#no hate to Pete I love him

[stumpgirl]

Being a Patrick girlie is so rough sometimes. Pete girlies have it made. They get shirtless pics often. We get unnecessary layers upon layers of clothing. We go crazy by seeing a belly button accidentally while Pete girlies have seen the junk fr. Is it too much to ask for one recent shirtless pic? I don't think so. It would heal me.

[novasintheroom]

Can you imagine Knives finding out about you? You, who travels with his brother, and dare taint him with your presence? How dare you even consider yourself worthy to walk with Vash.

He watches you from a distance. Through Zazie. Through Legato. Through word of mouth as his fumbling little brother chases ghosts across the wastes. You trail him, feed Vash your lies, your pity. And what a pity his brother is, truly. But the white hot rage that blooms in him like a crackling flower takes place when he finds out you're an item. A pair. Lovers. He could tolerate your comradery with Vash, but only Knives can love his brother - humanity is too dirty with greed and pride to make room for love.

So Knives takes you.

He isn't sure why he doesn't kill you when his minions drag you kicking and screaming to JuLai. For all the racket you cause, he should have. More than a few henchmen come back with blackened eyes and missing teeth from trying to feed you. But something in him - the dark, twisted part that is so consuming - enjoys the idea of toying with you.

He wants you to see what you're messing with. Who he is, why Vash is so afraid of you being in his clutches. But there's also a part of him, small and never acknowledged, that wonders what draws his brother to you, out of all the millions of humans that have been and are on the planet - why you?

You become something of a pet to him. A metaphorical chain and leash to your neck, as he strings you along with promises of more freedom if you behave. You follow him around, rather than his brother. Watch as he brings in more and more dying Plants and revive them through his own DNA. And you ask questions. Lots of them. Knives finds he enjoys answering them, unintelligent and mindnumbing as they are.

He would never admit to enjoying your company. But he plays the piano for you. Watches you watch him. The intelligence in your eyes he will never acknowledge. Slowly, he comes to understand why Vash keeps you around. The way you walk. The lilt in your voice as you ponder his grand plan. How your lips move. And the first time you smile at him - genuinely? - he makes a hasty exit as his heart beats faster and his face flushes. He tries to get you to smile more often, but it is hard - you are still only a pet, after all.

Eventually, you make an escape. The perfect timing, the perfect moves, everything. And Knives finds himself going near mental at your disappearance. You cannot go back to his brother - you just can't. You are his now, his pet, his human. But despite his best efforts, you are gone like the wind. Not even tracking his brother brings up anything. You learned your lesson, and are not putting Vash in any danger...for now.

But Knives knows humans. And you will return to Vash in time. And when you do, he'll be ready to take you again.

You belong to him, after all.

[thehalfbloodfreak]

Cal will be like: “We both know what happens when I stay in one place too long” Gotta keep that low profile so the Empire doesn’t find us—

Also Cal to every stranger he sees: Hi I’m Cal Kestis. Oh and this is BD-1

[alonetogether]

pork crackling v.s. hot cheetos w/ cream cheese

[vani-ash]

So used to being on tumblr where i only follow people with the same tastes but was on something else and had to stop for a moment like damn some people do actually genuinely hate Kim and think he's an irredeemable monster 💀

[rentumblsstuff]

Domestic Lautski + Steph with the Spankoffskis headcanons cause I just woke up and it’s one of those days

💚 Out of the two of them, Pete was the one that was consciously taught by his parents how to cook. They saw how poorly neglecting to teach Ted that valuable life skill went, so they figured they had a second shot at all their mistakes in Peter as Teddy grew up. Steph on the other hand, can make food that’s edible, but she can’t necessarily cook.

💚 Steph asked Pete’s parents to teach her how to cook a polish Spankoffski family recipe to surprise Peter and despite not being very connected to that heritage beyond food and older relatives, he is extremely touched.

💚 When Steph takes off her bra after a long day and it hurts (cause tig ol biddies will do that), Pete holds em up for her and somehow it’s not sexual to either of them. Well……. Not entirely.

💚 Pete has fallen asleep so many times with his head in her lap and her hands in his hair. Towards the beginning of their relationship, Steph would spend the whole time studying the little details of his face when he’s all peaceful and eventually it became commonplace enough for her to sit on her phone while still carding her hand through his hair

💚 Steph didn’t start off on a particularly good foot with Ted- he just seemed to hate her instantaneously. He would make passive aggressive comments to her that hid the most upsetting accusations like she wasn’t actually into Pete and just stringing the poor guy along until she found someone she actually liked- yes these comments hurt everyone involved, including Mr. and Mrs. Spankoffski, who remember that Ted used to be so similar to Pete before Jenny moved away and he Changed™️. It’s been rough getting him to accept Steph as a permanent fixture in Pete’s life because Pete’s relationship started in such a similar way to how his and Jenny’s would have, and look how well that turned out.

