#personal experience time

[hooked-on-elvis]

[PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, almost nothing factual here, so feel free to skip it] I just had the cutest dream! Paul McCartney talking about EP 💭⚡

Disclaimer: This has barely nothing to do with real life, except for real life events and something about male hairstyles fashion trends in the 70s. I just found it a cute thing to have dreamed about this and wanted to share with you.

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So... I've just dreamed Sir Paul McCartney had shared a post on his Instagram account about Elvis. 😅🥹 That's one of those "out of the blue" dreams I wonder "how in the world my mind figured dreaming something like this tonight?" but anyway... In my dream, I was reading what Paul wrote. Those were the words:

"Much of my 70s look come from this magazine [he shared the cover of it, but I didn't see it clearly] I bought up before meeting Elvis in 1965. He shown me how to do it [the hairstyles] from the top to the neck. He was a very kind man." — (Paul McCartney in my head, just tonight *lol*)

That was it. It really sounds like Paul, doesn't it? LOL. I found it so cute! It doesn't make much sense a magazine from the mid 60s having info on what would be trending on male hairstyles in the 70s, at least not for me... maybe if it was 1969 it would make more sense. Still... that would've been such a cute to share about EP!

On male hairstyles from the 70s, well... it was pretty much overgrown time, either with the shaggy, blow-dried, mullets hairstyles and so on, serving hair was the word! also there was lots of facial hair, like those mutton chops and big mustaches, and the thing Elvis loved, made it trending and immortalized in history: the sideburns - ever so present with him since the 50s (except during the army years) and which grew bigger as he got older. So what could Elvis have had possibly teach Paul McCartney on 70s hairstyles? I wonder. EP was much about shaggy hair that time.

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Paul in 1969 and sometime around the 70s.

EP, 1969 and throughout the 70s.

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Now, back to talking about the dream... I saw pictures of Paul McCartney in my dream (which one I don't remember now), one picture he shared on this Instagram post, showing his 70s hairstyle, and I also heard his voice in my head while I was reading his words, but I didn't see or listen to Elvis at all. Many dreams I have about him are something like this. Either I see someone looking quite like him, and I know it's him in my mind, but I can't see the face clearly, or I hear the songs he sang but he never speaks to me directly, or I only face mentions of his name but none Elvis image or voice. I've never dreamed about EP in a clear way, it's either mentions or blurred images of him, things my mind knows but my mind doesn't show me. At least up until now - except this one time I had this moment I thought I heard EP talking directly to me - it wasn't a dream, but I couldn't see his face either. What a boomer! Maybe one day.

Anyway... I thought about sharing this just because it was a cute dream, to me, like I said. That Elvis/Beatles meeting at Elvis' home at 525 Perugia Way, Bel Air, Los Angeles, on 27 August 1965, remains a thing to our imaginary to try to figure out how it happened. Of course, we have some recollections about that night on books, some interviews with Paul too, but the details are important and those we'll probably never know. Can you imagine THIS ELVIS below teaching 70s hairstyle to Paul McCartney that 1965 night? 😅 He was indeed a guy that didn't hold back what he had, so I can understand how my mind figured Elvis would have teach Paul anything he said he was interested in, considering Elvis knew something about it. EP was a generous guy. I can understand too how my mind portrayed EP as a visionary. He was in fact quite one.

Elvis on movie set Frankie and Johnny June 10, 1965. | The Beatles. Press conference. Performance in Genoa June 26, 1965

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Side note: Yes, my mind reaaally figured out the year of that meeting correctly, 1965. Paul actually mentions the year in his "Instagram post" I dreamed. Now, fully awake as I write this down (I have this thing about writing all my interesting dreams), I couldn't say if the year was precisely 1965 so I had to Google it to be sure I had the accurate info before I shared this with you. My mind didn't give the details on day/month or address, clearly because in real life Paul wouldn't share this on Instagram, not on this kind of post at least. He was just sharing a curiosity about him that involved Elvis somehow, so the exact info didn't matter, but still... the exact year my subconscious mind knew about... when my conscious mind wasn't sure. I find it SO amazing how our brains works.

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What about you? Do you have any fun/cute dream about Elvis you want to share?

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[ciderjacks]

contracts written in blood

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[uncanny-tranny]

Fat people deserve mobility aids, too. No matter if it's connected to their fatness or not, because having a mobility issue that is connected to one's fatness won't change that they're still fat and still have the issue at hand. Fat people don't deserve to "tough it out" because fatness should be this divine punishment doled out to those who "deserve" it. Fat disabled people deserve to have the peace of mind that they can exist in whatever way is most comfortable and accessible to them

[inkskinned]

the thing is that they're so fascinated by sex, they love sex, they can't imagine a world without sex - they need sex to sell things, they need sex to be part of their personality, they need sex to prove their power - but they hate sex. they are disgusted by it.

sex is the only thing that holds their attention, and it is also the thing that can never be discussed directly.

you can't tell a child the normal names for parts of their body, that's sexual in nature, because the body isn't a body, it's a vessel of sex. it doesn't matter that it's been proven in studies (over and over) that kids need to know the names of their genitals; that they internalize sexual shame at a very young age and know it's 'dirty' to have a body; that it overwhelmingly protects children for them to have the correct words to communicate with. what matters is that they're sexual organs. what matters is that it freaks them out to think about kids having body parts - which only exist in the context of sex.

it's gross to talk about a period or how to check for cancer in a testicle or breast. that is nasty, illicit. there will be no pain meds for harsh medical procedures, just because they feature a cervix.

