#beatles reference

Quick note if any of yall have requests I’m happy to do them!

John: He would be unusually jittery around you. Like people would notice him fiddling with the buttons on his cuffs or picking at his nails, etc. He would also act more “aggressive” with you, punching your arm, trying to wrassle with you, and play fighting. He would see this as an excuse to touch you even if it’s just poking your arm to annoy you. Another thing with touch if you so happened to brush behind him in a tight corridor, he’s freaking out. Red faced. Palms sweaty. The whole thing. He worries about you too, like a mother in fact. If you come to the studio with an hangover he will scold you a little then offer you a coffee. He will take note of when you arrive in the morning and if you’re over 5 mins late he will internally freak out. He will pace until someone has to sit him down and even then he’s biting his nails as he watches the clock or his wrist watch. And when he sees your car he’s like a dog, he runs up to the door and waits for you to come in and the acts all nonchalant. Like he wasn’t just preening himself so he looks nice for you. Also he stares, a lot. If you catch him staring (which happens all the time) he will try to play it off.

“There was a fly behind you! See!” As there’s no fly

Paul: Very charming, I mean he charms every girl that comes across him but with you he goes an extra mile. For example, if a girl is walking behind him he will open the door and wink at her. But for you if you’re walking in front of him he WILL make it an effort to get in front of you and hold the door open for you, even if you had your hand of the doorknob. But small difference is he won’t wink, he thinks with having a crush there’s different “stages”. If he’s on stage one, finding out he has a crush on you he won’t even look at you because he will end up blushing like crazy. Stage two would be kinda putting himself out there, actually talking to you. And the rest goes on. If the lads know they will ask him “ay, why haven’t you made a move yet Paul!” And he will reply; “I’m just not there yet! I don’t want to rush it.” He still tries to be all “romantic” but it’s just him sitting close to you and freaking out internally. But he will try to strike up a conversation (ofc on the right stage) but he will almost never stop thinking of what clever thing to say or funny quip. Also he thinks about you a ton. During practice, John will get on him for not paying attention meanwhile Paul’s thinking about how you said good morning to him and if he said it back weird. “Sorry John! My minds just been..busy lately.”

George: Very observant but secretly. He won’t tell the others and he definitely won’t tell you until he knows for a fact you’re into him. Just like Paul he thinks about you all the time but instead of previous times you have talked to him, it’s more physical things. How your hair flows in the wind, your eyes sparkling when you hear a new song, you pursing your lips when thinking, etc. Another little quirk about him is he acts like a bird. I mean that as in he brings you pretty rocks, a flower or two if he’s feeling brave, a leaf he thought you would press between the pages of a book. Basically anything that he would think you like he will bring it to you. Sometimes he will call you over just so you two can catch up over some tea and he uses that as an excuse to play you guitar because he learned a new song that he knows you like. And he loves taking to you and hearing you talk, in private ofc he isn’t called the quiet Beatle for nothing lol. He thinks your voice sounds as smooth as silk and he would pay actual money to listen to you talk.

“No you’re not boring me, I quite like listening to you talk. Your voice soothes me.”

Ringo: He gets like 10 times more playful when your around, not like John with aggressiveness, but he will act more goofy around you and encourages you to do the same. He loves seeing you smile and he loves even more to make you laugh. Speaking of that he will laugh at any little joke you make. Whether it’s a sly comment about a radio host or repeating something you read in the newspaper, he will laugh like you’re a comedian. And he swears up and down that you are. He will say things like; “Are you sure you’re not some secret comedian behind closed doors? Because you make me laugh like you are one!” And he tries to call you these cute nicknames and when you ask him why he says he calls everyone that (he does not) Despite him being all silly around you he does try to impress you. Playing a tricky drum solo when no one is doing anything in practices because he knows your looking, trying to out wit anybody even if he makes a fool of himself, and when he’s alone with you he makes a sure effort to seem like he’s the strongest guy around. He tries so hard.

“See love, this one time I helped this guy one time after a show and I was all tired yknow. And he was struggling picking up my bass drum, you see the bass was like 100 pounds. More than that I bet! And get this, I picked it up with ease!”

