My mom just said she thinks men are going crazy nowadays bc they have less gay sex now than they did in ancient times lool. She said she has a feeling it used to just be something guys did n moved on n now it’s a big deal for no reason. And I’m listening along like girl tumblr would love you

Wow wtf HIV/AIDS was discovered by Flossie Wong-Staal, an Chinese-American woman, and she’s the reason the HIV test even exists. AND THEN she invented the molecular knife that lead to treatments for HIV/AIDS. And she’s STILL ALIVE. We don’t hear about the contributions of Women of Color enough, my word. Madness.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flossie_Wong-Staal

Thank you, Flossie. 💜💜💜

I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say

reblog if attacking fascism is really the hill you want to die on

this is literally like one of the most justified and honorable hills you could die on??? lol??

Quick someone reply with the gif™️

“He is full of confidence in all. Freddie Mercury”

“He loves camera but he is weak in sports. Brian May”

“He is a mischievous boy of a lot of spirit. Roger Taylor”

“He is quiet, but is unexpectedly positive. John Deacon”

-from Japanese magazine “Music Life”

#why that sound like descriptions for dogs in an adoption center via @hannafuckingsucks

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Happy Juneteenth Tumblr✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼

Juneteenth is about Black people who were officially technically supposed to be freed from enslavement. Nobody else. Nothing else. It's not a POC day. It's not a "freedom for all" day. It's Black folk, Black culture, Black emancipation, SPECIFICALLY. Any other observation for Juneteenth is gentrification.

There really is no feeling quite like discovering a new song that fits your blorbo to a T. Best I can do to convey it is something like

Shoutout to the person who reblogged this 185 times in a row. I understand completely.

if you don't do anything else today,

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.

Guys I found the only good thing on Facebook.

Update:

Oh fuck they’re inclusive ants, too?!?

Image Descriptions

[Image 1: A Screenshot of an invitation to a Facebook group named: “A group where we all pretend to be ants in an ant colony.” Under that is a post in the group that reads: “We reached the center of the Earth. Now what?” Four people commented saying one word each in this order: scurry, dig, work, melt. These words are in capital letters and have spaces between each letter.]

[Image 2: Another Screenshot of a post in the group that reads: “It has come to my attention that when we put the spaces in-between letters it makes it difficult for visually impaired ants to know what we’re saying and so I was wondering if we could try to make this group more accessible for them. (The text to voice can’t figure out what we are saying with the spaces) (Picture of an ant for attention)” This text is then followed by a close up picture of an ant.]

[Image 3: A screenshot of some comments on the post in Image 2. Five people commented: adapt, adapt, inclusion, love adapt, adapt. These words are in capital letters and have no spaces between the letters.]

End of IDs.

Please do not reblog this post without image descriptions! The irony of sharing undescribed images that talk about inclusivity for the visually impaired is… Painful.

I’m in this group!! It’s great!

Found in a 120 year old time capsule.

Full VDO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoDj4mXdqmc

Worth it.

deaky just keep on smiling

brian gives the “get me out from here” face

freddie seems relax

and roger….

ROGER TAYLOR’S STYLE:

Interview with Brian from German magazine Rock Hard #411 September 2021.

Many thanks to florian for sharing with me the photos!

I have no proper translation tool other than Google Lens or Translate, so if anyone with time and resource would like to add it please do!

Brian May - The Eternal Freddie

Now that his abitioned solo debut from 1992 gets reprinted, Queen guitarist Brian May talks about Freddie Mercury's death, the current renaissance of the band and the therapeutic effect of music - if it's good.

Brian, why does "Back To The Light" get reprinted- 29 years after its first publication?

"I had the feeling that it got more or less overlooked and forgot about from the beginning because it's not a Queen-record, but a solo record from me. Also, it never became as successful as the stuff from the band, and never got reprinted because of all the takeovers [?] in the music industry. So after the first publishing, you didn't produce more copies and just cancelled it. It wasn't tragic at first, because you could just presume that everyone who wanted to listen to "Back To The Light" did that. But in the last 15 years, Queen reached a new audience, that never got to enjoy these things. That really upset me; in this respect I'm happy that I can make up for it."

