Our Hearts Need Work

B stage huh…… i’m scared

Some Frank and Mikey doodles I did for @mcrmakesmedance and also for fun :3 I had sm fun drawing these

Are you guys as excited for new MCR stuff as me. 😭😭😭

Trying to think of what we're really buying here. We're buying food. College tuition! Ugly shoes for a man who is 5'6." Sheer stockings. Prostate massagers. Curl friendly shampoo. Vintage glam rock posters. Star Wars memorabilia. Dog toys. Little glasses of red wine.

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

the secretary’s presence in the halls of the great dictator offers such a swerve in her reading. she’s fascistic. she’s complicit. she, like the dog, is an arm of power, an agent of rule, a technology of authoritarianism. she’s not liberatory — or at least, she cannot so easily be rendered as such. my chemical romance is a band of always unfolding surprises

like what does it do for us (as fandom, as listeners, as readers) when we learn that the object of our erotic desire is a character whose presence signals the ways that apparatuses of rule can be beautiful? can be titillating? can capture our attention? what does it mean when the character we’ve been so easy to project liberatory meaning onto actually shows up in mcr/gerard’s text as handmaiden to the great dictator’s fascist decade? where does that take us? how does it change our own readings of these performances we had (and still have) limited context to? can we recoup her? must we disown her? does it matter? will it ever? is it, in the cynical parlance of our current apocalyptic age, really even that serious?

more importantly, would gerard (and frank and mikey and ray) play with this imagery if they thought that it wasn’t?

it’s clear in her (visual; symbolic) staging that the secretary (if she is even that) can never be “equal victim” of the great dictator as are repressed citizens, as is the black parade, as are those dead and buried — she’s symbolic not of the capacity for fascist redemption but of fascism’s seductiveness, of fascism’s ill-gotten gains, of the ways that fascism very well benefits some people and populations (yes, even women, yes, even queer people, yes, even marginalized group xyz here) at the bloody, violent, earth-shattering expense of others. her capacity to sit beside the great dictator in comfort is not evidence of her victimhood. it’s evidence that she, too, will happily wield power at the expense of the rest of the world. at the expense, perhaps, of the end of the world. my chemical romance is not a subtle band

not the gay asf shoulder lean 😭😭

on my knees praying dear snoopy, please let my mutuals and all the cool people get mcr tickets and please make it so the scalpers die and the people who were assholes at the barricade for all of the swarm tour get nothing thank yuo

A lil bat gerard for you 🦇❤️ did anyone get to see mcr this weekend?? X

oh it's bad over there

that was horrible. my chem fan class action lawsuit when

Okay I got my luck with getting tickets sending all my luck to the girlies that are trying to get tickets rn ✨✨✨