slashypunkboys

Journal Community
Name:	slashy punk boys
Date(s):	Created 28 September 2002 - Last updated 16 October 2016
Moderator:	alien_grlfriend, dejectedmadness, ficticious_sky, lady_of_sadness, like_a_movie, x_stoked_x
Founder:	worstdayever[1] or oconnor[2]
Type:
Fandom:	multifandom
URL:	http://slashypunkboys.livejournal.com/profile
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slashypunkboys is a LiveJournal community "designed to SLASH the guys from our favorite bands: punk, pop punk, emo, emocore, emopunk... okay, you get the point. We're talking fanfiction, pictures of our boys, manips, poems, whatever." Fans posted mainly fanfic, as well as some discussion and advertisements for other communities.

The comm was started a few weeks after the fanfiction.net announcement banning music RPF, though it is not known if this was a motivating factor in starting the community. slashypunkboys could also have been inspired by Warped Tour, an annual summer music festival where most of the bands mentioned on the comm had played.

As soon as the comm was created, there were discussions about which bands were truly punk. The mod replied to one to say her intent was to exclude pop acts like NSYNC.

It predates FBR/MCR Bandom, but fic for many of these bands was posted there, along with fic for Good Charlotte, Mest, Simple Plan, and others. Many of the stories include members from multiple bands.

The comm seems to have remained popular until the overall popularity of LiveJournal as a fannish platform declined. As of 2017, the comm has 19,660 posts; 101,099 comments; and 2970 members.

Satisfaction

In April 2004, an appreciative reader posted,

i'd like to thank everyone at slashypunkboys for making me happy. seriously, i have no real wirting talents and i don't ever have the time to come up with my own stories so reading of you guys stories is my outlet! i love you all. i just want all the authors to know someone does appreciate when they update.

Dissatisfaction

Although the community was multiband, so many Good Charlotte and Mest fics were posted that fans of other bands started complaining.

In February 2003:

i object wholeheartedly to all the good charlott in this community. particularly the joel/benji stories. it's creepy. goodbye.

In September 2003:

OK. I, and I'm sure other people, are not happy with the lack of varity in this comminity when it comes to pairings. 90% of the stories posted are GC or Mest. It is not enjoyable. I came up with an idea. I want to start a new punk band slash fic community. However this community would be moderated (I would need some help on that end...) so that there would be a nice varity of pairings. Any widespread pairing (GC, Mest...) would only be posted if it was of uber quality.

boys_that_fuck (later deleted) was created a few days later.

In July 2004, the future mod of mychemicalslash posted a community promotion for rareslashpairs:

Are you tired of all of the Mest and GC slash fics and are looking for something a little different to read? I have made a new community for people to post stories rarer pairings that have not been written as much so please post your stories there if you wish

Earliest fanfic for Bandom bands

Although Bandom as a multiband fandom didn't get started until circa 2006, fic for some of the bands was already being posted on slashypunkboys:

• A lone Fall Out Boy was posted as early as September 30, 2002, though more FOB fic didn't appear until July 2004 (Pete Wentz/Joe Trohman).
• The Used: A crossover with Good Charlotte was posted on April 26, 2003, and a Branden/Quinn fic was posted on May 1, 2003.
• All-American Rejects fic was posted as early as June 15, 2003.
• A Taking Back Sunday/Brand New fic was posted on July 26, 2003.
• A Straylight Run/Brand New fic was posted on August 17, 2003.
• The Used/Senses Fail/MCR fic was posted on February 21, 2004. The next Used/MCR crossover to be posted was on July 20, 2004 (first Gerard/Bert).
• Crossovers with Thursday and/or Geoff Rickly were being posted by February 2004.
• A Midtown fic was posted on August 20, 2004.
• The Academy Is... fic was posted as early as April 2005.

While some pairings reflected later Bandom fans' interest, others are surprising. For example, because Fall Out Boy toured with Mest, a fan started posting Pete/Tony slash. Meanwhile, Quinn Allman from The Used was a popular subject of slash, in contrast with later panbandom fic, when the only Used members to be mentioned were Jeph Howard and/or Bert McCracken.

