#mcr reaction gif

[cemeterygrace]

do you use reaction pics? if so do you have a fav one?

ok there are many you’ve been warned

anyway if this gives you any idea of my sense of humor i am so incredibly sorry

[startoro]

new reaction gifs just dropped

[highendphsrs]

there’s a lot to unpack here i think

[rubbish78]

[curio-queries]

SMERALDO GARDEN MARCHING BAND

My thoughts prior to the release of MUSE. I've avoided pretty much all reactions and analysis posts until I finished this so I have no clue if anyone else has come up with better words to describe some of these concepts but here's my take on it. I wanted to get this out prior to MUSE so that I can see how my view evolves with further context but here's where I am now.

Initial Reaction:

I'd actually had a few issues that night so I wasn't in the best headspace to take in a new song but I did listen to it on Spotify first and then watched the mv twice, once without subs and once with. (And yes, I know it's technically not called an mv...deal with it lol)

Anyways, I definitely wasn't immediately sold on it - which is expected from me, it's EXCEEDINGLY rare that I like any song on first listen but SGMB only took a couple of runthroughs before I was on board. One thing that helped me reframe it in my mind and with my previous expectations is to remember the first part of Jimin's self-proclaimed attributes: Cutie, sexy, lovely. SGMB leans very solidly into the cutie aspect, a little near the lovely side but far deeper into Cutie than anything we've seen in his solo releases. (RememberCute was an answer in the seossword puzzle). That got me thinking about where the rest of his songs would be in comparison and here's the placement I've landed on. Some of these have changed over the past few days but I'm curious where y'all disagree with my placements.

Good old Serendipity, a perfect balance of the three in my opinion. All of FACE is firmly in the Sexy section with Like Crazy leaning more evenly into Lovely. Lie is also right there with LC but more closely on the border. My beloved Promise and Letter holding down the Lovely section with CTT straying closer to Cutie. If you forgot about the cutie circle though, SGMB would have seems like it was complete out of the expected range. I am curious if we'll ever get something that's a mix of cutie and sexy, I can't comprehend what that would be like but I wouldn't put it past our JM to find a way!

Theories?

So, how do I think I did with all of my theories? Let's go through them one by one:

Open Locker Meaning: nothing to prove/disprove this yet. There were an awful lot of references to Serendipity in the mv though, so maybe that's the tie-in? I don't know, this one was a streeeeeetch in any case.

Sound Effects Interlude: we know we're getting an interlude but we'll have to wait for MUSE and any behind info to learn if it's sound effects that Jimin recorded himself like Dive.

Rooms Going from Dark to Light: Yes! I mean we knew it was going to be a lighter album than FACE but I think the word BRIGHT is all over SGMB. And I think this technique in both of those videos was trying to highlight that for us.

SGMB as an Actual Band: Yes! Definitely right here too! I'm going to talk about this more below because I think this is actually a very important part of this song.

The Emoji Poll from the Insta Chat: Yes! I think some people are still trying to make the argument that each option is supposed to represent different songs on muse. And while the others may lean more into any of these specifically, SGMB definitely has elements of all of them as well

An Actual Band?

So, like I mentioned in the theory above, I had the thought that SGMB could be portrayed as a fictional band itself, very similar to what MCR did with the Black Parade. And since Jimin decided to use this as the song's title; as well as make it the pre-release track, I think this is an important topic to delve into.

First, this allows Jimin a perspective shift to share with us his career outside the lens of BTS. Not because he NEEDS or WANTS to separate himself from them but he has had his own journey as an artist that may differ from his experiences from the perspective of a BTS member. Obviously BTS is completely woven through this journey and he gives us an acknowledgement of that with the line about 12 June and the handsign.

