#bandom icons

[release-the-mccracken]

[cryptophasiac]

she’s so ethel cain coded (family tree (intro) by ethel cain // 2000s teen magazine // Joe Simpson interviewed in the New York Times, 2004 // childhood photo of Jessica Simpson and Ashlee Simpson // ptolemaea by ethel cain // ABC news 2004 // Joe Simpson with grandson Bronx // sun bleached flies by ethel cain // NYT 2004 article // Ashlee and Jessica Simpson, 2004 // ABC news 2004 // strangers by ethel cain // J-14 magazine 2004 // Ashlee’s blog, October 2004 // anti-ashlee myspace icon // gibson girl by ethel cain // Blender Magazine 2006 // NYT 2004 // Ashlee in 2004 // strangers by ethel cain // Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz // Ashlee and Pete on New Years 2007 // ptolemaea by ethel cain // they did what on livejournal // Ashlee at the 2008 VMAs // Perez Hilton // american teenager by ethel cain // Ashlee drunk at a basketball game // Perez Hilton on the Ashlee v Michelle Trachtenberg fight // celeb gossip site on Ashlee being drunk at Pete’s birthday)

[atlasghoul]

we, as a society, failed cobra starship because who else can write these lyrics and get away with it !!!

[gerardwayfinalgirl]

[gerard way voice] yeah im wearing a t shirt with edward cullens face on it robert pattinson is so fucking handsome i watched the batman twice in a row ive written “i wanna watch you turn into a werewolf” on the drum anyway this song is called vampire money and its about how much i fucking hate twilight lets do this

[secret-vampkissers-soiree]

This is my moodboard for @evensquirrellier 's story room for one more (troubled soul) as part of the Bandom Big Bang 2023! It's a very imaginative and emotional story, and I definitely recommend checking it out!

Image sources below the cut:

The cloud photography used in the background is my own (fun fact, the clouds in this edit are a combination from pictures I took in airplanes over England, Texas, and the Virgin Islands); bus window overlay drawn from here (image).

Piano picture / motel picture

Bus picture with my own text edit featuring lyrics from The Last Goodbye by Billy Boyd

Bridge picture with my own text edit featuring lyrics from The Last Goodbye by Billy Boyd

You already know this one but here

Card tower / Lake

All color editing/resizing/reframing is my own.

General disclaimer--I mostly saved these pictures off of google images and then later reverse image searched to grab the sources for this post, so they may not be the purest original sources for the images in all cases, nor have I vetted the sites I found them on.

Find this also on AO3 (I've never posted a moodboard on AO3 before but it's part of the BBB!) (Link pending/post under construction--I'll edit the link in once I have it posted to AO3 as well)

And don't forget to read Squirrel's great fic!

[cricketandclover]

it might not seem like it. but i am a panic blog first and everything else second ☝️

[stigmateo]

2015 and you’re making shitty lyric edits of panic at the disco songs to post on tumblr you blink it’s 2023 you’re not even lying when you put “proficient in photoshop” on your resume

[minnesotanaccent]

SOBBING JUST LISTENED TO THE LITTLE SNIPPET OF THE MEW FOB SONG IM CRYING I MISSED THEM SM ITS SO GOOD I AM STARVING I NEED MORE OMFG IM SO EXCITED FOR THIS NEW ALBUM AHHHHHHHJJJJJ

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

PRIDE DISCOURSE ITINERARY 2025

Someone starts “no furries at pride” and is relentlessly mocked by half the site.

Another wave of porn bots hits tumblr, stealing from popular hornyposters.

The creator of some popular flag is revealed to be violently racist. This alone does next to nothing, but when they made a slightly disparaging comment towards nonbinary people, the flag is dropped. Anyone who keeps it in their icon gets a death threat.

A new LGBT-friendly cartoon comes out. It gets canceled within days.

Photomatt retweets from Musk.

A fourteen-year-old misunderstands queer history in a poorly worded comment and is immediately told “kill yourself” by a popular trans funnywoman blog, age 24-30. Flame wars erupt on both sides. The teenager deactivates within a week.

The new scapegoat of the year: Feminine trans guys, for “appropriating womanhood” (????)

Gerard Way comes out as a trans woman and immediately loses half of the MCR “bandom” as a result. They’re mostly mad about losing their yaoi.

Forcemasc is deemed problematic.

