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\nLast Friday night I awoke from an extended fever-induced nap to discover My Chemical Romance had dissolved.<\/p>\n

My reactions were, in order: <\/p>\n

what.<\/i> <\/p>\n

WHAT.<\/i><\/p>\n

Hold on, let’s check their blog<\/a> . . . <\/i><\/p>\n

Well, shit. I guess this is really happening.<\/i><\/p>\n

Then I sat here for a while, toggling between various feeds on my screen and emotions in my heart: sadness, because I love(d) them best; relief, because the waiting for the other shoe to drop is over; gratitude, for the tunes, for the dear friends I’ve met in their pit, for the fact that I went to as many shows as I could, and for the fact that they went out with grace, dignity and finality, rather than in a hail of public meltdowns, regrettable shows and\/or terrible tours. It’s a death, of a kind, but it is a clean one.<\/p>\n

(You’ll notice there’s no “shock” in there; that is because I really wasn’t surprised. I was excited when they released Conventional Weapons<\/i>, the compilation of the songs they recorded after The Black Parade<\/i> and then scrapped in favor of Danger Days: The True Lives of Fabulous Killjoys<\/i>, but it was the kind of “tying up loose ends” move that felt like the beginning of the end.)<\/p>\n

Saturday I listened to Danger Days<\/i> – Dr. Deathdefying’s sign off was more of a punch to the heart than usual – while the Internet did the modern equivalent of bargaining with the Reaper, i.e. discussed rumors that the band might reform under a different name, or with a change in line-up; on Sunday, Gerard Way posted an extended letter<\/a> gently but firmly quashing all of those possibilities.<\/p>\n

As I write this, it’s Tuesday night, and my emotions are still mixed. I’m still sad that they’ve called it quits, but I’m genuinely curious to see what they do next. <\/p>\n

I’m also still grateful for the ways they changed my life for the better, by convincing me that rock and roll still had something to give me, if I would let it, and moreover that there was room for me in their pit, standing next to the ladies that are now some of my very best girls. <\/p>\n

They were, as a band, completely ridiculous and totally over the top, and but they were also totally sincere about all of it, and that is why they were (are) my favorite.<\/p>\n

I don’t have that many pictures of them, but these are the best of what I’ve got:
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\nGerard Way, red-haired and almost angelic. Makes me smile every time I look at it.
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\nGerard Way, in, as he was quick to tell us, fake fur. And a campy pose, because it was nearly impossible to get a shot of him any other way.
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\nMikey Way and his sparkly bass, or the one that my friend Meg refers to as “the cover-shot for Hot Bassist Monthly<\/i>.”
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\nFrank Iero, Gerard Way, and Mikey Way in pretty quasi-apoclayptic light.
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\nFrank Iero, shredding.
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\nFrank Iero, again; he hardly ever held still like this.
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\nRay Toro, in the picture that gets a “all blown out but still pretty good” award.
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\nGerard Way and Mikey Way, in quasi-apocalyptic darkness.
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