#i'm never not thinking about his awesome looks on that band btw

[spotforme]

it is hilarious to me that the crypto-fascist hater guy ended up stuck with the fascit fanboy

and by the time Timeslides hit's around he has learned to block out most, if not all, moral and political talk for the sake of peace in the tin can, and thus is just as done with his past self as he is with Rimmer

[yridenergyridenergy]

Hiii, greetings from southeast asia! ❤️

i like your blog btw

And i wanna ask you as new fans of Dir, what do you think about all member? Please describe each member and tell me who is ur favorite?

Hello, sorry for the delay! I knew that this question required a thoughtful answer.

Welcome to Dir en grey! They're frickin' awesome.

Hm I'm terrible at describing people. Essentially, none of them are mean or offensive. They are all very considerate individuals. What's special about Dir en grey is that they are not social and they do not profusely share with fans, so whenever they do or that they interact among themselves, we all go gaga because by that point, we're craving for it hahah.

In terms of them individually, hm, I can't say that Toshiya imposes himself, but he is definitely not a passive bassist. He moves very emotionally to the songs and it's super heartwarming to see him smile on stage. Recently, he opened his online fan site and he seems very generous and, again, very thoughtful with what he gives to fans, after all those years of drought.

Die has a kind of mysterious air to him, but he is rather communicative and energetic. For years, apparently he has been sharing daily updates/pictures on his online fan club.

When it comes to Shinya, he's a stoic angel hahah. He really has his signature look and his facial expression remains neutral whenever he plays the drums, but he beats them like a beast. I love his compositions because they're so atypical and varied, you can never get bored of the melodies. I also love his style of humor, which you can see on his YouTube channel.

Kaoru gives the impression of really being serious, but he is quick to kind of fool around too. He is known as the leader but he is clearly super laidback. From what I know, he is rather generous and attentive with fans too, and his art is very cool and gloomy!

Over the years, I've come to love them all quickly enough, but Kyo was definitely my favourite member of Dir en grey from the start. At this point, it might be easier to find words that do not describe Kyo than limit myself to a few words that do describe him. His performance on stage is striking, his lyrics aren't necessarily genius but the way he delivers them, wow. I don't know any other singer who comes up with vocal melodies that are this diverse and so felt. And I've looked, I'm open to discoveries but nothing's a match for his creativity. What else to say without stretching this post on forever... Hm, I've definitely known him to be moody, but he just expects a raw and true response from people like what he gives us, and he can't be bothered to fake. As a last note, I'll make an honorable mention to every "smirky" thing he does, whether on stage or in his various other activities. He is not outright laughing while slapping his leg for example, but once in a while he does shenanigans and you can just imagine a smirk behind it. And if you love Kyo, please give his second band, sukekiyo, a chance! It's amazing and you can witness another side of Kyo!

Even though I gave myself some time to think of a reply, this is in no way perfect or eloquent... Please explore my posts from this year and the past ones and you should notice some traits from each member! Perhaps the compilations are a good starting point?

[bruce-wayne-simp]

Ok im watching pirate radio/the boat that rocked because I'm a Tom Sturridge stan now

(The movie follows Carl (Tom Sturridge) a 17 year old who got expelled from school for doing drugs. His mother sent him to live on a boat with his godfather Quenton and the band of DJs who run the pirate radio. Shenanigans ensue, the British government tries to take them down, its a good time. Also its set in the late 60s)

I'm like 15 minutes in and it's awesome so I'm gonna liveblog i guess

This is gonna be very Carl-heavy (see 'im a Tom Sturridge stan' above)

Also spoilers if you care about being spoiled for a movie that came out in 2009

From the summary i thought Carl was gonna be some tough-guy rebel but he's just so smiley and innocent and respectful and it's rly sweet. Idk if it's a British thing or what but yeah

The guys are all very stereotypical "guys" and i honestly kinda love it

The one scene where Carl is kinda settling in on his first day and he comes into the Count's DJ space(?) is so funny. Hes like 'are you nervous' and gives Carl a hug then slaps his ass and tells him to get the fuck out

The f-word scene is BRILLIANT. Go watch the clip on youtube it's so good

Carl just revealed hes only been to all boys boarding schools and as a result he is a virgin and has also never kissed anyone. I know enough about this movie to know it comes up later. Also the way he can barely say 'sex' is adorable

Also Carl is very relatable

Midnight Mark is kinda hot ngl

Oh Jesus christ 🤦‍♀️

Apparently 'later' is NOW

Secondhand embarrasment galore oh my god 😭😭😭😭 poor Carl

Dave tried to trick his hookup by letting Carl have sex (basically rape) her so he could lose his virginity. For what it's worth, Carl is reluctant because of the morality of it (and he's an impressionable 17 year old) and she turns the light on and sees him and they both scream

Omg we're at the scene where we meet Bob. Poor Bob does the show early in the morning and nobody ever sees him so when he comes down in the morning everyones like 'who tf are you'

Thick Kevin: what was his name again?

Young Carl: Really?

Oh btw Thick Kevin and Young Carl are roommates on the ship

Aww Quenton gave Carl a date w his niece, Maryanne, for his birthday

Lmaoo he literally said hi to Maryanne and then left and is asking Dave for a condom

'Do you know how it works?' Carl, babe, your answer doesn't sound very convincing

Carl, my love, you JUST MET HER. I cannot overstate how naive he is.

Dave is an asshole. That's all. (He almost fucks up Carls chance with Maryanne and then sleeps with her while Carl is looking for another condom)

'Maryanne, I see you.' Heartbreaking 😭😭

Honestly there are some very sweet moments and this is one of them 😭😭😭

Harold and John bring Carl tea and biscuits while he's sitting on a bench, upset. They don't say anything but by the end of the scene Carl is eating a biscuit and smiling and Harold gives him a hug 😭😭😭😭😭😭

(Link to the scene bcs its so sweet: https://youtu.be/66U9Kfr4UhE )

And honestly when Gavin gives him the condom was kinda sweet too. Like he's proud of him and gives him advice (bad advice, but still it's the thought that counts)

I fucking love Felicity. She's the only woman on board full time and that's because she's a lesbian. I hope she gets her girlfriend ❤️

Omg Midnight Mark was having an orgy lmaoo

Simon is so sweet😭😭 He went to Carl and Kevin's room and told them he's getting married and I'm pretty sure just asked Carl to be his best man??

