#ryan ross appreciation

[camjsad0]

pretty odd appreciation <333 >_<

[missm0rgue]

AFYCSO moodboard cause this album has me in a chokehold currently

[soup-is-nice-sometimes]

warning brendon mention + also excessive usage of brackets and like no punctuation/formatting except for paragraph breaks iM SORRY

sick and tired of ppl saying panic went to shit after ryan and jon left like yes it downgraded (compared to afycso my fave album from them) B U T ian (even tho he was only there for a few years) and dallon (who stayed on til 2017 oh how he put up with a lot of bs over the years) rlly kept it from tanking in those key years imo

like dallon is credited w writing most of v&v (with the exception of "nearly witches" - ryan wrote that) and all of twtltytd (is that even the album name idk i dont rlly listen to post ryan panic sorry not sorry) and he played bass not only for the end of pretty odd touring but also as part of the band til 2015 and then continued touring til 2017 (plus apparently brendon stopped him from releasing a song w 21 pilots which is actually why im writing this lmfao) like

dallons writing was on a similar level to ryans and it feels mean/unfair to reduce those albums that he did write to "shit" bc ryan wasnt there

and yes doab has a couple of bops (crazy = genius and also la devotee imo) but overall they dont cancel out what is mostly a shit album (ok yes dont threaten me w a good time is okay too but he did NOT make those high heels work good lord) esp cause there were literally none of the ogs except brendon on that)

and ofc pftw is ass if i ever hear high hopes or hey look ma i made it i actively try and leave wherever i am (they fucking played high hopes at a skate night i went to WHEN I WAS COSPLAYING RYAN ROSE VEST)

also side note fuck u brendon for continuing to play camisado after ryan left even tho it was like the one song he asked you to stop performing it cause it was rlly personal to him AND YOU DIDNT LISTEN (ofc all the songs were personal to him but camisado was one of the ones that he specifically drew on his experiences w/ his father to write)

also side note 2 imo panic died when spencer left (2013) but was temporarily revived til dallon left (2017) and brendons been dragging its corpse around for the last 6 years. and idc what anyone says the touring artists he played with do not count as panic cause no offence but like their title says theyre TOURING ARTISTS (like how dallon didnt consider himself a part of panic when he was touring w em til they asked him officially and then when he "stopped contributing creatively" - his words) like i rlly doubt ppl can name them off the top of their heads (altho theyre underappreciated for dealing w brendon)

if you've read this far PLEASE feel free to comment (? is taht what its called here) and/or reblog w ur additions/opinions im fairly open-minded abt others ideas!

[lovearsonist]

the young veins instagram story needs to stop teasing me because i kick my feet and giggle thinking they announced their reunion and its a silly little polaroid of ryan

[lovesgoneinsane]

[fulcrum021]

Alright Mr. Skywalker if you’re gonna have that dumbass bowl cut you’re gonna have to fully commit

[crime-scene-psychic]

Fall out boy releasing a banger new album and panic at the disco finally being put out of its misery perfectly balanced as all things should be

[britneyshakespeare]

omg you're also in "had one extremely popular post in the 2010s and every once in a while people remember again that it was you and are like :0" club. nice

bestie i must know what your popular post was now

[starboy14176]

My drafts r where the panic! posts you guys don’t deserve live

[specters]

i think the only album i know EVERY single lyric to EVERY song is a fever you cant sweat out by p!atd...... literally i listened to that shit so much as a teenager that it's forever engrained into my mind. i still love it idc

[camjsad0]

★ A fever you can’t sweat out appreciation >_<

[totalshockwaves]

As ryan ross fan in their mid20s gatekeeper ryan ross seems so funny because I feel us older fans are doing the opposite like we are ryan ross propaganda we will not let his legacy be forgotten

lol yeah the difference between these teen/really young and older fans is funny like older fans really have been out here like fucking ryro's witnesses; missionaries keeping his art alive lol (doing more promo for ryan than anyone else except maybe z lol)

tbf some of these people are "joking" but like..."many a true word is spoken in jest" and you can 100% tell when someone does like 20 posts in a row about having to gatekeep lol. it's pretty typical of teens to be pretentious and gatekeep-y lol (like teen ryan himself was towards pre-mainstream fob lol), so I can't be mad at them, but...dude was the lyricist and guitarist of one of the most popular bands of 2005 to 2009, and arguably one of, if not the most beloved member(s) lol sooooo...

