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[marigoldsbone]

This needs to return

[depsidase]

[cellarspirit]

ray toro motherfucker ultimate

[hiramslodge]

does your car have a name ?

yes (please tell me what it is)

no (why not?)

Voting ended onFeb 23

if you don’t have a car your alternate form of transport can count too !! please tell me your bike’s name

[marigoldsbone]

My car's name is Mouse!

I named her the second i saw her. I just knew the car would be mine. I stuffed her with plush mice too :)

[teaboot]

Not pertinent to anything in particular but I do think it's kinda weird that we keep depicting cavemen in media crawling around on all fours covered in dirt with tangled, matted hair, speaking in broken, cobbled-together toddler language when like.

They were us.

Like literally genetically they were US, just like. A while ago.

Like

Would you trust a TV caveman with a baby? Probably not

A real life caveman though??? I think they'd be at least okay at it

[sheilikhal]

This is actually really important and comes up in Anthropology classes all. The. Time.

As long as homo sapiens have existed, we have had the same emotional and mental capacity as you and I do today. You nailed it. They were US. Even Neaderthals existed alongside and had offspring with Homo Sapiens for many thousands of years.

There's much evidence that cavemen would have had complex spoken language, culture (learned information passed down), symbolic interpretation, and I think they most certainly would have been able to handle holding a baby. In fact I have my suspicisions that an ancient homo sapiens mother may be a more present, attentive, and knowledgable mom than I could be today.

Do not let media trick you into believing we are the pinnacle of humanity. Unilinial evolution theory (google it quick I beg) is BUNK, GARBAGE, and the root of so much evil.

We've been human for a long, long time, and we are not inherently better than all those who came before.

[fresne999]

One the most profound experiences of my life was visiting Font de Gaume, which has 12 thousand year old paintings. They use a technique where the horses appeared to run across the wall when seen in flickering firelight. There was a bison the wall staring at us with such attitude, I could practically hear him. I had the most profound feeling of those ancient artists reaching forward to lay their hands on my shoulders. To say, "This was my world." It was a profoundly moving experience.

Some years later, I went to the Orkney islands where we visited a tiny family run museum of artifacts from the chambered tomb at the other end of the farm. They handed me a pestle once held by some neolithci human.They'd worn groves where the thumb and forefinger would be for better grip.

[cymbie8]

One time, in a French history class, my teacher randomly at the end of the class had all of us draw a sketch of a horse. And we were all like ??? Okay???

At the beginning of the next class, my teacher showed us a cave painting of a horse. And then he showed all of our horses, which he had scanned and put into the presentation.

He then pointed out all the ways that our horses looked similar to the prehistoric horse. Same features, drawn from the same angle, etc.

And then he asked us, "Isn't it cool that you draw horses the same way as someone who lived 20,000 years ago?"

Yeah. That stuck with me for a while.

[catgirlthecrazy]

In Spain, there's a cave full of ancient, ice age era drawings of bison and reindeer and other animals of that period... And one small section of chaotic scribbles just a little away from everything else. These scribblesv were so incomprehensible, they were originally just called the 'Panel of Enigmatic Signs'... Until it occurred to someone that drawings only three feet off the ground probably weren't made by adults.

Scientists are now pretty sure the scribbles were made by kids ages 3-6, more or less on their own. The adult cave artists were probably doing what any modern parent might do when they want to keep small children out of their hair for awhile: they gave the kids some drawing tools of their own and a small section of wall to work on, out of the way but still close enough to keep an eye on them, and let them have at it.

What's most charming about the whole thing is the way the cave scribbles look exactly like what you'd find on the wall of a preschool today. Artistic styles vary widely across different times and cultures, but child development is as near to a universal human experience as it gets.

[mikkeneko]

Wisher made detailed 3D scans of the drawings, which helped her understand the uneven pressure applied to the charcoal and the direction the lines were drawn. The team then compared the panel’s composition with age-appropriate artistic efforts by modern children. Kids across cultures go through the same developmental stages, which influence their physical ability to draw, until about the age of 6, Amir notes.

The team compared the ancient art with the developmental stages exhibited by modern children: the furiously scribbled circles and push-pull lines typical of 3-year-olds just learning to control their bodies, for example, or the wobbly, right-angled figures of slightly older kids beginning to master fine motor skills.

Both are apparent in the cave, superimposed on each other as though two or more kids were drawing at once. That’s a clue the Las Monedas marks were likely made by “siblings or a mixed-age play group within the sphere of safety around adults, but also within their own space,” says co-author Felix Riede, an Aarhus archaeologist.

...

Adults at Las Monedas would have been aware of what the kids were doing and presumably had lit fires or torches; without ample firelight the cave is pitch black.

[greelin]

this is going to have me on my hands and knees dry heaving

[greelin]

what the FUCK man.

[quasi-normalcy]

You know how some people talk about timeless themes in literature and you kind of low-key think they're full of shit? Sometimes they're not.

[nodevolucion]

CLEANED UP CORPORATION PROGRESS DYING IN THE PROCESS CHILDREN THAT CAN TALK ABOUT IT LIVING ON THE WEBWAYS PEOPLE MOVING SIDEWAYS TELL IT TIL YOUR LAST DAYS

[gerardwaysbob]

we are 3/3 of ray touching gerard during the picture moment like hello....helllooooo

[buddie-romance]

thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3

[ketchup-is-green]

oooooo gerard and ray you wanna kiss each other onstage during the second leg of the tour so bad oooooooooo

[mustr-delikventu]

Fun fact na Vánoce

V některých částech Čech nenosil dárky Ježíšek, nýbrž Štědrá bába, dokonce ještě v polovině 20. století.

