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[thewingedword]

Bandom people: JESUS CHRIST. I have never been so happy that I'm not emotionally invested in Panic! fandom, because that is some vicious wank going on, and I want no part of it. Not to mention (at the risk of contributing to the wank myself) that there's always been something weirdly cabal-ish about parts of that subfandom. I don't know, it's a lot like Vegas itself; a great place to visit, if you can ignore the people advertising hookers on street corners, but not somewhere I'd want to live. 

Ha! See me get all metaphorical and such. Next thing you know I'll buy the most hideous Clandestine hoodie out there and wear it unironically.


I'm honestly surprised, because I've never seen pairing competitiveness get so serious before. It's usually practically a joke! People on my flist in Panic! fandom, I'm not asking you to take sides, but is this as crazy as it seems or is it being overexaggerated in report?


I THINK LYNZ WANTS TO WEIGH IN ON THIS ISSUE

Or maybe I just have a fetish for people in bands flipping me off. I have already mentioned this, yes?

Comments

[sevenfists.livejournal.com]

....There's wank?

WOW I AM GLAD I'M SO OBLIVIOUS.

[kitaloon.livejournal.com]

I KNOW. All I knew came from cryptic posts that friends and friends' friends made, it's been kept pretty under wraps. theaerosolkid apparently made a post which is now f-locked, and I think impertinence also posted.

Supposedly there is some GIANT SHIPPING WAR going on, mainly between Brendon/Ryan and Brendon/Spencer, with a subtext of the Brendon/Ryan kids being kind of bitter that their OTP is no longer the one-and-only pairing in the fandom. Other people seem kind of worried at the levels the tinhattery is escalating to. It's all very DRAMA and I just want to stay behind the barricade and eat popcorn, really.

[sevenfists.livejournal.com]

Wow, SHIPPING WARS, that is so 1999. And this is why I just lurk around and read stories instead of getting involved in people's ~*~drama~*~. Everyone should write Brendon/Ryan/Spencer threesomes and STFU.

[kitaloon.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking that something was missing from the word "drama", and you are right, it really needed the ONTD flourishes to properly express how uselessly het up people are getting. I am slightly concerned that people are starting to offer "canon" evidence that their pairing is more real, but I really don't want to go there.