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Look at this cool photo I took last night!
August 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Ray nuzzling into Frank's neck for a good 15 seconds during I'm not ok is one of the cutest things I've ever seen
August 16, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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goddd when are they going to have locked accounts on this godforsaken app, why can everyone see my skeeeeets
August 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
alpheratz.bsky.social
My thoughts on last night's magical show. It's always amazing to see them play Jersey. Warning: the second screenshot is a MILD CRITIQUE, just be glad I'm not wanking about it on tumblr.
I didn't know anything about the high concept behind this tour until we hit the road. H called it Gerard's world of make-believe and Gerard himself later referred to it as "some bullshit I made up." I love it when he makes up bullshit and the idea of a dictatorial country and commentary on the demands it makes of artists and the dangers of cooperating is a genuinely good one. It was so successful1! The perversion of the Black Parade from a literal embodiment of death carrying out the task of shepherding the dead to the afterlife into a tool used to further state violence! I loved it. I didn't even realize how much Gerard was acting the part until he started getting smiley towards the end of the album part of the set. And then goshhhhh they SO HAPPY. It was pouring out of them in the second set. The moon was gorgeous and full and they had a great view of it from the stage, and at one point G got distracted by it. Cute. The mayor of Belleville presented them the keys to the city and in return they gave him a sheaf of wheat and a wrapped up fish "from Draag." You can't make that shit up. It was very liberating to have one of the Draag rules be that you can only sing when you're unsure of the lyrics, although unfortunately I know almost every word of Black Parade and still sang nonstop. Call me WANTED I guess. Like all of their shows, it was that transcendent communal experience that left me both wrung out and full. E and I were talking about how polite everyone was getting out of the parking lot. At most venues in the DC area, getting out is a nightmare - everyone is cranky and rushing for the exit and you will be cut off unless you risk imminent collision or happen, after a dozen cars, upon someone willing to let you through. I don't think this is due to better manners of New Jersey folks but the way that show made you feel like part of a community. Critiquing Gerard's conceptual art has always seemed so beside the point to me but unfortunatelyyyyyy I have to do it this time. I think the imagery they used for Draag was not it. When I first learned they were doing a dictatorship story I was like, oh, a timely commentary on the state of our country! And I think it still is a valid commentary but the Soviet imagery (mostly the fucking sheafs of wheat, and the Eastern European accent and the vaguely Greek/Cyrillic-inspired script) distanced the commentary from the here and made it much less effective. The enemies of the state all being white, too. Or maybe it's me making it all out to be a lot more deliberate than what Gerard really intended.
August 10, 2025 at 10:49 PM
alpheratz.bsky.social
Why didn't anyone tell me what Ray Toro looks like now holy mother of GOD
August 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
alpheratz.bsky.social
Uh, I have a weird problem? I was rereading The Magpie Lord, iykyk, and then I opened the second book on my Kindle and it's a random Chinese textbook? If you own this book, could you check and report back??
February 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
alpheratz.bsky.social
If you got a follow from me and are like "I followed you a year ago bruh" yes. Sorry.
November 27, 2024 at 1:31 AM
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Anyway, I learned to use the lathe on Saturday!!
November 4, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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I open this app once a week and today it's full of some squirrel??
November 4, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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@slip-stitch.bsky.social I'm at a retirement industry gala at the national building museum, did you know that this building started as the civil war pension fund building?
September 13, 2024 at 12:09 AM
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WITCH KING SEQUEL??? HAHAHA YES MY DAY IS MADE
September 5, 2024 at 11:03 PM
alpheratz.bsky.social
My sister is getting married over the course of the next two days!!
August 15, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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Happy birthday to my dear friends @sansets.bsky.social @concinnities.bsky.social @thirtysixsavefiles.bsky.social @balefully.bsky.social. what a day!
July 18, 2024 at 5:03 PM
alpheratz.bsky.social
I'm at a Vienna Teng show and she's outside the venue doors doing get out the vote stuff. I was really chill tho.
May 8, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Friend: Do you remember the blueberry compote you made for your birthday in 2022?

Me: Intimately
May 1, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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I am eclipsing!!!
April 8, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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It took a few episodes but I'm now fully in the screaming inside my heart phase of Magnus Protocol fannishness
March 7, 2024 at 10:48 PM
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@monkeypie76.bsky.social happy birthday 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈!!!!! Ilu!!
February 26, 2024 at 2:00 PM
alpheratz.bsky.social
So I just found out that in Russian medical ethics it's totally fine to withhold a terminal diagnosis from a patient bc it might bum them out!!!!!
February 24, 2024 at 11:56 PM
alpheratz.bsky.social
When we finished it, it was very "I'm glad you're with me, here at the end of all things"
mostlyinane.quest rb @mostlyinane.quest · Feb 11
you know when the ONLY phrase that comes to mind after a performance is 'wow he sure did put his whole pussy into that'?

anyway, @alpheratz.bsky.social and i watched saltburn.
February 11, 2024 at 2:54 AM
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@likeadeuce.bsky.social Sam told me to tell you that I just watched Saltburn, a film that HONESTLY KIND OF SHOCKED ME
February 11, 2024 at 2:03 AM
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Also (hosts stop reading NOW) I'm absolutely obsessed with IBCK and desperately need fic where they either fuck or Michael tells Peter about his bad dates
December 23, 2023 at 3:29 PM
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I'm on Marco Island on vacation (leaving this afternoon though) and just look at these birds
December 23, 2023 at 3:28 PM
alpheratz.bsky.social
I'm 39 today!
December 2, 2023 at 11:10 PM
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aristofontes.bsky.social
Is it possible to fly a flag at twice-staff?
November 30, 2023 at 1:56 AM