The songs are from a time that must've been really tough, starting with Freddie's death to a divorce and losing your father. How therapeutic is the whole thing?

"It was a hard time and with the album, I tried to come to a better place - at least in my head. That's what it was about, but did it give me any answers? No! I still remember my thoughts when it was finished, that I wanted to experience the exact opposite of what I experienced during writing [the songs] - that I wanted to find a way out of this mess. Like some kind of direction finder [?] to a plateau where you sit down and everything is okay. It sadly doesn't exist (chuckles). I also don't think that I could ever find such a place or that life would go on without problems. There will rather be more difficulties, and you always get a bucket of shit poured on your head when you hope for too much."

"I am a part of the band and I always will be"

Brian May never wanted to emancipate himself from Queen as a solo artist

What do you think about your hair on the cover, the 'big hair' in best 80s-manner?'

"(laughs) Well, that's just how it was at that time, back then, everyone wore their hair like that; it did require quite some time. The whole time ypu stood in front of the bathroom mirror, and the amounts pf hairspray you needed... I'm happy it's over. My hair also has a different color now, though I don't know how this could happen. At least it's still voluminous, because I don't think I could [live?] without it - which shows, that I'm still really not grown up."

Most of the solo albums by members of famous bands have the purpose to distinguishe themselves from the works of the group, others to go their own way. But that's not the case for you since you're still following the Queen track. Why?

"Musically yes, but in terms of content, I in fact did try to distinguishe myself, because I griefed for a few years. When I then had to give interviews for the album, I wanted to talk about everything but Queen. As soon as the people started to mention it, I said 'It's over, it's passé. I just want to talk about the here and now.' That definitely was an overreaction since the music -and that's the irony about it- had so much from Queen, that it couldn't work. That's why I at some point had to admit that Queen is deeply rooted inside me, I am a part of the band and I always will be."

For "Back To The Light", you engaged leading authorities like Cozy Powell and Don Airey. A try to hold your basic formation's niveau?

"That's true, and Cozy was the most important one. He came over every day and didn't just play the drums but also gave me emotional and moral support. He gave me strength by cheering me on: 'Come on, we can do that!' Cozy was one of the vest friends I've ever had; he had the energy to pull me out of the darkness and make me carry on. It was dreadful to lose Freddie in the middle of recording [it] and then- during the sessions for the second album- losibg Cozy. When Freddie died, I knew it would happen, but with Cozy, it seemed to happen out of nowhere. He drove down the highway with 240 km/h - to fast for the police to catch him. We always thought he'd [accidentally] kill himself on the motorbike, but instead, he did it in the car while calling his girlfriend. One wheel bursted so he lost control over the car. Though he was a good driver and from time to time participated in [car] races. He could've been professional if he would've wanted that - he was that good. For me, he counts, next to Carmine (Appice, Vanilla Fudge, Ozzy Osbourne) and Bonzo (John Boham; Led Zeppelin) as one of the big, influencial rock-drummers. That's why this reprint is dedicated to them; without Cozy, I wouldn't even have made this."

Hand on your heart: How many songs on the album are about Freddie? How did his medical condition influenced songs like 'Too Much Love Will Kill You' and 'Nothin' But Blue'?

"Originally, 'Too Much Love Will Kill You' didn't have to do anything with Freddie. I wrote it during my marriage crisis - long vefore it was clear we'd lose him. It's about this situation that I didn't know how to deal with: I loved two people at the same time, which today sounds like a nice fantasy (chuckles). Back then though, it completely destroyed me, because I have a tendency to feel guilty. More important about the song is its story: At first, it was a solo song that didn't seem to fit Queen, but when Freddie heard it, he liked it so much, that we recorded a band version. That's how it became something completely different. I mean, I don't know what was going on in his head when he sang the words, but obviously he didn't interpret them as intended. Critics and fans saw something different in it, too. This went so far, that on the tribute concert after his death, I performed it as a hommage to Freddie. But the truth is, that it means something different- unlike 'Nothin' But Blue'. This song was created when I sat right here in the studio and knew that it was just a question of hours until we'd lose Freddie. Then I heard this wonderful song from Cozy and Don Airey and wrote the lyrics within about ten minutes. It really was about Freddie -about my feelings for him. That's why there are so many quotes in it that are related to him, like the word 'champions' and other words from his vocabulary."

