The OG Danaerys

New to fandom, old at life. FOB not-so-noob. 46. Mother of three - with less dragon content

[ssomuchstardustt-deactivated202]

Fall Out Boy at iHeartRadio festival 13/01/24

[stumpwentz]

[bellaela]

**Update For the people asking I asked her and she bought the frog tea set HERE 🐸

[nature-linaa]

I bought one last week and this forg is absolutely adorable. Frog is the perfect teapot size (gives ~2 regular cups of tea). The quality is good for the price and the shipping was fast! :)

[dragonlads]

oh

oh my god

oh my god…….

[secretstudentdragonblog]

Something about “seasons” and “people” comes to mind…

[biterminator]

sorry i had to

[stumpwentz]

fuck it eyelash batting time (context: patrick is talking about doing the 'wrestler voice' in the grudge mv)

[secretstudentdragonblog]

@crusheswhimsandfancies this is definitely one for you - look at the pretty eyelash-batting

[secretstudentdragonblog]

Listen, I’m English and almost 50. Spotted dick is most definitely NOT a snack food in the UK. It’s a pudding and an olde one that even my generation have kind of left in the past.

There’s no way that was served up - in the FIRST ROUND, no less - without the LAD Bible being 100% certain they were engineering dick jokes.

They KNOW what this fandom wants and they weren’t afraid to serve it up

[omegalomania]

people bitching and moaning about fob "turning mainstream" as if that was never the entire point of fall out boy. that's In the goddamn dna of the band, it's baked into the ethos of why the band started in the first damn place. to be accessible to kids and especially to girls, who were often ridiculed and shunted out of the hardcore community. to be a gateway to bands that aren't as mainstream. to comment on the society they live in, as they live in it. people act like fall out boy "turning mainstream" was some kind of "betrayal" when from the start they were seizing on the trends of the time, putting their unique, unhinged fall out boy spin on them, and shooting them back out as a funhouse mirror. take this to your grave capitalized on the pop-punk zeitgeist that was big in the late 90s and early aughts and put their own spin on it: enmeshed catchy choruses with high-dexterity lyrical & linguistic skewerwork. infinity on high was basically a massive critique of the scene they were in - this ain't a scene it's a goddamn arm's race is a fucking thesis statement on what it is to be catapulted into fame in an industry that wants nothing more than a thousand cookie-cutter copycat acts of a successful formula, and fall out boy WAS the formula everyone desperately wanted to emulate. american beauty / american psycho blended sampling and modern hip-hop stylings with polished pop-rock and pointed those songs back at the snapshot of the 2010s we all lived in: commenting on racial injustice and the freeze-frame nature of relevancy. but even then they weren't doing it quite right - because fall out boy never does things quite right, they're never quite conventional, whether it's wentz's darkly confessional lyrics double-bagged in metaphor or stump's distinctive clear tenor or trohman's inescapable rock 'n roll edge or hurley's thunderous hardcore-punk-rock soul.

this band has always been too clever for its own critics, is the thing. but then, they always knew that. they knew they had a thriving fanbase of largely female fans so they were going to be mocked and belittled and ridiculed. they weren't quite right. they weren't quite so easy to market. pete wentz had to have all his hard edges filed off and cut down to size, skin lightened, literally whitewashed ("i feel like a photo that's been overexposed") to hell and back, even as he was marketed as the pretty boy of the band. and the other three members never even bothered with the spotlight: the soft-spoken vegan straightedge anarchist drummer and the wry, wisecracking, whip-clever guitarist who was more concerned with being the connective tissue than anything and the reticent vocalist who sang the words and wrote an awful lot of music but wasn't really the guy fronting the band. wentz's charisma carried the band, because the rest of them were really just some guys and never aspired to be anything else.

fall out boy is too pop. fall out boy is too mainstream. fall out boy isn't the real poster child of the emo movement. other bands are better. even within fall out boy's own narrative, they are repeatedly ignored, sidelined, and belittled, as though they weren't one of the only acts from the big 00s emo-pop movement to successfully not just survive the transition from the aughts to the '10s, and then later from the '10s to the '20s, but to thrive in it without banking on nostalgia. this band was supposed to be a flash in the pan. they weren't supposed to last and they weren't supposed to get big. they started off in joe's parents' attic because joe and pete were sick of how exclusionary and homophobic the hardcore scene was.

i think it's high time that people acknowledge how fall out boy has repeatedly succeeded where most of their other peers failed. cunning, clever, capable, and hyper-aware of the space they occupy in the culture surrounding them. that they are just as powerful, important, and artistic as any of the other bands in the scene that others might deify at their expense. that they deserve a hell of a lot more respect than they get from critics or hardcore punks who think they sold out. i hope one day they get that recognition. because they've earned it, time and time again, and the more i see people pushing back against that, the more certain i become of its inevitability.

[omegalomania]

hey looks like this is relevant again

[josephtrohman]

new video, they really did eat a lot of snacks that one day i guess!

[glassofpumpkinjuice]

pete and andy hanging out during heaven, iowa 😊😊😊

(birmingham 10/31/23)

bonus:

"sometimes i can still hear his voice..."

(london 11/2/23)

[secretstudentdragonblog]

Prior to Pete appearing in the platform in front of me, he was hiding underneath it after “disappearing” from the piano on stage. Patrick, Joe and Andy launched into Song 2 by Blur to distract the audience but I had been waiting for Pete to appear in the mixing-desk area THE ENTIRE FUCKING SHOW.

My daughter saw the security team had opened the gate so we were ready. This is my (pathetic) video of Pete arriving and hiding.

Notice my amazing camera skills where I essentially dangled my phone over the barrier and hoped for the best - I genuinely had no idea what I was filming under that platform until we watched it back after the show but I’m delighted with what I caught,

I feel like David Attenborough…

[heartbreakfeelsogood-moved]

patrick in london [credit]

[secretstudentdragonblog]

Just Pete Wentz two feet away from me during the O2 show on Thursday, playing his bass and singing during Dance Dance and generally looking amazing while me and my daughter don’t even attempt to keep our cool…

[secretstudentdragonblog]

These pics with no context are so funny to me because imagine stumbling across them if you’re not a FOB fan and you don’t know about Joe and Patrick interacting during Sugar at every live show and Joe doing or saying something that makes Patrick laugh like there’s no tomorrow and instead you just see these pics and think that a tiny man is being intimidated by a larger, tattooed guy as they both play their guitars…

[rylandsgrace]

Thank you, Matthew Perry (August 19, 1969 - October 28, 2023)

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

[wageronvoluntaryism]

There are no good cops

All cops are bastards

[jodielandons]

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