#hfsgs

[infintyonhigh]

We could dance our tears away, emancipate ourselves

[thnksfrthmmrs]

doing bad. anyway we could cry a little cry a lot don’t stop dancing don’t dare stop we’ll cry later or cry now you know it’s heartbreak

[fakeoutbf]

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[xxi0naxx]

hfsg has the lyric “don’t stop dancing”

i don’t know how to contain myself .

[bandomfandombeyond]

I think the fans saying they're releasing a song every week might be right because they changed the "single name" on Spotify instead of uploading a new single! and it's got the album art!

[binary-moons]

interesting word choice there peter!

what a time to be alive song poster // what a catch, donnie deleted scene

[thechurn]

trying to reconcile w the fact that the last time i saw fob at a show they headlined was FIVE years ago. i was SIXTEEN. an INFANT

[carorinnova]

Purah is probably my favorite character design in the new games hfsgs so I had to!!!

[abcd-em]

Disappointed that your other WIPs will be ignored for now but understand the need to follow your whims. Have fun w it. Will be here when you decide to update the others, especially HFSG and CUIAM. Take care and see you then.

I know (or rather i'm hoping that) you probably didn't mean it this way, but this comes across so passive aggressively, lmaooooo - its giving big 'I'm not angry, just disappointed energy'.

and it's only funny because this exact thing happened a few months ago when I wrote some Insomniac fics.

Just like then, I've had a number of people coming into my inbox to say they're 'disappointed' to see I'm not updating the fics they want.

I'm really glad you enjoy HFSG, CUIAM and Paper Bags, I love working on them!!! Which is why HFSG updated 7 days ago and CUIAM was updated 4 days ago (with the next chapter already finished and the entire series fully outlined) - I'm hoping that the number of days actually puts it into perspective for you how long a 'wait' its been.

There are plenty of ways to say you're enjoying a fic without including a roundabout way of making me feel guilty about working on something else. The fics that you are currently enjoying are marathons and not sprints. With the exception of Paper Bags, they're LONG FICS, they've been updated regularly for MONTHS and messages with this sort of tone makes working on them feel a little bit like a chore.

'See you then' - I'm still here, always have been and will continue to be.

Peace and love xxx

[earlgreytea68]

Okay, so it turns out, upon consideration, that I have a bunch more to say about "Love from the Other Side," especially in light of "Heartbreak Feels So Good" (which they obviously very deliberately released so close in time to LFTOS that you had to see it as a companion type of song) and Pete's comments about the album during the Metro show.

Because, I was thinking of the line, "Every lover's got a little dagger in their hand." Which is a showpiece, centerpiece kind of line, as the crowd shouting it at the Metro proved. And when I wrote about this line before, the couple of times I have, I viewed it as bracing yourself for betrayal, anticipating the dagger in your back: Give up what you love, before it does you in. Hurt before you can be hurt. I'm dying out here, don't look back.

But today I was thinking, You know, there's another reading of that line, and that is: Yes, every lover's got a little dagger in their hand, because everyone you truly love has the capacity to hurt you more than anyone else in the universe. Because to really love someone, you've made yourself vulnerable. YOU hand them the dagger. That's why it's there. Every lover's got a little dagger in their hand because that's what makes them a lover in the first place. Without that dagger, you couldn't actually say you love them. Love always has the capacity to hurt you, because there's so much you're exposing yourself to.

Give up what you love, before it does you in: Yeah, that reinforces that idea of love hurting you, but I feel like when I was thinking about the song before I was trying to figure out, like, what the message of it was, and I kept tipping it negative, like, "hammer to the statue of David," destroy what you love. But someone sent me an Ask pointing out that, also, the hammer can be seen as *making* the David, like, you had to hammer away all the marble that wasn't part of the masterpiece. A painting you could never frame: Maybe that's a good thing, too, maybe it's art you loved too much to pin down. You were the sunshine of my lifetime, after all.

And now, in light of HFSG, I just keep thinking, ...Wait. I *don't* think LFTOS is a negative song. I think LFTOS is about KEEPING what you love, actually. The world is chaos, but what would you trade the pain for? Love, I think. That bridge says "Give up what you love, before it does you in," but the phrase is "inscribed like stone and faded by the rain," which gives the impression that this is ancient advice, but the flip side of that is that it's so ancient that it's irrelevant. Have you ever tried to read old gravestones faded by the rain? You can't. So maybe the ancient wisdom would tell you "Give up what you love, before it does you in." But then there's a moment of silence, and then Patrick's voice barrels in. "Sending my LOVE," Patrick sings. The line immediately after the command to give up what you love is defiantly sending love instead. I know it's just a bridge moving into a refrain, but that juxtaposition feels like something to me.

Especially given what Pete said about the album. Their combined frowny face / smiley face new logo, when read left to right, as we read in English, ends with the smile bit. And Pete said that half of the album is nihilism but the other half of the album is, like, you've got to break through the nihilism and you've got to believe in yourself because their band is a case study in magic and dreams coming true. Like, that was literally how he ended his summation of the album, not on a note of despair, but on a ringing note of encouragement. I don't think this album or this song is meant to be negative. I think it's meant to be resistance. Dark in a little more light. The prince of emo, you see, grew up to realize that the most radical action in the world is to hope.

And this fits in so well with HFSG, which follows so close on the heels of LFTOS that it's irresistible to read them in dialogue with each other. Look, HFSG says, there are going to be tears, okay? It's not going to be easy. But we've got choices: The climb doesn't have to be friendless. We can dance through the pain. Is there going to be heartbreak? Absolutely, yes, nobody gets out of this without some. But that heartbreak feels so good, because that heartbreak is the point. That heartbreak shows you lived and you loved. Every lover's got a little dagger in their hand? Good. Don't look back, trust them, there's love on the other side of it all.

[foundgirlpigeon]

Love that Pete Wentz looks like a middle age dad elf (is just as much of a trickster fucker too) and Patrick Stump looks like a 5ft non binary himbo in his dungarees in the hfsg mv

[infintyonhigh]

Little guy going on little guy adventures

[thnksfrthmmrs]

recognizing my own progress is nice :’)

[planetquest]

ignoring lftos and hfsg for now theyre both good whatever old news. hold me like a grudge. its good but its kinda annoying me a lil bit? 7/10 for now

[xxi0naxx]

it’s been nonstop crying for 20 minutes.

[bandomfandombeyond]

HEART! BREAK! FEELSSO! GOOD!