The future is bulletproof

[chebonne]

I haven't written anything on LJ on this new MCR hoopla yet, mostly because I've been capslocking all over twitter and spamming the shit out of tumblr -- I'm phantomwise, by the way -- with pictures of my favorite band, but I'm still so excited I could just dance. Into an early grave, most likely, because I'd give my unfit ass a heartattack dancing

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[wasoncedelight]

EVERYTHING YOU SAID IN THE FIRST 3 PARAGRAPHS. But THIS, oh oh oh, THIS: MCR being back, it's a lot like getting your heart sewn back into your body by a deft, ink- and nicotine-stained hand with an alien finger spread.

brb something in my eye. I HAS THE PMS, EVERYTHING IS MAKING ME CRY.

Shh, go with it.

[chebonne]

Hee, thank you! ♥

Feels that way, though, not like you're whole, but maybe like you're all stitched back up. Stitched back up and LIVE, baby, LIVE AND ALIVE.

[wasoncedelight]

Would you mind if I quoted you in my LJ? You just put it so perfectly, rewording it would feel like a rip-off. ♥

So I was going to compare it to putting in fresh batteries, and then this happened.

GERARD WAY, GET OUT OF MY HEAD. *HANDS*

[chebonne]

Feel free, bb. ♥

*laughs* HE IS MAGICAL LIKE THAT. But yeah, kind of like that, only more organic somehow. Hard to explain and to put words to.

[wasoncedelight]

No, yeah, I totally agree--it's more organic than a battery, but the sentiment's close. Feeling re-energized. And ALIVE, like you said. I mean, I don't think any of us are bothering to apologize for our reactions to the boys being back, but it's hitting me in deeper ways than I expected.

IDK I HAVE A LOT OF ~FEELINGS ABOUT ALL OF THIS. AND I AM TERRIBLE AT ARTICULATING THEM, APPARENTLY.

[chebonne]

It's not like we've been made whole either, really. It's more like being stitched back together, and yeah, maybe some joints are loose and an ear is upside down, not whole so much as back together. It's like WE were on a hiatus, or in hibernation maybe.

Weird as it is to say. OH MCR THE THINGS YOU MAKE ME WAX PHILOSOPHICAL ABOUT.

[wasoncedelight]

Psh, this makes perfect sense to me! Of course things are loose or stiff or off-kilter--how could they not be? So much has changed! The whole bandom landscape is totally different, from the bands themselves to the music, and of course the fans have changed also. And all of a sudden there's this DELUGE of great stuff! So we're stretching fannish muscles that had atrophied a little, and oh maaaaaaaaaaan does it feel good.

[chebonne]

People you're used to seeing around have moved on to greener pastures too. It's weird to see new people around, or at least people who weren't as visible the first time around. Weird, but good. Also, my entire flist is dropping f-bombs all over the place, which is sort of shocking after so long of being almost polished. ♥

I can't speak for anyone else, but for me it's been like waking up and seeing the sun for the first time in way too long, and you realize that that is what was missing, but you didn't even know because where you were, you couldn't tell whether the sun was up or down. Pretty fucking sweet.

[wasoncedelight]

Shut up, I totally almost made a stumbling-into-the-sun analogy in my last comment. ♥

[chebonne]

It's an apt analogy, you have to admit! Like waking up, like seeing the sun, like getting your fucking heart stitched back into your chest like you're some weird version of Sally from a Nightmare Before Christmas. That's MCR for you. ♥

[wasoncedelight]

GET OUTTA MY HEAD I ALMOST MADE A RAGDOLL COMPARISON TOO.

&hivemind;

But ohhhh, it DOES feel like that, doesn't it? Like the first warm, bright day after a bitch-cold winter, when you stand in the sun and just feel it on your skin and it's the best best BEST because it's been SO LONG.

[chebonne]

Fucking hivemind for real.

JUST like that, and you're maybe just a little stiff and sore and unsure, but even the aches are SO GOOD, because it's SOMETHING, not just the long, hard nothing you've had going for longer than you can remember. We're fucking Bambi, is what we are. Or those little polar bear cubs on Planet Earth. Totally frolicking.