#nick julie and the phantoms

[spookyblazecoffee]

Nick from Julie and the Phantoms... makes sense, I would do anything for the characters in this show.

@prongsieee @dedfandom-xwx @waiting-to-be-lost-at-sea @my-castles-crumbling @tw1ggy14

Found this on Twitter, so I thought, why not posting it here and doing a tag game 😊

Ok, I’ll go first

If he is the reason, I’d go to prison gladly 🥰❤️‍🔥

Tagging: @killerqueen-ofwillowgreen @nic-214 @milkyway-ashes @dr-radiation @whitequeen-ofwillowgreen @sunsetdaydreamer @therockywhorerpictureshow @delicatelyfantasticninja and everyone 😊

Sorry if I forgot to tag some of you!

[tangledstarlight]

do i think jatp is ever gonna come back? no.

do i think, objectively, that it would be hilarious if it did come back with a 5 year time jump in which the band are incredibly famous and successful and alive and willie is alive too and they’ve just left caleb stuck in nicks body for 5 years because ‘he got himself in there surely he can get himself out’? yes. yes i do.

[flufallo]

Don't you just love red and blue boyfriend where the golden retriever one has daddy issues and the other is/ was controlled by someone

[jaladdin]

I know the Nick Danforth-Evans hc will always reign supreme with the general public, but in my heart and soul Nick will always be Alex's older sister's son. Something something the passivity he has to the point of Julie describing him as a "doormat" coming from his family trying to shape him into being Not-Alex. Please don't become the family disappointment you don't even know exists. Please don't worry about why your mother looks a little haunted when she looks at you. Just keep your mouth shut and play your sport and your guitar and date the pretty girls who you think you should like and your mother will stay happy enough and you won't remind her of someone your family erased long ago.

[thereigning-lorelai]

I can't say this enough: That was incredible. But epic fail on that eye contact thing.

[hopeurokays]

i don't think i'll ever get over jatp

[suttonstrackesdrinkingproblem]

What episode of Julie and The Phantoms is this?

[mercer-brekker-castiel]

So I did a very silly thing with the Barbie selfie generator today

[weaponizedducks]

love that nick danforth-evans is so nice. rival, less liked love interest so logically he should be awful. but he's such a sweetheart chad and ryan didn't raise no bitch

[neon-in-the-night-time]

as much as the cancellation of julie and the phantoms still hurts at least it means that nobody will ever be able to tell me that nick danforth-evans isn't canon

nick has two dads and they are chad danforth and ryan evans. nobody will tell me otherwise. i will never let go of nick danforth-evans

[fleursfairies]

i need julie and the phantoms back like....so bad

like im so upset

maybe some miracles can come out of this strike and netflix will stop being stupid

hopefully

cuz like

i need it

also you cant just leave my boy nick possessed like that wtf

[tangledstarlight]

wild to think that if netflix werent the worst we could have had a jatp s2, maybe even a s3, by now. like. we could have had so many new songs😔

[fredlikesbreakfast]

gunnie and i were rewatching jatp and she pointed out to me how creation is a regular theme in the show. like.

julie and the band obviously create their own music, nick plays the guitar, and flynn plays the trumpet. they're all considered to be on the good team and they make their own music

carrie isn't really an antagonist, gunnie called her an anti-hero since she's just rude to julie, and she doesn't go out of her way to harm them. she doesn't play an instrument but she still creates her own music.

caleb doesn't make any music. sure, he sings, but he has other people playing the music, and as it's later revealed in the series, they don't have a choice. he is the main antagonist, and he doesn't create, just keeps others from creating

idk we both speak english as a second lang so this might be wrong but it's whatever!

[jaladdin]

Thinking quite terribly hard about Nick's costume design. More aptly about how completely plain it is next to everybody else's and how, in turn, that makes it unique. I think it also tends to add to the "Nick is just plain/boring/etc" agenda that a lot of the fandom has when - at least in my eyes - it's anything but.

Under a cut, because I doth yap.

Because Nick seems to pick out his clothes the way he does his actions — based entirely on how best to fit in the situation at any given moment and blend in. Hiding any real shred of who he is as a person.

In school hallways it's a letterman jacket; a jersey or a letterman is something you see before you even really see who's wearing it. it lumps him in with The Team, and there's no need for personal expression. The jacket does the talking Nick needs it to.

In the music classroom, it's a Keith Haring hoodie — the right kind of artsy that'll be quietly approved of, but still basic enough to blend him in, whereas something like a band tee would say something about him as a person and his interests. Things we know he is either trying to actively hide, or things he hasn't even really figured out for himself yet.

(You can also go the 'Keith Haring is a queer icon' route, in which case it's interesting that that's the only thing Nick wears that's really able to be identified as maybe-possibily being related to any of his interests. And that he hides it under his letterman in the hallway.)

We definitely see glimpses of that Real Person - the way he dances when nobody's watching, the jokes he texts Julie - but for the most part when there are eyes on him, he's pretty firmly locked away.

I have Other Thoughts on Nick's dance costume, but that's an entirely different ramble for another time. For now: everything about it blends in! The black of the hat against the wall, the blue denim bathed in blue light. Nick is, yet again, just part of the scenery. Which brings me to the main point I'm trying to make. That being Nick is what he is surrounded by.

In dance class, it's a repeat of the letterman: a jersey that lumps him in with the team, and even though Nick is absolutely at the center, there's nothing that makes him stand out from the others. Just the way he likes it!

He's not even in the front. He's sometimes not even in focus. He's not even in the blue which at least draws the eye.

And then in episode 9, when he's already surrounded by the green of the trees and the plants and bushes, the green of his shirt blends right in. The sun hits the gold-ish of his hair. He's holding flowers to fit right in among the plants! Somehow, even though Nick is the only character in the shot, he might as well still be part of the background.

There is one singular exception to the rule, which is that Nick stands out in I Got The Music. Pretty drastically, actually! While everybody else is wearing vibrant color, Nick is in a black and white suit. He's not in the background, he's leading the charge with Julie.

Not only that, but the suit doesn't really fit/suit him well. At all. It doesn't look good, and the costume designing on JatP pretty much always looks good. So what the hell?

The thing to remember here is that this is Julie's fantasy. Nick stands out in this dream sequence because he stands out among the rest to her. But even in a fantasy, Julie can't put Nick in something well-tailored and flattering, because...

What does she know about him? Julie doesn't really know him at all. Flynn gets clothing in IGTM that suits her. One look at her wearing her outfit and you know exactly who she is. Because Julie knows who she is, and in her mind's eye it's easy for her to pick out a costume that works.

Nick? He's a blank slate for her to project on. And he's done a great job at locking away the fact he's a real person from view.

[ginervacade]

Did I ever say on here that I have a plot for a whole second season of JatP? ( I know we all do but I actually wrote mine out)

If this gets like 4 notes I’ll break down the episodes

Update: THIS IS UP