RAY TORO OWNS THIS ASS

Gerard: so I'm not quite sure how to talk about Joan of Arc, um, I- I- um, but, I- I will say I think my real first experience with Joan of Arc was Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. [laughter] And Jane Wiedlin from the Go-Go's amazingly plays Joan of Arc in that, and um, there was something just about, I- I like the concept, just about this girl cutting her hair, pretending to be a boy, to do a certain thing, um, I just- I lo- I liked something about that, um, I always thought she looked cool as hell, um, I liked that people thought she was a witch, I mean there's just a lot of stuff. Um, so I've always like visually, been interested in the character, and obviously their story and background, it's really incredible. And then, um, so for some reason when i started working on um Black Parade and we were at this house called Paramour, um, I re- I bought this movie, uh, Passion of Joan of Arc, and I think that's what its called. And its a silent, black and white movie, it was very intense. And I think I had s- well, I had said years ago that it was during this period I started having these kinda like we- weird, kind of, um, uh, waking dreams, not fully asleep, these kind of visions, and um, I would see that repeated over and over, and that's one of the reasons that I had asked James Jean, when he created the cover for the Black Parade, to put her in it. And he did a really wonderful job with how he redesigned her, he gave her a mask, which was one of my favorite parts. And its this half-mask too, it's really amazing. Um, but I don't know how, or why, the character- cha- character? The person, the- kept coming back up in my life. [unintelligible]

Interviewer: [whispered] Awesome. [spoken] Can- can you talk to us a little bit about your process when you're writing songs versus writing comics?

Gerard: Yeah

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Gerard: so I'm not quite sure how to talk about Joan of Arc, um, I- I- um, but, I- I will say I think my real first experience with Joan of Arc was Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. [laughter] And Jane Wiedlin from the Go-Go's amazingly plays Joan of Arc in that, and um, there was something just about, I- I like the concept, just about this girl cutting her hair, pretending to be a boy, to do a certain thing, um, I just- I lo- I liked something about that, um, I always thought she looked cool as hell, um, I liked that people thought she was a witch, I mean there's just a lot of stuff. Um, so I've always like visually, been interested in the character, and obviously their story and background, it's really incredible. And then, um, so for some reason when i started working on um Black Parade and we were at this house called Paramour, um, I re- I bought this movie, uh, Passion of Joan of Arc, and I think that's what its called. And its a silent, black and white movie, it was very intense. And I think I had s- well, I had said years ago that it was during this period I started having these kinda like we- weird, kind of, um, uh, waking dreams, not fully asleep, these kind of visions, and um, I would see that repeated over and over, and that's one of the reasons that I had asked James Jean, when he created the cover for the Black Parade, to put her in it. And he did a really wonderful job with how he redesigned her, he gave her a mask, which was one of my favorite parts. And its this half-mask too, it's really amazing. Um, but I don't know how, or why, the character- cha- character? The person, the- kept coming back up in my life. [unintelligible]

Interviewer: [whispered] Awesome. [spoken] Can- can you talk to us a little bit about your process when you're writing songs versus writing comics?

Gerard: Yeah

and not even a 'not inclusive enough' way like a lot of them ARE inclusive (at least nominally, in actuality... well)

but it's just... there's always a different problem.

sometimes, the group literally only talks about men (to complain about them, to talk about them being hot, whatever, both are equally annoying when it's all that happens) even if the group is specifically to idk talk about games or whatever

sometimes, the group is all about Female Empowerment which turns into rise and grindset shit and like "hey girlies let's crush this week!" with diet talk or whatever

or it's about pink and cutesy shit and "how do you do this hobby femininely? can anyone recommend a more pink book cover?" pink pink pink sparkle sparkle

Like sorry but entering a lot of these spaces supposedly made for women IS a pretty instantaneous way to be made to feel like you aren’t like other women. Like damn even in spaces where we’re meant to have things in common can still make you feel like the odd one out!

I don't blame anyone for making this mistake because yeah it totally looks like ray at a glance. But i've spent so much time staring at him that something felt off subliminally. Zooming in, I identified a number of points of suspicion:

- a necklace, which we've never seen ray wear

- the ponytail on the wrist, which we never saw ray do until like swarm

- two pixels that may be a nose ring

Additionally, the hands looked wrong to me, as did the profile of the nose. Jo is a specialist in ray looking down (as we know from this post) and concurred.

Jo did further research into the guitar:

They also found no instance of ray using a strap like the one pictured.

Meanwhile I was off looking for this logo

I found a band (several bands, actually) called karga and was ready to believe that this was one of those guys, but @dulcevenganzaa identified it as the logo of a bar/venue in Turkey. And finally, she solved it:

finally searched for a solution and there IS in fact a giant hand-curated list of sites containing this content. it can be imported to ublock origin on desktop or mobile, and even can be used on iOS via the ublacklist extension in the safari app. it's updated regularly, and importing via the link as described should allow those updates to go into effect automatically.

i've only tested it a little bit, but after importing the list and repeating my duckduckgo search for backpack recommendations, my top results now lead to websites that appear to be linked to actual organizations in some form, with an "about us" page and the name of a founder and everything. the text is still often a bit wordy and SEO-optimized, but it now has actual recommendations that are relevant to the query. BIG IF TRUE???

“so is that a she? like… a christina ricci she?” i ask.