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To add onto this: I absolutely love the surreal backstage energy of larp conventions between games. It's like speedrunning this entire experience.

You can play out an incredible story in the morning with someone you just met, then run into them by chance an hour later, after a frenzied costume change, in the elevator or the bathroom mirror or the concessions line or with a half-eaten lunch still in your hand, when you are COMPLETELY different people. And what's going on over there? Just Mr. Darcy waving to the cheerleading coach from fairyland high school and some cats chatting with a beleaguered GM carrying a full-size cursed mummy prop. Can't make this shit up.

Larp is weird cause like in one campaign this guy is my traumatised brother who died in my arms, in another he’s my twin who I finish sentences with, in another he’s my opposite who’s the sheep to my fox yet he’s the predator, in another he’s my only friend in immortality, and in one we don’t know each other at all

And it’s like this with everyone, like what do you mean I’m mortal enemies with the person who was my soulmate in another universe? What do you mean that the wife who died in my arms, betrayed me in another life? What do you mean that the man who killed my brother is also my father? What do you mean that one of my closest confidants whom I’ve watched go through hell for his wife is also the silliest guy I’ve ever seen?

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Larps based on your favorite IP are an underrated form of fanwork. No, I don't want to tell the characters what to do or decide exactly what I think they should do, I want to put them all in a jar and periodically shake it.

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A quick search revealed that Kansas opened for Queen in 1974 on the Sheer Heart Attack tour, which would have been a) shortly after Brian's double health scare, and b) while they were still with Trident and the math of what the tour made versus what they themselves made was, as one might say say, not mathing. So these were still the cheap years. Kansas drummer Phil Ehart also says that Brian checked in on them and advocated for them with the management when they weren't given enough time, space, or lights, so that's also very cool.

I can’t find a source for this but it was posted on a facebook group the other day and has a very cute ending about cheese and tomato sandwiches:

"Queen were all great guys, just great guys. We knew nothing about Freddie being gay or anything, and it really wouldn't have mattered anyway… but it was just a lot of fun. Roger Taylor was not listed, but he sang on Kansas’ song, 'Play the Game Tonight,' singing the choruses… the highest voices belonged to Roger Taylor… because we’re all buddies, and he was in town.

John Deacon was a very quiet guy; he did not talk so much. Brian was just a proper British gentleman, a very nice guy, interesting. Freddie was a good guy. Yeah, we're always staying in the same hotel, traveling sort of together.

The funniest thing I remember is every time we’d meet in a restaurant somewhere on the road, kind of traveling in tandem, they always ate cheese and tomato sandwiches…

I don't know if they're afraid of American meat or they were vegetarians or what, but it was ‘Cheese and tomatoes, for four, please…' They were really good guys."

Rich Williams Guitarist of Kansas

Kansas opened for Queen on one of their tours I think. How typical that Roger ended up singing on one of their songs.

I love the image of all four of them ordering cheese and tomato sandwiches on tour at every stop.

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I tried to make a playlist of chill downtempo Queen songs to unwind to and I ended up just having my heart broken repeatedly by Brian May. Rude.

You know the song was written by Brian May if you listen to it and you feel like your soul is bleeding. Or crying. Or screaming

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i cannot blame cats for using their fangs to put perfect little stapler holes in cardboard bc if i had such fangs you bet your ass id be doing that too

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Why I can't get anything done around here:

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I love this photo of Roger 😻

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Never seen this before, lol

Roger playing with Tigerlily’s dog, shared by rogermtaylor73 on Instagram. (Og source from Tigerlily’s Stories I think)

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Brian: See, Freddie did graphic desing at Ealing, didn’t he? And one of his projects was advertising. They were supposed to come up with slogans and i’m sure it was Freddie who was coming up with some sort of product… A ficticious product! And his motto was “Adds lacquer to your knackers”

Roger: Knacker lacquer!

Brian: That’s right!

Roger: “Adds luster to your cluster”

Brian: Exactly! That was the thing!

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Roger and Brian talking about their moments while playing “Scrabble” (From Queen: Days of Our Lives, 2011)

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i unironically think that the resurgence of mustache culture has brought about a male slut era that is in many ways still in its infancy but is growing day by day. hemlines are getting shorter, chest hair is growing back, tops are cropped. gone are the dark, dark days when the sluttiest thing a man could do was roll up the sleeves of his button up office shirt. we are returning to the light of mustache rides and teeny tiny swim shorts. amen.

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"We do not have the responsibility of making gay life look good to straights so that they will accept us. I am not at all interested in promoting a cleaned up image to a straight world which is twice as corrupt and ten times as sick."

Vito Russo

Photography by Betty Lane, 1978

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So inviting and sexy

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i'm burning through the sky 93.333 degrees that's why they call me mr celsius

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tell me a fact about the band Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd is one of the 13 Floyds of the rainbow, created by the wizard Andrew Floyd Merlin in the time before Eld. The Pink Floyd exerts a calming influence with tinges of darkness and psychedelic experience. It is calmer than Red Floyd, but not so peaceful as the Orange or Yellow Floyds.

Beware the Black Floyd which can open portals to other realms at the cost of the listener's sanity. Should it ever fall into the hands of the Gizzard King or his loyal squamous wizard, we will be doomed.