My Certain Romance

CEO of having Way too many sideblogs | another white queer | Mikey | they/them but any pronouns r okay | bi

[nedlittle]

every single explanation for why mikey wasn't decrepit but was covered in blood is insane like

he's a vampire and is draining the other three of youth

it was for his own safety. if he went on stage in all his 2005 scene queen half of jersey all of warped tour glory the seismic shockwave of two dozen nostalgia bait emo bandman dissolving their marriages for a chance with that sopping wet twink would have levelled nevada

bad ending where instead of the band breaking up and mikey getting help they drag the band's shambling corpse around until mikey dies young. pulling back the curtains on how unhappy and unhealthy they all were during the era that wwwyf is trying to capitalize off. you want us to go keeping going back to 2005 for the sake of your nostalgia? okay mikey's fucking dead now (makes me unbelievably upset to consider but exactly the kind of shit they'd pull)

he died in normandy

[demolition-queerplatonics]

I'm sorry the second point is the funniest fucking paragraph I've ever read in my entire life

[riotgrrrlgerardway]

mcr rubber band, hot topic: "MCR is running out of sh*t to say on a rubber band" // mcr when we were young merch: "MERCH"

[alittleannihilation]

i know we've talked a lot about MCR and their rebellion against the nostalgia circle jerking of WWWY, but i think it's super important to consider it alongside hayley williams' speech, which happened around 20 minutes before MCR's set.

i think it's important because they were both fighting similar wars in the beginning. they were fighting to be respected in a genre that they were helping to catapult into the public consciousness. they were both treated like shit by their peers, villified by the media and disrespected by 'fans' in the scene, and only by prioritising their own creativity and art and by cultivating a fan base that appreciated it, did they manage to shake that shit off.

wwwy is a festival created for the sake of those looking to relive the emo days of yesterdecade. and that's fine. there's nothing wrong with nostalgia, and nostalgia tours - if the years you're reliving are good ones. if they're the best you have to offer.

for paramore and mcr, the best is yet to come. for paramore, the noughties were filled with misogyny and sexism, and now there's less of that. for mcr, the noughties were filled with homophobia and pressure to conform, and now there's less of that too. for them both, the early 2000s was a period of time where they had to work harder than everyone else to get a foot in the door.

and in 2022, you have them headline your nostalgia festival, because guess who kept selling all their tickets and releasing good music while the sexist, homophobic creeps kept falling into obscurity, or put behind bars, or cancelled on twitter? guess who's still big enough to pull those emo crowds?

paramore is. and mcr is.

[judaswail]

so funny how mikey's death in the ghost of you mv affected his development in the band's aesthetic through the years. like yeah mikey of course you get a badge of honor with your black parade uniform. you died in action. yeah you can't look old like us at wwwy. in fact you're gonna be a vampire. because you died at war in 2005. obviously

[demolition-queerplatonics]

Obsessed with everyone on Tumblr freaking out about the mcr wwwy show while I'm in my morning classes

[femmeharlequin-deactivated20240]

Sometimes I think abt Billie Joe Armstrong and I get so emotional. Does he know how many kids he gave the courage to come out as bisexual. How many people saw him and realized they were like him. Realized there were people like us and he told us what that was and it was Bisexual loud and proud and fuck you if you’ve got a problem with that

[femmeharlequin-deactivated20240]

[ID: a series of six images of Billie Joe Armstrong on stage wrapped in or holding the bisexual and rainbow flags on stage at multiple concerts. End ID]

These images changed me

[femmeharlequin-deactivated20240]

They released a song about dressing in drag and fucking men while dressed in drag in 1997. King For A Day is, was, and always will be an extremely radical song, a revolutionary song, I cannot stress this enough especially to people born in the mid 2000’s how incredibly DANGEROUS it was for this very popular punk band to release a song like this back then. Well into the mid 2010’s it was still incredibly rare for anyone to be out and proud somewhere it wasn’t safe. School, work, queer people hid. But in 1997, Green Day released a song about dressing in drag and fucking men.

Like, American Idiot contains the line “Maybe I’m the faggot, America”. People got ANGRY about it. Back then in 2004 when it was released it was because Green Day was “encouraging kids to be gay”. Now when people get angry it’s because they’re ignoring the history and the raw power behind that line, maybe I AM a faggot, fuck you, I like fucking dudes and I don’t care what you have to say about it. Yet I still see people trying to cancel a band made up of THREE BISEXUAL MEN for saying the word faggot.

I strongly suggest people read more about Green Day’s history in the queer community. Billie Joe Armstrong is the reason I even know what bisexuality IS. And that it’s what I am. They had bands like Pansy Division opening for them in the 90’s, they fucking FOUGHT people in the audience for being homophobic. Billie Joe can and will kick your ass while Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool act as his personal hype men and add sound effects with the bass and drums. It fucks.

It’s 2:30 in the morning idk where I was going with this my heart is full of love everyone say Thank you Billie Thank you Mike Thank you Tré. Blows a kiss for every other bisexual. Including myself. Goodnight

[femmeharlequin-deactivated20240]

I was high as hell and extremely tired but I was right

[teachmetokill]

one single tear falls silently down my cheek

[rocals]

one thing about mcr guitarists is they will be on boxes

[coffeefocusrat]

someone from ls dunes made a playlist and posted it on instagram and there’s 1 song from each of their other bands and the one from mcr is desert song…

[coffeefocusrat]

brother what the hell

[coffeefocusrat]

[houseofwolves-v1]

babygirl you are so so spooky <3

x

[killrockstar]

i should’ve never made it out of riot fest alive

[cordspaghetti]

[randombubblegum]

funniest band in the world

[fucklestat]

"Snakes on a Plane" at Riot Fest, 9/17/22 | video by @oceanhrvxx

bonus cuddles:

[demolition-queerplatonics]

Damn these spot the difference games are getting hard

[gerardpilled]

Jesus Christ x

[demolition-queerplatonics]

Why they be dressed like a Soviet pioneer help

[demolition-queerplatonics]

Like literally?? Hello?

[boydevision]

Gerard catching a bobby pin and putting it in their mouth