it's easy to forget if they keep you on the ground

[reflectedeve]

Back from the funeral and feeling wiped out, but okay. Some wonderful family friends really ameliorated the worst of the experience for me (particularly their four-year-old daughter, who has decided not to be nervous of me anymore and spent half the wake asking me a lot of very earnest questions). I'm so glad it's March tomorrow; I'm really ready to start the climb out of this winter.

(I'm also starting to get really excited about school! All my dad's random cousins were asking me a lot of questions about it, and I should be getting my further information in about a month, so I can finally start some more in-depth planning. Also, I'll probably need to officially inform my job in a month or so.)

Anyway, right before I left, I finally finished a piece of fanart I've been working on for awhile. I had the idea when I first saw some of Patrick Stump's publicity photos from late last year, and it wouldn't leave me alone. Something about the sharp clothing and oddly distant expression. (You may remember this preview doodle of Patrick with ray guns.) Full image behind the cut:





Whew. Photoshop, you have not broken my spirit yet! Thanks to ataratah for the advice and encouragement while I was working on this. ♥

I had already started sketching this when the news about Pete and Ashlee broke, which made me feel a little strange about the whole thing, but ... it's an AU anyway, IDK, and I couldn't bear to leave her out.

It's a little weird that I still haven't done any regular Killjoys artwork (and I will!), but BLI!Patrick is absurdly compelling. Everything the real Patrick does has me adding to this characterization in my head, too. (I almost had a heart attack when I saw what he was wearing in the Spotlight video, even with all the exuberant grinning and jumping around.)

In a thrilling reversal, jjtaylor has written a story in this universe: Nothing To Confess. I am so fucking excited to read it, I can't even tell you. :DDD

Comments

[were_duck]

Wow, your art is incredible!! His trenchcoat is amazing, and Pete! I love Pete's Killjoy outfit and how even his speech is colorful. The women look amazing, I love the detail and individuality in each of their outfits. Great scene, this is phenomenally cool. :)

[reflectedeve]

Gosh, thank you so much! :D Patrick's trenchcoat makes me really happy, I won't lie. *_* I had a lot of fun putting this whole thing together; I may have to play with these versions a bit more.

[ataratah]

\o/

[reflectedeve]

♥

[jjtaylor]

PATRICK NNNGGGHHH.

[reflectedeve]

I'm not sure it gets much more complimentary than that. ;) Thanks!

[eloiserummaging.livejournal.com]

This is really awesome! Love it! Patrick is especially perfect.

[reflectedeve]

Thank you! Yeah, I can't lie, he was definitely my favorite part to draw. :)

[ilthit]

That art is gorgeous. I mean, I don't even know who Patrick Stump is (vaguely aware he's some kind of musician), but I love your art style.

[reflectedeve]

Thank you!

[isweedan]

Fantabulous!

[reflectedeve]

Why thanks! :D

[tuesdaysgone]

I really love the color palette in this (I like that you didn't go bright white for the BLI people, how they blend into the desert while Pete and Bebe and Ashlee stand out) and I REALLY like how you framed it, so it almost looks like they're a...portrait, or tv image, or thought bubble even, behind Patrick.

Also Pete's outfit is perfection, although if HE picked it himself it would probably match less, hehe, but I love the colors and especially his hair.

[reflectedeve]

Oh, thank you so much. I have so little confidence about working in color; I'm glad the palette here works for you. ♥ And yeah, as for the framing ... I very much wanted the first focus to be on Patrick, and I've always had a weakness for breaking panel borders. :)

Hee, seriously, I just can't pretend to live up to Pete Wentz's fashion sense!

[turlough]

THIS IS FANTASTIC!!! The contrast between Patrick, all cool and collected and indifferent in that white outfit, and Pete, so desperate and colourful, is just so right. And I absolutely love your Patrick, he's looking SO GOOD!!

[reflectedeve]

Gosh, thank you so much! Yeah, I'm finding this incarnation of Patrick kind of irresistible, myself. /o\

[rainbowwyvern]

Hng, I love this. <3<3

Um, do you mind if I write something too? I've been looking for weeks for something to get me writing again and as soon as I saw this- it had to be done.

[reflectedeve]

Oh, thank you so much!

Hm, after some thought ... this specific AU scenario was really a collaborative effort between jjtaylor and myself. She gave me input into the idea before I even started drawing it, and we talked through her writing process as well, a bit. So I'd honestly prefer that you not write a story directly based on this picture. However, I think there should be much more Fall Out Boy/Pete Wentz/Patrick Stump/related bandfolks stories set in the Killjoysverse! I would totally encourage that. :D

[rainbowwyvern]

Oh yeah- man that's totally cool with me, I'd rather not moozle in on something you got going on, that'd be just plain rude.

I'm just completely in love with the idea of BLI!Patrick. My mind's been working overtime and I didn't get a wink of sleep from drawing too damn much. One idea I had was using "Spotlight (Oh Nostalgia)", because it conflicts so much with the idea that BLI are just into owning everyone's lives and dreams and the Killjoys are the very embodiment of that song. I can see some conflict between Pete and Patrick this way.

I don't know man, maybe I have sleep deprivation. *shrug*

[reflectedeve]

Oh hey, no worries - seriously flattered to be asked, let me tell you.

That sounds like a fascinating take to me! I hope you run with it; I'm really interested to see where it might go.

[rainbowwyvern]

Haha I thought I'd ask anyway, some people hate it some people love it *shrug*

Well now I've got the go-ahead I'd better get writing, huh? This is what holidays are made for, tons of free time :D

The whole thing that started it off for me was listening to that song and hearing these lines:


They might try to tell you how you can live your life
But don't, don't forget it's your right
To do whatever you like, you like, you like, you like


That's Patrick saying that, and Pete knows it- but it's not Patrick now. He wonders where it all went wrong.

Well, I'll keep you updated :D

[sassbandit]

(oops I should probably comment from the account I actually use for bandom stuff!)

La la la wound up here via were_duck's Wiscon friending meme, and just wanted to say this is amazing. I was just thinking/talking abot BLI!Patrick the other day and were_duck said someone had done some fanart and LOOK HERE IT IS. I particularly like Patrick's ID card for some reason, and Pete's tape on his sneaker, and the dead dracs just lying around all over the place.

[reflectedeve]

Oh gosh, thank you. :) I still have a lot of fondness for this concept.