#EL-TORO

[usafphantom2]

A-4L-145128-VC2-OCEANA-APR76 by Michel Klaveren

[forthosetunedin]

OK well ill just keep putting jesse pinkman into my chemical romance until something else comes up

[classichorrorblog]

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

[stickybowl]

31 year old Pierluigi Della Bona lives in Ceprano, Italy. He has a degree in Motor Sciences, with a specialty in preventative and adapted motor activities, as well as a diploma in masso-physiotherapy, a modern branch of physiotherapy

In 2021, during the pandemic, Carlos Sainz’s then trainer was unable to leave the UK and so, through MedEx Della Bona was tasked with overseeing Sainz’s pre-season preparation and has worked with the Spaniard since his first year with Ferrari.

“Working with a new driver is challenging, especially in adapting to their behavioural and mental habits. It is important to find the right approach for each athlete, finding out how best to understand their mentality and character.”

“My dad told me in this sport you either bite or get bitten, so you’d better start biting now. Since then, I’ve become the one that always tries to push and bite, and Gigi helps me with that, keeping me motivated. When he sees that I’m being a bit too lazy or a bit too comfortable, he just makes sure he’s firing me up. He fires me up a lot, sometimes even too much!”

[javieroliver1991]

Pan's Labyrinth, El Laberinto del Fauno (2006) fan art.

Pretty sure is my favorite Guillermo del Toro movie.

Original Art and Commissions: Nrissoart.com

[sexy-swashbuckler]

when you choose shipwreck as your parents’ cause of death, you get a badge that says you survived the wreck.

the pirate was with their parents when they died…

[elis-corner]

gerard way transed my gender

this is essentially just one big ramble about how music as a whole shapes how i experience myself and the world (but with a focus on mcr and gerard)

Addressing the "title", I guess he simultaneously did, and did not, and did the opposite of such. I was well aware of my gender identity before I became an MCR fan (in fact, I discovered them because of hearing "Mama" in the background of trans TikToks), but I've found that, despite this, their music shapes how I view my identity.

Music holds something extremely unique; it has the power to convey things auditorily, through sounds, through volume, through pitch, through tone. They can be things you simply can't put into words that become something you feel on such a deep level and connect with so strongly.

Music has better helped me understand my gender by giving me another sense to describe it with. While I love and relate to MCR as a whole, there are certain sounds, certain songs, that describe my identity in a way that no words or writing could ever explain. They paint a beautiful picture that nothing else could.

When I hear music, I feel things within myself. I see art and colours and shapes in my mind. There is something so intrinsically human about music. I don't study music theory, or label what genres I like, because I feel like music can't be broken down and categorised, and that so directly translates to the wild mess that is gender. You can't use something tangible to describe something that is not, but two things that you have no way to explain? Those can correlate and explain each other so beautifully.

There's also something about the way that musicians manage to capture something visual with their music. I think a lot of people would understand when I say that Danger Days sounds like pop art, that Hesitant Alien sounds like chromatic aberration, that The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars takes me back to an era in which I wasn't even close to existing, that songs off The Normal Album like "2econd 2ight 2eer" sound like spirographs and kaleidoscopes, that "Joyriding" sounds exactly how the numbness of my depressive episodes feel.

Music is essentially a xenogender to me, but with something auditory that my brain then turns into something visual.

As I'm writing this, I'm realising this sounds like I have synaesthesia, but I'm not diagnosed so I can't really speak on that. I'm not diagnosed with anything, actually. Maybe I should be. Who knows. My psychologist kinda sucks. Anyway.

So obviously, there's the music itself. But there's also the people behind it.

There's something that so indescribably describes my experience of gender through aesthetics and presentation. There is something I can connect with on such a deep level when I see Will Wood, Bowie, members of MCR or Queen. In layman's terms it's gender envy, but if you ponder on it, it's something so much deeper. What makes me look at an ensemble, a colour scheme, a single accessory, or even a person, that makes me feel like I'm looking into myself and seeing who I want to be?

And then, there's how their ability to express themselves impacts your understanding of yourself. Here's where the focus on Gerard starts.

I'm simply queer, but to explain myself better I say I'm nonbinary and transmasc. Note how I don't align with binary gender, in a world that mandates it. I was very feminine when I was younger, and when I accepted that I was trans I was so desperate to feel more masculine that I denied everything feminine about myself. Now, I'm kind of just letting myself exist. And it all started with Gerard.

Picture this. It's 2023, and over the past year you've been getting into a band. You've enjoyed the music, but never really ventured into the fandom or learning more about the people behind the music. When you do, you not only discover that the band you thought was broken up is not only back together, but that they performed in your city just a few months before. So, you look up photos and videos of the concert.

That band is My Chemical Romance, and at that concert their frontman was in a skirt and heels. This intrigues you, so you look into the band more.

The Secretary. Cheerard. Party Poison. Hell, even Catgirl Gerard.

That was me, what feels like insanely long ago. I fell in love with the band fully, not just for their music and their messaging, but for the people---the members and the fans. I stumbled upon a group of people rejecting society and being themselves. And I learnt that, fuck presentation, I'm still me.

Seeing MCR as Killjoys, seeing Gerard during the reunion tour... it all had such an impact on me. I can wear skirts and makeup and things that make me feel feminine---the antithesis of what I am in so many ways---and still feel like I'm being true to myself. Music is what unlocked those doors for me.

When I heard Hesitant Alien for the first time, I saw myself in it in a way I hadn't seen myself in music since I discovered Bowie. There was something so dreamy, so hallucinogenic, so out of this world, that described me so perfectly. That I could hear the music, see the visuals, look inside myself, and go, "yeah, that's me".

MCR has helped me embrace more than just femininity, though. I hated having curly hair, but Ray showed me I could love it. I was raised to be against unnatural altering of one's appearance, but Frank's piercings and tattoos showed me what an art form it can be. The "gender" of clothing was so tied to my ability to see myself as masculine, until Gerard showed me I could just be myself and have fun with my appearance, and that I didn't need labels or to restrict myself. I felt like femininity and masculinity could never coexist, until I saw Mikey rocking a balance of the two.

Music is so intrinsically human, describing us in ways that words never could. And I think that's beautiful.

[piecesofchess]

The hinting at an Armada plush AND more Elite merch in the store is going to ruin me

[lascitasdelashoras]

Guillermo del Toro - Cuaderno de notas para El laberinto del fauno

[milligramspoison]

Heard y’all were looking for some guy named Ray Toro I think I may gotchu covered

[grandesainz]

i love team 55 extinguisher pic with the trophy

also look what gigi put on the board 😭

[usafphantom2]

F-5E-160792-VFC13-FALLON-APR97 by Michel Klaveren

[tomatoart]

very old doodle page of my favorite :3c

[ratbeard-pirate101]

[zimba-limba]

Jsjs Me pregunto si Ben le dijo algo a su novia antes de ir a buscar a los demás campistas o si simplemente dejó de escribirle.

No parecía molesta con él si ese fuera el caso, aunque quizás la emoción de estar en persona la hizo dejar eso de lado...

[starfaring-samurai]

This made me laugh:

And then we have: