kerpingtack | disco dancers greet him, plainclothes cops greet him

LOL OKAY SO THIS PICSPAM WAS STARTED IN JUNE OF 2008 AND I'VE ALWAYS BEEN BOTHERED THAT I NEVER FINISHED IT. THREE YEARS AFTER I STARTED IT + ALMOST 2 YEARS AFTER THEY SPLIT UP IS THE BEST TIME OF COURSE.

I have no idea what my thought processes were when I was putting this spam together. I didn't have any non-disco pixx to share and care, but I spent a long time copy-pasting those fronds.

I don't know how to start this.

EXCUSE FOR BDEN MINI-SPAM

LOL IRL omg this was totally me-o-vision back in the day. I still love you bden!!

BDEN IS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT

A GREASY STUPID ONE. LMAO this was one of the first pictures I ever saved of him. Look at this trollish little shit clutching a box of Capri Sun. OH BDEN!!! NO WONDER U WON MY HEART

This is a weird spam. Whatever. TINY FUZZY MONKEY.

WHAT.

LOLOLOLOL why do I like tiny hyperactive weirdos so much?? (He's seriously so tiny.) BDENNNNN BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR LITTLE BODY SPENCER AND ZACK ARE WAITING FOR YOU

Parumpumpumpum~~ LET ME GIVE YOU A GOLD STAR BDEN!! The drumline they did for their first album tours was pretty ace. bden can play anything. That kid is seriously gifted musically.

THE PIANO KNOWS SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW~~ There can never be enough proof of his musical prodigy. Though this picture is mostly about RED GLASSES for me. I LOVE THE RED GLASSES.

SOME PICTURES OF THE DISCO BEING DISCO

This was also me-o-vision. BROADCAST ME A JOYFUL NOISE PERFECT BDEN. And let me tell you, even before the split I thought jwalk could be a huge passive-aggressive judgmental dbag. I still like him though.

That sex crime joke is too flip and gross to say the least, and I was 18/19 at the time; should've known better. :( But LOL I still zeroed in on bden's stupid face and shiny shoes. My love really never stops, it only mutates. Also I don't remember who any of these people are. I think some of them are the Cab? wtf.

LOL omg this is actually making me really miss my disco days. Every picture of them was like a continuous and ever-increasing line of LOLs. lol-Lol-LOL-LOOOOOLLLLL

Usually there is at least one Normal Looking One in disco, but not here.

I'm not gonna lie, I had a lot of fun in bandom.

Things the Disco Are Bad At: Looking In One Direction

LOL WHAT WAS MY THOUGHT PROCESS WHEN I DID THIS

I remember that I was looking for pictures of exploding robots to copy+paste onto here but I couldn't find any good ones.

My god I am easily amused. Here is the caption for this picture (written THREE YEARS AGO LOL WHAT AM I DOING RIGHT NOW):

"interviewer: So, when are you guys expecting?
Jon: Aw, well, funny you should mention that, because we just got back from our OB/GYN the other day and well, the news just looks -- really good.
Ryan: We really couldn't be happier.

What, that is what it looks like. Also you will notice that the actual question didn't really get answered. THAT'S CALLED REALISM! BTW that wasn't mpreg bc their baby is going to hatch out of Spencer's drumkit (lol wat)."

The height distortion in this pic is kpop-worthy.

Look at all these dbags! Lined up in neat rows for your punching convenience! Seriously Pretty. Odd. was a tour of hippie hipster stoners hippily hipstering their way around with their asshole sunglasses and haze of good-natured fail.

IMPORTANT THINGS:
bden wearing a helmet!!!!!!!!
Spencer Smith looking fly as fuck omg. He's a beautiful man, that one.
ryro looking like a petulant geeky seven-year-old.
jwalk looking unremarkable.
... BDEN WEARING A HELMET!!!!!!!!

I love them lol.

Where's Spencer -- oh .___.

LOL they were such dicks in this interview/every interview. Uncooperative little shits. As always I only have eyes for bden's huge head/tiny body combo, but Spencer's 70s look is quite fetching as well. OH MAN I really miss their stupid Pretty. Odd. days.

EXCUSE FOR BDEN MINI-SPAM

Even if he didn't have ryro looking terrible in comparison next to him (seriously how does one look like a child and a pedophile at the same time), WOW. His eyes are so dark and his nose and that little lick of hair~

Such a rabbit. He looks good. I talk in sentences.

Oh god bden play every musical instrument in the world. ALL OF THEM!!!

Mini-relationships spam!