'HANDS OFF, YOU LESBIAN' Love it

STAG PARTYYYYYYYY

Omg he's known her for 2 weeks

This entire sequence is very British 😭😭

Oh God they're all hungover

Ooooh who is Carl's father???

God he's so pretty in this scene

Link to gifset (if ur a sandman stan you've seen it before):

'I think sometimes i should be called Clever Kevin. What do you think about tha-' *falls out of bed*

THE WAY CARL DIDN'T EVEN FLINCH AT KEVIN FALLING 💀

Aww Simons speech to the listeners about his wedding was sweet

THE WEDDING

Simon holding Carls hand and Carl being like wtf and walking away

Quenton: We are gathered here in the sight of God, apparently. Which is, I don't know, scary?

Carl is smoking while being Simons best man i love him (Protip: looking for Carl in a scene? Look for a cigarette first)

Oh god Simons new wife just told him she's in love with Gavin

Oh no she only married Simon to get on the boat to get with Gavin :( Poor Simon

Top tier music choices all around though

Harold is such a good friend

Everyone here has two brain cells between them (yes im at the Chicken Game)

Aww Gavin apologized to Simon

Lmao they're basically playing never have i ever

Aww Carls mom is coming by

'Just in case you wanted to brush your hair or hide that stack of pornography you keep on that shelf' QUENTON

Oh god he's dreading seeing her

Aww Kevin wished him luck 😭😭

He asked if Quenton was his dad and his mom was like 'uh no wtf'

Its BOXING DAY

'It was a shag well shagged the night you made this little fella' Dave to Carls mom

DAVE SAID CARL IS ONE OF THEM AND THEY WANT HIM TO STAY FOREVER AWWWW

The posh government people on boxing day im sobbing its so funny and silent

Oh god Bob is Carls father (Bob gave Carl a message earlier and he told her right before she left)

She was like 'How old are you' and did the math from there lmaoo

CARLS MOM SLEPT WITH MARK HAHA

'Telll Mark it was a lovely night!' 'NO! NO!!' lmfaooo

Carl is telling Bob hes his dad oh my god its so sweet

JOHN DON'T INTERRUPT. FUCK

Parliament just created an act making pirate radio illegal as of new years day

Quentons like 'pirate radio is dead' and everyone else is like 'nope'

The Count pulled the 'Murica card lmaoo

'Obviously im in. You're the only people in the world who like me' IM GONNA SOB GIVE CARL A HUG RN

OMG MARYANNE IS BACK

And her friend Margaret

Carl ur so fucking cute (he ssked if she wanted to play scrabble or something 😭😭😭)

OUR BOY IS DOIN IT

omg is Felicity gonna sleep with Margaret??

Lmfao the FUNNIEST SCENE

Ok so Carl comes out of his room in the morning, he turns around and the entire ship is standing there cheering, The Count is on the air and the nation (20 MILLION PEOPLE) are waiting with baited breath as to if Young Carl lost his virginity

The Count is asking him if he did it lmaoo

The Count: -and remember, the reply 'i don't wanna answer that question' means yes

Young Carl: im certainly not going to answer that question

Lmao John is reporting it as news 😭😭 'a nice young man has lost his virginity in the north sea'

Lmao Felicity and Margaret are popping their heads out of another door and everyones smiling GOOD FOR HER

Lmao they're leaving and Felicity is holding a huge sign that says I love you

Listen its the 70s lesbians gotta do what lesbians gotta do

Omg the govt raided the wrong ship 💀💀💀

Holy shit the engine just exploded on the ship as they were sailing away

'Ok the good news is the engine has just exploded and we're all going to die' Quenton NEVER misses

(The bad news is theyre gonna drown/freeze to death in the North Sea btw)

Theyre asking fans for help

Gavin: Here's a rather long record. I hope I'm here at the end of it.

FUCK

They're all grabbing the shit they can/stuff they want and can carry

Carl just ate shit oop

Oh wow the government isnt gonna save them bcs of 'costs'

Midnight Mark is a badass. Going through a sinking ship in leather pants?? Unmatched. Icon.

Lmao Angus is like 'i know nobody here particularly likes me but I'm glad to have known you all' and Simon is like 'no!! Everyone here likes you. Raise your hand if you like him'

And everyone does except Dave who tries and can't make himself do it so Simon says to be honest and everyone puts their hands down lmaoooo

Oh no where's Bob? Also Carl literally says 'where's my dad?' And i just wanna know if everyone knew beforehand or if that's how they found out who Carls dad is

Omg Bob had no clue the boat was sinking because he was listening to music

Bob just let go of your fucking case you are both DROWNING

Aww Dave saved Carl bcs he felt guilty about sleeping with Maryanne

God they're climbing up to the top of the ship now

Oh no the Count is gonna go down with the ship

Lmao Carl said fuck

FANS ARE COMING TO THE RESCUE

Theyre jumping in to swim to the rescue boats and Bob and Carl held hands to jump in together 😭😭

Gavins doing a backstroke lol

MARYANNE SAVED CARL (and kevin)

The rest of the ship is going under

THE COUNT RETURNS

EVERYONE'S ALIVE WOO

And the movies over, bye lol

[m4lexxx67]

THE. BASS.

I need to learn how to play House of Wolves, the drums get better the more you hear them. That and The Sharpest Lives are the only two songs I would have added to the set list when I saw them live that one time. I love these songs so much

Why hasn't anyone told me about the tiny swarm tour prop/destroyed house that's standing in the corner?

