DW-centric MCR places?

[cimorene]

After watching "Na Na Na" (the preview video) 20 times, "Na Na Na" (the lyrics video) 10 times, and "Na Na Na" (the official video) only 6 or 8 times yet but I plan to make it about 100, I'm getting increasingly excited for the new MCR album. (I've spent the last 3 weeks rereading first bexless's Frank/Gerard fic, then all my bookmarks, then all of mine, then wading through delicious Popular and Recent tags.)

Also hoping and expecting that the new upkick in band activity will lead to a resurgence of MCR fandom, since I keep seeing everyone echoing the same renewed excitement everywhere. I know there's that one Dreamwidth community that is for Killjoys-specific news items, but what about more traditional fan-stuff? Is there a Dreamwidth center for MCR or just bandom fanworks or whatever, the equivalent of bandslashmania? (Ideally MCR-only, from my point of view. But I'll take what's there.) (Actually, what I'd like ideally is one where people make and share tons of screencaps and gifs in the comments and then squee about them, like the Tommy/Adam community waxjism follows on livejournal, because there really aren't enough MCR gifs.) I mean, I know there are the old communities on livejournal, but I like to move my community interaction to DW where possible. It's just a bonus usually that the traffic is less over here because I don't have the attention span for high-traffic communities or newsletters, really.

Basically... what should I be following? (I lost interest in bandom quite a while before I moved to DW and most of the people I talked to about it over there aren't here, but I figure it's not outside the realm of possibility that someone who happens to have the right information is out there.)

Comments

[flamebyrd]

I don't know anything MCR-centric and it's not fanwork-specific but there's also angelsandkings? My Secret Bandom Identity subscribed to it but I don't really follow it.

That's all I have, unfortunately. :/

PS: It looks like bandom_recs has a few other comms listed in its profile but I can't speak to their usage.

[cimorene]

Hm, thanks!

[turlough]

There aren't a lot of bandom comms here on DW - bandom seems very resistant to moving from LJ - I've got a list of those I know of here.

[cimorene]

I've noticed that too. It's had time to spread out a lot there & that always creates a "but I know 300 people here" problem. Oh well, there's always RSS. Anyway, thanks! That post is useful at least.

[green]

future_is_bulletproof is a baby comm but I am hoping for more activity!

[cimorene]

Definitely! It's early days yet.

[fairestcat]

I definitely want more activity on future_is_bulletproof about all the various Killjoys-related shenanigans, but I'd also be all over a more general MCR-centric fic and squee comm over here. mychemicalromance has some good stuff posted there and I am a member, but I'm actually not very fond of 100% locked fan communities, so would be happy if there were something else.

There aren't a ton of Bandom fans on dreamwidth, but the ones I know are all very MCR-centric and rather squeeful, so I think there is enough interest to make something like that feasible. Maybe I'll see about putting something together next week when I'm back at home, unless somebody beats me to it.

[cimorene]

Yes, turlough commented to mention it, but when I saw that it was all locked I decided not to join because I'm anti-locked-comm in principle. I'd be happy enough to stick to Future, but then I realize that I anticipate producing non-Killjoys-verse fanworks more than in-verse (as much as I'm eager to read the latter) so I'm definitely in favor of a general MCR comm. I wouldn't want to take on something as potentially-active as an MCR comm by myself, but if you want help I'm willing.

[harpers_child]

thanks for making this post so i could find out about the killjoys comm here. aw yeah larping.