I mean, I get really liking bands, but I need to remember it's not all about RPS. Which I totally fail to wrap my head around.

I'm with you.

Oh- I love Northern Downpour, too. I would have never, ever gotten into bandom if I didn't love Panic's second album so much. Of course, the fact that I like it as a 36 year old may explain why it was less popular with the target audience.

I have never actually been to the Waterloo mall, although I have driven past it! Actually one summer, I drove from Rochester to Syracuse about once a week, but I am no longer young and stupid.

Since there's no canon per se

Well, there is onstage kissing canon. Everything else is debateable.

Well, there is onstage kissing canon.

Right! And their public/stage personae.

Of course, the fact that I like it as a 36 year old may explain why it was less popular with the target audience.

I love the second album completely, but I do love the first one, too. What surprises me is how hard I fell for Fall Out Boy.

Since there's no canon per se, the fic is ... well, RPS

But it doesn't have to be, does it? No, I'll never understand. I don't even do RPF. To each their own.

What surprises me is how hard I fell for Fall Out Boy.

I am surprised by that, too. Actually, I didn't really even like popular music from my own era-- I was much more of a Joni Mitchell/Judy Collins kind of girl. But the lyrics and the music go together so well. And Pete Wentz is a poet. And Patrick is really, really good. And Joe Trohman is good and seems like a nice, real, funny guy. And Andy, is, well, kind of annoying.

But it doesn't have to be, does it?

Well, in not!RPF, writers are exploring the characters. Since there are no "characters" most writers simply RPF/S. But some people do hysterical AUs, like Panic! as kittens, or FOB and MCR as the staff and cast of a children's show.

MCR is my favorite of the bandom bands, hands down. I like FOB, don't like PatD, although I should probably give their second album a listen if it's not as repetitive as, say "I Write Sins Not Tragedies." Too much repetition drives me bugfuck nuts, which is why I have trouble with JT and Usher (well, I go way back with Usher, but that's another topic).

/music natter

Sorry to interupt the RPF/S discussion. Need to rant a moment.

Dear Project Manager

When I send you e-mails asking you about item A, B, and C. And you reply with 5,6, and 7. Don't be surprised when I ask, again, about A, B, and C. And don't come back with a response asking about 8 or 9 which are irrelevent. Just answer my darned questions. They are pretty simple. I have even dumbed them down to check this box type question.

Quit making this harder for both of us.

kthxbye

I've been doing yoga for three days. You guys, I can't remember the last time my ass has been this thoroughly kicked.