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Uncle Matt, ASD, he/him, I have a lot of Hot Takes about movies

He’s uh. A little distracted….

(Blaming my moot on Bluesky who said Kris can “perform in front of thousands of fans but can’t in front of some dolls smh” which is just diabolical)

On my neck I have a scorpion that I got on our third tour. Actually the band helped pay for it because I didn’t have enough money. We were at this venue sound checking, I fell asleep and had a dream: I didn’t ever want a come-back plan. I didn’t was to be able to go back home. We were working so hard and what we were doing was really rough and it looked like it might not happen for us. So I thought I might have to go back home and get a job but I didn’t want to give myself that option, so I woke up and I decided to get a tattoo on my neck. I wanted a scorpion as I am a Scorpio. I did it in a way so no collar can cover it. It was my first visible tattoo.

- Frank Iero - Total Tattoo Magazine 2006

A small but nonetheless important detail (to me) is that Ray and Gerard attended the same Maiden show shortly before My Chem started, which I would argue rekindled their friendship and was the catalyst of their creative partnership. They initially met in the 90s through Shawn Dillon, who Gerard met in art school and was in The Rodneys with Ray. Gerard and Mikey had seen the Rodneys perform live at some point, but never became close friends with Ray and (based on the tone of retrospective interviews) might have drifted apart after Gerard graduated. Obviously, the interim timeline is incredibly tenuous (especially when you add Nancy Drew into the mix), but, according to a scanned interview on the comm mychemicalmedia, “Cruising For Crazy,” which Gerard and Ray wrote together for Breakfast Monkey, “predates My Chemical Romance by four months.” Considering Iron Maiden’s schedule during their Brave New World tour (significant because it was Bruce Dickinson’s first tour back after he departed from the band for much of the 90s), the only time Ray and Gerard would have had the opportunity to see Maiden before this period would be the August 5, 2000 date at Madison Square Garden. In the Rolling Stones  interview Gerard mentioned the show, the specific wording says they “reconnected” after attending “the show together” and immediately dovetails into a discussion of My Chem’s demos, suggesting without the show Gerard might not’ve been close enough to Ray to call him in 2001 and that this particular MSG show, like many other’s in the members’ past, was a point of creative inspiration and connection for the two of them.

Excerpt from the My Chemical Romance Heavy Metal Primer detailing the circumstances in which Ray and Gerard met in the 1990s, as well as their creative rekindling at an Iron Maiden show they attended together in 2000, just before My Chem was formed

"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. Maybe many of us won't be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing."

Arundhati Roy

allow me to paint you a word picture; Picture me. No you don't know what I look like but picture someone. Pitch black night. Long black leather duster van helsing style. Hair curling gently around my face from the misting rain. Standing between two lampposts in the shadows between their pools of light. Smoking Hella weed in a small silver pipe with a beat up bics. I looked like a goddamn noir detective. I'm some lesbians' butch dyke fantasy. I'm a fucking wizard. Also i'm so high. But goddamn it i looked fucking cool

slightly worried by how many people seem to have been taking the things they see online at face value before genai was a thing

"it sucks that genAI means i have to verify everything i see online now!" you shoulda been doing that anyway though

remembered im posting this on the infinite chocolate website

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men don’t wear long sleeve shirts under graphic tees anymore and i think that’s why the economy is in shambles

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