#i've made this post four times

[rushingheadlong]

You know something I don't think I've ever seen people talk about is how Freddie changed the lyrics for Big Spender.

Because in case you don't know, all original versions of the song are sung by women - and it is made very clear that they are singing to men:

The minute you walked in the joint I could see you were a man of distinction A real big spender [....] So let me get right to the point: I don't pop my cork for every man I see Hey, big spender Spend a little time with me

Probably not too surprising, then, that when Queen performed this song in 1974 Freddie had to do a bit of a gender-switch on it:

Though, it would probably be more accurate to say that Freddie made this song gender-neutral because he didn't change it to be about a woman. He eliminated the first use of "man" entirely and then sang "I don't pop my cork for everyone I see" (instead of "every man").

And honestly there's probably a whole dissertation you could write just about those changes alone, but what I really love is when Queen brought the song back in 1986 and Freddie changed the lyrics again:

Because yes he still dropped the first "man" but the "everyone" is changed and Freddie instead sang "every guy" with just the barest hint of a "-rl" sound at the end to give him plausible deniability if anyone asked about it.

So much of Freddie's music speaks to his experiences as a queer man but, because of the nature of the times in which he lived, he couldn't always be directly open about that fact. Most of his love songs are intentionally vague, and he sang about "somebody" or "you" to avoid having to use gendered terms as much as possible.

Freddie singing "I don't pop my cork for every GUYrl I see" wasn't just an adjustment to the original lyrics, it was a specific change from how Freddie had sang it before in order to make it more gay in a way that he could rarely be with his own music, and that is what I adore about this. It's such a little thing, but it gives such a unique insight into how Freddie balanced his sexuality and his stardom, and how the relationship between those two changed over the nearly 12 years between these performances.

#freddie mercury #queen #queen band #freddie #text #ramblings #long post // #I got the Rainbow on dvd for xmas and I've been thinking about this a lot since then #and thinking about it even more after posting yesterday's gifset #it's SUCH a little thing but it's made me emotional ever since the first time I've noticed it #the transformation from Freddie ''I can't tell anyone I'm gay or it'll ruin everything'' Mercury in 1974 #to Freddie ''Four cocks fighting - ooh it's getting nice this!'' Mercury in 1985 #perfectly summed up in two video clips #idk. sometimes I feel like in defense of Freddie's queerness some fans take it to the opposite extreme #and insist that it was SO UNBELIEVABLY OBVIOUS TO EVERYONE ALL THE TIME in the 70s/80s that Freddie was gay #when in actuality... no it really really wasn't #and that's IMPORTANT. the ways in which Freddie had to hide himself and the ways in which he chose not to are IMPORTANT. #and erasing those decisions from his history or pretending they were easy ones to make isn't defending his queerness #it only serves to erase it even further

[kyouka-supremacy]

Leap day was made so I have 24 more hours to work on Akutagawa's birthday

#I've been preparing for. Four days. #(If we exclude the planning. If we don't then I've been prepearing since March 2nd 2023 lol) #Technically last year I had even made an edit I didn't post that I could perfectly use. #But nooooo why pick the easy route when you can spend sleepless nights editing while also attending courses during the day #If all goes well tomorrow I'm going out to buy the ingredients for a cake to bake on Friday <3 #Oh and paint my nails black and red!!!! #At this point I only ever put on black nail polish for Akutagawa-related events lol #random rambles #I hope I make a little time to do something for Beast Akutagawa too...

