#og sunset curve

[musicfranchisetournament]

propaganda under the cut !!

actors songs connection :

the og vocaloid cover music project !! has a really big cast of guys who cover lots and i mean LOTS of popular vocaloid songs ( one of them covers the end of hatsune miku its insaaane ) they often change the instrumentals a bit as well, so there's some variations aside from them just covering the songs !! also has an anime which is pretty funny to be honest lol

julie and the phantoms :

Pretty much every song from this show is available on Spotify and YouTube to listen to. Not just songs from the titular band, but also songs from the guys' old band, Sunset Curve, and even songs from rival group Dirty Candy.

[chickwiththepurpleguitar]

🎬

Thank you for the ask my friend! Still accepting mojis :) it lets me keep being feral about this show without letting it make me sad 🙃

You asked for some behind the scenes on longfic, so have some fun facts:

This is not the longest fic I’ve ever written, but it is the longest fic on my ao3 and the longest one-shot I’ve ever written at just short of 60,000 words

I first watched JATP the week it came out in September 2020 and then several more times over the following months and kept saying to myself “oh this show is so perfect there’s not really more I want out of it except for from the actual creators, I don’t need to write fic for this show” (150 fics later…)

Longfic was the first fic I started for this fandom, and I didn’t start it with the intention of shipping Luke and Bobby, that just sorta… happened

It was inspired by a post I saw somewhere on here (if someone knows who wrote it please lmk) about how wild it is that Luke knew Julie’s window was safe to climb out of. Because it was Bobby’s!! This realization gave me brain rot and led to me analyzing the show like crazy, thinking about everyone’s mannerisms and the way they all talked about Bobby. This led to my OG Core Concepts for the fic:

Luke, Alex, and Reggie are way too comfortable being Sunset Curve without Bobby which means Sunset Curve existed as a band as just the three of them and then Bobby joined

Alex and Reggie call Bobby “our rhythm guitarist” and “that vegetarian” which made me think they were more his Bandmates, but Luke gets upset enough about the songs that he was definitely Bobby’s Friend.

Sunglasses indoors = migraines :)

Luke never looks directly at Bobby for more than 2 seconds in the opening scene :) therefore the Girls Were Fighting :)

Angst :)

Anyway, thanks for the ask! Hope you liked this little view into my writer brain.

[sunset-bobby]

Please read this as a Spencer Wuah daily scream

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HERE IS THE THING

SUNSET CURVE HAD FANS

they were on a SUMMER TOUR

the opening act at the Orpheum

people were lined up outside waiting

girls screamed Reggie’s name

AND YOU’RE GONNA SIT HERE AND TELL ME AIN’T NOBODY KNOWS TREVOR AS BOBBY FROM SUNSET CURVE

NOBODY

they’re were news articles written about their deaths and called it a Hollywood Tragedy WITH PHOTOS OF THEM....

YOU CAN LITERALLY GOOGLE THEM

Google didn’t even exist until 1998

So they were on whatever search engine existed before...

the only thing was they weren’t officially signed...you know how many unsigned artist we all stream probably...doesn’t mean people wouldn’t recognize him

AND THEN

HE USED THEIR FUCKING SONGS

you gonna tell me he sat and went through their ENTIRE discography to find songs they never recorded...no he probably didn’t because he didn’t even use all of their songs

“our parents would have known our dream was worth it”

this man is famous enough to where he has a helicopter and can get into shows with a phone call

they never seen or heard about him in passing

now listen before the band Emily seemed relatively decent so Luke could have felt safe to bring the guys over and he didn’t leave until 1994....SO SHE HAS TO HAVE SEEN HIM AT LEAST ONCE

Someone out here is have a crisis just like Trevor about this fucking hologram band that just randomly blew up

WHICH LEADS TO THE DISCUSSION of how tf anyone is believing Julie (a 15-17 year old girl) is projecting holograms of dead people singing original songs with only help from Flynn ANOTHER 15-17 year old girl

here’s the thing tho. Trevor Wilson is famous, meaning Carrie is famous by association, MEANING JULIE AND FLYNN WERE WELL KNOW BY ASSOCIATION

You can not tell me Trevor and Carrie are the only two people who think this shit is sus

there is a whole group of traumatized 40 year olds who’s favorite underground band died confused as hell

[artiesjam]

guys

sunset curve at thirteen years old

bobby, reggie and alex are doing a star wars themed jigsaw puzzle while luke doodles in his writing journal. they are not looking at each other but they are having a conversation still.

