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THE DEATH OF THE SECRETARY.

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i think when putting together a timeline of events here it's important to remember that the black parade music video takes place 10 to 15 or so years before the patient dies, it's a flashback to his childhood when he went to see the parade, and he's not lucid at the moment the music video starts. we can assume that the planes and more scary/decrepit imagery is not from his childhood trip, but is influenced by what he's seen in the war, or the noise of the warplanes overhead while he's in the actual hospital room (correct me if im wrong, but i believe the war isn't yet over when he dies)

the imagery we have from the welcome to the black parade music video is not what the landscape of the country actually looked like, in contrast to the very real and grounded feeling the dictator trailer had. it was the last hallucinations of a dying man. a distant and dim city, war planes, a childhood memory, drawn curtains, nurses, and the beeping of medical equipment.

I think it's also worth noting the similarities between the ashes falling on the black parade and the papers/confetti falling in the new promo. you could definitely argue it's just to take up visual space, but I think the comparison is interesting nevertheless.

Here are some more obvious parallels between visuals, specifically the skylines, in chronological order. War and decay, shiny new fascism, and the ruins of (presumably, although the differences in window shape and the neons throw me off, so it may be unrelated) that same city.

the visuals of welcome to the black parade are very very inspired by german expressionist film movements, especially the cabinet or dr caligari, and the last things i wanted to point out here were the nods to that in the set of the wwwy shows with the vignette/spotlight overtop a single figure

but yea! just very excited to break down any imagery to come and finally put my art degree to good use

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frank please stop posting i’m so emotionally fragile right in this moment im already crying

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Gerard in Melbourne by Danysha Harriott

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@discolizardwizard and i silly goofy activities today 😭😭😭

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they have a LINGUISTIC SPECIALIST. they straight up made a whole new alphabet for this.

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STOPPPPPPPP

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hello

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[on how the reunion happened] “It was a barbecue. We did an MCR barbecue in 2017 just to get the kids together, and we hadn’t seen each other for like…two years, something like that… And um, we just kinda hung out. We didn’t play any music, we didn’t do anything like that. We were just like, ‘Why don’t we hang out anymore?’ It just took some time, you know?

“And I think maybe a year later, we got the barbecue together again, and then we played some music. And it was really fun. And I probably have a phone recording of it, somewhere, just for us. No one will ever see. But that was the first time we played anything, and we played, like maybe five or six songs…just jamming. And I think our wives were there…it was in California, at Gee’s house.

“It was nerve-wracking, like, going into it. ‘Cause it’s like, we’re friends again, we’re in each others’ lives again, but we haven’t made notes, we haven’t made noise together. Like, that could change the dynamic. Do you want to sacrifice the good…what we have now..? And it just ended up being the best thing in the world, so we were like, “Oh, this is really awesome. We should do this. This is really fun to do.

“The two years of just…kinda talking and dancing around it, and then we really, I think, decided in 2019—if we were ever going to do it, we had to do it that year because that was the shot call. We did the reunion show, and then we were like, ‘This would be fun to do again and again, if we did it on our own terms.’ We’ve been really lucky to be able to do it the way we do it.”

—Frank Iero via One Life One Chance Podcast, 31 October 2022

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someone please do something about my sister’s theory, she got as far as “upside down star wars ska album”

(personally i’m now married to concept album set in space)

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Gerard in Detroit | by Nina Tadic

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they're back.

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another gem from the 2007 fresno show: "i won't go down by myself, but i'll be sucking off my friends!"

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