Wilson Brothers Marathon

## Leo's Wilson brothers adventure

*It has so happened, over time, that Leo seems to have hopped from obsessing mildly over one Beach Boy to the next, staying of course within the purest circle of the Wilsons, because boy do these guys have good genes. Like, hell. Whewwwww. This page aims to retrace approximately the dates and causes of the switches between them, triggered, incidentally, by a dream every time. Without further ado let's delve in and read about Leo embarrassing themselves by detailing the weird shit their brain cooked up. Content Warning for extreme sappiness and probably some sentimental rambling.*

### Brian

Of course the first one was gonna be Brian. It's so obvious. He's the tortured genius, the more weird (dare I say quirky) one, positively off the wall and the source of many absolutely batshit insane anecdotes that just fascinated Leo the more they read into it. First *Catch a Wave,* then *Look ! Listen ! Vibrate ! Smile !,* and numerous articles, interviews and snippets afterwards, they delved right in. Also imagine the appeal of an emotionally abused musician for this also emotionally abused musician ! Plus Brian, especially between 1964 and 1972, had a very obvious cute side. Still it was kind of the lore that pulled Leo in, and brought them higher appreciation of the gentleman in question. He was also of particular help to them during their surgery recovery and it's during this period they had a dream of him which they didn't even tweet about unlike the others because at the time they were embarrassed (plus unlike the others Brian is still alive !) but for the sake of completion they will try and remember.

#### *The dream*

In the dream I was living in Brian's house (but for some reason so was the rest of the band ???) and resting there post-surgery I guess, and I still tried to spend time downstairs in the living room with the rest of the guys because I was so terribly bored, but at the same time being awake was exhausting and painful. After I ended up a bit more mobile, once when things were getting overwhelmingly noisy downstairs, I went upstairs and lay down under the bed, kind of hiding in case someone came up looking for me. Brian ended up being the one who came in, and instead of coaxing me out, he lay down under the bed next to me and we just stayed there quietly for a little while and it was really nice <3

### Dennis

Okay, look, I really tried to resist Dennis, okay ? Because it's too easy, he's easily the most handsome guy in the band by MILES, he wasn't a chick magnet for nothing and we've joked about him being people's mlm awakening but seriously. I mean, Denny, right ?? But unfortunately you don't just escape Dennis Wilson. Like Brian there was so much lore about him and he's immortalised in a golden era because of how early and tragically he died. Basically he's a living symbol now. Of course I wasn't gonna leave it alone. Like for Brian I read as much as I could, personal interviews (always excessively saucy), press appearances, *Denny Remembered* and *The Real Beach Boy*, both great reads that made me cry like, a lot.

Also, I haven't been quiet about how much Denny's spirit has meant to me in these hard times and he continues to be one of the reasons I'm able to drive forward so much despite my circumstances.

Still I didn't go down easily !

#### *The dream*

It came to me on the night between May 2nd and 3rd, and as the screenshot expresses, I was still resisting it greatly at that time. Still I did indeed dream that Dennis was hitting on me. Apparently this was set in the same universe as my other dream (or in the same timeline ??) and Denny had come to pick me up from the airport in his blue racing car. This was 1965-66 Denny or so, short hair and all. He drove me to the Radiant Radish where I guess I was supposed to meet up with Brian (which was the reason I'd flown in at all), and as I got out of the car and onto the curb and thanked him for the drive, he grinned and gave a little wave and said "see you later, sunshine !" before driving off.

Originally resistant or not, my resistance did not last. By May 15th, I tweeted it had "changed me as a person" which is fair enough. It *is* Dennis after all. In that time I'd also listened to Pacific Ocean Blue which does have that effect on people and of course changed my layout (on May 13th). And I tweeted about Denny a lot.

From this period was born the "Bisexuals for Dennis Wilson" t-shirt design (worn at pride babey), the Denny fancam posted on main, a lil bit of fanart and just generally a great time.

### Carl

I could kind of feel the switch coming, partly because Carl's musical input has always been my favourite since the beginning, and partly because Carl is cute as FUCK and probably most my type amongst the band members. Finding out how much he contributed, produced and held together, plus letting my taste for the band's music quietly mature from the easy-listening *Pet Sounds* or *Smile* to *Sunflower, CATP, Wild Honey,* etc. was always gonna direct me down Carl alley anyway.