💚 The Spankoffski parents’ reception of Steph was quite the opposite, they absolutely adored her (despite the initial response of “oh dear, the mayor’s delinquent daughter?” that they were soon proven wrong by) but they kept making comments about how they thought Pete would never start dating. Once Steph realized that they were making Pete feel bad saying that, she made it a point to reply to each comment like that in the most chipper tone “glad I have no competition then” while making some sort of contact with him and grinning proudly

💚 The amount that they share clothes is honestly an art form. He borrows her flannels all the time and she loves stealing his stupid nerdy graphic tees that his dad keeps getting him so he stops dressing like that to go to school. Pete knows his dad doesn’t grasp that he’d only get targeted by Max more if he CHANGED HIS LOOK SUDDENLY, and has already decided a long time ago that he can wait to reinvent himself in college if he wants to, so until then Steph gets all his t-shirts if she wants em.

💚 Cuddling while reading together. All snuggled up in each other’s arms and occasionally giving an update on the book when something crazy happens so they can get their reaction mirrored in the other like “(GASP)” “RIGHT??”

💚 Both Pete and Steph regularly cover the other in kisses just for fun- because showing your partner affection is FUN. And whispering to the other sweet things that they’ve heard a million times but could never get tired of hearing as long as it’s their partner saying it

💚 Whenever one of them doesn’t respond over text for a while they joke “depression nap all by yourself, handsome?” “depression nap all by yourself, gorgeous?” and so whenever they nap together and one falls asleep first, they’ll occasionally mutter that and sometimes one fully wakes up cause they were just awake enough to hear it and they laugh too hard (or it’s met with a sleepy little “mm-mm” of disagreement and holding the other a bit tighter)

[francispattel]

Acá lo subo bn porque odio tt 🚬

Oc credits to @c0tt0nballz síganlo pq dibuja precioso ☹️💕

[vampylily]

Notes from the new Rolling Stones Japan article with Pete and Patrick Pt.1 :

[WARNING: The article is in Japanese, I'm not a Japanese speaker. I'm machine translating the article from Japanese to Korean & English, and then doing paraphrasing in English. Thus, the wording is not entirely accurate, and may contain errors. Please don't consider this as a proper translation. This is so I can have a reference more than anything. ]

When the interviewer noted Patrick's Los Crudos t-shirt, he responded enthusiastically that it was a Chicago band! Pete was in a Napalm Death t-shirt.

Interviewer asked about how Summer Sonic was, especially since it was their first since 2019. Patrick said the show went like they hoped, which rarely happens (lol). Said Japanese audiences are special. He gets asked about how concerts in Japan are, but it's hard to explain unless you experience it. Said can't explain it well, but there's a lot of give and take of energy.

Interviewer asked about Pete saying there was a song inspired by Japan on the SMFS album. Pete said "The Kintsugi Kid" was the song about how he felt when he was in Japan, it's obvious by the title. "The Kintsugi Kid'' bridges "I Am My Own Muse" and "So Much (For) Stardust." Said Patrick wrote the songs but in his interpretation, the sonic landscape of the song reminds him of Japan.

Patrick said he's always been quite influenced by Japan, especially on this album. Said people might not register it from the sound, but he's been influenced by the Yellow Magic Orchestra & their synthesizer sounds. He didn't use much synthesizer on the album but a lot of the songs started with synthesizers. He got the same synthesizer Yellow Magic Orchestra used and started writing songs from there. He's a big fan of Studio Ghibli movies and loves Joe Hisaishi's music. Said when doing string/orchestra horn arrangements, he wanted to create a sound that was as appealing to the heart/poignant as his. Even though their music/sound was completely different, he wanted to try it. Said he especially tried to evoke the feeling he got on "The Pink Seashell."

Interviewer asked about TTTYG's 20th anniversary and how they could have done an anniversary tour but they didn't and instead released SMFS with gusto.

Pete said the most important thing is that you stick to what you think is right. Said there was a punk band he liked when he was younger, and they didn't change at all. Talked about how artists like David Bowie or the Clash changed their styles to almost unrecognizable lengths and how some fans left because of it. But when he listens to the albums after getting older, he can reflect on his own changes and find new appreciation for songs he might not have liked at the time.

Pete said celebrating the past too much feels patronizing and not very fall out boy-like. They continue making new music, sometimes they succeed, sometimes they don't. Even if something doesn't work out as well, he's like [it is what it is/that happens], and that some people might say they liked it. He's got albums he likes and albums he dislikes from his own favourite artists. Said they always make new albums that challenge their past works. Of course they hope people like it, but getting good reviews/being appreciated isn't the only reason they continue making music.

