#bronx wentz

[earlgreytea68]

I don't talk much about their personal lives because I like personally to leave their kids out of it but whenever Pete Wentz posts a photo of Bronx I feel like the love behind it is just palpable and it melts me. When he talks about Bronx, it sounds like he felt that it was just him and Bronx against the world for a little while, and I'm so proud of him, it seems like he did such a great job with the kid.

[maomilaa]

fem peterick with bronx

[release-the-mccracken]

He's such a dad it's insane

[textsfrombandom]

Pete: Using a 12 year old as a wingman. Does that make me a bad person?

[lakemichiganlolita]

pete wentz at the 2009 kids choice awards x

[crimeronan]

once when i was ten, so seventeen years ago, i was on one of the neopets forums that was in 2006 frequented mostly by edgy teenagers with pete wentz urls who wanted to get around the ban on romance and gay talk to discuss mcr members making out. and it was well past midnight and i was secretly on an extremely clunky laptop the size of a modern desktop, sitting on my top bunk in the tiny room i shared with my sister. and i do not remember the forum topic at all but at some point one of the participants politely asked me, "hey, how old are you, anyway? twelve?" and when i honestly replied "ten," he responded:

"WOAH. Kid, you'd better get off the boards. Wandering the Neoboards at 2 AM is like walking nekkid through the Bronx with your wallet dangling from your nipplz."

and this frightened me so much i slammed the computer shut and went to bed immediately. seventeen years later i still remember this message word for word. including the filter-avoidance misspellings. i need everyone to know about this formative childhood memory. bronx wallet nipplz guy if you're out there hmu and tell me what ur deal was

[music-orthemisery]

Pete Wentz tattoo/FOB Fandom Wiki - Lullabye/Bronx Wentz’s birthday/Pete’s Livejournal - 11.15.07/cover of Folie a Deux/Lyrics to “You’re My Best Friend, Honeycomb Head” by Black Cards/Lyrics to “7-9 Legendary” by Fall Out Boy/Annotation on “7-9 Legendary”(and the noted scene)/Post on Fall Out Boy’s Instagram - 1.13.15/Pete’s Tumblr - 4.20.08

And for funsies - peek at this comp by @dykepatrickstump

Presented to you all with love from me & @grandtreeangel ❤️

[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)

[raindropgirly]

Aging is weird. Like, logically, I know that I am 28 years old.

But where the logic in my brain stops is that if I am 28:

that means I graduated high school 10 years ago in May. (And graduated college 5 years ago)

that means my best friend and I have been best friends for 16 years. (We met when we were 12. I have known her longer than I haven’t at this point)

my best friend’s baby brother graduates high school next year.

Bronx, Saint and Marvel Wentz are 15 (he’ll be 16 by the end of the month), 10 and 6 respectively.

Declan and Antero Stump are 10 and 7 (8 in December)

Bandit Way is turning 15 in May.

Rowan and Kennedy Way are 6 and 4

Freddie Tomlinson is 8

Bear Payne is 7

Khai Malik is 4

In conclusion: I’m old. Between the above facts and being riddled with chronic illnesses/conditions, I am feeling like a very old 28.

[frnkieroismydaddy]

Will always love Gray by Pete Wentz for many reasons but also because it's dedicated to his oldest, Bronx, who was 4 at the time of publishing and on page three, the main character is talking about hooking up with a girl who has pierced nipples and a sex worker mother. Like yeah man. Kids love that shit.

[falloutboyfan18]

Merry Christmas from Pete Wentz ,Meagan,Bronx, Saint and marvel

[release-the-mccracken]

There's nothing more important than Pete Wentz with children

[pandoras-bussy]

I had a nightmare that Gabe Saporta died in a tragic pyro accident, but it was actually just Pete Wentz. He rushes to Gabe’s dying body and the last words he says are, “name your son Bronx.” Then he dies and the last frame was just Pete’s emo smirk. I woke up in a cold sweat.

[emokingwentz]

Bronx, Saint, and Marvel Wentz!