“If you point out a trans woman being racist, you’re a transmisogynist and a social murderer, and should be blocked & reported by everyone” becomes a valid and frighteningly common position amongst the transfem separatist crowd.

”Are the trans staff members class traitors”, the longest reblog chain in the history of tumblr, crashed from lag after 22,358 consecutive contributions,

Someone makes a discourse gofundme and gets almost $5,000 within a week. It gets spent on weed.

Disney’s first gay character. Again.

[release-the-mccracken]

Oh, my gosh; Pete really IS a real-life Manic Pixie Dream Girl, isn't he?! The brightly dyed hair...the encyclopedic knowledge of obscure pop culture facts...the quirky sense of humor...the poetry...I feel like you've honestly just unlocked something for me, and it explains so much about him, and his whole dynamic with Patrick! Well caught!

Spot the difference challenge (level impossible)

[justpentdraws]

*Flops down on pillow and swings legs*

The band AU looks so cool tell us more 👁️👁️

so first of all - i'm so sorry you had to wait that long to get this answered! have a scar doodle as an apology.

second of all - let's begin! (click for more)

buttercups band au is set in a modern world (which means everyone is human) and focuses on the buttercups trio (scar, grian, mumbo) who are in a band together. they are rivals with another neighbouring band - a duo under the name of the perimeter, consisting of ren and doc. the rivalry is mostly friendly, the members of both bands know each other well and don't have any kind of actual discord between them. while the buttercups' music falls under the indie/indie folk label, the perimeter specialize in punk rock.

the buttercups live together with jellie (a cat that scar one day just brought home refusing to explain where did she come from) and sniffer (a large fluffy dog, who scar also brought home one day, but this time explaining that he'd found him on the street). both pets are loved by the fans and their friends, but by a twist of fate, doc happens to be allergic to dogs.

who is who:

mumbo - the buttercups' singer-songwriter and guitarist, though he mostly prefers to play an ukulele. super socially awkward when off stage and a certified funky glasses lover. enjoys plants a lot and often wears flower crowns and flower-themed hawaiian shirts.

grian - the buttercups' drummer. since one of the fans told him that a long expo photo of him playing looks like an angel, his theme became wings. never gets on stage without a pair of kinda-cringey fake wings on a headband.

scar - the buttercups' rythmic guitarist and/or a keytar player, sometimes doubling as a backup vocalist. in charge of the band's instagram account after he'd taken it over from grian. certainly a fan favourite, his email getting flooded with cat pictures that he asks for online.

doc - a drummer and guitarist of the perimeter. he bleaches his hair (though never the whole thing) and is a certified mesh shirt lover. a big fan of crossdressing who would certainly become a fashion icon if he cared just a little bit more.

ren - the perimeter's guitarist and vocalist. never seen on stage without his definetly-cringey wolf ears headband and an immortal red flannel shirt, which at this point might be more patches than original fabric. very open to fans, providing the perimeter a loving fan community.

less important characters:

martyn - an independent music creator under the name of littlewood monster (which is a bow towards another au of mine), known for his collabs with the perimeter duo.

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special pings: @fandoms-bandoms-andmentalissues, my buddy and cocreator who read my midnight rambles about it in the morning and bothered to reply to all of it. i'm sure they'll be thrilled to tell you about this au or some of theirs if you ask!

[x-on-the-calendar-business]

ryan ross iceberg explained (masterpost and tier 1)

tier 2, tier 3, tier 4, tier 5, tier 6, tier 7, tier 8

if somehow you have no idea how icebergs work/what they are, then i’ll give a tldr: it comes from the saying “it’s just the tip of the iceberg,” so basically, the entries at the top of the iceberg are the stuff the average person would know, and as you go deeper, the content becomes more obscure. for example, if you’re a more casual panic! fan, then a lot of the entries in the sky tier are more likely to be things you would know, whereas you’re probably only going to know the stuff at the very bottom if you’re an insane person (me).

i got most of the entries from this iceberg from a couple of others that i found on twitter, here and here [i]. i combined them, shifted some stuff around, and added some things to make this one. of course, a special thanks to the twitter users areyouIlooking and checkyesjuul for making the ones i used to create this one.

i also want to give a special shoutout to the tumblr blogs @pathetic-at-the-disco and @prettyoddfever because i got so much info from them for this iceberg and they are just incredible sources of information for panic! fans.

finally, i'm really hoping everything on this iceberg is correct; of course, i did my research and there was a lot of it i already knew. however, i was not actually there for presplit panic! so i can't speak off of firsthand accounts for a lot of things. with that being said, if something is wrong, or if there is something you think should be added, please feel free to let me know, and i will go back and edit the post.

enough introduction, let’s get started.

the sky (tier 1):

guitarist of panic!:

what he is most well known for. ryan was the original guitarist of panic! and one of the true founding members. he departed the band in 2009 with former bassist jon walker, which we’ll come back to later.

rosevest:

this refers to an iconic piece of clothing that ryan wore while they were touring their debut album, a fever you can’t sweat out. he wears it in live in denver as well.