Cancer us honestly too beautiful (and sad) of a song to exist in this world

And I fucking love the violin between Cancer and Mama and throughout the song too

Oh my god I think Frank is singing along to sleep even though he doesn't even have a mic why is that so sweet 🥺🥺🥺

Mikey

And again, the bass sound

Love the commentary of whoever the video XD

I don't what it is with this show in particular or why I'm all of a sudden focussed on guitar players (I cannot for the lofe of me play guitar) but Ray is fucking KILLING IT!!!! Srsly, no idea if it's the show or me but I have never paid so much attention to a guitar player as I am doing right now 😅

Nvm that about I would have only added sharpest lives and house of wolves. Also Disenchanted. We should all thank Mikey every day for that song.

Disenchanted fr 😭😭😭 I wanna scream about it but I have neighbors and a roommate 😭😭😭 which also means I can't really sing to any of the songs but it's worst with this one I love it so much 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Famous Last Words as epic as ever

THEY USED BLACK PARADE LYRICS AT THE END OF FAMOUS LAST WORDS????? HOW IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THAT???? IS THAT A REGULAR THAT JUST COMPLETELY WENT OVER MY HEAD??? THAT'S THE ONLY EXPLANATION I HAVE FOR SEEING NO ONE MENTION THIS BECAUSE WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT THAT 24/7 WHAT THE FUCK GUYS???? HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO DEAL WITH THAT I FUCKING CAN'T

The person in the video just went "I love this fucking band". Same, girl. Same.

Look, I can know they played Blood and still freak out about it, okay?

Not Okay, actually. Not o-fucking-kay XD And Frank and Ray singing in the background <333

This band fucking owns my heart. No matter how many other bands I listen to, I don't think they're ever even gonna get close to mcr

Moving on to day 2:

Just the entirety of the fact that they played The End and Dead!

It's ridiculous I'm just watching the same set again and still freaking out about it 😂

The pistol Gerard did with his hands when they ended dead 🥺🥺

I love this stance that Mikey always does. Also, have I mentioned the bass sound, yet? Not for this show? Great because it's also FUCKING PERFECT!!!!

The black and white screens are great too btw

Maybe it's cause Ray looks so fucking in black and white and that makes the solos even better...

The screens mainly showing Gerard's shadow for the beginning of wttbp was an awesome choice by whoever was in charge of that

I know, I'm repeating myself but it's just so rare that you can hear the bass properly 😭

The black and white hit's even harder for I Don't Love You

Frank also killing it (because somehow I haven't really mentioned him yet 🥲)

Also I love watching Jarrod play the drums, he always looks so happy 🥰

I don't know if they did that on purpose or if so how they did it, but there's a split second in I Don't Love You where one of the shadows look like a marching band guy?? The black parade skeleton specifically?? Idk maybe I'm imagining things or over interpreting, but I see the fucking skeleton moving as one of the shadows

Ray is wearing blue pants. I'm confused

Still don't know what to do with that "kill them" comment...

That is a shit ton of flashing lights too, idk how they weren't totaly disoriented on that stage

However, I do think that all of this goodbye stuff might be saying goodbye to their past and the beginning of a new era, kind of like Foundations. But maybe that's just what I want to be true, I honestly have no idea. But I'm subscribing to the idea that mcr is done until they confirm it.

Their use of lighting and the effects on the screens is so good!!!

Disenchanted 🥰🥰🥰

Yeah, the second show definitely felt like a goodbye. But I'm really hoping that it's to like... a past era and not mcr as a whole. Or maybe tumblr is just getting to me idk... i'm choosing to believe that this is the beginning of a new era until I see something official from them

Frank and Ray in the back of Na Na Na 🥰🥰

Helena.

So long and good night to everyone who has actually read this far (thank you) I need to fucking sleep.

So sorry to everyone who follows me, you're gonna have to see more about mcr. Specifically me freaking out about the concert videos because I don't want to distract my best friend from her Very Important uni work.

Comments I have so far:

THE BASS IS FUCKING AMAZING!!!! There is no way phones would have captured that if they hadn't done a very good job at sound check and actually made the bass audible, I AM IN LOVE!!!

Also all of Sharpest Lives. So sad I never heard that live but it's even good on the recordings

[thebattleofstarcourt]

Eddie Munson Request!

I a sucker for the opposites attract trope, and I just imagine Eddie with his grunge hard metal self, having a super frilly girlfriend, you know how when high school boys walk around with their girlfriend’s scrunchies on their wrist, kind of a sign of claiming the dude? Imagine Eddie with a frilly pink scrunchy or something! How would he react to it being given to him, or how would hellfire react as well!! Hope you like the request! Can’t wait for you possibly writing this out because I love your writing style, literally counting the hours for you Eddie POV later on today!!

a/n: omg i am so sorry for just now seeing this but in my defense i have worked doubles 2 days in a row and im slowly dying inside! anyways i LUV this rq and thank u thank u thank u for ur kind words it fr means the world. (i acc just finished writing this n i'm alr starting a second part so . kudos to u and ur big brain)

this is fem!reader btw

(part 2)

look, they were trying to pay attention, they really were. it was just kind of hard to focus on hearing eddie’s insane new campaign idea while he had a baby pink scrunchie on his wrist.

it was just so jarring. not because he was a dude wearing a pink scrunchie because god knows none of them – especially eddie munson of all people – care about the rigid cage that is gender roles. it was because it was eddie that was wearing it.

eddie, in all his black skinny jeans, metalhead glory, was willingly choosing to disrupt the cohesion of his style – one they thought to be so carefully curated – for a frily, pink chiffon scrunchie.

i mean, he has long hair. they assumed, silently, of course. (being the friends that mike, dustin, and lucas are, they’ve gained the ability to communicate solely through their shared looks – and morse code, occasionally).

it’s not like he’s above picking up the easiest-to-steal looking thing and stuffing it in his pocket at the store. so it’s not like it means anything, right?

“what the fuck, guys?” the topic of unspoken discussion said, raising his hands in the air. “why’re you acting so weird? i thought you’d piss your pants at this campaign.”

“no, the campaign’s awesome, man.” dustin said.

“totally awesome.” lucas agreed.

