#tmf zander

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Fly Fly Away Lil' Hummingbird - The Music Freaks Fan Comic

Tiny break from the Gravity Falls blast to show off a comic I've had in the works for *roughly* three months, probably a little bit more. Regardless, it's done, and I wanted to cart it around like a prize pony.

I got into The Music Freaks (TMF) some time before my GF obsession after stumbling upon an animatic about it one night. And was instantly endeared to the story and characters. Then I believe the week following I pretty much binged the entirety of the series, and any other extra content I could get my hands one.

The writing can be kind of cheesy, but I grew up with Wattpad fanfics, so I am no stranger to The Cheese.

But the comic idea came a bit after my binge, as I'm trying to fall asleep one night. And I kept rotating the idea of Jake's bullying in middle school, like an infectious ear worm in my brain. Especially a line, he says when he's opening up to Hailey in one episode; about him getting teased for singing/humming to himself in the hall or at school. It got me thinking about what if there was a name that he got called that's associated with that, hence "hummingbird." Then everything sorta fell into place after that. I still spent a few more days sitting on the idea before actually starting the comic, but I pretty much busted out the first three pages that later week before struggling to finish the fourth for months until recently. (I sped through the last two and a half pages in one sitting because I was tired of it being incomplete).

Hope you enjoy!! Love to hear your thoughts and / or headcanons.

[flakyaster]

[sp3ctrum-int3rn3t]

shhhhhhh don't tell anyone i like tmf oh wait fuck

[dranderyaoi]

TMF ART DUMP!!! WHATTT!!!!!!! (THESE ARE OLD)

I can do tmf related art requests ^_^ I need to branch out with the amount of characters I actually draw super bad... IT WILL PROBABLY ONLY BE A DOODLE!

Shipping requests are not preferred but I will try to do them nonetheless.

[reiningsoral]

sometimes having a favorite character is analyzing every word they say and thing they do, thinkning about theories 24/7 and sometimes its just sitting on your bedroom floor trying not to cry while rotating them in your head

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I will always personally like Hailey more than Drew

For me personally, I find that the character who's a victim of bullying is much more loveable to me than the bully is. Because we all have to admit, that despite headcanons, despite the fact Drew brought up some good points in the Drakeup, Drew is still a bully, and he has been since middle school. He's not an innocent angel, and he simply just decided to drop Jake once Jake became fully himself. Drew's judgemental and genuinely not a good person, and I think some people forget that. Of course, liking an antagonist or a character who's not a good person is completely okay!! The issue is when you try to justify the antagonists bad behaviour, and oh man, have I seen people do that with Drew. I don't care if he has family issues, is insecure, has mental health issues, or anything like that (in this context, obviously I would still feel bad for him if he was facing such struggles), it doesn't justify his behaviour. The bottom line is, bullying isn't okay in any context (unless it's like a p3do or smth... in that case go crazy!!)

And there's more to me loving Hailey than the fact she's a bullying victim. Contrary to popular opinion, but I love how Hailey is so sensitive. I know people say she has "y/n moments" and that she's overdramatic, but honestly, there's nothing wrong with being sensitive. Sensitive people always try their best to be kind, despite how exhausting life is, being the way they are. Being hyper-sensitive is like walking around without your skin on, and the littlest thing can hurt you on a big scale. So hypersensitive people will try their best to make sure other people don't feel as awful as they often do. Also, Hailey always makes amends in situations where she did something wrong, or situations where someone needs to be forgiven (unlike Drew). Not saying everyone has to forgive everything, but she's very mature in that sense. The day after arguing with Drew, after she was provoked and repeatedly bothered and lashed out as a result of it, she apologized to Jake for getting angry. What apology was offered by the Dromies for barging in and provoking Hailey? None. And in episode 10, Hailey was genuinely considering talking to him about what he'd said, because she didn't think he actually believed what he'd said. But then Zander (oh, so cynical and traumatized, I love him) convinced her to think otherwise. However, she still clearly wanted to make amends with Jake. And when she did, she said she didn't regret letting Jake into the club, and that she forgave him. SLAYYY SLAYYYYYY!! Also wanna add I see people acting like bullies when talking about Hailey. I get not everyone is snowflake like me but come on guys... did you miss the plot of the show?

