#think it wasn't brian

[tavolgisvist]

Scouse

Viscount Montgomery Brian Epstein’s personal assistant Barry Leonard quit his job ‘because the strain of managing the Beatles is just too great’. In an article in the Daily Express Leonard told about his experiences with the Beatles. Among other things, he said Paul wanted to leave the group and was trying to lose his Liverpool accent. As the Beatles gathered at the office of their accountant, Epstein mentioned the story to Paul. ‘Barry says you are trying to lose your accent,’ he said. ‘Couldn’t,’ muttered John, as he examined a likeness of the Beatles fashioned in papier mâché.

(Love Me Do. The Beatles Progress by Michael Braun, 1963/1995)

Part (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), (VII), (VIII)

After a short interview in which they sound like they're putting on Liverpool accents (particularly Paul and John), 'and now their new single Love Me Do'. 'FANTASTIC…turn it UP!' (I shouted in my head). That's my brother…my bloody brother!…My head's exploding…'so ple-e-e-se love me do'.

Photo by Mike McCartney <…> I dashed back to Forthlin to tell Dad I'd seen our Paul on the TELLY and then waited for Paul to come home to see if he'd changed at all. By the time he eventually got in, Dad and I were in bed but I was still awake. The conversation probably went like this: 'Psst…here you.' 'Is Dad asleep?' 'Of course he is, it's past two o'clock.' 'We were celebratinh. Did you see it?' 'Yeah it was gear, it really was.I had to watch it in a bar down from Bernard's, but it was fabulous.' 'Could you see the velvet collar?' 'Sure, you could see everything.' (When the decision to 'go commercial' and buy suits instead of the cool Hamburg leathers was reached, mainly by Brian, Paul had smoothed over the shock by saying, 'But ours are different from anybody else's…ours have got velvet collars…look.' As the cardboard box lid was lifted and the white tissue paper unfolded to disclose the dark blue 'Dougy Millins' tailor-made suit, sure enough, the highly polished, trouser creased, mohair suit was topped with a black velvet collar.) 'But why did you talk like that on the TV? It sounded like George gone wrong…you don't talk like that.' 'I know that, you know that, but they don't know that…It's part of the image…' 'Monkey suit and phoney accents?…anyway it worked, it was fantastic.' 'Gear, I'll be off then, ny nyte.' 'Nigh-night…psst can I have your autograph?' 'Sod off.'

(Mike McCartney, 1981, Thank U Very Much. Mike McCartney's Family Album)

Part (I), (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI)

Interviewer: Are you going to lose some of your Liverpool dialect for the Royal show? Paul McCartney: No, we don't all speak like BBC

(Interview 16th Oct 1963, befor the Royal Variety Charity)

We went to London to party. I always tell this story, it happened pretty much like this. The week before Merseybeat broke up here [in London], or a couple of weeks before, I was just with my friends, and you were at a posh party, and they'd come up to you [adopts 'posh' voice] 'hi, how are you?' 'Great, thanks.' 'My name's Peregrine, and this is Cecilia…' 'Oh, great, hi.' 'Where are you from?' 'Oh, Liverpool…' 'Anyway, Cecilia, you said…' And they just turned their backs on you, because it was so simple - you were useless to them, useless. Anything north of the Cape was the hinterland, the jungle. So they couldn't care less. And then, a week later, Merseybeat suddenly goes 'bang!' He goes down to London before he conquers America and the world… and it's the same party, "Oh, I'm Sebastian, this is Claudia, what's your name?" "I'm Mike." "Where are you from?" "Liverpool." "Liverpool, oh my God, guys, come here, look, these guys from Liverpool, it's just wonderful." And then they'd do a Liverpool accent, and that's why it always came out Brummie [Birmingham], because they couldn't do a Liverpool accent. So, yeah, you were a nobody, and suddenly everything changed.

(Mike McCartney, interview for the Super Deluxe Edition, September 26, 2019)

pic by lisamarie-vee

+about suits

[girderednerve]

redwall revival is in the air & i just want to say those books are weird. like i enjoyed them too but they're weird. why is the rat named cluny. what's up with that, brian. why did you name your first scary villain creature for a monastic reform movement from the middle ages. did you have some kind of bone to pick with bernard of clairvaux? i'm sure he'd find a bone to pick with you, he was that type. but for real what was with the religious politics in those books. was it just english nationalism? is that the secret sauce???

[soraya-snape]

People hating on Dumbledore because he chose to take the hard way and step in and lead the fight against Voldemort. And now they blame him for all the people who have died (not just order members but also death eaters like Regulus?!) but if he hadn't done anything they would still have died. The difference is that a lot of other people who survived would have died too.

