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johns-prince · 1 year

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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]

#anthology of mclennon #mclennon #paul mccartney #cynthia lennon #john lennon #it's not much but it's what i felt i needed to do #point is cyn and paul loved and lost #the meeting of wives #husband and wife #parallels it's the dots I've connected

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odetokeons · 9 days

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Malevolent, Part 20 “The King” | Hannibal, 3x02 “Primavera”, 3x06 “Dolce”, 3x04 “Aperitivo”

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#on a scale of will graham sailing off to europe in a tiny boat to get his man back after their messy divorce #to arthur lester making a deal with an evil entity to get HIS (not-so-)evil entity back after their (umpteenth) messy divorce #how dramatic are you?#anyway i feel absolutely SANE AND NORMAL about these parallels #hannibal #nbc hannibal #hannibal 3x02 #hannibal 3x06 #hannibal 3x04 #malevolent #malevolent podcast #malevolent part 20 #parallels #web weaving #i've connected the dots (you didn't connect shit) i've connected them

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imminent-danger-came · 11 months

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Curse MK: "Hey no no no- I get it man. You want to get back to our monster of the week adventures, get back to our simple missions with Mei, mastering all of Monkey King's powers and delivering noodles for pigsy. Right?" MK: "Yeah...yeah actually that's exactly what I wanna-" Curse MK: "But we can't! Not after all we've seen! All we know and all we don't? *sigh* Right friend?"

MK: "You're not my friend...you're NOT me!" Curse MK: "Sure I am! I'm your best friend—well, closest at least. I know more about you than you'll even admit, to yourself, or to others."

(4x07 Pitiful Creatures)

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Azure: "Look what he's done to you! Reduced you to a mindless, savage, animal!" MK: "Oh, there's nothing mindless about me, friend."

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MK: "That's what you were pretending to be, right? To be my friend—to care about me? When really you were just using me to get what you wanted!"

(4x13 Rip and Tear)

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Friend.

Actual pic of me rn:

#the writers are literally INSANNEEEEEEEEEEEE #me lovingly transcribing these scenes and sobbing while doing so: :'D #"I've connected the dots!'' ''You didn't connect shit'' ''I've connected them!''#Hate the use of the word ''using'' (ha)#like. ''You don't use a weapon. You ARE a weapon!''#Yeah okay. From season 1 huh #lmk #lego monkie kid #lmk parallels #monkie kid #lmk Azure Lion #lmk MK #lmk ink mk #lmk spoilers

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aflockofravens · 1 month

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I can't find my original post but I've continued my JJK English rewatch and I just got to Pandemonium (RIP my heart).

If Itafushi isn't canon, tell me why Megumi heard Yuji yelling well before anyone else did?

#check and mate non-believers #itafushi nation rise up #also this segues right into the fight they have against the old guy where they directly parallel the SatoSugu fight #with Megumi worriedly running to Yuji who is uninjured just like Suguru did to Satoru against Toji #I've connected the dots #[you've connected shit]#I've connected them #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #itafushi #let a girl dream

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braceletofteeth · 10 months

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The Story of Sunflower Joke Clytie

Clytie had an affair with Apollo, the sun god. But Apollo left her for another woman. Clytie, however, harbored hopes that her love would return. For nine straight days, she waited for Apollo to come back, surviving only on her tears and dew. Her gaze was fixed on the sun and nothing else. Clytie lay there until her limbs were stuck under the ground. Her face turned into a sunflower, always facing The Sun.

#hidden agenda #hidden agenda the series #1x03 #1x04 #parallels #(of sorts)#gifset #*#//#I've connected the dots... I'VE CONNECTED THEM!!!!#the sunflower is Joke and he's given himself for Zo to carry with him #Zo is Apollo who makes Joke wait while he goes after another #are you seeing my vision

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cherrywhite · 11 months

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something something when the silt verses said home is a concept, a reflection, and it’s always with us but it’s never the same as how we left it; It’s just as much a comfort as it is a weight we carry.

#the silt verses #i'm SO normal about this podcast btw #surely someone better articulate than I can go more into depth about the theme of home in s2 but MAN #i've connected the dots #i will be inconsolable when s3 starts #every time i relisten istg I notice something new #there's some more parallels I noticed on my recent relisten that make me feel ill /pos #edit: FORGOT THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE

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raayllum · 9 months

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Anyway, I want to talk about this exchange between mostly Viren and a little Aaravos, and how I think it'll pertain to Callum and Rayla's dynamic going forward, since as most of the people following me probably already know, Viren-Aaravos Callum-Rayla is one of the most consistent four-way foil dynamics in the show. Where Aaravos pushes Viren further down that dark path, yet eventually is the reason Viren breaks away entirely (thanks to his fever dreams because Aaravos made him do dark magic in 4x09), while Rayla is already consistently trying to get Callum off of it, yet has inadvertently pushed him further down it in a few ways in S4 and S5. Quote about Rayla from TDP's head writer here.

With all that initial stuff out of the way, let's talk about it.

The first is that when the possession plot line comes back around Rayla will be called to make a Sacrifice, just as Viren was, but instead of being an innocent creature he has no attachment (which is the moral test Viren needed), Rayla's tendency to sacrifice whatever is personally important to her for the good of the world will be in direct opposition with well, not wanting to sacrifice Callum by any means necessary. And she, like Viren, will refuse.

And so will, I think, Callum, at least in a way. Let me explain.

By far the most interesting, indicative, and arguably important word in the exchange is "because," i.e. "I find myself here at these horrifying crossroads because I have followed a dark path." He's had to make this awful, difficult, horrible choices because of his prior choices; they all snowballed. They all became a slippery slope (as Sarai would say). He wasn't just randomly dropped into it. As his younger self says in his dreams, "Every step is a choice."

