Announcing Maycury Week 2022
It's Brian's birthday again and this time he's turning 75! 35 he's totally turning 35, really. We love him very much here, and so it's time to give him the very best we can imagine - meaning Freddie of course!
Maycury Week this year will run from Freddie's birthday, Sept 5 - Sept 11. We've prepared four prompts for each day: a quote, an AU, a situation, and a song.
Rules! It's Maycury Week, so the central pairing should be Freddie and Brian, whether you want that to be Platonic or Romantic. No word count requirements, poetry music and imagery are as welcome as stories, and the prompts are only for inspiration - if you have an idea that doesn't match any prompt, we will be thrilled to see that too!
There will be a collection on AO3 which will go live the weekend before, as well as a round up of Tumblr posts at the end. Please tag everything “#Maycury Week 2022” so we can find it.
Let's get to it! Here are this year's prompts!
Monday - Moon - themes: emotions, instincts, habits, mood, unconscious
Quote: “I’m sorry, I think this was actually yours.”
AU: Soulmates AU
Scenario: Brian and Freddie mirror one another's behaviors
Song: Soul Brother
Tuesday - Mars - themes: action, desire, aggression, motivation, sex, competition, courage, precision
Quote: “Look, I know you said you wanted to tear it up, but I didn’t think this was what you meant!”
AU: Pirates AU
Scenario: Injury recovery
Song: Seven Seas of Rhye
Wednesday - Mercury - themes: communication, intellect, reason, language, intelligence
Quote: “But do dreams ever end? Haven’t you found yourself in a dream you had seen before?”
AU: Detective AU
Scenario: Rubberducking (Brian explains a problem he’s stuck on to Freddie and figures it out on his own by the end of the explanation.)
Song: White Queen (As It Began)
Thursday - Jupiter - themes: expansion, optimism, abundance, good fortune, luck, growth, understanding
Quote: “I don’t have a reason for it, but everything just seems a little better now.”
AU: Gilded Age
Scenario: Sheltering from the rain in this restaurant when the sun comes out
Song: Back to the Light
Friday - Venus - themes: love, beauty, art, attraction, relationships, harmony
Quote: "If we can find a place we actually belong, where we're at peace, who's to deny us?"
AU: Solarpunk
Scenario: A rooftop garden walk
Song: Bijou
Saturday - Saturn / Pluto - themes: restriction, pessimism, structure, goals, ambition, responsibility / transformation, obsession, power, control, death, rebirth, evolution
Quote: “You either surrender, or you take over, make a change.”
AU: Willy Wonka
Scenario: Chocolate Factory Tour (doesn't have to be connected to the AU)
Song: Is This the World We Created…?
Sunday - Sun - themes: self, main concerns, vitality, personality, ego
Quote: “Well, that’s the fear, isn’t it? Losing yourself, to have someone.”
AU: Runaways / Escape
Scenario: Helping one another cross difficult terrain
Song: Living On My Own
General rules: Everyone is welcome! But hate is not, so please: Don’t Interact With Trolls. If you feed them they just come back for more! Stick to Freddie/Brian for romantic or Freddie&Brian for platonic as the primary relationship, and let’s give Brian the best possible 75th birthday! no it's totally his 35th
(Please bring any questions you may have to our ask box. Thanks to @plainxte for our header, and @freddie-mercurial for starting this glorious tradition!)
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@shades-of-tiefes-purpur 💖♥️💖 thank you my love for the tag, I always appreciate! Yesterday and today was rough so that’s why I’m late to reply…
Header: Silver Strand Beach 💚✨
Icon: Right now it’s just a photo of me in black and white
Description: currently it’s “Simona ❁ Is é Ruairí grá mo chroí ❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎
I’ve cried enough tears to fill up an ocean, Surely you see that my world’s been broken”
-> my first name, Irish Gaelic for “Rory is the love of my heart” , and lyrics from Rory Gallagher’s Edged in Blue from album Calling Card (1976), one of my all time favourite songs ♥️.
Content: This blog is ancient, but I only started using it in 2020 and then it was a Queen (band) account primarily. Now it is a classic rock, blues, western/cowboys, nature and whatever else collection of things I love, I’m always on about my favourite things…
Background colour: Forest Green, one of my favourite colours along with sea blue
URL meaning: death-by-mercury, it’s my original url and I don’t plan on changing it. It originally was referring to Freddie Mercury (hence mercury), and really I just think it sounds cool. But it’s kind of funny if you think of it literally… death by (Freddie) Mercury… it’s supposed to sound kind of like “death by chocolate” or something I donno.
Blog Title meaning: “Damn the Torpedoes, Full Speed Ahead” I am referring to the 1943 movie, “The More, The Merrier” in which Mr Dingle repeats the line throughout the movie, although the quote is originally by Admiral David Glasgow Farragut… so there’s that, it’s a good movie, I recommend it :))
Full movie is on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NzvjYjVDHIY
->if you fast forward to 5:12 in the movie you can hear him saying rhe quote
Tagging @jonesyjonesyjonesy
@beanifred @m00ndingochan @shamanbluesss @thegroovywitch @greyhound-locker @greensleeves2107 @milkyway-ashes @blunderbussin @childoftheriver @clinteastwood-blog @d3adite @dustywoolhat
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omg i love everything about your theme nd intro post so much!! <3
the blue aesthetic, the rainy header pic, the Oscar wilde quote!!
Fix you by Coldplay bcz YES 🫶
awwwww thank you sm!!!<3 ur header is literally the best thing i've seen on the internet, no kidding Freddie Mercury would be PROUD. And I'm so glad to see a fellow Oscar Wilde and Coldplay fan!!!<333
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