#anyways more gerard way

[pyrozketches]

(Tune to Na Na Na) Meowmeowmeow meowmeowmeowmeow meowmeowmeowmeowmeow—

#haven’t been on here in so long sorray #anyways more gerard way #my art #gerard way #catgirl gerard #mcr reunion #mcr reunion tour #sketchbook #bullet journal #pencil sketch #traditional art #mcr art #my chemical romance #my chem #gerard way art

[wuntrum]

good evening [prints]

#gerard way #mcr #my chemical romance #my art #inprnts having a sale all week! #u can get this or any of my other things <3 will promo more tomorrow probably lol #anyways who else is scared for mcrla5 tonight.

[z0mbiefrank]

MCR5 Theory: Secretary Gerard is a character called The Widow

I'm unsure if everyone is thinking along the same lines, but I have yet to see anyone talk about it, so I've put together this post with evidence and links. (this will expand on the 9/11 theory. also special shout out to @autistme who made a spreadsheet with all the aus eagles lyrics) MCR performed Eagles at all six Australia shows this tour. At five of them, Gerard was dressed in a grey suit and skirt, commonly referred to as the secretary or office lady by fans.

(📷 Dough Peters) Here's a quick reference table for the things I will be talking about here. (Not necessary to read, I will explain it all)

At Brisbane, the drumheads read "everything under control" followed by "here comes the airplane". The planes have yet to hit the towers, but disaster is imminent. Eagles has evolved a lot over the tour but the Aus dates heard a new consistent change in the first verse.

All along the river bends All along with all my friends Yes, all around the river bends All together with my friends

There is minimal change for Brisbane 2. Notice how gerard is dressed as the secretary and says "my friends".

Next comes Melbourne 1. The drumhead reads "TErrOR". The plane has hit and there is a dramatic change to the first verse.

All night long the widow sends Valentines to bitter friends Yes, all night long the widow sends Valentines to all my friends

This character with friends now has a title, and it is The Widow. She has lost her husband in the attack. Her friends survived and she is sending them letters of love during this terrible time.

Melbourne 2, Gerard breaks the outfit chain. He is wearing jeans and a t-shirt, there is no hint of office wear, he is no longer playing the widow, he is playing himself. The drumhead also seems unrelated to 9/11 "BARK BARK BARK". They sing the same first verse as the previous night with minimal change, except for the last line

Valentines to all her friends

This is the only instance where Gerard does not refer to the friends as "my friends" at all during aus eagles, and it is because they weren't in the skirt suit that night, they were not the widow.

Next comes Sydney. The Widow is back and she's covered in blood! Something awful has happened to her, she's dying. But the drumhead reads "UNKILLAbLe". (This was written by Frank, an extremely powerful thing for him to do considering his accident in Sydney and PTSD. MCR has always used concept albums as a vessel to speak of things the band has been through.) The widow continues to write her letters during eagles despite the blood on her face.

(📷 Jess Gleeson) Sydney 2. The Widow again. She is in the exact same outfit, down to her boots (sports mode), but this time she is not only covered in blood but her eyes are WHITE. She is dead! The drumhead now reads "Unkillables", this is no longer specifically just one, but multiple people. It could be mcr as a band, mcr as individuals, or mcr fans themselves. In the context of a concept album, unkillables can take on a whole new meaning. It brings to mind the supernatural, ghouls, vampires, werewolves. How is it that the widow is dead, yet she is walking on stage right in front of us? Staring at us with blank eyes on the big screen? Is she a ghost, a zombie? I'm not sure. But she is still the widow. Even in death, she is searching for her husband.

(📷 ashymcr , expiiredglitter)

Which leads me to Summertime. The piece of evidence that drove me to write this long-ass post. As we know, it is a love song about Gerard's marital partner. Before they played, Gerard spoke in a breathy and musically haunting voice "I'll find you. I'll find you. come find me." Definitely something a lost and ghostly widow would say. They also bring out a white handkerchief, they do not have it in any other songs. Throughout the performance, Gerard clutched it to their chest repeatedly and held it lovingly in both hands.

In the third picture, he is looking down sadly at the handkerchief singing the line "If you stay, I would even wait all night." (video)

This is very clearly The Widow. She is mourning her husband, she is dead, lost and searching for him. Perhaps the handkerchief is all she has left of him, or it is simply to dry her tears, but she is clearly in mourning for her marital partner.

And finally, Eagles at Sydney 2. The first verse stays the same except for the third line. "Yes, all night long the widow sends" becomes

Yes, all day long the widow sends

She is writing night and day. She does not rest. Her outfits in Sydney are exactly the same. Every single other secretary's outfit is subtlely different, but now she is dead, she is stuck in the same clothing like a ghost. The Widow also makes an appearance later in the song.

