With the LLTBP tour coming up, there's a pretty big chunk of people who aren't going to be able to enjoy shows or content from the shows because bandom really sucks at accessibility for things such as subtitles and content descriptions.
My goal for this blog is to provide more ways for people to enjoy bandom. Accessibility fucking matters. Often those who are harmed by it can't be the ones to help; those of us who don't struggle should make an effort so that more people can feel welcome and enjoy fandom spaces.
This whole idea stems from @/chaoticbuggybitchboy talking about accessibility in the music/bandom scene, so credits for the idea.
I'm only one person, but I'm hoping this starts something. If anyone has advice on how the improve the quality of my work, or wants to suggest something for me to do, please, send in an ask, tag, or DM me!
if i use your footage and you want credit, let me know :) i usually forget about it until afterwards i’ve posted and lost the link so if that happens and you know whose it is, feel free to tell me!
Also go check out the new addition to the cause, @emos-for-an-accessible-bandom :D
Reminder to appropriately tag flashing and eyestrain under your posts and reblogs.
And as always, if you have any requests for me to remove flashing from clips, write text descriptions, or take screenshots of a moment (with added description) for you, just send in an ask! If you’re looking for full-show transcripts, cast your eyes over to the wonderful @omtai !
If your April Fool’s Day post relies on joking at the expense of someone’s’ disability, subculture, ethnicity, trauma, or sense of reality, it probably wasn’t very funny to begin with.
Please, for the billionth time, remember to tag posts with unreality or any other sensitive content it may contain.
I’m never not thinking about that screenshot of the Google trends for “gerard way pronouns” where you can pinpoint the SECOND they stepped onstage in Nashville.
[image description: a google trends graph tracking "interest over time" for the search "gerard way pronouns". the x axis starts in january 2020 and contains some small spikes, but none above 20 hits. then, in august 2022, the graph shoots up to 100 hits before dying back down. /end id]
I couldn’t watch the mcr concert. What ai were they using out of curiosity?
Sorry for not clarifying, it wasn’t MCR!! This blog is very MCR-focused but it’s really meant to apply to bandom culture as a whole.
All the on-screen graphics were AI generated, which if anything makes me appreciate MCR more for paying ACTUAL artists to help make their world come to life.
I was lucky enough to see a gig tonight, and the thing that stood out to me (second only to the insane amount of AI they used, it’s sad but I’m coping) was just how unnecessary the flashing lights were. Like, okay cool I can’t see the band right now. Nice, I’m gonna have a mad headache after this. Like at that point it doesn’t even look cool.
i haven't interacted with mcr related stuff for a good while for a number of reasons but this blog genuinely makes me feel there's still some hope out there. people writing out transcripts, talking about accessibility within bandom spaces and actually caring about others is huge. i can't put into words how massively appreciative i am of everyone involved.
When I started this blog, I honestly expected no one to care. I thought I’d have maybe two people see it, that no one would really notice, and that I would only have motivation to run it for a month or two.
Never have I been more wrong.
I’m so grateful to everyone involved, whether they’re creating content, reblogging it, or even just tagging things correctly.
I’m going to use this response as a way to say thank you to everyone who makes bandom (and the world) a better, more accessible place. It’s brought back a lot of my faith in humanity and it’s something I’ll sure as hell never forget.
Can people please request things so that I know what there's demand for? They can be from any time, not just the current tour, though I'll probably prioritise more recent events.
Just send in an ask with what it is and what you'd like me to do with it.
I've included a script below the cut for anyone who'd prefer to use one, and an example.
Hi! Could you please take [event/link] and [remove flashing / add captions / write alt text / upload photos with descriptions]? Thank you!
E.g. Hi! Could you please take the performance of Hang 'Em High from the show in Chille and remove any flashing from the video? Thank you!
Note: If you request something by name rather than attaching a link (like in the example), please add what city the show is from, and if there are multiple nights where the same thing happens, please specify which you mean!
i have barely posted about mcr since they first announced long live but i'm starting to feel left out. where can i learn the lore of this tour does anybody have like a masterpost
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LONG LIVE THE BLACK PARADE:
all of the recordings for the tour so far :)
its a lot to write out tbh, but you should be pretty much good if you watch anyone from both parts of the post. each show is different but its only slightly and the plot stays essentially the same. you can probably find some other master posts and @accessiblebandomproject has at least some of them transcribed if you're sensitive to flashing lights (I haven't checked in on their blog in a hot sec tho)
@omtai does transcripts of the shows, and occasionally when something especially noteworthy happens I'll remove flashing, add captions, or write text descriptions. I'll definitely do some more once I've caught up with shows!
