RYAN ROSS BIRTHDAY CAKE 🎂, i just absolutely adore all of his writing-- from p!atd to tyv to his solo work. every single piece he writes has a way of resonating with me, so of course i had to celebrate the day he was born because without his work who knows where or who i would be today.
i can make the bad list by Z Berg and Ryan Ross about satosugu (big news for me, someone who used to be on mcrtwt (and by extension bandom twt) who also has satosugu brain rot
if Ryan Ross singing ‘Northern Downpour’ in 2019 doesn’t make you emotional can we at least talk about the fact how everyone in the audience remembered all of the lyrics and started singing the background vocals???
September 2k19 I flew to Denver with one of my best friends to see the Dead End Kids Club, a little tour Z Berg did with all her pals and exes (I envy her ability to gather all the tall handsome exes around herself to sing songs they wrote about each other, such a power move).
I spent a bunch of time sculpting tiny little undead representations of everyone in the tour and gave them little candy bags.
I made this little sculpted version of Ryan Ross's Billy Butcherson costume from a few Halloweens before because I thought it was super fun.
When I gave it to him he was like 'oh my god can I eat this? I'm so hungry' and I said 'technically yes in the way you can eat anything but this is Sculpey so I wouldn't recommend it. There's a bunch of candy though, go wild.'
Later after the show he was hanging out by the merch table and talking to people and signing things and I was like 'maybe this is weird but I had you write some lyrics for a tattoo earlier this year and I got it like the next day, wanna see?' and he was like ABSOLUTELY and asked if he could hold onto my wrist to see it.
(it says 'i wasn't born to be a skeleton' because I'm a pretty. odd. girly and it's one of my favorite lines. When I had him write it he was like 'Whoa that's such a good line, people don't ask for it'. He also told me he loved my cape, that he was a cape man.)
I was like 'oh sorry if this is weird actually, I bet it's weird to see stuff like that' and he met my eyes super seriously and said 'NO it's not weird, it's an honor. You only have so much skin and you gave some to me!'
Anyway he's a weirdo and I wish he was my irl bestie because I think sculpting severed heads and thanking people for their skin is on a similar field.
I am an sfx artist and have been forever, and if you had told me as a teen this photo would exist I would have called you a liar right to your face.