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so there's this post by theprophetsaid:
"Well, I can tell you how [Freddie and I] didn't meet, first of all, 'cause it's very odd that Freddie spent his young childhood in Zanzibar but his family moved over here to Feltham, and I was in Walsham Road and he was in Boundaries Road, probably about 400 yards away, and we never met."
keywords: Walsham Road; Boundaries Road, 400 yards
being my very normal self thank you very much, i dug around the maps a bit
Many kisses for Antique Maps & Prints for aiding my shenanigans. The map is from 1965.
Walsham Road is circled in red and Boundaries Road in purple
Now for the enlightened, 400 yards is roughly 366m. And when you search on Google Maps, the distance from the two is around 1.2km. I walked the same distance to work pre-dawn many times but still, it's off, because obviously, 366m ≠ 1.2km
Then I search the address of Freddie's Feltham house and guess what, it's on Gladstone Avenue. And where is that?
Gladstone Avenue is circled in blue and Walsham Road in red
The distance between the two streets are roughly 500m. Now, this is closer to Brian's 366m estimation.
Conclusion: Brian got one road wrong but the distance correct-ish.
The possibility that they could have walked past each other before actually knowing each other is high and certainly never zero.
George Tremlett, author of the first ever published Queen biography, was so suspicious about the claim that they never met even though they lived so close together, that he spends pages of the book telling how he thought it must be a made up story. It wasn’t until he met Brian’s parents and they spent hours talking to him and convinced him of their and Brian’s honesty that he finally believed it must be true.
if i write this into my fic ppl'd yell "PLOT HOLE!"
I will never shut up about how underrated Freddie and Anita's friendship was!!
Brian: nowhere to be found
Anita: vibing with the gays at Garden Lodge
I fucking love them and I love her
I was having friends over and put Queen for some music, (safe to say we weren’t all that sober that day,) and the music video of It’s A Hard Life played on the telly, my guy friend who knew nothing about Queen said it was like a weird wedding between Freddie and Brian 💀
It reminds me of when I first got into Queen and Maycury after watching a simple gig of theirs and noticing the chemistry of Brian and Freddie.. I still recall the feeling of surprise when I googled their relationship and saw they apparently hated each other 😭 I really don’t know how that narrative started, do you have an idea or breakdown?
First things first: I love how Brian was the only band member who was on board with Freddie's insane video concept, lmao. You can see it in the photos from that day, too. Brian's all smiley. Roger and John look like two middle schoolers forced to pose for their mother on the first day of school. But I digress.
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The misconceptions about Freddie and Brian's relationship are one of the biggest mysteries in the fandom, I think. It doesn't make any sense to me. It never did. I had the exact same experience as you. One of my first introductions to Queen was the Live Aid performance. After watching that, I was intrigued by Freddie and Brian's dynamic. They seemed really close to me right off the bat. Then I went online and found out that they... hated each other??? That Brian is actually a secret homophobe??? (Source: Trust Me Bro!)
I'm not sure how or when it started. Some of it may be due to the age-old 'The Lead Singer and Guitarist Must Have Beef' cliché that seems to haunt classic rock spaces. But, digging deeper, I think most of it stems from the fact that a lot of Queen "fans" just... hate Brian. They think he's annoying or unlikable (for reasons that I genuinely don't understand), and so they don't want Freddie (who, in their eyes, was flawless) to have been close with him.
so there's this post by theprophetsaid:
"Well, I can tell you how [Freddie and I] didn't meet, first of all, 'cause it's very odd that Freddie spent his young childhood in Zanzibar but his family moved over here to Feltham, and I was in Walsham Road and he was in Boundaries Road, probably about 400 yards away, and we never met."
keywords: Walsham Road; Boundaries Road, 400 yards
being my very normal self thank you very much, i dug around the maps a bit
Many kisses for Antique Maps & Prints for aiding my shenanigans. The map is from 1965.
Walsham Road is circled in red and Boundaries Road in purple
Now for the enlightened, 400 yards is roughly 366m. And when you search on Google Maps, the distance from the two is around 1.2km. I walked the same distance to work pre-dawn many times but still, it's off, because obviously, 366m ≠ 1.2km
Then I search the address of Freddie's Feltham house and guess what, it's on Gladstone Avenue. And where is that?
Gladstone Avenue is circled in blue and Walsham Road in red
The distance between the two streets are roughly 500m. Now, this is closer to Brian's 366m estimation.
Conclusion: Brian got one road wrong but the distance correct-ish.
