thinking about love in danger days
this is part of my conspiracy theory that that album is aroallo, but i've always gotten the sense that romance and romantic attatchment is much less important to danger days than any other mcr record. with bullets&revenge it's quite obvious as the demolition lovers take up like, everything, and the black parade has a heavy focus on a romantic relationship as well.
while i do think there are lines in it that are romantically coded, there is a definitive lack of emphasis on it- like it's nowhere in the plot at all.
i do think danger days represents a very familial type of love though. while other albums visit a sense of "i want you, i need you, i miss you, i hate you,", this is more like…"i love you, i want to protect you, i'm sorry"
i find this especially strongly in s/c/a/r/e/c/r/o/w:
"Nevermind about the shape i'm in, I'll keep you safe tonight"
"love, love, love won't stop this bomb"
"run, run, bunny, run"
and other songs:
"i'll find you when the sun goes black"
"just save yourself and i'll hold them back tonight"
"how long until we find our way in the dark and out of harm"
relevant things i can't cover with just quotes are planetary go, oft-theorized to be about party poison and kobra kid, as brothers, leaving battery city together; sing, about the killjoys' last message to the girl while saving her; goodnite dr. death, phrased as him saying goodnight to children; and summertime, which i can't discern the meaning of but seems more like a family type of love.
i think it makes sense that danger days is like this, seeing as it features main characters that take care of a child main character as opposed to main characters that love other main characters of the same age/ability.
another thing i noticed while re-listening to the more sentimental songs for this essay is that there's just a distinctly different vibe to it. So much of it is focused around wanting to protect people, keep them safe and out of danger (<- ha that's the name of the album) and loved. i think this also makes sense, because the killjoys live a very, well, dangerous life without much security, and they'd want to provide what they lack the most. another semi-related thing i noticed is just how much of an emphasis there is on childhood in this album. i feel like there's a vibe of youth or teen-hood throughout the earlier ones, but this is just VERY strongly about kids. again this makes sense cause not only are the killjoys teenagers (a type of kid!) they also have a proper little kid to watch.
also, i wonder how much of this stuff was due to gerard becoming a parent. just something to think about
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what is going on??? why are disgusting ppl harassing you?
Basically, there was a falling out between friends that lead to one party (Winndy) sharing their side to clear up a situation that was taken out of privacy and made public in a discord after they had left said discord while using very damning language that shouldn’t have been stated in the first place. I responded with my thoughts and opinions, which oppose a big creator in the VN community space, and because of it not only I but the other people who have defended Winndy became the target of harassment. I’ve read in catching up since getting off of work that it was a group of friends within the community (specifically the one this game pertains to) who decided to bully us because they thought we were coming after a game they liked. Real people’s lives could have been jeopardized, but…sure. Hope they had “fun” while defending a png.
You’re free to go back and read on my blog or others involved with the situation for further context, but I’ll warn you that there’s an instance of the r-slur being used on top of some really gross racist remarks.
I’m okay by the way, I was prepared for some sort of Anongeddon, I’m just sad how fast it turned into throwing around slurs, being transphobic and threatening to send terfs into the situation (which btw could get people killed or worse), telling people to kys, and blatant racism in response to discourse and disagreements over a falling out.
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