“so why are you three acting like someone drew a dick on my face?” eddie asked, then proceeded to pull at his cheeks, accentuating the scrunchie even more. “no one did, right?”

“no, you’re good,” dustin said. “i think we’re just a bit… distracted, that’s all!”

“distracted by your fake girlfriends in idaho?” eddie joked, laughing to himself while the younger boys scowled.

“el lives in california and she’s real.”

“you’ve literally met max – ”

“that’s beside the point!” dustin interrupted. in reality, he would’ve been offended too if last summer hadn’t already desensitized him to the no-one-believing-you-have-a-girlfriend thing. “we were just curious about that thing on your wrist.” he pointed, squaring down at the scrunchie in question.

“this ol’ thing?” eddie pulled on it, snapping it against his wrist. “t’was a gift.”

“from who? the tooth fairy?” erica said, causing her older brother and the band of freshmen to immediately shush her. 

“on the contrary, lady applejack.” he said. “it was a gift from my lover. one from this realm of reality, no less.”

“lover?” lucas asked.

“it means girlfriend, lucas.”

“i know what it fucking means, asshole.”

“why’d you have bring that up?” gareth sighed, “now he’s gonna spend the next thirty minutes gushing – ”

“who’s got the fake girlfriend now, munson?” mike taunted. clearing.

“nah, she’s real,” jeff said. “you guys just never met her ‘cause she graduated when she was supposed to.”

eddie kicked jeff’s leg under the table while the boys gaped.

“you, eddie munson, have a girlfriend –”

“you know i can kick you out of hellfire, right, sinclair?”

“i’m not saying that is unbelievable that you have a girlfriend.” dustin defended. “it’s just, ya’know, i would never imagine you with someone like… that”

“like what?” he challenged. even though it was mostly a façade and he didn’t actually care what three fifteen-year-olds think about his romantic endeavors.

“like, one that gives her boyfriend pink scrunchies!” he said, turning to mike. “i mean, nancy doesn’t even do shit like that. that’s, like, the type of shit that jock’s girlfriends do to mark their territory!”

“well, i hate to break it to ya’ kid, but my girl’s got territory to mark.” eddie smirked, twirling the scrunchie around with his fingers. “you wouldn’t imagine the type of offers i get from girls who want free weed and a di –”

“if you finish that sentence i’m reporting you to the police for child endangerment.” erica said, silencing the entire table in one fell swoop. well, almost all of the table, sans jeff and gareth who were hiding their laughs behind their hands. because unlike the freshman, they knew exactly what kind of sap eddie was. and that was one who would do anything his girlfriend tells him to, from wearing her girly little scrunchie around school to committing arson, probably.

“applejack is right,” eddie said. “this is not a conversation for your innocent little minds. let’s pick up where we left off!”

“wait, i still have questions –”

“ask me when you still don’t have a baby face, henderson.”

“i meant about your girlfriend!” he huffed. “like i’d take any of that kind of information from you.”

“hey, it’s either me or harrington.” he defended, “and from what i heard, you don’t wanna take any from him.”

luckily for him, that imagery got the boys disturbed enough to finish the rest of their session in peace, with them only speaking up when they got distracted enough to forget what they were talking about before. at nine on the dot, eddie called the night, and began packing up, the rest of the club shuffling out one by one. 

“i thought you said she was coming home on sunday?” jeff asked once the freshmen were out of ear shot.

“she came back early.” eddie smiled. “she got on the train right after class and showed up at three in the fuckin’ morning. when i saw her out of my window, i thought i got too high and started hallucinating.”

“that’s awesome, man.” gareth said, patting him on the back. “you should tell her to come to hellfire while she’s back for break.”

“oh, she’s definitely coming,” eddie grinned. “gonna shut those little assholes up for good.”

[geoffrard]

please tell me more about this geoff/gerard proof 👀

anon how much time do u have

thought about being jokingly tinhatting with my response to this but i dont actually think they full fucked or whatever. so instead i'm just gonna dump several thousand words of an earnest attempt to outline why geoff and gerard deserve the same treatment received by other legendary canonical friendships like bert & gerard, mikey & pete, etc etc

also i caught the riot fest covid so idk how comprensible i will be. and idk how much sense some of this will make if you don't already have, like, rudimentary knowledge about geoff rickly's start in the hardcore scene in new brunswick, nj, so obligatory plug of the thursday primer that me and nic @raytorosaurus put out a while ago.

but tl;dr, geoff rickly and gerard way were drawn to each other literally from the beginning. since then, neither have left the other's orbit. they are legit cosmically connected narrative foils who could have been each other's closest confidant but never have been more than incredibly meaningful people to the other due to instance after instance of wrong place, wrong time.

i'll do my best to sum up some of the most poignant moments in their over twenty-year-long friendship, but nic and i are drafting several other posts that more diligently delineate the connections between thursday and mcr in their overlapping, mirrored careers and similarities/divergences in their goals/approaches as musicians.

so anyway despite what you might have assumed from the story that goes around where geoff heard gerard and mikey (badly) playing vampires at the eyeball house and wasn't impressed, i believe that at that point they'd already been friends for a while.

this is how gerard recalls the moment he met geoff:

Way: I remember it super vividly. Do you remember? I was walking out of the record shop that Alex [Saavedra, Eyeball Records] worked at on Kearny Avenue and you were standing against a wall wearing a black t-shirt. You were rail skinny and you looked like you were dying and you were so pale with this jet black hair. Rickly: My vegan lifestyle was not agreeing with me. Way: It looked like the sun was killing him. [long pause] And I thought he was super cool. (from their interview with vice in 2015)

long pause and i thought he was super cool.....like....

this is what geoff looked like back then btw. im guessing it was around 2000/early 2001 that they met since thats the outer limits of geoff's black hair goth days

(source)

gerard designed shirts for bands in the scene, including this one for thursday, probably done around 2001 when the dove became the main symbol associated with thursday. at this point mikey was a regular at the eyeball house but gerard was still hiding away in his house, but would always talk about his brother.