[violetstrations]

[ID: a digital painting framed like a photo taken by Xander Matthews from danganronpa despair time. It takes place before the series, inside a house with party streamers and balloons. He’s wearing a black shirt and fingerless gloves, smiling as he adjusts his neck shawl. In the background is David Chiem, who’s in a cyan turtleneck, smiling sleepily, giving a peace sign to the camera. His hair is messy. Teruko Tawaki, wearing a green jacket with a red inner fabric over a black shirt and green skirt, makes bunny ears on his head, giggling. Mai Akasaki, wearing a white shirt, hangs on her shoulder. Her face is smeared and obscured. The artist’s signature is on top of her. End ID]

a redraw of an older piece I did in July ! I'm having fun with my lineless art :]

original drawing is below the cut if you wanna see it

[ID: a digital drawing similar to the previous painting, with the characters wearing slightly different clothes and far more party streamers hanging off the ceiling. End ID]

I still like this one quite a bit :3

#drdt #danganronpa despair time #xander matthews #david chiem #teruko tawaki #mai akasaki #ouuuu I'm gonna be so unwell when we get further backstory on these four #I've been slightly active on my new twitter that I've not advertised at ALL lmao #it's VioletStrations there too ! though it's mostly for my v-tuber fanart/posts #I might make a big post of the art I've posted there once I've made enough. but I've also been working on a lore animatic #so this was kinda like a [checks procreate] 4 hour relief from that #this year was a really good year for art for me :3 I hope it continues into 2024. I dunno if I'll make an art summary tho #nooty's art #art #eyestrain #eyestrain // #tw eyestrain #cw eyestrain #eyestrain tw #eyestrain cw

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: February 23

“Inkpot Gods” by The Amazing Devil

#song of the day #'if I don't make it back from where I've gone / just know I loved you all along' #I'm setting up my queue for a more proper recommendation tomorrow but I've been rereading 'shoulder the sky' by Night_Fury #the whole series draws from various Amazing Devil lines for titles and such #'back then I was dauntless' is my favorite reworking of the Melidaan arc I've ever seen absolutely anywhere #and the title is a line from my favorite Amazing Devil song 'The Calling' but 'Inkpot Gods' is used to stunning effect in-story #and the beautiful refrain from the end of the song is playing in my head now as I keep going into the series #today was a deeply unpleasant day: the inevitable finally happened and Duncan cut himself doing his mudlarking #we'd been trying to schedule a preventative tetanus shot but several times we've gone in for the properly scheduled shot #and found out that they didn't actually have one in stock. unspeakably frustrating #and today we ran out of time for a preventative one. I woke up #(actually I woke up for work as he was going out for his walk but I got a migraine halfway through my morning meeting--no good-- #and took the rest of the day off--turns out to have been a very good thing--and went back to sleep. so I woke up the second time) #to Duncan coming back from his walk with a sliced finger and the grody plastic-and-tin swan that had done the slicing #(picture of said swan under the cut because why not. it does look neat. can't see the sharp edge in the pic though it's underneath) #and so then we called the pharmacy and got the same automated 'of course you can have a tetanus shot' as ever so we made an appointment #and we got there and they did actually have a shot in stock this time! except that they weren't able to administer it #because now he's post-exposure that's a different shot and they aren't allowed. so we had to go to the urgent care instead #all told we spent about four hours out of the house on this mission but Duncan did get his shot and some bonus antibiotic goo for the cut #and it was worth it but also bleeeeeeegh it was miserable. which is where my recommendations do come in #when I tell y'all that I spent today reading Night_Fury's fics and also looking at valiants' CoD art and it saved me #whooo I mean it. being simultaneously stressed + bored is the nightmare state for me and instead I had wonderful things in my phone

[spinoff-antithesis]

RATING: G RELATIONSHIP: Female Pokedex Holder Blue | Green & Silver (Pokemon) SUMMARY: green feels that she has a lot to apologize for. silver, on the other hand, doesn't know how to explain to his sister that he doesn't blame her for anything. EXTENDED SUMMARY:

“I’m proud of you. I don’t know what all happened on your journey,” she starts, looking back at the direction they’re taking, “and I wish you would’ve contacted me before you started working with Lance, but you made it out in one piece and better than I could’ve ever hoped for. I’m just sorry I wasn’t able to be there more for you.”

Silver stares at the back of her head, walking on autopilot.

He wants to tell her that she’s done enough, that he’s sorry for never reaching out until they ran into each other by pure chance. That he’s thankful for her and keeping him together in one piece when they were no more than children and that he wants to get stronger to protect her and keep her from ever having to go through something like losing her family again.