(side note: the post i got this pic from is a very interesting look at their outfits from that tour so i would recommend checking it out here!) [ii]

good at makeup:

during the fever era, ryan was really well known for doing makeup looks, some elaborate. i’m inserting some examples here, but i’m also going to link a post that showcases more pics of the makeup looks he did. there are more that he did than just the ones shown in that post or here (like the god awful blue eyeshadow he did on that red carpet), and there were a lot of times he just did the classic black smudged eyeliner.

and the tumblr post as promised: the makeup styles ryan ross wore in summer 2006 [iii]

ryden:

oh boy, where do we even start with this one. there are actually going to be quite a bit of ryden references in this, but at the end i’ll link a masterpost for further reading (although most of it will be covered here). but to be keep it short and simple, ryden is the ship name for ryan ross and brendon urie. it was arguably one of the biggest ships in early 2000s bandom, as evidenced by the litany of fics written with them as a pairing. this ship (unfortunately) still lives on in people’s hearts today even though ryan and brendon don’t speak anymore.

also, i know it would seem to make more sense if their ship name was ryDON not ryDEN because of how brendon’s name is spelled, but the ship name comes from the mashing of their nicknames ryro and bden (which still doesn’t make any sense but i digress).

unfortunately, all of the ryden content on this iceberg will probably be long because i am a former rydennie (yes u can make fun of me for it go ahead) so i have a lot of knowledge on that ship. but trust me i know that ryden was not real.

“creative differences:”

this entry refers to the july 6th, 2009 split where ryan and jon left the band. the most cited reason for the split was musical differences, as stated in these interviews with brendon and spencer [iv]. however, most people believe the band actually split due to personal reasons since they basically all stopped speaking afterwards, and because of some comments jon made [v]. in fact, one MTV interview specifically singled out ryan and brendon as not getting along, but it has since been deleted [vi].

cheez wiz:

this references a clip from the pretty. odd. short-film called american valley [vii]. the video went viral circa 2015/2016 and became a huge meme in the bandom community, especially in the crankthatfrank yeemo fanbase (that sentence wasn’t in the bible). if you were a panic! fan during that time, you know the cheez wiz jokes were inescapable.

milk fic:

“ryan was kneeling in the bathtub…”

this is also unfortunate. to be blunt, this is a ryden fic in which brendon gives ryan an enema with milk. it catalyzed a trend of other shocking fics within the bandom sphere, such as the comb fic. it’s just cringy. sadly, it became so iconic that brendon knows about it and even made a vine referencing it [viii].

i would link it but i’m not going to because the author, druscila, is a pedophile. so there’s that.

onceler jokes:

i’m going to put a picture of the onceler, who is from the lorax, and ryan side by side. and that should explain this.

now let’s move on to the next tier.

tier 2

references:

[i] https://twitter.com/areyouiooking/status/1366887508441718790?s=46&t=srOJ3YueMMsx9_sm96odQQ, https://twitter.com/checkyesjuul/status/1368794897499615233?s=46&t=srOJ3YueMMsx9_sm96odQQ

[ii] https://prettyoddfever.tumblr.com/post/628882839458512896/panic-at-the-discos-2006-summer-tour-costumes

[iii] https://prettyoddfever.tumblr.com/post/629161631117656064/the-makeup-styles-ryan-ross-wore-in-summer-2006

[iv] https://patd.livejournal.com/2943372.html, https://patd.livejournal.com/2928377.html#cutid1

[v] https://oneweekoneband.tumblr.com/post/131968366779/jon-walker-and-ryan-ross-from-a-2009-interview-in

[vi] https://whisperdlullaby.livejournal.com/9051.html

[vii] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBot_X9pquo

[viii] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyWlisnfrm0

[livejournallegacy]

Coheed and Cambria primer for L.S. Dunes fans

Travis Stever and Claudio Sanchez are the two core members of Coheed and Cambria and have been since the bands inception in 1999. Coheed primarily makes concept albums based on Claudio's sci-fi comic series The Amory Wars.