“they’re just not that fun.” luke insists, scribbling a little harder to shade in the line of the lollipop he drew.

bobby replies with a snort. “okay, whatever you say.”

“jigsaw puzzles are great.” alex joins the conversation before handing bobby a piece. it was a 500 piece puzzle and they had bought it at the mall in some sci-fi store. reggie practically swooned at it.

“you sound like a grandma.” luke cackled, before flipping over a page in his song journal. he wanted to color and doodle in the pages to make it more personal.

“an educated grandma. this shit can raise your IQ by four points.” alex takes a puzzle piece and lodges it in luke’s hair which earns a scoff from bobby. he took puzzles very seriously.

luke ruffles his hair and finds the piece before throwing it at alex. it really ends up behind him but no person really cared. they would search for it later.

“do you think i care about my IQ?” luke asks.

“you should.” alex responds, before plugging in a piece into the puzzle, the image gradually becoming clearer.

“luke, why are you arguing with a gifted kid on this topic.” reggie finally speaks. he got quiet when he was heavily interested in stuff. this was one of those times.

“because he’s still a dumbass at heart. him being in two different gifted classes doesn’t mean shit.” luke shrugs.

despite luke’s nonchalantness, alex still found himself very offended. “luke, im NOT the dumbass here.”

“are you sure?”

“to be honest you are kinda of a dumbass”

“yeah.”

luke, bobby, and reggie added their inputs one after another.

“HOW DID THIS TOPIC GET FLIPPED ON ME??” alex cried, flipping his hands in the air which caused bobby to let out another seething sound. the table shook and all of the boys would’ve had heart attacks if the puzzle got ruined now. they were on a steady roll.

together.

[jatpistoowholesomesomebodyhugme]

Autistic!Reggie Headcanons

Because I have no self control

Reggie is level 2 ASD (autism spectrum disorder) so he's in the middle, not too severe not too mild either

Like most children Reggie was diagnosed in his early childhood years at around 2 years old

Specifically because his parents noticed he wasn't hitting milestones like the other kids in the neighborhood, e.g struggling to walk and learning to speak

He also got extremely attached to a toy horse that he named Henry, didn't go anywhere without it

Growing up for Reggie was hard as his parents were still learning how to raise an autistic child and he didn't have a lot of support

He didn't have many if any friends either because of his limited speech

As well as not understanding/acknowledging social cues

He struggled understanding other people's feelings so he was very honest and blunt at times

He also finds it fun to copy/use different expressions he hears from people

It took him forever to try and speak to Luke, Alex and Bobby but once he managed he got attached to them too

The boys thought it was cool that Reggie noticed specific details, patterns or changes that others don't figure out

And that he can focus on one thing for a long period of time

They didn't realize that Reggie was autistic until Alex made a sarcastic comment and Reggie didn't get it so he took it seriously

Bobby called him dumb cause it was just sarcasm

Reggie slowly explains that his autism makes it difficult to understand sarcasm and jokes

They never call him dumb ever again

I just noticed how long this is gonna get so I might make a part 2 to save people the long post

[boy-in-the-stars]

Ides of March

Bobby: RUN, RUN

Luke, sprinting: DON'T LOOK BACK

Reggie: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Alex, chasing them: YOU STABBED ME WITH AN ICE CREAM CONE AND STOLE MY CHEETOS WHAT THE FU-

[1neverendingstories1]

I cannot tell you how much I n e e d Reginald Peters in braces

[between-two-fandoms]

@thesevenumbrellas

[ace-bobby-wilson]

hello amazing fans of JatP. I have thought of a sad au(?) idea and now I’m going to share it bc I’m sad. Please mind the TWs and let me know if I need to tag something else. 