Instead, what he says instead is, “Why did you leave me that night?”

#pokemon adventures #pokemon special #pokespe #trainer green #rival silver #THEY ARE SIBLINGS YOUR HONOR I LOVE THEM SO BADLY OH MY GOD #also yeah. i listened to christmas kids on loop half the time i wrote this. rest of the time it was the playlist #(mostly sisters + i know the end though) anyway i love doing character studies #i wanted to do more on their like. trauma etc etc and like healing from it but got this instead. the edit i made is closer to trauma stuff. #which honestly kinda works. but like. yeah idk idk if u like pokespe.... and green & silver siblings..... you should read the fic....... #it's also the first one-shot i've completed in like two years...... so........... #definitely also meant to post this like two days ago but its fine its fine im queue'ing it now to post at noon #anyway thinking too hard abt this song & how it fits with the masked children. specifically green and silver. #my writing #also im rereading yellow and im just kinda like. giggling a bit. green doesnt like the elite four so silver working with lance is always #kinda funny to me. green voice “yeah i think theyre the ones who kidnapped me” silver working with lance who only uses dragons “x to doubt” #also. giggles excitedly i love writing in second person and the flashbacks are in second person. i will not apologize. its FUN

[zukkaoru]

bsd has me writing things i previously would not have touched with a ten foot pole

#ngl i've typed this post out and then deleted it like four different times now #because it Keeps Happening #this show has something IN IT i swear i don't know what it is but. it's Something for sure #put this in my drafts three weeks ago.... you guys are never going to guess what happened Again . #there is not a single line in this fic that is any semblance of normal and sane. i don't know what's happening #i made a joke TO MYSELF three days ago and now they are playing with knives in fyodor's basement #whatever. WHATEVER. just gritting my teeth until i exorcise the demons this fic idea gave me and then i'll shove it away for three weeks #so i can work on the things i actually need to be doing right now #hello grace here #someone get the bsd characters OUT of my mind this is a CRY FOR HELP

[hailsatanacab]

Chapter 15!! Chapter 15!! Chapter 15!!

#dpxdc #danny phantom #batman #danny phantom crossover #danny phantom batman #i've forgotten what i tag these with now fuck #guys look i’m finally making these links somewhat prettier!! #i don't like not having all the summary and tags tho because yeeeeeesh it gets heavy and i like people to know that it gets heavy aha #TESTAMENT TO THAT as i published this chapter i had the thought 'huh i should add the medical torture tag because woof that line sure is dar #k' but hey turns out i already had that tag!! woof #sorry danno ur goin thru it #hey uh idk how keen i am on this chapter? i feel like the first half of it is a little sticky #like half of damian's reactions just come out of nowhere #when i was doing my last minute edit before i posted (also please ignore that i lit posted at 23:59 eheh) i just honestly couldn't tell #if it made sense or not #but like i've edited it three or four times before now? so i gotta trust past bethany (not ideal) that it's readable at least and i'm just #very very tired and nothing is working in my brain #which is also true #baby neice is asleep next to me and she's doing the biggest horking snores ever #it's very sweet #but it's making me feel more tired than i should be haha #so it's time for me to get ready for bed! i am going to brush my teeth and wash my face in the freezing cold #feel like jane eyre when she's at that boarding school and they had to break the ice on their water bowls before washing their face #and her friend died in her arms #it's very cold here i am shivvveerrriinnng gotta tuck myself up under two duvets please #hey americans? americans? what's a comforter? is it a duvet? i don't understand when americans say they have a comforter #is it a blanket that goes on top of the duvet? how do you have a duvet day without a duvet? #just always wondered. #i'm so tired #GOOD NIGHT I LOVE YOU PLEASE READ CETBWA AND TELL ME IF IT'S UNDERSTANDABLE

