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Queen • Borhap

@blind-melon-taylor

Bisexual • She/her
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queen is so much more pure than so many other rock bands in the 70s and 80s like the most intense fight they ever had was when brian and roger got into an argument backstage that almost got physical until they walked in on freddie eating cereal in his underwear and they all started laughing and forgot what they were fighting about

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Queen dressing in individual styles but still as a unit

They managed this so many times over the years that I don’t know anymore whether it was accidentally on purpose, due to the amount of time they spent with each other borrowing from each others’ wardrobes and internalising each others’ styles, or actual conversations of “what are you going to wear?”

Most often they kept it very simple, black, white and an accent colour (usually one of the primary colours, red, blue or yellow)

John and Brian are in classy black and white, both with small, discreet pattern on some of their clothes (John’s starry shirt, Brian’s pinstripes), Roger has opted a whole black look (and that Hat) but the textures of his clotes are shiny so he stands out. Freddie is the pop of colour with the yellow jacket, but the stripes echo Brian’s pinstripe suit and the small embroidery on the neckline of his top ties together with the small pattern on John’s shirt. Genius.

Another similar version, with Brian and John in black and white again, and Roger and Freddie bringing the primary colours. Also note freddie’s star top and John’s iconic starry shirt, as well as Freddie and Roger’s long and thin necklaces.

Another favourite of theirs was a 3+1 look, in which three of them would dress in either black (or generally dark colour) or white and one would dress in an opposite colour than the other three. Accent colours in red and/blue. Observe:

(I must mention Roger’s to-die-for vintage 30s devore velvet jacket in that photo above ^)

Here’s another more subdued version of the 3+1 look, the only light focal points being Brian’s shirt and Freddie’s iconic 50s vintage embroidered flower jacket.

One more classic unit look would be a combination of black, white, jeans blue and yellow, plus a shared pattern such as stripes. See below how Brian and Roger are in all black, with white and yellow which tie to Freddie’s outfit and John brings the additional primary colour with the double denim and white cap.

Another version, with same colours, but also a shared stripe pattern.

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tenderbri

Roger Taylor really just dropped a new single yesterday and told absolutely nobody about it. King of self-promotion.

Brian promoting musical projects:

*often talks about it weeks in advance*

*makes like five posts in a row*

*posts six stories with badly framed shots of whatever and has the song playing over it*

*writes an entire novel about how proud he is*

Roger promoting musical projects:

*a day late*: Idk here’s a song I guess, leave me alone. #isolation link in bio

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Baby You Were My Picket Fence [Chapter 9: Sympathy For The Devil]

You are a first grade teacher in sunny Los Angeles, California. Ben Hardy is the father of your most challenging student. Things quickly get complicated in this unconventional love story.  

Song inspiration: Miss Missing You by Fall Out Boy.

Chapter warnings: Language, awkwardness, snark, angst??!?!

Link to chapter list (and all my writing) HERE

A/N: Special shout out to @deaky-with-a-c for the Welsh cakes idea! :) Also I swear the gif choice makes sense. Happy reading.

Please let me know if I forgot anyone!!!

You glare down at the contents of the envelope as you lift the unsealed flap. Inside is $300 cash.

“Eli?”

He glances up from where he’s sprawled on the fuzzy purple rug with a copy of Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham. The class earned a half hour of quiet free time following a successful earthquake drill, so the children are scattered throughout the room and coloring, reading, and stacking Legos to their hearts’ content. “Yeah?”

“Can you come over here to my desk please? Just for a minute.”

“Ughhhhh.” Eli rolls his bright blue eyes, attracting scandalized stares from his fellow first graders. But he eventually plods to his feet and complies.

“Firstly,” you say once he’s standing beside your desk in a Beatles t-shirt. “I want to thank you for remembering to get your behavior chart signed. You did an awesome job with that, and I feel like this is going to be a great system going forward. I know I can count on you to meet my expectations.”

“Okay,” Eli replies, and though he tries to act indifferent you can tell he’s pleased.

“Secondly…I noticed that even though your dad signed the chart, he left this envelope I sent home in your folder. Do you know if he saw it or not?”

“He definitely saw it,” Eli says bluntly.

“Oh.” You blink at the $300, then turn back to Eli. “Did he say anything about it?”

“He said it was a classroom donation and you should buy more crayons with it or something.”

What the hell daddy demon, just take your I’m-gonna-pretend-to-be-charming-and-generous-before-dropping-my-fiancée’s-existence-on-you-like-a-literal-truckload-of-bricks money back. “Well, that’s a nice thought, but your dad should have kept the envelope.”

Eli shrugs impatiently. “What do you want me to do about it? Can I go finish my book now?”

“Yes, Eli,” you sigh. “You’re free. Thank you.”

“Bye!”

You watch Eli race back to his spot on the rug with a vague, unexpected fondness. You had worried that Eli looking so jarringly like Santina would make it painful to work with him, would feel like an inescapable reminder of all the things that you are not: divine, perfect, classically gorgeous, enticingly tempestuous, loved by Ben. But with each passing day you see more of Eli’s father in him: in his nervous habit of tapping his chin with the end of his pencil, the wide set of his eyes, the way his brooding face opens up like sunlight burning away morning fog when something makes him smile. And for some reason—though you are nearly positive that Ben is your mortal enemy—those enduring pieces of him don’t make it harder for you to like Eli at all. 

Oh my GOD

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WRITING EXERCISE WORKSHEETS (vol. 1)

Volume 1 of many in my endless gratitude for everyone’s support!

They are Google Docs meant to be printed or copied (File > Make a Copy) and used for writing exercises. I hope you like them and please please please let me know if you use them and find them helpful! It’s what I live for.

(I also made them all by myself and worked really hard on them, so please don’t repost, just reblog this! Thank you!)

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