(Sidenote, whenever I see any of them do that now, I instantly think of that moment in Jimin's pixid ep where he said they don't anymore...I think we may have been misled...) 😝

Second, the frame of SGMB from a band's perspective also puts the song firmly in the categorization of 'work' rather than 'personal'. With FACE being such a deeply personal projectregarding his very deep human experiences, i love that he'svery upfront with us about MUSE being a work project. I've said this before, and it's one of my absolute favorite things about Jimin's music: he crafts it so that we can easily adapt it to our own interpretations. There's a lot of loving and beautiful imagery in the lines of this song that can have special meaning in all levels of relationships; platonic or not. But his delivery if this message to us, is professional. This is reinforced by the suits Jimin has worn in all of the material released so far. He's following a work dress code. (If you happen to see this post within a week of release, we have a poll regarding Jimin's suits on @bts-polls )

ME + US = MUSE

I just want to touch on this briefly here as I expect there'll be more once the album releases but there are some hints already. Like I discussed in my FACE post, Jimin has again come up with some key words to weave through the project. In FACE, it was several sentences but MUSE seems to be focusing on the following:

ME: Jimin himself

US: Jimin's view on his audience

MUSE: His awareness of us and how that effects his creations and manner of artistry.

SGMB and CTT are both bursting with these references and viewpoints. But I honestly don't think of SGMB as a traditional 'fan song'. I have another post where I talk about the different kinds of fan songs. Like I said above, SGMB details Jimin's experience as an artist and how his audience plays into that process. Not like CTT that's literally a diary of our journey with him. Maybe an extremely nuanced take but SGMB just doesn't feel like it belongs in the same 'fan song' categorization that CTT does.

The End for Now

Does anyone know anything about that little hand-wave Jimin does during the bow at the end? He repeats it. Is just an additional flourish that he's added in himself? I've never seen anyone do that during bows after a performance so I'm wondering if it's a cultural/industry thing.

What do y'all think? I'd love to hear your thoughts! If any of you have made posts about SGMB, I'll try to read them now but rumblr is not very forgiving if you miss something in the timeline. I'm very happy for you to share links to your posts in the comments!

[your-friendly-neighbourh00d-fag]

seeing as you are a fellow mcr enjoyer i have a question for you of the utmost importance: do you think mike wheeler would like mcr or not

OHOHOHOHO YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE ASKED ME THAT. you just need to know beforehand before i am doing the answering of this uestion that i am ooo osooooo normal about this topic. trust me. the most normal

ok.

he absolutely likes mcr are you kidding me look at this man

he's struggling with his mental health, he's struggling with his sexuality, he's idolising a dude with long hair, piercings and pronouns, he's trying to be more metal. it's right there. plus the fact that he is just like me fr fr so i am going like this

and giving him all of my interests + autism (BECAUSE I SAID SO)

so. the question is, what's his favourite album. what's his favourite song. which one of the members does he have a crush on. does he read the killjoys comics. does he listen to summertime at 4am and cry and think about will. ("the song as a whole is about those people you meet who pull you out of your sleep, and make you wake up to real life, the good, beautiful things...")

i think mike would have a contentious relationship with bullets, it took him a long time to get as into it as the other albums, one week its his favourite, one week he hates it etc etc. his all time favourite album is three cheers and he actually told me that himself so idc. black parade is a very close second though, and disenchanted will always make him feel feelings.

favourite songs from all the albums: Our Lady of Sorrows and and Honey This Mirror and Headfirst for Halos (<< ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME IT IS SO HIM) and a smidge of Demolition Lovers. as a treat.

Give Em Hell Kid (BFFR!!!!), The Ghost Of You (another one that makes him feel The Feelings and will get an emotional reaction always. UM SEASON ONE??) and Cemetery Drive.

I Dont Love You, Disenchanted, and Teenagers absolutely. (are you fucking kidding me??? the most mike wheeler songs EVER and i will die on this hill nobody TOUCH ME),

Save Yourself, I'll Hold Them Back (his self sacrificing instincts are showing), S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W (at first he hates it, but after he reads up on the lore and the whole TTLOTFK thing he gets way into it), and Planetary, for no reason other than it sounds great 👍