Yes, I agree that Dumbledore sometimes had a bit of an ego, and he should have maybe trusted more people/told more people (especially Harry and Snape) about his plans. But on the other hand, I totally understand why he didn't or maybe even couldn't trust anyone. There are literally a couple of reasons. Like the last time he trusted (not only trusted but loved) someone, his sister died, and he never forgave himself for that. Or the time the Potters trusted someone and they died. And simply the fact they were fighting a war, and it's common knowledge that you don't know who to trust in times like these, especially when you know the enemy uses spies.

Dumbledore also didn't raise Harry to die. I mean, as far as I remember, he only figured out that Harry was a horcroux when he already went to Hogwarts. Before that, he probably knew something was up, but I don't think he believed that this something would mean that Harry would die (or at least he chose not to believe it because it was too terrible to think about). And even when he knew Harry was a horcroux I think he still hoped that there would be a way for Harry to survive this because he did care about Harry (and I mean as a person not as some kind of weapon). But even if he raised Harry to die, what else was he supposed to do? Nothing? That would mean that thousands of other people would die. If you have the choice for either one or thousands of people to die, what would you do? It's obviously a horrible situation and I hope no one ever has to see that happen, but sometimes the only choices we have are bad ones, but we still have to choose.

In the end, Dumbledore was a morally grey character who made a lot of mistakes and also some character flaws but he had a good heart and most of his mistakes were made with the best intentions but under horrible conditions.

[stopbuggingm3]

told ya they'd be back

the more time passes, the less normal I get about them.

Loooooong rambles about their relationship under the cut, I said I would and i intend to deliver

So. Out of all the other pastas shes come into contact with, Arya easily ends up the closest with Brian/Hoodie (who i will refer to exclusively as Brian for the sake of my own sanity for this). They've got a "begrudgingly tolerating one another to faux-sibling dynamic" thing going on

How did that start?

Roughly a month or so after she went "missing", both Tim and Brian (they'll always come as a pair to me) find Arya out in the woods, bleeding out and barely conscious, after she managed to wander within close proximity of the cabin the two stay at. Surprised she even made it out so far, they go to investigate (and put her out of her misery) but stop when they find the operator symbol Arya has on her stomach.

Context: In my au, having the operator symbol on your body like that essentially marks you as being Slendermans property and is typically something only the proxies have, which also means that anyone under Slenders control aren't allowed to kill anyone possessing a symbol (don't break the bosses toys, he doesn't like that)

Arya is ironically lucky thats the case, or she absolutely would've been forced to find out what healing around a bullet feels like.

Initially Brian was against the idea of taking Arya with them at all, to the point he only agreed after Tim promised they would get rid of her if she proved to be too much of a hassle. It didn't take very long for them to find out she isn't a proxy herself after she was healed enough to talk, though they still couldn't do much about it, so they came up with a deal: She helps them in whatever way they need, and they'll help keep her safe

From that point on, Arya would regularly stick with Tim and Brian, only leaving whenever the other proxies were around or they had a particularly long job to do. Tim was civil enough, but Brian was considerably colder and untrusting towards her and would repeatedly make it clear that they'd only keep her around for as long as she was useful to them. He takes his job seriously and he's not about to let her become a burden just because they can't get rid of her for good.

Hence the art i made of them the other day. Arya was definitely made to tag along on a handful of Brians more graphic jobs. He still films the way he did when he was ToTheArk, more out of habit and comfort than anything, and I like to think he pushed it onto Arya at least once.

But, as frustrating as it was, and as much as she'd snap back at him for it, Arya didn't take any offence to the harsh treatment. If anything, she viewed his reluctance to trust her almost as a challenge and made it her personal mission to prove herself to him. She refused to let him think of her as a burden or dead-weight, she actually liked that he was a hardass on her. It was better than him immediately writing her off as incapable.

The petty arguments the two of them would constantly get into has single handedly supplied Tim with so much guilt over subjecting Brian to his and Tobys constant bickering, because now he knows exactly how it sounds to everyone else around them.

Speaking of Toby, he crashes on Tim and Brians couch from time to time and Arya is quick to clear off any time he does because, in Brians words, "Toby would gut her alive if he found her" and honestly Arya wouldn't be any more merciful.

It was a slow and painful process, but after a while of sticking around Arya did eventually manage to earn Brians trust and learned to give her own back in return. They warm up to each other. Theres still a good amount of petty bickering but it's much more light hearted and playful than before, petty in the way siblings are rather than enemies.

Brian appreciates how reliable and determined she can be and the way she trusts his judgement on plans and decisions rather than question his every other word like Tim and Toby can sometimes do (Tims a cautious man by nature and Toby...is Toby)

Similarly, Arya appreciates him trusting her capabilities and ability to handle the tasks he gives her. He doesn't assume her to be less capable because of her disabilities and it's a welcome change from the way others can automatically underestimate and look down on her for them

Brian reminds Arya of her older sister Kat (or Katherine for long) in a way, mostly in that they both tend to show care and affection through "tough love" and smaller gestures. Theres times when they argue (usually about Aryas recklessness) where Brian will near enough quote Kat word for word and Arya will just crumble to whatever it is he's saying. She knows her sister had her best interests in mind and the way they constantly argued is something she regrets more than anything, so she tries to avoid the same thing happening to her and Brian. Unlike Kat though, Brian is much more willing to hear her side out and meet her half way on things, which makes it easier to listen to him when he needs her too.