And now Callum has opened the door of dark magic back up again, and thereby left himself more vulnerable (presumably) to being possessed again in the future. A consequence because he did dark magic, and because he has a darker side (and potential darker path ahead of him). It makes me think more and more that Rayla is going to get stabbed / seriously injured when he's possessed again, and that will be what forces Callum to another crossroads: her death with Aaravos remaining trapped, or saving her life but setting his enemy free. A sacrifice he's willing to make and a sacrifice he's not.

This is furthered by the idea running throughout Callum and Rayla's dynamic of "They might save you or they might kill you" "Exactly, just like me" (book one novelization) where Rayla will save Callum because she refuses to kill him. But, given the way their dynamic is now interwoven with Aaravos and Rayla's own parallels to Aaravos, if Callum isn't going to kill him, yet, either... Then doesn't he kinda have to save him? (More of a reach, I know, but listen with the salvation and destruction theme the exchange makes more sense I swear).

And either way, Aaravos doesn't have to make the choice for him; Callum will play right into his hands anyway.

#i'll be your slaughterhouse #rayllum #5x09 #predictions #s6 speculation #i need you to kill me #subset: salvation and destruction #analysis series #analysis #parallels #tdp #the dragon prince #cube hostage exchange theory #adjacently #devil and the lovers #'i've connected the dots' 'you didn't connect shit' 'i've connected them'

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hauntedorpheum · 1 year

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Barbie (2023) // The Cat in the Hat (2003)

#cinema parallels #i've connected the dots #you didn't connect shit etc #barbie 2023 #barbie #the cat in the hat #greta gerwig #come here i need to talk to you about something #my post

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upwardsdescensum · 6 months

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No more "I love you's"

Changes are shifting outside the word.

#annie lennox #no more i love you's #a murder at the end of the world #grimes having a song in this episode....girl speak the f up what does it all mean #the parallels #I've connected the dots I fear #jk but am I?#is this what azelia went through at the musk household #sorry i actually really like this show so far #i'm drunk and my brain is very powerful sorry i guess

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nose-coffee · 1 year

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Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir // The Song Of Achilles by Madeline Miller

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literallycarrie · 2 years

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guys... i'm having thoughts...

#himbo mom friend who's always done with everyone's shit x long haired eccentric guy with zero regard for the law or conformity...#i've connected the dots i've connected them!!#oh yeah i'm into stranger things now btw #took me long enough #i'll mostly keep that brainrot off this blog bc anyone who follows my main already has to put up with it #but once i noticed the willex and steddie parallels i just couldn't hold it in #though of course there's big differences i mean willex had a meet-cute while steddie had a meet-nasty agsgddg #plus with steddie only one of them is dead </3 #i feel like there's something to be said about 'i should've just skated away' vs eddie's comments abt running away but idk i'm dumb #OH and there's parallels to caleb and the hgc if we consider the kas theory 👀#okay i need to stop #lova's terrible posts #willex #jatp #julie and the phantoms #steddie #steveddie #stranger things #stranger things 4

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odetokeons · 1 month

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i know they would be besties

#I'VE CONNECTED THE DOTS (you didn't connect shit) I'VE CONNECTED THEM #kid me having a crush on ryuk 🤝🏻 adult me having a (platonic)crush on alastor #ryuk #shinigami #death note #alastor #alastor the radio demon #hazbin alastor #hazbin hotel #parallels #niche posts that cater to me specifically

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april13th2009 · 9 months

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Hm.

Hmm.

What I'M getting here is that Rose and Aradia are moirail coded

#I'VE CONNECTED THE DOTS <== truly Has Not connected shit #but this is my first time reading this and theorizing is fun #even if this interpretation is shattered within like a few pages the phrasing parallel with remain #adrien says stuff #rose lalonde #aradia megido #homestuck

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sayitan · 4 months

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i think tom was the older twin because i'm choosing to interpret jake's " you're the older brother, you gotta act like it " as a subconscious projection to either what tom used to do for him or what he wishes tom had done for him. also jake's " you do understand that you almost got your brother killed " also being a subconscious projection to how jake potentially used to get tom into ( dire ) trouble ( which also may explain why jake and tom became kinda estranged ).

#. meta . › holding the name of warriors .#i've connected the dots #something something parallels #something something narrative foreshadowing

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aphel1on · 5 months

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getou suguru is basically just xiao genshin backwards alexa send tweet

its about. how theyre both sin eaters who are far too empathetic for their duties by nature but far too dutiful to stop except xiao had his feral arc first and then calmed down meanwhile sugur-

#Character parallels that fascinate no one but me pt 100 #aphelion.txt #jjk #genshin impact #getou suguru #xiao #suguru #xiao was forced to do atrocities and now lives in voluntary endless servitude partially but not entirely as penance #meanwhile suguru believed in endless servitude for the greater good until he lost faith and snapped #and he committed all his atrocities voluntarily but he STILL (in his mind) believes he's working for the greater good of sorcerors #key differences but those are fascinating to me too #I've connected the dots- you havent connected shit- ive connected them

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ipusingularitae · 1 year

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steven universe future it's just an analysis of what would it be if jesus (human body) lived enough to save everyone and then have an existential crisis after realizing how he doesn't have a practical purpose anymore

#steven universe #steven universe future #su future #su #like idk why i thought about that #but it kinda makes sense right?#like..... i see the parallel #I've connected the dots #wait a minute #jesus christ #steven is jesus #like THINK ABOUT IT #he is his mother son but he's kinda his mother at the same time #he's the mother and the son #DO YOU SEE?????#am i going crazy or something #just for the record I'm not religious

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