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not a single cover artist in the game is doing what evan cagle is doing with ram v's detective comics.

Cover for Detective Comics #1073 by Evan Cagle

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entirely overwhelmed by frank’s “when it pains it tours” tattoo. like uh huh. yeah. babygirl there’s something so wrong with you and i Love you

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here’s the video my sibling recorded of anthony calling frank baby boy + anthony shouting out mcr :)

(requested by @frankiecorleone !)

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frank has so much restraint for not dropping to his knees immediately when anthony called him "baby boy"

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Soldier and Saint

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Ray being affectionate // From __itshc

[November 16, 2022]

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Nosferatu (1922) dir. F.W. Murnau Interview With the Vampire (2022) dir. Keith Powell

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as the u.s. tour comes to a close, i want to take a moment to talk about a phenomenon i’ve seen taking place within mcr internet fan spaces these last few months, my thoughts on it, and how i think it relates back to digital media literacy.

(before we start, i want to make it clear that i’m just some guy and i am definitely not the most qualified person to talk about this, but i think some of the things in this post really, really need to be said. my hope is not necessarily to change your mind or to “get you on my side,” but to encourage you to think critically and independently, even during your daily scroll on social media.)

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oh uhm i didn’t really believe in us getting an album soon or that it existed right now at all but the leaks of tpk just changed that completely. i think it’s imminent.

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MILFS ON TOUR EUROPEAN SUPERCUT: BOYLOVE EDITION

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Spent the last four hours or so starting on a new project: mapping the locations of famous horror movies set in America. It’s a work in progress, y’all’ see more when I’m done.

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our lady of sorrows

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Art Prints

Wallflower Ghost on Etsy

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the more time i spend in the mcr/fiat_ fanbases the less comfortable i get with able-bodied fans talking about stomachaches as a breakup album, and at this point even the “jokes” i see are in pretty poor taste. this would be less of an issue if the majority of the fanbase recognized and celebrated stomachaches as disability art, but this unfortunately isn’t the case and as a disabled person i gotta say it’s pretty fucking ableist.

stomachaches is about a lot of different topics; there’s no denying that. many of the songs are specifically about frank processing mcr’s band breakup or potentially personal breakups he went through at various points in his life. it’s also about mental illness, love, fears, loss, legacies, and self worth. all of these themes (and more) are prominent throughout the album, but to pretend as if those things are in any way equivocally important to its core disability narrative is incredibly naive and reductive.

i realize some people might not be aware of this, but the album itself was born out of one of the most difficult chronic illness flareups frank has had. he described the creative process for stomachaches as staying in his basement for months on end and writing down any scraps of ideas that came to mind while he was there, just so he would have something to do and something to show for it. he initially never intended to create or release a complete album, but his wife encouraged him to put it out there because she knows how happy music and performing makes him. erasing the main reason for stomachaches’s inception isn’t just ableist, it’s also poor reading comprehension of a fairly indiscreet work.

while stomachaches does explore depression/mental illness quite well, i need able-bodied people to understand that the same mental illnesses manifest quite differently for physically disabled people. refuting feelings of existential uselessness isn’t so easy when you objectively are unable to “contribute to society” in a way that’s socially acceptable or take care of yourself/your loved ones. frank exploring his own feelings of uselessness, believing he has no [perceived] personal worth after losing the one thing that gave him value (and therefore “the right” to exist in this world), and losing his support system (band, family, friends) after becoming isolated and unable to take care of himself/his family all take on a VASTLY different meaning when told through the lens of a physically disabled person. you actually can’t categorize these specific feelings/ideas as broader mental illness without the context of a physical illness impeding recovery, or even without challenging yourself on what “recovery” looks like for someone who will always experience physical limitations no matter what. tragician, neverenders, smoke rings, and guilt tripping are possibly the best examples of this concept, although nearly every song on the album plays around with this. here are a few select lines from some of the aforementioned songs that help illustrate this idea:

Tragician: “I'm sick of having you depend on me / Cause I'll let you down like I always do” + “Through all the times we've tried / I could never be what you needed of me / But I wish I were”

Smoke Rings: “You can't cure me / Drugs can't kill me / Love won't save me from myself” (strained coughing)

Guilt Tripping: “My body's weak / It gave up on me / This time I don't think I will get out from / What I'm underneath” + “I've felt so bad for so long / I'm scared I'm fine”

despite all of this, frank isn’t asking you to feel sorry for him, and he’s certainly not asking for you to turn his story into an inspiring tale of overcoming adversity. he’s asking you to see him exactly as he is, challenge yourself in being open to a specific type of grief you may not have personally experienced before, and feel even a fraction of the physical pain this album was born out of there with him. he invites you to join him on his journey and come out of it understanding a little more about who he is outside of being the rhythm guitarist from mcr. not because that isn’t important to him—it’s so, SO unbelievably important to him, and it’s the reason for much of the emotional pain he describes on stomachaches—but because he’s always been more than that. he’s a complete person with thoughts and feelings and dreams who happens to have an incredibly debilitating illness, and that’s shaped his life in ways most people would never think of until he put it out there for everyone to see. all i’m asking is for able-bodied fans to remember and consider this in your stomachaches interpretations, because frank hasn’t shied away from this part of his life and it shows a serious problem with ableism in a fanbase that largely refuses to acknowledge that.

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i haven’t seen this talked about on tumblr yet but this youtube account is uploading a lot of recordings of every bullets-era my chem content! it’s run by spacey (@spaceyraygun), an old friend of the band - you may know him bc he was mentioned in the pretty iconic 89.5FM WSOU interview featuring the uncle tt story, “how did you get yourself onto the cover of spin magazine?” etc. he went to a lot of my chem’s early shows and has high quality soundboard recordings of them, which he’s uploading to his channel one by one. there’s also my chem’s first ever radio interview, from a couple of weeks before bullets was released. i’m going through all the audios and uploading some of the most interesting parts to this tag, but go give spacey some likes and subscribes! please don’t repost anything from that channel without crediting him. also thank you to the lovely case @valleysofechoes for pointing these out to me <3