Another thing that rushed this slightly was *Heroes and Villains* and its chockful of absolutely horrible stories about everyone. By the time I finished that book I wanted to take a long hot shower and forget about Denny for a little while. But Carl's like sunshine, right ? He's just kind, unproblematic, goofy and a really nice guy. I needed something uncomplicated after reading that book. That probably caused the dream as well - the real one, not the pre-dream below. That was just funny as fuck.

#### *The pre-dream ???*

Before anything decisive actually happened, on the 21st of May, I had a dream I'd actually COMPLETELY forgotten about until just this morning (when Al told us about a dream quite similar actually), and which also birthed a t-shirt (the "Bottoms for Carl Wilson" one). In this one, uh, well, I'll just copy our discussion of it.

* LEO : about weird dreams I dreamt that uhhhhhh Carl accidentally came out as a bottom on social media (what social media in the 60s ? I don't know) and the rest of the dream was a fierce press campaign from the rest of the band to defend him lol
* AL : OMG CONGRATS FOR COMING OUT CARL
* AL : Bottoms for Carl
* LEO : bottoms for Carl
* LEO : It was so funny because the press campaign wasn't "Carl is not gay this was all a big misunderstanding and that's not what he intended to say", no, it was REALLY defending specifically the fact he was a bottom. It was more like "There's nothing wrong with being submissive in bed, sex is collaborative" and Brian kept saying "I'm proud of my little brother"
* AL : Kings ! we love a supportive band!!! Without bottoms and switches nobody could top anyone! Everyone should be proud of Carl!!!
* LEO : They WERE they kept having big press conferences about it and Carl would always be sat in the middle between Brian and Dennis who were like. shielding him. It was so funny. At one point Bruce threw a glass of water into a journalist's face.
* LEO : Funniest thing was Mike was Not there but he was like outside the building and refused to comment
* AL : at least mike was not out there saying homophobic slurs huh
* LEO : He was probably thinking them though

#### *The dream*

Like the Denny dream after the Brian one, this dream was set in the same continuity as the others. It was still about 1965-66 by the look of the guys. Maaaaybe early 1967. But that doesn't really matter !!!

By then I guess I'd been recruited into the Beach Boys, and we were all unwinding in a hotel suite after a concert. So all tired, sweaty, freshly changed into casual clothes and out of the fucking stripy shirts. It was pretty late at night by then and everyone was there including Bruce. We were behaving like mature adults obviously, and playing spin the bottle as those do. But I guess it was a mix of spin the bottle and truth or dare, because when it spun and landed on me, Dennis heckled and dared me to kiss Carl.

He was having a laugh but it felt like there was a pissed off undertone to it (probably because me and Denny had been flirting ??? I do not know what happened before this scene in the dream chronology but it was definitely implied there was something playful going on). Obviously I wasn't about to back down to placate him and also it's *Carl* and who the fuck would pass up on that opportunity so in front of everyone I went over, knelt in front of him, asked if it was OK with him (dream me is a KING of consent) and when he nodded yes, cupped his face and gave him a kiss. Everyone was shouting and laughing and just causing a fuss and Dennis was *so pissed off.* But fuck Dennis, maybe if he hadn't fucked his 16 year old cousin, dream me wouldn't have kissed his brother idc.

Like the Denny dream it rapidly caused events to precipitate : on June 2nd I tweeted I might be entering my Carl era, and by June 3rd had changed my layout. On June 3rd we also had a pretty lengthy conversation about my seemingly sudden switch (with Al a little sorry to see Denny go !), in which I proclaimed loud and clear it was "Carl Dean Wilson hours in this bitch" (so true). I was, however, completely delusional about how long this would last, calling him my "special boy of the week" and "Wilson brother of the week". This was on June 3rd - today is July 29th.

\*Rovell, thanks autocorrecthahaha

However even on June 5th I hadn't completely transitioned, still calling Dennis my "bias" and Carl my "bias-wrecker" when asked to define the boys in k-pop terminology (thanks Al). This did not last very long and soon Carl became my absolute favourite and so part of our lives that he has his own fucking category on this wikia and we keep having weird prophetic dreams about his life.