but they will put out an ad of you scantily-clad. you will sell their cars for them, because you have abs, a body. you will drip sex. you will ooze it, like a goo. like you were put on this planet to secrete wealth into their open palms.

they will hit you with that same palm. it will be disgusting that you like leather or leashes, but they will put their movie characters in leather and latex. it will be wrong of you to want sexual freedom, but they will mark their success in the number of people they bed.

they will crow that it's inappropriate for children so there will be no lessons on how to properly apply a condom, even to teens. it's teaching them the wrong things. no lessons on the diversity of sexual organ growth, none on how to obtain consent properly, none on how to recognize when you feel unsafe in your body. if you are a teenager, you have probably already been sexualized at some point in your life. you will have seen someone also-your-age who is splashed across a tv screen or a magazine or married to someone three times your age. you will watch people pull their hair into pigtails so they look like you. so that they can be sexy because of youth. one of the most common pornography searches involves newly-18 young women. girls. the words "barely legal," a hiss of glass sand over your skin.

barely legal. there are bills in place that will not allow people to feel safe in their own bodies. there are people working so hard to punish any person for having sex in a way that isn't god-fearing and submissive. heteronormative. the sex has to be at their feet, on your knees, your eyes wet. when was the first time you saw another person crying in pornography and thought - okay but for real. she looks super unhappy. later, when you are unhappy, you will close your eyes and ignore the feeling and act the role you have been taught to keep playing. they will punish the sex workers, remove the places they can practice their trade safely. they will then make casual jokes about how they sexually harass their nanny.

and they love sex but they hate that you're having sex. you need to have their ornamental, perfunctory, dispassionate sex. so you can't kiss your girlfriend in the bible belt because it is gross to have sex with someone of the same gender. so you can't get your tubes tied in new england because you might change your mind. so you can't admit you were sexually assaulted because real men don't get hurt, you should be grateful. you cannot handle your own body, you cannot handle the risks involved, let other people decide that for you. you aren't ready yet.

but they need you to have sex because you need to have kids. at 15, you are old enough to parent. you are not old enough to hear the word fuck too many times on television.

they are horrified by sex and they never stop talking about it, thinking about it, making everything unnecessarily preverted. the saying - a thief thinks everyone steals. they stand up at their podiums and they look out at the crowd and they sign a bill into place that makes sexwork even more unsafe and they stand up and smile and sign a bill that makes gender-affirming care illegal and they get up and they shrug their shoulders and write don't say gay and they get up, and they make the world about sex, but this horrible, plastic vision of it that they have. this wretched, emotionless thing that holds so much weight it's staggering. they put their whole spine behind it and they push and they say it's normal!

this horrible world they live in. disgusted and also obsessed.

[notbrucewayne48]

"aphobia doesn't exist"

bitch literally not that long ago an aroace youtuber animator was insulted by almost half of its community for being it

[arthur-lesters-right-arm]

Thinking back to the time I was about halfway through TMA and was explaining the plot to a friend who has never listened to a single episode and they tried to make one of those "Soup was invented by John Soup when he wanted to drink a chicken" jokes and ended up saying something along the lines of "The Magnus Institute was created by John Magnus when he wanted to make an institute for all the fears" and at the time I was like haha good one bro but in hindsight I think I need to fucking throngle them with my bare hands

[nyancrimew]

i think every queer (whether they've realized it already or not) kid should have to go through an emo phase, let's force them to listen to nu-metal while they skip school to cry about a broken heart

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

At your side [End of Season 2]

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[tiafrye]

A little self-indulgent sketch of Gale I drew today while shamelessly using pictures of Tim as a reference. And I have no regrets.

[iheartbookbran]

My favorite part about the Debling plot was Penelope and Cressida doing the most over there top cat-fighting in order to win him over, not because they genuinely liked the guy, but because they wanted to escape their families and also lowkey just hate each other.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

anyone else have multiple traumatic memories associated specifically with holidays/family vacations? because that is a topic I never see discussed in all the So You Had A Shitty Childhood, Now What? self-help books i've been reading. but for me, it was a significant thing. and the more i think about it the more it seems like this would be an (unfortunately) common experience. would be grateful to hear if this matches other peoples' experiences...

[nartothelar]

🫵!

[tringstarruuu]

School crush 💘

[latenightsundayblues]

This idea came to me in a dream and it impacted me so violently i had to sit down for a while

Diana being ADAM'S daughter instead of Lawrence's. Financially struggling single father Adam. Trying-his-best father Adam. Can anybody hear me

[danielnelsen]

while i get where this comes from and it’s true to an extent, i reeeaaaally don’t like how people try to explain “trans men don’t [necessarily] have male privilege” with things like “some trans men don’t pass”.

like sure that’s the most obvious example (someone who is seen as a woman won’t have the privilege that comes with being seen a man) but you’re still acting like being a passing trans man is just a free opt-in to male privilege which is………kinda the issue.

[daisywords]

writing is so silly because you have to maintain the understanding that you're not more specialer than anyone else and your work needs improvement and you have more to learn. but also you have to fully believe that your stuff is amazing. mindblowing. masterpiece the likes of which no one has ever seen before. you really have to hold these contradictory beliefs next to each other and force them to play nice. it's like shoving your shoulder angel and devil into a "get-along shirt." It doesn't make any sense. But if you don't, you're not going to get anywhere

You have to pursue what your writing Could Be with dogged determination while unflinchingly perceiving what it Actually Is. You have to accept that you're not more deserving or likely to succeed than any other writer, but you also have to love and honor and cling to your own specific mad genius because no one else is going to do it for you. Writing is really hard and it's also really worth it.