EDIT: Conweap his favourite overall is cw5 and his fav songs are Burn Bright, The World Is Ugly and AMBULANCE

he absolutely looked at gerard way and said i need that man's gender RIGHT NOW and was just absolutely in awe of all his tour outfits and woke will up in the middle of the night to show him a video of cheerard with a flamethrower. that was a big 'wait i can dress less masculine if i want to??' thing and helped him find his personal style i think. and i also think. he has a n eeensy weensy teeny little crush. on gerbar. shh.

also.

look at this dork.

this absolute cringefail loser.

this nerdy nerd nerd.

the absolute second that mike finds out there's a comic that inspired danger days, he s p r i n t s to the local bookstore and cleans them out immediately. he binge reads them for like two nights straight and wakes will up constantly because look look LOOK WHAT HAPPENED WILL NO YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THEY-- he then spends the next month entrenched in killjoy lore and ends up with posters up all around his and will's apartment like this

trying to figure out the universe. (he also writes fanfiction but nobody tell 🤫)

anyway. this is a. bit of a long post and as you can tell from my introduction i am so so so so normal about mike wheeler, mcr, and my precious little headcanons.

tldr: yes he would love mcr and no one can take that away from me.

[kedsandtubesocks]

Please tell me about 'Max P wahhh' !

EL! Okay but truly this is truly my reaction whenever him and this chaotic fic come to plague me LOL

Thanks so much for asking about that rascal vampire fella I appreciate you 🧛🏼

Max P Wahhh is the fic im writing for our dear sp00kymulderr’s MCR challenge

It’s leaning heavily into the angst plus it’s my first time ever writing for chaotic Maxi P so it’s been giving me some anguish (hence the ‘wahhh’ lol)

The core of it surrounds him and a witch/magical vampire hunter!reader and a lot of baggage tied to them and the prisons they figuratively and literally create - so big OOF lol

Fingers crossed for this fic for sure 😭

[toxetta]

was digging up screenshots from old mcr fanfic vids. goldmine of crappy reaction images tbh

i'm eepy so open tags

[deathwishdaydream]

Dear, Juniper.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

WHYWOULDYOUDOTHIS?! WHYWOULDYOUDOTHIS?! WHYWOULDYOUDOTHIS?! WHYWOULDYOUDOTHIS?! WHYWOULDYOUDOTHIS?! WHYWOULDYOUDOTHIS?!

ICANNOTSTOPCRYINGG!

ENDOFTHEFUCKINGWORLDMYASSIWATCHEDTHROUGHTHATWHOLEGODDAMNTHINGANDNEVERONCEDIDILITERALLYHAVETOPAUSEITJUSTSOICOULDFUCKINGCOMPOSEMYSELFLIKEHADTODOSEVERLTIMESWITHYOURGODDAMNFUCKINGBOOKHOWCOULDONEPERSONWRITESOMETHINGSOEMOTIONALIAMLITERALLYBROKENINSIDETHISHASBEENMOREEMOTIONALTHANANYREALRELATIONSHIPIVEEVERYHADANDIFUCKINGHATEYOUFORBEINGSUCHAGOODWRITERHOWCOULDYOUWOUNDMELIKETHISAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Sincerely,

Cx <3

oh my god, this is probably my most favorite reaction to my book so far.

Dear Cx,

AHAHH IM SORRY!! MY GOAL HOWEVER WAS TO MAKE THIS A VERY EMOTIONAL AND SAD BOOK AND TO KNOW IF IT WAS GOOD OR NOT, ID HAVE TO KNOW IF PEOPLE'S REACTION HAD BEEN LIKE CRYING OR NOT AND I GUESS IT MEANS IVE SUCCEEDED HAHA...

Reading your reaction made me laugh and entirely proud of my book overrall, so thank you so much, and thank you so much for reading! I remember just trying to edit and revise and going on Tumblr to edit here too (because regrettably, i posted it originally on wattpad AND ao3 and here, so i have to go back and forth a lot after ive fixed up a chapter) and seeing you like my chapters and see you reach chapter 17 and i wanted to know how you felt because it was such a special chapter, then the last chapter (then i fell asleep pfff).

Anyways, i appreciate you reading my book and everything. Sorry for uh destroying you and making you cry with this...

