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A primer on guitars including what each part is called, gear needed, common techniques and which ones FOB use, and how to safely transport guitars.
For the people who wonder how musicians talk/think.
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- Part 1 of Music Nerd Primer
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Patrick is messy. His apartment isn’t dirty but rarely clean. He trips over his words and weirds people out when he talks. He has loud outbursts and fits of rage, followed by a lingering stillness. Patrick is that guy who wears sunglasses inside despite the weather.
Pete is the cashier who takes notice and might be equally as messy.
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The house is quiet when he gets home. Not necessarily a good or bad sign. If his dad’s out or passed out already, then Ryan’s lucky tonight. But if his dad’s waiting for him in the living room, waiting to catch him off guard and tell him off for some thing or another, then…
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Pete Wentz; gone forever and sorely missed.
Until he comes back as a zombie of course!
It turns out that a second chance at life is much more of a mess than people realise. Grief is a group process and Pete is the extra puzzle piece that doesn’t fit. Newsflash! The world doesn't stop turning once your heart stops beating. It makes returning to friends and family four years after your death and a war very awkward.
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How do you live life if you’re not really living?
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“I feel guilty sometimes.”
Patrick turns his head to face Joe and laughs, a little stilted, like he doesn’t quite get the joke. “Guilty?”
PeteandPatrick, PatrickandPete. Even their names are joined together, breathed out like one word. Sometimes it makes Joe feel sick.
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A primer for the technical side of FOB's music with a focus on gear, playing techniques, and music theory as that is what I am most familiar with but I will attempt to tackle recording, mixing/mastering in the near future.
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Fifteen, grieving, and searching for solid ground, Joe finds a boy in his shed who talks about music like it's a language and doesn't ask questions that Joe is not ready to answer. Sometimes connections start quietly—a forgotten book, a shared playlist, the slow understanding that loneliness doesn't have to be permanent.
Friendship built on punk records and quiet understanding. Showing that comfort can be found in the spaces between words, where music sings.
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15 Mar 2026
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Patrick was a good twenty minutes late the first day he was supposed to meet his fiancé.
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28 Jan 2026
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author of book gets seated next to someone reading their book and making entertaining faces at each scene au
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- Part 2 of Tumblr Prompts
- Part 1 of Airplane Author AU
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28 Jan 2026
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a day in the life of Dan and Phil's builders by possumdnp for antiadvil
Fandoms: Phandom/The Fantastic Foursome (YouTube RPF)
27 Jun 2025
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Dan and Phil's relationship and home through the outside perspective of one of their builders.
(Written for @antiadvil as a prize for the PhandomGives raffle!)
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26 Jan 2026
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Something ticked in Paul’s mind as the familiar words washed through him. When he looked at John, his friend was already looking at him. And suddenly, it all became clear: He remembered having that conversation more than 50 years ago. He remembered it too well.
He had been thinking about it for years, wondering what he should have understood, how he should have reacted. If it was as meaningful as it had felt or if his memory had just romanticized it.
“I don’t think a love like that obeys to any rules,” John went on, unaware of Paul’s agitation. “It’s not something that humans have created, not like a societal thing. It’s deeper than that, and that’s what some people are afraid of I guess, because they can’t control it. Whatever laws they create, they can never control it. A white lad will fall in love with a black girl.” He paused. “A lad with another lad. You know.”
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Summer 2019, 77-year-old Paul wakes up feeling surprisingly good. One tiny problem: he is back in December 1965.
PLEASE DO NOT SHARE THIS FIC ON ANY PLATFORM. DO NOT PUT IT ON GOODREADS, OR ON ANOTHER FANFICTION PLATFORM, PLEASE.
NO TRANSLATIONS EITHER, SORRY.Series
- Part 1 of On our way back home
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20 Jan 2026