WELCOME TO PINK SEASHELL BEACH MOTHERFUCKERS (& other fob8 news)

amidst the collapse of the internet as we know it, unprecedented global tensions, and heychris making petekey references in 2022.... fall out boy is posting on tumblr again. win for the tumblrinas.

for those of you who somehow missed it- fall out boy put an ad in the chicago tribune a few weeks ago announcing their eighth album, including a yin-yang-smiley-face-infinity-sign-thing that is presumably going to be the logo for this era, & the (now reoccurring) phrase "if you build it, they will come," a reference to the movie field of dreams. all signs so far point towards a return to fall out boy's pre-hiatus sound, and although mania is one of my favorite albums of all time (topped only by danger days), i am so incredibly excited for this. someone has to fight the fucking posers. i want them to punch mgk in the face. musically.

this, however, is where shit gets REAL. a few fans received postcards from the band a few days ago, reading "greetings from pink seashell beach" on the front & with possible future song lyrics and the new logo on the back. and.... a website link. the link leads to sendingmylovefrompinkseashellbeach.com, which includes a shit ton of easter eggs. i'm far too tired to arrange them neatly into a paragraph, so you get a bullet list. fuck you.

• "welcome to pink seashell beach!" the i in pink has a baseball for the dot- likely yet another field of dreams reference. or maybe they just like baseball. personally i'm going with the former because i am a fucking conspiracy theorist.
• a pink seashell with "the answers are all inside of this" written on it. this, apparently, is a reference to another movie. i have absolutely no knowledge of this one, but admittedly i do only have surface knowledge of field of dreams so im not doing well there either. if you click it twice, the screen washes out to black text similar to the newspaper ad reading "if you build it, they will come" in japanese. what are they building. i will go that's a threat
• a link at the bottom reading "do not open before christmas", which HELLO?? FUTCT REFERENCE???? OR AM I GOING INSANE. if you click on it, it leads to a screen where you can input your name + mailing address yes i did put mine in immediately? i will sell my soul for this band & when completed, shows text that says "i'd never come, i just want to be invited." more lyrics? or are they just being angsty?
• also the postcards were sent out on folie a deux's birthday. i'm just happy my girl is getting acknowledged 
• ALSO I FORGOT TO MENTION THIS but no one has read this post yet so it's ok. the source code has ascii art of the new logo + text that says "pink seashell beach: a red herring company". now what the fuck does that mean

in summary; pete. petey. pwentz. peter. babygirl. i can't do this.