Queens first photoshoot: An Analysis

Ok we always see pictures from this photoshoot randomly and reblog them with out thinking twice… but have you ever really looked over this shoot?

Freddie:

Ok, so can we just talk about mr freddie mercurys HAIR FOR HALF A SECOND?

This is the only photo shoot where it’s long and curly. LET ME REPEAT THAT, L O N G A N D C U R L Y. We never see it again so did he cut it right after this? Is it NATURALLY THAT CURLY? Why is it so big and why is no one talking about it??

Roger:

(AGAIN WITH THE HAIR WITH FREDDIE) but i put this picture under roger because do you see how it kinda flat in this picture but

in all the rest its normal??? Did he just suddenly dry his hair? Did it get wet after it was done?

Also roger is an ethereal gODDESS in this set

like oH MY GOoOooD

Brian:

a king. nothing wrong hes just perfect. next

(THIS LITERALLY LOOKS LIKE A RENAISSANCE PAINTING AJDKDKSLAL)

John:

I couldn’t find much with deacy but this hat… this fucking hat. What is it??? WHY is it??? also his music note pins i DIED

Roger wears it too and ???

Roger….. why??

Group:

Look at these literal angels. ANGELS. In the fourth one did they just switch clothes? right in the middle? But the one where they are all sitting down GODLY. And deacys sass in all of these??? So. Fucking. POWERFUL. again Brian with the renaissance painting vibes??? The second one, roger looks like he actually just flew down from heaven… and don’t even get me STARTED on gods gift Fredrick Mercury. this photo shoot is a mess but I love it sm…

With the grapes, feathers, teddy bear, and all 87 pillows this is the weirdest shoot… but also one of my favorites 💕😤

First pic soft Roger, one of my fave soft pics of him.

Roger trying to chat up Freddie’s teddy bear and posing with a flower in his hand and a feather in his mouth is everything

Freddie suggestively eating fruit is starting his career as he means to go on

John and that hat are a+

Brian is doing his best Cavalier By Van Dyke impersonation

There are n*zis on campus rn and a student brought out like a 1997 boombox and started blasting Taking The Hobbits to Isengard every time they tried to say something.

“Those who do not share our genes -THE HOBBITS THE HOBBITS THE HOBBITS THE HOBBITS - THE MASTER RACE - TO ISENGARD TO ISENGARD - AND I BELIEVE - THE HOBBITS THE HOBBITS THE-”

Chaotic good

In Jewish tradition, one of our holidays is called Purim. It celebrates the defeat of an antisemitic political advisor to a king who liked to prowl the streets ranting his hatred. Part of the story of Purim involves the people being ranted at inventing a special kind of noisemaker to drown him out. Basically what I’m saying is this student is following a grand tradition whether they realize it or not and they should be proud.

not only is Purim about drowning out fascists, it’s about doing so in the most absurd and embarrassing ways possible! fascism thrives on an aura of invincibility, and it’s hard to hold onto that when people keep making farting sounds every time you open your mouth

so really, weaponized memes are PERFECTLY in keeping with the Purim spirit

*slams fist on table* NOW THIS is the kind of religious/cultural tradition I can get behind! 

count me in

We’re also commanded to “drink until you don’t know ‘blessed be Mordecai’ from ‘cursed be Haman’”. And we eat cookies based on Haman’s (the political advisor Queen Esther defeats and stops from anhialating Jews with help from her politically experienced uncle Mordecai) dumb hat. Amen.

“I NEVER, NEVER spent such an evening!!! MY DEAREST DEAREST DEAR Albert … his excessive love & affection gave me feelings of heavenly love & happiness I never could have hoped to have felt before! He clasped me in his arms, & we kissed each other again & again! His beauty, his sweetness & gentleness – really how can I ever be thankful enough to have such a Husband! … to be called by names of tenderness, I have never yet heard used to me before – was bliss beyond belief! Oh! This was the happiest day of my life!”

– Queen Victoria’s diary entry from her wedding night, 10 January 1840

Get it, Vicky.

She got it.

AAAAAAAA PLAY WITH SOUND AGAIN OMG MY HEART

my fave

It’s also worth noting that nobody in their 90s will ever master Twitter better than John Dingell

doesn’t remember the last time he shaved

We need a fanclub just for Julian Edelman’s beardyness.

petition to remake all of the twilight movies where everything is the same except that bella is played by john mulaney who has not been given a script and just has to deal with these circumstances as they come.

john: (walks into the classroom)

edward: 

john:

don’t u mean

Decadence……..

I may not have the best body but it sure does hold all my organs in place

this is the type of positivity i need.

Hey

Being able to manage without a mobility aid/assistive device/etc doesn’t mean you should have to.

You’re allowed to use your cane or wheelchair or whatever else even on good days.

There are SO many reasons to use your aids, there are more valid reasons than “I can’t without it”

Just three for me specifically:

-not ending up overly exhausted and in worse pain by the end of the day

-not falling when I get vertigo and my vision blacks out

-not subluxing my hips or rolling my ankles constantly

Which are all things I can deal with, and I have!

But I don’t have to deal with those things. That’s not the price I have to pay for living. I am allowed to not want to deal with those things, and to do things to avoid them!

Never be sorry for using an aid. If people look at you weird, stare them down and make them regret it. You have every right to use your aids.

Don’t forget that.

What is your job exactly? Besides making balloon animals?

