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i do understand that the whole song is kinda tongue-in-cheek but idk the bit they’re doing just isn’t that interesting or funny to me

the Ghost song ‘Mary On A Cross’ is the only one of theirs i know since it’s the one that got popular, and its instrumental is beautiful but “I will tickle you internally” is such a gross line it completely ruins the song for me

i think everyone should have a sharps box. they’re so useful! old utility knife blades? sharps box. pulled out some old nails or screws? sharps box. old xacto knife blades? sharps box. old shaving razor blades? sharps box. fuckin uhh,, broken glass in large chunks? sharps box.

i would pay like. a decent amount of money, just to have a streaming service on which i could watch jeopardy as it comes out with no ads.

(TO BE CLEAR: I AM NOT MAD AT GERARD WAY OR MCR. I AM NOT ATTEMPTING TO CANCEL THEM. MCR IS MY FAVORITE BAND EVER.)

and that’s kinda weird to me because i don’t see a way to read the actual meaning of that in the context of the song and performance that isn’t at least a little bit transmisognynistic.

but like. the clip of that lyric change was widely shared and celebrated as a Cool Moment. even a Cool Moment with Vague Transgender Implications.

to be clear, i don’t think gerard way *meant* any of these readings, I think they went on stage in a skirt for fun and thought “oh that still fits into the meter, it alliterates with the original word, that’d be fun”

2: worse, it’s a penis! and now we’ve constructed a recognizably transfem character that is particularly predisposed to sexual violence! which is even worse.

there are options.
1: it’s still a gun. but now we’ve constructed a recognizably transfem character that is particularly predisposed to mass violence.

what im interested in is, is there a good reading of the lyric change gerard way did when performing the song live in a skirt: “what you got under your skirt will make them pay for the things that they did.”

school shootings, which i think is misguided because mental health only is at best an incomplete picture. most school shooters are also some combination of racist and misogynistic, often with ties to specific alt-right movements. but the song was made in that media environment so whatever

okay the widely accepted read of the part of Teenagers that goes “but if you’re troubled and hurt, what you got under your shirt / will make them pay for the things that they did” is that the thing under the shirt is a gun. and like, this relies on a mental health-focused causality for

i think wearing friendship bracelets on your ankle should come back into fashion

Damn you mean itch didn’t actually just abandon these creators but has been working hard with its limited resources to figure out how to continue supporting them? How surprising

they really don’t tell you about the horrifyingly realistic nightmares you’ll get multiple times a night when you’re off your anxiety meds at the same time as all your worst political fears become realized

i think that, even if you're correct in wishing the site you make a living through would stand up for that livelihood, there is a deep failure to recognise that these are not simply different scales of "corporation" coming to blow.

this is a town art market vs The Literal Concept Of Money.

y'know to some extent i get the "itch should refuse to comply so everyone is fucked together" takes, the "if we cant sell porn we won't sell anything"

what i dont get are the "itch should refuse to comply, and somehow this magically improves the situation and no-one is fucked" takes

Several people in suits reach towards a man with glasses sitting at a table, holding a microphone. The latter speaks into the microphone, while the former attempt to stop him.

Porn and art with sexual themes deserve to exist on their own merit, not because censoring them has knock-on effects for non-sexual content. Please stop expressing outrage by implying that censorship would be okay if it *just* affected sex workers and artists engaging with sexual themes.

someone tipped me for one of my projects on itchio for the first time in two years. i am appreciative, of course, but its likely that the only reason i got tipped is because my project now shows up much higher in search results because yk, thousands of other pieces of queer art aren't there anymore.

the only thing you could be in 2010 that was worse than gay was justin bieber

i think "blackfish was an exploitative documentary with many inaccuracies and motivated framing choices" and "seaworld absolutely fucked up big time, and behaved really shadily about it" are two entirely compatible things to believe

anyway, on top of signing petitions and making payment processors know no peace: archive queer art!! it’s not difficult, you don’t have to have an archival and library sciences degree to do, just save it to a folder on a drive.

all the tagging and dating and shit can come later, the most important thing is just getting it saved somewhere is the most important thing.

anyway, on top of signing petitions and making payment processors know no peace: archive queer art!! it’s not difficult, you don’t have to have an archival and library sciences degree to do, just save it to a folder on a drive.

i do think @itch.io could’ve handled this with more grace and transparency, but to say that they should have “held the line” or “not caved” betrays a complete lack of understanding of what is actually happening here.

I need to stop yelling at the people yelling at itch, I think the people yelling at itch could take a moment to consider things are likely extremely bad over there right now and their resources are nonexistent, and we should all go find a mastercard executive

hard to understand why people were apparently so shocked and surprised when my chemical romance broke up in 2023. danger days was an album SO interested in the idea of legacy that you have to have at least thought an imminent breakup was a possibility

of course, it is bad to hurt the environment. i was raised in florida, i care about the everglades, i weep at its beauty often. but why am i supposed to be more upset about that than the human people the government has ripped from their families and locked up there??

it really bothers me that the most popular complaint about the concentration camp in florida is that they built it in a protected environment. THATS the part i’m supposed to be upset about? that they might be hurting some plants and some birds and stuff? not the fact that it’s a CONCENTRATION CAMP?