Overall this is just an anti-bullying, pro-Hailey post. Thank you for reading :3!!

[silliestwilly]

the sillies

[sheepst4r]

Requests from twitter! I might do more

(I may have favouritism…)

[orbch]

tmf shit after the finale, ranging from shitty lil doodles to full fledged art

[alice-loves-the-freaks]

Been making a lot of these, finally found some that I could apply to tmf

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Have a little angsty Luke prediction I came up with on my late night drive home:

So, in my LGTV post, I talked about how I believe Luke has homophobic parents. I figured this would make for a pretty interesting plot point, and I started wondering what I would do with it. Hence, my idea was born: What if Luke’s parents were under the impression Luke was dating Hailey?

Think about it. Him and Hailey have been friends since childhood. Luke’s always hanging out with her and her brother after school. He goes over to their house frequently, and probably talks about them all the time. So, it was really only a matter of time before his parents jumped to that conclusion.

And Luke, seeing how excited his parents got at the idea of him finally having a girlfriend, decided to go along with it. After all, it would explain why he was over there so often. And it’d finally stop all the teasing and pestering. And it made his parents happy, which is all Luke really wants.

But does he tell Hailey and Zander about this? Hah, absolutely not. He hasn’t even told Zander his parents are homophobic! Because he doesn’t want to worry them. (I’m sure this won’t come to bite him in the back later! 🫠 Insert Jake crying on the club floor in Episode Nine due to his lies becoming too big to handle.)

Everything’s just fine for a while. Until Luke’s parents start saying things like: “Oh, you should invite Hailey over for dinner tonight!” And: “Oh, we’re going to (insert place here) tonight! Would you like to invite Hailey along?”

And obviously, Luke refuses, finding every excuse in the book to avoid his parents meeting Hailey again. Because then, he’d have to explain the whole situation to Hailey and Zander, which would then result in him having to explain everything he’s been hiding to the two of them. And he can’t do that. He can’t worry them like that. But his parents are growing suspicious, wondering why their son seems so keen on hiding his girlfriend. They’d met Hailey in the past before. Why now was he trying to hide her?

His parents start questioning him, asking him why they never get to see Hailey anymore. Luke tries to tell them it’s simply because she’s busy, but that’s almost never the case when Luke wants to go over to her place. (His parent’s aren’t necessarily mad at him, just confused and a little suspicious.) Luke promises that they’ll meet Hailey eventually, putting on a little smile for them only to start panicking the second they leave.

Because now, he almost has to keep up this lie. If he pretends to break up with Hailey, he wouldn’t be able to hang out with them without even further suspicion. But if he keeps this up, he’ll have to tell Hailey or Zander. Then he’d have to open up about his parents and then Zander would get worried and stressed and-

Luke bottles it up. Puts on a smile while his mind races in desperate search of an answer. But his facade isn’t flawless. He becomes quieter. He zones out more. And gets this… almost somber expression when he thinks no one’s watching him.

And Zander immediately notices this.

He tries to bring it up, but Luke brushes it off, telling him he’s just a little tired. And Zander believes him. Until several days pass and Luke only seems to have gotten worse. He zones out more while Zander’s talking. Rushes home after rehearsals. And he’s suddenly much busier helping his parents out with stuff he refuses to elaborate on.

Now, Zander’s obviously going to worry. I think with his whole: “He doesn’t tell me anything anymore!” Comment made it very clear he values communication and honesty. So for Luke to be so distant suddenly with almost no explanation, Zander immediately jumps to the worse case scenario. What if he made Luke mad in some way? Or worse, what if Luke’s gotten bored of him?

He talks to the Music Club, and they all give him different responses. Hailey and Milly tell him to confront Luke directly, but Jake and Sean tell him to give it some time. Wait it out, and see if he comes to him. Ultimately, Zander listens to the latter, giving it a few more days while trying to be as supportive as possible, making it clear that he’s willing to help.

But nothing changes, and Zander’s intrusive thoughts grow louder, eventually boiling over one day after school, when Zander finally decides to confront him.

