#but after xmas

[quail-in-red]

Happy New Year, darlings!

2023 was kinda lousy for personal reasons, but I also started posting on tumblr this year and it’s been really fun making goofy drarry art! No idea what 2024 will bring but I’m glad to be here✨

[transmate]

i don't want someone scantily wrapped in ribbons under a christmas tree. no, that's such an overdone gift. i'd much rather handpick someone and bring them into my home to use as an offering for the winter solstice, undressing them in front of the hearth. telling them that if they're a good offering, i'll keep them and light a candle to drip on their shivering chest and thighs once a day for 12 days. assuring them they'll stay warm and safe if they keep my house and my cock even warmer. and all the while i'll adorn their skin with pretty white lace and hungry red bites...

[mikeykuns]

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[mobius-m-mobius]

Young, hot, brash. With more covers in his first year than any rookie model ever and an attitude that says, "Who cares? It's only fashion."

OWEN WILSON as HANSEL in ZOOLANDER (2001)

[rushingheadlong]

You know something I don't think I've ever seen people talk about is how Freddie changed the lyrics for Big Spender.

Because in case you don't know, all original versions of the song are sung by women - and it is made very clear that they are singing to men:

The minute you walked in the joint I could see you were a man of distinction A real big spender [....] So let me get right to the point: I don't pop my cork for every man I see Hey, big spender Spend a little time with me

Probably not too surprising, then, that when Queen performed this song in 1974 Freddie had to do a bit of a gender-switch on it:

Though, it would probably be more accurate to say that Freddie made this song gender-neutral because he didn't change it to be about a woman. He eliminated the first use of "man" entirely and then sang "I don't pop my cork for everyone I see" (instead of "every man").

And honestly there's probably a whole dissertation you could write just about those changes alone, but what I really love is when Queen brought the song back in 1986 and Freddie changed the lyrics again:

Because yes he still dropped the first "man" but the "everyone" is changed and Freddie instead sang "every guy" with just the barest hint of a "-rl" sound at the end to give him plausible deniability if anyone asked about it.

So much of Freddie's music speaks to his experiences as a queer man but, because of the nature of the times in which he lived, he couldn't always be directly open about that fact. Most of his love songs are intentionally vague, and he sang about "somebody" or "you" to avoid having to use gendered terms as much as possible.

Freddie singing "I don't pop my cork for every GUYrl I see" wasn't just an adjustment to the original lyrics, it was a specific change from how Freddie had sang it before in order to make it more gay in a way that he could rarely be with his own music, and that is what I adore about this. It's such a little thing, but it gives such a unique insight into how Freddie balanced his sexuality and his stardom, and how the relationship between those two changed over the nearly 12 years between these performances.

[semisolidmind]

what monster bf should i draw for christmas

should i bring back the snowman or do smth different

[dovesick]

charms

[cookkoo]

#shumakoxmas23 Day 3: Last Night Together

"You make every moment special"

[cosmicsponge2004]

MERRY DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS!!!

[bishy437]

got a surprise in the mail~!

🥰🥰🥰

[hajihiko]

My best friends my absolute belovedest that's all

[sadberrystuff]

YALL THERE'S A JUNO STEEL EP COMING OUT ON HALLOWEEN

[ardent-fox]

Galladrabbles: Room for More

Thank you to @dynamic-power for this lovely @galladrabbles prompt! Here's my humble offering of some S1 babies.

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"Gonna pay for that?"

Something undefinable flashes across Mickey's face before he snorts, smirk not quite reaching his eyes. "Think y'know the answer to that, Gallagher."

The sound of his surname cuts deeper than Mickey continuously complicating his job over silly snacks like-

Ian's heart sinks at the essentials stacked inside the box: milk, canned goods, fuckin' tampons for Mandy. At the energy bars bulging from his non-boyfriend's pockets that he'll undoubtedly scarf down in secret later, yet still have room for more.

He waits for Mickey to leave before fishing out a twenty and placing it inside the register.

[randy-jade-4ever]

MARRY YAOIMAS EVERYONE

On this precious day, Abel and Bunny find themselves under the mistletoe. You know what happens next!! Have a great Christmas everyone!!

[idk-bruh-20]

Irondad fic ideas #152

Every year around the holidays, a "bug war" breaks out in the Parker-Stark households 

Not bugs as in creepy crawlies. Technology bugs. Surveillance.

Tony and Peter are both determined to figure out what the other wants for the holidays 

The two are on surprisingly even ground: Peter's spider-sense doesn't consider this a threat, and FRIDAY won't snitch. They both have to find any "bugs" the old fashioned way.

Bonus:

Soon enough the whole Ironfam is wrapped up in it. November and December become a time of yearly paranoia, everyone watching what they say and "checking for bugs." 

Even Peter's friends discover tiny bugs on them. When Ned first learns the itty bitty robot behind his coat button is from Tony Stark trying to find out what he wants for Christmas he faints on the spot

Bonus 2, Crack Taken Seriously Boogaloo:

For a bit of drama: it's all fun and games until one year Peter gets kidnapped. The situation is bad. They only find him in time thanks to one of the "holiday bugs" Tony recently snuck on

[coldshrugs]

listened to boa too much today. sorry, io.