#the meeting of wives

[johns-prince]

I told him: “You know you love your own company. Even Cyn says you go days without speaking to her. She feels a million miles away from you.” John replied: “Ah, but she’s not, is she. She’s in the kitchen putting the kettle on.”

—Tony Barrow, Beatles Book Monthly Magazine, No. 149 (Sept. 1988) [×]

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There’s one line in the lyric I don’t really mean: “Well knowing you / You’d probably laugh and say / That we were worlds apart”. I’m playing to the more cynical side of John, but I don’t think it’s true that we were so distant. 

—Paul reads from his new book, The Lyrics (2021). [×]

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“I’m kind of expected to say, ‘[John] was a saint, he was always a saint, I remember him as a saint’, but it would be a lie. He was one great guy and part of his greatness was that he wasn’t a saint. He was a great guy but he was pretty sacrilegious. He was pretty up front about it. But it was half the fun.”

—Paul McCartney (c. 1984) in The Dream Is Over: Off The Record 2 by Keith Badman [×]

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“John is neither a saint, nor is he a sinner. He was just human, like the rest of us.”

—Cynthia Lennon, answering the question “John Lennon: saint or sinner?” The Independent, July 1999 [×]

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“Seeing Lennon focus on Ono rather than him[Paul] was as devastating as it would have been for Cynthia Lennon to witness the couple making love.”

—Peter Dogget, You Never Give Me Your Money. [×]

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“Then also we were like married, so you got the bitterness. It’s not a woman scorned this time, it’s two men scorned — probably even worse. And I had to make way for Yoko. My relationship with John could not have remained as it was and Yoko feel secure.”

— Paul McCartney, Interview by Duncan Fallowell in the Chicago Tribune, October 14th, 1984 [×]

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“Apart from giving me the courage to break out of my stockbroker belt... Yoko also gave me the inner strength to look more closely at my other marriage. My real marriage. To The Beatles, which was more stifling than my domestic life. Although I had thought of it often enough, I lacked the guts to make the break earlier.”

—Skywriting By Word Of Mouth by John Lennon (pg. 17) [x]

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“I still think at the back of John’s mind was this fascination of wanting to get back with the first girlfriend, if you like, and that was to get back with Paul, who he had so much history with.”

—Tony Barrow, The Beatles’ press officer, on the Lennon/McCartney reunion that was never to be [×]

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“I mean, I think really what it was, really all that happened was that John fell in love. With Yoko. And so, with such a powerful alliance like that, it was difficult for him to still be seeing me. It was as if I was another girlfriend, almost. Our relationship was a strong relationship. And if he was to start a new relationship, he had to put this other one away. And I understood that. I mean, I couldn’t stand in the way of someone who’d fallen in love. You can’t say, “Who’s this?” You can’t really do that. If I was a girl, maybe I could go out and…”

—April 3rd?, 1985 (Soho Square, London): Paul talks on German television show exclusive about the breakup of the Beatles and his personal breakup with John. [x]

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“But Paul was his own man and not afraid of John. In fact, musically and personally, the two were beginning to go in separate directions so perhaps Paul’s visit to me was also a statement to John.”

—Cynthia Lennon, John [×]

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“Paul, who believed strongly in the family and in family values, told me that he felt as if it was the Beatles themselves who were heading for divorce, not just John and Cynthia.”

—Tony Bramwell, Magical Mystery Tours [×]

I wanted to end this post with a quote from Cynthia, whether it was from a book or was an answer to a question, about how she simply misses lying in bed with John, and just the two of them talking. This quote from her book John [x] is relevant, but unfortunately I couldn't find the exact quote I wanted.

To accompany the sentiment from John's first wife though, is this quote:

“If John Lennon could come back for a day, how would you spend it with him?” “In bed.”

—Paul McCartney answers questions for Q magazine, 1998 [x]

[lotus-pear]

saw the labru trend and IMMEDIATELY thought of them

[blueflipflops]

Baby Switcharoo

Here's another short dpxdc prompt

"Daddy!" Dick instictively caught the kid before she kissed the floor despite knowing she can fly and-- wait a damned minute. That is not Mar'i.

Meanwhile...

"Papa!" Danny smiled as he braced himself for the flying missile of a child that raced to him. He swirled them around when he caught her making her giggle as her legs swing. Hold the fuck up-- This is not Ellie.

[setthenight0nfire]

snsmonth24 | cowboys

[icapturedthecastle]

I will only break your pretty things I will only wring you dry of everything

[codemonki]

I don't care if this trend was from last year

[worm-emporium]

oooOOOoooO you want to meet me so bad OoOooOooOoo

[mdemn]

oh my brother, my brother, who have you became in the wake of all that’s happened here?

xaviero falcone - avet @tankgotstuckinthecircusgate, brother by the interstate - k.c cramm, winter of artifice - anaïs nin, ghost of - diana nguyen, hevel - nathaniel orion g.k, brother by the interstate - k.c cramm, carlo falcone - avet, icarus - the crane wives

buy me a ko-fi? ☕️

[fj-rocco-9]

MEETING 🫦

[vellichorom]

Leans against wall

Do you think after a meeting the narrators would excuse themself out into the bathroom and just gossip like highschool girls

the consequence of saying such things to me comes with you having to open your mind to what i respond back with

[soonamisapphire]

Uh, Batman? That’s Rā’s al Ghûl - TaxiCabToSlowtown - Multifandom [Archive of Our Own]

“I propose the League have a family day here at the Watchtower this weekend. Open to all the families of our heroes who know their identities and who you are willing to introduce to the rest of the team. It’ll be to encourage team bonding and to allow stronger relationships to be formed between the League member’s families.”

And… that was a horrible idea. Horrible. Bruce could already see Nightwing (sitting across the table from him and the only kid who he hadn’t had to worry about the whole time he was gone because he was right beside him, pity he was the mostly-sane one) grinning. The Justice League were going to get more than they bargained for.

“That sounds like a wonderful idea,” Superman said, grin on his face.

It was a horrible idea. It was a horrible idea because Bruce could see the grin widening on his son’s face out of the corner of his eyes and he knew that Dick would make sure that the whole family came (which included Ra’s, since he’d be visting at that time).

[ludmilachaibemachado]

Via Something About the Beatles' Girls FB🌹🎍🌼

[piosplayhouse]

The fact that scum villain is the book that gets picked on for being problematic is so funny on a fundamental level because Shen Yuan is quite literally the outside realistic beacon of morality. that's his whole character he has 21st century morals which gives him a reader insert (literally) insight into the events of the book .. like he was already condemning literally everything people say the book romanticizes , it's right there in the text , he's infodumping it to you every 2 pages

[xxplastic-cubexx]

cherik coparenting wanda and pietro?!?!?! share with the class!!!!!!

chat youre going to kick my ass for this but i dont have the exact issues on hand rn i can only summarize that during the ultimate comic runs, charles and erik run the mansion together for a while and look after A School's Worth of mutants (of which include wanda and pietro)

[mypreciousdream968]

Who else got from BBC Sherlock, then passed to Good Omens and then had your heart broken for the third time with the end of Our Flag Means Death? ;-;💚💜❤️

[dumbfucksystem]

thinking again about how bingge kept saying "shizun" over and over while sqq was braiding his hair TT he spent two minutes in bingmei's cottage core life and was like i could get used to this. he had no intentions of leaving. im so ill