#like sometimes i read ship fanfiction of characters i dont ship romantically cause theres nothing else but i do actually ship these ones

[playingonedchess]

on the topic of rubbish fanfictions, i started one yesterday (then dropped it cause it had absolutely no draw) where the two characters (good friends in canon who actually had things in common and influenced each other a lot etc) were like awkward co workers who were forced to spend time together while having nothing in common and finding each other totally boring and having nothing to talk about and not even seeming to like each other as people, but for some reason inexplicably also having romantic feelings for each other? like really what is the point

[miserybegins]

ok i gotta say it i have been seeing a LOT of BOLD opinions on the tl and i feel like i just have to get this off my chest because it has been bothering me that i feel like i can’t be myself on my own blog...

tons of ppl already know this but suddenly there is this huge deal about it but YES i personally believe there was a romantic relationship between frank and gerard. if you want to unfollow me for that fact alone thats fine theres nothing i can do lol if its that serious to you. i dont talk about it nearly as much as i used to before i remade but if i do i do tag it as ‘frerard’ so that you can blacklist it.

now im gonna go under the cut to explain my side of it, this is NOT proof of any kind or me trying to convince you its just me defending myself in light of some of the opinions i’ve seen recently

so to start i will say that i have been in this fandom for a long time. i lived through a lot of it and i made conclusions on what i saw. believing that there was a romantic relationship between them was pretty much standard for a really long time which is why im so confused now as to what happened in the few months between me losing my blog with 19k followers where i talked about frerard and no one cared to now where i see people being really aggressive over it...anyway

so like yea i grew up with it. its just a part of the mcr story to me. most of my friends that i follow tours with that have been long time fans feel the same. we’re respectful about it entirely, would never say anything to them god forbid or like i wont even mention it on twitter where someone liek frank could stumble upon it.

now for the misconceptions. i know one of the number ones is that its like a straight girl fantasy. i personally am trans masc and gay so that one is out the window. i think my identity has something to do with it bc i see tenderness between two men and im like wish that were me babey! but also “fantasy” is a terrible word for it because in my opinion of what happened between them its not...a happy story entirely. and i dont think theres anything like that between them now, i KNOW theyre in love with their wives entirely, i just think there is more to the story between them.

i saw a REALLY BOLD...and quite frankly infuriating take that people “ship” frerard inherently think that gay men can’t keep their hands off each other and sexualize them and think that the only reason they could have done the projekt rev stuff is because they couldn’t control themselves....which.....nah. projekt rev stuff is like on the BOTTOM of my list of reasons i believe there was a relationship between them. it was just so insulting to me to see that. i think a lot of the people who are so against it have like no concept of what people like me actually think...

also saw a take that frerard is a sin but thinking something happened between bert and gerard is fine. which is just annoying to me cause...theres plenty of proof for both and i dont think you can demonize something people are doing when you’re doing the same thing yourself that is all i will say!

and lastly: fanfiction. seen a lot of hate for fanfiction. most of you know i love unholyverse. it is just fine literature. i dont see the problem with fanfiction, to me the characters in fanfiction are so far removed from the real people, its just easier to get into a story when you have an idea of the characters already, idk. my thing is that i really don’t read any new fanfic, i read the old ones that i love and have read for years because i love the story.

but also i dont get why people are trying to renounce fanfiction when gerard has quite litrally said he doesnt care. he live tweeted himself reading a milk enema fanfic of people who were basically colleagues of his. there is no high horse for you to be on here lol.

anyway at the end of the day thats kind of my take on it, i just have been so annoyed by some of the takes ive seen recently and its made me afraid to like be myself on my blog. its not something i post about all the time or even every day anymore but it is a part of the mcr story to me so sometimes i will mention it i guess! idk why i felt like i needed to defend myself so much but i did if you read it all this way and still are angry about it feel free to message me and we can chat about it