#KillJoy Joy Drops <3
An Initiative
A place where
Your Memory Will Carry On!
What started as a full-circle moment rooted in a mother’s love has grown into something much bigger.In 2025, after traveling to Texas with my sons to see My Chemical Romance for my youngest son’s 16th birthday, I found myself wanting to recreate the same feeling I remembered growing up in the Midwest during the late ’90s alternative rock and nu-metal explosion — the excitement of holding onto physical memories from the shows that shaped us.So I began creating custom commemorative concert tickets inspired by those moments.When the 2025 “The Black Parade” North American tour reignited that same sense of connection and nostalgia for so many people, I decided to share my creations with the world.Around the same time, I had recently launched Mending Moments, a nonprofit focused on healing through creativity, connection, and upcycled art. The commemorative tickets quickly became more than keepsakes — they became a way to help fund a mission centered around community, emotional healing, and human connection.With the launch of the 2026 tour upon us, I recently experienced an unexpected surge of orders after a fellow fan shared her experience on Reddit.As I began filling these orders — surrounded by slightly imperfect “misfit tickets” and duplicate prints while perfecting the new 2026 template designs — something clicked:What if even the imperfect pieces could still create connection?That idea became:The “Your Memory Will Carry On” Initiative 🖤A community-driven movement centered around creativity, nostalgia, kindness, healing, and connection.Through surprise “KillJoy Joy Drops,” traded misfit keepsakes, and shared stories, this initiative encourages fans to carry healing moments forward from one misfit to another.Some keepsakes are purchased.
Some are gifted.
Some are traded.
Some are unexpectedly found.Every piece is meant to remind someone:You are seen.
Your memories matter.
And connection can still exist between strangers.Because sometimes the smallest acts of kindness leave the biggest impact.We create.
We connect.
We soldier up.Because love can be armor.
Because community can become an MCRmy.
And because if you never give up, you cannot fail.This is more than nostalgia.
More than merch.
More than a keepsake.It is a reminder that art, music, and human connection still matter — and heal.So Welcome to the Black Parade.A Place Where Your Memory Will Carry On 🖤 🖤
Disclaimers:
This website and commemorative keepsakes are part of an independent fan initiative. We are not affiliated with, authorized by, endorsed by, or officially connected with My Chemical Romance, Warner Records, or related entities. Any references are made for descriptive and fan-art purposes only. All items are unofficial fan-made creations and are not official merchandise.
What is a KillJoy Joy Drop?
Joy Drops are handmade keepsakes created to be:
🖤 Collected 🖤 Traded 🖤 Gifted 🖤 Shared
🖤 Left behind for another fan to discoverSome are included as surprise extras in orders. Some are intentionally traded at shows. Some unexpectedly find the people who need them most.Every Joy Drop is part of a larger effort to create healing and connection through creativity and shared memories.
Why We Exist!
Music has always helped people survive hard moments, feel understood, and find community.This initiative was created to turn those feelings into something tangible: a keepsake you can hold onto, share with someone else, or carry forward.Many Joy Drops are created using duplicate prints, extra materials, and upcycled art pieces — transforming imperfect extras into meaningful connections.Because even imperfect things can still become beautiful.
Merch for a Cause!
No mass production. No fast fashion.
Just rebellion you can share & wear!
Want more to go to Mending Moments?Select the photos below to order directly through the non-profit.More Coming Soon!
Why I am Here!
The Your Memory Will Carry On Initiative and the KillJoy Joy Drops were born from survival, music, grief, resilience, and the belief that creativity can help people heal when the world refuses to.Long before I became a mom, I was a kid growing up surrounded by poverty, instability, domestic violence, trauma, and emotional chaos. Rock, emo, and nu-metal music became the language for feelings I didn’t yet have words for — and honestly, it never stopped being that for me, even as I grew older.Becoming a teen mom in the early 2000s meant carrying overwhelming responsibilities while still trying to survive my own unhealed childhood trauma, mental illness, and the crushing weight of existing in systems never designed for people like us to truly thrive. I was raising my son at 19 while navigating school, survival, instability, and trying to build a future from almost nothing.From the time I was 14 and throughout the next 30 years, bands like Korn, Linkin Park, Metallica, Staind, and Three Days Grace gave me somewhere to place the rage, grief, fear, isolation, heartbreak, and hope I carried. And then came My Chemical Romance.My son Onyx was only five years old when The Black Parade album came out, and somehow, through all the chaos, it became something that connected us. We screamed lyrics together like survival prayers from rooftops, bedrooms, and car rides, holding onto them when everything else felt uncertain.The Black Parade essentially became a lifeline.Years later, after rebuilding my life, more than once, obtaining a Bachelors Degree in Social Work, experiencing homelessness, relocating my family to CO, earning a Master’s in Public Administration, and more recently launching a trauma-informed nonprofit focused on healing through upcycling, creativity, art and connection, while facing mystery medical issues; I find myself returning to The Black Parade again — but this time with both of my sons beside me!And I have to admit… it feels different now.This isn’t nostalgia.It feels like a warning siren echoing louder than ever in a world increasingly driven by division, spectacle, fear, inequality, and systems that keep people exhausted, silenced, struggling, and emotionally disconnected from one another. Public performance has always hidden suffering in plain sight. The album understood that long before many of us did.The Your Memory Will Carry On Initiative and the KillJoy Joy Drops exist to create and capture moments of connection for the emotionally exhausted, the grieving, the isolated, the misunderstood, and the people still trying to survive battles no one else can see.Through upcycling, art, keepsakes, music-inspired creativity, community connection, and small acts of unexpected joy, this movement exists to remind people that they are not alone in the parade and that music, creativity, art and community really can help people heal.This is for the people who had to rebuild themselves from nothing.
For the ones still carrying invisible wounds.
For the ones who almost didn’t make it.
For the ones still here carrying the grief of those who didn’t survive beside them.
And for the ones fighting for a kinder and more just world anyway.This is not about merch.It is about that memory.
The Healing.
The Resistance.
The Connection.
And carrying eachother forward.So for the emotionally executed and the greater good…We carry on. 🖤 Jenna
JOIN US!!
Where's your Joy Drop, KillJoy!
The original My Chemical Gnomance tracker map is now evolving into a shared community archive.
Fans can submit:🖤 Where they found a Joy Drop 🖤 Concert locations
🖤 Stories & memories
🖤 Photos of traded keepsakes
🖤 Messages they want to carry forwardTogether, we’re documenting how small acts of creativity and connection travel from one person to another.[ View The Joy Drop Map ] [ Submit A Joy Drop Story ]
Carry It Forward
You can participate by:
🖤 Ordering a custom commemorative concert ticket
🖤 Purchasing Joy Drop trade packs for upcoming shows
🖤 Trading or gifting keepsakes at concerts
🖤 Leaving a Joy Drop for another fan to discover
🖤 Sharing where your keepsake traveled
🖤 Submitting your story to the archive mapEvery keepsake helps continue the movement.