JD

FANDOM: My Chemical Romance

PAIRING: Frank Iero/Gerard Way

RATING: Explicit

WORDS: TBD (ongoing)

WARNINGS: Angst, complicated relationships

SUMMARY: Sequel to Ten Year Drag — It’s been six months since Frank and Gerard mutually agreed to stop hooking up, but old habits die hard.

Frank knows these tiny bursts of affection are always the opening act. He had hoped time apart would cool things down, letting them get back on the road in January with minimal collateral damage. Instead, now that they’re stuck alone together for a week, it’s apparently just more of the same. They both seem doomed to this never-ending loop where Gerard never puts a title on anything and Frank keeps waiting for this time to be different.

It never is.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82792921

Hannibal (2013-2015)

I have heard the ~discourse~ around this for like two years now and have never engaged with it, but now it's come into MY HOUSE, so I have some shit to say.

*drags soapbox to the center of the room*

I agree that their merch/tickets are insanely expensive. I agree that they're not giving us new music. But my main response to criticism like this is that no band on earth owes you anything. Yes, a band should listen to its fans, but no band owes its fanbase an album just because they want it or it's been a long time since they released new music. If they want to re-release every album in their catalog and play The Black Parade in its entirety for the next five years, they're allowed to do that.

A decent percentage of the fanbase, especially online, found My Chem after they broke up, so I don't think they realize that this band has a history of doing basically whatever it wants regardless of fan perception. I remember when Gerard unveiled the bleached hair and the Black Parade uniforms and there was an extremely vocal faction of the fanbase that hated it. When The Black Parade came out, everyone said it was a sellout album and the band was done. And then Danger Days came out and - guess what - people hated it. They have never cared about negative reactions from fans (at least not publicly), they've always done what they want.

While MCR was broken up, Gerard Way gave an interview and said “I think if we ever did MCR again, we wouldn’t be in that machine any more. It would literally just be like: ‘Here’s a new piece of music, we’re putting this out and that’s it, this is not up for debate.’” Like, they're not going to do regular album cycles. They're going to do whatever they want, which is their right.