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[harborshore]

First things first, is anyone else having trouble with Gmail? I am, in Firefox but not in Safari. But Google is working just fine. *hands* I don't understand, and my internet is also currently running at a snail's pace, so I can't use my usual tools for figuring out what's wrong. DAMMIT. ETA: OH THANK GOD, it's working again.

But much more importantly, I'm slowly but surely becoming really interested in, you know, Patrick Stump. And Joe Trohman. Even Pete Wentz. Admittedly, I don't really like Andy Hurley, but I'm starting to love the band he's in.

Really, all of you, feel free to snicker at me. I'm the slowest of the slow, I'm well aware of this fact. I'm just sort of startled by this development--I've been reading fic about them for longer than I've been interested in MCR (in case I haven't shared this yet, my bandom origins story goes: Pete/Patrick porn; Weekenders; a lot more fic; hearing the Black Parade and going huh, I like the way the song changes throughout; hearing Teenagers; and then seeing that clip where Gerard tells the girls in his audience to spit in the faces of dudes who tell them to take their shirts off. And that was IT. Of course, it took me another, uh, nine months to get a livejournal. SLOWEST OF THE SLOW.

Anyway, FOB. For the sake of my new-found fascination with them and for the sake of the sequel to my big bang (which is partly in Patrick pov, it seems), I would deeply appreciate a link to your favorite/canon-defining/OTP-defining/etc/whatever interview/blogpost/photo shoot/etc. Basically if you link me to something, I'll be really, really grateful. OH, I almost forgot--tell me your favorite FOB album.

Comments

[justsomehippie.livejournal.com]

so, i don't have many interviews saved. D: but i do have some fic. all three are pete/patrick (i hope that's okay; i recced them because of the authenticity of the characterizations and the really fantastic dynamics between the two of them. and that's my otp, so. .__.)

first off, A Stitch Away From Making it (A Scar Away From Falling Apart) (http://femmequixotic.livejournal.com/276577.html) by femmequixotic, because of the amazing relationship dynamic. this is the most true-to-form relationship between the two of them that i have ever seen (or, at least, the one that i find to be the most likely. i've never actually met them, sadly).

second, Stereo Field (http://normalhumanbein.livejournal.com/25632.html) by normalhumanbein, because it's amazing. the pete/patrick is mostly implied here, but the characterization is just as fantastic.

third, i took my time (i hurried up) (http://fidelian.livejournal.com/15596.html) by fidelian, because, again, characterization. (i'm sure you've caught on to the pattern by now.) it's a bit different than the other ones, but that's because of the AU setting.

and as for my favorite album... i don't really have one. i love all their albums pretty much equally - except for evening out with your girlfriend, oh lord my ears :( - so i compiled a ZIP of my favorite songs. :P and since i put almost all the songs from take this to your grave on there, i guess that one could be considered my favorite. here's the link. (http://www.mediafire.com/?ljt2zow4owj)

haha, wow. sorry for the tl;dr-ness of this. .__. i just get excited when i know something, y'know. \o/

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

Hee, never apologize for babbling. :D And thank you for the fic recs! I love that first one, but I don't think I've read the other two. And for the SONGS, yay! It's super-late here so I'm kind of falling asleep right now but I just wanted to thank you before I did. *grins*

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

Seriously, thank you for the songs! *is gleefully listening*