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Rest in peace Val Kilmer (1959 - 2025) 💔

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Discussions of what "counts" as "canon" queer representation fall apart the second you start talking about media older than about five years or so. If your only metric for "canon queerness" is a character looking directly into the camera and explaining their identity in specific, modern, US-American-English terminology, you're not going to get a good picture of what queer media looks like. If your barometer for what counts as "canon" requires two characters of the same gender to kiss on-screen, you're not going to get a good picture of what queer media looks like.

Dr. Septimus Pretorius (portrayed by Ernest Thesiger in 1935's Bride of Frankenstein) was never going to look directly into the camera and explain his sexuality in 2024 terms, but he remains an icon in queer media history. You cannot look at that character (blatantly queer-coded in the manner of the time, played by a queer man in a film directed by another queer man) and tell me that he isn't a part of queer media history.

To be honest, even when discussing modern queer media, I would argue that the popular idea of what "counts" as "canon" is very narrow and flawed. I've seen multiple posts in the past few days that say the Nimona movie is "implied" trans representation, and I just...no, y'all, it's not "implied," it's an allegory. The entire damn movie is about transgender struggle, and the original comic is deeply tied into N.D. Stevenson's own queer journey. It isn't subtle. You cannot look at that movie and pretend that it isn't about trans struggle. It's blatant, and to say that Nimona "isn't canonically trans" is a take that misses the story's entire message, and the blatant queerphobia that almost kept the movie from happening. (I wrote a five thousand word essay about the topic.)

Queer themes, queer coding, queer exploration, and queer representation can all exist in a piece of media that doesn't seem to have "canon queer characters" on the surface. Most queer characters are never going to be able to explicitly state their specific identity labels, be it due to censorship or just due to the fact that scenes like that don't fit in some narratives. Some stories aren't conducive to a big "so what's your identity?" scene.

Explicit, undeniable, "this is my identity in no uncertain terms" scenes are very important and radical, and I'm not saying they shouldn't ever exist. I am saying that you can't consider those scenes the only way for queerness in a piece of media to be "canon."

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people already stressing about their christmas lists in october meanwhile my heart is set on one thing and one thing only:

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Freddie Mercury on the set of the promotional video for 'Who Wants To Live Forever' at Tobacco Wharf, London in September 1986.

Photo by Simon Fowler.

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something about Queen taking their country’s own national anthem, RERECORDING it to make it lowkey about them, and then blasting it at the end of every show in every country they go to

you have to admire the sheer audacity

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The onion absolutely skewering AI tech bros.

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Freddie, casually slaying

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Thanks Cumming, GA

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Freddie Mercury and his "chest wig" through the years

"We did two photo sessions quite early on in our career and for one of them - for the first one, I think, or for one of them, whatever - Freddie decided that he wanted to shave his chest. He wanted to have a clean-cut look. And then for the other photo sessions he was just normal. And then some guy in the press put two and two together to make five and said, 'Yes, of course, Freddie was wearing a chest wig in this one.'" --Brian May, Rock Montreal Commentary

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From L-R and top-down:

Live at the Rainbow (1974)

Live at the Hammersmith Odeon (1975)

Somebody to Love music video (1976)

Live at Houston (1977)

Fat Bottomed Girls music video (1978)

Live at the Hammersmith Odeon (1979)

Live in Saint Paul (1980)

Rock Montreal (1981)

Queen on Fire: Live at the Bowl (1982)

Radio Ga Ga music video (1983)

Live at Montreux Pop Festival (1984)

Live in Tokyo (1985)

Hungarian Rhapsody (1986)

Making of the Great Pretender music video (1987)

Note: Music videos are listed for the year they were recorded, not the year the song was released

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ITS OFFICIALLY SEPTEMBER.... tota turns 30 this month

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Hello Freddie,

I hope you're cozy up there in the sky! Life on Earth still goes on even though you are not treading its ground anymore, but your presence is still very much alive! On this day, one is supposed to celebrate life for it's your birthday, and that's exactly what I'll do for you are immortal. 

I owe you much of the person I've become. You keep being an inspiration, a spark of life, a breath of oxygen and a safe haven. I love you, Freddie and every day my love for you grows stronger and stronger. My heart will always beat at the rhythm of your voice and music, both evergreen like you. 

Keep guiding me home, Freddie. Keep shining up there: I see you, I feel you. Always.

Happy birthday sunshine: there's always a rainbow when I think of you. I love you.

Yours, for eternity, Eleonora

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Hey, if you have half a minute and care about the LGTBQIA+ community in the EU, I'd suggest you take a look at this initiative to ban conversion therapies in the EU.

1 million people are required to sign, but there's barely 100k. The form takes less than a minute, it only requires your ID, name and surname.

Please, help spread the initiative so that it can reach the goal ASAP!

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Brian May Recovering from “Minor Stroke”

- “I think the good news is that I can play guitar,” Queen co-founder says

Queen co-founder Brian May is recovering from a “minor stroke” that temporarily left him unable to use his left arm and hand.

May made the announcement in a Sept. 4 video statement saying his stroke occurred “about a week ago.”

“I think the good news is that I can play guitar after the events of the last few days,” May said, his speaking voice seemingly unaffected by what he termed his “little health hiccup.”

After a brief hospitalization and per doctors’ orders, May, 77, is resting at home.

“So, good news is I’m OK,” he said.  “Just doing what I’m told which is basically nothing. … But I’m good.”

9/4/24

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no i don't want to use your ai assistant. no i don't want your ai search results. no i don't want your ai summary of reviews. no i don't want your ai feature in my social media search bar (???). no i don't want ai to do my work for me in adobe. no i don't want ai to write my paper. no i don't want ai to make my art. no i don't want ai to edit my pictures. no i don't want ai to learn my shopping habits. no i don't want ai to analyze my data. i don't want it i don't want it i don't want it i don't fucking want it i am going to go feral and eat my own teeth stop itttt

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Why is caffeine free dr pepper discontinued in Canada??? As unhealthy as it is, I drink a lot of it (a few cans a week), but I can't drink caffeine.

Prepared to spend all of my money.

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