currently rewatching the september 21st ep and losing it when robert crashes aaron's date with alex at the pub after ordering lasagna and black coffee like a fucking maniac and then proceeding to have a stare-off with his ex-husband WHILE SAID EX HUSBAND IS ON A DATE WITH ANOTHER FELLA!!
"The more things change, the more things stay the same."
We have literally no idea if that's true or not, but it certainly sounds nice. And there is, unfortunately, no easy way of analyzing how the propensity for changing measures against that of staying the same. It's a statement we struggle to quantify, to tell you the truth, but a statement we could back up with some more anecdotal data: because #fall out boy are back, after a long, long time. Did you know? Of course you did. And with their comeback comes the sense that everything has changed beyond recognition, yet all feels so snuggly familiar at once.
The fandom community is quite understandably beside itself today with the release of the new record: a joyous commemoration of gifs, lyric sheets, and shitposts aplenty.
I'll admit I drew this before seeing the episode. Finished it about halfway through knowing we at least saw him and he had longer hair.
BUT I'VE FINISHED THE EPISODE SINCE THEN AND WILL NEED TO DRAW HIM AGAIN DSALKJFADSLFADSF
But anyways have my first Hot Boi in AWHILE.
It is going off today, let us tell you. It seems 2023 is the new 2008 (or indeed the new 1989), because it seems we are amid The Great Emo Beatdown of 2023, featuring two true titans of the genre: #mcr and #fall out boy, no less. The news in brief: Frank Iero, of My Chemical Romance fame, has launched his brand spankin' rootin'-tootin' official online megastore. This megastore has, in reality, proven to be a digital garage sale featuring a, uh, copious number of gloves amongst its plunder. At the same time, fellow emo behemoths Fall Out Boy have released a cover of Billy Joel's No.1 hit single from 1989, "We Didn't Start the Fire" that runs through a list of proper nouns ripped from the historic headlines. FOB, have, kindly, updated the list for the years 1989-2023. For those of us still sporting our hair jet black, our Vans jet black, our torn jeans jet black, and our makeup the very jettest of blacks, these last days of June, 2023 will live long in the memory.
Needless to say, the dear folk of the dashboard are simply lapping up every moment of this delightfully bonkers emo drama in which Fall Out Boy actually lovingly reference My Chemical Romance's Black Parade as one of the hallowed 33 defined moments of modern times. We love it. And while we're at it, we'll take a pair of those sweaty, torn gloves if you don't mind, Mr Iero.