Listed bands

The community did not use tags or the memories function consistently, so assessing the relative popularity of different bands over the life of the comm is difficult. Fans were also inconsistent about putting band names in their fic headers and often included only the band members' names.

The ljarchive word count analyzer tool (from a 2021 download of the community) shows that the highest frequency names are (in descending order): Matt, Benji, Ryan, Joel, Tony, Gerard, Brendon, Frank, Pete, Mikey, David, Billy, Patrick, Adam, Pierre, Jesse, Brian, John, William, Jere, Spencer, Zacky, Bert, Quinn, Jeremiah, Sonny, Mike, Frankie, Jimmy, Gabe, Conor, Travis, Paul. (Unfortunately some of the most popular names were shared by multiple bands: for example, Ryan Ross of Panic! at the Disco vs. Ryan Key of Yellowcard.)

Interests

The following bands are listed in the Interests section of the comm's profile:

afi, alkaline trio, amber pacific, anti-flag, avenged sevenfold, blink 182, brand new, bright eyes, fall out boy, finch, from first to last, good charlotte, greenday, gsxxx, lostprophets, mest, mxpx, my chemical romance, new found glory, rancid, saves the day, senses fail, sex pistols, simple plan, something corporate, straylight run, sugarcult, sum 41, taking back sunday, the blood brothers, the early november, the format, the movielife, the starting line, the used, thursday, transplants, yellowcard

Memories

The comm initially used LJ's memory function to organize fics posted, but a mod post in 2007 indicates that nothing later than 2005 had been added to the comm's memories. The following bands are currently included on its Memorable Entries page:

• AFI: 36 entries
• Alexisonfire: 1 entry
• Alkaline Trio: 9 entries
• All-American Rejects: 13 entries
• Anti-Flag: 2 entries
• Avenged Sevenfold: 1 entry
• Blink-182: 32 entries
• Brand New: 116 entries
• Bright Eyes: 26 entries
• Cursive: 5 entries
• D.O.R.K.: 1 entry
• Dashboard Confessional: 1 entry
• Eisley: 1 entry
• Fall Out Boy: 12 entries
• Finch: 7 entries
• Foo Fighters: 1 entry
• Glassjaw: 1 entry
• Goldfinger: 2 entries
• Good Charlotte: 707 entries
• Green Day: 6 entries
• Incubus: 3 entries
• Jack's Mannequin: 1 entry
• JamisonParker: 1 entry
• Janis Joplin: 1 entry
• Linkin Park: 4 entries
• Lostprophets: 3 entries
• Mest: 522 entries
• Movielife: 1 entry
• MxPx: 4 entries
• My Chemical Romance: 8 entries
• My Getaway: 1 entry
• N*Sync: 7 entries
• New Found Glory: 9 entries
• Nirvana: 2 entries
• Operation Ivy: 5 entries
• Pistol Grip: 1 entry
• Placebo: 2 entries
• Poison The Well: 1 entry
• Rancid: 40 entries
• Reel Big Fish: 1 entry
• Saves The Day: 1 entry
• Senses Fail: 6 entries
• Silverchair: 30 entries
• Simple Plan: 181 entries
• Slipknot: 1 entry
• Smile Empty Soul: 1 entry
• Social Distortion: 2 entries
• Something Corporate: 7 entries
• Static-X: 1 entry
• Story of the Year: 1 entry
• Straylight Run: 65 entries
• Sugarcult: 12 entries
• Sum 41: 24 entries
• Taking Back Sunday: 78 entries
• The Academy Is...: 1 entry
• The Ataris: 6 entries
• The Blood Brothers: 19 entries
• The Calling: 2 entries
• The Casualties: 1 entry
• The Distillers: 2 entries
• The Early November: 1 entry
• The Format: 1 entry
• The Movielife: 4 entries
• The Sex Pistols: 3 entries
• The Starting Line: 9 entries
• The Used: 43 entries
• The White Stripes: 1 entry
• Thursday: 3 entries
• Transplants: 1 entry
• Wakefield: 9 entries
• Weezer: 1 entry
• Yellowcard: 5 entries