Geoff: "I knew Mikey from parties at the eyeball house. I liked Mikey a lot, and he was like, 'you're gonna love my brother Gee (he called him Gee all the time), Gerard, he's the best comic book artist, he's always at home, just working on comic books.' So I was like yeah, I wanna meet this kid, you know, I wanna make comic books with him, you know, that sounds awesome!" (source)

after that geoff kept asking mikey when his brother would come down to the eyeball house, because he'd loved comics since he was a kid, but he was too shy to verbalize that, and his love of comics wasn't something he'd ever actually shared with anyone other than his grandmother, who had just passed away, but he heard that this quiet guy who'd sometimes hang out with the scene's resident kid brother was this amazing comic book artist, and geoff decided that gerard was a person he wanted to know.

So like they were literally talking about writing a comic book together: geoff would write and gerard would draw. but they never were able to spend that much time together. thursday found massive and unanticipated success in late 2001 when understanding in a car crash started playing on mtv nonstop and gerard was still a hermit for the most part but had started to piece together the band that would become my chemical romance.

so then blah blah blah the story where gerard and mikey introduced the idea of their band to geoff we've all heard it. i linked it above but you can read the excerpt from dan ozzi's sellout here if you aren't familiar with the details already.

and that story ends with geoff listening to their demo and realizing that this little band actually had something. but i firmly believe that geoff loved the scene and was so compelled by gerard's art and wanted to collaborate creatively with him that he would have been willing to do it regardless of if he came around to their music or not.

geoff said this in a podcast in 2018:

"Gerard is sort of like... when he's not sort of hiding out in his house somewhere, he's actually so charming and personable. There's a reason why I was so drawn to him, and that he's, like, a superstar."

obviously we'll never know, because geoff was so compelled by the music that he played their demo to death in the tour van and then took the only two weeks that thursday had off in one of the busiest years of their career while in the midst of a super contentious legal affair with their record label to produce bullets.

okay now that i am looking at what i have written so far i look like an insane person and that is okay but i think that i will save the rest for another longer post about the fated careers of mcr and thursday. but i feel that i have done my job by just giving you this taste. more to come but their friendship literally so expansive and detailed (in ways that I don't usually see articulated here) that a single tumblr post is never going to do it justice. as i said, stay tuned, we're working on something more.

tl;dr (another one) gerard and geoff are perennially obsessed with each other & have been since literally the first time that they laid eyes on each other and it comes out the second that either of them have to be even a little reflective on the other's career thanks for reading my manifesto bye.

[catgrump]

Could you maybe.... "I gotta say, I'm a little surprised" for Leon and Sayaka? If it's not too much to ask!

Alright time to apologize to every anon who sent in a request pre-surgery lol I’m getting to them now! I finally have ENERGY let’s go!

Welcome back to College AU, btw. We love it here.

🌻🌻🌻

Sayaka was never good at first dates.

The “getting acquainted” stage was always the hardest, and dragged on the longest

She barely had time for this anyway. Between classes and the work she had to do for her career, not to mention the part-time job she held to pay for her career (agents have bills to pay, too), she didn’t have time for romance.

But she had time for hookups.

It’s intimacy without commitment. Passion without a purpose. Just a fleeting moment to fulfill a basic human need.

So why does she feel so weird in this guy’s apartment?

When she first saw Leon’s profile on tinder, her gut told her ‘oh he fits the mold’.

He had a mirror selfie AND a college sports pic in his profile for crying out loud!

And now here she is, sitting on his shoddy couch in a cute little outfit, feeling more tense than she’s ever had on this kind of a date as he flips through the Netflix menu

“In the mood for anything in particular?” He asked. She took note of their distance apart.

“Oh, uh, no. I don’t care; choose whatever,” She replied, attempting to scooch closer ever-so-slightly.

If this guy is afraid to touch me, then we won’t get anywhere, she thought

He chose some random cooking show; she wasn’t paying attention. She was studying him.

She wouldn’t have swiped right on him if he wasn’t cute. He definitely has that going for him. Sitting next to him on the couch, his jawline was highlighted by the light of the TV screen and the LED lights surrounding his ceiling. She took note of the brown roots peaking through his red hair, and the glisten of the piercings in his ear and under his lower lip.

She guessed he felt her staring, because his blue eyes were suddenly looking at her.

He nervously grinned at her, flashing a brilliantly white smile. She instinctively smiled back, trying to warm him up as she bat her eyes.

“I gotta say,” He said, scratching the back of his neck, “I’m a little surprised.”

Sayaka cocked her head in confusion, “Surprised? About what?”

“That someone like you would—“

“Someone like me?” Sayaka was just repeating his statements as questions as she wondered what this conversation was going to be

“Yeah,” he chuckled before swallowing, “You’re really pretty and talented. I uh, gotta be honest with you; I looked at your Instagram.”

Well it is linked to her profile, so that’s not too surprising. He continued, “Do you and your friends write all your own stuff?”

Oh. He actually listened to her music. No one she’s Netflix-and-Chilled with has given a shit about her music. Sometimes she worries that the only people who listen are her band members’ families, if that. “Y-yeah, we all work together to write our own songs.”

“That’s really cool,” he seemed genuine, “Your stuff is awesome. It’s great that you guys are working so hard; really admirable.”

“Thank you... that’s really nice of you to say,” she could feel her heart beating a bit faster. What is this?

“Yeah,” he nervously chuckled again, making Sayaka concerned about her heartbeat even more, “I think it’s really cool that you’re making stuff. I’ve always wanted to be a musician myself, but I’ve got my baseball scholarship, and my major is really taxing... I just don’t have time.”

“Oh, what kind of music do you wanna make? Do you play anything?” Sayaka didn’t think, she just felt like she could continue the conversation

“I’d love to be a singer-songwriter!” His face lit up as he turned to face her completely, his arm resting on the back of the couch, “I love alternative rock; I’m super inspired by stuff from like 1995 to 2007. I know it’s full of cheese, but I relish in that shit. The angst and the passion: it’s so... fun!”

