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chronic pain has hardcore robbed me from editing but i'm back today :)

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My ancestors, watching me dump an entire stick of cinnamon, two cloves, an allspice berry, and a generous grating of nutmeg into my tea, sweetened with white sugar and loaded with cream, while I sit in my clean warm house surrounded by books, 25+ outfits for different occasions, and 6 pairs of shoes, in a building heated so well I have the windows open in mid-autumn:

Our daughter prospers. We are proud of her. She has never labored in a field but knows riches we could not have imagined.

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I will throw down with anyone who hurts this man.

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He's heavy on my mind right now.

Ringo Starr 1972

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i think a lot about how in the past women/afab people disguised themselves as men and lived for years undetected (in all-male workplaces!!) because it really drives home the point that there is so much natural variation in human bodies that would enable somebody to believably do this. like not only is it natural for men to be very short but it's also natural for them to have high voices, it's natural for women to be tall, built, and masculine, and the fact that people in the past just rolled with it like "he has dainty hands and that's none of my business" gives me some type of jealousy. people have gotten way too comfortable deciding what traits are normal for what sex. i think we all need to mind our business more.

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i'm a simple man i reblog it whenever i see it

GET BACK: Paul singing (and playing) ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ on the piano.

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Q: George told Rolling Stone that if you wanted the Beatles, go listen to Wings. It seemed a bit of a putdown.

JOHN: I didn’t see what George said, so I really don’t have any comment. (pause) Band on the Run is a great album. Wings is almost as conceptual a group as Plastic Ono Band. Plastic Ono was a conceptual group, meaning whoever was playing was the band. And Wings keeps changing all the time. It’s conceptual. I mean, they’re backup men for Paul. It doesn’t matter who’s playing. You can call them Wings, but it’s Paul McCartney music. And it’s good stuff. It’s good Paul music and I don’t really see the connection.

— John Lennon, interview with Pete Hamill in Rolling Stone, June 5th, 1975.

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“At one point today, even though I also never ask about this, I will suddenly find that I am listening to McCartney agitate about his angst around the circumstances of the Beatles’ split—still, it seems, a tender issue: “One of the sadnesses for me when the Beatles broke up, the only way to save the business side of it was me suing the Beatles, so that was like a total heartache. And the residue was that I was to blame. I was ‘the one who broke the Beatles up.’ And so I spent quite a bit of time—you know, still doing it—to sort of say: ‘No, I didn’t. John wanted Yoko, so he said we’re leaving the Beatles.…’ But because of that suing incident, the word got out that I was the baddie. And the worst thing was: I kind of bought into it. My psyche sort of said, 'No, no, no, no, no, no… Yes!… No, you weren’t.…You were!’ I really wasn’t, but if everyone thinks you were, then maybe you were.””

— Chris Heath Interviews Paul Mccartney for GQ, (September 11, 2018)

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Honestly

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I cannot believe I was so confident about my Beatles knowledge when I started posting YouTube videos. Now I question almost every thing I do and regularly consider just quitting Beatles content all together. I know this could be a pity post but no one will see this at all so it’s just going out into the ether. Every video the response is overwhelmingly positive but the more I’m around the more I’m convinced I’m just superfluous. I have my lane and I’m just wondering if I should go stay in it. The majority of my “audience” (ugh) are people who probably wouldn’t like all the other things I like, so I know the small amount of views I get, I will lose. But at least I might feel comfortable.

I know I’ll never actually quit Beatles content. But, my last video brought in new viewers. I got a few comments and one of them called me brainwashed. I do all my research with such strict guidelines (only books, interviews, documentaries, no content creator media)this way so I’m not brainwashed. But I questioned all my methods again… what if I’m wrong?

That same person criticized me for calling John mentally ill. Which John was mentally ill. He said as much. That commenter isn’t concerned about the status of John’s sanity, just the term for it. I was worried about alienating an older generation who will rail against a label like that on John. I worried about this for two whole days.

And so I question all of my thoughts, all of my content, all of my work.

I don’t want to be afraid of what I say in my own videos and honestly I’ve been afraid since my third Beatles video and that’s when I should have stopped. I wish I did.

I have too much to say and I know I’ll come back, eating my words as I always do. But I never started for the Beatles. This was supposed to be fun. It wasn’t supposed to hurt.

The duality of man.

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GEORGE HARRISON and JOHN LENNON, Get Back Part III

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Empathy while considering the Beatles

Wondering if some criticism of The Beatles (especially John and Paul) ever takes into account how they might have felt while going through what they did.

I do see a lack of empathy around here, and that's fine because a lot of people are a lot deeper into this thing than me, but here's what I do and what I wish people would do as well.

What was the mindset they may have had during that time?

-Keep in mind historical context including finances, politics, upbringing, social pressure and impact of war PLUS (naturally) accounts from those close to The Beatles and The Beatles themselves.

This one is important

Were John and Paul just trying to hurt each other and saying things they didn't actually believe?

How much has this shaped our personal opinions on John or Paul?

While answering that question, we need to examine, "Am I unwilling to change my opinion on this because the first thing I heard was from Camp Paul or Camp John?"

Are we unwilling to change our opinions on The Beatles? We need to be.

How could this PROTECT the Beatle in question rather than gain favor from the audience/world/opinion on Beatles?

I see almost no consideration for how The Beatles may have felt while giving their party line on what happened from the breakup. I believe this in based in sexism, believing that these men would never act on feelings and only on public perception. These guys have feelings. John lashes out, Paul hides and tries to smooth it over, George diverts (and goes and does his own thing, Go George!) and Ringo honestly is not so much to blame here.

If we're not willing to stop and simply consider The Beatles as humans, fallible, fucked up people, just like us, then we really need to examine WHY we care about the history of the Beatles if we aren't willing to learn a more holistic depiction of events.

see ya later

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RIP :(

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pretty sure it's going to take me several months to finish the ringo videos series because I'm finally putting Lost first. It's all I can think about. It's on my mind constantly. I know that's not what my teeny following wants but that's what's happening.

and this tumblr is much more likely to be a blog into the void but hey that's fine. hello, void!