Rockbandname - Trying My Best

y’all are forgetting the true meaning of the ides of march. today is not just about stabbing, it’s about the friendship, unity & coming together to stab in groups

Yknow the thing where red pandas just lay down on a branch and let their legs hang and they’re just like vibing

I don’t fucking know how to stop buying stupid black T shirts with shit I like on it

i’m gay for.

My three girlfriends. And yes, they smoke weed.

posts & essays

· there are things we owe to each other (and calling selfishness “self-care” is a bullshit excuse)

· humanity is worth loving, humans are worth saving

· “book lovers” don’t love anything about books and it shows (or, defending classic novels) (or, call me anti-booktok anti-booktwt)

· ok, fine, my social justice politics feel a bit like religion sometimes and that’s ok

· i trained a neural net on 10,000 irony-poisoned tweets and it just gave me cringe?

· what makes someone good, bad, cancelled, or redeemed? i don’t know either!

· there’s no grand unified theory of morality that can tell me why i should forgive my mother. but i do

· please tell me if you have a definitive answer on what makes someone a bad person

· what makes it all worth it for you? (or: florence welch was right)

· stop complaining about SJWs and try a little empathy

· we spent months locked down, how do we still have no sympathy for the incarcerated?

· how do i explain that determinism makes me so unhappy?

· i just want to become someone who can find something that gives me peace

· virtual night out: pov choose-your-own-adventure night out in cities around the world

· after the deluge (short story) (dispatch from an island state post climate apocalypse)

what are all the basic things you feel that every mcr fan should know? i just got into them not too long ago (i knoww ok i’m sorry i’m so late) but i love their music and i want to learn more about their band and their albums and everything!!!! and not sure where to start? thank you!! ive been kind of afraid to ask bc i feel like some ppl are prone to being gatekeepy but i literally just love this band and want to immerse myself in it

okay first of all, no need to apologize!! I didn't get into my chem until the year before they broke up and I certainly didn't know anything about them. it took years, so don't feel bad for asking because we were almost all there once!!

as for things you need to know, my chemical romance started in 2001 when gerard quit his job at cartoon network to create the band. the event that led to this was 9/11 when gerard saw the twin towers fall and realized he wanted to do more with his life. if you want to learn more about this I highly suggest This interview.

In 2002 the band recorded there first album "I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love" in a basement in New Jersey with the help of Thursday frontman Geoff Rickley. here is a behind the scenes video of that (one of my personal favs) that shows the making of the album! This is when Frank Iero joined the band as a rhythm guitarist.

The second album, "Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge" was released in 2004 at Vintage Vinyl Records (here's a video of that) and it was the album that really put them on the map. They began to get more TV interviews and appearances ( iconic Thanksgiving interview , taste of chaos interview , mtv backstage pass , and the iconic bert mccracken and gerard interview ) If you want to know more about this time for them i Highly recommend watching Life On The Murder Scene it gives so much good context on who each of the members is and how the band started!

in 2006 the band released "The Black Parade" after staying at the haunted Paramour Mansion in California to write the album. There isn't much on this time besides a few interviews of them talking about the creepy things that happened x , x and when you listen to the song Sleep on the album, you can hear a voice recording that Gerard made while staying in the hotel. The band premiered the song "Welcome to the Black Parade" at the 2006 VMAs and promptly went on a 2 year world tour, until the black parade died (The Black Parade Is Dead!) in 2008. The Madison Square Garden show was supposed the last show they were going to do, according to Gerard x (warning:emotional) but they ended up sticking around for a few more years...

I feel like I can't continue this without mentioning Projekt Revolution which happened in 2007. It was a tour headed by Linkin Park with a lot of other supporting acts. This show is where a lot of Drama happened, aka Gerard getting married backstage, the infamous Kiss, and the infamous Fight...Some say it all happened because Gerards brother and bassist of the band Mikey was gone for mental health reasons (which were exacerbated in the paramour mansion) but whos to say... 🤷

The band took a hiatus after the Madison Square Garden show so Gerard could be with his family (he had become a dad in 2009) and relax a bit. This is when Frank Iero started some of his own projects, or at least joined in on others. He was the frontman for the band Leathermouth and he and his friend James Dewees has started making songs for a band they made called Death Spells. (leathermouth live at vintage vinyl 2009)

