The Drunk Whovian

I like Doctor Who, video games (mostly RPGs), anime, Supernatural, science, Manchester United, and The Avengers. I'll mostly post stuff about these things. Ask me anything

[rodneymckays]

Stargate Atlantis | 2x07 Instinct

[roger-taylor-owns-my-wigg]

every person can feel freddie’s presence in their souls when they sing MAMAAAAAA UUHHHH, I DONT WANNA DIE, I SOMETIMES I WISH I’VE NEVER BEEN BORN AT ALL with all the air in their lungs i’m not joking

[peachdisco]

it’s fucking crazy to think about the amount of people who have sung bohemian rhapsody? like it’s such a unifying song, by nature of the fact that so many people know it. it holds so many good memories for me and other people. it’s a song you scream in the car with your friends while you drive around your boring hometown, it’s a song you drunkenly sing with your arm around your best friend, or a song you sing along to with strangers when it’s on in public. it’s bittersweet to think about freddie’s legacy carrying on like that through his masterpiece. freddie carries on because he’s a part of so many people’s good memories and bohemian rhapsody is a huge part of that.

[deathbutwithfuzzyanimals]

Reblog if you have sung bohemian rhapsody with your friends

[reikah-deactivated20190906]

every time i see this post i’m reminded of the video of 65,000 people singing bohemian rhapsody in near-perfect harmony

like, what other song can make that claim?

[crewdlydrawn-deactivated2022072]

Some of the highlights of that video include:

The crowd cheering after the first stanza when they realize what they’re all doing

So many people audibly ‘doing the guitar parts’… like ya do

The sheer number of voices joining the rediculous falsetto (thanks, Roger)

How they all start jumping at the ramp-up “so you think you can stomp me”

Hands up, hundreds, thousands deep for the final “ooooo”s and the last line to close the song

[aces-to-apples]

Only days before my state went into lockdown, “Bohemian Rhapsody” came on in the restaurant kitchen I’d just been hired at and, no shit, every single worker in that little diner started singing along. Me (the only queer afaik), the manager, all the other kitchen workers, the dishwasher up front, the two people on the counter, all but two of the men over 30. Just belting out Freddie Mercury at the top of their lungs. And you can bet when “sometimes I wish I’d never been born at all” came around, we every single one of us ramped up the intensity and basically made sure Freddie could hear us in the afterlife.

[zohbugg]

[solitarelee]

[iamthespineofmybook]

One of the things that struck me, listening to the video, is that you cannot distinguish the original vocals from the crowd, and sometimes you can barely hear the music. And the POV is on the stage the speakers are playing the song from!

There’s good reason why, nearly fifty years after the height of their career, Queen is still considered one of the best bands of all time ever.

(And how albums left lying about in cars will eventually metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.)

[prismatic-bell]

Something else that’s rather incredible about this is, Bohemian Rhapsody is a very difficult song from a technical standpoint. Like–humor me, okay, go flip it on and try to sing the whole thing at the top of your voice without falling off-key, out of breath, or cracking at least once. Then come back.

Okay. You’re back? Welcome back. Unless you’re a trained singer, you probably can’t do it. There are too many long notes, too many key changes, and too many places where–if you’re singing all the parts–you’re just up and down the scale too damned fast. I’m saying this as a trained singer and I can’t do it. I always crack on “magnifico” and “leave me to die,” and I have a pretty decent range, but I know I sound ugly as hell on that final coda.

Okay. Now that we’ve established that, I want to talk a little about singing as a chorus. One of the things a lot of people learned during the pandemic is how hard it is to take twenty people, all in different places, and stitch them together to make a single coherent song with perfect pitch and timing. You’re all practicing on slightly your own tempo, slightly your own key, even if you’re all working from the same base track. (You can see this in a lot of the Wellerman compilations from Tiktok, where someone always says “Soon” a moment before everyone else on “soon may the Wellerman come.”) When you have a chorus comprised of many smaller choruses that are all traveling to be together, this is what dress rehearsal is for–to get all of you onto the same tempo so you’re starting and finishing at exactly the same time. This is a thing that normally only happens after at least several days of practice, and it is an important skill that must be taught. You’re not just born knowing how to do this.

I do not know how many people at that Green Day concert were trained singers. But I do know there is no way in hell all few thousand of them were a single group–they showed up a few at a time, maybe even flying solo for the night. Now go and listen to the video again. Listen to the ends of verses and the pickups. They’re fucking crisp as hell. Everyone is starting and ending at the same place. Not even a single note off. (And yes, you can hear when it’s a single note off, even in a crowd that big. A handful of people would be enough to throw it off.) And while a few in the crowd may be off-key, so many more are on-key that the cumulative effect is of the song being on-key. This isn’t even the band they’re there to see.

