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Jukebox Appreciation Week Day 4: Retro Day

So this prompt by itself didn’t particularly inspire me. However, they did say you were allowed to go further back than the 90’s… So enjoy Bridgeton-inspired Juke!

@jukebox-week​

(15+15=30

Three

Five

Nine

onE

thrEE

fivE

sEvEn

I’ll take 17 plz ❤️

@thedeathdeelers​ wanted soft juke in bed scenes, and you chose 17. (this was influenced by your recent addition, and i peppered in some "u"s for you as well. to make it feel like home :P)

Pick a number between 1-102 (97, 45, 17, 13, 23, 82)

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She's finally asleep. Luke leans heavily against the headboard of their bed with a sigh. His eyes rove across Julie's face, peaceful now but with remaining dregs of discomfort after the last several hours, which is pale. The color only recently started to return to normal. A faint sheen of sweat is just barely visible in the low light of their room.

Reaching over, he gently brushes her hair back from her forehead, pausing when she shifts, hoping he hasn't woken her up. She settles down and he breathes a sigh of relief. Today had been rough. He feels pretty lied to by media and society. They all paint morning sickness as a one and done kinda thing and well.. a morning thing. Not whatever had happened today. Absentmindedly, his thumb begins to trace patterns across her shoulder and down her arm. He pretends it's to help soothe Julie in her sleep, but really the touch helps to ground him, remind him that she's right there and will be okay.

They'd been working in their music room that afternoon when he'd noticed her begin to regulate her breathing with slow exhales. Then the colour had drained from her face and she was making a mad dash to the bathroom. He'd ran after her but retching sounds were already bouncing off the walls out into the hallway before he'd made it to her.

Guilt settles in him as the memories of the afternoon assault him. It's his fault. Julie wouldn't be in pain right now if she hadn't been pregnant. If he'd known how to help her. All he'd managed to do successfully was keep her hair out of her way and given her a cool washcloth to place on the back of her neck as she leaned against the rim of the toilet. Julie had done a better job taking care of him when he'd gotten food poisoning. Everything else he'd tried had backfired, hard. He'd gotten her some water, but she couldn't keep it down. After hours of dry heaving and gagging, he thought it'd be important to get something in her system so he had left her to make some plain toast. The plate had barely made it into the same room as Julie before she was lunging for the toilet again, stomach spasming.

His eyes fall shut, recalling the feeling of inadequacy, trying to remember the breathing exercises he's helped Alex with a thousand times. Is this how it's going until she reaches the second trimester? That's over a month away! He hates this powerless feeling. A tear leaks out, making a slow trail down his face. Movement shifting on the bed causes him to open his eyes just in time to see Julie turning onto her side, snuggling her face into his hip. His hand moves to her back, idly playing with some of the loose locks of hair. She takes a deep breath, a content hum flavouring her exhale. That pulls a small smile onto his face despite everything that's been playing in his mind the last few minutes. How could he not? It's Julie, after all. His brightly burning star. His star that just mumbled something he didn't catch.

Quietly, he asks, "What was that, Jules?"

She repeats herself a little bit louder, eyes staying shut. "Thank you for taking care of me today."

"Of course! I'd do anything for you." The guilt resurges as he grasps for what he could have done better. "Wish I could have been more useful, though."

She shakes her head, nose brushing against him. "You did great. We will get the hang of things. You're going to be an amazing dad."

Love swells within him. She always knows what to say to pull him out of his head. And he can now recognize the fear that was fueling his frustrations. Her body may be doing all the work right now, but they are in this together. It's a fact that they make each other better at whatever they set their sights on. He tucks his legs under the blanket and slowly slides down to lay next to her. He pulls her against his side and presses a kiss to her temple.

this world has only one sweet moment set aside for us

JATP being included in this article????? on the OFFICIAL GRAMMY WEBSITE???????

It’s the way you can go back and watch it and still find new things about it to love and things you never noticed before like Luke’s dinosaur wallet, Luke’s llama knitted on his jacket, the way the characters react tells a lot about them and makes sense given what we know about them. That even though you know exactly what happens, to the point you can quote the show, it is still ever so enjoyable.

The way that it like “sets up” these stereotypes and you except them to go down that way but they don’t. Like for me, I remember watching and being like “oh look three guy leads one of them is gay but two others are still left and one female lead hmm hello love triangle” like I excepted to have that bc in most cases of media if it’s set up with leads like that, that’s what happens but Jatp doesn’t do that in the slightest. Or how you’re introduced to Carrie and you see how she’s rude to Julie so you’re like “ah, mean girl is main to main character bc she’s mean girl” but Nick saying that single line of “You two used to be friends.” Adds so much. It’s the way that these characters have history together that we didn’t see bc at this current point in time that’s not what we’re watching like it just makes them feel so real as characters like there’s history here behind them before we were even introduced to them like ugh 😩 it’s so neat!!

And then like with Flynn when there’s the conflict between Julie and her about the boys you’re like “Oh Julie’s not gonna tell her about them and this is going to be a drawn out storyline” but it doesn’t and it’s immediate solved in the episode where that problem was introduced. And then again, when Nick asks Julie out you’re like “ah man she’s gonna say yea and then this is gonna be a thing now” BUT SHE DOESNT DO THAT ITS JUST SO LOVELY that it seems like it’s gonna go the way that most other shows would given the segment that’s set up but it goes the other way and just completely adverts your expectations.

Especially with like… the way Luke out right says “Alex, your parents were never cruel to you again after you told them you were gay.” Like to have that out right said (especially if you see behind the scenes videos, Luke originally said “when you came out” but then switched it to gay like that little change adds a lot) like they’re not tiptoeing about it, they’re not not saying it, they just flat out say it. That is so revolutionary for a show to do and then immediately after like asap they have him get a boyfriend and to have it be a relationship that is like important to the plot is so nice.

And then you add into the fact that when the show came out and when most of us saw it, it came out during 2020 a year that was absolute shit and scary for everyone and not to say that “Jatp saved 2020” but to have this little show that has all these elements that you can fall in love with, amazing characters, amazing story, amazing songs, amazing cast. It definitely helped be a light in a year where it seemed like nothing good was coming from it but Jatp was there and made people feel seen and have a love for something and it was made 2020 so much less shitty. Even after the hurricane of a year it was… we had Jatp.

It’s just-

today, it was this song:

but alSO THIS ENTIRE SOUNDTRACK. impossible to pick just one, but i'm going with this for today. the french horns, y'all. the strings. the whole ass vibe of it. hans zimmer doesn't miss.