TW: Food, Vomiting, Mention of Blood, Character Death, Suicide (Hot Dogs)

AU: Bobby dies and becomes ghosts with the other phantoms

How does he die? Well...

Bobby doesn’t say with Rose. He leaves with the boys because he’s the one with the brain cell and he knows better than to let those three wander off before a show. 

He’s not going to for the hotdogs bc vegetarian but he doesn’t mind just sitting there with them. 

All is good, all is fine, until Alex starts choking, Reggie starts throwing up, and Luke can’t catch his breathe. Bobby starts panicking but thankfully, someone calls 911. It should be fine. Everything is going to be fine. 

But it’s not.

Bobby can see his friends slipping away. And he starts spiraling. He can’t lose them. He knows that. They were all he had. 

While he’s spiraling, his eyes fall on one of the discarded hotdogs. At this point, Bobby is too far in his head, he isn’t thinking clearly. The only thing going through his head is ICan’tLoseThem-

He picks up the hotdog and takes a giant bite. It’s gross and disgusting and he’s eating meat- and he almost throws up from that realization alone. But he forces it down and takes another bite. 

One of the boys notices it (probably Alex bc I headcanon them as being like, childhood friends and I want the hurt) and it’s the weak, dying whisper of “Bobby...” that makes him stop. But it’s to late. 

When the ambulance arrives, Bobby had already starting throwing up blood but he fights the medics, still terrified of being saved and losing the boys. All three of them die before Bobby, but he still follows. He’s gone before the ambulance reaches the hospital. 

Now, he’s stuck in the dark room with his boys and it’s fine. They’re together. Everything is fine. Until-

“Bobby what the hell did you do?”

[justkimberley]

Ok I don't know if anyone said this already but!

**prepare for angst**

Imagine Luke singing I'll be Home for Christmas.

We know he ran away around Christmas time, and for the purposes of this let's pretend that we know for sure it was before Christmas happened.

So Luke is in the studio on Christmas eve on his own because the other boys have to be with their families.

(whether it's worth it or not is another question... (Reggie's parents lasted through saying grace for the first time this year but that's about it, Alex's parents are not talking to him but he still knows he has to go to the night time church service, Bobby is having a good Christmas but he can't stop thinking about his brothers/bandmates and how horrible their Christmas' must be))

So Luke is in the studio messing around with his guitar when he accidentally (subconsciously) stumbles across the chord progression for I'll be Home for Christmas. Of course he starts singing along to it without really thinking but then it hits him. For the first time ever, he won't be home for Christmas. And he won't be for who knows how many more Christmases in the future. He doesnt know how long it will take to make his parents see how important music is to him, how talented he is, how successful the band will be.

By the time he reaches the last line, there are tears streaming down his face and he can barely sing because he's so choked up. But he forces out, "I'll be home for christmas, if only in my dreams." before disolving into tears on his couch and sobbing into the cushions. He was glad that the people they rent the garage from were on vacation, or else they definitely would have heard him.

Luke was *this* close to going home that night, but he didn't. Unfortunately, that was the last Christmas where he would have had the chance, seeing as after they returned as ghosts, nobody, other than Julie, could see them anymore.

The boys found him there on the couch in the afternoon on Christmas Day with tear stains dried on his cheeks. They didn't say anything about it, but when they hugged to thank each other for their Christmas presents, they all hugged each other a little tighter than usual. After all, they had all woken up with dried tear stains on their faces too.

[chickwiththepurpleguitar]

Does anyone know what kind of guitar Bobby plays? Please it’s for science and I can’t get close enough to the screen to read the brand.

