✨bright forever✨

oh…we were robbed 💔

Wait wait are the 11 million views

from this year?!

Between January 1 and June 30th, 2023 people watched ~11M hours of Julie and the Phantoms. That amounts to the entire series being watched ~2.4M times over the course of 6 months three years after it was first released. They rank as the 1893th most watched Netflix show/movie during that time period by minutes watched.

The data set can be found here

Reggie: *returning from a 4 day absence back into the Molina's garage* Hey, guys what's up?

Julie: Reggie do you know how worried we've been?

Luke: Dude, like, we worry about you a normal amount but this was much more than usual.

Alex: Where've you been Reg?

Reggie: Did you know you could just poof into a Harvard math class? Guys, we could totally become geniuses!

Julie: Reggie, that's not h-

Willie, who's been chilling on the couch reading a manga upside down the whole time: He's right. In all ways except on paper, I'm a lawyer. Passed the bar and everything.

the new all that remains chapter is posted! you can read it here! it’s a long one (12k words), so use those line breaks as breaks if you need!!

the guys brainstorming how luke should ask julie out:

alex: you could write her a poem, that's romantic.

luke: i don't know how to write a poem!

reggie: we just learned how to write haikus in english class. they're pretty easy

luke: perfect!

oh god i miss jatp SO MUCH

LAURA IVE MISSED U 🥰🥺

hey if we’re mutuals you can literally interact w me whenever. send me whatever u want i will probably be very excited

jatp characters favourite ghibli films based on basically nothing

alex: princess mononoke, because he loves the scenery backgrounds and could stare at them forever, and also experiences a great deal of anxiety about the environment. also he has a huge crush on prince ashitaka

luke: howl's moving castle, he too is enormously dramatic but also would give a girl a whole field of flowers just to make her happy

reggie: laputa castle in the sky, fun and full of action but also beautiful and wistful, on the cusp of childhood vs adulthood

julie: whisper of the heart, because what's more julie than a girl who finds a passion for songwriting instead of school, falls in love with a boy who makes violins, and then keeps on loving him even when he goes away

flynn: the cat returns, which TERRIFIED all her friends as a kid but she was fascinated by it, to this day she claims it as one of the best movies ever made

willie: spirited away, would absolutely dream of being whisked away by a cute dragon-boy, relates to being controlled by a scary oversized villain who has stolen his full name

bobby: kiki's delivery service, because being out in the big world all on your own and doing the thing you love until it loses its meaning seems resonant

nick: ponyo, because being pre-school best friends is his whole vibe and i bet he knows the technical scientific names of a bunch of prehistoric fish, it just seems Right

carrie: the tale of princess kaguya. she vibes with being so driven insane by the standards for women that you go into a nightmare induced rage that destroys even the line art of your own film

carlos: porco rosso, because he loves the pig and because there's extremely cool planes OR castle of cagliostro because he thinks it's hilarious

ray: the wind rises, because it's a tender and soft story of a man doing his best through a lot of loss and mistakes

caleb: pom poko, because it has his chaotic evil energy

tia victoria: my neighbour totoro, because sisterly bonds are for life and also because she'd think totoro was super cute and buy little stuffed versions of him for julie and carlos

Y’all remember when jatp was new and the fandom was new and we were all just loving everything and each other and watching the show constantly and listening to the soundtrack over and over and feeling a little less alone in the world

And then somehow we all did a speedrun of ‘fandom steps’ and made it through years worth of fandom shit in months, maybe even weeks

And then Netflix canceled it anyway so we all just emerged from our fandom bubbles 50 years older and exhausted

Or was that just me

Hey, everyone! Due to the sudden influx of viewers on AO3, the site has had to modify some things, including the experience of guest users and how hits are counted on the site. This is not the fault of AO3 (they're doing their best to keep things up and running for all of us), but if you're a guest user following stories on AO3, PLEASE make sure to leave kudos for your authors to see. We understand it can be difficult to get an account on AO3 (probably more now with COVID-19 leaving people in their homes), but sudden drops in statistics can be inexplicable and disheartening.

Keep your heads up, people. We're gonna get through this.

💔 this means so much to authors, guys, let’s be more generous if it comes to our appreciation

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