It’s been Twelve Years since Danger Days came out.
It’s been Twelve Years since the death of the Fab Four, the OG Killjoys. Or at least, that’s what the comics tell us.
It’s funny, really. The original tour was supposed to kick off in 2020. But with it being postponed until 2022, MCR set themselves right in the path of the comic, on an anniversary that was marked in those pages.
Cause Killjoys never die, right?
I found myself thinking about that, recently, after the tour ended, seeing the resurgence of art, of cosplay, of fandom, of the explosion of MCR all over the internet and in person the past year.
Some people have been around this whole time, yes, and fuck yes to them...but it’s been amazing to see so many people waking up from their slumbers, and coming back to the fandom, the band, the community after all this time.
Hell, there are a ton of new Killjoys too, who found the band during the hiatus, when there was no new music to be had, no tours, nothing but the back catalogue and old posts to troll through.
Those of us, especially those that were around in the old days, kept faith. Or maybe we didn’t. That’s okay, too. There is never one way to be a fan.
I can say for myself, I genuinely haven’t felt on fire for MCR like this in years.
Truly inspired.
I’m making a costume I have put off for years, I’m currently 15K words into a writing project inspired by the KJs. There are so many other things, too, but I just feel like a flame got re-ignited.
I saw them at one of the LA shows, and not only did they put on an amazing show, but I genuinely can’t remember the last time I felt a kinship with everyone in a stadium.
Everyone screaming their lungs out, dancing and jumping around, interacting joyfully with complete strangers. (Shout out to the girls who kept turning around to me and @gravytape to sing along and dance with us, to every person who came up to me to grab a MCR pin through my silly Vampire Cowboy game, to every person who came up to me and Junior to compliment our outfits as we were complimenting theirs.)
I keep joking that this is about Community, but it truly is. It’s not perfect, because no Community is. But I walked out of that show feeling so filled with love for MCR and every damn soul in that building. And after that, every livestream, screaming on MCRTumblr with fans...
...its been beautiful.
They’ve gotten older, but so have I. (Thank all that’s unholy that we have. It’s a gift to grow older, and is important to remember in the darkest of nights. )
Coming back to them after all this time, as they came back to it, after all this time...it’s been something truly transcendent.
I’ve sorted myself out, figured out my sexuality, my gender (and hilarious how MCR factored into that), and figured out the sort of person I want to be.
Things aren’t always great, but I’m happy with the person I am. And to look at all of them on stage, together, at all those shows over the tour, having a fucking blast, also clearly happy with who they are, and how far they’ve come...
...how can you feel anything but a deep sense of fellowship with My Chemical Romance?
It doesn’t matter which album is your favorite.
(Though I’ll always say Danger Days and Conventional Weapons continue to be criminally underrated and fuck so hard it makes me a dangerous driver.)
It doesn’t matter if you have been here since 2002, or found them in 2022, there is a place for you out here in the Zones.
In cities that are sadly has become more like fucking BL/Ind than ever, and a world that is looking more like the Zones than we would like it too...we’re still here.
They are still here.
Twelve years on from the death of the Fabulous Killjoys, they rose from the dead to show us all so much love.
I just hope they know how damn loved they are, too.
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I hope I don't see anyone complaining about Taylor quitting MCRUpdates. She's a sweet girl and running something like that takes a lot out of you. (Especially with people like me, say, spreading April Fools jokes about Frank leaving MCR. There's a lot of work in squashing rumors.) Respect her decision and learn how to find info for yourself. It isn't that hard to use Google! Just don't make quitting it harder for her than it has to be.
