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I was so massively lucky to be paired with @blackholeunderyourbed for the JATP Ficboard Challenge!

We thought it'd be fun to do this completely blind, with me having free range of the moodboard and Jo having complete control of her fic without knowing what my inspiration was.

So this what what I came up with:

With the muted black and white color scheme, I was feeling a noir kind of vibe, with Willie and Alex as detective partners working on a case that might or might not have supernatural elements. And then with the four seemingly unrelated objects, I wanted there to be a common theme, and chose round/circular items.

Well, what @blackholeunderyourbed came up with was totally not what I was expecting, in the best and coolest way possible! (I may or may not have had a total fangirl moment when I realized she was PJO_Connoisseur on AO3, one of my fav JATP authors.) See what Jo wrote for yourself here:

All's Fair in Love and Curses by PJO_Connoisseur

Willie can't remember before he was cursed. All that matters now is the four walls of the Hollywood Ghost Club he's trapped within, the hypothetical soulmate who will give him both color and his freedom, and the drummer he knows will disappoint him in the end.

#jatp ficboard challenge #blackholeunderyourbed #julie and the phantoms #jatp #jatp fanfic #jatp fic #willex #willie jatp #alex mercer #caleb covington #hollywood ghost club #soulmate au #tram rambles

kropotkindersurprise

#it gritty!!!!

hollandar

Hudson Williams, #1 Shane Understander

I think Shane was a character who, soon as I read him, made all the sense to me. I felt immediately a kinship and an ownership over Shane. I was like, “I need to be the only person to tell this story. I get it. I want to be the person to be Shane and I want to spend time with him.” [x]

(sources below)

#how lucky we are that Hudson so loved Shane #hudson williams #shane hollander #heated rivalry

partywithponies

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

traumatizeddfox

“but it wasn’t that bad”

did it hurt? did you feel scared? unsafe? were you embarrassed? humiliated? terrified? did you feel confused on why? does it keep you up at night? do you avoid being in a similar situation? did you cry? did you want to cry? who told you it wasn’t that bad?

hutsonwoolyums

you remember those days in school when your teacher would bring in some cool artifact or picture or something to supplement the lesson and everyone would get to take a turn looking at it before passing it to the next person?

that’s what I think of any time the same post runs through all my mutuals

raccoonmilf

When I was in grade school I used to send emails to biologists and zoologists asking them questions to get answers to include in school projects I was working on, and would cry when they did not respond because I thought I was stupid for thinking that some random kid would ever be deserving of a response from someone who does something as smart and cool and important as *checks notes* studies frog fungus.

Now, at 29, I’m lowkey having a panic attack because my academic email is filled with middle schoolers wanting me to answer their questions about pygmy raccoons and I keep putting off answering them because I’m so overwhelmed with all the other raccoon stuff I have to do.

Anyway, greatest apologies to any scientist I ever emailed as a child and also an adult.

raccoonmilf

I know your research is really important and I appreciate all you are doing but this is so fucking funny

tonysopranoproskater69420

she's my trophy mutual

twirlingfreckles

I think Cliff loves what Ilya did with the Irina foundation and he wants to start his own charity but he can’t decide what cause he wants it to be for because there are too many causes he wants to support and Shane told him it would be most effective to narrow it down to one specific thing. so like twice a week he’s sending Ilya voice memos like “so listen bro I think I’m gonna start a foundation for kids at the beach to buy them new ice cream cones after a seagull knocks it on the ground”

#heated rivalry

penandinkprincess

okay but the scene of shane and hayden in the hotel room in which hayden is REPEATEDLY just trying to go, "yeah man, go have fun. I do not care." combined with the "is hayden your mother?" scene later on has me CACKLING imagining part of ilya's dislike of hayden coming from the impression that he's controlling of what shane does whEN NO, ACTUALLY

YEAH HE WOULD HAVE QUALMS ABOUT*WHO* HE WAS GOING TO SEE IF HE KNEW, BUT HE DOESN'T ACTUALLY CARE WHAT SHANE IS DOING

SHANE IS THE ONE WHO OFFERS A FULL REPORT AND ASSIGNS HIMSELF A CURFEW WITH NO PROMPTING

penandinkprincess

shane when his excuses start comparing notes:

#shane hollander #heated rivalry

emmiegoesinsane

#shane hollander #heated rivalry

penandinkprincess

yuna knowing that ilya visited shane in the hospital cracks me up because HOW did she know that

like??? was she looking over a visitor log??? did the nurse happen to bring it up???

or was shane's high ass just circling back to it like, "also il-rozanov was here :) he came to say hi :)" "that's nice of him, sweetie." only to five minutes later swing BACK around to "oh, roz was here :) did i tell you he came to see me :)" "th-yeah, honey. that's really nice." and like seven more minutes pass and this high off his ASS boy just "is rozanov still here? he came to see me. :) did you know that? :)"

#hollanov #shane hollander #ilya rozanov #heated rivalry

perlukafarinn

Canon divergent AU where Shane is a little more paranoid and when Hayden first comments on "Boston Lily", he decides he has to do something to break up the pattern and make it not so noticeable that he's got someone on Boston.

Not seeing Rozanov is not an option, so instead Shane picks out a few other cities to regularly go out by himself in. He'll go for a long walk, maybe sit down somewhere for a drink, and then catch a taxi back to the hotel an appropriate amount of time later. It's honestly pretty nice, unwinding by himself in this way, and now disappearing after games is not a thing specific to Boston! It's just another strange Hollander quirk!

Unfortunately, he fails to account for the guys on the team jumping on the most obvious explanation for all these disappearances, which is that Shane now has a girl in every port.

Word about this starts to spread quick, because it is so out of character for Shane, and pretty soon half the league is under the impression that he's some secret playboy.

Ilya is extremely not chill about this rumor.

perlukafarinn