LydianNode
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- Queen (Band) (54)
- Bohemian Rhapsody (Movie 2018) (54)
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The Sum Of Your Word by LydianNode
Fandoms: Queen (Band), Bohemian Rhapsody (Movie 2018)
08 Mar 2023
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Recently I read “Daisy Jones and the Six” by Taylor Jenkins Reid and thought the interview format would be fascinating for a Queen story—especially the Rashomon effect of hearing the different points of view of the characters. I don’t want to spoil the book for anyone who hasn’t yet read it so I can’t say more. This is just my take on what a compilation of decades’ worth of interviews might look like.
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One's Due Paid to the Appointed Spirit by LydianNode
Fandoms: Queen (Band), Bohemian Rhapsody (Movie 2018)
22 Jun 2022
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Freddie has found his stage persona. Who better to share it with than Brian?
Freddie’s smile nearly lit up the tiny bedroom. “Really? You’re not too wrapped up in the stars?” He seemed amazed that Brian would “bother” with the expedition, and Brian felt a wave of cold guilt over being so occupied with his own problems that he hadn’t spent enough time with his friend. -
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Freddie is dead. The whole world should be in mourning.
"Can't we just have a bit of time together? There's no one else in the world who knows how we feel except the three of us. I don't want to waste it arguing, do you?"
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June, 2020 by LydianNode for epherians
Fandoms: Queen (Band), Bohemian Rhapsody (Movie 2018)
30 Jul 2020
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Brian's had a heart attack. Roger wants to help him heal.
A half-snort, half-giggle escapes Roger. It threatens to turn into something else, something reminiscent of the sickly smell of fever on a red-eye flight from New York to London. Something that reminds him of the way his hands clenched the steering wheel at the words "Don't bother coming..."
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June, 1974. Freddie's visit to a convalescing Brian requires courage, love, and quick thinking.
Freddie follows Brian's gaze around the room. There's precious little of Brian in his old bedroom other than the basic furniture, no books or youthful memorabilia to make him feel welcome. It's clean, functional, and utterly impersonal apart from the few suitcases brought home from their aborted tour and the poor, lonely guitar.
Small wonder that Brian is already straining at his bonds, surrounded as he is by the evidence of what they'd lost.
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The American Songbook by LydianNode
Fandom: Bohemian Rhapsody (Movie 2018), Queen (Band)
28 Aug 2019
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Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild,
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
--William Butler Yeats, "The Stolen Child"People pour out their hearts, souls, and tears to Freddie, who is always there to listen.
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A view of Freddie's story through the lens of opera. Works in the series are:
Un Bel Di* (Madama Butterfly, Puccini)
Habanera* (Carmen, Bizet)
Vasta Teatro E' Il Mondo (La Cenerentola, Rossini)
Signore, Ascolta* (Turandot, Puccini)
Libiamo (La Traviata, Verdi)
Vissi D'Arte (Tosca, Puccini)
When I Am Laid in Earth (Dido and Aeneas, Purcell)*As used in the "Bohemian Rhapsody" film.
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“What did you do when I told you I was sick? And that I had received a death sentence for my crime? Nothing. That’s what you did, what you gave me. You disappeared for two weeks and then when you came back we never discussed it again.”
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- Part 2 of Too/To/Two
Bookmarked by LydianNode
14 May 2024
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Brian considers giving a name to the anxiety that gnaws at his gut.
He decides against it, because he doesn’t want to get too attached.
Because it is a horrible thing, truly horrible. It squirms and burrows and nibbles. It chomps and bites and grinds. It demands space to luxuriate in his stomach and sends whatever goes down swiftly back up again. It disapproves of uncleanness and fires disinfectant through his body, which melts his fat and muscle and brain cells away.
It’s that last thing that’s the worst, because it melts enough to render him useless, but not enough for him to be unaware of the fact.
He needs to do better.
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- Part 3 of indisposed, indispensable, disposable
Bookmarked by LydianNode
17 Sep 2022
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milk and honey by loveandpride1895
Fandoms: Queen (Band), Bohemian Rhapsody (Movie 2018)
09 Jul 2022
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In the early days of Queen, snapshots of Freddie trying to understand Brian.
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"What, are you some sort of genius or something?"
Roger snorts, Brian flushes and shrugs, and the puzzle piece falls into place.
"Oh."
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10 Jul 2022
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Brian couldn’t sleep in Munich.
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Every time he laid down in that velveteen hotel room, with its stale smell of excess and regret, that song played in his head.
That fucking song.
He hated that it had become that.
That fucking song.
Because once it had been that beautiful song. That darling song. That song that he loved like a child, that song that was dripping with the essence of him, when the essence of him smelt a little less bitter. That song that took him lightyears away from the lairs of his mind, each housing its own minotaur.
Bookmarked by LydianNode
02 Jul 2022
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all that's left (is to leave) by rory_the_dragon
Fandoms: Queen (Band), Bohemian Rhapsody (Movie 2018)
14 Jan 2019
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They drive out of Munich in silence.
(Brian comes to Munich)
Bookmarked by LydianNode
15 Jan 2019