[i-dont-want-your-hysteria]

trying to interact with all the Def Leppard boys like you’re collecting pokemon

gotta catch em all

#i have FOUR. OUT OF FIVE. #3/4 were irl too ;O; #anyways this is a post about how the only one i still need is Joe #rick- duh i've met him 3 times and he acknowledged me in a crowd of 40k people #phil- answered one of my questions on the live hysteria q&a on spotify in 2020 #viv- waved directly at me in the same way I was waving to him ;O; the eye contact #sav- DEFINITELY made eye contact with me at hershey like i SWEAR i was like ://o is he looking at me???? #and then he just kinda opened his eyes a lil more and i was like holy shit he's GOTTA BE #the closest i've ever come to interacting with joe irl was at hershey STG HE WAS STANDING SO CLOSE AND I WAS SCREAMING BUT #HE JUST WASN'T LOOKING DOWN HE WAS LOOKING OUT #UGHHH #now that joe has an insta and i'm closer with mike than ever please let this be the year where i finally catch them all

[katierosefun]

character development is really going from getting lost in writing stories for other people to writing stories that you know that no one but yourself and maybe the same five people are going to like i think, i think that’s character development for me

#caroline talks #i've said this at least three or four times in the last year #but i can feel myself thinking it again #i think i used to get really nervous about writing for any fandom outside star wars #because i felt like star wars was what i felt most comfortable with #but 2022 has really been the year of me writing for fandoms that are either incredibly small or very sleepy these days #so like. beyond evil has been a constant #star trek creeping in and the one (1) my mister fic #i have another my mister fic in my drafts + some other mckirk fics + ofc so many beyond evil fics #(i have at least a good handful of multichapter ones i really want to post although since fake married au is still in the works) #(i am trying. to pace myself) #and also i think i have an i am the night fic in the works #do i care that there are literally only 15 works in that archive? maybe #but not as nearly as much as i used to when i was 20 years old #and i think that's very important when it comes to writing #and it's also made my attitude towards even my original writing that much healthier i think #like. 'mm. no one might care. but i care. and i think that should be enough reason for me to write' and etc etc #ANYWAYS . .. back to my law school work

[sugarpopss]

I keep seeing confusion over Eddie's age so lets break it down

I've seen a lot of posts today that are like 'Eddie is like 25 what the fuck' and I?? Am not sure where this is coming from? Maybe a touch of confusion surrounding American grades? Lets break it down:

During his 'grab the diploma' bit, the Hellfire guys say "Didn't you say that last year? And the year before?" This tells us that he's been held back twice, both times in his senior year (if it was before his senior year why would he be talking about graduating?). Senior year is the 12th grade, in which people are typically 17 going on 18. In his second senior year, he'd be 18 going on 19, and in his third (when the show takes place) he'd be 19 going on 20. So, he's either 19 or 20 depending on his birthday. I say 20 because I really like the idea of his birthday being in winter, but that's just me. From my (admitedly quick and somewhat lazy) research, the Indiana dept. of education states that "...students over the age of 18...have a right to attend school until they have recieved a high school diploma...The school determines whether the student can enroll in the regular high school program or must enroll in the school’s adult education program." Most sources seem to agree that 21 is when the school would refer someone to an adult education course. So yeah. I think that's Eddie's age cleared up. For reference, assuming I'm right (which I think I am):

Eddie (supposed to graduated 1984) is one year older than Steve (graduated 1985) and two years older than Nancy and Robin (plus Chrissy and all the other seniors).

