#julia lennon

[ceofjohnlennon]

Easter card from John Lennon's mom, Julia Lennon, for him in 1957: "Dear (my) stinker wink Don't forget your mum's crazy but she loves you anyhow See you when your 21 Lots of love, my sweet old feller Mummy Judy xxx."

[warmrevolver]

mclennon x mama’s boy

mclennon 🤝 having very co-dependent relationships with the women in their lives because of their lifelong mommy issues

(I feel so awfully maternal towards them I can’t look at their baby pictures without crying sighhh)

[hermajestythesun]

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.

anyway. i have 0 evidence to provide for any of this tbh. it’s just kind of the vibe i get from things i see/read, and it’s a bit ballsy to make all of them assumptions without a true basis for them LOL. also i had ten minutes to write this so i apologize for any typos or weird sentences or whatever !!

[imnotsorryilovethebeatlesmore]

The Mothers of the Beatles!!!

Julia Stanley Lennon + Mimi Smith

John Lennon was born to Julia and Alfred Lennon. Julia was known as a free spirit, a fun woman, and a dear sister. She, although a fun and loving woman, was not fit to be a proper mother for her baby boy, John. When he was a little boy, his aunt, Mimi, took him in. Mimi, unlike Julia, was very proper, she believed in good disciple and wanted to raise John to be a good boy. Of course we know, he wasn’t, but she still loved him as her own. Julia was hit by a car when John was a teenager, he was very hurt, but for the rest of life, he called his auntie Mimi every week. The sisters were two mummies for John. He loved them both dearly.

2. Mary Mohin McCartney

James ‘Paul’ McCartney was born to Mary Mohin McCartney and James McCartney. Mary was a loving mother and delivery nurse who worked very hard to support her family and many others. Paul and his little brother, Michael, loved their mother very much. She was a kind woman and often travelled on her bike to homes to deliver babies, no matter the weather. When Paul was a teenager, Mary had chest pains but the doctors sent her home. She had breast cancer, and once she was finally treated, she had a surgery, but died from an embolism. Paul remembered his mother forever, she helped inspire one of the last Beatles songs, “Let it Be.”

3. Louise French Harrison

George Harrison was born to possibly the most supportive mother, Louise French Harrison, and father, Harold Harrison. Louise had four children, George being the youngest, and she loved and supported each of them extremely. All she wanted was for her children to be happy. George loved his mother very, very much. She was a funny woman, sometimes cheeky, there are photos of her sticking her tongue out at the camera—we see where George gets it from. Louise loved and supported George and his siblings: Louise (George’s elder sister), Harry and Peter, until the day she died—On Ringo Starr’s 30th birthday in 1970.

4. Elsie Gleave Starkey Graves

Richard Starkey, better known as Ringo Starr was born to Elsie Gleave Starkey and Richard Starkey I. Ringo’s father didn’t stick around very long, but his mum was there the whole way. She was a hardworking woman, as hard as it was, she supported herself and her son. Unfortunately, as a child, Ringo was very ill and was constantly in the hospital. She was always told he didn’t have any time, but she stood by her son, and he made it. She eventually remarried, when Ringo was a teenager, to Harry Graves, who unlike Ringo’s father was good to her, and the boy. She was supportive of her only son, and loved him very much. Elsie passed away in early 1987.

[shinywitchdaze]

Please, Julia too 😭😭😭😭

[brushinyateeth]

“You’re not supposed to be here yet Johnny.”

[sweetlauver]

just saw nowhere boy (2009) and i got some thoughts!

"I'd rather him in our band than anyone else's" - Nowhere Boy (2009)

spoilers under the cut as per usual!

julia is such a fun spirit in this, i really like how bright and fun they made her and in their first meetings, you can tell it was awkward but that john had missed her but also erm the weird incestuous undertones r weirding me out rn i dont like this much (edit: oh nvm i found out about the whole atj and sj stuff so erm)

also the fact that red is the connection made with her in her bright red lipstick, red nails, and her coat, red is a very strong and noticeable color which always catches the eyes

aaron taylor-johnson...... im drooling he looks nothing like john but oh my days hes so dreamy help me...........im actually slobbering like a dog why did they make my scrawny rash and gangly teen john so fine

LITERALLY NONE OF THEM LOOK LIKE THEIR REAL COUNTERPARTS IM DEAD im still drooling over atj hes so fine oh my god

a bunch of gaybos these guys are dear god cant believe they put the john lennon staring at paul mccartney look in here AND HE WINKED AT HIM DEAR GOD

how john breaks down is so raw oh my god..... his voice goes a little higher and its like hes that little boy all over again

also the fact that paul was the only one being able to reign him and bring him back from his vision clouded with rage...... sigh i know what you are

i couldnt get past the fact of the weird whatever between john and julia but i kinda js... ogled at john the whole time (god atj is so fine)

[motherlennon]

"One day he [John] took me down to meet her [Julia Lennon] and she opened the door- this is the first meeting I'd had with her- and the door opened [. . .] and she's got a pair of knickers on her head. You could see directly where John got his humor and love of life from. She was always saying 'Look don't worry about it,' y'know, 'it'll be okay. Don't worry about tomorrow. Just have a good time today, that's all that matters.' It was her attitude about life, her philosophy about life, her fun, and a love of laughing. I mean she used to wear these spectacles with no glasses in, you know? People would come to the door to collect bills, like the bread man or something, and she'd just talk to them and stick a finger through the frame and start rubbing her eye. People would just look at her- they couldn't believe it you know. She was just crazy. And that's where John got his humor from without a doubt." - (Pete Shotton interview with Elliot Mintz)