emo diaries of an emo gworl

she/her

[taylorswifttv-archived-deactiva]

ryan ross should follow taylor swifts example and make ryan’s version of the first two p!atd albums okay

[fuckthewounded]

i wish the average person knew how good gerard way was at posting

[fuckthewounded]

we need to go door to door with their twitter account

[chubsonthemoon]

Binderary week 2 book 1! Bound the infamous My Immortal, specifically the equally infamous community typeset by @renegadepublishing. I wanted to make the cover look a mix of classy and fun so as to possibly catch passersby unawares if/when they open it XD.

Some photos of my favorite pages included in the post--this thing is a travesty, y'all (complimentary, adoring). I have to say, reading the typeset version of this is only slightly more incomprehensible than reading the actual version of it on ff.net (which I did! Many moons ago, mostly for the fandom history of it all LOL). The folks who did the typesetting did an excellent job of making it somewhat readable while also making it just. The absolute Most.

Fake gilded edges done with black metallic acrylic paint, and the bookcloth was purchased as scrap bookcloth during Renegade's field trip to [Major City name's] Book Arts Center last year!

[runawaymarbles]

Handbinding Project: My Immortal by Tara Gilesbie

This really started over a year ago, with a project started in the Renegade Bindery server: people would format different chapters of My Immortal, without knowing what anyone else was doing, and we would put them together into one file. It was agreed upon that everybody would disregard both good design and good taste. 

(If you click on each image, the caption lists who designed the page in question. I couldn’t include them all here, but every page is basically a work of art. Horrible, typographically hellish art.)

After raiding a Joann’s of materials I thought belonged in Hot Topic circa 2005 (before it just became Think Geek II: We Don’t Light Our Store,) I almost immediately tested positive for covid. So I made most of this over the last four days, and with varying levels of coherent thought and common sense. The process is documented in a thread here

[emodiaries]

this is iconic

[useramor]

brendon urie at the patd meeting deciding to break up the band

[redfoxincutesocks]

[emodiaries]

I hope MCR releases the Blond Hair Gerard song that didn’t make the Black parade album

[awakeanytime]

I'm thinking about. Guys I'm thinking

So mcr has always color coded their eras. Gerard likes having a theme, a story, an overarching aesthetic to bring everything together into one cohesive whole. Bullets might not have had as strong a coordination going on as the rest, but looking at the album art, and their promotional material, it's all dark, brooding, fucking painful. Revenge is the epitome of the black, white, and red emo national colors. The black parade gets rid of the red entirely. And then we got this fucking nuclear explosion of color with danger days, but it's so neon and God damn radioactive that it burns your eyes.

Now, in the era of their return, they're giving us soft greens, earthy purples and browns, so desaturated and yet so full of life. Sure, they're the colors of decay. But what follows decay if not growth? The fuzz of moss over bones. Mold on stale bread. And life, living, breathing things.

We're seeing the shades of healing. Of becoming something more than what once was. We're seeing how they've changed in the time since they broke up, in the time since they announced the reunion. We might all be flies swarming the corpse of something dead and gone, but we are part of the natural process of returning something to the earth, of allowing it to decay and be recycled, built back into something just as important as it once was.

Or maybe they're just colors, and I'm reading into it too much. Who the fuck knows anymore

[emodiaries]

gerard’s short shorts have brought back the unhinged ness that is emo

[emodiaries]

do y’all think Jonathan Davis looks at memes?

[emodiaries]

maybe ryan ross should join fall out boy

[emodiaries]

“gerard tampon suit-“ shush this may be the closet we every get to the 2000s emo days

[emodiaries]

NEW MCR SONG IVE WAITED SO LONG I CANT IM SO HAPPY

[emodiaries]

in my history class my teacher was talking abt dominat and sub cultures and one of the subcultures was called “mcr kids”

i am now sometimes reffered to as “the mcr kid”

[emodiaries]

i love the sharpest lives

[emodiaries]