SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK
This Ain't a Scene (It's a Stitch & Bitch, Baby)
aka The One in which Everyone who's Everyone's into Knitting (except the Butcher, who really likes to scrapbook)
Follows/Prefaces/Runs alongside Frankie Iero: Knitwear Designer, and all those coda's in the comments.
Pete's in Armor, and he and Joe want to form a non-homophobic band, and Joe meets Patrick in Borders, and Pete meets him and Patrick tries out on drums, and then Patrick sings something and Pete begs him to join as singer, and... Patrick says no. Because while he does love music, and he's good at it, he's not comfortable on stage and Joe totally bumped into Patrick as he was about to leave the music section and head to arts&crafts, ok? And then Pete finds out about Patrick's deep, hidden love for fiber, which started when he was a kid, helping out his Great Aunt in her yarnstore. And Pete keeps on him, constantly, about singing and joining the band but Patrick keeps declining, and William briefly joins up with Pete and Joe but it just isn't the same, and then Patrick graduates and so does Pete (because he didn't drop out of college) and he's looking at Business School because what the fuck else is he going to do and Patrick's been working at his Aunt's store all summer and then Pete realises that he's much more interested Patrick's dream than his own, pretty much forgotten musical dreams, and then Patrick's Great Aunt decides to retire to Florida and leaves the store to Patrick.
She also leaves the apartment above the store to Patrick. Patrick informs his parents he's not going to college and moves in one day; Pete moves in the next. And that's that. (Except: they build the store up from a struggling business into pretty much the premium yarn store in all of the greater Chicago area, and then one day Julia Roberts comes in between shooting scenes on a film she's working on in the area, and in whilst buying more Cashmere than you can shake a stick at complements the store and says something about how she wished there was a store as well stocked in LA, and suddenly Pete's looking at shopfronts on Hollywood Boulevard. Patrick just kinda rolls with it.)
(Later: when Patrick mentions to Pete that he'd like to step back from Decaydance Yarns to maybe start an indie handpaints range, Pete thinks the move was a bad idea. Patrick has to work hard to convince him to keep the shop - this has nothing to do with Pete, and he loves LA, ok? He just wants to do something for himself. There might have been a lot of blowjobs involved in this convincing. He still has to practically blackmail Pete not to take out a full-page ad in Interweave when he's finally ready to launch Patrick Stump: Handpaints's webshop.)
With Fall Out Boy never really forming to begin with, Panic sadly never happens. Ryan and Spencer messed about with Brent and Trevor, but Trevor left and then so did Brent, and Spencer graduated and they just never kept up the music. Ryan completed his english degree, but sometime in his junior year he got roped into helping out with a charity fashion show on campus and fell in love. He enrolled in a fashion degree before the ink on his english degree was even dry. Just how he ended up in the knitting world and working with TNNA even he doesn't quite understand, but he loves his work regardless. Spencer enrolled in cooking school, became a chef, and moved to New York, where he met and fell in love with a fellow escapee from Las Vegas called Brendon. Brendon's a graphic designer - he opted for BYU instead of mission, but only lasted there one semester before packing all his stuff in a duffle and taking the Greyhound to NYC. He bummed about busking for a bit before bumping into Victoria outside a Kinko's. Aside from the modeling Vicky's into zines, and her and Brendon ended up making a zine together, Victoria doing all the photography and Brendon putting together the copy, which Brian saw when Vicky left it behind one day after a shoot for Knit One. Brian hires Brendon part-time, and a year later when he moves to Vogue Knits he takes Brendon with him permanently.
Midtown fail much like Pency did, and when it does Gabe ends up on Frank's doorstep. By this point the F.Iero 'brand's already gained a fair bit of momentum and some tentative book offers have started to pour in. Gabe thinks this is hilarious, but he has no idea what to do with himself, and even though his one attempt to knit something was a disaster (damn curse! Billiam was totally Gabe's soulmate, he just knew it!), well, he had nothing better to do, right? So Gabe steals some yarn and some needles and gets knitting.
Frank blinks and suddenly Gabe has a brand (Cobra Eco Yarns) and a cable tv show (Cobra Knits) and a regular fucking spot on Martha Stewart.