We found the widow And hit her with a baseball bat

I have less ideas of what this could be about, but I think if some dead lady was walking about being unkillable, people would get freaked and attack her with a baseball bat. The concept of "unkillables" is something I could write a whole other post about but I'll spare you for now.

To conclude, I think The Widow as a concept album character would fit right in with MCR. They are no strangers to lovers separated by death. Others on here have spoken on how the feminine outfits Gerard has chosen this tour have often been of women scorned or living in the shadows of powerful men. I believe The Widow would fit right in. Even after her husband has died, she is only talked about in reference to him. She is The Widow, something that tells us more about her husband than herself.

#believe it or not i could have written more but this got SO long dear god #anyways here you go pls be nice i get nervous sharing theories bc what if im WRONG!! but this was so fun to make :)) #mcr #mcr5 #gerard way #op #mcrsydney #mcrmelbourne #mcrbrisbane #mcr 5 theory #marina toybina

[autistme]

Thursday Ft. Gerard Way - Jet Black New Year (Live At Hellfest 2003)

#flashing lights #thursday #thursday band #geoff rickly #steve pedulla #tim payne #tom keeley #tucker rule #gerard way #ok DONE finally #steve nation i am so sorry for the crumbs the source vid has like no shots longer than a mere second #anyways #this set was spawned by geoff getting goodboy pats and then seeing gerards smile b4 that while clipping and then going All In on a full set #anyways 2 #the first tomgif.... #ANYWAYS 3 i added 2 more gifs

[blackhholes]

Hauntology in Teen Wolf

Haunted Images, Deadness, and Impossible Mourning by Matt Foley / The Hauntology/Narratology of the Neo-Victorian Ghost Story by Brenda Ayres / “Penelope Was Not a Phantom”: Everyday Hauntology in Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood by Joakim Wrethed / “What She Had Seen Was Final”: Everyday Hauntology, the Threat of Male Violence and the Power of Fiction in Alice Munro’s “Free Radicals”, “Runaway” and “Passion” by Joakim Wrethed

#teen wolf #hauntology #teen wolf meta #twmeta #peter hale #kate argent #lydia martin #scott mcall #malia tate #gerard argent #web weave #webweaving #mine #teen wolf academia #BACK TO MY ROOTS Y'ALL #anyways i could make this infinitely long if i wanted to there's sooo much of it in teen wolf #in many ways a lot of the show draws on gothic and victorian genre tropes 5b just does so more overtly as i've said before #but if only i could get su completely embedded in teen wolf and to watch the whole thing she could come up with some insane gothic #references within the show but alas that hasn't happened yet

[pilotduty]

i like him. btw would u guys still love me if i only posted wips for the rest of time

#drew this without using the ctrl z key and it was a very informative experience. my brain forgets howto draw without ctrl z #anyway #first term of college took methe fuck out if u didnt notice from the lack of Anything on here. im home now tho so more art hopefully??? #ok shuttingthe fuck up and doing real tags now bye followers mutuals etc love u #my chemical romance #gerard way #the black parade #mcr art #my stuff

[foolscapper]

if you know then you know

queue him up, bitches (gn)

#mcr #my chemical romance #gerard way #'if you know then you know' is my catchphrase in this community #anyway!!! #i'm gonna do more new years ones with the others i think #i feel the urge #happy new year #myfanart #my art

[theworldsforgottenboy]

Genuinely sick atm.

#he’s just so cute???? and gender???? and he’s got very nice thighs??? #i think I got my sexuality sorta figured out then a 45 year old non-binary rockstar comes in with a fucking steel chair (a skirt n heels) #anyway I simply must have lesbian sex with him #i think I’ve posted more about my silly emos from Jersey this tour more than I’ve posted about spn in general #i’m kinda proud of myself #my chemical romance #return era #mcr #gerard way

[kukekakuningaskris]

i had a vision

#i dont think ive seen anyone make this edit before but i may be wrong #i saw kris in that suit and went why do you look like gerard way #anyways i think this is my... third or fourth time posting this edit because tumblr is gatekeeping this from the tags and searches #joker out #kris guštin #the tag seems to be more normal today so time to post this from the drafts and hope it works...

