Couples that tolerate each other’s endless endless rambling are a powerful and beautiful force for good
me, excitedly: so by Le Chatelier’s principle, no reaction ever truly ‘stops,’ it just reaches a point where it proceeds in both directions at the same rate for a net change of zero, which
my gf, knowing she’ll get to talk about glass-blowing techniques next: mhm, I see, interesting
i want to see 70s fashion come back for real, not just for commercialization. i want to see people strutting in bell bottoms and men with hairy chests in vneck shirts and women with bell sleeves. i want to see platform sandals and boots. i want to see farrah fawcett hair. i want to see paisleys and plaids and mandala patterns. i want to hear someone say “groovy” or “far out.”
when yr so tired ur eyelids are like SHUT IT DOWN BOYS but ur brian is like OPEN THOSE GATES LADS n ur closing ur eyes then opening then closing then opening then closing then opening then closing
“ur brian”
listen here mate i know what i said and i stick by it i cling to my mistakes like a real man
“Actually, I’ve been playing some blues lately. I’ve done a couple of tracks and I usually end up singing and not screaming; it’s in the range where I can put some passion into it. The funny thing is, I actually can scream. I just did this track for Scotty Moore on a Sun Records tribute. It starts off very quiet and then the guy screams because he’s totally pissed off … I did a version of that and I screamed it. The problem is that I can’t do it all night.”
(Brian May)
I thought this was gonna be screaming like death metal or something & i was oddly amped up for that
“Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don’t do it for money. That’s not what it’s about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They’re fans, but they’re not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.”
To those fanfic writers that are not english native speakers: sometimes, when I read your work, I notice that english isn’t your first language, because there are strange phrases. I know immediately that to you, they are perfectly normal, since it’s the way your language describes things. And I love that, because here you go, creating your art, in a language you spent so much time learning, just so that other people can enjoy your stories! It is so amazing and I will never criticise you for that, but instead I will be thankful that you put in all the effort.
I love you all, you are amazing. Keep creating, please!
Writing is hard. Writing in a language that is not your native tongue is even harder. I love and respect the hell out of you all!
I read a book a while back, which I have completely forgotten the name of, but the author mentioned teaching poetry workshops to children of different age groups and said that the a lot of the younger kids came out with some really sublime stuff because they hadn’t internalised as many cliches and boring stock phrases in the English language yet, while the older kids tended to write very formulaic stuff in comparison. I think that writers working in a language that’s not their native tongue bring a similar quality to their work. You’ll see phrases that a native speaker could never come up with that are so fresh and beautiful.
We native English speakers tend to do a lot of washing in each others’ water, so to speak, when it comes to writing. We’re all drawing from the same stock pool of set phrases, idioms, metaphors, and classic literary references.
Go to any Blockbuster (well, you can’t) and read the titles of the wall of B-listers. Dozens upon dozens of puns that are small variations off a handful of tired, overused metaphors. We laud a good writer as one that can put the words together in new ways – and ESL folks, you can do that without even breaking a sweat.
You second-language folks, you bring the fresh and the new into that pool. You put words together in ways that are absolutely correct, but we never would have thought to. You make our language younger and I absolutely am grateful for that.
This makes me feel better because sometimes I really want to write something in English but I’m afraid I’ll mess up
Based on a 90-second teaser trailer and a few assumptions, the calls have gone out that we should boycott Bohemian Rhapsody for queer erasure.
“The trailer doesn’t show any gay content, only het stuff!” There’s a split-second shot of Freddie hugging his girlfriend at one point. There’s also multiple shots of him obviously flirting with guys. The contention that the trailer is queer erasure is mostly coming from cis gay (white) men mad that the movie seems to be depicting Freddie Mercury as bisexual and capable of loving women at all, but given how significant his relationship with Mary Austin was to his life, it would be a disservice to everyone to exclude it.
Also, the cast list includes several male characters listed as “Freddie’s Lover,” as well as Jim Hutton, his partner in his final years.
“They’ve said the movie is going to ignore the AIDS crisis!” No. What’s been said is that the movie ends in 1985. Once this information was released, people immediately jumped to assume that because the movie wasn’t going to chronicle Freddie’s illness and death in detail, it was avoiding the subject entirely. But the AIDS crisis was in full swing in ‘85, and Freddie of all people was extremely aware of it. The description of the trailer (the first teaser trailer!) even alludes to it.
It’s a fair point that they haven’t mentioned AIDS by name yet, but also, the only materials they’ve released so far are some promo images and one teaser trailer.