They don’t just know this song, this technically-difficult song, this long and complex song by a completely different band. They know it perfectly. They know it down to the fucking note. They know it so well that they did it in perfect synchrony, without a single chance to practice.

Do you know how insane that is?

[proshipper-on-ship]

May the Sirens sing his soul to steady serenity

[dduane]

MAMAAAAAAAAAA…..!

[mooninfini]

EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT THE EARLY PARTS

WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT THE FUCKING HIGH SOPRANO NOTE NEAR THE END

BITCHES, I’M A HIGH SOPRANO AND SOMETIMES I CAN’T DO IT

ME, A SINGER WHO CAN HIT TRIPLE HI A AND TRIPLE HI B, CAN SOMETIMES NOT HIT THAT NOTE.

If magic isn’t involved, I will rise from my grave to haunt humanity.

[greenheart-anon]

[unrecorded]

[ID: A TikTok by kotjcosplay. A Deadpool cosplayer runs through a parking lot, holding Captain America’s shield and singing to the tune of “In the Hall of the Mountain King,” “Here comes the consequence, consequence, consequence, consequences of my actions, chasing me right now!” The camera pans to reveal a Captain America cosplayer is chasing him. The Deadpool cosplayer continues to sing as he runs, “I don’t want no consequence, consequence, consequence, I don’t want no consequences chasing me right now!” As the Captain America cosplayer gets closer, his singing speeds up and becomes more frantic: “Someone take this consequence, consequence, consequence, someone take this consequence that’s chasing me right now!” By the final verse, he’s more yelling than singing as he says in a rush, “Jesus take this consequence, consequence, consequence, Jesus take this consequence that’s chasing me right now!” The video cuts off on his scream. /End ID]

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

i dont like most engl fan chants but these two are hilarious

[everythingfox]

“Fluffy husky startup”

(via)

[volcainist]

Goalkeepers’ balls get photoshopped into cats.

[milkchocolatepuppies]

This is so natural. Like i didn’t question it

[naamahdarling]

I accepted this like a chicken with a golf ball.

[penny-anna]

also consider: LOTR but hobbits have Tapeta Lucidum

Boromir gets the fright of his life their first night on the road

[penny-anna]

Boromir: *glances over his shoulder* ??!!!!???!!

Hobbits:

Hobbits: what

[tehri]

i will never get over that you used an image of raccoons for this purpose because it is incredibly accurate

[penny-anna]

LOTR au but instead of hobbits literally raccoons

Gandalf: well this raccoon found the ring and has been carrying it around. unfortunately we can’t take it off him or he gets very bite-y. so I figure, the raccoon is the ringbearer now

Elrond: what are those other three raccoons doing here

Gandalf: he brought his buddies. I call this one ‘Merry’

[tehri]

TRASH PANDA HOBBITS

@auraboo THE LEGACY OF FATTY MCFAT LIVES ON

[penny-anna]

Aragorn: *watching Frodo & Sam scamper off in the direction of Mordor* our hopes lie with those raccoons now

Legolas: do they… know where they are going

Aragorn: I sure hope so

[penny-anna]

Faramir: father why is this raccoon in the livery of the citadel

Denethor: haha doesn’t he look precious

[uhtcearemorning]

Elfhelm: Dernhelm, is that a raccoon in your bag?

Dernhelm: *sweating nervously* Uh no, sir.

Eowyn, later: And I said no, you know, like a liar.

[penny-anna]

Denethor: WHY did you let a raccoon go off with the Ring??

Faramir: ….it just seemed like the right thing to do

Gandalf: he scratched you up real good huh

Faramir: ……………gouged my FUCKING arm and bit me on my face

[penny-anna]

Witch King: no living man can kill me - AUGH FUCK, RACCOON, RACCOON ON MY LEG ARGHHHH

Eowyn: *stab*

[ms-demeanor]

Wraiths break into the room at the prancing pony: *UnHoLy ScReEcHiNg*

Trash Panda Hobbits:

Wraiths: Oh, what the fuck, whAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!

[ms-demeanor]

Treebeard: Baroom, humm, where are my small, impatient friends?

Merry and Pippin:

[ms-demeanor]

Don’t go where I can’t follow, Mr. Frodo.

