i’ve just finished mercury & me and the last chapters are really sad so here’s a collection of my favorite moments to cheer myself up:
“freddie delighted in running around as a tourist, snapping photographs of everything in sight. but he wasn’t very practical with a camera. in fact he had no idea what he was doing and was hilarious to watch.”
for his 39th birthday freddie threw a black & white dress-up party and brian may came as a witch
once david bowie was drying his hair in front of an electric fan and freddie told him it was about the only fan he had
freddie & jim would give each other roses almost every year for valentines day
the very first time freddie came over to hit on jim jim told him to fuck off. freddie did.
whenever jim was sick freddie would fuss around him like a “jewish mother” and run around like a “mother hen” trying to make him feel better
jim started working as the gardner at garden lodge at some point and the first thing freddie did when he got up in the mornings would be to go over to the window to watch him and call out ‘cooee!’
freddie always needed jim to reassure him that he loved him
one they had a row that put freddie in enough of a mood to call jim a bloody irish witch
freddie loved baths and always overdid it on the bubbles
once they couldn’t find goliath and freddie became so upset that the cat was missing that he hurled a beautiful japanese hibachi through the window of the guest bedroom
they previously spent days in japan searching for that specific hibachi
when goliath was finally found freddie cuddled him for five minutes “then, like a mother, freddie scolded the cat, shouting and screaming at tiny goliath for leaving garden lodge. the dark ball of fur just sat there, listening calmly to freddie’s outburst and purring loudly.”
freddie had one (1) driving lesson in his life. he got into the car, stalled the engine, got out and declared “i can’t be bothered with this”
once freddie gave jim a fancy silver magnifying glass because he wanted him “to be able to see the bugs” that were infesting the plants at garden lodge
jim thought freddie & roger were clearly soulmates
there was another time that goliath disappeared but they eventually found him asleep in a sink and freddie thought it was so cute that he screamed
freddie would visit his parents every thursday and his mum would often pack him a lunch box with biscuits
once, before they had guests over for lunch, jim was weeding the garden and freddie thought it looked fun so he wanted to help. when the guests started arriving freddie would commandeer them, one by one, to join them and by the time lunch was ready everyone was on all fours weeding the garden
freddie & michael jackson had worked on a rap number that was never finished
freddie had a rolls royce that was barely used, jim would only drive it out of the garage to play with his model trains (jim beach loved his model trains)
jim made furniture for freddie and freddie would always proudly show it off to visitors telling them “my husband made this for me”
whenever they got fish & chips freddie would insists they get an extra six fish (one for each of the cats) and it was jim’s job to take off all the batter and check for bones so none of them would choke
freddie would joke about wanting to form a band with rod stewart and elton john called Teeth, Nose and Hair.
freddie was quite dramatic and sometimes would tell jim to move out when they were arguing. once it got so far that jim even got an apartment but right before he moved freddie told him he didn’t want him to move and it turned out he didn’t even remember how the argument had started
when jim asked freddie why, out of all people, he was with him, freddie told him “you fought me. you won me.”
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