hi 😭 i know you answered this before but i cannot find the post omg: do you have any other blog recs? i am trying to find more blogs like yours!
i love your work so much btw 🥹
YES!!!! I HAVE PLENTY OF BLOG RECS!!!!!!! this isn't in any particularorder, i was just going based on my blogroll/following list bahaha. these blogs make my pussy flaps open up and send me flying away
ceilidho - my fave soap writer! the first blog that i'm p sure got me into the cod fandom for sure, esp since my earlier days i was soap obsessed. i love ceilidh's au's and analysis on like everything, esp price/joe graves rn LOL
konigsblog - i get my dark content from here. i don't write a lot myself, mainly since i don't think i'll be thaaat good at it just yet. but i LOVE orla's pieces. tbh orla's blog is the one that inspired me to be writing filthy smut and also who got me into könig
rowarn - ro has a lot of really good, longer fics especially! they have a real talent for doing all this story building yet keeping the romantic/sexual tension very prevalent without losing it with all that building up. gives me butterflies like literally
groguspicklejar - i LOVE kelsi's commentary on everything, i think kelsi is funny with all the interactions/random thots/blurbs. all of it. literally so much fun on that blog all of the time. and a fellow gaz enjoyer :')
ghouljams - i've said it before but i absolutely love ghoul's au work. the story behind all of the characters and the diff ocs. UGH WHAT?????? like idk how ghoul does it and keeps track of all that but it literally makes me want to jump right into that universe and live there. cowboy!au especially (but i'm just a big fan of cowboys bAHAHA, esp cowboy!ghost)
soap-ify - ru has yummy soap content. keeps me FED. WELL!!! every time i see ru's work pop up on my screen i, like, bark at it. and then i open it up and giggle and swing my feet around bc it's so yummy. as a soap girlie at heart, this blog? This Blog.
wordstome - also in the literary analysis side is bucca. tbh bucca's reblogs and commentary are everything to me. if i want to know what's good, it's on that blog LOL. it's like pulling thoughts out of a thesaurus because i swear bucca makes a lot of really great points and connections to things that get me thinking, reflecting, and then wanting to use it in my own work.
tojisun - i love the way sun writes and does all these fun series! esp the bimbo!reader one. it really makes me crunch at my screen bc it's so yummy. plus sun's theme is so pretty wtf
yawnderu - i love stray's works and hcs and they make me salivate like crazy whenever i read. biting my fist and drooling all over it. plus the keegan content here? omfg i literally combust reading all of it. another writer who got me more into dark content than i was expecting to be! before i was a more casual reader when it'd randomly come up, but i really like stray's works and would seek it out here
casiia - let me say first and foremost i LOOOOVE sia's theme. so pretty so cute so well made UGH. plus all the soft!simon content i see makes me ushy gushy and it's so sweet oml. i crave any content from here. that blog is like a scratch n sniff for flowers istg bc it itches my brain and looks so good
simonrillleyyysss - speaking of pretty themes, omg??? jordi's aesthetics????? i'm literally in love and seeing them makes me feel like a pretty girl who knows she's gonna be well taken care of by jordi's smut. also a fellow graves enjoyer oml i feel so validated for buckling at the knees at the sound of his voice AHHHHHHHH
soapsgf - more soap content that i get to love!!!!!!! i love cherry's works </3 omg i just URGH when i need soap i think it's more along the lines of i need soap's gf amirite?
stargirlarchive - ani's work literally makes me feel like being domestic with these big hunky military men can be real if i believe it hard enough. the soft!simon and soft!price here makes my heart literally so full
diejager - another dark content blog i enjoy!!!! i'm honestly p particular abt the dark content i read, but i really lOVE joyce's works. the trops w/ könig especially make me go AGH
naivegh0ul - i also get a bunch of recs from ghoul over here! all the stuff she reblogs is literally chef's kiss. but also the ghost drabbles that come from here having me craving for more
captainfern - fern makes me love price n gaz even more. i love any and all price content from here omfg. i say it lots but seriously, if your cooch needs a price fixin', send that dog over here. NEOWWW
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Wait why does everyone hate brendon urie again?
