#i love you ono

[ribcagebonemeal]

rip john lennon you would've hated my bad flash animation 💔

[fireintheimpala]

1979 is now up there with 1968 in my “WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED BETWEEN PAUL MCCARTNEY AND JOHN LENNON” years.

You don’t just make something as joyful, teasing, naughty, and romantic as McCartney II out of the blue… You don’t just then come out of retirement out of the blue and starting boogying to Double Fantasy + Milk and Honey tracks COINCIDENTALLY, do you? DO YOU??

This is driving me a little crazy. What is your favorite conspiracy theory here?

[claremikas]

"It’d been a while since she’d gone toe-to-toe with her enemies. Her gleeful self was looking forward to it. Her wounds had healed, she had energy to spare, and no doubts about defeating them. Hearing the cries of the people who could do nothing but run—many of whom would otherwise be hunting her—sent a strange thrill up her spine.

A rancid smell was in the wind. She prepared herself as the flock of kochou dove toward her. The blood boiled in her veins. The sound of raging seas roared in her ears.

I am an animal. A beast. No doubt about it. I am a youma.

That’s why meeting her enemies on the field of battle was such a great joy."

"Youko stood her ground and did her job. She’d long ago become used to the scent of blood, to the sensation of severing flesh and bone. The sight of dead bodies no longer aroused within her any sensitive feelings. To parry and kill, to draw blood and retreat—when it came down to it, that was all she cared about."

[5-pp-man]

I isolated the part where you can hear their va's so I can listen to it over and over again to determine who they are.

So far the only one I'm a 100% certain on is Ono Daisuke as Narita (heard it myself immediately), and a lot of people are convinced Kouki Uchiyama is voicing Nikaido. However... I, for some reason, keep hearing Kensho Ono in the second part as well. So maybe that's Hayashi?

Other guesses that I and other people have are; Chiaki Kobayashi, Horie Shun, Nobunaga Shimazaki and Soma Saito. Please tell me who you think they might be!

(Also, for those unaware, Chiaki Kobayashi and Nakamura Yuichi voiced Satomi and Narita in a pv they released in commemoration for the live action movie. They did not reprise their roles in the anime, unfortunately.)

[pauls1967moustache]

What do u think of beatles fans who hate yoko? Personally, I genuinely don't understand what yoko has done to stand out in the beatles lore as a particularly heinous character in the story. Had to unfollow several authors on Tumblr bc they usually gas john up and put yoko down, like they didn't come in a set.

I don’t think anyone’s required to like Yoko but I also agree that many people seem to hate her for behaviour that they’d happily overlook from any of the Beatles. The main problem here is no one is typically joining this fandom cause they’re interested in Yoko, ykwim. They’re here because they liked the Beatles and all the lore comes after that, so naturally everyone’s going to have a bias for the boys themselves. Yoko did do some insane shit to John (and is also within the Beatles narrative in an antagonistic position to Paul) so it’s natural that people who love John will find that off-putting, even if it’s not necessarily a fair way to view her, but they never really look at the crazy shit John did to her or anyone else in the same negative way. Plus, as with any fandom, there is racism and misogyny at work.

But there’s plenty of people in this fandom who do like Yoko, which is good! I think her position in the Beatles story is so fascinating because she is in this weird confluence of like getting blamed for shit that isn’t her fault while also doing some absolutely fucked up stuff herself. She’s not an easily definable character in the lore and she’s not “relatable” the way, say, Linda is relatable, so you sort of have to do some work to make sense of her. I think my main gripe with Yoko haters is they don’t give her the grace of trying to understand her the way they do for anyone else in the Beatles story.

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Daisy Chaining; Or, Connecting the TBR!

Does anybody besides me like to find Connections between Seemingly/Largely Unrelated Books and use those connections to plot a route through the old TBR?? I don't know about you, but I have a LOT of books I want to read, and sometimes I get Whelmed™ by my choices. So I'll either pick a small stack and make that a particular month's micro-TBR (good if I have specific Goals!), OR I'll start with something I really want to read, and I'll daisy chain from there.

For example: I'd been waiting for TRANSLATION STATE to release in paperback since the hardback was announced (because Translators, my beloveds). So I annihilated that in a couple days (it was very good, all right??), and then I had to figure out where to go next despite cruising on the Translators High.