[raytorotits]

hot take but to be honest when some of you ONLY read mcr lyrics through the lens of gender and refuse to use any other interpretive lens it makes me a liiiiittle bit insane. trans people can make art that isn't just about being trans

#emily isnt about being trans send tweet. #im literally genderqueer btw like i trans my gender to songs #that doesnt mean all the songs are ABOUT transing ones gender #be fr gerard didnt write drowning lessons as a gender thing. it can be read that way and its a cool and powerful reading. #but thats not what it was and acting like it was makes you look. well. #anyway i wish ppl could engage w queer artists in multiple dimensions more. #tag.txt

[kindaeccentric]

Picture I randomly found of MCR and fans posing with a 'The Crow Wicked Prayer' DVD

#personally the 1994 one is my favourite and I'm still trying to hunt down the original comic book in English #but I know G loves City of Angels more and like ok it's not bad just not my favourite #I bet Frank prefers the '94 because of the soundtrack tho like there's NIN and The Cure and we know he's a fan #anyway what I'm saying is The Crow would be a good conversation starter #(do you remember Gerard in The Crow makeup? i do always) #my chemical romance #gerard way #the crow #EDIT: FUCK I MISIDENTIFIED THE COVER #in my defense I wouldn't be caught dead with Crow 4 and expected the same from them

[catmanbowser]

Gerard Way doodle i did based of this video for today bcs im tired and insane

#gerard way #mcr #catman's art #oh wow not dc/merlin art thats so wow of me #gerard’s in dc so its related in a way (they count ok teehee) #thanks to my friedn my silly friedn gabe im now more insane than i was before #do you know how fucking mental of them to send me that video of gerard #i hope they take responsibilty of this insanity #like dude im in the middle of class (professor forogt that he had class i rlly thought it was cancelled) #(i was cheering and clapping and then professor said he woke up #late lik fuck you dude i thought its no class day :( #anyways im not sane :] #and no i didnt watch titans (yet) bcs i forgot djjdjdjdjdsjs

[gerards-little-killj0y]

Our Lady of Sorrows…

#the patron saint of swissblade fights ♥️ #i had to redo this three fucking times i almost gave up on it #finally made some art of gee as the virgin mary #religious trauma go brrrrrr #anyways more revenge art uwu #my chemical romance #my chemical fucking romance #mcr #mcr tag #mcr gerard #gerard way #my chem gee #my chemical romance fanart #my chemical romance art #my chemical art #my chem art #my chem fan art #gerard way fanart #gerard way art #revenge era #three cheers for sweet revenge #our lady of sorrows #frank iero #ray toro #mikey way

[sendmyresignation]

hi omg in relation to ur tag on the gerard john waters movie adaptation post do u happen to know the correlation between the cha cha character and waters' work? and where g talked about it

omg yes ofc. so cha cha's name is a reference to the famous cha cha heels scene from John Water's Female Trouble.

Gerard has mentioned several times that Waters is a big influence, but specifically in this CBR TV comics interview they said outright that the name is a textual, self-aware homage; he thought it'd make a great character name

#the amount of queer media gerard incorporates into his art shows a deep appreciation and engagement from rocky horror to private idaho #like its clearly something he feels inspired by and informs so much of what makes my chem great its camp its shaprness its emotional shock #but the way that informs gerards comics gets like. even less attention even though those themes are perhaps more obvious and continuous #esp as time has gone on with how fucking weird and wonderful young animal and dd were #anyway. thank you for the ask! #my posts #igottheanswer #anon

[bulletproofbanditsorbust]

Bulletproof.

ref pic (suggested by the lovely @arnold-layne ) under the cut

#bulletproof bandits #oc: russell #if you ever thought that russell kinda looks like gerard way. well. now you have the proof that you're not crazy #i'm trying to experiment with a slightly different style with this one #like more realistic #and also trying to add highlights instead of just shadows which was so hard on his hair for some reason #also!! russell's jacket is supposed to be a classic leather one but i wanted to add some details that makes it look like a bomber jacket #to make it more similar to gerard's #anyway lmk what you think <3 i honestly still dont hate it yet

[milfygerard]

there was a weird phase for awhile on this site where everyone pretended that gerard was like a shitty mid tier comic writer and like. You guys dont read enough comics. you dont know what bad comics look like.

#barry.txt #of course im wildly generalizing people are allowed to not like gerards comics #but some of it felt like grandstanding and it completely drowned out and kind of killed any interest ppl had in actually discussing them #either as art connected to mcr or totally seperately #and then that fucking show happened. #like the opposite of the doom patrol adaptation. Dragged down every character and fandomized them #so the fandom didnt have to try and do it themselves #stripped it of its satire and creativity. I liked s2 well enough but it bungled the dallas arc and it sounds like #s3 was even worse. which is INSANE bc hotel oblivion is some of gerards best work in comics #bc like. tua is a comic fans comic. in tone and structure and art. Like i enjoy it way more now that ive put a lot of #time into learning and reading more classic AND contemporary comics. Now i see what gerard is pulling from #what hes mocking or homaging. The kirby-esque coloring in hotobv when spaceboy and diego are in the Not Starship Enterprise #augh #anyway i have more to say but i need to check out a book and go groccery shoppjng ive been loitering in the library for like an hour #which is so funny bc i didnt even get to my actual point which is some of you havent read a lot of bad or mediocre comics #you didnt read the kupperburg doom patrol run before grant took over. ive seen things