#Mercury and Me

[midnightostara]

"It was when I was getting his shorts on that I felt him try to raise his left leg to help a little. It was the last thing he did. I looked down at him knowing he was dead.

“Phoebe “ I cried out “I’m sorry, he’s gone ”

I slipped my arm under Freddie’s neck , kissed him and then held. His eyes were wide open. I can remember vert clearly the expression on his face - and when I go to sleep every night it’s still there in front of me. He looked radiant.

One minute he was a boy with a gaunt, sad little face and and next he was a picture of ecstasy. Freddie’s face ent back to everything it had been before. He looked finally and totally. Seeing him like that made me feel happy in my sadness. I felt an overwhelming sense of relief. I knew he was no longer in pain.

I stopped the tiny pin fly-wheel of the wind-up carraigr clock by the bed. I’d given it to Freddie because he told me he’d always wanted one. It read twelve minutes to seven. I’ve never started it again.

Jim Hutton - Mercury and me

[freddiefiction]

“A couple of days after I passed my test, Freddie, Joe and the others were sitting around in the kitchen. Terry came in through the garden with a twinkle in his eye. Freddie had secretly asked him to scout around and find me a car.

Freddie called me into the kitchen. On the table were some glossy brochures for a Volvo 740 GLE estate. ‘Here, pick a colour,’ said Freddie. He was serious. Mary objected to Freddie buying me this particular car. She felt it wasn’t wise for my first one to be brand-new. I thought she was talking a lot of sense. But Freddie would have none of it.

‘For God’s sake,’ he said to her. ‘It’s his birthday present. He gets a new car.’ ”

My favourite Mercury & Me moments (part 17/?)

[obsessivelollipoplalala]

Your take on M&M was sooo valid!! It still makes me so mad when people talk shit about Jim, as if it isn't clear that he was incredibly protective of Freddie and wouldn't have done anything that could hurt him. The book was literally a way to say Freddie was a good, kind, generous person and he was so so so loved always despite what the press was saying

Thank you. What’s funny is that my initial takes on M&M, Jim, and Mary haven’t changed after 5 years; they’ve only been reinforced after years of reading more sources. I read that book without any priors or biases going in, and I saw nothing but a grieving man who wanted to cope with the loss of his husband, get his story out there into the world after having to hide their relationship for years. I thought Jim’s account oozed with fondness, and he gave us a picture of Freddie that was remarkably human, flawed and moody but loving, sweet, and generous, too. That was my first real glimpse into who Freddie as a person was, and Jim’s loving account is what got me hooked.

I stand by all of my original assessments, including my subsequent assertion that anyone who dislikes Mercury and Me shouldn’t be trusted; brain worms ALWAYS follow.

[just-a-poor-boy-queen]

The book you should actually read from start to finish if you want cute Jimercury moments✨

Dm if you want a free digital copy♥️

[leesgirl]

[ghostofanovelwriter]

Why does Mercury and Me literally read like gay fanfic, I swear I’ve read like half of these anecdotes/tropes somewhere on ao3.

[patt-off]

ok yeah this game changer clip is just too memeable so

the tumblr one isn't about u tho it's about tumblr official who said silly things

[moriarty-sisters]

I need them to be together in the afterlife

[radioapple-heathen]

Art by @rozenn-blog

Summary:

“Why him?”

Lucifer crosses his arms over his stomach, hands clasping onto opposite elbows; a simulation of the hug he so desperately needs.

There’s a lot he can say here.

Like how Alastor makes his hopeless heart flutter with the belief that maybe dreams are still possible; that Alastor makes him feel something, anything, everything all at once, and it is as heavenly as it is torturous.

But all he can manage, in a voice so small he can scarcely believe it's his own, is, “He makes me laugh.”

[freddiefiction]

“Barbara Valentin was staying at Garden Lodge in the summer of 1987 and she and Freddie, dreaming up something to do, decided to fly to Austria for five days. I didn’t know a thing about their trip, and when the two of them left for the airport I was up the ladder trimming the ivy around the house.

I spotted Freddie looking up in a bit of a huff and he called up to me, though I didn’t hear what he said. I guessed they were probably going shopping. It was only when I came down from the ladder and went inside that Joe told me they had gone on holiday for a few days.

Freddie and Barbara were due back the following Sunday, but instead came back a day early, on the Saturday. Freddie sought me out straight away and we kissed. I asked him why he was back so early.

‘Because I wanted to be with you,’ he said.

And Barbara confirmed that he had been pining for me. ‘He really missed you,’ she told me.”

My favourite Mercury & Me moments (part 15/?)

[obsessivelollipoplalala]

I think it was important for Jim to mention their sex life because the press were obsessed with portraying Freddie as some reckless sexual degenerate, as they did with all LGBT people. But then Jim completely shatters that narrative by saying, ‘no, our sex life was normal, like any other couple.’

People need to keep in mind that this was published only a few years after Freddie died, and these disrespectful stories were still circulating about him (and they still are to this day, because it makes them money.) If my partner was being slandered publicly, being portrayed as some sort of deviant, and they weren’t around to defend themselves, you bet your ass I’d be setting the record straight.

That’s a good point. I don’t know if that was his explicit intention, but in the face of endless stories which portrayed Freddie as a WiLd sex addict, Jim said they just had normal sex and Freddie thought of it as lovemaking from early on. The book was only published 2-3 years after Freddie died, and at a time when gay memoirs were not popular in the slightest; people forget how brave it was of Jim to even publish a book like that tbh

[nettleparade]

SULEMIO FANS HOW WE FEELIIIIIIN

[ao3-crack]

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[arttuff]

popped collar v neck gang

[thatone-highlighter]

I love you albums. I love you songs connected by similar themes. I love you listening to songs in a specific order picked by the artist. I love you reoccurring motifs throughout the same album. I love you album covers. I love you albums with extended editions. I love you songs that reference each other.

[k-atsukibakugou]

eijiro kirishima who secretly loves it when you come n cry to him, loves when you depend on him like that, when you let him lay you down and pamper you, tucking you under covers while he gets you water and makes you dinner, who brushes his fingers over your skin until your sleeping soundly, who fists his cock in the bed next to you silently thinking about how you looked up at him with those fat tears in your eyes pleading with him to make you feel better, how your bottom lip trembled when you said his name

eijiro kirishima who’s ever the gentleman again the next day, waking you up with breakfast ready and asking you if you’re okay in the gentlest tone