Cute Heretic

ignoring men is self care

y’all would of thought i said kill all men by how dramatic the replies on this post are

look I don’t want to tell anyone what to do but if you go down that path you will wake up a thousand years later and all your great-grandchildren will be dead

But I get a thousand year nap out of it?

That’s not the intended use Sir

But I get a thousand year nap out of it???

Anyone else’s heart EXPLODE?

just crying over how romantic Freddie & Jim were nbd

So the story behind this song, is heart breaking and heart warming at the same time. Brian May, the guitarist for Queen, wrote this song for the 1991 Queen album Innuendo. The song was written about how even though Freddie Mercury was slowly dying from AIDS, he was still doing shows, writing, and making music with the band. When they were recording the song, they were worried the Freddie would not have had the strength to do the vocals, because it was getting much worse, and was bed ridden, but he recorded it, and killed it. There will be no one like Freddie Mercury. I don’t care what anyone says, Queen was and still is the best band ever to exist.

The Show Must Go On by Queen

“I’ll fucking do it, darling” he said and killed it in a single take that’s something you need to remember. This is a song that was a single continuous take for his vocals. No misses. No re-records. Not on this, not for Freddie.

I knew everything else, but I had no idea it was done in one take and that kills me.  He was so badass.

I love that I see Tumblr having this immense respect for Freddie Mercury.  I just get really emotional about it.  Like, he was Parsi and originally from Zanzibar, apparently bisexual though I don’t think he ever claimed a label(?), artistic, grand, brave, he loved cats, he was a constant fucking delight, he is everything Tumblr loves, and I love seeing Tumblr grasp that.

I’ll be 38 next month and was raised on Queen not knowing any of this about him, and I still loved him and loved his voice.  And I wish I had known all of this as I was discovering their work and falling in love with it because I feel like it would have made a huge difference to me.

So, yes, basically, let’s make Freddie Mercury one of Tumblr’s Patron Saints.  Let’s keep spreading the music to younger people and leading them to the love of someone who is surely one of the greatest singers ever to live.  And who, if he had lived, would no doubt have loved us back.

Like, if you listen to this, and you know anything about vocal performance, you can tell he’s having trouble with breath support, because he’s literally dying and all that. And he still nails every note. The music video for the song is clips from Queen’s earlier music videos, because he was too sick to actually perform any choreography.

So basically, we should appreciate the fuck out of this song.

@thesylverlining

1) This is honestly one of my favorite Queen songs and has been for years for all of the above reasons

2) He truly was and remains a Constant Fucking Delight, and I love seeing people realize exactly how wonderful, important and generally amazing he was and how blessed this planet was to have him for not-nearly-long-enough

3) If anybody deserves to be a fucking saint of anything, it’s Freddie Mercury.

How To Wrap A Cat For Christmas.

This never gets old.

I love this show

This cracks me up. He is so embarrassed still about the music thing. The homophobia is THEIR problem.

Happy christmas!!

like you all wouldnt be hyped as fuck to join a gay rights club called the “brotherhood of evil gays”

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this is an exceptionally valid point.

Katie McGrath as Morgana in Merlin (2008 - 2012)

jane austen was so lit because she wrote about men the way men typically write about women i.e. her stories just centered around women and men were only there for the sake of women, and her books could have been all bitter and sad about the state of women in that century, but instead they’re sweet honest observational stories of friendship, family and love *sighs* what a lady i am sorry i ever doubted you cos I was bored in high school

no seriously her books do not pass the REVERSE bechdel test and it’s perfect

Jane Austen never wrote a single scene without a woman present.

Virginia Woolf ghostwrote this post

Unpopular opinion: straight people using “partner” to refer to their SO actually helps normalize the term so that lgbt folx can use it without automatically outing themselves to strangers. It also helps other straight ppl get comfortable with the fact that strangers aren’t entitled to information about other people’s gender or sexuality.

Give op their hard-earned notes

Tbh I hear “partner” and assume gay, I didn’t know straights used it. Very fair point, OP

I hear ‘partner’ and think ‘gay’ too. A girl at work used it for months and I just went with it. When she would say ‘he’ I even thought maybe he was trans*. Anyways, someone using partner makes me more comfortable and I came out to her. She was just an intelligent straight girl that liked the term and was knowledgeable in human sexuality so definitely someone I should have felt comfortable coming out too. It’s a good sign of a straight person uses it IMO.

As a mental health clinician, this is actually my blanket term when discussing any romantic relationship. I agree it normalizes it, but I also think it’s a relatively safe term to use to describe most romantic relationships without making any assumptions about the person’s orientation or identity. I also use the word “partnered” when describing a monogamous relationship status.

The term “partner” also removes the implied hierarchy of boyfriend/girlfriend vs husband/wife. This is relevant both to non-monogamous people, and unmarried individuals for whom the importance of their relationship isn’t dictated by its legal status. 

also you can make cowboy jokes

Also if you're bi anyway it's fun to keep people guessing.

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