bandom puts the "fun" in "brain fungus"?

[sapote]

So today, having completely lost the fight with daylight savings time, I gave up on productivity and installed Sims 2 Nightlife. I never installed it back when it was new, because I have even more meh for pretend bar scenes than real bar scenes, and that's a whole lot of meh. I finally got excited about building little downtowns, though, so I plugged the thing up and started my first household.

And I accidentally made Pete Wentz. He has a lil hoodie and tiny pants and boy band hair and eyeliner, and I couldn't make his teeth big enough, but I gave the poor Sim full activity points so that he ricochets around like a pingpong ball in a jam jar.

What's worse, I set his dating turn-ons to "red hair" and "people who wear hats".
::headdesk::

I don't even like any of the bandom bands. How did I end up with bandom OTPs? Someone explain this to me.

(I am genuinely concerned for little Sim Pete (whose Simname is Mychal, because I wasn't going to be that obvious up till I told the internet about it), because I refuse to flat-out make him a tiny pixel-based Patrick Stump, and what if there's no appropriately be-hatted, ginger Townie? That would be so sad. I need to take a break from lurking in bandom journals, maybe.)

Comments

[clayeer.livejournal.com]

i've said it before and i'll say it again. you need to give up and embrace bandom in all its ridiculous glory.

and make him a little patrick D: thats so sad!

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

But I have, like, no attraction to the canon. Just the fandom!
I actually may have never heard a FOB song that I know of.

I made him a little Patrick, because it was totally sad. Except that I put in the age gap, so their romance is intellectual until Patrick's out of high school. I'm not even in the fandom and I'm already being creepy!

[clayeer.livejournal.com]

the fandom is very attractive... and i know that the music isn't to everybody's taste (certainly not to any of my friends. oh how the mock me ;o;) but there is some amazing bandom fic out there. it's worth it if just for that. of course it doesn't hurt that some of the boys are hideously attractive.

lol pete. a pervert in every incarnation.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

I mean, fandom to me is usually about the celebration of the marvelously ridiculous. I'm just not musical enough to have extended that to bands yet *g*.

[clayeer.livejournal.com]

... when you say "marvelously ridiculous" to me it basically describes bandom...

i think it's totally doable to like bandom without liking the bands! :D

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Well, this conversation has at least coaxed me onto Youtube, and to be honest, I feel about the same way as I did over that show with the space vampires (This is ridiculous! Why are there monkies?). I don't think I could write in bandom, though, because there's something vaguely unshakable about the canon.

[clayeer.livejournal.com]

monkeys? what? are you watching that fall out boy video? because if you're not i'm completely lost!

well to each there own! you should still lurk the bandom journals though, if only for the hilarity. and if you ever feel the need to succumb to the dark side, i have an abundance of recs on my del.icio.us!

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

hah, yes, the FOB video with the monkies. Where they appear to be trying to make Pete take his pants off. What?

Thanks for the encouragement. What brave new world, etc.

[lurkmuch.livejournal.com]

I don't think I can properly mock your commitment to bandom without a bandish icon.

But poor Pete! He needs his Patrick!

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

I mean, that icon will do.

I made him one. In a hat.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

also, clayeer just persuaded me onto Youtube, and I - I went onto AIM to see if you were on, because I think I need to talk about Fall Out Boy now.

I just saw the video with the monkeys. WHAT.