#here comes the airplane

[bentwolioo]

Ok so why did Gerard wear the same costume for 6 shows???

Like a lot of people, I noticed the Aotearoa (NZ) & Australia tour drum head messages seemed to be about 9/11. The costume also tells a very specific story that lines up with this--and there was more to Melbourne Night 2 than Gerard deciding it was casual Friday. I'm gonna go through my personal interpretation and explain why I think MCR did this at the end of their tour. 

TLDR: This Is Not The End.

I will include image credits in the reblog since there are a lot!

AUCKLAND, March 11 2023

Based on the skirt suit and drumhead ‘FIX FAX FUCK YOU’, Gerard is dressed as an office worker. For simplicity I will refer to the costume as the Secretary, I see it as both a character and a metaphor. Auckland establishes the monotony and repetition of daily life prior to 9/11, ‘FIX FAX FUCK YOU’ showing an attitude of boredom unaware of the events to come. 

BRISBANE 1, March 13 2023

The main difference between Auckland and Brisbane 1 is the briefcase. This indicates the point in time--Auckland is the days before 9/11 and Brisbane 1 is the morning before the attacks begin. The secretary travels to work, thinking ‘Everything under Control’.

BRISBANE 2, March 14 2023

The drumhead message ‘Here Comes the AIRPLANE’ marks this as minutes or even seconds before the towers are hit. Brisbane 2 is the first time Gerard wears the coat, representing everyone taking cover. 

MELBOURNE 1, March 16 2023

I unfortunately could not find a good photo of Gerard wearing the coat from this show but you can see it on the floor behind him!

The Melbourne shows are as the towers collapse. Pretty straightforward from the Melbourne 1 drumhead ‘TERROR’. This show also had the only appearance of the umbrella, which I interpret as representing the rubble and destruction raining down. The umbrella is closed, showing the secretary is unprotected and ultimately killed when the towers fall. 

MELBOURNE 2, March 17 2023

It seemed odd at first that Melb 2 was the only show that Gerard didn’t wear a costume for, but I actually believe he still did. This is the key to my interpretation: Gerard is dressed as himself witnessing the towers collapse, on his way to work at Cartoon Network. This the only show on the Oceania leg where they played Skylines and Turnstiles*, the song Gerard wrote immediately after 9/11. The drumhead ‘BARK BARK BARK’ makes you picture, a chained dog, representing the powerless horror of only being able to watch as the destruction unfolds--the deeply personal experience that drove Gerard to form MCR. 

SYDNEY 1, March 19 2023

Blood!!!! At Sydney 1, we see the continuing aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. The secretary has died but keeps moving, picking up her briefcase and carrying on. This could be showing how a lot of people’s faith in the US government and in the world died, but life had to find a way to move on. 

SYDNEY 2, March 20 2023

At Sydney 2, the addition of Gerard’s white contacts shows the Secretary decaying--but she has not stopped. Frank changed the drumhead message from ‘UNKILLABLE’ to ‘UNKILLABLES’, expanding the meaning from the context of his accident in Sydney to include the band, the fans, and on a wider level everything MCR represents. 

I think all of this is a metaphor for the band’s career in multiple ways. Firstly, the Secretary being undead of course reflects MCR’s return, and her zombified appearance aligns with the imagery of their new era (decay, swarm, the destroyed buildings of the stage set). Secondly, it is very interesting to me that they did this sequence of costumes and drumheads at the end of their headlining tour, rather that at the start. The story they told seems to imply a rebirth--MCR was ‘born’ out of the trauma, pain and confusion of 9/11, so the fact that they represented the start of the band on stage signifies a second beginning. 

(Thank you for reading to the end and if I got anything wrong please let me know!)

*EDIT 1 (23/03/23): They actually also played Skylines at Brisbane 2. I do think the position of Skylines in the Melb 2 set is still significant. They played it as the first encore song which mirrors it being the first MCR song and written shortly after 9/11.

EDIT 2 (30/03/23): So actually 8 shows of Secretary Gerard when you include Japan! Tokyo and Osaka analysis here

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Here comes the airplane 🥄

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what a greedy little asker you are!! /pos

🤦🏻 A fanfiction/chapter you are embarrassed about having written?

Oh, well, if I told you that, it wouldn’t be anonymous, now would it? /hj But there are definitely a few I don’t feel totally comfortable having out there with my name attached. And yes, they’re spicy. And nearly all of them involve a certain academy president.

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❤️‍🔥 Favorite ship you have written about?

*does a little dance* Obviously: Marie and Colm Greer. I love them (in case you couldn’t tell by the 81K words). I proudly gave them their backstory. And I am downright fucking GLEEFUL over that shit.

📃 Ever written something inspired by someone elses fic?

Why yes! My song “By the Lights” was directly inspired by @teafairywithabook’s fic “Feels Like Home”

⛰ Hardest fic to write?

The current one about Imperium James.

✏️ The first fanfiction you ever wrote? (doesn’t have to be a posted fic)

I’m not sure which came first, but back in the 1900s /PeePaw voice…

I probably wrote at least a dozen Lois & Clark and Gargoyles fics. I’d share them but they’re a) handwritten and b) unfinished.

💻 The first fanfiction you posted?

Tabula Rasa (Imperium!Damien/Angel). Because what happened immediately after that first Imp!Damien video?

🎧 A certain song you listened to while writing a fic?

I have a few playlists, all instrumental.

For Caelum and other fluffy content

For Colm and Marie (instrumental covers of 80s classics)

For baddies 

🔬The fic you had to make the most research for?

