hylianengineer
hylianengineer
I thrive on chaos
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Call me Hylian (yes that's a legend of zelda reference), they/she/xe/whatever I'm not picky just please don't call me he. Aroace (I am loud and opinionated about the aro part in particular), enby, genderqueer. I write fanfiction about found family, friendship, and idealized fictional medicine. You can find me as HylianEngineer on both AO3 and FFN. I'm obsessed with Star Trek and Torchwood in particular but I hop between fandoms frequently and unpredictably. I also ramble about ecology, soil science, anthropology and archaeology, and my job as a lab tech which I love very much. Please don't expect coherency; my blog is exactly as chaotic as the inside of my head.This is a pretty small blog by tumblr standards, but you might know me from either the aromantic-frog-prince-saved-by-childhood-special-interest post or the "we've averted an entire degree celcius of global warming since 2015" post.
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hylianengineer · 9 minutes ago
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*smirking* you couldn't waterboard that out of me, but even if torture was an effective method of information extraction and not a futile display of state-sanctioned sadism, the high percentage of false confessions it produces would mean that even if you could waterboard it out of me, could you even trust the veracity of my statement?
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hylianengineer · 10 minutes ago
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Frank Iero on imperfection (x, x, x)
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Frank Iero on imperfection (x, x, x)
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hylianengineer · 12 minutes ago
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formal request for mcr starter guide bc honestly I dont know whats going on but im not too afraid to ask bc it looks like a lot of fun
utterly delighted that im the person people come to for this
I think I’ve already written out most of the needed info in other posts, so what im actually gonna do here is link dump
There is a literally uncountable volume of pre-breakup MCR content, which I could not even begin to catalog here, but most of which is not necessary to have an encyclopedic knowledge of to follow the current situation, so I’m gonna stick to the high points and need-to-knows to catch up quickly to jump in feet-first with the current tour lore (since I assume that’s your desire!)
While my knowledge of the current lore is obsessive, there is simply so Much to know about the pre-breakup era - however it is largely interpersonal, assorted iceberg-y information about the band’s personal lives, struggles, relationships, etc, and doesn’t have any plot relevance to understand the context of what’s currently going on. If you’re the sort of person who enjoys reading juicy drama from 15-20 years ago about celebrities (I promise I say that without a hint of judgement) then there is plenty there, but I will let you choose that iceberg for yourself if you wish.
MUSIC
I brought you my bullets, you brought me your love (Album 1) (crunchy basement hardcore)
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge (Album 2) (genre codifying emo rock)
The Black Parade (Album 3) (Emo-Glam-Rock/Rock Opera)
Danger Days (Album 4) (Neon glam pop-rock) (i love her) (i love her so much) (Danger Days has a MASSIVE amount of connected lore & worldbuilding, 2 comic book series, music videos, and tons of ancillary content I highly recommend. I am a danger days girlie 4ever. I would strongly recommend listening to Danger Days and watching all the music videos, as they seem somehow to be connected with what’s going on)
Mad Gear and Missile Kid (In-Universe with danger days)(my WIFE) (there’s a song in here about giving old mafia men hand jobs)
Conventional Weapons (Album ????) (series of EPs) (post danger days) (I love her too)
There’s also a couple extended editions of Black Parade including the Living With Ghosts reissue, all of which have a handful of demos and B-sides on them which are extremely well loved
All 4 members also have solo careers to some extent or other. Gerard’s solo album Hesitant Alien is lovely, Frank is in approximately 14 bands at any given time, Mikey has/had a band called Electric Century, and Ray has a solo album called Remember The Laughter, along with various other solo singles and collabs between various combos of all of them during The Dark Years
Necessary Contextual Lore
A whole bunch of swarm tour playlists. While swarm overall was not a “lore” or plot based tour, the evolving phrasing on the drumheads and Gerard’s outfits (your costumes? Are they costumes?) is all kind of of debatable relevance? The thing about all of this is that they’re always cooking some shit up for YEARS before they tell us, and I straight up have no idea at what point they knew where they were going with the current tour. Swarm is also just…utterly incredible and I can’t say enough good things about it. But really you gotta watch the Ring Of Fire (NZ/Australia/Japan) leg the most, because there was something in the fucking WATER
My long ass plot explanation for the current tour
The Complete Encyclopedic Lore Dump (I’m a week behind and need to update this from last week’s show)
Random Things I think are important
A Vigil on Birds and Glass - Gerard’s letter about the breakup, the official announcement. I think it’s important to read this. It provides, I think, a smidgen of the context needed to understand the weight of it all
My secret archive of the charity streams - this is a bit odd, but to me it’s can’t-miss content. In 2016 and 2017, Gerard & their dear friend/bodyguard of 20 years “Worm,” did a bunch of charity twitch/youtube streams playing board games for a total of like 24+ hours. These have been memory holed off the internet for assorted reasons, but I think they’re just. Extremely important. If you want to understand Gerard’s Aura. Absolutely Key information. Has nothing to do with the current tour, but foundational to understanding why they are the people’s princess
Gerard’s 2023 interview/Q&A with the Orange County School for the Arts - Another off the wall one, but another one I think is just absolutely foundational to understanding Gerard’s whole like. Thing. You will walk out of this and it will. All make a whole lot of sense, I think.