Just know that there's a part 2 in the making :)

Love,

Juniper <3

[hopeheartfilia]

When your phones fully give out and your phone refuses to recognise headphones as plugged in, and its the MCRenaissance

[iridescentoracle]

if anyone was wondering what @allieinarden and @jenesaispourquoi put up with from me on a regular basis

[dwighthouston]

This video https://youtu.be/2vfYOv8Q69M is this guy’s first reaction to mcr after having a lukewarm introduction to emo music and if it isn’t the biggest fucking mood

[unholyverse]

practicing my reaction to mcr playing sister to sleep live

[rubbish78]

(x)

[the-hopeless-haze]

bruce's and reader's reaction to the new mcr song👀

if the ask game is still going

Anon I love you for this. prepare for cringe and tooth-rotting fluff. no other warnings except mentions of sex (nothing explicit). also I assume you expected a headcanon but I can't write anything concise so here you go. anyway. requests are officially open and it is so on-brand for me that this is the first one I get. I am tagging everyone who is in the main storyline taglist but like let me know if you don't want to be on it

Taglist: @pop-rocks-and-skittles @yesshewrites1 @deadflowerd @burninggracesandbridges @reggxe-a @ventila98 @grayce427 @leastlikelytoachieve @that-girl-named-alex @yuki235171 @cluelessnitwhit @thebruemanbatwayne @y-napotat

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You Must Fix Your Heart

“B is listening to loud music and crying again,” your adopted son, Dick, informs you. “I tried to ask him what was wrong but he won’t talk to me.”

Setting the groceries down on the table, you smile at the young boy in front of you. You’re grateful for him, beyond grateful. And Bruce is taking to the role of father excellently, as you knew he would, although his recent suggestions to take Dick along with him on missions is enough to give you palpitations. You’ve resisted him. For now. Dick is smart and resilient, and quite taken with Bruce’s trainings (“he at least needs to learn self-defense like you did; Gotham is dangerous” was Bruce’s rationale). Still. It makes you rightfully nervous.

“Bruce gets sad sometimes. We all do, honey. I’m sure he’s okay,” you tell him, ruffling his hair. “How was school today?”

“It was okay. I passed my English test!”

“Well, that’s great news! I told you you just had to stick with it.”

“I mean. I got a 67. But that’s still passing.”

“That is true, Dick.”

“B won’t be happy.”

“Bruce will be ecstatic. We want you to do well, but if that’s the best you can do, it’s okay. We know reading is difficult for you, honey.”

“I don’t want to go to the tutor,” he pouts.

“I know. But it will help you,” you say, putting the milk in the refrigerator, smiling as he takes the initiative and places the bread in the cabinet. “Thank you for helping, sweetie.”

“Can you go see what’s wrong with B? I can put the stuff away. Promise.”

“Mm. You’re really worried, aren’t you?”

“Well. I’m hoping he won’t be as mad about the test if I help you.”

You laugh. “You didn’t tell him yet? I thought maybe that was why he was crying.”

Dick gasps in surprise. “That was… mean.”

“I’m only kidding, honey,” you chuckle, kissing the top of his head. “Bruce won’t be mad. We know you’re trying. He will insist on the tutor, now, though.”

It surprises you how natural this all feels, even though he’s not your baby… he is, in a sense that you don’t quite understand. He doesn’t call you ‘Mom’ or Bruce ‘Dad’. You don’t expect him to, not with the recent loss of his biological parents. But he tells you both about his successes and failures at school, his hopes and dreams, and he’s started hugging you and Bruce after he brushes his teeth and puts his pajamas on before he goes to sleep. Bruce is insistent on early bedtimes for Dick, and he plays it off like it’s because he wants to ensure his child is disciplined, but you know it’s because he wants to see him off to bed and know he’s safe and sound asleep before he goes to work.

When Bruce had told you he was taking this boy in, he said it was temporary. That he would only foster him until the courts found someone more suitable. You knew that was a lie the second it came out of his mouth, and even if it wasn’t, you’d fight him on it. This was your baby. The one thing that could go right for all three of you.