[ms-demeanor]

~~~~~~The Hobbit interlude~~~~~~

Thorin: You’re the burgular.Go on and…burgle something! Bilbo:

[ms-demeanor]

Saruman: Well since some fucking TREES took over Isengard I guess I’ll take over The Shire. Farmer Maggot and ever other Halfling down to the Sacksville-Bagginses:

[mandatorywhimsy]

Funniest thing I’ve ever reblogged. 

[maryrnrealredhead]

I want to see everything I love done with raccoons now.

[lakemojave]

Bloodborne is just Dark Souls but wet

[lakemojave]

Dark Souls is defined by its absence of anything resembling life. Miyazaki made a world that is almost utterly devoid of growth or flourishing at all. Everything is in the final stages of rot and decay, reduced to the cracking skeleton of what it once was. And not just metaphorically; the stone and grass and trees and just...everything about it are so terribly dry.

Bloodborne though? Bloodborne is fuckin dripping wet. The stone in central yharnam? Wet. The bosses? Wet. The weapons? Wet. The combat? Wet. The plot points? Wet. The way it's so utterly obsessed with liquid, fresh death, gore, and a city in the midst of ruin, rather than having died off long ago? Wet.

[dukeofriven]

I didn’t know a guy called Hidetaka Miyazaki made Dark Souls/Bloodborns and just had a moment of existential crisis when I thought for one insane second that Hayao Miyazaki made Dark Souls.

[newtonpermetersquare]

So that’s basically how it went down

[anakintrashblog]

[skankplisskenmoved]

[science-fiction-is-real]

[callousisms-blog]

[charlottec21]

[quetzalpali]

[watergirl1996]

LAST TIME I REBLOGGED THIS THE LAST COMPARISON WASNT ON THERE

[klubbhead]

[above-average-gravy-deactivated]

This is the best thing I have ever seen

[klubbhead]

[unaffiliatedpangolin]

@klubbhead You used a cinnamon roll for Rey and not Leia?

[klubbhead]

[sculptingsuccess]

Dam it it got better

[klubbhead]

[nunyabizni]

S T O P

[uhnkass-blog]

@klubbhead

Do Darth Maul next!

[klubbhead]

[rebeccafultz-blog]

This is why I love Tumblr. Do Yoda next please or Boba Fett.

[klubbhead]

Oh god. I can’t even think of something for them lol

[thej-key]

Yoda gotta be raisin bread.

[nexar-k]

[tht-lesbian-fangirl]

ENOUGH

[klubbhead]

NO

😬

[friendly-neighborhood-ehrhardt]

do grand moff tarkin.

[klubbhead]

[maskofprime-moved-3-18-2018]

[fatalis-black]

The last one got me.

[theoldandinactive]

I CAN’T

B R E A T H E

XD

[lonely-roads-at-midnight]

i was mildly amused until the last one, at which point i broke

[eriggyageptulel]

[agir1ukn0w]

The post of legend has come again

[space-trash-princess]

[idunnotm-has-no-idea]

OH GOD IT GOT BETTER

[glittery-pile-of-flesh-deactiva]

This is best post on this shit hole of an app

[certifiedskywalker]

Holy shit

[kopykunoichi]

Me: Why do I still have a Tumblr account?

This post: *exists*

Me: Oh yeah.

[twochildreninamoteldemo]

sjflksjaldj it keeps coming back, better than before

[doobiwankenooku-deactivated2022]

I AM SCREECHING

[spankerella]

The last time I reblogged this, the canned bread was not there. That got me.

[quu-san]

It’s not bread but honestly I’m not sure we’re keeping track anymore

[kurara123]

may I? 

[silvyri]

Luke’s a cake, just like his mother before him

[redcurlzbychoice]

Black Rainbow Cake: looks scrumptious

[thebelchers]

Torn‐up street and no sidewalk, great.

Bob’s Burgers, Bridge Over Troubled Rudy (S11E19)

[everythingstarstuff]

[agk42]

Ghost town // Tokyo lockdown

[thetygre]

Everyone else: Getting ready for Animal Crossing and DOOM Eternal

Me, the lone person excited for Nioh 2:

[mister-chat-mon-kitty-blog]

[infantilevice]

You are not prepared for this celebrity reveal!

[buttbuttbutt654718900-deactivat]

I fucking hate this timeline. I want out.

[thetrashchronicles]

This is the only thing about this timeline which fucks

[huntercollier-deactivated202606]

“A-list amphibian” took me Out

[shock]

if fallout 76 really is a world where “every character is a real person” & there’s no NPCs im making it my civic duty to be like this lowly tavern barkeep and then once i’ve established enough of a rapport i’m going to nuke all of west virginia and it will be in character 

[b0gchamp-deactivated20230613]

someone help where’s the screenshot of some post somewhere about the mmo player who barkept for a longass time then fucked absolutely everyone over

[yessica-k]

This one?