Do you have any pizza tower ship that is kinda your guilty pleasure?

Also love your art :))

Aw, thank you!

And yeah, kind of

Although, i like keeping it somewhat subtle

i love waking up early but going to bed early??? is there no joy in this world??? must i be denied even the simplest of pleasures????

I'm WFH this afternoon and I think I have enough daylight to take Rory hiking if I leave immediately after I clock out 👀

i think where people get confused is that mcr did try very hard and very overtly to make their shows a safe space for queer people and women which is not a political act it just feels political because being queer and/or a woman means you exist in a space where your being is politicised by those around you whether you want to actively be involved in those politics or not. but, as you said, the art itself is personal and the message at shows is generally also about personal expression and learning to be yourself and take care of yourself. there's an element of respect each other/respect each others' differences but that's not political there's no call to action there's no fight for structural change and that's totally fine they don't have to be that

yeah no you said it, i totally agree. like i said, they're only political as far as all art is political - maybe slightly more because they made an active effort to engage with a socially outcast audience, tho in their minds that wasn't about specific marginalised groups like queer people, neurodivergent ppl etc - beyond their vocal support of women at shows/in the scene, they were directing their art just at people who didn't quite fit in in general. there's a big venn diagram there (and obviously some contextual cause-and-effect in terms of what kind of people tended to be unwelcome in hardcore scenes lol - even then, mcr never made any statements about race or whiteness) but it's not like gerard started a band to empower or liberate specific identities in a political sense - it was very consciously an effort to sing more about general unifying human experiences - i.e. ones lots of people can relate to. one of mcr's (especially gerard as lyricist) greatest strengths is being able to tap into those "universal" emotions like grief, loneliness, self-hatred etc. and make them a little easier to confront head-on or feel a little less isolating. that's literally why they're popular - if they had been overtly political they simply never would have made it that big! wait i'll let hanif abdurraqib say it because he said it best (brief snippet from his wonderful essay on the black parade in his collection they can't kill us until they kill us - 100% worth the cost of the ebook alone, and all of his essays are brilliant).

that idea is kind of at the heart of mcr and something i really appreciate about it. there's actually very little specificity in mcr's lyrics by design - it's meant to be projected onto and interpreted. that makes it inherently difficult to politicise bc good politics requires clarity of message and intention. that in turn makes mcr pretty apolitical by nature - which isn't a bad thing! different bands (like all types of art) exist for different reasons, and mcr's reason is catharsis and connection far more than it is any kind of activism. we can be pretty assured based on the lyrics and what we know of the guys that their politics aren't terrible and that's enough for me.

the real issue comes in when people act like mcr are political and give them credit for something they're not (and something they've never really claimed to be!). i get that mcr is a gateway band for a lot of people into harder/heavier music - it was for me too! - but even bands one step removed from mcr in the same scene (e.g. thursday) are leagues more political than these guys are.

this goes beyond mcr/bandom now but....tbh i think a lot of it comes from that relatively recent attitude that's common in online circles that activism is heavily rooted in personal identity (which ties in with the harmful pattern of, for example, white queer people acting like they're somehow above other white people in terms of racism) and comes more from individual thought, words, and discussion (in which using the correct language sometimes has more weight than what you're trying to say) than it does from actual community action. this isn't an attack at anyone btw - a lot of the statements about mcr's politics around here are pretty flippant and light-hearted anyway, i doubt too many people are taking them super seriously, but it's probably worth considering. overall, i'm not listening to mcr for politics and i'm certainly not looking to any of them for political guidance, but it's nice to feel connected to them and to all of you guys and to know that they support my identity, but that’s kind of as far as it goes for me.