Awwww this picture brings a rush of warmth to my heart. God they met when they were in high school and shit, these little kids. (LOL OMG I JUST REALIZED SPENCER IS THE MAKNAE. kpop MY FUCKING BRAIN ;___;)

As always, look at my beautiful MS Paint skills. And just to reiterate, I'm really glad the disco split up the way they did. These two are the best and they're good for each other. Er, not that this picture demonstrates that.

There was a contigent of the disco's fanbase that was determined to make things UNCOMFY for everyone but themselves. LOL they made Ryan and Brendon hold signs that say "Ryden exists" and photographed them. (To the untouched, "ryden" is the name-smush pairing name for Ryan/Brendon RPF.) :(((( I was just scrolling down when I saw the pictures and it was very DDDDD: and it just made me wish it had come with a warning. FIXING IT:

*BLEEP* LOL spaghetti cat, this is so dated. And masterful. Look at that sweet MS Paint job.

But relatedly, Ryan & Brendon could be really cute together. (Dragging kpop into everything: Ryan is a bit like Key and bden is like jjong and ryden is kind of the jongkey of the fandom in terms of being a big ship with annoying tinhats, but the actual relationship dynamics are onkeyish. I have no point; I just like making comparisons that are relevant only to me~.) I don't know if they'd ever have been friends without the band because when they met bden was a HARDCORE awkward dork and ryro was a Deep tryhard teen, but they both needed music wrt dealing with their families and their personal shit. There was a ~bond bc Ryan was the lyricist and Brendon was the voice for their first teenage emotional album, and lots of complicated jealous/envy/admiration in musicianship and the creative contributions. In retrospect they've both been so fundamental in each other's maturation/growing up process. Wow I think this is the first time I've ever really appreciated Ryan/Brendon lol.

Tiny awkward baaaabies. So many conversations they must have had about THE MUSIC when they were working on their first album. ;; Back when Ryan was horrifyingly skinny. (He's still skinny, just not in a way that makes you DDD: when you see it.) His arm is an optical illusion here.

filename: WOULDJA GET A LOAD OF THIS GUY!!!! o bden you absolut dork.

There's no other way to put this: GAY PTERODACTYL ESCAPES FROM JURASSIC PARK, HARRASSES MURDEROUS FRENCH CLOWN

Ryan/Brendon was pretty one-sided for a while there in terms of ~skinship (KPOP APPLIES TO EVERYTHING) but during Pretty. Odd.!!

Brendon can see infinity.

LOL IRL. NO. 1 FAN. RYRO WILL FOLLOW YOU UNTIL YOU LOVE HIM BDEN.

MATURITY. I FOR REAL love this picture. I love when you can see that they are/were (ARE ;~;) friends that talk and goof around together and ~enjoy each other's company, like the videos I linked in this post (I'm lazy).

Spencer & Ryan are/were (ARE!!11 I really need to keep up with them) cute too. Their relationship is really special. Childhood neighbors and best friends! ;~;

These pictures make me feel kinda sad and bitter because you can see Keltie, Ryan's ex-girlfriend, and he really fucked her over and I really liked them together. Or the idea of them together. She's a really positive person and I liked how happy Ryan was... seemed to be... was with her. SIGH I'm creepy!! But other than that, I'm also sad because Ryan and Spencer are celebrating their birthday together here like they had since they were kids (*squint* I think? I used to KNOW this shit omg) and idk if they're okay now! Man I really need to keep up. Look at how dorky and cute that cake is! (Why do I think Keltie made it? Did I just make that up in my head?? FUCK WHY DISCO ;~;) Neither here nor there: omg disco had such smoking hot girlfriends. Haley, Cassie, and Keltie were all seriously so pretty. (bden was single and ready to mingle at the time~)

Actually let's have some ryro appreciation time.

And by appreciation I mean endless lulz.

Ryan Ross is a deeply ridiculous human being. I laughed for so hard for so long when I first saw this pic. He looks like a television grandmother.

LOL aw, with their body guard/tour manager (?? omg I can't believe I don't remember this anymore) Zack. It's good that Ryan is a mellow drunk considering his father. I really wonder how he's doing now though. I hope he's not being a coked up dbag hipster. ;;

Thinking of the old country.

This time Ryan's whole body is an optical illusion. Da fuck why the hale are your knees down there. I liked this bloaty chill paisley-wearing Ryan though.

..... um EXCUSE FOR BRENDON MINI-SPAM

WHAT IS THIS WHY DOES HE LOOK SEVEN YEARS OLD SO OFTEN

JUST WOKE UP FROM MY NAP WHEN DOES RECESS START

MIDDLE SCHOOL TALENT SHOW

GETTING ON THE BUS TO GO TO SCHOOL. GOSH I HOPE I DO WELL ON THE SPELLING TEST!!!