Because the Translators' fucked up body horror (which I mean mostly affectionately, but I'm side eyeing the matching pretty hard) was at times....goopy...I thought a book about a shapeshifter whose default form is an amorphous lump would be good next, which got me to SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN (which I also enjoyed!! shout-out to @asexualbookbird for gifting it to meee!!).

Since NEST is Monsters in a Fantasy Forest with a side of Politics and Power, my next read is THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST (because it's also...wait for it...Monsters in a Fantasy Forest with a side of Politics and Power). And after that, I'll come OUT of the forest with AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS, which promises to be weird and vaguely monstrous but with a literary bent (I put it on one of my writing TBR lists, and my general "read this by the end of 2024" list).

So, yeah! That's how you daisy chain to get from SF to fantasy/horror to fantasy to weird Lit Fic in the span of four (4) books, while maintaining something like a continuity. By the end of the year, my Books Read shelf looks a little chaotic, but there generally really is a rhyme AND a reason about it!

(Please click on the photo for better image quality! I edited it weirdly compared to usual and it looks good on my screen but ah. Less So, in tungledlandia.,.,)

[thewalrusespublicist]

Cathy's Clown John Lennon demo having me in a chokehold yet again.

[javelinbk]

John Lennon talks to Curt Claudio, a fan who visited him at Tittenhurst Park, 26th May 1971

Curt: You really… you weren’t thinking of anyone in particular when you were singing all that? John: How could I be? How could I be thinking of you, man? Curt: Well I don’t know. Maybe I don’t care, me, but it’s all, it’s all somebody.

John: I’m thinking about me; or at best Yoko, if it’s a love song. And I maybe think about an audience in general if I am singing ‘Old Hare Krishna got nothing on you’, I’m talking to any old friends who have been listening to what we were saying, and saying, ‘Look, well I think it’s a lot of bullshit now, let’s forget it.’ I’m basically singing about me and I’m saying, well, I had a good shit today and this is what I thought this morning and, ‘I love you, Yoko’, or whatever. I’m singing about me and my life and if it’s relevant for other people’s lives, that’s alright. Curt: Yeah. John: Are you hungry? Hmm? Curt: Yeah. John: Let’s give him something to eat, come on.

[taurus-spacecraft]

leaving this on anon bc i don't wanna get JUMPEDDDD but shout out to you for being my only mutual who LIKES YOKO. SHE IS AWESOME I LOVE HER AND I GENUINELY LOVE HOW YOU DRAW HER

🙏😭i am honored. i began to love this woman with my whole heart, SHE DESERVES SO MUCH MORE LOVE LIKE!!!HELL YEAH SHES AWESOME!!! i was kinda uniformed when i joined the fandom(as you might expect) and close to jumping on the Hating-Yoko_train, then started to learn more about her, actually checking her own words, and well ended up on the Mindtrain >:D

and lol shes a pleasure to draw im so happy you like my drawings of her<33i love drawing her so much

:)

[morrizarek]

Can we talk about Dorothy. Someone. Anyone.

[ghost-of-you]

Happy Birthday Calum Thomas Hood (January 25, 1996)

[therealjohnlennon]

Thoughts on the death penalty?

Thoughts on me marrying your wife for the bit?

From,

@its-yoko-onos-biscuit-now

give me enough heroin and i'll consider it

[claremikas]

what i really love about the twelve kingdoms is just how many different perspectives are explored. the suffering of the people of tai, the lives and philosophies of koushu like gankyuu and rousan, the moral debates judges suffer through, the lives of women and girls like renka who were being forced out of kei and had their lives turned upside down, the mindsets of retainers, the struggles of kaikyaku like suzu, the discrimination hanjyuu face, the inner workings of the royal courts, the privilege being held by various people and how differently they approach it and many more...

[glassmoonfortuneteller]

DAY 14: Lance is a good guy now? How do you feel about this?/ ¿Lance es un buen chico ahora? ¿Cómo te sientes al respecto?

Now he only lives in my memories :(

He’s not dead, he got reedemed out of camera after a 7 years time skip and it’s jut not the same u.u