[sunset-bobby]

i just realize there are some people who genuinely dislike Bobby (and i get it you know sometimes a character isn’t for you) but imma give a run down on my liking of the boy because i haven’t seen valid reasons to dislike

Whether you think he was close with the boys or not they wouldn’t have kept him around if he was an ass

Although Julie said he never mentioned the boys we don’t know any of the full story because of the limited point of view

Saying they didn’t interact in the Now or Never is dumb considering Luke turns to Bobby right after they finish and gives him a fist bump

Also Taylor Kare said there is a lot more that you didn’t see so invalid argument

Some of y’all were sympathizing with Caleb during the first couple months of the fandom and i’m pretty sure just not crediting someone on some songs is child’s play to almost zapping them out of existence with intention

Bobby and Trevor in my opinion are different people Trevor is an ass but even I can see he cares about Carrie

You all literally only hate Bobby cause he stole their songs which is shitty obviously but there could be so many different reasons for it..and i’ve never seen one that justifies him doing it on purpose

“He didn’t sing in Now or Never” ok well the songs about living everyday til ur last if he sang and didn’t die the irony would be lost....however Taylor was super excited to do a musical and they didn’t even let him sing 😔

Overall I just think we can’t judge off of one piece of information because we have no proof obviously that works both ways which is why most of us never erase him stealing their songs we just give it a reason

Also most of you forget Julie is the main character half the time so maybe this is just something we do now

Anyway stan Bobby, Trevor is eh, Sunset Curve is not just the three white boys, and I want a redemption in season 2

[black-veil-bobby]

It's every group... literally every group in the show

A favorite character dynamic / story arc

[jatpistoowholesomesomebodyhugme]

Autistic!Reggie Headcanons

Part 2!!

After being told by Reggie about his Autism, Luke, Alex and Bobby all go to the library to read and research about it

Because they are good friends and they want to make sure they know all about it to be there for their goofy friend

One day Bobby gets a blanket for the garage because sometimes it gets cold in there and they aren't always practicing

Reggie went to pick it up to move it but as soon as he touches it he recoiled like he got burn

The others were confused but Alex mentioned that in one of the books he was reading sometimes certain textures don't feel right

"It's the same with certain foods right?"

"Yes Luke it's the same with some foods"

Reggie tears up because his friends researched for him

Reggie also likes to ramble about subjects he likes and when he gets super excited he starts to stutter a bit but no one has ever minded

Normally it's about bass playing, Star Wars or science

Reggie often spins the ring on his finger or with small objects on the table, he also paces a lot when thinking about something

When he gets asked about it by Bobby he mentions it called stimming and that it's self-stimulating behaviors, usually involving repetitive movements or sounds

The boys think it's kinda cute

Reggie normally doesn't have much of a problem when it comes to noises but

When his parents are fighting it becomes to loud and he starts trying to block it out with his hands against his ears

His senses become overly sensitive in situations like that

Much like one time where he went out to the mall with the guys he got lost and everything started getting too loud and the lights were too bright and there were so many people

Alex finds him trying to calm himself in such a busy situation alone and in situations like this touch doesn't help

So Alex stood in front of him to get his attention

It worked

They all decided to get pizza that afternoon

Sometimes when Reggie is nonverbal he uses sound, signs and gestures to communicate with other people

*Random bass playing*

Yes Reggie??

There will be a part 3

[1neverendingstories1]

Kenny geeking out over their band meeting was so pure

[sunset-swerved]

For day 11 of @sonsetcurve holiday! The prompt was, as expected, Christmas Eve! Have some cute Sunset Curve bonding and get ready for the last part tomorrow!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28301703

“Where did you get that?” Alex asked, nervously, from the couch.

Bobby laughed and threw a wink at the blonde boy that towered over him even though he was almost a full year older. “Ask me no questions and I’ll tell you no lies.”

“That’s… okay,” he replied, shaking his head.

Party pooper.