#lennon answers

[strayed-quokka]

please i beg for babydoll part 3 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

I think about babydoll daily. I can’t wait for everyone to read the (hopefully) end. But tbh it’s looking like it won’t be cause tumblr can’t hack the word count.

I wanted to upload a month ago but well… life. But it is being wrapped up, so no one has to worry about it remaining unwritten pfff. Just some patience with my chaotic inconsistency pls 🤧

[klyceart]

I wanted to understand your face

[icriedforthemoon]

Frankly, I miss Paris.

this piece tastes like tears and unsaid words.

[georgeharrisonsmiling]

[good-to-drive]

[franklyimissparis]

right so what does klaus voorman know/suspect/been told about johnandpaul because there is simply no heterosexual explanation for this drawing

[wandas-lovey]

For every John Lennon lover, there is a John Lennon hater. And i think that just about sums up the kind of person he was <3

[thealogie]

I admit I think about white British men a non-zero amount but we all have an ethical responsibility to try to think about them as little as is in our power which is why I will never spend more than 5 minutes a year thinking about the Beatles

[asurrogateblog]

alright so wait a minute. according to the official record the last time paul saw john in person was in 1976, and the last time they talked over the phone was a few weeks before his death (about bread). we also know, of course, that the last words john said to paul was "think about me every now and then, old friend." now.... given the presented timeline, that must have been over the phone, BUT, carl perkins said in his interview about...that whole situation, that linda told him "the last words that John Lennon said to Paul in the hallway of the Dakota building were… he patted him on the shoulder, and said, [quote]." do you see the problem with these two narratives? do you see it? now you could say that john said that in 1976, but then why would paul have such a strong emotional reaction to carl when he said it? clearly those were john's last words to paul ever. so they must have been meeting in person much later than he's admitted. WHATS THE TRUTH PAUL

[strayed-quokka]

Hey Lennon!

I’ve been following your blog for about two years now and wow time has flown by! I was actually just wondering about whether you had any plans to continue updating His Last Song. I won’t lie, that story has been running rent free through my head for two years, it is just THAT good. You have somehow perfectly portrayed my favourite ever characterisation of Hyunjin and I regularly find myself thinking back to it. It is truly a work of art, you should be very proud of yourself for it.

Sending lots of love:)

TWO YEARS 😖 and yeah the fic has been on a massive back burner but it is all planned out. I’m still surprised how I get asked about it 🥹 I do want to finish it even now, I just don’t know when I’ll get to it 🥲

But thank you so much for your kind words. They really mean a lot 🥰

[dyouwanttoknowasecret]

Paul rubs me the wrong way. There’s something sinister in that twink

Confession 29

[cyberniix]

[bambi-kinos]

I wonder what you think of if think they ever saw themselves together as (secret) gay couple, like marrige,boyfriends or was it more like "we are friends and song writing partners" that happend to do more "drunk things together" and that's what messed it up in the end, or do you think it was a pulling-pushing type of relationship? like did they break it up more than one time, all the time and the final drop was India?

Sorry for bad English!

John and Paul have a few things going for them and against them with regards to their perception of their relationship:

Pretty much any sexual activity between men was permitted without it being "gay" or "queer" or anything like that so long as the men involved didn't admit that they were gay. I guess kissing and penetration is what makes sex acts gay or queer to the early 20th century guy who was jerking off with his mate in the back of a car or whatever. Since this was just "getting off" and it was kept far away from their wives and families, it didn't count as gay. This means John and Paul grew up at a time where it wasn't considered particularly bad to get off with your mate, do frotting and handjobs/blowjobs, whatever. It definitely wasn't something that you talked about openly (that's indecent) but it didn't make you a gay guy either. Even now in TYOOL 2024 men are weird about this and insist that getting aroused and climaxing with other men is not sexual at all and definitely not gay. That means that John and Paul had a large, large gamut to run without ever having to call themselves gay. My opinion is that they did not call themselves gay or queer, or acknowledge that side of themselves for the beginning stages of their friendship. I think Paul has always had some inkling or self knowledge but honestly, from 15-18 years old that doesn't mean much lmao. I don't think John figured himself out for a longer period of time because he already had so much stress heaped on his plate, there was no need for him to add concerns about his sexuality onto them. If John and Paul were doing anything "extra" in addition to the group wanks at this early stage then they just tossed it all under the "boys will be boys" column. And if everything stayed that way then nothing else would have happened.

Then they go to Hamburg. It's a brand new continent and a brand new world. This is where they see crazy ass sex stuff and more importantly, they encounter men and women who don't wrap delusions around their sexual activity. This is where they met gay men, lesbians, transgender people, cross dressers, etc. We can't know what it was really like but the point is that Hamburg was a huge turning point for them and it turned John and Paul from simple provincials into much more sophisticated sex havers. John got off with crossdressers and kissed other men on the mouth; Paul found a boytoy and comforted himself with his presence when John-and-Stu became too difficult to bear. I doubt they considered themselves gay at this stage but their minds were broadened in a big way. They were exposed to different lifestyles and mindsets. And they had to learn fast and get used to it because their livelihoods depended on that.

After this, things become more slippery slidey. They could very well have gone on this way forever, doing gay sex stuff and refusing to call themselves gay. Except then Paris happened and neither of them forgot it. It never left their heads. Something happened there that we don't know about that, memories that they cherish. Who did John give a pearl necklace to considering there's no mention of him and Paul hooking up with ladies on this trip? Why did John hold on to the memory of couples tenderly kissing each other for so long? Why did John and Paul come back exploding with life and energy? It's almost as if something happened where they convinced each other that they were a sure thing, that they could depend on the other one no matter what. That there was something else for them that wasn't just being mates or being part of a band. And the rest, as they say, is history.