You leave Dick with the groceries and head up the stairs, hearing blaring guitars from the speakers, and you understand why he might have been a bit wary. Jesus, was he trying to give the kid a heart attack? You open the door without knocking, finding Bruce sitting on the floor, smiling despite the tears in his eyes.

“What’s going on?” you ask, leaning against the doorframe.

“What’s going on?” Bruce says excitedly, talking loudly over the music. “You don’t know who this is?”

You love seeing him so animated - happy - even, and it’s been a more frequent occurrence now that you moved in. Underneath it all, he was a simple man, and simple domestic pleasures mad him happier than grand dramatic gestures. You shake your head. “No. Care to enlighten me?”

“Jesus. How do you not know?”

You listen, barely able to decipher words over the music, and you shake your head again. “You going to tell me?”

“It’s My Chemical Romance.”

“No, it isn’t. I’ve heard every song by them and—“

“You didn’t even recognize them, so don’t give me that,” he grins, turning it down a little and motioning for you to come join him on the floor. “It’s a new song.”

“You’re bullshitting me,” you say, crossing your arms over your chest, but as you listen you realize you can make out Gerard’s voice. “Did you pay for this?”

“Did I— what? No. You think they would sell out to the Waynes? Jesus. If I offered them money to make new music I think they’d light themselves on fire in protest,” he chuckles.

“Probably. They’d write an anti-Wayne song like the anti-Twilight anthem. Imagine that? You’d still listen to it though. Anything to be name-dropped, right?”

He rolls his eyes. “I already have been name dropped.”

“That was before you did this. But look at you, preening.”

“You know how much this music means to me. It was there when no one else was,” he says, and it’s a cheesy statement, sure, but it’s a true one, one that resonates with you too. While your mother was dying of cancer, you listened to The Black Parade album over and over again and sometimes it was truly the only thing that you gave the strength to get up and look at her withered face every morning.

“Looks like they’re back for good, then. Maybe you can wear your eyeliner out all the time,” you snicker.

“Are you going to come over here and listen to it or are you going to just tease me?” he asks, and you oblige, sitting down next to him and letting him put his arms around your shoulders as he restarts the song over again.

And it’s six minutes, nostalgia coming over you in waves, a beginning from an ending. Bittersweet, a reminder of how much you aged, of how much you lost but how much you gained throughout the years. “Get up, coward,” indeed.

“Why aren’t you freaking out? This is fucking insane. I mean, I remember when they broke up, how upset I was…”

“I don’t know. I’m still kind of in a state of shock and I can’t really tell what he’s singing. I need to pore over the lyrics for a few hours. You know things hit me later. I’ll be listening to it nonstop soon,” you shrug.

“Well. Hopefully it hits you before September. We’re going to see them. Newark,” he says, eyes brightening.

“Yeah? You’re taking a night off for that?”

“Yeah. I’m taking a night off for that. Fuck. To see them in their home state? Our shared home state?”

“I’m not from New Jersey,” you remind him, giggling.

“Whatever. You might as well be. New York is close enough.”

“I think if you said that out loud in either a crowded New York or New Jersey street you’d be shot in broad daylight.”

“You’re marrying a New Jerseyan.”

“I was married to one before.”

“He doesn’t fucking count.”

“This is when I get my citizenship for realsies?” You ask, smiling as you kiss him on the side of the mouth.

“Yeah.”

“Well. Prince of Gotham should say, right?”

“Don’t call me that,” he groans.

“Why? Afraid Gerard wouldn’t like that? I feel like I should be worried about going there with you. You might not come back with me.”

Bruce shakes his head. “Weren’t you the one who told me in excruciating detail all the things you’d do to Gerard back when we were just friends?”

“Yeah. Okay. But I wouldn’t do them now.”

“Sure,” he laughs, his eyes gleaming with teasing misbelief. “I’m marrying you with the knowledge that if you had the chance to have one night with him you’d take it.”

“Because you know it won’t happen. He’s not going to want to fuck the dead mayor of Gotham’s wife who’s now betrothed to Gotham’s emo prince.”