And aw too bad I only started really warming up to Jon like RIGHT BEFORE THEY SPLIT UP. I still like this dumb interview segment:

fan q: Do you guys have any pets?
Spencer: Let's go in order. Brendon?
Brendon: I have a dog named Dylan. She is a toy Italian greyhound.
Ryan: I have a dog. Her name is Hobo, and she is a teacup beagle.
Spencer: I have two dogs. One's a boy, one's a girl. One's named Boba, one's named Milo, and they are boxers.
Jon: I have two cats named Dylan and Clover, and they are both... uh... cats

lol jon walker. The caption is so unnecessary but let me have it, I've been sitting on it for three years. Also this picture is made better with the fact that he used to be a barista at Starbucks.

He can be pretty lovely sometimes.

This short interlude is sponsored by Doublemint twins:

SIGH. These Ryan & Jon photos are bumming me out. But they're still cute, especially in the ones where they're enthusiastically modeling their free stuff, because image-wise they look like such opposites there. I really love unlikely friendships. And it's always nice when people find someone with similar tastes and ideas. Their mutual mancrush was sweet though it eventually led to a lot of douchiness.

I like that Jon sometimes seems to be just super FOND and amused by bden. It's the way he looks... looked... looks (okay I thought I was over it but this post is making me get back under it omg ;~;) right after Brendon did something improbably amazing. umm I guess I used to have gifs/links for this but I don't have any of them anymore. But TRUST ME there were many looks of incredulous fondness!

Ohh but this is the saddest piece of media I lost. ;~~; Old caption: "This is like. ONE OF MY FAVORITE VIDEOS OF ALL TIME. THIS IS THE SINGLE THING THAT PUSHED ME OVER THE EDGE. Or skip to 1:30 and watch till 1:50." I can't find the video at all on youtube, but I'm pretty sure it was the Time to Dance live at Virgin Festival 2008. Here's a really LQ cut of the part I was talking about at least. (LOL the captions, "Is He Okay.") I'm really sad I don't have that video! Brendon was SO dorky and stupid-looking during it omg omg. ;~; There's this but it only has the first two minutes and cuts out RIGHT BEFORE the "omg, beachball" moment. >:(((( Nevertheless, oh my god I just fell in love all over again. BDENNNNN I FUCKING LOVE YOU.

OMG WAIT I HAVE THIS

LOL OMG ;~; Jon was rescuing bden from these pushy fangirls who kept asking for hugs. And of course he goes right back, and lol Jon's "lol seriously" face omg. OMG. WOW I really miss them. These two could've been a good combo too. Oh well. ;~~~;

It's akin to this gif too. Aw god everyone should dote on bden and then look at someone else and laugh incredulously. YES HE IS FOR REAL. bden makes the best boyfriend out of anyone he's interacting with. Awwww Spencer. Everything is really endearing right now! Maybe because it's 5 AM. ;~;

FUCK OKAY HAVE MORE GIFS

OH MAN why has it never hit me before that Ryan and Brendon are totally siblings?? And I can't with Brendon's stupid faces. They're so genuinely stupid and unattractive. I LOVE HIMMM

LMAO Brendon's so annoying and Ryan's so annoyed. ;~~~~~~~; I LOVE THEM. I MISS THEM. OMG MAKING THIS POST AT 5 AM IS NOT ONE OF MY BETTER IDEAS

L M A O O O O RYAN. OH JEEZ now I'm thinking about really HOW MUCH he opened up and lightened up and up up upped during Pretty. Odd. and how fucking disarming he is. Even though I'm mad at what a dirty cokey hipster he turned out to be, I hope he's doing alright for himself. LOL I can't believe the Young Veins broke up too. Be okay, ryro.

Spencer's whole face lights up when he smiles, goddamn. Also bden fucking adoooooooores him.

EXACTLY EXACTLY. OMG ;~~~; He's so hyper and twitchy and ULTRA agreeable whenever he has to do interviews alone. OH BDENNNNNNNN HOW COULD I HAVE FORGOTTEN JUST HOW WONDERFUL YOU ARE

"with a 'y'? doesn't matter?! :D"

"you can rip it!"

"LOLZ!!11"

*IS PERFECT BEYOND WORDS*

H O W W W W W???? MY FUCKING HEART IS BURSTING WITH LOVE. (From this one single beautiful fancam. CHRIST HE'S SO FUCKING SWEET AND CUTE AND HYPER AND OMG BDEN IT REALLY IS YOU!!! THIS WHOLE FUCKING THING!!! IT'S YOU!!!)

LOL I made a macro, why.

Aaaand the circle of life: finishing with another bden mini-spam.

