mostly rebloging stuff.
(mainly fall out boy and the sandman/dreamling, occasional good omens, ofmd, tma/the mechanisms and whatever.) they/them. very 18+
glad to see that now that tour has ended all the fall out boys get to do some fun sidequests for a bit: andy drumming for a late night show, pete DJing at the fallout premiere, joe hanging out with his dog, patrick vanished back into the Music from whence he came,
the strange thing with this one - well, strange for me, that is - is that only today i realized what it's about and how perfectly it fits. i'm usually not an image guy, i'm a words guy. i think in words and metaphors and layers of meanings. but here i just had an image of breaking - exploding - disco ball (hit with a sledgehammer obv) that transformed into this saturn-like planet with two moons.
and i loved this image. and i wanted to do this tattoo. but i had my doubts cause i couldn't formulate why, and the 'why' is extremely important to me. still, it felt right and my artist loved the idea and she made an amazing sketch that far exceeded my imagination and... she doesn't care about fall out boy at all and she never asked me what i meant or what i wanted to say by it but she somehow managed to get into my head and convey everything perfectly.
so we made it, and i love it. although later i suddenly realized that it needs words, it should also say 'sending my love' ('from the other side of the apocalypse', of course). so we'll add them and it will be complete.
but even then, it felt just like a cool concept.
and yesterday my mom told me that it reminds her of exploding earth - which it should - and i told her about lftos quote that inspired it. and i was thinking about all of it today, looking at the sea, and suddenly realized that this disco ball is a such an obvious metaphor of my life. my life that exploded when the war with ukraine started, and we moved countries, and although everything is mostly fine (for me and my family and friends) it feels like parts of it are shards and pieces barely kept together by gravity. and you never know which one will cut you or send a ray of light your way.
and i'm so grateful to fall out boy for helping me process all of this. for me so much (for) stardust is about this, about living through loss and grief and making it to the other side. being broken but being yourself. being broken but healing. being broken but so full of love.
so. yeah. sorry for rambling (even if no one will likely see it anyway).
fall out boy forever.
and may it not be my last fob tattoo.
aaaand i made another fob tattoo. it's called "sending my love". really proud of this one and extremely happy with how it turned out.
shout out to my amazing artist! she is so talented and seems to get my ideas so well... 💜