foundations of decay

this is so huge brained actually

What I find so interesting and fantastic is that her posture, body language, and facial movements all LOOK like she is in fact singing opera. She doesn't look pained, she's not forcing the distorted scream, she is comfortable and has her head high with a smile as she performs.

This is a normal opera performance with the audio muted. And that is such a fantastic contrast to the sound you hear come out of her.

#do u think its like #we are not privy to the upper class #we do not see beauty ion the same things they do #to them it is a beautiful song #to the rest of the world it is simply just a horrifying and haunting sound (via @knights-of-cydonia)

ooh i like this idea! i wonder if it's not less the upper class though and more... what fascists and war hawks hear are glory and power but what we hear are, like you said, horrifying and haunting. they DON'T hear the screams that we do. Or pretend not to.

so this was the opera piece they played tonight.

we're fucked. btw

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first is the politician imo, a very clear image of one too. the position seems anticipatory, and i am well acquainted by the fake smile of politicians. the dictator is next to him, the stiffest posture out of everyone in the room. the red cloak is a symbol of monarchism probably. presents himself very authoritatively in this image. also the least exposed (probably trying with themes of how the dictator is more a vehicle for dictatorship, a mere figurehead.) next, i assume this is the representation of either the military or the police; the handcuffs around the wrist are absolutely fascinating. implying his implication in everything that is done, and everything that he has done, will come to him. also, more literally, how he has chosen to shackle himself to something (i.e. the state), but the state is not shackled to him. also the slight aversion of gaze, not directly confronting the viewer. a wielding of soft power. i interpreted the far-left figure as the "condemned/you", an ordinary distressed person by the situation but more than willing to go along with in it. some of my friends in the discord server pointed out to religious figurehead/the arts, and i welcome this interpretation and think it is equally likely :3. interesting to note the aversion of gaze, the lack of conformity, though. in the very back sits the secretary, blended with the background and i think this is to emphasise that her role is to be a follower; an object; but also ever-present and ever-watchful.

I WAS FUCKING RIGHT HE IS CONDEMNED.

i don't like that the description is empty you're meant to be advertising this tour right? just a tour? please? i'm so scared right now please don't drop a full length album it'll be too scary

hey bishop

no tour listing on this video

did anyone else notice her constantly playing with her gloves, teasing them off her fingers one by one in anticipation? all these figureheads are locked in one room and the gloves are literally coming OFF!!

i would recognise her anywhere (x)

i hope she buys a tiny little skirt with my ticket money

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[Nov 14, 2024]

gerard sending distorted screams to the rest of the band like “how does this one sound?” and mikey sends this 👍

mychemicalromance: "Opera."

[Nov 14, 2024]

got thinking about gerard way tour outfit predictions that never came 2 be… bloody wedding dress…

wait i need my tags out in the open bc i thought so much about this. absolutely did not believe a bride look would happen bc a wedding dress would be too bulky restrictive etc. but then i was doing my research and reading about wedding fashion trends by the decade and looking at sewing patterns and stuff i discovered the 60s Wedding Mini Dress and i was like wait this is it they totally would. they didn’t but they would. like kind of a mod vibe but with some more gothic detail so it still reads as bridal out of context yk yk. here’s some doodles

SEVEN OF NINE - first & last appearances through the seasons (VOYAGER S4-7, PICARD S1-3)

me too gorgug, me too

You know the Grimm version of Snow White makes more sense than most versions if only because in that version Snow White was like 7 years old.

Like imagine you find a 7 year old in the woods and she’s like my mom is gonna kill me because I’m prettier than her and she’s not kidding. You know this queen is that sort of person. So you and your roommates adopt the kid and tell her don’t talk to strangers. And she keeps talking to strangers and getting poison combs stuck in her hair and whatnot.

Like yeah that’s kinda stupid but also she’s seven. She likes apples.

Also imagine it from the hunter’s perspective. The queen tells you this bitch is prettier than me I need you to take her out in the woods and kill her. And then you see who you’re supposed to kill and it’s a 2nd grader. Like how are you supposed to react to that sort of situation? Kill a human child? No. Because you’re not a brainless evil minion you’re just some guy dealing with a cartoonishly evil monarch. Of course you let her go.

Bad look for the Prince of course. Even if she did age while she was in that glass case. He saw a dead woman and just decided to keep her. And once she stopped being dead he was like we’re married now

He did cause the evil queen to dance to death in red hot shoes though. That was kinda cool.

With the acknowledgement that I'm grasping at straws, is it ever directly confirmed that the Prince wasn't also 7?

See, I think that still works.

You are the guardsman assigned to protect the eight-year-old Prince. You are currently in the middle of the forest because he absolutely had his heart set on "going hunting", and the royal second-grader should definitely not be traipsing around the woods on his own. You let him go a little on ahead and he comes running back talking about how there's a dead girl in the clearing and there's no-one else around and he wants to take her home because she's really pretty, Hans, and she's all alone!

You let him drag you to said clearing and okay, that is one angelic-looking dead child alright, and on the one hand the quality of her clothes and the craftsmanship on the coffin (who builds a see-through coffin?) speak to potential Consequences if you simply carry her off, but also for the amount of vines that have grown on the coffin she looks extraordinarily un-decayed, so you should probably get the court alchemist's opinion on that, and there's no way he's going to come all the way out here in his embroidered velvet curly-shoes. And also this kid is technically assigned by God as your natural superior, or something.

So fine. You hoist the coffin onto your shoulder (it's not like the Prince can do it. He's eight.) and head back toward the castle, Prince chattering blithely all the way. And then you turn your ankle on a rock and suddenly there's a thump and a cough and a lot of shouting from inside the coffin and you have now become a key player in a tense political incident with the next kingdom over.

You should probably ask for a raise.