#maycury week

The dates for the event are 1st-7th September, 2025!!

Where to post:

The main places to post will be here on Tumblr and on AO3! If you use other sites, post the link here on Tumblr and tag us here at [blog] and use the #Maycuryweek2025 tag to make sure we see it!

What we want:

Any fan media celebrating Brian May and Freddie Mercury! Fic, art, phone wallpapers, playlists, anything you like—just as long as it's focused on them!

Anything you'd like to write, draw, create—please make sure it's centered around the relationship Brian May and Freddie Mercury! Polyamoury and platonic fanwork is more than welcome, as long as the primary focus is on Maycury!

Make sure you tag your works appropriately! If it's NSFW, use the correct categories on AO3 and tag it as such here on Tumblr as well! We wanna make sure people know what they're getting into.

Prompts are just to give inspiration! You’re welcome to use all of them or none of them, You may interpret them as loosely or strictly as you’d like. If you have something else you wanna do, do it! Other AUs and situations are welcome and encouraged!

Historical accuracy is not a requirement! That's the joy of events like these. Feel free to have fun with it all!

Please do not post or interact with the NSFW content if you are not 18+. Thank you.

Please don't interact with hateful comments. Delete them as soon as you can.

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Feel free to reach out with any questions you may have!! Our inbox is open!

Maycury Week Prompts:

Day 1:

Line: “Try to be straight for one more brunch.”

Song: “Scandal”

AU: Same Luggage, Didn’t Check the Tags

Trope: Right Place, Wrong Time

Day 2:

Line: “Did you really have to be so honest?”

Song: “Love of My Life”

AU: Hallmark Movie

Trope: Stuck in Traffic

Day 3:

Line: “Would you like me to whisper it in your ear?”

Song: “Staying Power”

AU: Married at First Sight

Trope: Playing Scrabble to Talk

Day 4:

Line: “Have you ever wondered if Ben and Jerry made more than ice cream together?”

Song: “Save Me”

AU: Supernatural

Trope: Bringing Out the Silly Side

Day 5:

Line: “After all... I'm just a boy, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love me.”

Song: “It’s Late”

AU: Neighbors

Trope: Meddling Friends/Family

Day 6:

Line: “I can’t keep kissing strangers pretending they’re you.”

Song: “Jealousy”

AU: Soulmate Marks

Trope: Pretending Not to Date

Day 7:

Line: “There’s no place like home.”

Song: “‘39”

AU: Second Chances

Trope: Didn’t Realize It Was You

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Disclaimer:

“Should… we get out of here?” Brian murmured in Freddie’s ear.

A small line from "Staying Power" by @your-one-day-ecstasy. OuO

Hey great question!

It's Brian's birthday again and this time he's turning 75! 35 he's totally turning 35, really. We love him very much here, and so it's time to give him the very best we can imagine - meaning Freddie of course!

Maycury Week this year will run from Freddie's birthday, Sept 5 - Sept 11. We've prepared four prompts for each day: a quote, an AU, a situation, and a song.

Rules! It's Maycury Week, so the central pairing should be Freddie and Brian, whether you want that to be Platonic or Romantic. No word count requirements, poetry music and imagery are as welcome as stories, and the prompts are only for inspiration - if you have an idea that doesn't match any prompt, we will be thrilled to see that too!

There will be a collection on AO3 which will go live the weekend before, as well as a round up of Tumblr posts at the end. Please tag everything “#Maycury Week 2022” so we can find it.

Let's get to it! Here are this year's prompts!

Monday

Here they are, sitting next to the statue of Freddie in Roger’s garden, gazing at the stars. Roger lets out some jokes about them sitting next to a Mercury and still looking for another Mercury in the sky. Brian rolls his eyes and waves teasingly, and in one quick move he makes a "limp wrist" gesture.

All of a sudden, everything became quiet.

Noticing the strangeness, Brian looks to the side and sees Roger looking at him, an unspoken melancholy stirring in his eyes. Then Roger looks away. Ah, the limp wrist, he thought to himself after he realised that Roger still remembers…

Brian used to do the gesture to tease Freddie when he was alive.

The truth is that he didn't do it on purpose in the first place; he just unconsciously mirrored Freddie's gestures. But that didn't bother him, so he was fine with it (despite knowing that gestures are usually only done by gay people and he's not gay). One day Freddie saw him do it and thought Brian was teasing him, so later on sometimes Brian actually did it on purpose just to tease Freddie. He always laughed when Brian did that. "Mischievous Maggie May, aren't you?" Freddie once replied.

God, why does every memory of him already seem like it happened a lifetime ago?

To lighten the mood (and dear Freddie certainly doesn't want the two of them to be sad on his birthday either), Brian looks up at the large statue, chuckles, and then says aloud, "I’m sorry, I think this," he does the limp wrist again, "was actually yours, innit, darling?"

"Yet Hutton said Freddie and I were soulmates when you two existed!" Roger laughed, and the gloom vanished.

"What?"

"You and Freddie always mirror each other. Bloody hell, not only gestures, but also behaviour as well!" and they laugh along.

Then Brian sighed as if in nostalgia. "That grand old soulmate thing, you know what they say—soulmates are actually a soul split into two bodies."

He pauses. 

Funny enough, 

Freddie actually called me his soul brother.

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I tried to put all the prompts together and the result is a short animation & a drabble (100+ words but we still consider it a drabble). I wrote it last week but I was busy so I couldn't draw and hence a day late. The animation effect is a bit rough (who am I kidding, very rough) because it's my first time trying something like animation, but I like the last drawing.

Summary: Brian feels like he´s messed up big time when during their legendary concert in Montreal in 1981, he pushes Freddie away from him during his characteristic antics of singing, dancing and grinding against the guitarist´s leg. But as it turns out, there is no shame in making a fantasy come true and giving into an attraction that is as old as their friendship itself. Or is there…?

Also me, a deaky fan: not having anything for deaky's event in the works.

My mind now:

“He can do anything 'Cause he's my soul brother”