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[tiinkers-tales]

John Lennon (1940 - ∞)

❛ he’s in a better place, now he sings from heaven ❜

[lennonnine]

Hey there!

Goooodmorning Vietnam!

Hey, people! How are you?

As you may know, it is Octover. sorry i've been waiting a whole year to write this i had to

And LennonAM is now over too.

It's been a great experience for me to see how you all were happy to participate and contribute to this little big activity. You can't imagine how happy I was everytime one of you posted something saying "for John Lennon Appreciation Month". I had the chance to reblog posts with much love and creativity to share. And I'm really thankful.

I'm thankful to Vannon aka @tiinkers-tales who made all of this possible with her idea and all the things she has done. I'm thankful to you all, both if you shared with us your collaborations and if you just showed your support, thank you.

But I'm also, and most importantly, thankful to John. If John hadn't been the wonderful man and artist we all know, nothing would have happened this October. I wouldn't have had something that made me happy even if I had a cold or I was sad.

See John, a lot of people love you sincerely, I hope you know it. Thank you.

I feel a bit sad writing this post because it all finished. But no.

Our love for John doesn't stop with a single month, right? So, let's keep appreciating John everyday! ♡

Thank you all for everything, again, you are so precious, and Johnny too. ♡

-rob

[thattransgay]

John Lennon Appreciation Month || Final Post

Personal Choice: 

John Lennon is not my favorite Beatle, but the influence he has had on my life has been large. For starters he was in the Beatles (that one’s obvious) and if it weren’t for them I wouldn’t be continuing learning guitar and I wouldn’t have one of my best escapes from the madness that this world breaks. Outside of that, the things I’ve read about him have helped me shape the way I see the world as well as the way I want to push for peace.  My favorite quote of all time (as of now) comes from Lennon when he was interviewed by Jerry Levitan. 

“ And there’s many ways of promoting peace, do everything for peace; Piss for peace, or smile for peace, or go to school for peace, or don’t go to school for peace, whatever you do just do it for peace, you know.” -John Lennon

There are many more things I could list but I don’t have te time and I didn’t want this post to be too long.  Though Lennon isn’t my favorite I have a lot to thank him for and that’s what I hope I’ve achieved throughout this month. Thank you John, for a lot. 

[lennonnine]

Belated posts.

Hello everybody! <33

From now on, we’re gonna publish / reblog all the belated posts of the whole Lennon Appreciation Month’s topics. 

Remember: if you see that we didn’t reblog one of your works —probably by mistake or it didn’t appear on the official tag—, you can contact us and if it’s possible link what you did. It can be in this account (only by asks), or in our personal blogs ( @marshmallow-jawn & @tiinkers-tales )

Once again, thank you so much for all your amazing posts and for participate in this <33 a big hug for all.

[jondeacon]

John Lennon Appreciation Month – Last Week

Special Day Topic: what’s your favourite John’s disguise?

Also Happy Halloween to all of you!

My fave one is definitely his Thisbe look, the whole sketch was simply hilarious, and it never fails to make me laugh, and brighten my day.

[ofyellowandgreen]

A favorite John Lennon disguise:

“Dan” (the Ad-Lav doorman) on Not only… but also, 1966.

Both goofy and looking very, very fine, and his granny glasses are yet to achieve their iconic status, so it is uniquely still a kind of disguise!

[ofyellowandgreen]

Favorite Beatle song (sung by John): Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite

This is an impossible choice, but suffice to say, Mr. Kite is at least one of the best for me. There are a couple things that make it stand out for me…

- The vivid imagery is beautiful, and it’s beautifully paired with John’s voice which sounds like… a really, really bored PR man for this circus gig. It’s so colorful, and like it’s been run through a thousand times. Maybe his neutral tone gives me the space for my imagination to feel more free?

- I know that it has as much to do with George Martin (and probably Paul, et al) as it does John, but the instrumental parts are what really get me. When John announces “Henry the horse dances the waltz.,” he launches us off, following this waltzing horse into… well, I get lost. The horse guides me and then disappears and the song opens up like the unfurling of a Van Gogh, colors and lights swirling out of coherence and I am taken with them. And every time that instrumental happens I want to stay there; it feels like I could maybe stay suspended in it forever. The song gives me that small piece of wonder.

My illustration is actually me trying to practice for a polished illustration, but since polish couldn’t happen in time, I fleshed out these sketches. I think it captures a lot of what I feel about the song, maybe even more than any finished work does, because it captures the loose, swirling, ambling color I see when I give it a listen.

[the-cosmic-empire]

John Lennon Appreciation Month #1 

What’s your favourite Beatles song? (sang by him)

Narrowly squeezing this in for the first week of John Lennon Appreciation Month! I don’t think there is a John song I don’t like. There are many, many outstanding ones - A Day In The Life, Come Together, Across The Universe, Help!, All You Need Is Love… I could have picked lots, but I’ve chosen I Am The Walrus, the main reason being although this is a much loved song and a pub jukebox classic, I think I Am The Walrus is overlooked as a John Lennon masterpiece. It’s more than just nonsensical and fun, it’s not a throw-away song like it may appear on the surface, I think it’s one of John’s finest works, and here’s why…

[And because I ramble on and on and on, here’s a cut…]

Continua a leggere

[s-k-e-t-c-h-y-artist]

So uh this is late but

I wasn’t gonna post anything for lennam since I’m in Canada for a bit buuut I feel a bit guilty for not doing so. Here is my answers just as..well answers. I don’t have time to make art to go with it so my apologies.

-What’s the cutest thing John has done?

I think him playing with little Nicola from the Magical Mystery Tour was very sweet. Showed a fatherly side to him that we don’t usually get to see.