That’s so different from what Sayaka was pursuing with her girls. She felt her face melt into a smile as she heard him talk about his dreams with such conviction. He was animated and lively, talking with his hands as he talked about the bands that inspired him, and lyrics that meant something to him.

“Aw, fuck, sorry; I went on a tangent there,” he said, embarrassed

“No, I don’t mind!” Sayaka took a chance, using a dismissing hand gesture as an excuse to rest her hand on his knee, “I like hearing people talking about their passions.”

She wasn’t lying. He was cute before, but now... there’s something more here. She has to know if there’s physical chemistry here.

She continued, “Please don’t feel like you need to shut up about something you’re really into.”

Leon’s other hand took hold of Sayaka’s. “That’s really chill of you to say; I appreciate it.”

They sat facing each other smiling, their hands touching. Well, it’s now or never. Sayaka made her eyes glance down at his lips, and bit hers subconsciously when she saw that piercing again. She’s never kissed anyone with a labret piercing before and was curious what it would feel like.

Luckily for her, he caught the hint. He quickly leaned his body forward to aggressively meet her lips, a hand bringing her head closer.

It was electrifying. He kissed with as much passion and conviction as he had when he talked about music. She wrapped her arms under his, pushing her body against him.

The metal above his chin was hardly anything to write home about in comparison to what she felt when his tongue grazed her lips

She immediately let him in when the cold of his tongue piercing touched her, humming with a delighted surprise.

But things weren’t moving in the direction Sayaka originally planned.

Yeah, they were kissing. Yeah, it was good. Really good.

But no one was reaching for hems of shirts, or grabbing at belts. This was perfectly fine.

They smiled through the last peppered kisses, and when they parted, they looked at the other, and laughed.

Sayaka did not plan on showing up here to try to form a connection with someone, but as she nestled into Leon’s arms to genuinely watch the show, she decided she wanted to keep seeing this guy.

Maybe she can make time. She can make time for a guy like him.

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[mcrmadness]

Hey friend! This isn't part of any ask game but I was thinking about it so I'm asking anyways :D out of Bela and Farin whose solo music do you like better? And which is your favourite solo song of each?

Hi!!!

I like Farin’s solo stuff more, definitely. And I actually like FU stuff much more than even FURT, Am Ende der Sonne being my favorite solo album of his (and it’s also the go-to album for me whenever I feel angry). I am also extremely fond of Berliner Schule.

Fun fact: It took very long for Fasztination Weltraum to open for me, I really liked “Herz? Verloren!” and its B-sides so when I finally got the full album to my hands, it was a bit of a turn-off and I was almost disappointed with it. Had to listen to it so many times in order to warm up and I still think it’s probably the worst FU/FURT album so far. There’s some gems ("iDisco", for example) in there but everything else is so... basic? Like, they just don’t make me feel almost anything at all. Not positive nor negative. Just nothing. (And pretty much the same happened with Farin’s songs on HELL apart from maybe like 1-2 songs...)

From Bela’s solo stuff I own the 1st and 2nd albums on cd and they’re okay. I liked Code B more than Bingo as there’s lots of skipping to do (for me), too. I think when his third album (and also the rest) came out, I was in the middle of my “not on the mood for any new music” so I did not check out any bands or artists I like no matter how many new albums would have come out so I never did that with bela's albums either. I did watch some music videos but I just didn’t like them at all (and the album name, I think it’s “Bye”? It gave me again even more anxiety than what I had of my own that year.) because honestly, country music is just not my thing. There’s a few music styles I just absolutely cannot stand and they are: schlager, rap/hip hop and country. Even if I'm a horse groom myself, I still cannot stand country music! :DDD

And about his later solo projects I don’t even have a clue what are those or how many albums he has even done. I probably should give them a try one day but I still haven’t had the motivation nor mood for that. I’m sometimes really bad at doing this. I mean, I meant to check out King Køng for YEARS and I did that only this year. And talking of King Køng, that’s not really my cup of tea. There were some okay songs but I have to say that “No More” sounds much better when it’s in the middle of those die ärzte interviews, and it’s actually a very anticlimatic song when you hear it as a whole between all those other songs on the album. I guess I have to listen to these albums a couple of times more still, but let’s just say that I was listening to these while I was drawing and the 3rd album got eventually so boring for me that I had to quit listening to it before it even ended because I was getting way too restless and needed something faster to go with my drawing in order to keep myself focused and from becoming (mentally) hyperactive.

^Here's that part of my collection so far. (Btw I have never listened to FURT's Livealbum of Death despite owning it, idk why. I also don't have FURT's live dvd because I just would not be able to focus on that. I sometimes have trouble even focusing on dä live dvds and other concert videos but those I at least have watched all, and most of them at least once as a whole without skipping.)

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And then the other part of your question - my favorite song from both.

Pudelsong from FU!!!

I also love songs like Dusche, or Karten. Both also have awesome lyrics (Farin's one of the rare people who writes lyrics even I can sometimes understand), I think Dusche was the first I saw with English translation and holy shit that is just genius and I still can't get over it :DDD I love surrealistic humour and stuff like that, idek how to call that really! But I like it. And Karten is quite relatable sometimes and the instrumental solo is just amazing. I also like the story in Die Leiche, I've just always been drawn to "creepy tragic stories that won't really explain themselves" like that, same with the song Schatten from Berliner Schule. It's just weird that I'm drawn to such lyrics/stories when I absolutely hate any kind of poetic "oh try and interpret me" lyrics because I don't want to fucking guess anything, I want to KNOW. But then I do love a good mystery if it has something to do with death or murder ::D

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And from Bela I think Wiehr Thind Ssuper is my favorite? At some point I used to think that Zappingsong was my fave but I just listened to it and not anymore? Anyway - that beeping in the beginning has also been somewhere else, maybe in a video game or so and it always makes me think of this song. From Code B my fave song is Schwarz/Weiss. I've no clue about the lyrics in any of his songs so we're going soundwise here now.