[lie2thetruth]

I need more appreciation for 1800s homeless Ryan Ross. It can't just be me that likes this

[viccharine]

do you guys ever listen to a band so much that you end up making fake merch for it?

(reblogs greatly appreciated!!!!)

close ups and commentary under the cut!

about the poster itself: do you guys know how hard it is to make art for a band that hasn’t been active in 13 years? the answer is HARD (yes, i probably could done research and looked for old interviews for inspiration but who has time for that)

—> the icons related to “take a vacation!” are inspired by lyrics from the song “take a vacation!” (haha, did you see what I did there?) specifically, the lines “we’ll leave the waves at the ocean” and “we’ll leave the sand in a suitcase”

—> the Jon Walker and Ryan Ross icons are taken directly from the album cover (it took ten years off my life trying to figure out how to get them on here w/ the color palette—graphic design may be my passion but I never said i was GOOD at it)

—> the heart imagery comes from the fact that the band’s called “the young VEINS”—although it annoys me IMMENSELY that i technically drew more arteries than veins in the icons (my anatomy teacher would be so disappointed, but alas, anatomical accuracy had to be sacrificed to make it. yknow. look nice)

—> i did hand-lettering for all the text except for everything that’s in Helvetica (i did THAT in canva). the art program i use has a basically unusable text tool so I was forced to draw all of it, so I choose to believe that the reason why it doesn’t look. the best. is because of the caffeine shakes

some extra commentary: am I the only one who’s genuinely REALLY bad at listening to music? i don’t really get into bands as much as i just find songs that sound nice—to illustrate the extent of this issue: i did NOT know that Brendon Urie was a part of Panic! At the Disco. I’m not even kidding, I thought the artist who made Death of a Bachelor and the artist who made A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out were completely different and just. didn’t bother to check if I was right.

also, I’m not the type of person to be interested in band lore???? I rarely know the names of band members if even I’ve listened to the band for years (I really couldn’t care less in most situations)

case in point, i did not know who the FUCK Ryan Ross was!!! i knew he was in p!atd but that’s literally about it—before a couple of days ago if you asked to me pick out either Ryan Ross or Jon Walker from a line up I would not be able to get even CLOSE

anyway, my friend/manager is really into band lore, so I basically got a crash-course in all things “early to late 2000s emo band” and subsequently found out about the Young Veins (i was also extremely disappointed when I found out they only had one album and hadn’t been active in over a decade) THEN I realized that decade old, inactive bands don’t usually have merch, so I made my own! “merch” used lightly—i don’t think this is actually fit to sell lol

anyway that’s all k thanks byeee :D!! (and go stream the young veins!!)

[girlmikeyway]

genuinely i appreciate dallon weekes so much. dude wanted to learn guitar but wasn't allowed to get one until his midlate teens, then promptly switched to bass instead. went off and started the brobecks even though his family didn't want him to go into music, and ended up enjoying decent success on the utah scene. met his future wife over myspace, then actually met her for real on very short notice when he needed a place for the brobecks to crash for the night in la after a show. fell in love with said wife over the course of that night and has written multiple songs about it since. showed up to audition for panic! at the disco without knowing how to play any of their songs. came back a little later and got the gig anyway. wrote some of patd's best music after ryan ross. during that time wrote more than one song supporting his wife's bi/pansexuality. stayed tethered to patd for most of the 2010s, then decided 'fuck this' in his mid-30s and left to start a band for shits and giggles that denied its existence for a wholeass year. said band has since grown into a kickass indie pop act and dallon has incredible stage presence, with a voice and range better than brendon urie's in the present day and very gender-envy worthy energy to boot. what an icon