- What was the strangest thing he’s done

Boy everything he did was very strange XD

I kid I kid…tho it’s true. Anyway I think the strangest would have to be those times he’s worn a dress. Both in the Shakespeare play and with Yoko for whatever reason

- What do you think he’d do if he was alive today?

Wow..thought question. Idk why do t you ask him? There’s a blog I made that you can go and ask old John questions about what he’s done so go ahead and ask him :T

[s-k-e-t-c-h-y-artist]

I was introduced to John many times in the past. The furthest I can remember first hearing John was when I was very little. Every Christmas, his song Happy Xmas (War is Over) plays. I’d hear it everywhere, in the house playing on the radio, in the car, through the intercom at school. You get the point. It became pretty much an expectation for me to hear it, a lil radio tradition in my mind I’d go “oh yeah their playing this song again that’s cool”. I never really know however who sung it, just that it was a good song that they’d play during Christmas season.

The second time that I can remember encountering John, was at the Verizon. I was in about 4th grade. Whitney Houston had died around this time and I when I was getting on one of those test iPads that people use to check it out, I went on YouTube and lone behold there was a video involving her. I watched it and thought it was pretty good. It involved famous people who had previously died before, waiting to celebrate Whitney joking them. They included, Elvis, Freddie Mercury, Amy Whitehouse, and of course John Lennon. When I first saw him my first reaction in my 4th grade mind was, “is that Harry Potter?”. When we left I watched the video again and saw that someone said who everyone was. I remember looking up John briefly and then moving on to something else. Idk why but I jus did.

The declared time I met found out about John, was when I was 7th grade. My technology teacher wanted to teach us about how people way back then didn’t have the sort of technology that we had today (of course I already knew that). So he put on a video that talked about John’s death and how a guy that was next to him had to go to a payphone and call the news saying how John Lennon was in an accident and had to die. Blah blah Monday Night football, etc etc you guys know. But I felt sorta bad for this guy who I didn’t think I knew much about other than the fact that he was some singer. I even played out how his death probably went in my head as it was described for some reason like I do with books or something. It was nowhere close to how it really happened. After that tho it got me. But more curious about this guy and I just decided to find more out about him but not a lot yet.

Once I got into the Beatles, and I found out that THIS John guy, was the same guy who was the same John that was talked about in school, the same I saw in Verizon YT, and the same voice that I have been listening to for nearly all my life…I was shocked. Now I’m thinking it might have been faith for me to find out about him.

[thebeahtles]

John Lennon Appreciation Month - First Week

b. What’s your favourite Beatles song (sang by him)

If I Fell - A Hard Day’s Night 1964

[jondeacon]

John Lennon Appreciation Month – First Week

What’s your favourite movie? (with the beatles or by his own) 

It’s definitely A Hard Days Night, that movie is a happiness bomb to me, in the way it is, even though i love Help! too, so much, it’s AHDN what really owns my heart. And what else could i do, than to draw my fave scene from the movie.

[lennonnine]

Belated posts.

Hello everybody! <33

From now on, we’re gonna publish / reblog all the belated posts of the whole Lennon Appreciation Month’s topics. 

Remember: if you see that we didn’t reblog one of your works —probably by mistake or it didn’t appear on the official tag—, you can contact us and if it’s possible link what you did. It can be in this account (only by asks), or in our personal blogs ( @marshmallow-jawn & @tiinkers-tales )

Once again, thank you so much for all your amazing posts and for participate in this <33 a big hug for all.

[thisyearsmodel]

John Lennon Appreciation Month: Special Days

Free choice

My favorite picture of John!

[brokendazai]

John Lennon Appreciation Month - Forth Week

What’s the cutest and craziest thing John did?

Well, I know this isn’t a thing, but I have to say his relationship with Cynthia was really cute. But she deserved way better. John was great and such, but he also was a dick to her. Their relationship was very stressful and rocky and she basically had to raise Julian alone. I just want to hug her.

So, I hope you understand why I think their relationship was the cutest and craziest (because of how he treated her and ended it) “thing” he did.

[lennonnine]

We're sorry to add this, but we have to say something. In our FAQ we said that something to avoid in our LennonAM is hate. Hate or any kind of upsetting thing or post. In this case, we don't think what said in this post is hate, because it has an opinion that everybody could have. But we want everybody to know that, even though John had his faults and we all know that, we love him, and appreciate him, and that's why we're doing this appreciation month. So, shortly, you all can do what you want, but when your post cointains hate, against anything on anybody connected to John, it won't be reblogged (and wasn't reblogged, because we already found some and that's why we didn't reblog them) like this one. Thank you for your attention.

And thank you @paulietea for your collaboration!

[lennonnine]

SERVICE ALERT pt. 2

Dear #LennonAM participants,

we have to be sure to reblog all your beautiful collaborations before the end of the month (which is, sadly, almost here)

so, I'm writing this post to tell you a very important thing:

Contact us. If you have any doubt if we reblogged your post or not during the month, tell us!

If you know that we may have, by mistake of course, forgotten your post, send this post by message to:

@marshmallow-jawn

@tiinkers-tales

or send us an ask !

WE WANT TO SEE ALL YOUR CREATIONS, YOU ARE IMPORTANT AND SPECIAL, WE DON'T WANT TO MAKE YOU SAD NOT REBLOGGING YOUR POSTS.

Thank you, and keep enjoying #LennonAM!

[lennonnine]

LAST WEEK: SPECIAL DAYS.

→ This is the last activities’ row of Lennon Appreciation Month. → Special Days it’s for October 29th, 30th and 31st. → It’s free choice, so you can do whatever you want. → It has an exclusive topic for Halloween (Oct 31st). → Don’t forget to tag your work as #Lennonam!