My source for the Indiana stuff

#I've seen this in response to him and Chrissy and yknow what? #I thought that at first too and i def said something about #i made a post watching their scene in the woods for the first time going 'no hes too old and hes gonna do smth to you' #but ive since changed that thought #The legality is up in the air because we don't know Chrissys birthday #And honestly I think that a 20 year old who isn't a super senior x2 would have a lot more social power over her and thats the main concern #the social power and difference in maturity #but I think they're more on the same level #eddie munson #stranger things season four #stranger things #st s4

[kyouka-supremacy]

Shin Sōkoku - BSD Chapter 105: In the Closeted Room

#FINALLY had time to make this #atsushi nakajima #ryūnosuke akutagawa #sskk #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd ch 105 #bsd edit #my edit #mine #I know it's not going to show in the tags but this is my bsd blog!! And I've looked forward so much to the day I'd finally be able to– #read a new sskk scene with my eyes!!!! So long I tell you!!!!! #I dreamed so often the moment I would make my first sskk edit!!!!!!! I won't post it on any secondary blog I need this on *my* blog!!!!!!!! #That is to say. This is between me and you followers (╥﹏╥) #Technical considerations now redrawing Akutagawa's coat was something... Not for the coat itself but because I'm not used to solid black– #stuff with white lineart so like. I made the lineart normally black thinking I'd just invert colors later right? #Wrong I ended up with 40 layers and no idea of what was were also because I can't see a white lineart akdnfvejdndvwkdvej #Something something going out of your comfort zone is fun but also it took me around thirty minutes to make the lineart– #and then little to four hours just to fill it/make the adjustments/basically figure out what was where in the sea of layers and white lines

[moved-to-void-kissed]

Here is my piece for today, which is the twenty-sixth day of the month! It's just a little thing featuring Pavo and my self-insert Ardea - I know that Ardea's reference model is still in-progress, but it works for the moment! I played around a lot with effects and stuff for this, so hopefully it looks okay, it's just a simple little piece I had fun messing about with ^-^

Tag list: @catake | @vampking | @wazzuppy | @cherry-bomb-ships | @call--me--home | @xenobabble | @beeon | @coralward | @crosshairswife | @pandapup | @altamont498 | @mercuryships | @lemonloven (to be tagged in what I make, please see this post!)

Comments on and reblogs of my work are always okay, and appreciated, but are by no means required!~

#a call from the void #creations from the void #made using MMD #dragon quest selfshipping #this post is okay to reblog! #sapphic september 2022 #selfship #selfshipping #heart of the void #love: winged watcher (pavo) #selfship: a celestial rapport (pavo/ardea) #self‑insert: clawed heron (ardea) #alternative title: crumbs posing hands in MMD is an ordeal #i spent most of today's free time working on MMD stuff but.. finishing off tomorrow's piece instead of working on today's #so tomorrow's piece is comparatively more detailed (it's four renders instead of one for a start) even if maybe less romantic maybe??? #is this even romantic???? i don't know i just thought it'd be cute and had no other ideas because the field trip wore me out #i'm not sure i've slept enough recently and tonight certainly won't be doing me any favours #but oh well #probably won't be around much tomorrow or the day after as a heads-up but that's why i prepared tomorrow's piece in advance

[buckttommy]

...

#So when I was a middle schooler #there was this guy at my church that I imprinted on. #He was 17 and I thought he was so cool. Too cool to be my friend. #And I was so awkward and shy around teenagers. They made me nervous because I always felt like they didn't like me #but he was so sweet and he treated me like a human being and he looked at me so attentively when we spoke #and I was so attached to him. #Was absolutely gutted when he went to college and absolutely thrilled whenever he came back #and the feeling was mutual. We were proper friends (or at least as close as you can get with two completely different social circles and a #four year age gap) #But he liked me enough that my mom knew was aware of it. #Anyways fast forward to tonight. I'm scrolling through Facebook looking up all these people that I used to know #(profoundly bad idea. Do not recommend) #and decided to look him up. #And guess who (I'm 99% sure) turned out to be queer af? lol. Yeah. #I guess this post is less about him and more about the fact that lately I've been thinking about my upbringing and how many people #I spent time around - got close to - who ended up being queer. And it's like. I really have been surrounded by queerness my entire life. #It's not anything I was looking for but. Geeze. We really do find each other huh. Even when we don't know we're finding each other. #It's crazy to me #Anyways. I'm going to word vomit the rest of this into my journal but I just needed to get this out.

