I have an existential doubt—a dilemma about whether to write something experimental about MCR.
I feel it’s different to write about real people, literally (?) because writing about series like Band Of Brothers is based on real events but at least the actors are different… aaagggghhh
I was thinking about a drummer! reader because I don’t like Bob (he’s not my vibe, sixth sense), who has been there from the beginning and it would probably be a Ray Toro x reader. I love him.
AND I WOULD HAPPILY WRITE IT LIKE REALLY SIMPLE BECAUSE I'M A TIRED LADY BUT I WOULD BE LIKE THIS (see the second picture) WHILE WRITING
Just a little something I needed to get out of my chest.
I’ve been listening to My Chemical Romance for a decade and I’ve just realised that there’s a fandom. Very late, I know.
I went to the concert in Chile and right afterwards I wondered: “Are they on Tumblr?” and obviously they were.
I feel like I’ve just started to really get to know them, far beyond their music, as artists and as people. If before, as a teenager, I identified with them, now I feel like they’re actually “close” to me.
It’s strange for me to think that the members of the band were just some guys, geeks, nerds, “punks”, who were simply looking to make music.
I’ve spent a week reading everything I’ve found about them, especially about Ray and Gerard, and I feel like we’re really quite similar.
Going to the concert, seeing them in person and then learning about their stories made me think about all the times I was bullied for listening to them. For reading “The True Lives of The Fabulous Killjoys”, for dyeing my hair, for my ripped jeans, for my pins and patches. It gives me a sort of comfort to know that they started MCR older than I am now, and I think, if I had enough courage, I could be the artist I’ve always wanted to be.
I don’t know, it’s just a random comment. The post-concert depression hit me hard.
I’ve just seen the new Avatar: Fire and Ash film at a preview screening. I got home and decided to write this straight away.
The film has a peculiar narrative formula. At first, it seems strange and confusing, but when you leave the cinema you find yourself thinking, “holy shit, that was good.” I like to think that, in a way, it follows (from the Sullys’ perspective) its own form of mourning after Neteyam’s death.
There are some elements that are genuinely odd and that, in my view, were a bit of a shot in the dark on Cameron’s part, as if he were saying, “fuck it, this is my movie.” I would have changed and added a couple of things, but that’s because my literary mind makes me believe that hundreds of pages are worth every single detail of the story.
The film is good, written as a kind of closure (hopefully not) to the franchise. It plays with the rhythms of time and events, emotions, landscapes and sounds.
My recommendation? Go and see it in the highest quality possible. Every frame — and the story itself — is worth it.
I’ll post a detailed commentary on 23 December, and I’ll probably publish some one-shots or fanfics before Christmas. I’ll have my commissions open.
the inherent homoeroticism of war media: a completely unserious presentation by me
[note: some slides have been removed because they're literally just fancams and also i had more than 30 slides boo tumblr image limits]
BIBLIOGRAPHY (just going in order of slides)
and your knees are driving me wild - mash s02e08
george mackay has found his niche in homoerotic war movies
war stories are inherently homoerotic. that's how we got stucky
hangman you look good - top gun: maverick (gif by babyrooster)
letter of recommendation: watching masters of the air secondhand
it's not just sports - masters of the air e02
1 being not gay at all, 10 being liberace in an f-16
we'll go to chicago - band of brothers e01 (gif by @fkmylif3)
it is the law that every piece of war media
kim is a homoseggsual - kath & kim s01e02
Untitled (You Construct Intricate Rituals) - Barbara Kruger
The Secret History of Australia's Gay Diggers - Ben Winsor (+ Paul Fussell quoted within)
Sexuality, Sexual Relations and Homosexuality - Jason Crouthamel
Soldiers bathing in Malaya - AWM
Private Frank Crocker letters featured in Sebastian Faulks and Hope Wolf, A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War (2014), pp. 75-78.
mike's mic screencap my beloved <3
winnix gifs by @bandofbrothers2001 @preacherboyd @galebucky
**i tried to tag/link everything, if anything is broken or unsourced please let me know and i will endeavour to fix it! standard disclaimer that a) any discussion about war media based on real life people is based upon the fictional portrayals of those people and not the actual dudes. and b) this powerpoint was made for fun, it is not rigorous academic analysis. all opinions expressed are my own. please do not take it too seriously! that's all <3
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