Je součástí tzv. Středozimek, tedy ženských postav spojených s Vánoci a zimním slunovratem.

Údajně dávala dárky do punčoch zavěšených blízko domovních dveří.

Čili jestli jestli nechcete křesťanské Vánoce, máte alternativu k Ježíškovi ✨️

[raytorosaurus]

I know that Ray and Gerard have been friends forever since before recording bullets, but do we know exactly where they met each other? Was it in art school?

yep! so gerard went to art school with a guy called shawn dillon, who'd gone to high school with ray and was in a punk band with ray (and also otter) called the rodneys. shawn introduced ray and gerard, and gerard and mikey watched the rodneys play at least a couple of times. gerard still remembers the first time he saw ray perform and that he was wearing an nj devils cap and tshirt. gerard was really impressed with what ray could do on guitar, especially that he got kind of weird and humourous with it - he played solos incorporating the muppets and jurassic park theme songs and shit like that. i can't remember which interview but gerard said he already knew then that if he started a band he'd want ray on guitar 🥹

here is the rodneys in otter's attic (which is also where the first mcr rehearsals took place and where the mcr attic demos were recorded) with ray wearing what i assume must be that same raiders cap gerard first saw him in 💙

anyway like frank and geoff and basically everyone, ray actually got to know mikey better than gerard. gerard did start a band in art school with ray called nancy drew, though, so they played together for a while. it didn't go far - they did one show at a skate park and gerard designed stickers that make me insane but that was about it.

i think ray was actually on bass in that band, not guitar, so maybe the universe knew something wasn't right lol. but as you know. they figured it out eventually :)))))

[muppetshow2026]

“Why do you keep posting that picture of Ray Toro with Gonzo from The Muppets? Why do you keep posting that video of Gerard Way talking about the film Labyrinth? Are there any videos?” And other questions, answered.

A bit of background:

In 2016, the Center for Puppetry Arts and the Jim Henson Company co-hosted the first Puppets for Puppetry benefit event in order to support the non-profit organization, the Center for Puppetry Arts. The CPA is the largest organization in the United States dedicated to puppetry, and contains the worlds largest collection of artifacts from the Jim Henson Company, as well as one of the largest collections of puppets and puppetry materials in the world. 

The inaugural Puppets for Puppetry event fell on what would have been Jim Henson’s 80th birthday, and served to honor and highlight the life and contributions of Dave Goelz, a core member of Henson’s team since being hired on as a part-time puppet builder in 1973. Since then, Goelz has gone onto perform various characters, most notably originating daredevil, performer, and chicken-lover, Gonzo the Great, who he still performs to this day. Goelz also performs such characters as the scientist Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, the easygoing saxophonist Zoot, the depressed and cautious Boober Fraggle, the adventurous and proud Uncle Traveling Matt, and was a puppeteer of the small and hot-headed Sir Didymus. It’s easy to see from this resume why he was the first choice for the first ever Puppets for Puppetry event.

But, where the hell does My Chemical Romance fall into this?

Another aspect of this event was that it also served to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Jim Henson’s cult classic film, Labyrinth, which also happens to be the film that features Sir Didymus. The musical guests invited to perform the tribute to Labyrinth were Gerard Way and Ray Toro, joined by Jarrod Alexander, Matt Gurney, and Jamie Muhoberac.

Midway through the show, they performed a medley of the songs from Labyrinth, including “Underground” and “As The World Falls Down.” Considering that Gerard has stated that Labyrinth is one of his favorite movies, and that the Jim Henson Company is one of his favorite “creative collectives,” this performance should come as no surprise. Dan Garza, one of the puppeteers at the event, confirmed this year on Twitter that Ray also provided guitar backing for the finale, a performance by Dave Goelz and various puppeteers at the event of “I’m Going to Go Back There Someday,” Gonzo’s song from the first Muppet Movie.

Wow, this is great! I sure hope there’s videos!

It’s complicated. While there are a few clips of the cover of “Underground” floating online (HERE and HERE) and one of Ray performing “Helena” with a young fan, the event was meant to be recording-free since it was a benefit concert. There are rumors of a longer video existing at some point, and a very glitchy AltPress page with dead video links, but other than that… nothing. I have personally emailed the Center for Puppetry Arts, the Jim Henson Legacy, and the Jim Henson Company in an attempt to dig out any other videos, but have come up with nothing. If there are longer videos out there, I haven’t been able to find them. 

Photo Credits from the Jim Henson Company, illustration by Noah Ginex at ToughPigs.

[and-fishing-equipment]

in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD

instead ask:

is it SINCERE

was it CATHARTIC

was it FUN TO MAKE

is it MADE BY ME

and don't forget to stay silly

[swiapples]

Remembered that time when Martin jumped off the ladder when Jon said he had to record a statement, and decided to make this. He did NOT want to hear his boyfriend narrating the infinite atrocities happening around them... oh the horrors....

[infriga]

One of my favourite Leverage tropes is when some goons are threatening a member of the team and Eliot just comes out of nowhere from off screen or around a corner, sometimes even when he wasn't anywhere nearby in the previous scene, as if he was summoned like a pokemon coming out of a pokeball. Eliot I choose you.

[gerardwaysbob]

🤖