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The sentry

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going to go see this movie this week! my parents said it was pretty good

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Thunderbolts* (2025)

THE PRINCESS BRIDE 1987, dir. Rob Reiner

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we!! are!!! the!!!! THUNDERBOLTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!⚡️*

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𝙻𝙴𝚆𝙸𝚂 𝙿𝚄𝙻𝙻𝙼𝙰𝙽 𝙰𝚂 𝚁𝙾𝙱𝙴𝚁𝚃 𝚁𝙴𝚈𝙽𝙾𝙻𝙳𝚂/𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚂𝙴𝙽𝚃𝚁𝚈.

Thunderbolts* (2025)

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☀️ The Sentry & The Void 👤

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holding my face in my hands because I randomly remembered again that in the void, Bob said "Try to get used to it okay? There's no death here. The pain only gets worse"

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🕺💃

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thunderbolts*!

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Smitten 💕

(I love these two, woohoo ✨️)

For the pose I used a f2u base by @albanenechi 🥰 Please do not repost without credits! Reblogs are super welcomed 💜

Check out also my Sentry-Bob-Void fanart here

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ooc but idgaf. yelena steals bob's sweater.

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trauma ducklings and their mama

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half of an asterisk

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Freddie Mercury was bisexual though

Nope, this is false! 🏳️‍🌈 Freddie was gay, there’s a lot of misinformation out there about his non-existent affairs with women, and much of it can be chalked up to a shit biographer named Lesley Ann Jones (aka my arch nemesis).

I've been deeply fascinated by Freddie Mercury and studying his personal life for years and years so excuse the following infodump (or jump in for a queer history lesson!)

Contrary to popular belief, Freddie was an out gay man. “Gay as a daffodil, my dear!” He’s clearly stated his sexuality in a handful of interviews; “I’ve done all that but I’m gay. Mary was my last woman.” (This interview was removed from youtube but you can find it mentioned in Freddie Mercury: A Life, in His Own Words which is a compilation of his actual quotes from interviews over the years.) Those statements got buried from the media in favor of promoting his more promiscuous quotes like "Darling, I'm doing everything with everybody." (Journalists LOVE to include this quote when talking about his AIDS...) He did purposely retain an aura of mystique around his sexuality, especially because it was much safer (trendy, even) for musicians to flirt with bisexuality than to be openly homosexual back then.

Here's a quote from Peter "Phoebe" Freestone, Freddie's personal assistant of twelve years, close friend, and "agony aunt" in his memoir, Freddie Mercury: An Intimate Memoir by the Man Who Knew Him Best:

"When the interview appeared, it was half the length that he imagined it would be. When confronted, Judy Wade said that it would have been impossible to have printed the whole text. She said she was holding back for his benefit, not for hers. Admissions such as, ‘I'm just going for a line and I'll be back in half-a-minute,’ would not have done anyone any good. However, she was fully prepared to underline in her second sentence that admission of being a fully 'out' gay man, although this does not lay the later myth which was popular which claimed that Freddie had never admitted his gayness."

Freddie's close friend Thor Arnold, a gay man and member of the "New York Daughters" (Freddie's gay friend group in NYC, of course Freddie was "mother!") corrected misinformation when fans on the Queenzone forum argued that Freddie was bi:

"Freddie NEVER tried to hide to his friends that he was TOTALLY gay. In his industry, he had to hide it to some extent although as I have said before, he certainly gave clues. This is the same man who came up with the name QUEEN for his band. This is the man who dressed very sexually, ambiguously 'glam' up until 1980. This is the man who threw an Easter bonnet party and had us all create Easter hats. This is the man who used the term darling (or Dahling) more than he used proper names, and renamed his friends with old actresses names (…) I've never seen Freddie look twice at a woman but I have seen him look 3 or 4 times at an attractive man and say, 'Thor, Thor... Oh just look at him... Just gorgeous. I'd love some of THAT' We were genuine friends of Freddie and he would never hide that he was really bi. FREDDIE WAS A GAY MAN through and through...everyone...please get used to it."

LAJ, the biographer I previously mentioned, worked VERY hard to straight-wash Freddie in her book by erasing his gay relationships. She was obsessed with his relationship with Mary Austin and is the main reason modern journalists consider Freddie to have been in profound, romantic love with her his whole life. In reality, they dated for a few years in the 70s and remained close friends after they split up (because Freddie was having affairs with his boyfriend). However, he did rely on her as his "beard" to keep up with appearances for the press.

LAJ completely skipped over Freddie's first official boyfriend, saying it was "a covert fling with a young theatre." His name was David Minns. Freddie loved him so much he left Mary to be with him. They were in a serious relationship for three years.

If you're a Freddie fan, you're familiar with Mary's story of him coming out to her, saying "I think I'm bisexual," and her response, "I think you're gay." This story is probably not the truth. Mary has been very inconsistent with her story of how Freddie came out to her.

