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something so crazy-making about unhealthy mentor-protegé relationships. we're foils, we're mirrors, we're the same person, we're a parent and a child, we're lovers, we're enemies, we'd be better off without each other, we'd kill and die for each other

metamorphesque

musings on oranges

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buy me a coffee

valtsv

something about substances so strong they can only be cut by that same substance (like diamond) gets to me. the self-fulfilling prophecy of it. you can armor yourself against any and all outside threats, but you're still beholden to your own nature.

valtsv

*walks over to my board titled "is the desire to self-destruct innate or a learned behaviour?" and places another tally mark in the 'innate' column*

zingaplanet

Ok but are you talking about complicated relationship or are you talking about John Lennon and Paul McCartney meeting when they were just 15 & 17, who decided then and there that they will change the whole world forever, who fell in love with music and skipped school to write songs eyeball to eyeball every day, who wanted to be credited as Lennon/McCartney because all their craft should always be remembered as one, who changed history and wrote music that still inspired generations for the next 5 decades together, who've lived together and saw each other almost every day for more than 10 years, who were each other's biggest rivals driving each other mad trying to outwrite history's greatest hits, who were each other's greatest inspiration and source of jealousy, who had a bond so intense their wives said they never looked at anyone else like they looked at each other,

who ended their musical partnership and friendship through an article in the press, who didn't properly speak again for almost 8 years and only communicated through veiled insults in each other's solo records and media, whose breakup of friendship drove each other to substance and drug abuse for over a decade, who lost a battle to time as the other was gunned down just when they started properly connecting again, who said the night he was murdered that the other was family, and family always forgave each other,

and McCartney who never showed up to induction ceremonies but cried as he said, "John Lennon, you made it, tonight you're in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" because they always promised they'd conquer the world together, who still showed up to gun laws march in Central Park 40 years after Lennon was murdered across the street, who spent every single interview he got telling people to tell their loved ones "i love you" before it's too late, because he never forgave himself for never being brave enough to say it.

beatsfornone

candynyams

oneheadtoanother

headspace-hotel

Many people are scared of insects, but you know what's scarier than insects...?

No insects

ceofjohnlennon

"He also had the fascinating ability of being able to do two things at once. In the evenings, he would sit at the table doing his homework and watching television at the same time. How he managed it, I don't know, but the extraordinary thing was, that afterwards, he usually knew more about the programme than I did. And he got his homework correct as well. He seemed to have the sort of mind that could easily grasp things that used to take a lot of concentration from other boys."

ㅡ James McCartney about a young Paul McCartney. From The Beatles Monthly Book N°27 (October/1965).

kalichnikov

i was today years old when i learned "smug" stands for "smirking jug"

kalichnikov

sewerfight-deactivated20250114

At this point older people are seemingly hyper aware of what you "can't do" in society anymore more than what I am aware of. like the other day I was watching a movie and this old guy from liverpool who I'm letting stay in my house for reasons always to do with my open heart and kind nature was like. watching the romance scene in the movie. and when the guy sniffed the woman and said "you smell nice!" he was like "oh you couldn't say that anymore, lol" like what the fuck do you mean. they gonna cancel you for consensual sniffing now?? you know there are people who've killed people and have completely gotten away with it right? romantic sniffing and the warmth of human embrace is fucking nothing. nobody even knows what woke is. woke used to be when I walked down the aisles at the store and pointed at the beef and said "chemicals in there" and shook my head somberly