A Roger Tailor fashion blog

Likes a lot of stuff, especially music, ski jumping, cars and architecture. Digs delicate, pretty, messy haired guys. Loves bandana icon Roger Federer. Laughing is my goal in life. Inbox is always open for asks and comments (especially silly ones) For serious questions about Queen/Roger, please go to my sideblog iamtheroger. Please no questions about song interpretations or generic book/documentary recommendations (though specific ones are welcome). Big yes to pic requests/concert asks.

[thatrotterfreddie]

This is probably such a non issue but I’m annoyed and don’t care. Roger is releasing a solo album in September titled “Violence Insane in A Beautiful World,” and I’m guessing the themes are going to be based around the current state of the world. If you are a Roger Taylor fan, you would know that he has been making songs about the current state of the world at each moment in his life, so this is hardly new. However, the commenters on this Instagram post are going absolutely insane and I think they are being pretty rude and tone deaf. I’m not going to deny that Roger has a lot of money and it puts him at an advantage over the majority of the population. Although I have to say that just because someone has an advantage, that doesn’t mean they can’t voice their opinions on world issues. Unless they are a hypocrite, which I don’t believe Roger is. There is also the question of the songs coming from his own experiences too. An example of that would be Surrender. As I have said previously, the comments were rude and tone deaf with one commenter even saying “Fuk off to ur private island 🏝️ ” I realise most of these people are probably miserable and I shouldn’t be reacting so strongly to them but I had to say something to get it off my chest.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

irritating as fuck when people get mad at Black people existing in premodern historical fiction/fantasy media. like first of all, you're racist. and second of all, you are acting as though Black people didn't exist in premodern Europe which is simply false. especially when we're talking about the Mediterranean, like what the fuck do you people think is along the southern half of the Mediterranean Ocean?? everyone's on boats, there are GOING to be interactions with Black people in Northern Africa, and there are GOING to be Black people in Mediterranean Europe. stop being stupid. your imagined homogeneous white European past is not historical reality, get over it you massive losers

[memorizingthedigitsofpi]

There are lots of reasons why fandom is "quieter" now than it used to be. Some theories are more compelling to me than others, and they all have a different scale of impact. We'll never know for sure, of course, but I like to think about it. Thus, this poll.

Of the list below, which reason do you find most compelling or do you think had the biggest impact?

New entrants to fandom don't know the old ways

fandom olds didn't teach the newcomers how to fandom

covid/surge in fandom due to quarantine and lockdowns

"antis" and other harassment campaigns against creators

creators posting complaints about comments (people worry about commenting wrong)

rise of discord popularity - fandom is walled off from each other

tumblr porn ban and other reasons people left the site

capitalism turning fandom into a passive "view and move on" commodity

rules from social media impacting fan culture (eg. don't comment on old posts)

general state of the world / burnout

social anxieties in an increasingly complex online culture

"surveillance state" worries and not wanting to be perceived

Remaining time: 3 days 16 hours

This is an incomplete list, so if your most compelling reason isn't listed, feel free to add it in the notes.

[shredsandpatches]

I think the "social anxieties" one encompasses virtually all of the other ones (cringe culture and the fear of earnestness has a lot to do with it, I would argue, because fandom runs on earnestness). But I would also add that a lot of people seem to have channeled a lot of the fandom energy into political topics instead.

[maryfitzroy]

What Movement Would You Have Joined in Early Modern Europe? A Typology Quiz — theodramatist

A typology quiz for the years 1500 to 1789. Thirty-four questions, thirty-four types—humanist, Puritan, philosophe, magus, salonnière, merce

babe wake up new quiz dropped

[shredsandpatches]

honestly yeah

[thatwelshartist]

I was looking up facts about Cormorants to find a title for this and found out about the liver bird a mythological creature from liverpool that is literally just a cormorant which I find kinda funny

anyway still think what to call this maybe UKAI

[cannibalchicken]

[icedoatmilkmatcha-deactivated20]

also

[yeahokayillreblogthat]

Yeah okay Ill reblog that!

[aggressivelybicaptainamerica]

Not a scholar at first, but the guy who wrote Jaws hated that people used it to justify hating sharks so much he dedicated the rest of his life to shark research and advocacy.

[ruffboi-mags]

The woman who popularized gender reveals wishes she hadn't, afaik.

[fall1ngfeather]

(afaik- the woman who popularized gender reveals did so because she had a long history of miscarriages. The reveal was a celebration of the fact that one of her pregnancies had gotten far enough that there WAS a physical sex to reveal. It was never intended to be like... *gestures at modern gender reveals* all that. That same kid later came out as trans and yes, the family had a second gender reveal for that lol.)

[p00pym00py]

This whole thread is so beautiful to me that I can explain it

[my-random-fandoms]

[pouncequick]

K-Cup coffee pod creator wishes he'd never thought of them | CBC News

The man who invented the K-Cup coffee pod almost 20 years ago says he regrets doing so and can't understand the popularity of the products t

[jackironsides]

L. David Mech, who popularised the idea that there were 'alpha' and 'beta' wolves in his 1970 book The Wolf, has spent the rest of his career trying to debunk this. (The original studies were done on captive wolves, and thus didn't simulate an accurate model of wolf pack dynamics.)

Is the Alpha Wolf Idea a Myth?

The idea that wolf packs are led by a merciless dictator, or alpha wolf, comes from old studies of captive wolves. In the wild, wolf packs a

In the wild, researchers have found that most wolf packs are simply families, led by a breeding pair, and bloody duels for supremacy are rare.

“What would be the value of calling a human father the alpha male?” says L. David Mech, a senior research scientist at the U.S. Geological Survey, who has studied wolf packs in the wild for decades. “He’s just the father of the family. And that’s exactly the way it is with wolves.”

[tieflingkisser]

[lesbianslimefriend]

here's where to find it on windows 10

[depsidase]

[mossworm]

it took about a dozen searches of things like "how to make paint casserole with real paint" and "paint casserole traditional recipe" to convince google AI there is a real thing called paint casserole

[herpsandbirds]

White-bellied Go-Away-Bird (Crinifer leucogaster), family Musophagidae, order Musophagiformes, Kenya

The name refers to the call of the birds, which sounds as if they are saying “GO AWAY!”

photograph by Heldronmark Kipkoech Mutai

[goodluckclove]

Whenever I see a bird like this I put it in a category I call "Bird With a Haircut".

And if I see it in person or in a photograph, I'll turn to whoever I'm with and say "That bird has a haircut!" I'll say it out loud to just myself if I'm alone. I fucking love a Haircut Bird.

[jesusfaker-moved]

It's not corn, it's porn.

It's not grape, it's rape.

It's not pew pew, it's gun.

It's not unalive and unalived, it's murder and murdered.

It's not CP, it's CSAM.

[depsidase]

[fongus-the-ninth]

[museum-of-artifacts]

The only taxidermied blue whale in the world, 1865 CE, now housed at the Natural History Museum in Sweden. The public was allowed to enter it up until a couple was found having sex inside it; now its jaws are opened only for special occasions like Swedish election days

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[yogurtbattle]

Currently watching Lord of the Rings. Better late than never I guess.

[theterribletenno]

I'm not going to fuck my computer

[utilitycaster]

A character can be sympathetic while still being 100% wrong; this is the entire premise of many unreliable narrators.