bad news from the Zones, tumbleweeds

my devoted but dangerously unstable knight will be hearing about this

whether or not gerard way experiences misogyny in the traditional sense is a separate debate but the fact remains that they have been subjected to like vicious repeated faggotization in the past 25 years which is itself a form of transmisogyny. so

while i’m on my #critsoapbox another thing I personally don’t care for is acting like every single thing the band does is some kind of deeper statement on an internal state we really have no way of knowing for sure like we talk a lot about the ways in which gerard has had the type of misogyny creatives in the music space often face applied to them and iiiiii think one of those ways is assuming they cannot possibly be storytelling in a deliberate and intellectual and REMOVED way and must he conjuring from some deep emotionally intimate intuitive place… like where’s that one mitski interview

this isn’t even the exact interview I was thinking of because she has another one where she pushes back against the idea that all her work is autobiographical which like….yupppp

Me and my color coded friendgroup are gonna beat your ass