@ejunkiet and I really dug deep to make sure “An Honest Man Like Yourself” (Milo & Colm) fit the canon timeline and fit it with everything in “Cannoli Canon”

🔥 Hottest fic you ever written?

Oh, I took it down from AO3. But it was a weekend in the country with President Moore and his trusted self-insert. I mean, his trusted assistant.👀 (I still read it sometimes. It’s for me, honestly.)

👽 Strangest fic you ever written?

New Kindred. I always wanted to go back and develop this storyline more but the characters seemed like they wanted to belong to their own universe and not really be in a fic. And it’s the only time I wrote a song to go with a fic

👀 What’s an idea you had for a fic that you never did anything with?

I want to write a Sandman + Redacted Elliot or Blake crossover sooooooo bad.

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Lol. I wish. Usually they happen very organically. In fact, I often start without any idea where they’re going.

😚 A fic you liked writing more than other fics?

It’s my not-so-secret cult favorite: An Unsettling Settlement (Imperium Adam & Imperium Lasko.) 👌🏻 The fic that took the fastest to write?

If we count them as fics (and I do), then most of the voicemails and phone calls I do as Marie happen in 10 minutes or less. I essentially ad-lib them and then just edit slightly. 

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Character backstories. I love filling in the blanks within canon.

Childhood/school sweethearts is my favorite romantic trope.

📬 The best comment you ever received?

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The final chapter of the Cannoli fic (Sorry Marie! Sorry Milo! )

💾 The longest fic you have written (either with most chapters or most words)

“Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli” (32053 words). My opus to Milo’s parents.

I also may have Imperium Sofia’s backstory written. Good luck, Investigator. 

🏚 A fic you more or less abandoned?

I have two, but one I might actually finish. “Bye Bye Blackbird” which is a “through the looking glass”/crossover thing with Canon!James in the Imperium. Unfortunately, I’m not sure I know where to go with that one post-Cataclysm. The other is where Imperium!Lasko decides to get turned into a vampire. That one actually still works…maybe even better given the ending of Cataclysm, but I’d have to go back and change some things.

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I’m always nervous about posting anything even remotely spicy because even though I’m a whole-ass adult, I’m also a professional person with a job and stuff so I’m always paranoid about being discovered.

📺 Any references to other media that you put in your fics?

I will always and forever enjoy the way Marie compares Colm to George McFly after their meet-cute.

🥚 Any easter eggs you put in a fic that you hoped people would notice?

For “An Honest Man Like Yourself”, @ejunkiet and I decided Colm Greer's title at DUMP is “Deputy Investigation Commissioner for Central Services:

Also, several of the Marie/Colm fics (not just the first one) have lines from The Godfather as a title. (I guess that counts as an easter egg and a media reference!)

😮 Anything you included in your fic that you didn’t expect people to like?

Seriously, Marci. My very first OC in my very first fic. She was really only there to usher people into Imperium!Lasko’s office, but now she has like a whole arc with him. They banter. They…do other things together. Also, I liked her so much that she also exists in the canon universe. I wrote a very fluffy one for that: “Welcome to Doughlia”.

🏳️‍🌈 Do you write the most m/f ships, f/f ships or m/m ships?

I try to mix it up. For the Redacted listener characters, I never write them gendered, regardless of how I conceptualize them.

🌾 A fic you really want to write but you haven’t (yet)?

Since I kind of count my songs as fics, I’m gonna say: a song for Morgan. I love Morgan, and obviously he doesn’t have a ton of content. And content is the hardest thing to work out when I’m doing any song. (Characters can’t just sing: they have to sing for something and/or about something.)

😊 The fic that you’re the most proud of?

I actually think it’s my anonymous posted Imperium!Sofia one. It focuses on political intrigue, which is not a genre I read much of, let alone writing it, so the fact that I came up with something that I actually think is entertaining and builds the suspense while also answering some questions, I was very happy with that.

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The final scene of “An Honest Man Like Yourself”.  Wanted that bridging experience to be juuuuuust right. 

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I love WhiteKnight!Colm. I love him. So I love the first chapters of “Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli”  and “Rosie”. They are very dear to me.

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Let’s just say the comparative study between why Michael is a schmuck and a loser and Angel’s 1000x better off with Davey  was based on real life, so me writing that Michael scene out was really more like me writing in a diary and that was… at least it was cathartic…

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Even when I’m writing a traditional, prose fic, if it has Marie in it, I usually start brainstorming by ad-libbing into a voice memo. :) 

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Here comes the airplane!

@jillyb2004

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[alpal55]

@partypoisonnnned thanks for the prompt :)

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SOLLUX: iit2 a 2liiced mango holy 2hiit

KARKAT: OH. I LOVE MANGOES

[nenehyuuchiha]

Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars

[alex106]

open your mouth here it comes the airplane

Alex:

[janebonbon]

Okay I think I'm sick, unwell at the least. Relaxing and scribbling for today, I think!

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Send me drawing requests, tell me a silly thought or a story, explain to me your Welcome Home head cannons or theories or something! Tell me about something you're interested in and haven't been able to tell anyone else about recently! I'd love to have the distraction for anyone willing.. Thank you! Anon is on for you shy folk, of course!

[prohibitedwishamulets]

First episode soon let me cook

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Making it REAL and making it GAY but many other things to happen also mwahajjaja

[urutaguja-art-archives]

I did it again guys I am so not sorry

[butchviking]

ppl on radblr will b like why does gerard way keep dressing as a teenager and then it turns out this is something they made up in their heads based on his secretary/office worker outfit

[i-write-shakespeare-not-disney]

Jjk makes me feel stupid :(