Panic! At the Disco
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[edit] Introduction
This is one of the largest Fueled by Ramen fandoms.
[edit] The Band
Panic at the Disco was formed in the suburban area of Summerlin, Las Vegas, by childhood friends Ryan Ross on guitar and Spencer Smith on drums. Since the age of thirteen, the two played blink-182 covers in bands of different formations, but finally recruited Brent Wilson on bass and Brendon Urie on vocals and guitar.
Before acquiring Urie on vocals, the band went by the title "Summer League," possibly a reference to the town in which they lived, Summerlin. Once Urie was officially with the band, they settled on the name Panic at the Disco. The name originates from the song 'Panic' by Name Taken, the lyric "panic at the disco" is a direct quote. Due to the fact that Name Taken is not a well known band Panic has sometimes been quoted to say that the name came from the song 'Panic' by The Smiths, which includes the line "burn down the disco".
In order to promote their music, the band contacted Fall Out Boy bassist Peter Wentz, through LiveJournal, and sent him a link to their PureVolume site. Wentz was so impressed that he took a trip to Las Vegas to meet the band in person. After seeing them play in their garage, he asked if they would sign with his Fueled by Ramen imprint label Decaydance.
[edit] Terminology
Below is a list of terms and their definitions that are used in this fan community.
- 'Bden and BrennyBear are a fan name for vocalist Brendon Urie.
- 'Jwalk is a nickname for Jon Walker [bassist] that's commonly used by many fans.
- 'Spin is a fan name sometimes used for drummer Spencer Smith.
[edit] History
Below is a partial timeline of events that took place in this fan community.
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[edit] Common Pairings
The most common pairings in the PATD fandom are slash pairings. Most popular is between lead singer Brendon Urie and guitarist Ryan Ross. This is the result of what many consider the massive amounts of homoerotic behavior between the two of them, displayed in pictures found all over the internet and many video clips from YouTube. The pairing is so common it even spawned those cute little couple nicknames. Many refer to the pairing simply as "RyDen".
Another common pairing is between drummer Spencer Smith and former bassist Brent Wilson.
After Brent left the band, PATD recruited Jon Walker as their new bassist. Jon is paired with everyone in the group, though most commonly it seems to be with Spencer, hence the couple name Joncer, though Ryden still reigns supreme.
Outside of the band, PATD slash includes crossovers with numerous bands. Most popular seem to be with Fall Out Boy and The Academy Is...
Common crossover pairings include Ryan Ross/William Beckett (TAI), Ryan Ross/Pete Wentz (FOB), and Jon Walker/Pete Wentz (FOB).
[edit] Fan Fiction
Panic At the Disco fan fiction can be found predominately on LiveJournal. It is a bandfic fandom, in particular part of that group of bands referenced with "RYDON" in the exclusive sense. Its existence dates back to at least the Summer of 2006, when the band Panic At the Disco first started getting major online buzz.
[edit] History
The first fanfics for this band were probably posted in the Official Panic At the Disco LiveJournal community, patd.
On September 29, 2005, the first Panic At the Disco fanfiction community was created. Slash! at The Disco was also the first slash fanfiction community created, as the fandom mainly included pairings within the band, rather then crossovers or Mary Sues.
- SATD began as a place for the handful of Panic slash writers to post their work for others to read and enjoy. The maintainers made fics easy to find by archiving them in the communities memories by pairing. Later they redid the archives by author.
As the fandom expanded, so did SATD. Soon they were getting too many posts a day, and though they were filtering out the bad fics, a few still got through. This caused some people to complain, and many left the community. In response to the deplorable conditions of the original slash fiction community, a group of fans created the community Protect Ur Prost8. They claim to be "the very first and currently the only community on Livejournal dedicated to quality Panic at the Disco fanfiction."
Since then, SATD has cleaned up the community, and created satd_concrit. Satd_concrit is a community of writers who need a little help and feedback. To keep the rate of badfics down in the main community, writers who's fic falls well below the standards of writing are directed to satd_concrit before their fic can be posted at SATD.
Since the creation of Slash at the Disco, many other Panic at the Disco slash communities have been created. Most notably is the livejournal community, Disco at the Slash. DATD has just over 1,300 members and 3 times the number of mods as Slash! at the Disco. This, however, does not mean that updates are more frequent.
In May 2007, FanWorks.Org had a problem with Panic At the Disco fans plagiarizing stories. The worst offenders seemed to be people who took role-playing stories from various blogs and posted them as their own fan fiction. The site owner announced that if too may more incidents happened, he would delete the category. [2]
[edit] LiveJournal
There are a lot of LiveJournal communities dedicated to Panic At the Disco. Many of them are slash or fan fiction related.
On December 21, 2004, the LiveJournal community patd was created. [3]
On September 30, 2005, the LiveJournal community ____trophyboys was created. [4]
[edit] National Communities
[edit] Russian Panic fans
On January 6, 2007, the Russian language LiveJournal community ru_patd was created. [5]
[edit] Influential Fanworks
[edit] Fan fiction
Panic has said that they try to be as original as possible, but they do have some influences [ryan ross said something similar in their boxed set interviews] such as Third Eye Blind, Moulin Rouge, and some others.
[edit] Fandom Members
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[edit] Fandom Size
Panic At the Disco's fandom is currently the biggest and most popular in the realm of punkslash. Slash at the Disco is the biggest PATD fanfic community with over 5,000 members, Disco at the Slash is not far behind with just over 1,300 members,Protect Ur Prost8 has 328 members (many of which are not members of SATD), and the official Panic At the Disco LiveJournal community patd is a huge community in itself with over 13,000 members.
[edit] External Links
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[edit] See also
[edit] Sources
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