This weekend I was schmoozing at an event when some guy asked me what kind of history I study. I said “I’m currently researching the role of gender in Jewish emigration out of the Third Reich,” and he replied “oh you just threw gender in there for fun, huh?” and shot me what he clearly thought to be a charming smile.

The reality is that most of our understandings of history revolve around what men were doing. But by paying attention to the other half of humanity our understanding of history can be radically altered.

For example, with Jewish emigration out of the Third Reich it is just kind of assumed that it was a decision made by a man, and the rest of his family just followed him out of danger. But that is completely inaccurate. Women, constrained to the private social sphere to varying extents, were the first to notice the rise in social anti-Semitism in the beginning of Hitler’s rule. They were the ones to notice their friends pulling away and their social networks coming apart. They were the first to sense the danger.

German Jewish men tended to work in industries which were historically heavily Jewish, thus keeping them from directly experiencing this “social death.” These women would warn their husbands and urge them to begin the emigration process, and often their husbands would overlook or undervalue their concerns (“you’re just being hysterical” etc). After the Nuremberg Laws were passed, and after even more so after Kristallnacht, it fell to women to free their husbands from concentration camps, to run businesses, and to wade through the emigration process.

The fact that the Nazis initially focused their efforts on Jewish men meant that it fell to Jewish women to take charge of the family and plan their escape. In one case, a woman had her husband freed from a camp (to do so, she had to present emigration papers which were not easy to procure), and casually informed him that she had arranged their transport to Shanghai. Her husband—so traumatized from the camp—made no argument. Just by looking at what women were doing, our understanding of this era of Jewish history is changed.

I have read an article arguing that the Renaissance only existed for men, and that women did not undergo this cultural change. The writings of female loyalists in the American Revolutionary period add much needed nuance to our understanding of this period. The character of Jewish liberalism in the first half of the twentieth century is a direct result of the education and socialization of Jewish women. I can give you more examples, but I think you get the point.

So, you wanna understand history? Then you gotta remember the ladies (and not just the privileged ones).

ask historicity-was-already-taken a question

Holy fuck. I was raised Jewish— with female Rabbis, even!— and I did not hear about any of this. Gender studies are important. 

Why Gender History is Important (Asshole)

“so you just threw gender in there for fun” ffs i hope you poured his drink down his pants

I actually studied this in one of my classes last semester. It was beyond fascinating. 

There was one woman who begged her husband for months to leave Germany. When he refused to listen to her, she refused to get into bed with him at night, instead kneeling down in front of him and begging him to listen to her, or if he wouldn’t listen to her, to at least tell her who he would listen to. He gave her the name of a close, trusted male friend. She went and found that friend, convinced him of the need to get the hell out of Europe, and then brought him home. Thankfully, her husband finally saw sense and moved their family to Palestine.

Another woman had a bit more control over her own situation (she was a lawyer). She had read Mein Kampf  when it was first published and saw the writing on the wall. She asked her husband to leave Europe, but he didn’t want to leave his (very good) job and told her that he had faith in his countrymen not to allow an evil man to have his way. She sent their children to a boarding school in England, but stayed in Germany by her husband’s side. Once it was clear that if they stayed in Germany they were going to die, he fled to France but was quickly captured and killed. His wife, however, joined the French Resistance and was active for over a year before being captured and sent to Auschwitz.

(This is probably my favorite of these stories) The third story is about a young woman who saved her fiance and his father after Kristallnacht. She was at home when the soldiers came, but her fiance was working late in his shop. Worried for him, she snuck out (in the middle of all the chaos) to make sure he was alright. She found him cowering (quite understandably) in the back of his shop and then dragged him out, hoping to escape the violence. Unfortunately, they were stopped and he, along with hundreds of other men, was taken to a concentration camp. She was eventually told that she would have to go to the camp in person to free him, and so she did. Unfortunately, the only way she could get there was on a bus that was filled with SS men; she spent the entire trip smiling and flirting with them so that they would never suspect that she wasn’t supposed to be there. When she got to the camp, she convinced whoever was in charge to release her fiance. She then took him to another camp and managed to get her father-in-law to be released. Her father-in-law was a rabbi, so she grabbed a couple or witnesses and made him perform their marriage ceremony right then and there so that it would be easier for her to get her now-husband out of the country, which she did withing a few months. This woman was so bad ass that not only was her story passed around resistance circles, even the SS men told it to each other and honoured her courage. 

The moral of these stories is that men tend to trust their governments to take care of them because they always have; women know that our governments will screw us over because they always have. 

Another interesting tidbit is that there is sufficient evidence to suggest that Kristallnacht is a term that historians came up with after the fact, and was not what the event was actually called at the time. It’s likely that the event was actually called was (I’m sorry that I can’t remember the German word for it but it translates to) night of the feathers, because that, instead of broken glass, is the image that stuck in people’s minds because the soldiers also went into people’s homes and destroyed their bedding, throwing the feathers from pillows and blankets into the air. What does it say that in our history we have taken away the focus of the event from the more domestic, traditionally feminine, realms, and placed it in the business, traditionally masculine, realms?

Badass women and interesting commentary. Though I would argue that “Night of Broken Glass" includes both the personal and the private spheres. It was called Kristallnacht by the Nazis, which led to Jewish survivors referring to it as the November Pogrom until the term “Kristallnacht" was reclaimed, as such.

None of this runs directly counter to your fascinating commentary, though.

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