How dearly I missed doing these. Also calling the guy from the projections Narrator cus what I wanted to call him is Big Brother but I feel that’s a little on the nose. The other guy from the projections is Real Boy though because he’s a real boy. Under the cut 🙏
FIRST SET
(Beginning before Over Fields)
[narrator]: Hello my friends, good morning. It is another beautiful day in Draag. A chance, once more, to get things right; and push beyond our best. So, rise with the sun, and take your medication. Here is your schedule for today, and we will start by observing the Draag National Anthem.
(Before sharpest lives)
[Gerard, reading off paper]: Good be here, it’s nice to evening. Good evening, it’s nice to be here.
(Before wttbp)
[Narrator]: The humour to think about learning to be what you hate, and learning to do what you fear, is that someone you’ve been your whole life doing something you’ve always been good at could feel so entirely new. That brutality, so second nature, could feel so alien, so foreign to you; it’s astounding to witness firsthand. So let’s remind you, for a moment, exactly what you are and the thing that you do best. The lesson is, a man knows how to forgive, but a leader knows how to instruct. And since, through pain we learn, let’s be student then be a teacher. Now, [indistinct], use your words and use them to [indistinct].
(Before cancer)
[narrated from Clerk reading a postcard]: Hello from Gubrick. It’s really not that dirty here. You don’t notice the smell after a few days. Sadly, there’s nothing I can do for you. All my love, Dad.
[mama interlude]
[introducing dagger part]
[Gerard]: How are you good people here tonight? All the way from the Catskills, I see. It’s been a long flight for me, I need a drink. You guys are a lively bunch. Oh, you’re laughing already? What’s so funny? Is it my suit? I know, it’s a mess. My suit’s a mess. That’s what happens when your manager books your plane ticket in the garbage hold. That’s what fucking happens, you know what I mean? So anyways, me and the fucking boys—hold on, I need a drink before I tell this story. So anyways, me and the boys wanted to start out tonight with—not jokes, no jokes, just a song, you know what I mean? It’s a real special song. I learned this one from a friend a long time ago. When I met him, the first time, he says to me, ‘I like your shoes.’ And I said, you don’t got any fucking shoes at all! Jokes. Jokes. But he leans over to me, and whispers in my ear, this is what he says…
[introducing Sylvia, or, magic assistant]
[Gerard]: Now how’s about that song? What’d you think about that? Alright, alright, alright, alright, you’re probably asking who she is. This is the part of the show where we do magic. And we’re gonna do a magic trick. Alright? This brave young lady right here, from [somewhere] Michigan, a very far off land, is our assistant. For all things magical spells. And she is gonna let us make her disappear. We’re gonna need your help. It’s just a little one, two, one two three four. But if you’re ready I think we can try it. Oh, by the powers vested in me by His Arcane Majesty, The Great Gazoo!
[during the big sky]
[Narrator]: There is a planet, so it spins, and it’s moving so fast it’s not worried at all. Very busy. People, people hurry. And the child who has the chalk and sand, let me see you. So we see them. We say, let me see who loves you. As the chalk, it moves in circles. Many circles. Great big circles. Hugging arms and smiling eyes. And we deal with the child. Let’s subtract, and again, and what if we subtract them? Who is left to love you? There is only the hands that wipe the chalkboard clean.
[before Sleep]
[Narrator]: I see. All this time, you are making drawings someone else must now erase. But I am glad that we are friends, and that now you understand—this is the worst day of your life, but the first day of yourself.
[before disenchanted]
[narrator]: Hello, my friend. I see you. But no, we’ve never met. They gave to me a picture, and I’ve had it quite some time. In fact, before you said a word I’ve always heard your voice. And you don’t mind? That makes me smile. There is one last seat, and one more ticket. It’s hiding in your coat. Yes, you, you’re here. So take your seat, get comfy, here is my hand.
[before famous last words]
[Real Boy]: A figure sits in a chair made of wood. And it’s sobbing. You think it’s you. You’re pretty sure it’s you. But it’s weak. It’s broken. And it’s covered in gasoline. Now, picture yourself.
SECOND SET
[before nanana]
[Gerard]: We’re My Chemical Romance from New Jersey.