....oh when i finish DRAGON i could watch sandman and knit, huh

starting to think that my division of the day into

6am-12pm morning

12pm-6pm afternoon

6pm-12am evening

12am-6am night

is not exactly universal 🤔🤔🤔

ㅤㅤㅤㅤ:Only spreading the correct energy:

finally hit 1.2k.... on halloween 😳 😳 😭 how on brand 🤪🧛🏻🦇🤌🏻

shld i switch therapists xo lol

Can't wait to see through dash who else is getting added to the QSMP lmao

the way my partner & i for our writing assignment spent 3 hrs today exclusively trying to do the meticulous formatting that we had to do for the paper is crazy…..we were legit fighting demons (microsoft word) in the library it was miserable……

//i love fall and winter but i always forget how much i hate that the sun sets at fucking 5pm

You’re so sweet!! I actually do work in call centers/corporate customer service now! It’s a LOT easier for sure, in many ways, but one of the things I miss that you illustrate SO beautifully in the Retail Hell AU is the camaraderie you have with the other people you work with, how you all become protective of each other, how you all waste time on the clock together, and how nice it is to work with people who have your back. I am thrilled to accept your hybrid hug/high five/handshake!

Please don’t feel obligated to pick up a fic you’ve put down for me! IF you want to and IF you have time I’d love Price or Ghost but truly you write all four boys so well I’d be thrilled with any of them. And again, NO PRESSURE! You put it down for a reason and if you need to keep it tucked away that’s absolutely okay, I appreciate just the offer!

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✨♥️🗡 you're back! yay!

hey quick question, how are you getting on with being made to sit/exist in one spot for your entire shift instead of constantly moving? when i did a brief spell in a contact centre work they had to give me a bluetooth headset so i could wander up and down the row without pulling the cord out of the weird phone set they used. good times.

oh thank you! i'm so glad i manage to show that it's the goofing off with colleagues who become your friends that really makes it! i used to love the unofficial huddles i'd have with my team/friends from other departments whenever a team leader or manager wasn't looking. or putting away go-backs and running into someone and we'd very leisurely take a turn about the store to catch up on gossip.

i ended up working in so many departments (front end, seasonal, decor, showrooms, stockflow) that i somehow managed to make friends with nearly everyone in the store. it was great. especially when the stockflow manager would swoop me out of the store on my lunch break for a cheeky milkshake or when the showrooms guys would stop mid-consultation to ask if i wanted to look at their bathroom design. (or when i'd play hide and seek with the seasonal team in the garden centre during the summer and whoever got found would get soaked with the hosepipe)

i've got a little something bubbling away for you which i'll post separately when it's done. thank you again for being so nice and inspiring me to pick up retail hell au again. ♥️

a word of unsolicited advice....don't do two masters programs and two jobs all at the same time, bad idea

I gotta say the tags you left on that reblog on why you followed me are by far one of the best collections of tags I've ever gotten. but you've awakened my curiosity. What was the Twitch chat that started this? What did I say???? I'M SO CURIOUS BECAUSE BOY HOWDY I'VE SAID SOME INTERESTING THINGS-

I couldn't remember exactly, so I went back and searched Discord for images I sent and apparently it was just a super tame message.

The thing that made it significant, however, was the fact that I had never heard the Diggy Diggy Hole song before this year... despite having watched minecraft youtube videos since 2012. Somehow I missed that. A month or two ago I mentioned something from a different Impulse stream about diggy diggy and my friend @bibliobasilisk forced me to watch several iterations of the song (which I'm grateful for. It's a bop. As you would know).

So anyway I sent that screenshot to her like "hey look someone in chat said this" because i thought it was hilarious and then I was like "also I recognise their name from tumblr. unrelatedly". And then she was like "ah swedish tumblr, just looked them up" and then, being half swedish myself, I got hella excited:

And then I proceeded to scroll on your tumblr for like 20 minutes before unpausing the Impulse vod to continue watching. And I've been following you ever since then.

So a combination of me recognising your name, and my friend sussing out that you're Swedish (and the fact that diggy diggy is still relatively new to me) and bam. I'm here now.

Also in looking for that screenshot, it turns out that I screenshotted a second message of yours from a different stream:

Because Hermitgang my beloved

got dragged to a pub quiz with some of my housemates buddies and was fully convinced i was not really gonna have a good time and itd probably be too loud and i wouldnt be much help etc etc etc bc my mood is still not great but i forgot im a competitive motherfucker when it comes down to it and the sheer rush of euphoria that comes from knowing a few more obscure answers that had the rest of the room hemming and hawing is gonna carry me through the next week probably