Frerard

Every fangirl’s favourite mental nuclear missile. ‘Frerard’ is the ship name for Frank Iero and Gerard Way, the rhythm guitarist and frontman of My Chemical Romance, respectively. It all started when the duo had a reputation for their ‘stage gayness’ in which they fought homophobia by acting, as the words ‘stage gayness’ suggests, gay on stage for each other. They never dated, to clarify, and they never had any actual romantic feelings for each other as far as we know (and as far as we should be concerned, because that’s pretty personal), and they’re both married to women and have children now, but when they did do the stage gay stuff, it was because they loved making homophobes uncomfortable. This kind of backfired because they found out that people were… into that. Really into it. The entire band ended up knowing of the *explicit* slash fanfiction (the 2000s emo/alternative scene was a fucking time if I’ve ever seen one) and shipping the weirdass fans turned their statement into. So they decided to stop with their stage gay duo act. Sadly, that didn’t stop the manic emo dream kids, and that’s why frerard crap still pops up on my tumblr dashboard occasionally to this day. These shippers need to be stopped or so help me.