i was tempted to just say "google it" but honestly panic's pr team is working doubletime to sanitize this bastard so here's a quick primer for those who are out of the loop.
this got long so i’m putting it under a cut. as a warning, this is going to have discussions and screenshots of people saying and doing extremely morally reprehensible shit, including racist, homophobic, and transphobic language, sexual harassment of minors, and more. tread with caution.
i'm also going to top this off with the caveat that brendon has a history of saying generally stupid and casually shitty things that a lot of people have noticed and called attention to, but these were largely unremarkable in the sense that they were the sort of things that i was not surprised to hear a privileged cis dude say. so while that's definitely a factor - the guy has said very shitty, openly racist, gross things, etc., numerous times and on numerous platforms and i do not want to overlook that - i also don't want to pretend like that’s the only thing going on here because there is a lot of other heinous shit at work.
i’m also not going to go into the intricacies of song meanings or lyrics and the like aside from a couple touchstone examples. it’s pretty public knowledge by now that i don’t know how but they found me (henceforth referred to as idkhow, fronted by dallon weekes, who worked/toured with panic for a good eight years as its bassist) has quite a few numbers that take implicit and explicit aim at panic, most prominently the video for their single “do it all the time,” which featured dallon setting fire to all the suits he used to wear on tour with the band. it’s an open secret that dallon was not treated very well during his time with panic, but we’ll get to that. the point here is that i don’t want to focus on conjecture of speculation when we have a wealth of very hard evidence at our disposal.
so let’s get into it.
the real Poop started up late 2019 iirc, when numerous panic fans started passing around stories about zack hall, panic's bodyguard and security guy who had been with the band since the fever era. as the only person who had actually been with the band as long as brendon himself, zack had a fair amount of sway with the fans and was notably very very close with brendon. as more and more people spoke up, it became apparent that zack had done a whole lot of things that i would term as "incredibly fucked up" over the years with people being generally afraid to say anything. it’s been pointed out to me that these accusations only picked up traction around that time; fans have been raising flags about zack’s behavior for years without any reaction from panic’s management.
around this time, discussion began circulating that brendon himself had sexually harassed/assaulted multiple fans (many of them minors at the time). some of these accusations, such as his attempt to solicit nudes from fans, have proven to be way muddier to and harder to confirm, seeing as brendon was allegedly not in charge of his socials for some of this time and one of the people using his handles to solicit fans for nudes was reportedly a former stalker of his, chelsey lynn.
i think it is worth noting that brendon has brought up his history with “stage gay” with founding member, guitarist, composer, and lyricist ryan ross and mentioned that brendon’s attempts to get handsy on stage were not always taken kindly (emphasis mine):
For our first headline tour I would go up to Ryan our guitar player, and like kiss him on the neck or kiss him on the mouth and he would be so mad. I was like, I just want to kiss you bro.
(that’s also the interview where brendon tried to both-sides the issue of roseanne being a hideous fucking racist. so, fun stuff.)
in any case, it took brendon four months to respond to any of the accusations leveled at him and zack. he ended up doing so by filming a two-minute apology on his twitch account (which was locked to subscribers only, meaning it was essentially monetized) [twitter thread summary for those who can't stomach it], only to say that he was just too anxious to say anything and that while zack had been removed from his position, he and brendon would remain close friends. he did not respond to any of the allegations against himself, and proceeded to basically go completely radio silent on all social media until reemerging in 2022 to promote viva las vengeance.