[before planetary go]
[Gerard]: Fuck yeah. No, we’re not stopping yet. We’re gonna say some shit, but now yet. Wanna keep fucking going. [indistinct] How do you feel ‘bout that, Peru? Alright, let’s fucking go.
[before ghost of you]
[Gerard]: Alright, Lima, how the fuck are you! Alright, alright, we’re gonna, uh, play something off Revenge in a minute, but, we wanna, uh, we got some people we wanna thank, so, we have, well, always with us, we have Jarrod Alexander, Jamie Muhoberac, toured with us a very long fucking time, even though this time they’re kinda different characters. But, we have our medical staff, Kayleigh Goldsworthy, Clarice Jensen, who played a song after the first set, and Tucker fucking Rule. And the band that were nice enough to come out with us on this incredible fucking tour, The fucking Hives. I would go to this show. I would even stay for My Chemical Romance. Really honoured that they came out with us. One of the greatest fucking rock bands of all time. Alright. Introductions, out of the way. Let’s make it spooky. Gonna make it spooky! [shushes] [shushes again] [shushes a third time] Light it up, Peru.
[before give em hell kid]
[Gerard]: Thank you so much. Boxspring. Man, that was like, forty-seven, forty-seven little boxes.
[before headfirst for halos]
[Gerard]: Quiero some agua. Hola, ¿qué tal? Failed Spanish three times, but always got the accent really good. Dunno. That’s it, that’s all I got. I failed it a whole bunch of times. Had to go to fucking summer school. Because I’m stupid. I know, I know I’m not stupid. But thank you for your concern. So, Frank put the setlist together, pretty much always does, and, he put this one on here from our first fucking record. We’re really fucking excited to do it. Fuck it, let’s do it. This one’s called ‘Headfirst For Halos’. Get ‘em up, Lima! We did this back in the day. [waving hands] It’s slow. Gotta be like water.
[before boy divison]
[Gerard]: Okay. Oh, was talking about Cheeseburger in Paradise, oh right. So, I keep a list of really excellent murder music. And you know, it’s not like I would—I would play this music to murder people, I don’t ever plan on doing that, but, should, let’s say, you know, I write a film or there’s a TV show, like, there was this scene in, uh, the first episode of Umbrella Academy where Five kills all these people in the, in the, um, donut shop, and I was like, please use ‘Daydream Believer’ by The Monkees. I love them, please use—this is—this is perfect murder music, ‘Istanbul’ is not on my murder music list, but you know what is now? Cheeseburger In fucking Paradise. This is kinda on the list. I think. What do you say we play it? Let’s do it.
[before vampires]
[Gerard]: I didn’t even know scary shit was about to happen, I just said that for fun. But scary shit is about to happen. Trust me, my friend, trust me—trust—trust me, my friends. But anyway, it’s really nice to be here. Alright, Lima, let’s make it spooky. My favourite. My favourite, hand-selected, favourite song.
[before Helena]
[Gerard]: Yeah, let’s do that. Let’s do that. Give it a shot. Alright, Lima. Last chance. We did this intro to this song many years ago, I can’t think of a more perfect place to do it than here. Are you ready?
Everyone go support OP for doing a huge service to the community! They've done these for every show of the tour so far and they're extremely well done.
with all the accessibility stuff for the new mcr tour stuff and since you're big in the fandom i would share how i disabled the flashing since it is often not tagged properly
it's really annoying for stimboards but like worth it for safety
[ID]: Three photos of a black screen with white text in one of the Keposhka fonts. The first image is in English, the second in Keposhka, and the third in Spanish. Each screen has a large Keposhka MCR logo at the top.
The English reads: “WARNING / Strobe lighting and other intense lighting will be used during this show. It will not be safe for those with epilepsy and other conditions with sensitivity to light. / Please see a medical staff member for details if you are concerned.”
The Spanish reads: “ADVERTENCIA / Durante este espectáculo se utilizarán luces estroboscópicas y otras luces intensas. No es seguro para personas con epilepsia u otras afecciones con sensibilidad a la luz intensa. / Si tiene alguna duda, consulte con un miembro del personal medico para obtener más informatión.”
The Keposhka translates to English. [End ID]
If there’s any mistakes in the Spanish, please let me know! I was transcribing by eye and don’t know the language, so I wouldn’t pick up on any errors I may have made.
