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19 • bisexual • he/zir/it • uk!! • white • dms open!!! • #1 brewer

About 21 or so years ago, as I was applying to colleges I would ultimately never go to, Fall Out Boy began as a little pop punk side project of what we assumed was Pete’s more serious band Arma Angelus. We were sloppy and we couldn’t solidify a lineup, but the three of us (Pete, Joe, and I) were having way too much fun to give up on it.

We were really rough around the edges. As an example of how rough, one of my favorite teachers pulled me aside after hearing the recording that would become “Evening Out With Your Girlfriend,” and tactfully said “What do you think your best instrument is Patrick? Drums. It’s drums. Probably not singing Patrick.” 

We went into Smart Studios with the Sean O’Keefe…. So there we were, 3/5 of a band with a singer who’d only been singing a year, no drummer, and one out of two guitarists. But we had the opportunity to record with Sean and record at Butch Vig’s legendary studio.

8 or so months later, Fueled By Ramen would give us a contract to record the remaining songs. We’d sleep on floors, eat nothing but peanut butter and jelly, live in a van for the next 3 years, and somehow in spite of that eventually play with Elton John and Taylor Swift and Jay-Z and for President Obama and for the NFC championship, and all these other wildly unpredictable and unlikely things. But none of that would ever come close to happening if Andy hadn’t made it to the session and Joe hadn’t dragged us kicking and screaming into being a band. 

Happy 20th birthday Take This To Your Grave, you weird brilliant lightning strike accident of a record that absolutely changed my life. 

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p.s. just dropped some TTTYG anniversary merch in our webstore to celebrate. also working on something special for a vinyl reissue but you’ll have to wait a sec on that one 🤐

what was pete on when he wrote favorite record. you were the song stuck in my head. every song that i've ever loved. played again and again and again. and you can get what you want but its never enough. LITERALLY INSANE can you imagine someone saying that to you. you are every song that i've ever loved. i'd die.

noises of a horrified archivist

what was pete on when he wrote favorite record. you were the song stuck in my head. every song that i've ever loved. played again and again and again. and you can get what you want but its never enough. LITERALLY INSANE can you imagine someone saying that to you. you are every song that i've ever loved. i'd die.

frank and pete invented girlblogging i stand by that

bruise-posting, bloody lip update, vague but not vague enough depression poetry, rancid energy, cancelled pussy, porn gifs, amateur photography, public yearning, rotting in bed, the worst best playlist you’ve ever heard posted at 3:58 am 🎀🖤⛓

i cannot stress enough this is a real pete wentz tumblr post

Things I want to see in future sequals to the Mario Film. Because we all know they're gonna make a franchise out of this.

Yoshi!!! YOSHIE!!!! Mario meeting him would be super cute.

Luigi focused film. Imagine Luigis Mansion!!! Or King Boo!!! THE GHOSTS!!!! Or, at the very least, Luigi meeting the tomb boy, Princess Daisy.

Which brings me to Rosalina!!! Mario Galaxy!!! LUMAS!!! More Lumas!!!

And I want more of Peachs back story. Maybe she can meet Daisy and Rosalina in the sequel and realize she's not the only human who got sucked into that world. And maybe find out with their help on how she got there.

And of course, more Bowser musical numbers!