Oh my god I had forgotten about Disney princess bden and it all came rushing back with this picture. I love this though, he looks so perfect!! From the crown to the glasses to the tie~~

;~; I know it's creepy because they took this picture through disco's car window but he looks friendly and interested and his dumb cute friendly eager face, ugh I'm still so FOND OF HIM. FOND OF U FOREVERRRRRR BDENNNNN!!

I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW ENDEARING THIS IS. disco's male fan pats bden on the head; bden shakes his hand, all "Nicely done." I WANT TO PAT BDEN ON THE HEAD TOOOOOO. LOL wow, it's like no time has passed at all.

I love this picture an inexplicable amount. Maybe it's the red glasses, I LOVE the red glasses. bdennnnnnnnnn

There's something so essentially BDEN about riding a tiny lime green scooter out in a parking lot during a tour stop. He really is so endearing, I'm glad I still love him. Ahhh.

I feel really accomplished now! I have finally finished this THREE YEAR old spam. And oh man, making this post brought back so many more memories than I thought it would. I really loved these tragic weird white boys. <3__<3 Thanks for everything, disco. It was fun~

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

YOUR CAPSLOCKING/EPIC SPAMMING IS A CROSS FANDOM THING OIC. idrk anything about panic at the disco but i enjoyed this.

Dragging kpop into everything once i was trying to explain smth to a friend of mine and i was being a smartass about it and then we just broke it down to kpop terms and she got it right away. it's a sad little language tbh.

lmao thanks for looking through this giant post! the disco was my first big crazy fandom and they accordingly got my first big crazy picspam. ahhh memories~ lol disco

kpop applies to everything. sad little language omg yes exactly. it's not that we're speaking Korean even, we're speaking KPOP lol

LOL they made Ryan and Brendon hold signs that say "Ryden exists" and photographed them.

Ryan is a bit like Key and bden is like jjong and ryden is kind of the jongkey of the fandom in terms of being a big ship with annoying tinhats, but the actual relationship dynamics are onkeyish.

These two bits are fucking with my brain and uh reality, no joke. (I've never been in any bandom. I dunno how I never fell into one, tbh.) The second made a little more sense with your explanation, but... still. Haha XD

oh god yeah that was the really harrowing thing about bandom. Pete Wentz was really good at marketing bands on his label and making them accessible to fans through the internet etc and they alllll knew about the fic. (well not just FBR bands, the associated groups like My Chemical Romance were similarly very in touch with their fans and um alll aspects of their fandom.) There are a fair number of interviews where they talk about it. One of them commented on a fic too, like actually online, I forget who (it might have been Victoria from Cobra Starship? or Tom Conrad from whatever band he's in now) but lol ommmmg ;~; I hate when the fourth wall is threatened ;~;

I guess I can understand the appeal?? Like, I don't know what to hypothetically think of people that would want me to fuck one of my friends, much less a co-worker, ROFL, and write about it. But I personally just would never... never want to talk to any of the people I was writing about, about my uh weirdo fantasies, lmfao. I think, in some ways, that's a great tactic to know your fandom inside-out and play up the fanservice. idk, these are rly obvious things that I'm saying. Though if one of them read AND COMMENTED on a fic I think I would crawl into a hole and never see sunlight again, lol.

I'm trying to imagine shinee holding up a "____ is real" and it's cracking me up so bad. The only ones that would consent to it would be jongkey, of course, trolling fandom as they usually do.

Yeah, it was really effective marketing. And they played into it too, there was a lot ~stage gay~ for these bands (like homoerotic groping/almost kissing/actual kissing on stage as part of the performance. actually I was COMPLETELY uninterested in this part of bandom lol; I found it pretty awkward and uncomfortable for the most part. ESPECIALLY for the disco). But I don't know what possesses some fans to actually TALK about RPF TO the actual RP. It's not that I think people should be ashamed of fandom or fic or anything, but COME ONNNNN. RPF is about the image, separate from the actual people and their actual lives. Taking it to them and making them visibly uncomfortable is invasive and awkward and weird.

LOL the commenting thing, yeah. My memories are all muddled now but if it was Cobra Starship's Victoria, I think it was ~racy fic featuring her in tights or smth and her comment was like "lol i like tights, good job." Ahahaa ommmmg. It's good that they rolled with it though, and a lot of them had a really good sense of humor about it.

I can only imagine the havoc jongkey would wreak on fandom if they were given free reign. fandom's brain lol.

UGH WHY DO I ALWAYS DECIDE TO CHANGE MY SENTENCE AT THE LAST MINUTE IGNORE THAT LAST BIT

disco dancers greet him, plainclothes cops greet him

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