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- I do not know what it says about me that the time I choose to become startlingly attracted to and interested in Ryan Ross is when he enters his floral scarf/hippie/lunatic phase. Oh my god, he is so happy, look at his face! LOOK AT HIS FACE. I know this has been said many a time, but reason number 9234809 why Jon Walker was the best thing that ever happened to Panic! at the Disco: the fact that he has clearly spent the past several months getting Ryro high in the pornocabin. Angsty songs filled with SAT vocabulary are so much less appealing to write when you're busy contemplating Jon Walker's toes, no, like, really contemplating them. Oh gosh, I love both of those boys more than breathing, AND I WOULD LIKE MORE PEOPLE TO SLASH THEM TOGETHER PLEASE OKAY THANKS.
OH AND BTW HIS DORKY JOY IN THE BIRTHDAY PICTURES = THE BEST THING EVER TO HAPPEN IN LIFE, Y/MFY/NO, I HATE PUPPIES? Damn, I love that kid.
P.S. The first person to write the story where Ryan and Travie get stoned together wins all my love. SRSLY. - I laughed kind of a lot at this random Projekt Rev review I found. At first, the whole "OMG MCR FANS ARE GIRLS" thing rubbed me the wrong way, but this sentence won me over: "Let's get this out of the way: My Chemical Romance's set was hands down the gayest performance I've seen in my life." OH HEARTS. And then he said they were awesome, which is what most reviewers have been saying, so. Yay!
Still, I kind of stared at the screen at this part: "Once you strip away all the boas, the prancing, the 14-year old fanatics, the male stripping and the rest of the effeminicity, you're left with a great show." What? I guess I forget sometimes that not everyone considers boas and prancing to be the hallmark of a great show. - Hey, so on a similar topic, someone hated on a band I love to me again. AGAIN. Why would you do that! If a person says, "Oh mans, I heart that band and everything they do," why would you assume they're remotely interested in a nice tall glass of your haterade? "HEY, I HATE YOUR TASTE, AND DON'T RESPECT YOU ENOUGH TO HIDE IT." Uh, thanks, douchebag.
Afterwards, the thought occurred to me for about the 80 millionth time since entering this fandom: anyone who assumes that I, in my personal social context, like a band because they're popular in the mainstream is pretty fucking delusional. Actually, this bothers me A LOT. I constantly get shit for liking these bands because a lot of their other fans are in middle school, correct? Well, I am NOT in middle school. My friends are college kids who listen to indie rock, and I have a hell of a lot more to lose by talking openly about Fall Out Boy than I would by talking about the Magnetic Fields, whom I also adore. It would be a hell of a lot more conformist of me, given who I hang out with, to pretend I DON'T like pop music.
When people tell me "That band is shitty," 99% of the time, what they actually mean is "Lots of 'cool' people dislike that band." Whereas I listen to the music, talk honestly and openly about how it affects me, and get slammed for it. Yeah, you can take your fucking "cred" and shove it up your ass. I love what I love, unashamedly, unironically, and without reference to what other people think, and I'll take that honest joy over hipster points any day of the week.
I have not yet encountered the person who will respond to me saying "I love My Chemical Romance" with "Oh, really? I haven't listened to much of their stuff, but that one song is really catchy," but if and when I do? I am buying that person a fucking drink.
Whoa, sorry, got a little over-defensive there. Preaching to the choir, I'm sure! Whatever, let's talk about happy pothead monotone-y floral-scarved Ryan Ross some more. HE WANTS YOU TO HAVE SOME SOUP. SOUP IS GOOD FOR YOU. JUST WAIT HERE HE WILL BRING YOU A BOWL OKAY. - ALSO YOU GUYS YOU GUYS GUESS WHAT. Pete's favorite Care Bear is Grumpy Bear. Or, in other words, Slave Bear of Care-A-Lot. Guyyyys I want to send him a Q&A linking to that story so bad it hurts me inside.
- Wow, I didn't even know this could happen, but I got embarrassment squicked by an article someone requested at work today! The title of this article is, I shit you not, "Studying Zinc Biology with Fluorescence: Ain't We Got Fun?" It makes me want to crawl into a hole and cry.
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Dude, this totally happened to me in a bar last weekend. I, um,
was trashed enough to do a rendition of House of Wolvesmentioned something about MCR at the world's shadiest bar in the world and this girl was like, "I LOVE GERARD WAY. LET ME BUY YOU A DRINK."It was awesome.
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I WANT THAT ON A T-SHIRT SO BAD NOW.
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Re this.