The possibility that they could have walked past each other before actually knowing each other is high and certainly never zero.
if anything, it's actually WEIRDER that they met in uni given how far ealing art college and imperial college london was
so there's this post by theprophetsaid:
"Well, I can tell you how [Freddie and I] didn't meet, first of all, 'cause it's very odd that Freddie spent his young childhood in Zanzibar but his family moved over here to Feltham, and I was in Walsham Road and he was in Boundaries Road, probably about 400 yards away, and we never met."
keywords: Walsham Road; Boundaries Road, 400 yards
being my very normal self thank you very much, i dug around the maps a bit
Many kisses for Antique Maps & Prints for aiding my shenanigans. The map is from 1965.
Walsham Road is circled in red and Boundaries Road in purple
Now for the enlightened, 400 yards is roughly 366m. And when you search on Google Maps, the distance from the two is around 1.2km. I walked the same distance to work pre-dawn many times but still, it's off, because obviously, 366m ≠ 1.2km
Then I search the address of Freddie's Feltham house and guess what, it's on Gladstone Avenue. And where is that?
Gladstone Avenue is circled in blue and Walsham Road in red
The distance between the two streets are roughly 500m. Now, this is closer to Brian's 366m estimation.
Conclusion: Brian got one road wrong but the distance correct-ish.
The possibility that they could have walked past each other before actually knowing each other is high and certainly never zero.
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"We'd like to feature a very well-known fireplace"
my headcanon is that mags would personally make the ring himself
it says a lot about "the show must go on" when it's the only song i remembered after i watched moulin rouge for the first time at around 11-12. yeah, the film with PRIME NICOLE KIDMAN mind you. and i didn't remember anything else from the film. just that song and a very, very, very beautiful goddess from above
Mick Rock exhibit at the Morrison hotel gallery in New York this month, apparently
Queen's mentioned
The event, titled Queen Heaven, will take place at the National Space Centre in Leicester on May 29.
also, how dare you write about Queen hits being played at UK's largest planetarium without mentioning one of its members is a doctor of Astrophysics 😂
everything i know about maycury, i know against my will
oh, nice ballad. they refer to all their songs. it also doubles as a wedding song. so cool. one of the best song in "hot space" for sure. wait, it's written by who to whom?! (soul brother)
haha, the plot of this musical is so silly. wait, the reincarnation of who falls in love with whom?!?! (we will rock you musical)
yeah, i also kms over what ifs every day. wait, "otro tu"?!?!?! (another world spanish ver.)
what a banger freddie wrote. wait, it was written by brian?! but it's about freddie and his boyfriend?!?!?!?!
awwww, i would say "i love you" to him if i could see him now, too. wait, "te amo" and not "te quiero"?!?!?!?!?!
okay, this shit must be made up, right? no, they really like the same movie women in love (1969), which is queer-themed?!?!?!?!?!?!
awwww, freddie kept photos of his bandmates. wait, that's brian with his depression beard?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
had to do a double take on the lyrics of "bijou"
One of the lines in the very original production of We Will Rock You is "That's beautiful Galileo [Freddie], you're beautiful" from Scaramouche [Brian]. And that plus knowing that Galileo was gonna call everyone 'Darling' in the very early drafts made me literally throw my glasses off - no real question i just thought that it was at least, discussion worthy as there seems to be a LOT of repressed feelings that come out in that show; including the infamous WWTLF scene with "i found something to live for, you" being one of the predecessing lines.
Oh my God. That first line...
The man who said, "Orion, the most beautiful constellation in the sky, would suit Freddie perfectly."
The man who took this photo of Freddie:
.... yEAH. That tracks.
The more I hear about this musical, the more insane I become. I first thought the reincarnation thing was gimmicky, but it does seem like they put some thought into it. AND GOD.
Roger performing at the Winchester Auto Barn a couple days ago to help raise money for people with limb differences so they can get the prosthetics they need (from the Winchester Auto Barn instagram)
Pictured also in the first photo: Alex Lewis, who became a quadruple amputee after a Strep A toxic shock syndrome infection
had a dream about them this morning. young Grindeldore are hanging out in the city. they've just found a ring which has immense magical power and apparate to a crowded crossroad. Albus's like, "okay, let's do it." he means to go back to their hideout and examine the artifact but dumbass Waldie (yeah, Albus calls him that for unknown reasons) gets on one knee and Albus bursts out laughing and stops him midway cos, welp, homophobia?! like, you don't propose your male love when you yourself is a man in victorian-era britain, Waldie boy. then happy years. they adopt a daughter. she's in ravenclaw. after her death at 12, their relationship 📉📉📉 and then they part ways. then the story follows canon
the funniest thing is that this is shown as a movie trilogy about Dumbledore. only until i woke up did i remember the shit show was cancelled. my subconscious just cooked sth better than whatever the fuck jkr farted out, didn't it?
ps: the grown-up!Grindelwald in my dream is Mads Mikkelsen ✌🏻as things should be
i find the lack of academic books about queen infuriatingly mildly annoying