[deepwoundsandfadedscars]

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#for some reason the system we use for health claims addresses me by my first and middle legal names but not my last name #and I don't know why it does this #It's on par with my bank emails saying my full name in ALL CAPS every time a new electronic statement is ready for annoyance #These past few weeks i've been able to go for a long ass time forgetting what my legal name is and then shit like this draws my attention #to it #kee speaks #sidenote: i never make personal posts on my main so complaining here~ #there has been a slight influx of bot followers on my main and I'm Worried #it's only been like four but having just witnessed a friend get driven off their blog by massive amounts of bots I'm wary lol #it's been almost a year since i made a personal post on that blog and i don't comment on stuff so i don't know why #that blog would get targeted

[makingshortstorieslong]

Hi hello what a beautiful night to freak out about the prospect the possibility the perhaps probability of living alone forever

every time I think maybe this is actually what I want. I have a huge meltdown about it later.

like the fact that I'm on the other side of the world from my close friends and family currently is definitely a contributing factor. There's no 'call someone to come over' or 'go stay at my parents' for a weekend' to help. But also even when I had those options...someone always has to leave eventually and then I'm alone again.

i like being alone! but like. I like being alone by choice, not by default. Like the default SHOULD be other people in the kitchen. Other people in the car. and also those people should be my brothers probably. I don't know how to live with anyone other than my family and I feel this worry that I will never learn how. Like... I cannot grow and change and experiment in that house. I spent the whole summer wanting to go to meeting for worship to try it and I did not. There are all kinds of things that I may or may not want to get involved in that I never would living at home. The fear of judgement is so real even if it's kind of silly. But anyway I have to move out. Also I already did. But like... WHO is going to hug me when I am sad. WHO is going to bring me soup when I am sick. WHO is going to let me make them dinner. WHO is going to be pleasantly surprised that I did the dishes before they could get to it. I feel suffocated by the my own ego - I am thinking so loud to fill up this apartment - I am so sick of me and I cannot take a break from me either - and yet I cannot do those things I need like another human being or something.

i think I'm okay at making friends. I have some really good ones. I don't really want more because I want to just keep the ones I have forever and I am aware of the limits of my attention and time and memory, if not the limits of my love. but like at some point I guess I'll have to? I'm not sure where this paragraph was going. I'm going to hit post and go shower now. I finally bought a shower water filter. Yay.

just frustrated I can't see an end to this issue in sight. i am aware that this is a problem typical to the human condition. i never claimed to be original.

Also alone but with pets is a huge improvement over just alone. I miss my cat.

i knew this would happen but it is not making it easier!!!!! i have cried twice this week

also I have FUCKING tinnitus and I guess I'll go to a doctor but maybe that's just here to stay and honestly I am going to run straight into a wall

#believe it or not typing this out has calmed me down #I do keep a journal actually and sometime I write this garbage there - a lot more often than I write it here - but sometimes it feels good #to post instead. journal entries don't garner sympathy lmao. anyway really I'm fine it's just my regularly scheduled meltdown #I've been having this one at intervals for probably four or five years now? Love looking forward to an unknowable length of time more! #possibly the literal rest of my life! #now see there is a suicide joke I want to make there but unfortunately that's also not funny :( so I'm just pointing it out so maybe you'll #imagine it bc like. It is funny. We're this a short story I'd write it. however it's not so I won't go there #it's along the lines of humpty dumpy telling Alice how to stay seven years old. Actually. No it's not. It made sense before I typed it #perhaps I'll delete this but it's unlikely #if you read all this I apologize

[thethingything]

I desperately need to get ready for bed at like 12:30pm after being up all night but unfortunately I'm too busy relating to Will Wood's new songs in a way that probably says something deeply concerning about my mental health

#thoughts #will wood #look the last four hours have been wild #and ''becoming the lastnames'' and ''against the kitchen floor'' are such a vibe #the first one made me sob when I first heard it and the second one makes me want to sing-scream along at full volume - 🍬 #(I should clarify actuall after saying I've had a wild time that I am actually okay adghajfjhk) #🍬 post