Copypasted from a chat with
me: YAYE
glomps
AW BLESS.
first person to write ryan/travie wins the internet
Q: for real
HIVEMIND. \o/
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And for all the people who are drinking the haterade, just tell them, "I'm sorry you hate fun. :(" Because chances are they are music snobs who need to lighten up and stop taking it all so seriously.
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I might legit use that line sometime. I am sorry they hate fun! It's pretty fucking unfortunate!
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I think what I mean is "We don't like the same bands but I get the same shit anyway!"
Though word to the Magnetic Fields. &hearts
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It's almost as bad as hating on tattoos someone already has to their face. AAARGH.
Yayyy, we can form an alliance! Band fans against shitty haters! <3
The Magnetic Fields = awesomesauce, it is true!
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Yeah, you can take your fucking "cred" and shove it up your ass. I love what I love, unashamedly, unironically, and without reference to what other people think, and I'll take that honest joy over hipster points any day of the week.
JESUS FUCKING YES THANK YOU! Just...yeah. Seriously.
Also, boas and prancing are totally the hallmark of a great show and if anyone were to send Pete a link to that fic I'm pretty sure the combination of SO FUCKING AWESOME and OMG PLEASE NO would kill me. I also don't think I'd mind, really. ;)
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Dude, SERIOUSLY. I don't understand why this is so hard for some people to grasp! Life is too short to try and like only the things other people will approve of. D:
Ahahaha, oh god, honestly? That is the only fanfiction ever that I'd kind of want Pete to read. Well, that and the Transformers slashfic someone wrote. AMAZING.
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Because, see, okay. Like - I don't generally talk about the things I love to people who don't already love them, just because that's the way I am - and, you know, I'm okay with that. I wish it weren't so, sometimes, because I would love to be able to spread things I loved more easily - but, dude, whatever. I'm such a midwesterner it hurts sometimes - so whatever, so get over it.
But at the same time? the one thing, I have realized, the one thing that I really cannot stand in this world is motherfucking ironic love. Just - what is that shit? I don't get it. I am not interested in being detached from the things I love, I'm not interested in denying or laughing at how much I love them - I just want to love them. Loving stuff and hating it? sure. Loving stuff and thinking that it's kind of stupid? rock on! but, just - I don't even know. I get pissy when people talk about love as being stupid, because it really, really isn't.
(and, obviously, I am preaching to the choir in a big way, here - but I needed to say that, I guess.)
(ALSO I WANT RYAN ROSS TO BRING ME HIS SOUP. I BET IT TASTES AWESOME. I BET HE WATCHES YOU TO MAKE SURE YOU DRINK EVERY SINGLE DROP.)
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(HIS SOUP IS INDEED DELICIOUS. AFTERWARDS HE WILL BRING YOU A BLANKET AND A HOT WATER BOTTLE AND ASK YOU ABOUT YOUR DAY. RYAN ROSS CARES!)
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And now I'm starting to realize how lucky I am to not only be in this fandom, but to also be friends with people in real life who barely listen outside Top 40 radio, heh. "Fall Out Boy? Um...oh yeah, that one song!" *facepalm*
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Music snobs, man. I can't get behind that action. D:
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I choose to believe this is a shout-out to Gerard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3guiCm-lA8
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College students are, bizarrely, MORE CONFORMIST. WHAT. It's like they can't handle me liking The Books and Fall Out Boy at the same time. GET YOUR PRETENTIOUS HEADS OUT OF YOUR FAT ASSES ASSHATS.
[cough]
I'm okay now.
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*pats you* IT'S OKAY BB, WE CAN BE UNIRONIC TOGETHER.
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(and yet? ♥!!)
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<3333333333333 (DID YOU KNOW RYRO USED TO END HIS LJ COMMENTS WITH A LESS THAN THREE. WHAT. AMAZING.)
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Also, I need some Travis/Ryan fic. I...just, Travis's hand on Ryan's hip! Ryan kissing Travis's cheek! How they obviously just got high together and fucked!
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I stopped to visit friends on Wednesday--the day after Projekt Rev in my hometown, SLIGHTLY LESS THAN 24 HOURS AFTER MEETING BOB MOTHERFUCKING BRYAR, and my friend Jeff (whom I adore and respect as a musician) was all "they're musically generic" and OMG I WANTED TO KICK HIM.
So I was like "Man, you want to hate on me, let me tell you about my Fall Out Boy concert experience in May when I met all of them, too!" WAY TO HARSH MY CONCERT BUZZ.
Anyway. I had to rant here.
