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Freddie

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🌼  [you wake up early on a beautiful day only to remember you have nowhere to go and no responsibilities for the day. the dazzling sun is shining bright through your window and suddenly all the worries that clouded your head before have all disappeared. you feel light and airy. you have the whole day ahead of you.]

💔  [sitting at an old cafe in the corner of an old town, you reminisce about forgotten loves and what could have been. you feel heavy and drowsy as the rain pours outside the window. you see a couple sitting across the cafe from you, holding hands and enjoying their hot tea, and you smile. love is all around.]

💥  [you find yourself standing in the most strange museum-like building you’ve ever visited. no one else is to be seen, only you. wandering around, you find that every room you enter is a new experience that takes your breath away. it’s like entering a dream of your own making. suddenly, you aren’t tethered to earth anymore, but have become a dream yourself.]

💌  [your heart is soft and your footsteps are light as air as you walk barefoot across an open field, covered with wildflowers and plants. you think of your lover as you smell the beautiful roses and your heart soars. all you want to do is smile sheepishly and be soft. you love love.]

👅  [finding yourself amidst sweaty bodies and dazzling neon lights, you feel swept away with the rhythm of the beautiful people swaying around you. no one seems to be talking, just moving their bodies to the rhythm, just as you are. a stranger catches your eye and smiles at you, sinfully. you take the hint and move towards them. it’s going to be a fun night.]

✨  [you lay atop a soft blanket in the middle of a field, with no light other than the beautiful full moon in the sky. the universe is one with you. if you close your eyes, you can imagine laying on top of the light clouds and drifting somewhere far away.]

🚗  [the car is filled with laughter and harmonious singing of you and your closest friend as you drive towards your distant destination. everything feels right with the world as you sing at the top of your lungs and laugh about nothing in particular. the low-hanging moon is lighting your path and accompanying you on this journey.]

“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