Patrick said he doesn't like making an album to celebrate the 20th anniversary, or having an anniversary to showcase past songs. Reasons was that first, the past songs are always in rotation in their sets so they don't stop playing them. Second, like Pete said, they prefer to keep pursuing new music and that stance hasn't changed from 20 years ago. Said deviating from that feels dishonest like they're lying to themselves.

Pete was like [it's how Steven Spielberg didn't make E.T. Part 2.] Patrick was like [exactly!] and said that being honest with themselves was their pure form.

also there's a page 2 to the article but i'm tired :[. they talk about "emo" changing from a specific music genre to the word entering the mainstream vernacular, patrick talked about how when they started out they didin't consider themselves "emo," they were a hardcore band. said he liked playing hardcore though when he sang people used to tell him his voice was too cute. they focused on making the music they wanted to, and before they knew it, they were being called "emo." Pete talked about the word, how it encompasses too much, feeling restricted by that in the past, etc. Talked about wanting to become like Metallica in that the word Metallica has becomes its own thing, Metallica doesn't need a description, etc. Patrick talked about perfoming in Japan, from small venues way earlier to now, etc

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I love long FOB articles and I quite liked this one.

Love that Patrick talked about musical inspirations and SMFS. It’s so cool to hear because I love how beautiful and grand the sounds are in SMFS, even with spoken tracks like The Pink Seashell or Baby Annihilation. 

Also him buying the same synthesizers is so real. He’s a music nerd <3 

They’ve been consistently talking about always wanting to make new music and looking to the future instead of the past. And getting questions about their sound changing since forever haha.

It's really cool that they're very self aware and how convinced they are about making new music. Love that Pete can look back at older albums and find new appreciation for them. I’d be down for another half dozen FOB albums if they are, so (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧

The new Pete and Patrick photos!!! They've got such pretty eyes <333

[superspacestacy]

I forgot posting this ^⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠_⁠^

[hyperfixation-fix]

Flowers and chocolates and romantic mix tapes are cute I guess...

But who will deliver me my traitorous ex-best-friend, hog-tied with the word 'TRAITOR' carved into his chest?? Hm?? Who's going to do that for me??

[yujeong]

We already knew Tee was poor. We already knew Tee was working for his uncle to support his father. We already knew Tee felt guilty. We already knew Tee wasn't smart and didn't understand he can't really do anything to save Non, with how much he truly fucked him over. What you saw in Ep11 wasn't Tee getting redeemed. It was character exploration. Character development. The episode also shed light to how TeeWhite came to be, which is IMPORTANT to do about one of the 3 main couples of the show. I don't know if people know this, but you can feel sympathy for a character who's a total piece of shit and who made a million mistakes and unforgivable things to innocent people. That doesn't mean the narrative excuses them, it just humanizes them and it's important for a show like DFF. So pls calm the fuck down about Tee.

[amorhedera6]

i haven’t watched time bastard yet but something something peter was born the same year ted lost jenny so he was blocking out his family and missed peters birth and will never forgive himself for it bc peters the last person in his life who truly cares about him. something something.

[compacflt]

So one of the things that made me cry (and laugh) the most, when reading the whole series was in Debriefing when Ice has surgery and Mav kisses him on the forehead, then Ice types out “I am cured” with like no punctuation. (Because of course Ice is the punctuation man 99% of the time.)

One, Ice is actually so fucking funny with the “I am cured.” Like no one would believe how funny he actually is. (And I headcanon that Mav knows this, of course, but almost no one else believes him. Which drives him up the wall.) Two, that exchange was so simple but so loving??? Foaming at the mouth here. Especially after those crazy 30 years. So my question is, what are Ice and Mav’s kisses of choice? Forehead, cheek, regular ol’ lips, the world is their secretly sappy oyster.

I haven’t read that chapter of debriefing since fucking last October! Whoa! not sure how i feel about it .

regular ol’ on the lips :) it means something more than all the rest, it’s romantic in a way none of the others are (which is why it’s so dangerous)

okay yes re: ice being funny yes. wait wait wait let me find it in my doc hold on

here!

[wefaithfulfew]

i need smoke club (lex, ethan, steph, alice, deb) fanart and this is a threat because you Will be giving it to me now

[name-doggo]

One thing I really wish the FF Community would Stop doing is Removing All Nuance from the Parents in Those Stories in order to Make Them Abusive Supervillains who Never Loved their Kid.

Like... In the Four Years I've been here, and for how Small the Community really is, you'd be surprised how many Times I've seen it-

[angelic37]

PETE'S WORLD | Dårlig Ulv Stranden, Norway.

Jackie, Rose, and the Doctor have to return to London to continue their lives on the parallel Earth...