And yes, RyRo what is UP with me adoring you lately? UGH.
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I will freely admit that I saw a fourteen-year-old boy in a parking lot the other day wearing an MCR t-shirt I desperately wanted to go up to him and have an Unironic Love Fest, but did not for fear of being cruised by a fourteen-year-old boy. Seriously. This is the one area in which I actually do feel like an emo teenager, because NO ONE UNDERSTANDS MY LOVE EXCEPT YOU GUYS ON THE INTERNET.
P.S. You like Degrassi *and* Boy Meets World? You're awesome. Because IT GOES THERE.
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Dude. Whole buckets of word on that one. I mean, I remember back years ago when I used to think that what music you listened to made you cool. Except the "cool" genre changed as the years passed, and now I've just come to realize that while my main type of music is this so-called "indie," I do like quite a wide variety. And yeah, it's always pretty saddening when people, especially my friends, don't like my favorite bands.
I also didn't realize that MCR had this kind of reputation, since I got introduced to them by this wrestler guy in my house.
Speaking of which, I have you to think for this huge crush I am developing on Gerard Way.
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3. Yes, yes and yes! I have sort of terrible taste in music. Really, I carry the same vague shame about my music collection that many of my friends have about their supernatural romances collections. But the thing is? While I know how 'uncool' my listening choices are, I feel very strongly about them and really, really hate taking flak over it. I LIKE what I listen to, and I don't get what the person being critical gets out of trying to convince me to hate it instead.
I just got tagged with that "seven songs you love right now" meme, and I kinda don't want to play? Because while most of my flist will simply shake their heads buy not type a word, there is one person who I KNOW will be shitty about whatever I put up there. Because he is a musician and apparently required to be shitty about pop music as a result. And I don't get it, and I don't want to deal with it.
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Fuck music snobs. As long as the people write their own shit and play their own instruments and I like it I don't give a fuck if they sold 4 albums or 4 million. The only thing that really makes me turn my nose up at a musician is a fucked up message. That's why I avoid mainstream rap but Pete can emo all over me all day long bb.
I need Tryan porn real bad. My girl parts DEMAND it. I don't even want butt fucking. I want making out, blow jobs, and frot. Lots of hot frot because their both straight and that is my kink! Strait boys fuxin'.
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So I mentioned to my boss at work I was going to Download (the big rock music festival) to see MCR. He didn't know of course what it was or who MCR were, and nor did any of them (old) people sitting around me. But he was COMPLETELY HORRIFIED to discover I was going, and presumably,god knows why, went home and was horrified at his wife that I was going, and all of this led to him, somehow, arrived at him coming in to work on the Monday after the show and telling me how (a) his 18 y.o. nephews had been at Download, and therefore I shouldn't have been there and (b) that MCR, according to them and therefore him, was the WORST BAND IN THE WORLD EVER, and SERIOUSLY, WHAT WAS I THINKING TO PAY MONEY TO SEE THEM?
No, really. HE HATED ON MY BAND WITHOUT EVER HAVING HEARD OF THEM. And then he told me, when I said in his hearing I'd been in the pit about 7 people back from the barrier, that HIS OPINION OF ME HAD CHANGED (evidently not for the better) because I didn't seem to realize that I WAS TOO OLD FOR THAT. (To which my response was: I'm 31. I'm not dead.)
In the last few weeks, I've had versions of the same. My mother told me that I should have "got all this concert-going" out of my system as a teenager (in spite of the fact she would have died if I had tried to do all this as a teenager) and not now I'm in my 30s, and seriously, I should maybe STOP NOW.
Hi, dear world. I don't have to stop liking new music and going to shows just because I passed 30. Remarkably, the three at the beginning does not mean I am DEAD OR CLOSE TO IT.
On the whole, it's easier to just not talk about it. The sad part is I can't buy merch because from October I will be at university, where there will be thousands of people emotionally invested in hating the stuff I listen to, who will already hate me for being 10-13 years older than them.
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"I don't like that kind of music, you know, but I was watching MTV the other day in the house by myself and that Black Parade song came on? Um, I might have danced around a little bit."
Adorable! Gerard Way: Getting Trendies Moving. This is my way of saying fuck yeah, don't you hate it when people badmouth stuff you like just, I don't know, for the sake of it? Like, differing opinions are fine, but keep your bittercakes for yourself! I do not care for them!
This is OT, but neat
Its Gee and a fan with the Wolf MCR shirt in the same pic.
Its awesome. (http://community.livejournal.com/chemicalromance/2893304.html)