(contrast to this to how speedily he fired touring guitarist kenny harris in 2018 when multiple allegations arose that he was soliciting underage girls. he was removed from the tour in less than twenty-four hours. while the expediency of this was praised at the time, it retroactively raises a lot of questions as to how much brendon and/or zack knew about this behavior beforehand and were simply waiting for a good PR call to do something about it.)
brendon seeing no issues with zack’s behavior and only doing something about it when backed into a corner is very much not a good look, and is suggestive of the possibility that he’s complicit in or at the very least tolerant of this kind of fuckery.
but wait. theres more.
beyond the genuine fucked up behavior, brendon also has a history of severely mistreating his bandmates. we could get into the politics of the infamous schism that split founding member ryan ross (along with bassist jon walker) from brendon and the band’s drummer, spencer smith, but that is its own bag of worms and this post is long enough already. that drama is very well-covered. however, i think it’s worth noting that out of every single member of the band that has come through it, both creative contributor and touring member, the only former member to depart the band amiably was spencer, who took his leave because of struggles with alcoholism. he’s the only one who remains on good terms with brendon to this day, but he’s also technically brendon’s boss at this point since he helps manage the label dcd2, of which panic at the disco is a part.
most apparent and well-documented of brendon’s spotty history with his own bandmates is his treatment of dallon weekes and his wife, breezy weekes, while the former was writing and touring with the band. in that little zack hall clusterfuck above you can see places where breezy talked about being repeatedly harassed but electing to keep quiet so that dallon wouldn't risk losing his job. reportedly they both went to panic's management to put a stop to it, but the bad behavior continued, with both zack hall and brendon’s wife, sarah urie, as propagators. there was public outcry as people insisted that dallon and breezy were making this up for attention. however, eventually former touring guitarist (from 2009-2012) ian crawford (along with his sister), both spoke up to corroborate that zack's behavior (and brendon's enabling of it) were very much recurring issues and were part of the reason that ian left panic in the first place. ian's twitter is no longer active, so all i have are screenshots on tumblr for this one.
dallon has not spoken of his time spent with panic with much fondness. he replaced bassist jon walker in 2009 and contributed creatively on both vices and virtues (2011) and too weird to live, too rare to die (2013). for the former, he was responsible for the concept and album art. for the latter, he got writing credit for all but two of the tracks (casual affair and end of all things), and you can even find an early version of "far too young to die" that was originally penned for one of dallon's earlier projects, the brobecks. the controversial track "girls/girls/boys" (as well as “all the boys”) from too weird was written for dallon's wife, breezy, as a celebration for her pansexuality. the finished product would end up being about an alleged threesome brendon had.
in 2015 dallon stated that he would no longer be involved in panic’s writing process but would continue to serve as touring bassist before departing officially in 2017 and focusing all his efforts on the aforementioned idkhow along with former falling in reverse drummer (and former fellow brobecks bandmate) ryan seaman. while dallon has remained relatively cagey about his time with panic (as is entirely within his rights), he has on occasion commented that he often felt bullied and belittled in the workplace, and once referred to zack hall as "the actual worst person [he had] ever met."
breezy has been more frank about what dallon had to deal with during his time with the band and over time, dallon has been more up front about this as well. turns out dallon was underpaid to the point where he had to take up a second job cleaning carpets while touring with panic, and working side jobs and donating plasma for gas money between tours. this continued well into 2010 and possibly for longer. the ratio was reportedly something like $400 a night compared to brendon's $15k paycheck, so take that as you will.
that's most of what i can remember. i tried to sauce everything i could but please let me know if i missed anything. i also tried to embed the images but doing so kept breaking the damn post cause this is a webbed site so you only get links SORRY
tldr brendon urie is self-absorbed prick who hoards credit, mistreats his musicians, shelters predators, and may very well be a predator himself. fuck him.
also, while i definitely don't want to downplay the severity of just how horrendous a lot of this shit is, in the interests of not wrapping this on a totally down note i do want to mention that people were writing brendon and panic out of the "emo trinity" legacy as early as mid-2019 because everyone hated pray for the wicked that fucking much. after having to endure the musical travesty that is high hopes innumerable times during every single 20-minute grocery store run i was ready to chalk up my dislike of him to sheer annoyance so you can imagine my surprise when i learned that not only was this annoyance justified i wasn't actually hating him nearly enough.
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