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23/07/2014

Audioblog: IMCRD & Coffee Deficiency

#ProjectSnowflake I also feel I should clarify that the twelve shots were individual, not all shoved in one pint glass. Happy IMCRD! Continue reading

(All Hail) Creation, Audioblogs, Holidays, Indifferent Ignorance, July 2014, MCRmy, Music, My Chemical Romance (get a category), Videos

#PROJ, audioblogs, commissions, Frank Iero, Gerard Way, Holidays, IMCRD, Indifferent Ignorance, Jaegerbombs, MCRmy, Mikey Way, My Chemical Romance, Ray Toro, videos, YouTube
18/02/2014

‘Fake Your Death’ and Very Little Else

So here we are. Seven years and a handful of months after my first accidental hearing of Welcome to the Black Parade on a now-defunct local radio show, Zane Lowe’s programme played the last ever new MCR song. Ever. Ever. It’s one of their best. It might actually be their best (unless sentimentality’s talking, which… Continue reading

Art, February 2014, Music, My Chemical Romance (get a category), Videos

‘Fake Your Death’, ‘May Death Never Stop You’, Frank Iero, Gerard Way, Indifferent Ignorance, MCR, Mikey Way, Music, My Chemical Romance, radio, Ray Toro, videos, YouTube
15/01/2014

Titling This Took Three Times Longer than Writing It So Please Just Read and Put Us Both Out of Our Misery

To view this content, you must be a member of Francesca Astraea and the No. 1 Readers’ Club’s Patreon Unlock with PatreonAlready a qualifying Patreon member? Refresh to access this content. Continue reading

Complaints, DISCUSS., Internet, January 2014, Lists, Music, My Chemical Romance (get a category), Newspapers, Paywall, THE WORLD *head in hands*

‘Sherlock’, ‘The Guardian’, Frank Iero, Gerard jamming in his jammies, Gerard Way, Greatest Hits, Indifferent Ignorance, MCR, Mikey Way, Music, My Chemical Romance, press, Ray Toro, voting Labour
22/11/2013

The Ten O’Clock News: Enduring Legacies and Other Less Pretentious Ideas

I realised over the course of this evening that today is fifty years since JFK’s assassination, fifty years since the first Doctor Who episode and three years since Danger Days was released. I was first going to do a post about JFK and how he’s become an icon, then about JFK and Doctor Who and… Continue reading

DISCUSS., Music, My Chemical Romance (get a category), November 2013, The Ten O’Clock News, THE WORLD *head in hands*, TV

Art is the Weapon, comics, Dallas, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, Doctor Who, fifty years, Frank Iero, Gerard Way, history, Indifferent Ignorance, JFK, Killjoys, MCR, Mikey Way, Music, My Chemical Romance, passion, Ray Toro, reflecting, things

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Francesca Astraea here.

When I began this blog in 2009, I was a teenager. That’s why you’ll find some posts have been hidden behind a paywall. I was an incredibly different, less eloquent person when I was a teen, so if you want to read the thoughts of that teenager, you can join the No. 1 Readers’ Club for access.

What will you find here now?

This blog continues to evolve with me. My favourite topics are books and reading, travel adventures, the extensive works of up and coming rock band My Chemical Romance and the occasional update about my life and work as an author and scriptwriter. I’m also interested in digital minimalism, how we can solve environmental issues and why it’s probably a better idea to make a cup of tea than it is to shout at people you disagree with.

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Audioblog: IMCRD & Coffee Deficiency

‘Fake Your Death’ and Very Little Else

Titling This Took Three Times Longer than Writing It So Please Just Read and Put Us Both Out of Our Misery

The Ten O’Clock News: Enduring Legacies and Other Less Pretentious Ideas