#but i dont know if fef is okay with this ask she got getting a bunch of traction just bc i got upset and felt the need to say something

[im-a-fully-realized-creation]

hey fef, i don't wanna start a huge shitshow on your post, but as a queen fan and bi/pan person i really, really feel the need to say this.

here's the thing: freddie was extremely quiet about his private life! he did date a few women; he was engaged to one named mary austin and even wrote a song specifically about her ("love of my life"). the engagement was called off at some point though, and though the two didn't marry, they remained close friends throughout freddie's entire life.

it is common knowledge to us that he spent the last years of his life with a man named jim hutton (and the cats that were basically their kids, but that's neither here nor there).

but just because he spent his final years with a man doesn't mean he was 100% gay. you could argue that his relationship with mary was a result of him trying to prove to himself he was straight in the face of internalized homophobia, but... that seems like a disservice to their relationship. a relationship that lasted seven years, with a woman freddie wrote a song for, with one of the closest people in his life. in his will, he left her almost his entire estate. not jim hutton. he left it to her. i know sometimes gay and lesbian people go extreme lengths to try and "prove" to themselves that they're straight when they've been faced with so much homophobia, and im not saying that's something to be ashamed of because i get it, i really do. but claiming that this relationship was something like that feels like a disservice to both of them.

and here's the thing: even his fellow band members did not know his exact sexuality. he wasn't open about it! and why would he be, in a time with so much stigma and hatred? and to anon's point: i absolutely cannot find any source of freddie mercury calling himself "gay." if he has explicitly called himself gay, there would be no debate! he never said exactly what his sexuality was.

im just gonna end on this: bisexual was not a commonly used term when he was alive. in an era like today, where we have these specific, widely used labels? he might have called himself bisexual. or he might have called himself gay. or maybe he'd ditch the specific labels entirely and just call himself queer as an umbrella term. we don't know. there's no way of knowing exactly what his sexuality was. but by calling him 100% gay you are discrediting all the relationships he had with women. maybe it was just internalized homophobia. or maybe he was just fucking bisexual. we don't know, and we probably never will. what we do know for certain is that he loved men. whether or not it was just men or men and woman isn't something we should keep fighting about forever.

all in all, just let the damn people call him bisexual. in a world where we, as multisexual people, are faced with so much hatred from straight and gay people alike, it's kind of nice to think that someone as amazing as freddie might've been just like you. that he loved both women and men and even if he wasn't open about it, he felt the same way you do. isn't that a comfort we kinda fucking deserve?

hi! you reblogged that post about biphobia and while the post is great it calls freddy mercury bi, which is not true. freddy mercury was a gay man, and said so himself.

Uh okay

[ask-sickstuck]

Can I have a story where a baby troll/grub or toddler/wiggler gets sick and the human kids are looking after them and they don't know how to look after trolls and chaos ensues till they call their troll friends for help? Emeto content would be good too.

GG: baby karkat wont stop crying :(

CG: YEAH, HE’S LIKE THAT.

CG: WE NEVER KNOW WHAT DO FOR HIM.

CG: ME.

CG: HIM.

GG: why does he cry so much?!?

GG: this is really stressing us out

GG: we dont know what to do

CG: JADE, NOBODY CARES ABOUT ME MORE THAN ME, BUT I CAN’T WASTE MY TIME TRYING TO HELP YOU RIGHT NOW.

CG: OR US.

GG: technically its you were trying to help

GG: or I guess still us if you meant you and baby you

CG: I MEANT CURRENT ME AND YOU, BUT YOU ARE RIGHT.

CG: TECHINALLY.

CG: JADE, I’M SORRY.

CG: GRUB KARKAT’S GOT ISSUES.

CG: BUT I’M BUSY WITH MY TEENAGE KARKAT ISSUES RIGHT NOW.

CG: WE SENT THE GRUBS TO YOU 4 TO DEAL WITH SO THAT ECTOBIOLOGY BULLSHIT WOULDN’T FUCK US OVER WHEN FIGHTING JACK.

CG: OR, YOU KNOW, GET ANY GRUBS KILLED.

GG: dont talk about dead grubs

CG: SORRY.

GG: its ok were all just having a lot of trouble right now

CG: JADE, I’M REALLY SORRY.

CG: BUT I’VE GOT TO GO.

CG: DON’T TEXT BACK UNLESS SOMETHING CHANGES, GOT IT?

GG: got it!

GG: oops ok shutting up now

“I don’t know, Jade,” Dave said while holding Aradia. “Maybe grubs are just difficult. They warned us that Eridan and Karkat were both really hard.”

“This isn’t normal for him,” Jade insisted as she held the screaming grub.

“It seems normal to me,” said Dave, and Jade shot him a dirty look.

“Jade, I didn’t say that to upset you,” Dave promised. “I was just making a joke.”

“It’s not funny,” said Jade. “I’m scared.”

“I am, too.”

Suddenly, Karkat’s slobber bubbled up and he was hurling red slop all over his face. Jade quickly tilted him up, which she instantly regretted, realising it probably shook him even more.

“Aah!” Jade tried not to yell out of surprise.

“ROSE,” Dave’s voice cracked as he called for help.

“John!” Jade yelled. “Get paper towels!”

“I’m kinda busy!” John yelled.

“JOHN!” Jade screamed.

Aradia start crying.

“Sorry,” Dave apologised to the baby as he sat her down on the carpet. He nearly reached back for her, unesasy about his decision, but he had Karkat to deal with.

“Nobody step on the baby on the floor,” Dave said as Rose ran over. They all exchanged horrified looks, and Rose ran to move Aradia to one of the playpens. She rushed back as John appeared with some napkins.

“Oh, god,” John dropped the napkins on top of Karkat, not knowing what to do or having any desire to clean. “Sick.”

Jade’s bottom lip quivered as she cleaned Karkat up.

“Can somebody please message one of the trolls?” Jade asked. “Karkat’s just going to yell at me, but we need help.”

“I’ll talk to Fef,” John offered. “She’s probably the least busy.”

John pulled out his phone while Jade tried to soothe the gross baby.

“He needs sopor slime!” John yelled out as he got a response. “Like, to eat some!”

“They can eat it?” asked Jade.

“Gamzee sure has,” Dave pointed out.

“Okay, maybe my question was not with whether or not they can eat it, but they should eat it?”

“Perhaps it’s worth the risks if it’s for a valid medicinal purpose,” Rose theorised. “That doesn’t necessarily make me comfortable with feeding it to an infant, though.”

John filled a paper bowl with sopor slime and spooned it into Karkat’s mouth between screams.

Rose seemed anxious, but she stood by, not stopping anyone or exactly helping them drug the child.

“His little throat’s going raw…” Dave frowned.

“Should you give him more?” asked Jade. “I mean, he ate it just fine.”

“I don’t think so,” said John.

“How long does it take to work?” asked Dave.

“I don’t know,”

Karkat started to hiccup, and his cries lightened.

Jade felt her own shoulders relax as the baby started to calm down. She gave the grub a small smile, and he yawned.