Another version she told for BBC Radio:

"I don’t know what sparked the conversation. But I remember standing in the kitchen and he was trying desperately to articulate how he was feeling, and his lifestyle and I just said, 'so you are telling me you're gay?' And he just smiled and 'we'll take it as a yes, you know, we'll leave it at that.' And that was it, it has been a long road getting to that point."

Honestly, I am a bit mistrustful of Mary Austin's intentions in general. If you're curious as to why, this post is a good primer on the ways she might have betrayed Freddie's wishes, namely being cruel to his chosen family after his passing.

Freddie only had one other girlfriend before Mary in college, Rosemary Pearson. When asked about Freddie on ITV's This Morning show, she said that he was more interested in her male friends than in her, and she suspected then that he was gay. This was in the 60s.

LAJ refers to his relationships with women throughout her book, but she doesn't list any names. That's because they don't exist. I could name at least seven of Freddie's boyfriends off of the top of my head. Minnsy. Joe Fanelli. Tony Bastin. Vince the Barman. Bill Reid. Winnie Kirchberger. And of course, his husband Jim Hutton, whom he spent the last six years of his life with.

There is one name that LAJ has chosen to platform and exaggerate her importance, and that's German pornstar Barbara Valentin. If you've heard of her, you might think she had a relationship with Freddie in the 80s, you might have heard the story where he had wild threesomes with her, that they lived together, that he even proposed to her. Not one word of it is true. Freddie hung around Barbara during his time in Munich because she was his 'in' to gay clubs and cocaine dealers. She also served as his English translator and conveniently, another beard for the press.

Not a single person in Freddie’s life has ever corroborated that Freddie and Barbara were anything but friends. As for the claim they lived together, according to Peter Freestone:

“In the event, Freddie never actually lived there although Barbara fulfilled a huge role in Freddie’s life at that time… Freddie became very disillusioned when with more and more frequency articles were appearing in the German press’s gossip columns… about the relationship between him and Barbara… After one article claiming to have knowledge of him and Barbara getting married, Freddie concluded that it could only be Barbara who was providing the information.”

(He was actually living with his Bavarian boyfriend of the time, Winnie Kirchberger.) Freddie stopped seeing Barbara after he found out she was gossiping about being his lover and these stories started appearing in the newspapers. Barbara continued these lies after Freddie's death, making up ludicrous lies like how Freddie tried to kill her by smothering her with a pillow?? She also claimed that he put her at risk of contracting AIDS by having sex with her after his diagnosis in 1987, which is the lie that burns the most. Freddie stopped having sex altogether before his diagnosis because he was terrified of contracting it. Before there was any information of how it was transferred, he showered compulsively. There is such a fucked up narrative that Freddie threw caution to the wind and wasn't careful during the epidemic, that it somehow fits this twisted narrative that his death was a result of his immoral lifestyle. That's the pervasive homophobia that stained the Bohemian Rhapsody biopic.

LAJ is one of those biographers who publishes their books after the celebrity has died, so they wouldn’t be able to deny the information being written in the book. So if there's anything to learn here, is that you can't always trust a biography!

Anyway, Freddie was gay as a daffodil my dears, and he deserved better.

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I"ll forever insist in wanting to see this side of Bob in Sentry because too many people so far are writing/thinking Sentry is some kind of homelander-esque bad and violent superhero but no, besides the fact that he did NOT want to fight the Thunderbolts and was just testing out his powers and the other's strength (without really hurting taht bad any of them, he could've just thrown Alexei out the window without pulling him back, if he wanted to), Sentry is the embodiment and powered up version of Bob's desire to be a hero and help others! I want to see a positive, Superman moment for Sentry the golden guardian of good 😭💕💕💕

The fact that Bob's first priority is always to protect others but it almost got beat out of him by his parents. His first instinct was to protect his mother from his father but he was told he was making things worse 😭

It's why he wanted to go for the serum in the first place - to prove that he was something more. He tells Yelena that the serum was supposed to make him better which means he could help her and he tries to help throughout the whole escape from the vault. It's why he sacrifices himself for the others to get away.

Even after he's finally told he can do anything by Valentina (ughhhhh) he still tells the group that he doesn't want to hurt them and chooses to not kill any of them even when ordered to do so. He only fights when they attack him, he literally stands in one spot because he doesn't want to fight them. He just throws them to the side and lets them all leave.

In the Void, he tries to protect Yelena, he stands up to the Void when he sees Yelena get hurt and even the Void mocks him for trying to be "Robert the hero"...

My poor baby boy just wants to help people 😭

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boblena brainworms are legit taking over my mind to the point where i can’t function normally. like what do you mean a mind controlled child assassin who lost/was betrayed by everyone she ever cared about yet still longs for purpose and connection and love despite feeling like she doesn’t deserve it because of everything she’s done with a suicidal bipolar drug addict who’s been beaten down by everyone in his life that just wants to help people and be useful. he’s desperate for kindness and she’s desperate to give it. they only met because everything aligned just so on that particular day and now they can’t ever imagine being apart. they both had their autonomy taken and were treated like objects. it’s about healing together even if it’s not always perfect and discovering who they really are independent of their abusers.