#american'tgate

[defultuser]

someone (reggie) sent alex this, he threw a pop tart at their head 

[willexxmercer]

[Image ID: A photo of Juliet’s balcony in Verona, Italy - a small balcony on a stone walled home.  Superimposed on the image is large beige text with a drop shadow that reads “meet me at the sandbox” on one line and “(what if)” below.  Below that is smaller beige text with no drop shadow that reads “A Willex Letters to Juliet AU” /end ID]

This is my first entry to @jatpbigbang!  It also doubles as my contribution to American’tgate as it features Canadian!Willie and is set in Canada!

Thank you so much to Iris for creating such an amazing moodboard (see the link below!) and to Mich for being a wonderful cheerleader even as I procrastinated like crazy!

Title: meet me at the sandbox (what if) Author: Me! Cheerleader: @vicesvsvirtuesfanfic Artist: @fireflyingaway Word Count: 25853 Rating: T Warnings: language, Caleb-level emotional manipulations (and Willie's intrusive thoughts as a result of this), and the implication of child abandonment in the backstory. Summary:

“Well, you kind of bring out the worst in me.” “And that’s my fault, how?” “If you hadn’t written that stupid email, I wouldn’t even be here right now,” Alex retorted, rolling his eyes.  “But I’m here now, and I’m just trying to keep an eye out for Luke.  He’s my best friend, and I need to know he’s alright.” “And I get that, I do,” Willie said earnestly.  “And I have a really good feeling about this.  You’ll see.”

Read it on Ao3 here!

Check out Iris’s art here!

Check out the road trip map here!

Taglist in the notes!

[thegirlfulloffandoms]

Dirty candy wears these on stage in Britverse (trust me this broke my brain when i first found they had every colour)

[boggie-brainrot]

Luke when Bobby joins the band: Looks like we have some of the luck of the Irish now.

Irish!Bobby: Luck of the Irish? Luck of the Irish? Have you ever heard any of our history? What 'luck' have we ever had?

[queenmolina]

american’tgate is an experience 🐝☕️

[shuffleoflove]

oi, wot did you just say bruv? that was bare homophobic innit.

i’m aware no one asked for these but have some roadman boggie pride icons <3 (alternate versions under the cut)

[curvesomesunsets]

before we hit midnight, a final german willex post: willie is skating past the altglas one day and sees alex with a mountain of glass because alex and the boys live in a WG where nobody bothers to do it until it’s almost impossible to get done in one go. willie proceeds to help him get through it faster and alex is instantly in love.

[caution-tripping-hazard]

Luke leans into the whole “Australia isn’t real” shtick, Alex thinks it’s the dumbest f*cking thing anyone has ever made up, and whenever anyone mentions it Reggie replies with “well I don’t think America is real so…”

[theladyfae]

roadman reggie and chav bobby, constantly

[ace-bookworm]

Ok what would be the britgate/american’tgate favourite supermarket???? RP Alex only shops at M&S (because his parents are torries) etc

[sunsetcurvecuddles]

in spring and summer willie puts those magpie-keep-away spikes on their skating helmet

ABSOLUTELY YES

[defultuser]

willie stole this sign 

[juliaandthephantoms]

I haven't seen nearly enough talk about which Ärzte songs sunset curve would cover so here's an incompelte list:

Sommer nur für mich (the live version which is slightly more gay)

Schrei nach Liebe (punch a homophobe AND a nazi)

Schundersong (Drum solo my beloved)

Wie es geht (possibly even sung by Alex for Willie)

Junge

Ist das noch Punkrock

Unrockbar

Literally all of them

Thanks for coming to my TED talk

[thegirlfulloffandoms]

By the order of The Peaky Blinders may i present:

Luke Patterson of the Yorkshire Division

[boggie-brainrot]

Irish!Bobby blames everything on the rest of the boys annoying the Fae and as Brits who don't know Irish lore very well they just take it.

Luke: aw no, my guitar strings snapped

Bobby: that because ye pissed off the fae

Reggie: I tried t' fix my amp in the rain and I got electrocuted a bit

Bobby: that's because ye disrespected the faeries

Alex: I can't make it to practice on Saturday, mum is making me go to the vigil mass

Bobby: do I even need to say it?

Alex, exasperatedly: it's because I pissed off the fae?

Bobby: you pissed off the fae!

[strugglingatart]

Dirty Candy and Bobby are great friends and watch footy together you cannot prove me wrong