And as always, Luke lies. He puts on that pretty fake smile and lies straight through his teeth. Causing Zander to snap. All his worries and doubts and insecurities spill, tears welling in his eyes he asks if Luke’s upset with him.

He starts asking if he’s made Luke mad, bringing up small little ‘mistakes’ he made that Luke has long since forgotten about. He’s barely able to keep it together as his mind starts spiraling, and he eventually asks if Luke had been wanting to break up with him. If he wanted to leave him behind, too.

And Luke shatters.

Finally, everything he’s been bottling up is brought to the surface as he holds onto Zander, desperately trying to assure him that he’s not leaving and that he will never leave him. And he finally admits to what’s really been on his mind. He admits to every lie he’s been telling, clinging desperately to Zander as he cries against his shoulder, choking back sobs between desperate apologies. Practically begging for Zander to not be mad.

And obviously, Zander isn’t. (He probably feels guilty now for escalating things so much because of how insecure he was.) And obviously, Zander helps him through this. Or hell, maybe Jake could, too. I mean, Jake knows a thing or two about how easy it is to get caught in what seems like a little harmless lie. It’d be a nice parallel between the two, and show how much Jake’s grown while helping Luke develop as a character.

And at the end of all this, Luke explains everything to his parents. They’re probably very shocked. A little weirded-out, but they’re not going to disown him or anything like Luke was worried about. And they still love him, they just… have to get used to it.

So… yeah! That’s all I got for now. I don’t know if TMF will actually go in this direction, since homophobia hasn’t yet been explicitly explored in TMF, but if it doesn’t I might honestly just write my own AU for this. I love Luke so much I could easily write a good 20k words about him.

(Oh, yeah. After this whole arc Zander’s issues would definitely need to be touched upon. Maybe that can be its own post one day.)

Anyways, Live Laugh Lander everyone. 🧡💜

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Zander from The Music Freaks is autistic and here's why I think so

- The way he talks. He usually sounds very flat/uninterested, but when he's going for a more dramatic cadence, it seems like sounding emotional isn't something that comes naturally to him, even in moments where he's undoubtedly feelings very emotional(cough episode nine cough).

- An inability to “let go” of things, being the last one to trust Jake and the first to distrust him after episode nine, the There! Right! There! reference, which seems minor but which he seems important enough to bring up with the implication that he rants to Luke a lot.

- RSD. In particular, the scene where Stacy kisses Luke and Zander just leaves. Another example would be how he's protective over Hailey when Milly tells him that Jake was “Kabedonning” her, like he's afraid she would abandon him. His isn't nearly as bad as Hailey’s, but hey! It's there.

- He wears a very specific type of clothing, remarked in-universe as being noteworthy, which could be interpreted as being due to sensory issues.

- He obviously struggles with forming genuine connections with people, as shown in the Seasons flashback where, barring Hailey, he was completely alone until Luke came into his life(just like another season). Even now, he’s only shown to be friends with the Music Club.

- His affinity for the piano clearly goes way back, which could be interpreted as a special interest.

- The fact that, aside from Hailey, he's the only one the Jomies actively targeted(unless you count Milly and Zoey/Lia, but Milly didn't know that Jake was Zoey's boyfriend's friend, so make of that what you will) despite them not knowing anything about him(Jake didn't even know that he was gay or Hailey’s stepbrother, literally what were they bullying him for if not strange mannerisms)

- While I tried to stick to canon as strictly as possible, if we're accounting for the popular headcanon that he dyes his hair purple to make it look less like his bio dad, then that's not only another point for the “inability to let things go” point, but also suggests that the color purple might also be a special interest.

Feel free to add your own thoughts and stuff btw

[tabunierka]

🍃The Red Thread of Fate

I love stories with kindred spirits💞

I'm really looking forward to the continuation of TMF!!!!

[importantrash]

Zander!! I already asked about Luke headcanons, but do u guys have any about zander?

[dranderyaoi]

DRANDER TOXIC YAOI WHATTHE hell

woawie ...

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i LOVEE ETHEMM I LOVEEE THEMEMM so , mcuh,...

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TMF art trades!! <3