(From Pete’s IG story)

[bedcorpse]

i had not seen a picture of bronx wentz that wasnt like 10 yrs old and holy shit he and pete have the same face

[music-orthemisery]

not your original "twin speak" anon, but to add, i remember this one interview after as and pw just got married and it was mentioned that he was talking to the interviewer for a long time, and as was like, 8 hours?? i don't think i could talk to you for that long before she goes back to wherever. or that time he described his wedding and getting not-jitters but just being zoned out. this isn't a diss on as, and i dont think i make much sense but. i think pw mentions "twin speak" when he talked about her because that's what in his vocabulary and he wanted to romanticize her (and isn't that funny it's the same thing he says with...anyway), but that time of his life wasnt all that peachy. what's obvious is that he wanted to be in love so badly.

Oh, anon, you are opening a can of worms for me and I am HERE for it.

Because…yes. “He wanted to romanticize her,” and “he wanted to be in love so badly,” could be entire thesis statements.

I have a lot of thoughts on the Pete/Ashlee relationship, but it boils down to - anyone who was paying attention and/or actually looks at all the details of that time would see it’s very likely that this relationship at least STARTED as PR. All the signs and set up were there.

At the core of it, Ashlee was continuously striving to edge-up her image to set herself apart from Jessica. She was also still trying to come back from the SNL incident. The Simpson family was HUGE at the time and very few of those girls’ actions weren’t carefully calculated by their father, Joe. Like, both girls had reality shows and for what? This was like the equivalent of the Kardashians then, and Joe was Kris Jenner.

(Side note - this is why the idea that Pete “held Ashlee back” or negatively impacted her career is…odd. She already ruined her own career with the SNL thing in 2004. She was getting HUGE at that point, and it was genuinely a disaster. People would NOT let that go. Getting with Pete was a continued attempt to claw back from that and he genuinely had nothing to do with it.)

Simultaneously, Fall Out Boy was absolutely MASSIVE, and all eyes were on Pete. He was attractive, charismatic, and was the poster boy for what was “hot” at the time. Pete was also…not in his best mental state for most of it. His interview answers and journals point to someone who just wants to feel “normal” and like he’s doing things “right” for once.

It’s also heavily alluded that his label was pushing this as well. Hollywood and fame at the level they were at requires strategic calculation, and Pete’s adjacent obsession with “protecting” the band and being the perfect frontman likely made him agreeable to their suggestions. (“Put love on hold, young Hollywood is on the other line”)

The fact that there were suddenly several points where Pete says “Ashlee Simpson” as his celebrity crush or whatever in interviews and then they’re spotted together…? That shit isn’t real life. Especially not in the Simpson household. Especially not for Pete Wentz circa 2007.

Were they attracted to each other? Totally. Obviously. They have a child. But were they in LOVE LOVE and good for each other? Fuck no. Not at all. Their shotgun wedding due to Bronx was Pete doing the “right thing” and getting that “normal guy wife and kids” fantasy he’d been desperate for. I’m sure the Simpson family also had much influence, but by no means am I saying Pete didn’t go into that willingly. He made his mistakes, they were his to make. Ya know? Hehe

I’m also not saying anyone is a villain here. They were all pawns in a money game, and everyone is a loser when that’s the case. In retrospect, it was obviously good in ways that Bronx exists and helped Pete start to realize the mess his life had become. Both he and Ashlee moved on to different people who they seem much happier with and better suited for. Luckily everyone made it through to healthier places. That’s unfortunately not the case for many.

So there’s a novel just to agree with you, anon! It was such an odd and sad time for Pete, and I’m glad he was able to put the pieces together into something objectively more settled, healthy, and joyful.

(And, ok, just a few disclaimers: Before anyone is like “you’re just saying all this because you have truther mold” - genuinely, for me, you can take Patrick completely out of the equation and I would still think this. I thought this back when it was HAPPENING.

Also, you can totally believe their relationship was disingenuous and unhealthy and that doesn’t have to equate to hating Ashlee/women? Not sure where that idea came from…maybe there’s some other fandom trauma there or something…but that’s genuinely not the case for me at least. You can totally dislike something and not have some…morally questionable reason behind it. Nuance and context, babes. They’re beautiful things.)