#i miss 2ourdust bad

[notastumph]

grain out boy in seattle 2024 🫶

[xo8ball]

smfs debut and the shipped gold standard debut and young volcanoes as the double 8ball. what the fuck

[abovetherainandroses]

what the FUCK i couldn't even listen to the stream because i was just screaming NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

I MISSED RUN DRY BY ONE SHOW???????

[daeluin]

they used to play the last of the real ones under bi lighting

[josephtrohman]

I don't know who else to express my conern to, but... it seems to me that Joe hasn't been wearing his wedding ring lately? I first noticed it in the China pics and thought maybe he just forgot it at home or something, but I did a quick look through 2ourdust pics and it seems to be missing then, too??

i was going to answer this when i saw it in my inbox yesterday but tbh i genuinely got too high last night to type coherently LMFAOOOO. BUT this is the RIGHT PLACE to express this concern because i actually am a slightly insane person who pays like TOO MUCH attention to wedding rings due to the fact that they make me Feel Ways, so i actually have a lot to say about this!!! i am the co-president of the joe trohman hands and ring committee after all (shoutout ash)…however, tldr: i would say that him not wearing his ring is not a bad sign to ME bc of the evidence on this matter. and i’m putting it under a cut cuz i kind of typed a lot here 😭

joe didnt wear his wedding ring almost at all on tourdust or eurodust either (there’s the joe coffee run picture that he’s wearing it, but i believe that was taken in la, and he lives in la, so he could have just dropped it off at home or whatever lol), but it actually goes much further back than that! iirc joe started first inconsistently wearing his wedding ring in 2017 or so, and he and his wife had a baby the next year, so it is not necessarily the sign of a split or anything that he is not wearing it :-)

there could be many many reasons that he doesn’t wear it while touring/playing. it may be the case that he doesn’t like to travel with it for fear of losing it, especially considering his ring was upgraded recently ish it seems. see the pics below, left picture=2019 or so i believe, right picture=early 2023 from the hmlag shoot. as you can see the new ring has a different design, there’s some carving or maybe there’s even like diamonds in the band idk it’s hard to see fully, but it really could be the case that it’s a much more expensive ring, thus not wanting to travel with it because of the cost to replace if he lost it

there are also other personal reasons he may choose to not wear it: it could be for fluctuating finger sizes due to medical reasons or weight changes (i am not implying it looks like he gained or lost weight lol it doesn’t seem that way, but even small weight changes that are invisible to us can impact your finger size, or a high-sodium diet can contribute the fingers swelling more, so on and so forth), it could be the case that it’s become uncomfortable to play in (as an example, there’s that one video from 2013 or so of an acoustic performance where patrick removes his wedding band because of the slide sound it’s making on the neck of the guitar, so it’s not inconceivable that a wedding ring could get in the way/be uncomfortable for playing in), or SOOO many different reasons that he stopped wearing it that we may not know about (and that’s ok!!)

during their last show (or maybe one of their last shows? i can’t remember for sure but def a december 2023 show) he brought out this lil number which appears to be a silicone ring. and he only used this for one show and hasn’t brought it back since, but it just may not have been an alternative that worked for him. i know for example my uncle had a bad allergic reaction on his hands when he tried to switch to a silicone wedding band, so maybe something similar could have happened to joe with this silicone band, or just not liking the feel of it, etc

another piece of evidence that i think should soothe you as well, he was wearing his real ring during his christmas video, even if he wasn’t wearing his ring almost at all during 2023 tour :)

as well, i’m not going to include the pics (but you can find it easily on meredith’s reel lol), but marie was at andy and meredith’s wedding too, just another lil piece of evidence that im not concerned about the state of their relationship :)

lastly, its important to know that he has marie’s initials tattooed on the inner part of his ring finger (the m is covered up by his wedding band in these pics but i can’t find others where it’s more visible lol), so even when he’s not wearing his wedding ring, it’s like she’s always with him :-) and i bet that’s part of the reason that he doesn’t seem overly concerned with finding an alternative band, because functionally the tattoo still shows his commitment to her <33

aside from all of this even, im not worried about their relationship; joe has been head over heels for her from the moment they met, so i think they will be together forever and ever 💖 (and well god forbid if they do ever split i may have to cermet soup of side bc i love them so much…yes im a crazy insane joegirl yes i like rpf BUT ALSO yes i love marie and their relationship in general WE EXIST. do they need a third or perhaps another dog i can bark etc etc)

[thekidsarentalright]

