every person can feel freddie’s presence in their souls when they sing MAMAAAAAA UUHHHH, I DONT WANNA DIE, I SOMETIMES I WISH I’VE NEVER BEEN BORN AT ALL with all the air in their lungs i’m not joking
it’s fucking crazy to think about the amount of people who have sung bohemian rhapsody? like it’s such a unifying song, by nature of the fact that so many people know it. it holds so many good memories for me and other people. it’s a song you scream in the car with your friends while you drive around your boring hometown, it’s a song you drunkenly sing with your arm around your best friend, or a song you sing along to with strangers when it’s on in public. it’s bittersweet to think about freddie’s legacy carrying on like that through his masterpiece. freddie carries on because he’s a part of so many people’s good memories and bohemian rhapsody is a huge part of that.
Reblog if you have sung bohemian rhapsody with your friends
every time i see this post i’m reminded of the video of 65,000 people singing bohemian rhapsody in near-perfect harmony
like, what other song can make that claim?
Some of the highlights of that video include:
The crowd cheering after the first stanza when they realize what they’re all doing
So many people audibly ‘doing the guitar parts’… like ya do
The sheer number of voices joining the rediculous falsetto (thanks, Roger)
How they all start jumping at the ramp-up “so you think you can stomp me”
Hands up, hundreds, thousands deep for the final “ooooo”s and the last line to close the song
Only days before my state went into lockdown, “Bohemian Rhapsody” came on in the restaurant kitchen I’d just been hired at and, no shit, every single worker in that little diner started singing along. Me (the only queer afaik), the manager, all the other kitchen workers, the dishwasher up front, the two people on the counter, all but two of the men over 30. Just belting out Freddie Mercury at the top of their lungs. And you can bet when “sometimes I wish I’d never been born at all” came around, we every single one of us ramped up the intensity and basically made sure Freddie could hear us in the afterlife.
why is there so much disproportionately messed up crash lore. cortex’s family was a group of physically and verbally abusive circus performers that tatooed an n on his head as a child. n brios head screws were installed so cortex could punish him by tightening them whenever he messed up. nina’s hands were removed by her uncle and replaced with metal prosthetics so she would stop being nice to animals. in the fourth game tawnas friends were killed in front of her. btw the main character of the series looks like this
Stayed out too late on walk, met TWO skunks (did not get sprayed)
@fickdichistwarum They are roughly house cat sized or a little smaller, but shorter because of their short legs, and they’re thicker and chunkier, they kind of waddle when they walk around. This is the well-known part, but they spray things that bother them with a nasty oily substance that smells like weed mixed with straight burning sulfur and it’s BAD, like eye watering burning Stonk. If one gets killed on the road you can smell it for like a quarter mile every direction. If your dog messes with a skunk God help you because he is now host to a long lasting Cloud of Unbearable Stench.
We had one get under our house and freak out when I was a kid and we literally had to camp out at my mamaw’s because the house was uninhabitable.
They’re nocturnal (hence the folly of walking at night) and generally pretty chill, but if you run into one the recommended course of action is to be like “NOPE” and head back the way you came.
So imagine my internal state when I, last semester, am sitting outside a building on my college campus late at night, next to some trash cans (Folly! Folly!) and I assume the rustling behind me is a stray cat, but then I turn and see THIS:
And
It starts to WALK UP TO ME
Until it is LITERALLY RIGHT AT MY FEET
Like I could reach down and touch it this skunk is sniffing my shoelaces I’m being held hostage in this rocking chair by a furry canister of tear gas
Had it been any other wild animal I would have kicked it like 20 feet and took off running. Except maybe a possum because those don’t get rabies. But with a skunk, if you scare it you’re in for a bad time.
The reason i didn’t get a photo of it coming closer was that I literally didn’t want to move. I’ve never sat that still in my life. The guy sniffs my shoes, seems to suddenly realize that there’s a person here, and starts to sloooowly waddle away. It’s possible he really didn’t realize I was there—they have incredibly bad eyesight.
So yeah, I’ve been waiting for a prompt to tell that story.
I feel like I have to add to this that skunks are so freaking cute
I was at a wildlife preserve in New Mexico and this skunk with like 10 freaking adorable tiny little babies just waddled in front of our car and we had to stop and wait until they felt like moving out of the road, and for some reason they really wanted to hang out in the middle of the road for a long while
But it was okay because the skunk babies were the cutest little things in the entire universe we could have sat there in the car watching them for ten years
They are!!! They’re SO cute
And they’re kinda Like That sometimes, just completely fearless because great horned owls are the only predators that will mess with them.
Two other key things about skunks for people who do not live with Skunks:
Skunks have amazingly bad eyesight, decent hearing and great senses of smell to make up, but they DO NOT GIVE A SHIT, because they know they can inflict chemical war crimes on anything that bothers them, so they just sort of bumble the fuck into things with the confidence and coordination of drunken fratboys. This general fearlessness leads to them urbanizing really well, and some people keep de-glanded Skunks as pets (Do Not Do This). @headspace-hotel had a pretty prototypical skunk expirience in that they will just wander right up to you without a damn care, and all you can do is WAIT until it ambles off, or it will spray you with Tear Gas Lite ™ or worse-
If you see the skunk and you still have even an arm’s length between you and it, FUCKING LEAVE, because Skunks are the #1 way humans and dogs get rabies. It’s extremely common in Skunks in the american west and fairly common in skunks in the east. And there’s no notable difference in behavior between the skunks normal “Curious bumbing drunk” and the “fearless and will appraoch or fight anything” phase or rabies. Do not touch, do not attempt to pet, get rid of anything it licks or chews on. If you get bit by any skunk, get to a hospital immediately for rabies treatment.
A Skunk is basically one of those Drunk guys you see at sports events covered in body paint, except he’s holding some kind of spray cannister that Probably contains tear gas, but might contain anthrax. Let him ramble on his way.
