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save me, priest gerard (wip)

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Frank discovers homophobia 2025 remaster

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"I mixed up my words last week. I mixed up execution with election. So yeah, it's an execution. That's what's gonna happen."

(x, y, z)

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Being a rayrard fan in a sea full of frerard truthers feels a lot like this actually

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LONG LIVE THE BLACK PARADE

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This fandom is a prison

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I survived the hostage situation at Mcr Seattle

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PANSY NEVER DIES

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My Chemical Romance in 2007 and My Chemical Romance in 2025

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if you didn’t enjoy mcr seattle keep that shit to yourself i actually dont wanna hear it

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I'm not o-fucking-kay!!!!

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MCR albums as characters! The other day I thought about My Chem's discography and what each album would be like as a standalone character, here's what I came up with! It was surprisingly difficult to not draw Gerard for each of these eras haha Bullets to me has this very, sort of, gloomy vibe, very grounded in reality, raw human emotions, horror inspired themes, the dread of being stuck in a corporate hell hole.

In my mind Revenge is pure American Gothic, running away from the law, vampires, blood, love and death.

The Black Parade to me is perfect the way we know it. I tried a million different faces for the character, but none of them quite fit, so I just left the character without one! Which, in my opinion, fit the concept of Death nicely.

And lastly, Danger Days! The album is fast, loud, chaotic, rebellious and vibrant and so is this character :] Let me know what you think of these and if you have similar or COMPLETELY different view of these albums!

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And as you stumble through your last crusade,

Will you welcome your extinction in the morning rays!?

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it’s kinda crazy that buffy the vampire slayer invented lesbianism

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three cheers for sweet revenge cover parody

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Not me scrolling through the Conclave tag only to see no one talk about the deliberate positioning and framing of the women in this movie.

Pulling up this movie I completely expected to only encounter Sister Agnes as the one woman we see in the trailer, the conclave a space that has been kept from the female members of the church. Now, color me surprised when I started the movie and most of the establishing shots we got were focused on all the women working in the Vatican.

And it is such a deliberate choice, it does the film a disservice not to talk about it.

Because while Cardinal Lawrence is having his fifteenth breakdown during sequestering and Bellini finds the ambitious asshole within himself, Ray does all the leg work, and Bel---- we see the women work.

We see the kitchens, we see them cook, we see them stand aside. Most of the time when the Cardinals are conspiring it is the women who interrupt because they are busy working, walking, running errands.

And there is power in that.

I think it is very deliberate how often (and with such lingering gaze) the camera shows us the lives of the other half - partially to connect to the wider themes of the movie, on how Bellini asks for women to get more power but never thanks them, and how Benitez stumps them all by thanking the women preparing their meals when asked to say the prayer (considering his own probably tumultuous relationship to gender within the church).

But it also stands in direct opposition to a long tradition in story telling: servants don't exist. How often the heroes of a regency romance are "alone" because the two hand maidens and three maids don't really count.

Conclave doesn't do that.

It doesn't let us look away.

Between all the petty drama, the politics, and the real life consequences of the conclave, we never stop looking at the people doing all the work.

Yes, we follow the ups and downs of Lawrence and Co, but in doing so the movie reminds us again and again of the women working the kitchen.

And that was just such a powerful artistic choice in a movie about a famously misogynistic church... I loved it. And I had to talk about it.

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The brothers of all time