In 2009 the band had gotten back in the studio after a few years of not worrying about my chem and they created "Conventional Weapons" an album they would finish just to scrap when they felt like it wasn't going the way they were expecting

here is an interview gerard did before the album was scrapped

The last album My Chemical Romance made and released was "Danger Days:The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys" and was paired with a comic Gerard wrote called "The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys" where each member of the band had their own identity that was separate from the actual band member themselves. They are named after the guns so Gerard is Party Poison, Frank is Fun Ghoul, Ray is Jet Star and Mikey is Kobra Kid. There is sooo much lore in this era, so if you want to know more I highly suggest watching the music videos in order to at least lightly understand the story. first is na na na and second is Sing . here is a video of them discussing the concept x and here is a behind the scenes video of Na Na Na x

okay so that is all the albums and the most important moments I can think of! now we are at the 2013 break up.. a fateful day where millions were let down but there are many reasons why the band had to end when it did. here is Gerards iconic letter announcing the end x (again, warning:emotional) and franks letter x😢

I will set the scene for you, it is Halloween 2019 and we are all just going about our days, wishing Frank a happy birthday (yes, his birthday is on halloween) when all of a sudden

this shows up on twitter, and the chaos that ensued was just....So Much Fun! we were just in disbelief that they were actually coming back. So many people had accepted that it was never happening, and then it just...did!! the return show was livestreamed so everyone who couldn't be there physically could be there in spirit, and let me just say that it was such a fun night just knowing they were back together!

also, the night before the show arrived the band showed up to give blankets to fans who were waiting outside all night for the show the next morning !

anyways, since then we have been waiting for the shows to be able to go on and luckily its coming up soon! I think I said the basics but this is so long now that I'm just going to link a few more of my favorite videos. I hope this was helpful!

the p*rn interview , Gerard interview , mcr 2003 , pre production , playing wttbp with Brian May , live at maxwells , venganza , reading 2006 (when they were bottled) , road habits

hi there! i saw a post you made ages ago about gender not necessarily being a static thing and being something that can change over a person’s lifetime.

excuse my ignorance in this but do you think that is something that applies to a person’s sexual orientation as well? i always appreciate your insight on these topics.

also, apologies if anything is worded strangely. english is not my first language.

no worries, i can understand u perfectly! and my short answer to ur question is yes

longer answer is i don’t think anyone is born w some innate metaphysical identity that they can unearth to discover their True Self; i think sex, gender, and sexuality are largely socially constructed, though obviously materially rooted. the comparison i sometimes make to explain this to students is to think about an accent—certain physical aspects influence accent (mouth shape, vocal chords, etc) but ultimately the accent a person has is almost entirely shaped by the world around them; babies aren’t born with some “true” accent they have to discover about themselves. but that doesn’t make a person’s accent any less real or “natural”!

i think where some people get defensive abt the idea that sexuality isn’t necessarily static or innate is that oftentimes conservative voices have used this specifically to say that being gay is a phase, etc. this is a very clever trick, in which heterosexuality is enshrined as “natural” and any sexuality departing from that is a phase, a choice, etc, such that many queer people have found themselves cornered into arguing that queerness is also natural and innate, just like heterosexuality. but the ‘born this way’ narrative will ultimately not lead to liberation, because it fails to question the basic premise that heterosexuality is natural and innate; in reality heterosexuality is just as constructed and contrived as any other form of sexuality, and in fact we often see the lengths that people must go to in order to hide this fact. kinda like the wizard of oz behind the curtain (the invention of heterosexuality by jonathan ned katz is a great book abt this!)

the other sticking point i think people often have with this concept is that they think saying sexuality isn’t innate means people can just pick & choose who they’re attracted to. but that’s not how social constructs work! again, going back to the example of accents, just because an accent is socially constructed/developed does not mean that people can just snap their fingers and get a new accent. this is because social constructs are grounded in material realities and have material effects; they’re not just playing make-believe. money is another good example of a social construct that has very real and tangible material effects; i can’t just take monopoly money to the store and buy something.

so…yeah. i think sexuality can be just as fluid as gender. maybe you’ll be attracted to something at one point in your life and that’ll change over time, or maybe you’ll identify with one sexuality and then later figure out a different label works better for you. when it comes to queer politics & queer communities, i really don’t see a point in trying to nitpick or analyze whether someone is REALLY x sexuality, or what the “correct” label is for someone to use, bc i find labels more useful for identifying shared struggles than for like. unearthing buried metaphysical truths about identity lol. i also have found that i personally am much happier not worrying about figuring out my “true” sexuality and just using whatever label best fits my experiences & how i’m perceived in the world

we all talk about doing it scared doing it alone doing it weird etc. but the the hideously awful truth is that you also often have to do it stupid