“Why not? She’s pretty fucking hot,” he says, kissing you a little too heatedly for the middle of the afternoon.

“Yeah? You think so? Too bad you can’t really fuck to this song.”

“Too bad Dick is awake,” he says.

“Yeah. Well. You had no problem sitting here crying while he was home. And you told him to go away? What the hell?”

“He wouldn’t understand.”

“Right,” you say sarcastically. “I came home and he was all over me to go check on you.”

“I told him I needed to be alone. He needs to understand boundaries—"

“Bruce. He’s eight.”

“He needs to learn.”

“Sure. Did you get him a ticket too?”

“Are you kidding me? He can’t be at a concert like that,” Bruce says, shocked that you’d asked.

“I’m sure he saw and heard worse at the circus.”

“I’m not bringing an eight year old to a My Chemical Romance concert.”

“Fine. I would’ve let him. I’m the cool parent.”

“You know, I’m not even going to argue with you.”

“Good. You know what’s good for you. Anyway. He passed his test.”

“Good!”

“Barely, though. I think you’re going to have to drag him to that tutor.”

“Still. Reason to celebrate. Let’s go take him out for ice cream.”

“We’re all done crying on the floor?”

“For now. You can join me later when you decide to let it hit you. Your delayed reaction is really bumming me out.”

“Mm. I think I can think of much better things to do on the floor,” you say, feeling a sense of pride as he blushes at your words.

You grab your jacket and head out to the car with Bruce and Dick in tow. Things were so different eight years ago, but it’s a different kind of ache in your heart, a good, pleasant ache you swallow down with mint-chip ice cream. You never pictured this, the nights you spent crying over songs replayed over and over with no hope for new ones, and you know Bruce didn’t either.

But Gotham (and emos) clearly love a comeback story.

[haunthouse]

I posted 4,047 times in 2022

That's 1,914 more posts than 2021!

371 posts created (9%)

3,676 posts reblogged (91%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 3,775 of my posts in 2022

Only 7% of my posts had no tags

#disco elysium - 537 posts

#art - 353 posts

#kaylee.txt - 335 posts

#mcr - 118 posts

#answered - 82 posts

#black sails - 81 posts

#poetry - 71 posts

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Longest Tag: 139 characters

#i’m thinking of swapping the buttons on this dress for strawberry shaped buttons ive had for a while 👀 maybe also doing some embroidery on (this is inaccurate bc i hit the tag character limit daily so i have so many longest tags lmao)

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

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516 notes - Posted January 17, 2022

#4

i've ported my spatial horror reclist to notion to make it easier to sort and filter! everything is arranged by type, subtype, and a key describing what kind of hauntings are present in the work, and you can filter by any of those things.

check out the list here, and feel free to send me more recs for it!

edit 10/20/2022: if you've sent me a recommendation and i haven't replied to it, don't worry! i like to wait until i have time to check out whatever media's been recommended myself to respond/add it to the list, and i've been swamped with deadlines lately, but i prommy i'm not ignoring y'all <3

1,101 notes - Posted August 24, 2022

#3

absolutely wild how explicitly leftist leverage is. i just hit s3 on my rewatch and every single episode is like “hey have you thought lately about how fucked the prison system in america is? how about how easy it is for rich men to buy political offices? and also labor rights and how bosses keep dangerous jobs from unionizing so they don’t have to put in protections for workers? the fact that insurance companies can choose who lives and dies? companies in general being allowed to weigh actual people’s deaths against the cost of settling a couple lawsuits and choosing the latter? thought about all that recently?” and they just let that be on television in two thousand and ten

1,211 notes - Posted June 3, 2022

#2

also, because i'm still thinking about the disco elysium kids:

i think the difference in how people react to cuno vs cunoesse is really so indicative of peoples' reactions in general to trauma survivors. (...)

1,348 notes - Posted October 5, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

redistributing wealth (searchable pdf of horror in architecture by joshua comaroff & ong ker-shing) to the masses (tumblr users obsessed with haunted houses)

enjoy! <3 xoxo

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