joe did a little demo of their tour setup with his tech ben (who some of you might remember as the guy who filled in for joe during his hiatus!) on instagram and i thought it was cool so im reuploading it here for posterity
I FINISHED IT. WITH 45 MINUTES TO SPARE. TOOK ME 8 HOURS BUT
click for quality. it looks SO much better when you click i prommy!!!
inspired by @strawberryprism's discussion about what cookies the boys would be. we have:
Oatmeal Honey cookie (Pete)
Peanut Butter cookie (Andy)
Meringue cookie (Joe) (The colors represent how meringue looks when torched!)
Shortbread (Orange) Pinwheel cookie (The stripes in his hair are the pinwheel pattern!)
its done 💪 im so happy this took SO long but we stay silly 💪 they are just cookies...escaped the oven...do not separate them!! they are a four count cookie pack!!
okay but when the apocalypse is the idea you’re never gonna make it past a certain age or milestone but then guess what you made it to the other side but like you didn’t die you’re still here and everything is going to be okay and you want to go back in time and tell your younger self that you love them and that they will make it through and there is life beyond your perceived end
also you might get turned into a raccoon so that’s cool
chicago n2! chicago n2! chicago n2! so excited for us to play again, you probably know the drill but leave your surprise song guesses in the tags or replies 💗 and if you’re right you get a shoutout from a tumblr mega blog (me)
i am going to guess stay beautiful and dear reader
hard agree on the merch hot take. idc if they're my favorite band in the entire world; I like their music, not them. I don't know them!! so I'm never rlly inclined to wear or buy merch that has faces; they're just some guys.
tangentially, (& I don't want this to come off rude to anyone, b/c ik I'm in the minority w/ this opinion) but my lack of focus on band members is one of the reasons I've avoided bandom spaces until recently; I like the music, but the band members are just People to me. like, sure, they seem cool, but I've never rlly understood why I need to be paying attention to them outside of an artistic lens. idk just in general fans/merch/everything puts too much focus on the People & it weirds me out a little.
yeah i do relate to that. like, not exactly, i very obviously care about the people, and specifically with fall out boy i am genuinely endeared by their friendship with each other, but ultimately i care about them insofar as they are the minds and hearts behind the art that i like. i respect them, i look up to them, i think theyre extremely skilled, but like... for example in interviews the thing i care most about is not talk about their relationship to each other or anything like that, though i do like that. its questions about the music. what ideas were they exploring, what were they thinking when writing different songs, what was the goal, what was left on the cutting room floor, what was the process. i want to know as much about the art as possible. i am interested in them as people because it tells me more about the art. i am not interested in the art because it tells me more about them as people. does that make sense?
i do understand you though. i mean a large part of my presence in this community is music analysis and reading fobs work through a black lens. i dont seriously speculate on their lives. dont like to, dont want to. i notoriously do not like rpf and part of that is like, a fundamental distaste for it generally, though i understand that at the end of the day its the same thing as any fantasy, just on a community scale, but part of it is that i just dont come here for the members of fall out boy. i came for the music, i stay for the music, the guys being interesting and having a genuine friendship with each other is a really nice bonus, but. i like their music and music making ability and insight on music making. thats what i like about them. their music.
i thought the beginning part of the background music for the claymation teaser sounded an awful lot like the guitar riffs we got at the end, and it turns out someone on the fob subreddit agreed and spliced the two together. uploading here for posterity!
TOG Head canon: Nicky plays string instruments. Not on purpose so much as he sometimes picks up the things Joe tries and tires of (yes Adhd!Joe) and quietly becomes competent. Guitar, Piano, even for a time the violin. He rarely plays for an audience, is not as comfortable in the spotlight as Joe, but it makes him happy to make music. The one instrument he cannot play very well is the Cello. Not because he doesn’t have the skill, its that he cannot practise. Or rather he cannot be left alone to practise. Because Nicky, sat wrapped around a cello, all thighs and hands and shoulders and hair and fierce concentration? It. drives. Joe. WILD. There isn’t a piece of cello music Nicky has started that Yusuf *deer fingers gif* al Kaysani hasn’t interrupted for.. reasons.
(Sorry. I just needed everyone else to also be picturing Luca Marinelli playing the cello because my brain did a thing)🎻
guitarist nicky is SO so important to me i spend a lot of time thinking about him and violinist nile dueting. but in general music nicky is very important to me like i just think hed like it. i like to think about him playing piano or guitar or something with joe in the same room sitting on the floor and resting his head on nicky's leg with his eyes closed,,,,,,, just listening to him play,,,,,, i Love Them. so yeah to all of this
i am actually never going to get over how eddie munson has become such a special and well received character that almost everyone loves and how much it’s reflecting back on joe with how much love and support he’s been given by everyone