Lucidlesions - 13 Years Past Expiration

gale dekarios + text posts [4/?]

part 1 // part 2 // part 3

My Chemical Romance - When We Were Young Festival 2024 Creative Direction by Gerard Way and Rob Sinclar (x) Production Design @eighteentwentysix_studio     Design Associates @lukejrolls  @fullsendlx      Associate Lighting Designer / Programmer @megstagedesigns @_meg_sinclair    Video Content @blinkstagramm  Video Ambassador @simonthevideoguy       Staging @gallagherstaging   Lighting @christielites_na  Video @fusetechnicalgroup

more frank iero cuz hes js all i want and more idk if i wanna be him or be with him

kill all your friends // my chemical romance

Thinking about the death of subcultures. Like I haven’t seen any goth kids or punks or any obvious subcultural movements in years. And obviously part of that is just cultural change, but when I think of modern subcultures the only thing I can think of are those tiktok alternative people, like egirls, but there isn’t that sense of a real “scene” going on with their own lifestyles and music and events, like lived experience that’s shared. I feel like what we might call modern subcultures are all reduced to mere aesthetics and they’re all mostly online, and they all look way too pretty – their make up is always perfect and their clothes are perfectly aesthetic and there’s none of that deliberate freakishness going on; literally grunginess itself has been commodified. There’s none of the real expression of confusion and anger that came with growing up in a world that you felt on some level was fucked up but you couldn’t express why, so you expressed it by dressing like a freak, by looking kinda deliberately out of place. I want that spirit back because this is what subcultures were about. Let’s bring back real subculture, not the alienated commodified version that’s based on aesthetics and has been reduced to social media, but the kind where you actually go out looking completely unhinged on purpose to disrupt. The kind where you meet other people and feel a sense of empowerment in your willing difference from the mainstream, and by that I mean the kind that is explicitly anticapitalist.

The Weave

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I’ve had a couple people ask for prints so I made a preorder! I’ll have prints with me at c2e2 as well but the shop will be stocked next week! Shop link is in my bio.

i talk about ripping the stars out of the sky with a fruit punch beatbox in my hand