In this context, for people wondering why the creative team or the remaining band members don’t come out to “put the matter to rest” by assuring us the film deals with AIDS, it might help to remember that the media has in the past been extremely tawdry and exploitative in its treatment of Freddie Mercury’s illness and death (have you not seen all the “HIS TRAGIC AIDS STORY!!!” videos floating around Youtube? Not read the biographies that linger in lurid, dubiously sympathetic detail?). It makes sense to me that if Brian May and Roger Taylor have a heavy hand in the making of the film (which they seem to), they’d ask for a more subtle approach.
Also, again: we have six months till the movie comes out and only one teaser trailer at this point. Be concerned if you feel the need, but it’s a little early to call for a boycott.
Do not tell people to shun queer content because you have decided, six months in advance with very little information, that it won’t be up to your standards when it comes out.
This film was made with the considerable support of Freddie’s friends and bandmates. Brian May is a dedicated curator of Freddie’s legacy and so yes it will most likely be an idealised version of him but his friends aren’t ashamed of his sexuality or of his illness.
-Freddie Mercury throwing a brick through his manager’s window
-Freddie Mercury writing Bohemian Rhapsody
-Brian and Roger going into a fight then stopped when stumbling upon Freddie eating cereal in his underwear
-Freddie Mercury taking Princess Diana (dressed up as a man) to a I think it was a gay bar.
-Freddie Mercury writing I think it was Crazy Little Thing Called Love in his bathtub
-Freddie Mercury meeting Mary Austin
-Freddie Mercury meeting Jim Hutton
-Freddie Mercury meeting Sid Vicious and calling Simon Ferocious then pushing him down
-Freddie Mercury at Live AID
-Freddie Mercury and the band in the I Want to Break Free video
-Roger Taylor locking himself in a cupboard because Freddie wouldn’t put Im in Love with My Car on the B side of Bohemian Rhapsody
-The power outage from one of their concerts
-The New Orleans party no one can remember
-John Deacon coming up with the bass line for Under Pressure, then forgetting it
-”Im just a musical prostitute my dear”
-Freddie Mercury recording the These are the Days of our Lives video, and looking into the camera saying “I still love you”
….as the ending to the movie…
I was so happy until that last one and then I died a little inside
- Freddie calling his male friends by female names (I think Brian is Maggie, but I don’t remember the others) - Freddie throwing a tantrum before a show and hiding away until the sound check when Brian calls “Freddie-Poos, where are you?” - When Queen came back from a gig abroad in ‘74 and was overwhelmed by paparazzi because “the queen was arriving at Heathrow” - Freddie anonymously giving money to those experiencing financial difficulty - Freddie and Roger recording Seaside Rendez-Vous alone in the studio, dancing on tables and making sound effects with only their mouths -Stuck in the lift! -First time Freddie got high in 1970 when he accidentally made tea from pot, and later prancing the police when they came to break up a loud party by offering them some “jasmine tea”
-the “Bicycle Race” video basically occurred because the band was drunk and one of them jokingly suggested having a bunch of naked women on bikes in the video and their manager or someone thought they were serious and actually put together a bike race of naked women. Then the women complained that the bike seats were uncomfortable and the bike company was mad bc they had to make custom seats for a bunch of naked ladies
- everything about Freddie and Rogers clothing stall at Kensington Market
- including the story of how Roger sold Freddie’s favourite jacket and Freddie chased the guy down the street to get it back
-and them stealing things to sell them
do you ever think about how lucky we were to be part of the harry potter generation??? younger generations can start reading the books now but they’ll never know what it’s like to anticipate the release of the next book, to wonder what direction the series will go in and actually notknow the answers, to go to the movie premieres, to grow up alongside dan and emma and rupert, to live through a magical era. we’re the only ones who got to do that and that’s so special to me
for my entire life i wondered why a dragonfly has an ass thats like 8 times as long as their body and tonight i finally felt compelled to investigate and as it turns out dragonflies breath thru their ass and can shoot water out of their butt hole to make them fly faster…….so…… i really did not expect that to be the answer but there it is
Hello, yes. Here is your regularly scheduled reminder that Josh deserved better, Emily is a wholesome character, Ashley is not to be judged for her trauma, Jessica is not a slut and Matt deserved way more development.
ok but the peak of all comedy will always be that video of the broken singing trout that makes unholy noises but always goes right back to normal for the cheery chorus
you idiots always complain about skyrim like ohh the dungeons suck the story suck yadda yadda thats bc ur not supposed to DO any of that dumb shit! ur supposed to roam naked and free and sneak into houses to make soup! it’s a soup game!
being pretentious is an inherent part of gay culture dont let straighties shame u for having brunch and quoting little women and blogging about the homoerotic undertones of dead poets society
