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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

[torakowalski.livejournal.com]

I really don't know much about FOB or FOB fanfic (except for how I like pretty much all fic that pairs Patrick with people not in his band, and Andy/Matt Mixon), and I also don't like Andy Hurley :(

HOWEVER, Folie a Deux is one of my favourite albums ever, bandom or otherwise!

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

Hai, bb, we're in total agreement there. Like, on all counts. I also love Pete/Joe, Patrick/Pete, and Patrick/Joe. See, with fic I'm on firmer ground. (Oh, nokomis305's last post was one where she asked people to rec FOB fics, I think. In case you're missing some crucial ones.)

\o/ Awesome. One of my favorite songs of theirs (don't ask me what it's called, pls) is from that album.

[iamsupernova.livejournal.com]

Pete/Joe, Patrick/Pete and Patrick/Joe! Yes! These are good pairings. A lot of people like Patrick/Bob, which I generally don't read, but I have in my time read one or two interesting fics with that pairing. People also seem to like Patrick/Gerard, which I never understood.

[harborshore.livejournal.com]

I actually really like Patrick/Bob. But, um, I can generally be convinced of the virtue of most pairings, even really outlandish ones. I mean, it's just love, right? *grins* I don't think I've ever skipped a fic because of its pairing (though I completely understand doing so)--the whole polyfannish ficreading/lurking that eventually got me here started as a quest for good writing, which tends to be what gets me, even now.

Idk if that makes sense, I'm kind of achy and at work and stuff. :D