If We Can't Find Where We Belong, We'll Have To Make It On Our Own - Slime

IF WE CAN'T FIND WHERE WE BELONG, WE'LL HAVE TO MAKE IT ON OUR OWN //

✋mini pumice rocks x multiglue blend
👃salted watermelon rind, hardy desert shrubbery, sage, wormwood, sun-bleached dried field grasses

*NOTE: This slime comes with two faux plants, green faux moss crumbles, a house charm, and a mini compass. The compass is meant as a charm and may not accurately point true north. :)

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“The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys” is a comic book series co-created by Gerard Way, lead singer of My Chemical Romance. The series serves as a sequel & further worldbuilding to the MCR album “Danger Days”, focusing on the successors of The Killjoys, a group of outlaw vigilantes trying to continue their fight against a tyrannical megacorporation, Better Living Industries (BL/ind), in a post-apocalyptic future.

BL/ind controls Battery City’s government & economy through exploitation of its people, strict rules, & close surveillance of their daily lives. To keep their population compliant, they control their emotions through forced medication, & erase their personality & memories.

12 years after the Killjoys’ untimely deaths, BL/ind is expanding further into the Zones, the desert where the rebels live. The locals that idolized the Killjoys take up arms, mimicking their colorful punky aesthetic as they prepare to fight. Only The Girl, the sole survivor of the original Killjoys, can channel her hidden inner power with the help of her loved ones in order to end BL/ind’s hold on society for good. 

Meanwhile, the comic explores the story of Blue & Red, fugitive android lovers who are treated by the government as disposable, who defy the rules, flee & risk everything for the chance at freedom.

The story of the Killjoys and their successors is ultimately a story of outcasts finding their way and making it through the horrors together. 

The MCR song “The Only Hope for Me is You” carries this theme, describing a destroyed, ash-covered city after a catastrophic event, & the people left behind who survive through community with each other. Although BL/ind has tried to isolate them, their resistance is built on their care for each other.

With this slime, I wanted to build on that theme of found family and the idea of creating a home of our own even in unfriendly environments.