And then I have to mention Tag mit Schutzumschlag (thanks I can never write that name down without looking it up from somewhere first) because when I saw the video for the first time ever, the little Tim Burton fangirl in me got loose:

Mainly because my FAVORITE SONG (or scene) from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory movie/soundtrack is the Mike Teavee song and one part of Bela's video is made to happen in the same room/scene :D They've also recreated some scenes and character designs so well from the Burton movie.

Lol my answer got a bit long again but did you really expect anything else from me? XD

[manabingu]

╰(*´︶`*)╯♡ BLAKE SHEPARD ✨💕

Listen... this man... I love this man. I am in love holy frick. Best Boi 10/10 💯 QUALITY human being right thur. Omygod👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 👀💯👌🏼⭐️🌹🎉

Here's some shots of him at the con& panels and a cool time traveling cadaver he drew while studying animation im college eheh 😊! He's so sweet and adorkable. My fave kinda person tbh. He's a singer (he's in a band called Electric Attitude), voice actor & an animator! He has a series he's working on called Robot Girl (which is HELLA awesome btw 👏🏼 👀)

Special thanks to @cozymochi for letting me print that Ginga to autograph. I ran outta time to make anything new/digital ;w; but it really saved me.

I was SO nervous to talk to him about Ginga but he has been so supportive of me in this thing. I've had days where I felt like maybe I wasn't good enough and that making this OC that literally has been saving my life for years was nothing more than lines on a paper that I was just drawing without purpose. And I thought he'd think it was weird or outta the blue to talk about my OC or show up to him cosplaying him but as soon as he asked me to tell him more about him, I haven't stopped tearing up about it ;u;o! He hugged me so many times & encouraged me! I know this is gonna sound strange but he acts just like I imagined Ginga to act too?? So like DOUBLE screams for me QuQ to top it off he loves green tea just like Ginga so I need a medic pls. I always pride myself in being a good casting director but I never dreamed how perfect this fit would be. He holds Ginga's spirit of compassion, love, humility, support & chivalry. He let us hang out as much as we wanted to & he said he felt so loved he wants to come back to my state for more cons QuQ! He looked straight at me and my friends when he said that 💙💙💙 So I hope he does! I wanna hang out again & become his friend TTwTT/ he said I can reach out anytime! YEeeee! I'm sorry in advance if I never shut up about Blake ever again but he was hands down THE nicest voice actor I've ever met (*´꒳`*)

[akane171]

Haha, yess😍 Home alone with your brain and some dramatic music is the best setting for good ideas tl be born😉😉

Aah, yes, okay🤔 Lol, you really like soldier!Mon, huh?😂 Tho it does really fit S3!him incredibly well🤔😍😂🙈

Hmmm, good question🤔🤔 Kinda depends on if we're talking just about the usual pets or ALL animals🤔😂

Eh, thankfully not INSIDE, no, tho pet mice would be AWE and SOME 😍😅😅🙈

Alura saw that those two basically happily married anyway😌😉 I still wonder if Winn&Mon got that drink together that Winn said they should get after all that🤔🤔

Ohh, Yeah! Hmm🤔 I love the idea of protective Zor, but considering how he was yet another lost puppy at Catco and how funny I'd be, I think best buddies Zor&Mon would be SO amazing😂😂 

Hm, I was thinking along the lines of accident (maybe they and Winn's kid were messing with some weird stuff and the Karamel kiddos ended up in the past?) but a mix of both would be fun as well, like, imagine the kiddos accidently stumbling into the past and realizing that some details are horribly wrong (e.g., maybe that Robot was never supposed to show up originally and someone is messing with the timeline?) and need to get their parents back together if they don't want themselves and their (very happy, karamel-ly) future to vanish into nothing🤔🤔😅😂

Well, I've only seen fan-edits and a couple of scenes, so dunno, tho it really looks like a wasted very good opportunity🤔 Haha, yes, maybe that should just become an official club😅🙈 ...Still glad I barely watched those, but lol, for a sec my brain went to Stargate at the "SG", not Supergirl and I was so confused about what exactly you meant😅😂

Oh god...Those ladies as lawyers would be TERRIFYING!!😅😅🙈 Huh, music industry? I don't think I've seen such an AU setting before🤔😂

Yeah...Let's just hope for the best while we look at the half-empty glass and try to tell ourselves it's half-full 😉🤣🤦🏻‍♀️🙈

Eh, sor-🤦🏻‍♀️ Uhm, maybe?🙈🤷🏻‍♀️😅

Haha, lol, imagine it didn't and you turned into an undead, brain-eating Zombie, singing "What's in your heeaaaaddd? What's in your heeeeeeeaaad? Zommmbiiiieee, zombiieee, zoo-ombi-i-ieeee"😂😂 (Okay, no, let's forget this, my brain is being weird again😅🙈🤦🏻‍♀️)

Btw, wanna switch this over to Discord, too, or keep it here? Whatever you're more comfortable with!🙈

XXX

Do you recall the movie Home Alone? So yeah, being alone is cool, without assholes trying to rob your house xD

It does. Or i read/watched too many military fiction. But seriosuly, Mon in s3, with his mastered dead-inside-man-face, just fit a dude with a major PTSD problem and you can't change my mind. Or dunno, maybe being in a content marriage does shit like that to people *rolls eyes*

All animals. Waiting.

...mhm. You know they have small sharp teeth, right?

Alura and Eliza, two moms right after sensing what their daughter refuses to see. Love them both.

Hopefully they did. One of the many things we will never know *gross sobbing*

I remember Peggy's fic when they all went for vacations and Mon gave Zor THE TALK and I think I still didn't recover form this awesomness.

Cool. It could be a hilarious slash dramatic slash angsty story, because the kids facepalming about their parents being blind idiots in love would be a A+ game xD

I think the writers were afraid of some shippers too xD From what I have seen they had a smilar problem with ship wars in that fandom.