HELLO ATLAS! I’m sorry there has been a bit of a hiatus of me being delusional in your inbox (school started) BUT! 1. I need someone to talk to about Patrick in the 2ourdust announcement video? I am going to dissolve if I watch it again what the fuck. The beard the shirt the JACKET? I feel dizzy no one ask me the color of anything in that video

2. 2OURDUST?????? WE’RE GETTING FUCKING 2OURDUST? I’m honest to god just so fucking relieved they’re doing another leg so soon and I ACTUALLY HAVE MONEY FOR THE TICKETS. I was convinced I’d have to wait YEARS to see the boys again once I missed getting tickets for leg 1 :’)

And 3 (or maybe like 2.5) everyone KNOCK ON WOOD but… my first fob show I got Patrick’s pick and when I saw them for Hella Mega I got Pete’s so… I’m just saying what if I get a stick from Andy or a pick from Joe. I don’t even have the tickets yet and I’m already scheming aaaghghfjgj

-🪸

HIIIIIII BESTIE <3 hope school is going well for u as it's starting up but 1. OHHH my god yeah patrick in that video is so. its been a day and i'm still not over it, i will never be over it he looks so so so handsome and beautiful and hot and i need to be his trophy wife so bad. so glad i am not the only one feeling so insanely down bad about him

2. YEAHHHHH 2OURDUST!!!!!!!! i'm SOOOO excited that they're doing a second leg, makes me so happy to see that they're like. very clearly having sm fun with this tour that they wanna keep going? so so hope this is a sign that since they're gonna keep going they go to other places too, let the healing tour never end fr <3 and AHHHH i'm so glad them touring the US again means you can see them this time around!!!! that's sooooo exciting omg <3 i'm so excited to be getting to see them again too <3

3 (2.5 fksdjnf). omg i will so so so manifest that you get something from joe or andy this time around that would be so cool for you... or even if you get a setlist or something??? Hope you get something like that!!!!!

[fallouttboy]

having 2ourdust feelings. what is this blog if not my livejournal.

i still have nashville coming but going to austin for fob is one of the greatest, most emotional moments of my life. i had never been to texas, save for a moment when i was a kid, but that doesn’t count because i only remember what my mother has told me.

it all started kind of funny. one of my best friends lives in texas and we met through here, i went to his blog and quite literally slid into his dms and our relationship bloomed from there. i realized when i talked to him that i really have been missing the feeling of having a best friend, the love and affection and trust that comes with it. the countless nights we stayed up too late and the days where i sent him voice memos of me sobbing and he’d send his own crises back. it wasn’t bad. it was really, unbelievably amazing to have a relationship like that.

we bonded over fob immediately. so when they announced 2ourdust, obviously we both jumped on the closest city to us. i cracked a “haha what if i also come to austin” and that (obviously) stopped being slash j and i wound up staying a few nights at his apartment.

and he would’ve been enough. getting to go to texas would’ve been good enough. great, amazing even. but then i met my partner through him, and she wound up coming too.

i’ve never been to a concert with friends before. i’m reclusive and weird about truly letting myself go in front of people. it scares me. me and my partner snuck up to row three and i can’t dwell on it or i will cry. it doesn’t feel real. none of this feels fucking real. it feels like i’m dreaming and ill wake up and it’ll be back before i started talking to my friend. i’ll wake up in some chicago hotel after the tourdust show and ill have to go back home to the things i have gotten through and left in the past. it’ll be like time never passed at all, that everything i have lived from june 22 until now has all been fake.

being held around the hip by my partner. sharing looks of excitement and bewilderment and shock at the setlist. her holding me as i swayed.

i was so scared of being judged and left by my friends that i forgot it doesn’t fucking matter. concerts are stimming for me; the bass, the ability to jump and scream and flap my hands and stomp my feet. it’s all things i hide, used to doing in my own time, never in front of people. certainly not people who are important to me.

i’ve never been that close to a stage in an arena setting. i’m used to nosebleeds. seeing the arm hairs on them, the details and shading and age of jack skellington on pete’s arm, andy pinching his cymbal during crazy train. the singer from jimmy eat world shaking his head like a dog and seeing the sweat fling around.

to me, music is religion. it is spiritual. concerts are worshipping; worship of the band, yes, but also that sort of terrifying beautiful moment i can never tell the reality of. the moment in (christian) services where someone is so overcome with their love for god that they drop to their knees and weep, arms in the air, pumping and waving like god will come reach down and touch their hands. not too dissimilar to how pete holds with the crowd during saturday.