Question for the community: Is this actually a photo of John? I've heard three things:

1. It's John in Paris taken by Paul.

2. It's John in George's house taken by Paul or persons unknown.

3. It's George in George's house taken by Paul or persons unknown.

Looking at the actual face, it could be John or George, or someone else entirely.

The curtain looks similar to the curtain in the Paris picture of Paul sitting on the toilet. However it looks more similar to patterned curtains/wallpaper from photos of George's house (below)*

I've also heard that Paul has used that photo on tours and said that it’s John - but I don't have a source for that.

Does anyone have sourced information for the provenance, subject and approximate date of this photo? Someone may have already worked all this out but a tumblr search hasn't yielded anything yet. A google images search is also inconclusive, with most results claiming the photo is from Paris.

Tagging @undying-love @thecoleopterawithana @tavolgisvist @torchlitinthedesert @thedissenters and anyone else with Lore Knowledge. Please reblog for wider reach! <3

*Photos of (adorable baby) George in George's family home:

okay so this is my theory as to why john and paul worked well as a duo bc yk. i’m obviously a psychic who knows everything and can make these assumptions despite seemingly minimal evidence…

- in paul’s case, we have an emotionally distant / abusive father who is unreliable and mother who had to overcompensate to support the men in her family (though this often meant being dismissive about emotional matters). his mother dies when he is 14 and he never gets any time to say goodbye. this destroys his already emotionally unstable father and forces paul into a parentified position. life becomes more about survival and maintenance than truly existing, feeling, and enjoying oneself. this makes paul appear cold and guarded, despite him being a heavy feeler. additionally, paul resents the masculinity he grows up with but ultimately does not know how to live without conforming to heteronormativity. this makes paul constantly battle his own desires and thoughts.

- john grows up without his father and surrounded by female figures. while aunt mimi is a dependable and loving caretaker, she is incredibly harsh and stern regarding certain matters, as well as tough and unyielding. he remains in contact with his erratic mother who is more like a friend than a familial figure, and she also dies when john is a teenager. so, despite having a guardian, john has to learn how to be independent and reliant on self. he also lacks strong masculine figures, and while dependent on women, he struggles to make a gendered identity for himself (keep in mind this is like the 50s). this combined with heavy childhood trauma results in somebody who wants to be better, but often lashes out violently and unpredictably.

together, the binaries of gender, love, and partnership got blurred in favor and benefit of the other:

- paul reestablished that maternal care john needed and missed. paul would help john cook, clean, calm down, and wake up without ever infringing upon john’s own autonomy. this was especially good for john because paul was NOT a woman. in fact, paul was younger than john and even looked up to john as a guiding figure. this wifely role taken on by paul as well as his “effeminate” display of manhood, fame, wealth, and partnership allowed john to feel like he had somebody he could be vulnerable with while not being controlled by that person.

- in fact, i would argue that john took on more of a parental role in many ways and served as an emotional regulator for paul. paul, who has a brain that moves a million miles per minute, often internally panics at any perceived threats (ex. regarding money, abandonment, etc). i think paul even struggles to understand his own feelings half of the time because of how regularly he had to suppress them. john hardly needed words to understand paul; instead, john was able to read paul in an almost intuitive way and understand paul’s actions for what they were rather than how paul wanted them to be understood (ex. john never buying into paul’s “oh im totally fine” act, and john knowing how to calm paul down even when paul seemed impossible). i don’t think john gets enough credit in this regard. for once, not only did paul now have somebody who was willing to do anything for him, protect him, defend him, stand up for others on his behalf, inspire him to be more independent, etc., but paul could exist and be understood in ways i doubt other people were able to do at all.

together, paul was able to play into the more feminine role he subconsciously took on and provide love to somebody who loved him back the same amount (if not more), and john was able to convey a more subdued masculine version of himself that was fully dependent on paul’s need for john’s affection and presence.

here comes the sun,

/mod post but here’s George just bc

was watching project hail mary for the first time last night and was reminded of how much i love when people name things that come in fours after the beatles

we should do that more often!!!