Oh, you are a stargate fan too? I downloaded the first season and wait for some free time to watch it. I also downloaded Farscape, so generally speaking i'm going to dive into classic sci fi shows soonish xD

they would be awesome lawyers xD

Oh, I had a music fic idea in my head. Kara being kicked out of a girls pop band - thanks to Lobotomizer who is jealous of Kara's amazing vocal skills. And kara ends drunk in a bar where Eve finds her. Eve is a girflriend of Winn, who is manager of a symphonic power metal (don't mind my metal loving ass xD) band, where Mon-El is the lead guitarist. The main vocal of the bad kicked their asses and left the band just before they started touring with a new album and they are fucked if they don't find replaement. And well, none candidate is good enough and then Eve drags runken Kara to their place, they recognize a pop girl and are imediatelly NO FUCKING WAY, she is pissed off and screams and tehy are like... oh, she can scream.... Later Kara wakes up in her apartment, with aching head and some asshole knokicng to the door. It's Mon-El who came to take her to rehersal. What rehersal? He shows her a signed by her contract that makes her a part of the metal band, yay! And you can imagine the troubles along the way xD Thought about making Kara being taught by Cat Grant in the past, who was a classical vocal teacher and Cat being dissapointed when Lena asked Kara to join her band. And Kara really spreading her wings in the new position etc. And of course karamel bickering along the way, fans being super sceptical but warming up to her, because her vocal is amazing and karamel falling in love etc. Oh, and imagine Kara asking the badn what she should wear on the stage and they are like, dunno, wear whatever you want, and she wears some pink things xD and the crowd when they first sees her is like O.O and then she starts singing and all are floored.

Sorry for karamel ranting xD

yay....

I am a mushroom, so i can be a zombie mushroom, why the hell not?!!!

We can switch to discord with this madness if you want xD

[lady-strange-i-dont-want-youu]

Oh don't get me started on how much I love these dudes' hair 😂 I used to tease mine and use a ton of hair spray but it's just not the same!! How do they do it?? I don't think alone again or nobody's fool are basic, they're just very GOOD - that's what makes them hits! I learned how to play nobody's fool on bass, which is my favorite instrument btw (and that song is actually really easy - I can't normally sing and play at the same time but with that one I can and it's a blast) and omg you like fleetwood mac too?!? That is so awesome!! I've been listening to them for years - and Stevie Nicks is one of my favorite artists right now!! I think too late for love is one of the first def leppard songs I heard too! I'm pretty sure rock of ages was the very first one though - I actually got into them because I saw the movie with that name and ended up looking up the band from there! Now the funny thing about me and spotify is, it actually has very little idea the amount of bands/artists I listen to (I signed up like 2 years ago because it had Bob Dylan's Empire Burlesque and I really wanted to hear it) and since then I've admittedly been neglecting our hair metal bands and hyperfixating on other stuff 😔 I listened to a lot of Dokken in October and some Def Leppard off and on but they have very little plays honestly. But to answer your question, my top artists on spotify are VERY very accurate considering what I've been hyperfixating on lately. #1 was Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (which has been my absolute favorite band for a little over a year now) it's kinda a long story how I got into them but the short version is that I knew I liked their music from the radio so I watched a little documentary on tv and started absolutely obsessing from there. #2 was The Beatles - which tracks with this 60s thing I kinda have going on. I honestly don't know how that one happened. I think it's because Tom Petty worked with a beatle (coincidentally that beatle ended up being my favorite) I think I looked them up from that and #3 was George Harrison - my favorite beatle and the reason I looked them up in the first place 😂 his solo stuff is very very good. I highly recommend the album Cloud Nine. Now I have a few different questions for you this time 👀 1. Since I mentioned mine, what's your favorite instrument? Do you play any - or do you want to learn how to play any? 2. You mentioned Europe's Rock the Night and I automatically thought about the video lol! It made me wonder, what's your opinion on music videos? Do you have any favorites? -❄

I tried using a curling wand for the perm effect, tease the hair, hairspray but my hair is so stubborn i just put mousse in my hair so it looks kinda like a mullet😂 But that's a good look on bands top songs I never really saw it that way but I like your way of thinking, AND NO WAY YOU PLAY BASS?! I wanted to try bass but i'm too broke to get a bass, it seems so much fun but moving your fingers and everything i have a hard enough time myself with my stratocaster with tabs but chords are mostly what I do but i'm currently saving for a telecaster, and what makes it better for fleetwood mac my MOM listened to them and so now me and her listen to Platinum Blonde (good band btw) and Fleetwood Mac because she doesnt like def leppard😔 but Stevie Nicks is so iconic she has an amazinh sense of style and her voice is literally so talented I just love her🤩 and it's all good if you're hyperfixated on other things it's good to find more interest! I sadly don't listen to Tom Petty and the heartbreakers BUT i heard their music is *chefs kiss* pretty amazing, The Beatles EVERYONE is telling me to listen to them and i need to make time for listening to them! They literally are so talented because my friends and i (they had like their band meet up (i'm just their stylist when it comes to gigs they gotta dress their best when it comes to the public) i went over since it was my friends bday to drop him off a cake) and we were watching beatles, def leppard vids (like interviews) for fun😂 I'll definitely listen to the Cloud 9 album and answering questions time: 1- i play guitar but i mostly sing, i want to learn bass and piano AND DRUMS i'm working on an album to release (just for fun) and i CANNOT play drums if my life depended on it😂😭, 2- okie so my FAVOURITE music videos definitely Def Leppard: Rocket, Bringin on the heartbreak, PHOTOGRAPH, Foolin' (that part joe is getting away from the sparks😂), ME AND MY WINE (i died at steve being goofy), Europe: open your heart when Joey is like "i wanna hear you call!" I find his little groovy dance adorable yet funny idk why, i normally watch music videos when im bored but i've just been really busy but one cool thing i like abouu music videos is they sometimes tell the story and meaning of the song (or they just stand there rockin out which is good either way😌) SO im wondering 1. which song is your top favourites from fleetwood mac (mines 7 wonders and isnt it midnight) 2. Do you have any hobbies 3. What colour is your bass?!