Is it true that you visited him one day before his death?

"That's right, a really touching moment because he was so weak. It was visible that he wouldn't be with us much longer, and he himself knew it the best. But he still tried to cover it up, and wanted to be extremely funny. Even though he was confined to his bed for 18 months and couldn't leave the house. To see him like that was painful, but as a band, we visited him as much as possible. We were like a family and made sure that he had everything he needed. That was all we could do for him."

Is 'I'm Scared' about your visits at Freddie's house - or the fear of what would come next?

"It was both: fear for him and our career. Behind it was the question whether it would be over after his death and lose everything we built up. Of course, that burdened me - and yes, I was scared, but when you face your fear, it sometimes loses its horror. That's why the album has some kind of humour, which really helped me and caused some relaxing lightness. That led to 'Resurrection', a really positive statement according to the motto: 'Yes, I can do that.' So there is a lot of dark stuff, but also the realization, that we only have a short, certain time on this planet and that we have to make the best out of it."

Freddie would be 75 on September 5th. Did you ever ask yourself what he would be like today? And how Queen would sound if you got to carry on?

"Oh yes! It's on my mind a lot, and Freddie is still with me. There is no day that I dont think about him. I'm sure if he was a live, we would still make music and be quite successful with that. Also I think that Freddie could still surprise us. He'd definitely still do things that would totally stand out and be just great. Of course I wish we was still with us today, and it's almost ironic, that because of his death, we were able to do a few things that otherwise would've been impossible - the musical, for example. [The musical] 'We Will Rock You' is a tribute to Freddie, and if he would have survived, we wouldn't have gotten the idea to make such a project happen. Same thing for the 'Bohemian Rhapsody'-movie. So you could say we've done our best to preserve his remembrance and to make sure that [he?] always reaches new listeners. Because he keeps being this present, it's not that noticeable that he's been dead for 30 years. That may sound strange, but it's true."

How would you evaluate the renaissance that Queen has been experiencing in the last 15 years?

"It's unbelievable- and I'm incredibly thankful that it happened. Our biggest hits are still in the charts all over the world, and our concerts are still sold out. I'm really proud of this, it shows, that we did everything right."

Will there ever be another Queen album?

"I can definitely exclude that."

Why?

"Because it wouldn't be right. Queen was Freddie, John, Roger and me - the product of four strong individuals. By now, there are two of them missing, meaning that right now, it's just Roger and me. That's not the same, and that's why we're not publishing new music under the old name. This would be disrespectful towards those we lost, and to be honest: It could never be the same because something essential would be missing - something that Adam [Lambert] couldn't do, no matter how good he is. So we judt carry on with what we've been doing for the last nine years: We concentrate on the old songs and try to create a good mixture between hits and lesser known songs - [basically] what the audience expects, and surprising songs."

Does that also apply to the making-up-concerts next summer?

"We're trying to follow the same approach as long as we can and [as long as] we have fun doing it. Apart from that, I really hope that the shows really take place in 2022. I don't trust the whole story with the delta-variant and complete opening without precautionary measures. If we don't gamble it away... If we did, it'd be fatal, and a lot of time could pass until we can control the situation."

Interviewer: Marcel Anders

white Europeans need to relearn the word xenophobia.

i get so annoyed when i see white Europeans talk about how bigoted they can be against their own neighbours, calling it racism when 1) you're all white its not racism 2) xenophobia is a word that exists and 3) whatever nationality/culture based harassment white Europeans may experience is not anywhere NEAR the structural, cultural and social inequality that people of colour face on a GLOBAL level, especially in europe.

like I'm sorry your Italian neighbour made fun of your french accent, but you still hate black people, shut up.