donny Navitski

Tina Cohen-Chang as Julia Trojan

Marley Rose as Mrs. June Adams

Jake Puckerman as Wayne Wright

Artie Abrams as Jimmy Campbell

Finn Hudson as Johnny Simpson

Noah Puckerman as Davy Zlatic

Kurt Hummel as Nick Radel