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wanna talk about the Afterparty? wanna make new friends? hello

I've seen a fair number of people interacting with Afterparty-related content on tumblr laterly, and I wanted to take the opportunity to attempt to recruit more people into our little corner of the internet.

Hello! I love to talk about The Afterparty. It is a masterpiece of a show. This is an open invitation. We've never talked before? Send me an ask about Skape Diem's MLK Day barbecue setlist! Whether it's lore, headcanons, incoherent screaming about Yasper Lennov, or all of the above, I am literally always down to yap about The Afterparty. (My IRL friends were getting sick of me yapping about it. That is why I made this blog.)

Also, if you're just generally a fan of Ben Schwartz, there is a Ben Schwartz Cinematic Universe discord. It's a small group of very kind fans. We often stream Ben Schwartz movies/tv shows on weekends. To join, you can message @benschwartzcinematicuniverse!

You can also join the Afterparty community on Tumblr. It's not the most active, but sometimes I will post polls asking the deep questions, like, "What is Yasper Lennov's favorite juice?"

15 members, 40 posts about #the afterparty #after party #apple tv • How great is this party? Come talk about the AppleTV murder mystery show

#the afterparty #ben schwartz #yasper lennov #look... it's a VERY small fandom. you gotta be proactive making friends

yasviertruther

literally listen to "just like U" just to laugh, like, xavier is such a funny lil guy. he sucks and i love it. saw ppl calling him their princess with a disorder and yk what. i love that. like. clearly the guys got issues and im sure he's repressed some of them, but also, the guy wrote a song apologizing to his dad bc he fucked his step mom and wants his dad to come home/call him and that was like, an actual song he recorded with the intention for release

tho. kinda tragic his dad never got to call him/dm him on account of. yk. his being murdered and the song being released posthumously

yasperapologist

Just Like U is arguably the most unhinged Xavier song. It’s truly a multilayered work of art.

This starts off with some pretty standard Xavier fare: an unconvincing attempt at relatability, casual objectification of women, garish displays of wealth. And yet, it is so obviously un-self-aware that you wonder if Xavier himself might be in on the joke.

There’s a lot here, not least of which is the ridiculous line: It’s fuckin’ up my tummy.” Xavier wants you to know he’s the kind of celebrity who can get Xanax on demand. The reference is casual and familiar—his “xans” are the fun kind of prescription drug abuse. He’s not using them to treat an underlying mental health issue. By the way, Xavier definitely has sex.

Things take a darker turn. Xavier’s songs are all about Xavier-the-persona—rich, famous, desired—not Xavier the person. But here we pull back the curtain on Xavier’s actual life (that is, assuming we take the lyrics at face value). The daddy issues aren’t a surprise; heavy is the head that wears the crown. In high school, we see the heir to the Gene’s Beans empire receive a red convertible as a reward for getting waitlisted at Stanford. But what could Xavier want revenge for? Does Eugene Sr. have a dark side, despite his apparent lavishing of Xavier with material excess? (Or perhaps such a dark side is inextricably related to his lavishing of Xavier with material excess.) Xavier’s dad is often depicted by the fandom as cold, impossible to please, and closed-minded. I’m not sure any of that is explicitly stated in the show, but it seems to fit.

I NEED to know what his beef is with Ed Sheeran.

The xans were always a cry for help. Xavier is profoundly unsatisfied with his life. The superficial trappings of fame and fortune can’t make up for past regrets or the gnawing, empty hole in Xavier’s heart. Xavier (supposedly) slept with his step-mom to punish his father, but he still craves his validation and forgiveness. Is he so desperate for his father’s attention that he is willing to risk the consequences of airing out his family’s dirty laundry? (“Why did Susan let me beat it?” WILD.) Is this just part-and-parcel of his revenge? Or is this all an elaborate piece of performance art designed to humanize a star whose image is largely one-dimensional—a shallow, irresponsible womanizer?

Like a marionette, Xavier resets. He laments his champagne problems. He humble-brags about his sexual desirability. He makes another bid for the audience to see themselves in him. It’s no more convincing than the first. Eugene created Xavier in large part because of the rejection he experienced from his peers. Xavier is Just Like U. Xavier was designed to be Just Like U. And yet, the inherent tragedy of Xavier’s success—his meteoric rise to stardom—is that Xavier will never be Just Like U.

Xavier’s final plea for his dad to return his calls is equal parts heartbreaking and unbelievable. What kind of father has easier access to his son’s DMs than his cell phone number? What kind of son talks to his father the way he would talk to a woman he’s trying to chat up on Raya? Is any of it real? Does Xavier himself even know the answer?

#i was cooking here #the yasperapologist equivalent of long form journalism

yasperapologist

#going back through my ‘I’M SORRY’ tag

girlsnightgirlsnight

superwholock for people that like hyper-referential comedy mini series

#superwholock for people who think two thirds of television shows should have Ike Barinholtz and Dave Franco #I have not heard of widow’s bay but perhaps I should check it out

girlsnightgirlsnight

apparently theyre making the hungry hungry hippos movie from the afterparty irl what

#omg this is CRAZY #tragic that Dave Franco is not involved

benschwartzcinematicuniverse

Okay, let’s do this.

