#IAMAS

[redshotsss]

Good Vibes llama

[chlodovetch]

[quackman646]

🤤

[rhodrymavelyne]

N is for Nathalie

[tachyonblu]

Multiple AMAs coming soon!

I'm excited to announce I'll be doing AMAs on multiple communities to promote the Kickstarter for The People of GamerGate! Including GGDiscussion, KotakuInAction and IAmA on Reddit! Plus JoyFreak, Total War Center, 8chan /v/, The First Amendment and Book Lovers on DelphiForums!

[justcallmesakira]

I know why you can't respond!

You run out of excuses :3

And I love talking to you too hehe

What excuses um!!! (it better not be abt ran-)

Also bestie WHY DOBI SEE YOU EVERYWHERE LIKE NAME ONE BSD BLOG YOU HAVENT INTERACTED WOTH😭😭😭

[babyjujubee]

From the IAMA Theatre Company's Facebook page. February 4, 2024. Playwrite Catya McMulle and Alden Ehrenreich at the opening night of IAMA Theatre Company's "Arrowhead" at Atwater Village Theater in Los Angeles California on February 8, 2024.

[munnchausenzip]

im Literally eating Mars Bar Right Now. Okay, this is EPic

[solibrie]

EDGE OF TOMORROW!!! TIME LOOPS!!!!! MOVIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[thenerdsofcolor]

A Los Angeles Theatre Review: 'Radical or, are you gonna miss me?'

A Los Angeles Theatre Review: 'Radical or, are you gonna miss me?' at IAMA Theatre

The ‘Sweet 16’ season of IAMA Theatre launches with the world premiere of Radical or, are you gonna miss me? written by Isaac Gómez and directed by Jess McLeod and what a vibrant way to kick it all off. While there are some aspects of the show that had me question what truly constitutes as a “radical” these days, I definitely commend the entire creative team and cast for truly giving it their all…

[dkshameless]

[kadisiyuswyrd]

MCR GAYLIST MASTERPOST

Hello, gays. I'm in the process of making a video & I'd like some input.

(I blame @cordspaghetti for keeping Alpharetta Gerard in my mind)

As the title implies, the video will rank every MCR song based on how gay it is in chronological order (more or less). Hopefully, it'll be released the first day of the new Black Parade tour (July 11, 2025). No promises, though.

At this point in the writing process (just finished Bullets this morning) I think Everyone Hates the Eagles is their gayest song. Prison, Mama, & To the End are up there, though ("he's not around he's always looking at men," I mean...c'mon).

I'm not too good at lyrical analysis, though, nor is my knowledge of MCR as robust as I'd like, so I'm interested to hear different queer readings of their songs.

As unserious as this video concept is, I actually want to approach it from a really earnest lens. Tier lists are already so subjective; gayness is such an arbitrary, amorphous label. I want to play around with the inherent stupidity of this.

There are some fundamental questions that I still haven't really answered but would love to explore:

What does it mean for something to be queer / gay (weird)?

What does it mean for something to be straight (normal)?

I really have no conception of what normality is anymore. I find strange things normal, normal things strange; when I act normally I feel strange, but am called strange when I think I'm acting normally...

3. How does rock music manage to attract both extremely gay and extremely straight fanbases (e.g. Nirvana, Queen, Misfits)?

Nirvana's fanbase always surprises me because the band was so left-leaning and anti-machismo, but because they sounded rough and masculine they attract these really weird, pretentious assholes. The way that rock music oscillates between hypermasculine presentation (leather jackets, jeans, shirtless, hairy) and queer theatricality (David Bowie, early Queen) is really interesting to me in general. It's a genre that's been sexist and feminist, homophobic and relentlessly queer in the same decade.

4. Is there value in deliberately ambiguous queer representation?

This question makes me think of iLLi. She emerged from ambiguity and I think that's part of her appeal. Fanfiction is grasping at straws to make something beautiful and whole. Isn't the ambiguity sometimes preferrable—to allow unique fan interpretation?

Not all of these questions need to be answered in the video, but I want them on my mind while writing. Part of me wants to make a normal tier list video, another part wants to kind of deconstruct it...but. this video is shaping up to be a behemoth as is, so maybe I should avoid scope creep and keep my ambitiousness in check.

We'll see how it goes. I'd love to hear from y'all.

(Also, big shoutout to @angstics who is, by my estimation, the seminal queer MCR scholar. I've been referring to a lot of their writing during the research process.)

Below is a list of the sources I'll be referring to during the script writing process. This is a living document, so expect this list to expand in the coming weeks. Cheers.

—Kay

Research w/Notes:

This article is a fun look at the early days of the band. It features a fun story about a sickly Gerard getting punched by record exec to give him energy to record his vocals. It worked.

Blistein, Jon. (2021). How a Sucker Punch Fueled the Rise of My Chemical Romance. Rolling Stone. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/my-chemical-romance-rise-book-excerpt-sellout-dan-ozzi-1247331/   

One of Gerard's answers during his famous 2014 Reddit AMA. Mainly focused on his answer to question 5 about Drowning Lessons and its status as MCR's "cursed song."

Way, Gerard. (2014). Reddit AMA https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2i1840/comment/ckxylaq/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button 

A really thorough video about queer (sub)text in You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison. A helpful resource. souryogurtgirl. (2024). My Chemical Romance's Gay Anthem? YouTube. https://youtu.be/jDP5_Kl36ms

A TRACK BY TRACK BREAKDOWN OF TBP. Hell yeah.

Great MCR essays. The essay SEX & VIOLENCE is the most interesting to me, at least in relation to this video. Love & suffering is such a deeply queer idea. The "queering of violence" is so central to MCR's lyricism. Love how the essay points out the importance of Gerard's delivery, that's something I want to highlight in my own analysis.

"Honey This Podcast Isn't Big Enough for The Both of Us" is not only a great resource for MCR fan discourse, it is just really entertaining podcasting. Maren & EJ are playful, yet insightful. Their episode on the demo lovers has been helpful to try to parse the storytelling of Bullets and Revenge.

Slowly diving a bit more into queer theory for this project. It's daunting, but interesting! I feel like queer time—the idea (to my understanding) that queer people's life trajectories are distinctly different and possibly even incompatible with the traditional straight narrative of getting married, having a kid, entering the job market, etc.—may prove a helpful concept, especially in relation to TBP.

Writer Kathryn Bond Stockton literally describes queer children as "ghosts" because many of them cannot yet verbalize their queerness and are they given a roadmap for what adult queer life will look like. I mean...that's very Black Parade coded.

Haven't read this read this yet, keeping it here to get back to it! I really want to understand the link between queerness and theater, there's gotta be some historical context that explains that a bit more clearly for me.

https://newprairiepress.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4185&context=aerc

[enjoyerofstories]

r si n erau legate si unii au crezut ca scrie iama in loc de iarna. dar ar fi trebuit sa isi dea seama ca titlul este iarna de fapt dupa ce au citit poezia

generația care la simulare nu a fost în stare să își dea seama că titlul unei poezii despre iarnă este literalmente iarnă e șocată că au avut la bac caracterizare și implicit relație. ele fiind, în mod șocant, în programă. who would've thought.

[rhodrymavelyne]

Conversations with Christopher: Iama

Christopher meets a lonely enchantress in the darkness.

Christopher often walks in shadows, but right now, they’re particularly dark. Gray mist gives way to an inky black, absorbing light and color. The only illumination is the faint glow of the path beneath his feet. Even that feels fragile, like at any moment, it might collapse, if he doesn’t concentrate.  A blaze of gold flashes ahead; shining as it hangs among the dusky green leaves of a tree.…