Usually when Arya has a POTS flair up, she'll either shut herself away in the cabins spare room or find somewhere in the woods to hide away until it passes, but sometimes (when it's particularly bad) she'll let Brian stay by her and keep her company because she knows he won't treat her like glass over it. He will be a pest though, if a well meaning one

"Y'know you still have to eat somethin', right?"

"...bring that near me and I will vomit."

"Yeah, but you'll be even more unbearable later if you don't so i'm willin' to risk it."

After weeks of listening to her pester Tim about it, Brian taught Arya how to shoot his gun. She doesn't have one of her own and Brian is usually in need of his, but she has free access to his bullets if she ever meeds them (which is definitely not a privilege she abuses I promise, she will absolutely replace any bullets she may or may not steal)

[sophsun1]

Queer as Folk – 2.16: You Say It's Your Birthday! I Couldn't Care Less!

[unsat-and-strange]

y'know what while I'm here lemme just

beauty and the beast au let's go thank you @rocksanddeadflowers and @blazeismyname for feeding the fire in my brain about this I have more doodles I promise but take this for now

[ceramicbeetle]

actually it's kind of funny how people will say Alex's fatal flaw is that he 'doesn't ask for help' and that it's his determination to handle things on his own that leads to his deterioration and eventual death when his whole introduction to the present-day timeline was a very literal cry for help that simply went ignored

[bisamwilson]

feel free to add ur specific identity in the tags if you want/think that that's important to ur answer

[arvale-artist]

🍃🌱🌳Malzubed in his forest. 🌳🌱🍃

Arvale really likes to take a spin on existing clichés and tropes, and here's one of them!

Malzubed The Fire Dragon who doesn't like the heat and enjoys chilling in his forest. Which IS actually a forest you can visit in Arvale Short Tales!! Unfortunately only playable on pocket PC...

Dragons, particularly fire dragons, are not the type of creature one would associate with prosperity and green nature, but here we have one who has an entire forest named after him.

In the good ending you actually see him in (presumably) his forest when Duncan gives him a visit =] Which I find so neat...

Apologies for the crunchy quality, but I don't upload high resolution art anymore. ^^; This is an oil painting BTW.

[jungleboy-cruise]

My cat is so old and she is so sick and I don't think she's gonna make it to the end of the year and I am so scared and depressed I can't live without her she couldn't get into her cupboard without help right now and I just started sobbing she's MY girl! The other 2 are Brian's but this one is MINE. She's the one source of happiness and light here for me and now that light is dying!!! I wanna die with her

[menlove]

thoughts on the song "you've got to hide your love away" ?

oh SO many. it's a beautiful song & you can definitely hear a lot of dylan's influence in it. it's an interesting one to me bc I can see it several different ways. like Of Course as a fellow dyke w my fags in arms I hear even the phrase "you've got to hide your love away" from a man in 1965 and my eyebrows go up to the clouds. & there certainly Could be some of that I think, whether he Was actually having an affair w paul (or any other man really) or just dealing with internalized homophobia.

but for MEEEE I think what compels me more about it is just like he said about it, he's trying to convey his emotions more in his writing instead of just projecting himself into situations (which started with if I fell and THAT makes me crazy) & the sentiment of "you love too much and too hard and you've got to hide that emotion because people will laugh at you" is incredibly sad & also does say a lot about him & go a long way towards explaining some of his actions in really Any relationship he was in, whether it's about a man or a woman or whoever. if Anything it just goes towards my (& many others lmao) conviction that that man would get a bpd diagnosis.

it's certainly... well I can't imagine a straight man writing that song & fully understanding the feeling, but more than that to me it's just an interesting look into his insecurities & head at the time re his own emotions

[enniewritesathing]

♨️

[homicidalbrunette]

[ceramicbeetle]

turns out when you invest a huge amount of time learning details about a media you eventually reach a point where you stop being able to enjoy a significant number of jokes that other fans will make - this does not make you superior to these other fans, it mostly just makes you annoying (this is a vague post about myself)

[wilhelmina-murray-harker]

tbh i dont think theres much i could appreciate more than people being cool with my adventures with food and being accommodating and respectful about it

[offthewall1979]

motown producers were great, and variety is generally a good thing. but i feel like the j5/michael could've done with a more consistent producer or team of producers. like, producers whose ONLY JOB was to focus on the j5. i think they deserved that