Ben Schwartz digital zine

Theme: Ben Schwartz characters in the wrong Ben Schwartz universe (ie: Sonic in the sewer with the turtles, Tony Scarapiducci dealing with the Lobos and Dracula, Jean Ralphio ninth grade ninja)

Art: drawings, sketches, doodles, collages, short fic (think one shot or drabble)

No AI. Must be your original fanwork creation.

You must clearly state how you’d like to be credited and please title your creation (there will be a credits page)

It means nothing but I will hype the sh!t out of your art. No required skill level. Just bring your love of Ben/Ben characters and let it translate

Submit to [email protected] OR message privately here on the bscu tumblr

Deadline August 31 (3 months away!) The goal is for completion by Ben’s birthday in September.

I will be piecing it together with EZM and posting both on itch.io as a free download fully credited and here on tumblr as images with instructions on how to fold if printed. I will also email the files to everyone who submits.

Style and size will depend on number of submissions. Anyone who would like a hand in designing the layout once all pieces are received can message me.

Any questions can be dropped in the comments or messaged privately.

This is a zine both to celebrate the man but also connect the community

THATS IT THANK YOU LOVE YOU HAPPY CREATING!!

The Afterparty Out Of Context

#the afterparty #afterparty shitposts

yasperapologist

the afterparty s1 as text posts (part 42: yasniq time)

ben-schwartz-superiority

Glasses on Ben Schwartz 🥵🙌🏾💙

#NOT THE AIRPORT BATHROOM SELFIE

ben-schwartz-superiority

the goodest boy<3

#i love these collages #these are all such sweet looks #the green flannel is so yaspercore

ben-schwartz-superiority

House of Lies

(Spoiler: the lie was that these two weren't in love the whole time)

#house of lies #whyyyy the fakeout

Where is Hillmount High?

I discovered something last night that blew my mind. I had always assumed the Afterparty season 1 characters grew up in Marin County because Belvedere (where Xavier’s mansion is) is in Marin County. (I'd headcanoned that Hillmount was in Strawberry or Marin City, two towns in Marin County that were both close to Belvedere and demographically more similar to the Afterparty cast than a lot of the other towns in Marin County)

But someone on Reddit pointed out that the police officers who come to Walt's house during the 2006 flashback episode are from the Kensington PD .

Kensington is not in Marin County. Kensington is an unincorporated community in the East Bay in Contra Costa County. And this tracks, because in Yasper's episode, Chelsea referred to Ska-pe Diem as "the premier East Bay Area high school ska band." By definition, Marin County is not in the East Bay.

The East Bay is basically the right half of the map below; Marin County is the peninsula on the top left. The red dot is Kensington, and it's apparently a 35 minute drive from Kensington (where Hillmount is presumably located) to Xavier's house in Belvedere.

This is a long way to drive to an afterparty for your high school reunion (especially if you have a six-year old in the car and it's 10pm), but if the afterparty is at an eight-figure mansion owned by an A-list celebrity, it makes sense that people would make the trek.

From my (admittedly cursory) internet research, Contra Costa County is a lot more affordable than either SF or Marin County, though there is a lot of geographical variation. The median home price in Marin County is just under $1.5 million (and Belvedere comes in at a whopping $4.7m). San Francisco is similar ($1.3m) but again, there is a lot of variation by neighborhood. The median home price in Contra Costa County is just under $800,000; Oakland is about $700k, but Berkeley is $1.4m and Kensington is over $1.5m. ("Started from the upper middle" indeed.)

So, who cares?

I do, because I am a fanatical weirdo about this show, but I also think it is a super interesting detail in its own right.

The show heavily implies Yasper attended UC Berkeley, which is a twelve-minute drive from Kensington. I think this puts into sharper perspective the degree to which Yasper remained stuck in high school. On a similar note, it means that Xavier bought a house in the next county over (instead of buying a mansion as close as possible to home).

We still don't know where any of the characters live except for Xavier. Zoe and Brett are probably still near Kensington, since Zoe works at Hillmount. But Yasper, Aniq, and Chelsea could live in Berkeley or Oakland. They could live in San Francisco proper. Theoretically they could also live in Marin, but I think that is less likely if they did not grow up there since it is pretty expensive. My guess is that Chelsea lives in Oakland or one of the more affordable areas of SF, and that either Yasper lives in SF and Aniq lives in the East Bay, or vice versa (i.e. there is some geographical distance, because they hadn't seen each other in the 2 years prior to the reunion).

We also don't know a ton about the size of Yasper's AV installation business or its geographical reach. If Yasper's company is based in San Francisco, it must be doing pretty well relative to its competitors for Xavier's assistant to have picked it. If it's based in the East Bay/Marin County, maybe there is less competition.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. I am delighted I can still make new discoveries about this show 2 years after watching it.

#the afterparty #afterparty lore #yasper lennov #aniq adjaye #eugene xavier duckworth #nobody has ever accused me of being normal about this show

deaddeerdonoteat

Symon with a Y got just two scenes and they were great, but I still maintain he was wasted. I may have to steal this singing-sci-fi-inventor-who-does-close-up-magic character.

#you know this guy doesn’t sit normal #<-prev tag Ben Schwartz characters are the embodiment of that post ‘my spine isn’t straight but by god neither am I’#oh no he’s hot

yoooo u got any ben schwartz reaction pics to inspire people with

-lmc

i have over 300 screenshots of yasper saved on my computer. i think there are probably better reaction shots (e.g. the earliest show dancing) but these are the ones i have easy access to.