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happy pride month fob fandom

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looking at these pictures and crying my eyes out. wow. we had it all

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happy pride <3

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Don't mind me, just thinking about the found family trope again-

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i recently read some work on james dean and it got me thinking about why his image was used by mcr from 2002-2004. (it was on their website, merch (1, 2), banner (1, 2), shirts, even their guitar straps into at least 2007)

it was a pretty big part of who they were. but they *never* talked about why they chose him. i had my theories about him being the epitome of "live fast, die young" and his reputation as a star rebel, and that's probably it. maybe even the "famous living dead", considering the X's. but i hadnt considered james dean's unusual kind of masculinity.

richard dyer briefly talks about dean in comparison to rock hudson in his book "the culture of queers" (2002). comparing acting styles, dyer sees hudson as classic hollywood - straight, stiff, normal - while dean's naturalism "suggests someone ill at ease in the world, marginal and insecure." to dyer, hudson is stable heterosexuality, dean is insecurity associated with homosexuality. i connect this further to how it isn't just stability in sexuality, but in gender performance as well. dean's anxiety is so physical (intense eyebrows, hunched shoulders, flailing and wailing) that it's closely linked to how he's perceived, and how he's perceived as a man. he is insecure in his body, as if he's trying to escape it. he lacks masculine traits such as confidence, emotional stability .. even class (he directly represents this narratively in rebel without a cause). it wasnt the strong masculinity cinema, and dominant culture, favored. deyer also attributes dean's appearance (along with other actors' like monty clift and sal mineo) to othering him from the hudson-gable-cooper dominant masculinity: "physically slight, with intense eyes and pretty faces". many things contribute to the conclusion james dean disrupted dominant masculinity. im reading a book on this rn so im sure there's more to say (the book is gay fandom and crossover stardom by michael deangelis).

sooo i think that out of historical context, dean isnt as much disrupter. pretty much any idiot emo boy wants to act like james dean. he's cool now. but i like reading uneasy masculinity when i see that mychem poster. im not saying it was intentional, but dean's anxiety is the most important aspect of his acting to me. that necessarily translates to his expression, including gender expression. also i trust that film major and hitchcock-tattooed ray toro knows something about rebel without a cause

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love what mark hoppus said about gerard:

2013 kerrang #1461

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joe is the only one who dressed for the weather 🫡

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mcr archive: posts ancient gerard findings high quality post

me:

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the fun ghoul/party poison smoke sesh always goes CRAZYYY

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i got my hands on the america’s suitehearts stems and just. listen to these

a lil bassline focus snippet just because i think it's so cool

and also this unfathomable noise which now i can't unhear from the album version thanks patrick

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I just had to draw this gif

Hope you like it:D

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the shared madness of two

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world contamination tour hp pavillion, san jose, ca december 10, 2010

by llamatofu

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as a daily reminder we still do not know

why my chemical romance recorded some of the shows

what will be done with the interviews they conducted with fans

why ray toro was mixing a live recording of our lady of sorrows (@ berlin)

what the second band frank is working with is (the first is most likely L.S. Dunes)

what frank iero’s fuckass fortune cookies mean

if all the times that may have been a member of mcr in a recording studio are true. or anything about them.

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is that what Patrick always says. is it Pete.

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i am once again experiencing feelings for frank iero thanks so much