They didn't understand what they were to each other for a long time but that's because they were teenagers. It was a genuine friendship that they built in the beginning which honestly? I'm really glad that they had that. I also think that it's exactly this which lead to their relationship lasting for so long.

Like, John's problem was that he jumped into relationships and intimacy too quickly and it inevitably blew up in his face somehow. Paul's problem is that he's too cautious and he holds everyone at arms length. But by having a concrete friendship to build off of that they grew over time and through ups and downs, they ended up becoming each other's steady. It gave them stability and a deeper relationship that they never really managed with other people. That means that, for a long time, John and Paul would call themselves "mates" and it would be completely accurate. It wasn't until much later that the sex stuff started and then when it did, they still had the strength of that initial friendship to rely on.

When it comes to the "push/pull" dynamic you mentioned, they did have their ups and downs where they got used to "crisis moments" to pull them back together after being emotionally distant from each other (and I do have thoughts about that). But I don't think they went through a series of break ups and "we're back together" moments. I think that their relationship simply strained and strained and strained until it finally snapped under the weight of everything they couldn't bring themselves to say. I don't think they suffered any serious moments of breaking up once they put 1960 Hamburg behind them.

There are lots of people who think that John and Paul never figured out their mutual attraction due to their upbringing and while this is a possibility I do not think this is true at all. John Lennon and Paul McCartney are the most revolutionary minds of the 20th century, I don't believe for a second that they were just sitting there and didn't understand what was happening to them. I absolutely think that they figured out that they were queer and in love with each other. Maybe it was in 1961, maybe it was in 1967, but they did eventually figure it out.

The problem for John and Paul is that this revelation did not make their lives better and freer. It arguably made their lives much worse. I don't know if they could even consider the possibility of being together in some capacity because of the sheer virulence against homosexuality in the 1960s and that they were both raised to think that it was moral depravity. We can see that this provided roadblocks for both of them: John and Paul had to get wasted in Key West to simply say the words "I love you."

On the third hand, they did have examples of homosexual men like Victor Spinetti, who was apparently in a committed relationship with another man, to look at. Once they got to know Brian, they were introduced to the world of gay men, not all of whom were married to women. This once again broadened their minds and they had the revelation that you could just go off with another man and be his steady.

John and Paul would probably have liked it very much if they could be a couple together with their version of fidelity in the works. I doubt they would have made a legal commitment to each other in the form of marriage (their business relationship was certainly much closer than trivial marriage documents) but they would have liked being romantic partners. The roadblocks to this were 1) John's son Julian 2) their status as public figures 3) their upbringing telling them that this was wrong.

I have no doubt that John revealed something to Paul in India, more than his 🎤. As one of those revolutionary minds of the 20th century, John may have offered something similar to the above paragraph to Paul, hoping that if he presented it all of a piece then Paul would have to answer sincerely, from the heart. After all, John could be sure that Paul loved him, right?

Well. We know what happened after that.

[iggydustmop]

Okay, I guess today is my day for McLennon Hot Takes. This one is a little less McLennon focused, and more John & Yoko focused.

So the story goes, that, in 1975, Yoko had John come over to get hypnotized for stopping smoking, and somehow brainwashed him into reuniting with her.

I’m here to call bullshit! Here’s my very logical take on what happened, based on the objective facts we have available:

1. We know John & Yoko wanted to have a baby, and had really struggled to do so

2. We know they had sought out fertility treatments, and one herbalist was credited for helping them achieve Sean’s conception.

3. Sean was born on October 9, 1975. Now, if he had been fully cooked (I want to say he was maybe a month early?), that puts his conception in mid-January (source: my kid was born on September 30 and was definitely conceived on new year’s.)

4. Normally, when someone gets pregnant - especially with a history of miscarriages and a high-risk scenario like a geriatric pregnancy (sadly the term they use for anyone over 35, and Yoko was 42) - they don’t talk about it for at least the first trimester, if not longer.

5. We know that Paul had talked to John about Yoko being open to reconciliation in 1974 in LA

6. We know John had moved back to NY by early 1975

7. We know that John & Yoko were never really out of touch, and would get together on occasion prior to their official reunion

So…what does that tell us?

If we look at the facts, the story this spins is pretty straightforward: There was probably a deal that, if Yoko were to actually get pregnant, she and John would reunite. It sounds like she was still actively trying even while they were separated, if they have a specialist who they credit with Sean’s conception.

Sean was very likely conceived at the end of January or the beginning of February…

…which also aligns with when John got to go home.

What makes more sense here? That John got brainwashed by a hypnotist? Or that Yoko actually got pregnant, and he didn’t really have a plausible reason to provide without betraying Yoko’s privacy? Seems pretty logical that he perhaps had “an appointment to attend with this hypnotist” as a cover for a doctor’s appointment, and as soon as he heard the news, he was completely on-board with going home and being a dad. Again though, given the precarious state of the pregnancy, it *also* makes sense that he wouldn’t say anything about it until things were much further along.

“But what about recording in New Orleans with Paul???”

Great question! It might have been that he agreed that, if Yoko went through with the pregnancy, he’d step back from music in order to help her and care for the baby once it got here. You know who would have been super duper understanding of prioritizing family in that way? Paul McCartney. Or maybe John was just so bamboozled by the fact that he’s having a damn baby and reunited with his wife that it took the wind out of his sails for making music.

Regardless, there’s a number of completely obvious explanations that don’t involve Yoko manipulating or scheming or brainwashing John.