Frank contacts Ray at SoHo Publishing about that book deal.
...The Academy Is form after William's brief stint with Pete and Joe and make it big. Like, on a massive level. Bill and Mike and Michael Guy and Sisky and the Butcher are some of the biggest names in music, and it's totally insane, and Michael Guy gets into producing and Mike is... well, it's Mike Carden, so I don't want to speculate what he gets up to, and the Butcher has his art and his endless fucking scrapbooks, and Bill's sick of being only known for TAI, right? So he gets into writing a few pieces for a couple of magazines, some street press, all of them completely unrelated to music - about art and history and politics and pop culture and whatever he feels like, really. And then Gabe gets big, and Frankie's revealed, and Patrick starts his indie company, and someone notices that there's a lot of ex-scene boys running about the knitting world, so Bill gets asked to write a piece on the connections, because hey, didn't you used to know a lot of these guys? So he does, and he interviews Pete and Patrick first, and then Frank, and then Gabe.
And he wasn't putting off the Gabe interview - he really wasn't, except for maybe he was, because in doing his research he finds out all about Gabe's first disastrous sweater he "knit for a boy who didn't get it. He knows who he is, and he nearly made me give up the whole knitting thing altogether except for the Cobra who told me to go forth and knit for all the boys and girls." And, you know, Bill still has that sweater, and it's moth eaten because he's a rock star and not good at looking after his clothes, but he still takes it on tour with him every time.
So Bill meets Gabe at the Cobra Knits studio after filming wraps on the latest episode ("Neon and You!") and it's all going fine until Gabe brings up that goddamned sweater, and they get in to a huge fight which culminates in them fucking on the couch in the middle of the set. Gabe's ridiculously pleased about this as he's been meaning to christen that thing for months, Bill checks and triple checks that all the cameras aimed at the thing really were off (they were, but the security camera in the corner wasn't. Thankfully Ryland has a tight reign on his studio's security staff and the tape never leaks.)
AND THEY ALL LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER OMIGOD IT'S TWO THIRTY AM AGAIN.
aka The One in which Everyone who's Everyone's into Knitting (except the Butcher, who really likes to scrapbook)
Follows/Prefaces/Runs alongside Frankie Iero: Knitwear Designer, and all those coda's in the comments.
Pete's in Armor, and he and Joe want to form a non-homophobic band, and Joe meets Patrick in Borders, and Pete meets him and Patrick tries out on drums, and then Patrick sings something and Pete begs him to join as singer, and... Patrick says no. Because while he does love music, and he's good at it, he's not comfortable on stage and Joe totally bumped into Patrick as he was about to leave the music section and head to arts&crafts, ok? And then Pete finds out about Patrick's deep, hidden love for fiber, which started when he was a kid, helping out his Great Aunt in her yarnstore. And Pete keeps on him, constantly, about singing and joining the band but Patrick keeps declining, and William briefly joins up with Pete and Joe but it just isn't the same, and then Patrick graduates and so does Pete (because he didn't drop out of college) and he's looking at Business School because what the fuck else is he going to do and Patrick's been working at his Aunt's store all summer and then Pete realises that he's much more interested Patrick's dream than his own, pretty much forgotten musical dreams, and then Patrick's Great Aunt decides to retire to Florida and leaves the store to Patrick.
She also leaves the apartment above the store to Patrick. Patrick informs his parents he's not going to college and moves in one day; Pete moves in the next. And that's that. (Except: they build the store up from a struggling business into pretty much the premium yarn store in all of the greater Chicago area, and then one day Julia Roberts comes in between shooting scenes on a film she's working on in the area, and in whilst buying more Cashmere than you can shake a stick at complements the store and says something about how she wished there was a store as well stocked in LA, and suddenly Pete's looking at shopfronts on Hollywood Boulevard. Patrick just kinda rolls with it.)