The Understanding The Current Tour To Do List
Okay what do you ACTUALLY need to watch/read in what order in order to follow the current tour and Get it all
1. the Black Parade album & ancillary content. Highly highly recommend looking into the stories of making this album, what it did to the band, the conditions they did it in & the original concept of the album and its meaning
2. Danger Days album & ancillary content
3. Swarm tour ring of fire leg & the death of the secretary
4. All of the pre-tour stuff from this tour, which is all linked in my mega lore dump
5. The lore dump post in general
6. Follow MCRStreamer lists & endless night on Twitter and mcrbois here to get the list of expected streamers for Saturday night
7. TUNE IN SATURDAY NIGHT AND JOIN US!
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hylianengineer · 15 minutes ago
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i think half of being a decent human is just going 'that's not my business'.
someone in a wheelchair stood up? not my business.
someone has a service dog but doesn't visibly need it? not my business.
someone is acting weird? not my business.
someone is participating in a culture i don't understand? not my business.
someone got an abortion? not my business.
someone identifies in a way that doesn't make sense to me? not my business.
someone has a medical issue i don't understand? not my business.
if it doesn't negatively impact me or others, it's not my business. and i will continue to push for legislation that allows people to just live their lives, because why should i or the government have a say in shit that doesn't affect us? it's not our business.
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hylianengineer · 15 minutes ago
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I'm so fucking proud of every fat person who has truly accepted themselves and is unapologetically dressing the way they want and not nitpicking themselves and truly loving on themselves without stipulations like YOU WONN BIITCCHH
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hylianengineer · 16 minutes ago
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To myself, raised in an environment that glorified and romanticized restriction and suffering:
There is no victory in skipping dinner, or lunch, or breakfast, or morning coffee, or dessert.
There is no victory in refusing heaters and air conditioners and fans and heated blankets.
There is no victory in denying yourself sleep, or showers, or movement, or water, or a comfortable bed, or taking the elevator vs. the stairs.
There is no victory in refusing pain meds and heating pads and ice packs and medical help.
There is no victory in punishing yourself needlessly, in telling yourself that this pain you feel is because you are bad to the core and deserve it.
There is no victory in choking back your laughter and your tears, to keep an imagined equilibrium of safety that is really just a dry, cracked, empty, endless emotional desert.
You are here. You are in this body, and this body is yours. You deserve good things. You are alive, and that is messy and loud, and messy and loud are okay.
It’s okay to live abundantly. It’s okay to make mistakes, it’s okay to indulge. This paralysis of self-punishment, self-restriction, self-loathing is not healthy or good for you.
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hylianengineer · 16 minutes ago
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gonna ride this high for the rest of my life, or at least until i see them in jersey next week
goodnight
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hylianengineer · 44 minutes ago
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I feel like we need to talk more about how fucking boring depression can be. I pick up a book and can’t read more than a few sentences, a chapter if I’m lucky, before I can’t focus. I knit two rows of something and then can’t continue. I scroll through all the different options of shows I haven’t watched without clicking on any of them. I hop from app to app looking for content that will spark literally any single emotion. It’s not even 10am and I already feel like I’m just waiting until it’s time to go back to bed.
I hate it I hate it I hate it
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hylianengineer · 44 minutes ago
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hylianengineer · 46 minutes ago
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"Spices" is not sufficient labelling. "Natural and artifical flavors" is not sufficient labelling. Tell me which spices and flavors you cowards!
"Fruit and vegetable juices" I NEED DETAILS! You just ensured that no one with an allergy to any fruit or vegetable can safely consume this product.
Also, if you label something as plant based and it has cheese in it you should be required to recall everything and issue an apology.
sorry to be brave on the internet but I think food labels should list every single ingredient and that there should be harsher penalties for mislabeling and deceptive labeling
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hylianengineer · 49 minutes ago
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sorry to be brave on the internet but I think food labels should list every single ingredient and that there should be harsher penalties for mislabeling and deceptive labeling
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hylianengineer · 49 minutes ago
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Like a new friend!
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hylianengineer · 1 hour ago
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I'm kind of obsessed with the way sheep are handled. So efficiently. It always looks kind of unpleasant at first and then you notice the sheep are fine with it. They're always being flipped upside down and rolled down a chute or some shit. A shepherd will be tossing that thang in the air and spinning it like pizza dough & the sheep just lets it happen
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hylianengineer · 1 hour ago
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Deradicalization isn't just for people who got into MAGA BS.
It's for your leftist buddy who got in with a leftist group that promotes eugenics.
It's for your feminist friend who was lured into radical feminism with "divine feminine" rhetoric.
It's for you when you fall into something that you thought you were too smart for, because it never crossed your mind that fascism could be repackaged in a way that would appeal to you.
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hylianengineer · 1 hour ago
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the first rule of being on the internet is you should have other stuff going on, besides being on the internet
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hylianengineer · 1 hour ago
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WAIT I HAVE AN AWESOME HOUSE DESIGN
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