So. I'm working on a Panic fanfic in which Brendon is a girl. (Sorta like "Ryan is a Boy's Name" except nowhere near as long.) So far, I've written the teenage years, but there are a couple different ways to take it from here. I'd like to know which direction you guys would be most interested in.A) Ryan/Bren leading into Bren/JonB) Ryan/Bren with a Bren/Jon interlude (returning to Ryan/Bren)C)...

“You know that Paul Cates,Bought himself a trumpet from the salvation army,Well, but there ain’t no sunshine in his song,We must reinvent love, reinvent love, reinvent love.”Who is Paul Cates? Is he fictional, non-fictional? Why is he in this song? What does he have to do with the song?Paul Cates is a real person. He is public education director for the Lesbian and Gay Rights Project of the...

You say that you’re a boy, so why do you like dresses?I’ve been raised to like dresses and frills and ribbons and all sorts of prettiness. I’ve been raised as girl, even though I’m not.But why do you wear them? And make-up your face? Doesn’t that make you a girl?Have you ever heard the term “drag queen?” I have, and I will apply it now—to myself.You’re such a pretty girl. Why do...

Fall Out Boy has a song, I'm Like a Lawyer with the Way I'm Always Trying to Get You Off (Me & You), that has a line that goes, "We're the new face of failure--prettier, younger, but not any better off."Now, I'm sure this wasn't the intended lyrical meaning, but couldn't that line be applied to Panic! at the Disco? Like Pete is warning them, "You may seem invincible and perfect right now, but...

A friend of mine posted a link to this on Facebook.First reaction? You cannot be for real. (Yes. He was for real.) It's like ... who's smart idea was that? His parent's? His? Why on earth would you do that to yourself or your child? Don't you realize that you'll be forever immortalized on video as a complete idiot? (Much like Rebecca Black and all the other Ark Music Factory kids.) But this?...

If you're reading this, then I'm sure you're aware that the music video for Panic! at the Disco's "Ready to Go (Get Me Out of My Mind)" was aired today. Here's my thoughts --Am I the only one who thinks that all the different eras that Brendon and Spencer travel through are a metaphor for the many faces, or styles, or whims of Ryan Ross? First the oldies, then the chimney sweeps,...

I believe the the title of Panic! at the Disco's new album, "Vices & Virtues," is supposed to represent themselves and The Young Veins. Or, even more so, Brendon and Ryan. Though which one is the vice and which one is the virtues is a little ambiguous.Just listening to the music of the two bands, one would call The Young Veins the "virtue" (more wholesome) and Panic! at the Disco the "vice"...

So many of us have been thinking of Vices & Virtues as a sort of “response” to Take a Vacation! (from a Rydon/Ryden viewpoint). And if you haven’t, it’s about time you started. Because, honestly, there are some serious parallels you need consider.First, I’m going to go back to the whole “summer fling” theory, as demonstrated by the numerous references to summer in a multitude of...

Panic! at the Disco. Post-slip. Vices & Virtues. Hurricane.Now, in the beginning of the second verse, there's this one line, which no one really seems to know what it says.LyricsMode says, "I'd confess in a room where I'm blessed."Songlyrics says, "I'd confess to the room, 'We're a mess.'"Both are very nice lines. And they both make total sense. Because if I were going to confess, I'd...

Many Panic! (Rydon) fans are speculating that Vices & Virtues is just going to be album that Brendon wrote for Ryan. Maybe. Maybe not. We’ll just have to wait and see. Or hear, as the case may be.But Vices & Virtues won’t be the first Rydon album by Panic! at the Disco. Here are my reasons on why Pretty. Odd. was the first:Nine in the Afternoon—The first line, “Back to streets...

"I get the feeling that I annoy you, Johnny," he says when math class ends.I stand, stretch, stress. "You don't annoy me ..." I say slowly. "You ... make me uncomfortable.""Oh."He sits across from me and we used to get along quite well, albeit that he was always much more popular than myself.Until.Until he finds it amusing to sit there and pretend to cut himself. With a dramatized gasp of pain and...

I get the feeling that Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith haven't really gotten over the split ..."The music video was shot in Los Angeles with director Shane Drake, who previously directed the group's clips for "Nine in the Afternoon" and "I Write Sins Not Tragedies." The clip runs through traditions of mourning and stages a funeral in an alternative universe. The video's concept is partly about...

It's Christmas Eve.No wait, it's past midnight; technically it's Christmas Day.I'm lying in bed, the Vitamin String Quartet playing a soothing melody from my iPod, and I have a plastic knife pressed to my upper thigh. I dig in deep with the serrated edge and then quickly pull away for a lovely zing. I feel more in control and my grip on reality tightens with each slash of the knife.It's been less...

"I want to talk to you," my dad says, sitting down the couch. "Can I talk with you?""Yeah ..." I say slowly and get up to sit beside him.Silence.And then--"I want to talk about something serious."I hate it when we talk about something serious because I always end up in tears."Okay," I say, and dad launches into some speech about how the bandage on my wrist feels like play-acting since there...

She sees the off-white bandages around my left wrist for about a week before asking what it is."Johnny, what is that on your wrist anyways?" my mother asks as I wash the dishes.A twinge of bitterness ripples through me; she's had so many chances to ask and only inquires now? After Dad showed concern and asked about it, but I brushed him off with a mumble and an excuse. "I--it's nothing," I...