(Later: when Patrick mentions to Pete that he'd like to step back from Decaydance Yarns to maybe start an indie handpaints range, Pete thinks the move was a bad idea. Patrick has to work hard to convince him to keep the shop - this has nothing to do with Pete, and he loves LA, ok? He just wants to do something for himself. There might have been a lot of blowjobs involved in this convincing. He still has to practically blackmail Pete not to take out a full-page ad in Interweave when he's finally ready to launch Patrick Stump: Handpaints's webshop.)
With Fall Out Boy never really forming to begin with, Panic sadly never happens. Ryan and Spencer messed about with Brent and Trevor, but Trevor left and then so did Brent, and Spencer graduated and they just never kept up the music. Ryan completed his english degree, but sometime in his junior year he got roped into helping out with a charity fashion show on campus and fell in love. He enrolled in a fashion degree before the ink on his english degree was even dry. Just how he ended up in the knitting world and working with TNNA even he doesn't quite understand, but he loves his work regardless. Spencer enrolled in cooking school, became a chef, and moved to New York, where he met and fell in love with a fellow escapee from Las Vegas called Brendon. Brendon's a graphic designer - he opted for BYU instead of mission, but only lasted there one semester before packing all his stuff in a duffle and taking the Greyhound to NYC. He bummed about busking for a bit before bumping into Victoria outside a Kinko's. Aside from the modeling Vicky's into zines, and her and Brendon ended up making a zine together, Victoria doing all the photography and Brendon putting together the copy, which Brian saw when Vicky left it behind one day after a shoot for Knit One. Brian hires Brendon part-time, and a year later when he moves to Vogue Knits he takes Brendon with him permanently.
Midtown fail much like Pency did, and when it does Gabe ends up on Frank's doorstep. By this point the F.Iero 'brand's already gained a fair bit of momentum and some tentative book offers have started to pour in. Gabe thinks this is hilarious, but he has no idea what to do with himself, and even though his one attempt to knit something was a disaster (damn curse! Billiam was totally Gabe's soulmate, he just knew it!), well, he had nothing better to do, right? So Gabe steals some yarn and some needles and gets knitting.
Frank blinks and suddenly Gabe has a brand (Cobra Eco Yarns) and a cable tv show (Cobra Knits) and a regular fucking spot on Martha Stewart.
Frank contacts Ray at SoHo Publishing about that book deal.
...The Academy Is form after William's brief stint with Pete and Joe and make it big. Like, on a massive level. Bill and Mike and Michael Guy and Sisky and the Butcher are some of the biggest names in music, and it's totally insane, and Michael Guy gets into producing and Mike is... well, it's Mike Carden, so I don't want to speculate what he gets up to, and the Butcher has his art and his endless fucking scrapbooks, and Bill's sick of being only known for TAI, right? So he gets into writing a few pieces for a couple of magazines, some street press, all of them completely unrelated to music - about art and history and politics and pop culture and whatever he feels like, really. And then Gabe gets big, and Frankie's revealed, and Patrick starts his indie company, and someone notices that there's a lot of ex-scene boys running about the knitting world, so Bill gets asked to write a piece on the connections, because hey, didn't you used to know a lot of these guys? So he does, and he interviews Pete and Patrick first, and then Frank, and then Gabe.
And he wasn't putting off the Gabe interview - he really wasn't, except for maybe he was, because in doing his research he finds out all about Gabe's first disastrous sweater he "knit for a boy who didn't get it. He knows who he is, and he nearly made me give up the whole knitting thing altogether except for the Cobra who told me to go forth and knit for all the boys and girls." And, you know, Bill still has that sweater, and it's moth eaten because he's a rock star and not good at looking after his clothes, but he still takes it on tour with him every time.
So Bill meets Gabe at the Cobra Knits studio after filming wraps on the latest episode ("Neon and You!") and it's all going fine until Gabe brings up that goddamned sweater, and they get in to a huge fight which culminates in them fucking on the couch in the middle of the set. Gabe's ridiculously pleased about this as he's been meaning to christen that thing for months, Bill checks and triple checks that all the cameras aimed at the thing really were off (they were, but the security camera in the corner wasn't. Thankfully Ryland has a tight reign on his studio's security staff and the tape never leaks.)
AND THEY ALL LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER OMIGOD IT'S TWO THIRTY AM AGAIN.