The basic plot is that Coheed and Cambria Kilgannon are fighting against aspiring dictator Wilhelm Ryan, who started The Amory Wars with the goal to rule over the solar system Heaven’s Fence. Their son Claudio (we love a self insert) is a seemingly normal kid dragged into the fight, who may turn out to be the prophesied saviour.

"But what do they sound like?" Coheed mixes elements from a lot of genres and are most often described as prog rock. I would personally be more inclined to classify them as power metal or like, prog emo (emo used as a sort of catch all term for various pop influenced rock, metal, punk and hardcore music styles of the 00s). If you like Dunes there's definitely something in their discography you'd enjoy, especially given how similar Claudio and Anthony's vocals are.

You don't need to follow the storyline to enjoy their music though, here's a few of their more radio friendly songs I would recommend a new listener to start with:

Favor House Atlantic - every 00s band has at least one pop punk song

Ten Speed - slightly more prog influence, still pretty pop punk

Welcome Home - it's their most popular song for a reason

Shoulders - newer song, hard rock/metal vibes

Bonus: Jesse's Girl 2 ft Rick Springfield - Claudio wanted to write a sequel to Rick Springfield's 1981 classic Jesse's Girl, so he did.

If we define 'rock bands from the New York Metro area 1999-2002' as a scene, Coheed and Cambria were right there in the trenches with bands like Midtown, Taking Back Sunday, Thursday and My Chemical Romance. They were tour with these guys and most of the other "bandom" bands (The Used, Fall Out Boy, AFI etc.) and were hanging out in the background somewhere for a lot of iconic moments, like Warped 2004 (featured in LOTMS).

For example, you have probably seen a few photos of Adam and Gerard from backstage at the 2005 Concert for Tsunami Relief:

The handsome guy on the left is Claudio Sanchez ☝️

Or the 2003 Thursday/Thrice/Coheed tour which gave us some of the worlds most important images courtesy of Justin Borucki:

In a roundabout way Coheed is actually responsible for giving MCR their first big break. In 2002 they were opening for Jimmy Eat World and had to cancel a show last minute, they were replaced by MCR who had only released Bullets a month prior.

From Dan Ozzi's Sellout

So from what I can tell Travis has known Thursday and MCR since at least 2002 and Anthony since at least 2005 (Coheed/Thrice/Circa Survive tour). More recently Travis played with Thursday for their Signals V2 livestream (2021) and Coheed opened for MCROKC (2022).

I know I missed heaps of stuff but I hope this helps at least one Dunes fan understand Travis a little more! His connections to the band go just as deep as any of his bandmates but are a lot less straightforward.

[muttsona]

♧

send me ♧ and i'll answer some questions!

You’re my: friend :3

How I met you: that one mcr discord server iirc..

Why I follow you: soo silly & funny

Your blog is: like 99% bandom and 1% complaining about being disabled.i think

Your URL is: bunn-iiii :333

Your icon is: dude i have no idea. is that homestuck?? i think its homestuck. i was never into homestuck

A random fact I know about you: you were the person with the cheerard outfit i think...

General opinion: HASHTAG AWESOME!

A random thought I have: stuffy nose :( send help :(

[msviolacea]

A couple of randomly annoyed comments for a Monday morning.

One: I mostly don't hate the harmless type of April Fool's jokes, but a full on pox on the Discord server owners who decide that icons with fake new message bubbles are really funny. It messes with how my brain works.

Two: I am 100% a "whatever floats your boat" fandom person, but I will never personally get the appeal of yandere and cannot understand why the tag for every male character will be full of "but what if he stalked and kidnapped and manipulated you?" Like, if that shit makes you happy then live your best life, but it gives me psychic damage every time. I guess I'll just blacklist the term and hope that catches it all.

(It reminds me of the old trend of cultverse from bandom days, which gave me suck a visceral ick that I had to stop following some folks on LJ, because there was no mute/term blocking, which is one of the advantages modern day platforms do have, I have to say.)

Anyway. Happy Monday. I'm bitching about inconsequential stuff because I'm avoiding work irritations. How is everyone else?