Gabe Saporta
| Name: | Gabriel Eduardo Saporta |
| Also Known As: | Gabe Saporta, Gabanti, Gabey Baby |
| Occupation: | Musician, philosopher of our times |
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| Official Website(s): | https://twitter.com/gabrielsaporta, facebook.com/gabesaporta |
| Fan Website(s): | http://www.ultimategabesaporta.com |
| On Fanlore: | Related pages |
Gabe Saporta is a Jewish/Uruguayan-American singer and frontman of the bands Cobra Starship and Midtown. He is married to Erin Fetherston. His father is Diego Saporta. He does not put the toilet seat down after using the bathroom. [1]
He appears frequently as a character in Bandom fanfic.
Shipping
Notably, Gabe is most often paired with members of other bands, rather than his own bandmembers, likely because as a character in fanfic he is more popular than the bands he has been in.
As stated in an anonmeme complaint in Dec 2007:
"I love Gabe Saporta. That being said, I really wish bandom would realize that 'hey, there's actually four other people in cobra starship! let's include them!' As much as I love Gabe, I love the other Cobras too. Where's all the Nate, Ryland, Alex, and Victoria love guys?" Unpopular bandom opinions ahoy!: untappedbeauty, Archived version
On the AO3, as of 13 June 2016, there were over 1600 fanworks tagged Gabe Saporta, but only 1246 tagged Cobra Starship and 43 tagged Midtown.
On the AO3, the most popular Gabe ship was Gabe/William aka Gabilliam with 520 fanworks.[2]
Other AO3 Gabe ships included:
- Gabe Saporta/Pete Wentz,
- Gabe Saporta/Mikey Way,
- Gabe Saporta/Patrick Stump,
- Victoria Asher/Gabe Saporta.
There are also a few fanworks about the canon pairing Gabe Saporta/Erin Fetherston.
Depiction in Fanon
- Gabe was often depicted as the life of the party, often connecting other characters together and/or supplying the drugs;
- He was sometimes cast as a villain (perhaps due to the Cobra Starship track titled "It's Warmer in the Basement" which gave birth to a number of in-fandom jokes about Gabe being a kidnapper/abuser).[3]
Example Fanworks
| Examples Wanted: Editors are encouraged to add more examples or a wider variety of examples. |
Gabe/William
- Away with the by cupiscent: Gabe must fetch poet!William and bring him to Pete's faery court.
- If Only I Were a Painter, I'd Paint for You the Moon by foxxcub: WWII AU.
- Since we've no place to go by airgiodSLV: fairies Mpreg AU. Podfic by greedy_dancer.
- Don't Give a Damn ('Bout My Bad Reputation) by romanticalgirl: an underage William makes out with Gabe after a Midtown show.
inlovewithnight: Depicts the early days of TAI in an AU where William is a trans guy. William/Mike, William/Gabe.
Gabe/Mikey
- Congruence by airgiodslv: Gabe/Mikey and Gabe/Mikey/William.
- Cobras Never Die by jedusaur: Killjoys AU Gabe/Mikey.
- The Ballad of the Kobra Kid by romanticalgirl: Killjoys AU.
Gabe/Pete
- Write What You Know by romanticalgirl
- Hold My Bones by inlovewithnight
- (podfic) Gabe And Pete Adopt Kittens: an email exchange, a podfic by Paraka and reena_jenkins
Multiple/Other
Fannish Resources
- Ooh, he's ready for it..., Archived version picspam in weemo_closet by dreamofthem (28 April 2007)
- Gabe Saporta fanworks at Archive of Our Own
References
- ^ Instagram video: http://instagram.com/p/g7PZWJw8CE/ (Accessed November 20, 2013)
- ^ William Beckett/Gabe Saporta tag, 13 June 2016
- ^ For example, You Know What They Do To Guys Like Us In Prison by dancingbutterfly