#phantomversary

[a-tomb-with-a-view]

*screams in the key where the fuck is my season 2 announcement*

[vitikko1]

[willexxmercer]

Time to get sappy...

It’s the one year anniversary of Julie and the Phantoms and joining this fandom was probably one of the best things I’ve ever done.  It’s been so long since I’ve felt this much creative drive.  I’ve published over 300k words on AO3 in 2021 and most of those are Julie and the Phantoms (27 of my 29 jatp fics have been published since January).  I’ve made moodboards.  I’ve gone back to making gifs.  I’ve even discovered the social media au medium and I absolutely love it.

Willex has become one of my top ships of all time, and Juke and Boggie are also up there.  Alex and Willie are both so important to me, and I am SO grateful to Booboo and Owen for portraying them both so well.

Speaking of Booboo... it is UNREAL that I’ve talked to him SIX TIMES since February.  He’s so sweet and so kind and so talented and I’m so over the moon about my silly little parasocial relationship with him lmao.  

On tumblr and across four Discord servers, I’ve had the opportunity to meet so many incredible people, and I couldn’t be happier to know all of you.  You’ve all been there with me throughout my gender crisis and you’ve all been so supportive.  I hate tagging people because I’m always worried about missing someone, but I’ll give it a shot here and tag the people I talk to the most often <3

@dylanobrienisbatman, thank you for FINALLY convincing me to watch the show by telling me Booboo was in it.  Thank you for being one of the Troped creators and for bringing Troped to the JatP fandom.  Thank you for listening to me ramble about fic ideas.  Just... thank you.

And @pawprinterfanfic, thank you for being so amazing and such a good friend.  You’re so talented and I can’t WAIT to see the rest of All That Remains when you’re ready.

@lemonade-baby @russianalpacafromoldzealand @russsianspy @animated-stardust @williexmercer @sunshine-julie-molina @funsizearsonist @broadwayandbreakdowns @lukes-handwriting-sucks @phanhowell @aroallosupremacy @thegirlfulloffandoms @fireflyingaway and the rest of the Corner Gang Club server; the first group I joined.  You were my introduction to the fandom and you’ve kept me on my toes.  You’re all my children, I hope you know that, and I care so much about all of you.

@owenmercers @oldsmobile-hotdogs @iridescentkippen @sk8rwillie @lyxchen and the rest of the Bibobceps server and the Loop Party crowd - you kept me hyped during a time when I was really unsure of myself.  You’re all so important to me; thank you so much for everything.

@sunsetcurbed @futurearchaeologyprof @angelofarts @curvesomesunsets @flynn-taylor @a-tomb-with-a-view @burntchromas @chickwiththepurpleguitar @fanfics-she-wrote @iti-iskuna @on-irratia @itsthebooks @kybee1497 @michelangelinda @hey-there-juliet and the rest of the Ficstorming server - I never would have finished mutants, my big bang fics, or pretty much any fic since I joined without all of you cheering me on and keeping me going.  You’re all so talented in your own right and I’m so blessed to know each and every one of you.

And finally the 18+ server.  I’m still so new to you folks but you’ve been so kind and welcoming and @moony221b you’re my wife now and ilysm <3

[sunset-bobby]

i flopped my SAT today so if I don’t get a season 2 i’m rioting

happy phantomversary 😘

[queen-of-the-boos]

Happy Royal Phantomversary! 🎂

Thank you so much 🥺

[spaceacekid]

Hey here's a jatp mashup I made a few months ago, thought I'd share in honour of the phantomversary

[magiic-alex]

8.28.19 - Life Update

Howdy, y’all!

I am writing you all from my new apartment...and a new (refurbished) computer! I have moved away to attend grad school and I am so very excited! The semester begins next week, but we had our orientation yesterday and I got to meet the other people from my program. I am v busy right now as I’m still trying to move into my apartment, but I will resume shortly!

As for the Vintage Summer Challenge, I dropped out because apparently supporting PoC, specifically Indigenous people, is tOoOo PoLiTiCaL for the host and she made a post calling me out about it. Thankfully many lovely members of the vintage community came to my defense, but I refuse to partake in something that wants to whitewash history.

I feel like I’ve been gone from this hellsite for so long but I cannot wait to return because it’s coming up on my first Phantomversary and I miss the Phandom. Until I’m fully settled into my apt and return, I’ll just be over here fighting the good fight, annoying Unique Vintage with comments about the lack of Erik in their Universal Monsters collab.

Love and miss y’all!!!

[modernvintage]

Happy one year anniversary, Julie and the Phantoms!

[a-tomb-with-a-view]

Uh. Everyone is doing these, and I didn’t wanna be the one stingy bastard who didn’t, so, here goes ig?

I watched jatp for the first time with my mum in September last year, and we were just bored and wanted something to watch, and it seemed super cringe, but Madi started singing at the end of ep 1, and then we watched the whole show in one night and went to bed at dawn. The last time I watched the show was a month ago today, with my mum. We started it at about 1am, and finished it at 7am, waiting to find out what university I was going to. So ig you could say it’s been kind of a comfort show to me, seeing as that’s how I decided to spend 5 hours in an attempt to calm me down waiting for some of the biggest news of my life so far.

I still can’t believe some dumb fic about baking turned into something so massive, I’ve written a couple hundred thousand words since then, including a memorable day in July where I wrote over 18000 words just in time for midnight, with the help of insane amounts of encouragement from the ficstorming server. It started as me wanting something to do while I took four weeks of school for health reasons, and now I have nearly 800 people who think I’m kinda cool, and I met some rly rly incredible people along the way.

I’m not gonna list em all, because there’s way too many, but like. I met my boyfriend through the fandom which is kinda neat, @wadewaits you bastard. @robbstarkmademedoit , @willex-joyner , @xlostinobsessionsx and @madamecrystal were some of my first proper fandom friends, as well as @fandommaniac123 @hallowseve1031 and @everyfandomthereis . Then there was @on-irratia , who I ended up co-writing this crazy fic with, who’s made fun of me through the highs and lows of the dumbfuckery of the last eight months.

Big thanks to Bobby Shaw/Wilson, who’s two lines in the whole show turned into an essay and then into some of the greatest friendships I’ve got ( @the-anxious-gay-drummer @itsthebooks @kybee1497 @williexmercer @afoldintime @sunset-bobby @sunnylemonss you guys are awesome and ily’all a lot). And of course the ficstorming server, including legends like @sunsetcurvecuddles @sunsetcurbed @angelofarts @willexxmercer @curvesomesunsets @wr0temyway0ut and many many many more.

Ofc with Bobby came boggie, my pride and joy, and from boggie came some *more* awesome people from some boggie servers @boggie-brainrot @lemonade-baby @queenmolina @annalovesbananas to name a few who I actually spoke to enough not to feel bad for bothering

I’ve been super open about what parts of the show mean the world to me so I’m not even gonna try touch that, but a year ago I was a high schooler stressing over literally everything, and now I’m a med student with a bf, a qpp, and a whole bunch of awesome friends, and like. Ig the show had a major part in that, so happy one year y’all dumb fucks

(P.S. fuck you Wade and Rio because I’m apparently not cis and im placing the blame with you guys 💜💜)