#scream rambles

[generallyunskilled]

Came back to my thoughts about Draag and culture under totalitarian regimes. Mostly cause I’ve been thinking about the young Marianne I invented but shit man… I forgot how much targeting these sort of regimes do towards children.

Thinking about pro-Draag children’s cartoons. Government sponsored youth groups. Perfectly tailored school curriculums. Books and movies made to teach their beliefs.

It all makes me wonder where The Black Parade (as in the band MCR are playing as) fits into all of this. Tour promo videos seem to suggest that they are from Draag. They existed as a band prior to MOAT, and are now being brought back. But what did they serve in the overall culture of Draag? Were they a counterculture band that got too big for their liking? Why is Draag bringing them back instead of allowing them to languish in MOAT forever? Is this a bread and circuses thing? One can presume, if the story of The Black Parade (the album) also takes place in Draag, that they have been at war, and though whatever war The Patient was in may have ended, another could always be happening. Is this something the regime wants to distract from? Are they trying to condition The Black Parade into being a band that is more pro-Draag in the process?

I just think there’s got to be something there about being this band and playing the songs they play, whilst being in a culture where media is highly controlled by the government.

[generallyunskilled]

If Marianne isn’t at Tampa we are going to have a problem because you can’t just take my blorbo away and not say anything. I need to know what they’ve done.

[generallyunskilled]

New random thing I’m imagining about The Black Parade and Draag, and it’s that tbp!Frank writing an English sign means he knows some English, and presumably if tbp!Gerard’s random magazines are also in English, they do too. Presumably most of them are all bilingual but I am amusing myself by imagining none of them are on the same level. Tbp!Gerard is probably the most fluent, but the others probably took English in Draag High School and how much of that they retained certainly varied. And for some reason that’s the funniest fucking thing to me.

[generallyunskilled]

Hey guys why is no one digging into whatever the fuck it means when Gerard says “when she sings, she sees everything” about Marianne? Does she have some sort of clairvoyance that happens when she sings? Because I think something like that would be entirely plausible. Clearly LLTBP and Draag have some unrealistic elements to them. Gerard adores a character with psychic powers.

I think she might have some kind of psychic power that awakens when she sings. This might be something Draag wants to use as a political tool. Going with the main theory that her father seems to be a handler of sorts for her, and she works with the Draag Auxiliary Band, it makes you wonder if there really is a “my father sold me to Draag” aspect. I wonder if whispers got too loud in whatever town she was from, and it made its way up to someone with power, and the government came to investigate. I wonder if the family was given an offer they couldn’t deny. Sure, she might get to be on stage and sing, but what is Draag’s use for Marianne?

[generallyunskilled]

Executive dysfunction? Shit man, why hasn’t the rest of my brain unionized and delivered a formal set of complaints yet?

[generallyunskilled]

Mildly insane concept but what if because they’ve got so much wheat in Draag they have like a drinking culture around fucking grain alcohol of all things. Like they just love their equivalent of Everclear. I don’t even know what that would look like because Everclear is not like, something remotely pleasant to drink, and honestly, I don’t even think you can drink it straight. Like that shit is pretty much pure ethanol. You’re supposed to use it sparingly in mixed drinks and stuff. The general use of Everclear is to put it in like, punches or jungle juice in decent quantities to get large amounts of people wasted at once. A frat house favorite.

I don’t think things like that are happening in Draag. Maybe a decent percentage of Dragoshkans are either really fucking sturdy and have a genetic predisposition to holding their liquor, or have just been so worn down that they can just fucking tank it from tolerance building. Like your average drinker in Draag is just able to handle it. They’re all probably miserable. This would happen.

[generallyunskilled]

Just realized something kinda funny and it’s that if Draag actually was in the Olympics they would probably end up having a giant case of defectors unless they hella brainwash their athletes lmao.

[generallyunskilled]

Father Mulcahy and his gambling problem ❤️

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