#sean lennon

[an-even-rockier-raccoon]

It annoys me to bits that Sean Ono Lennon had the potential to be possibly one of the coolest people to walk the earth and then he chose to be a Trump supporter about it.

[sammy-ann]

lana del rey + sean lennon = perfection

[babsi-and-stella]

Marianne Faithfull and Sean Lennon photographed by Chris Moore at the Chanel fashion show, January 2007.

[plasticmanlover]

yes I cry every time I listen to Beautiful Boy and think about how John didn’t get to see either of his children grow up.

[dreamingofthepast]

Sean has bravely come forward with his second gender. 🙌🏻 bring on the fics!!

[week-of-wonders]

Imagine: John Lennon (1988)

[bambi-kinos]

Hi! I’m new in the Beatles’ fandom and I’m still processing a lot of things - can you talk a bit about Sean Lennon, and his relationship to Paul McCartney in general? I don’t really get it yet. To my knowledge, he is the only member of the Beatles’ family to have ever semi-acknowledged that he was aware of the McLennon theories out there (although I’m completely sure that everyone, including Paul, is aware of it). Do we know how he feels about it? As the most active member of the Lennon Estate, does he want to perpetuate the idea that Paul and John were friends first and foremost, or bitter rivals? Do we know what his relationship to Stella and Mary McCartney is? (As the two most likely candidates to take care of their father’s legacy after he passes)

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We don't really know how he feels about it, though we can make a few educated guesses, including the image that he wants to promote considering what he posts on the John Lennon Instagram page. We don't know what his relationship with the other Beatle kids is though I would guess they're more like close cousins than anything else. As for his relationship with Paul, well...

I know that a lot of people are grumpy at Sean because he acts like a dumbass on Twitter but Sean is a huffy Gen Xer that doesn't like anything that smacks of conformity, which isn't the same thing as a chud. Sean is very pro LGBT and values his parents' legacy in smashing boundaries with what was essentially an interracial marriage that encouraged a lot of polyamory. He definitely grew up in an environment that normalized sexual relationships between consenting adults and Yoko has a lot of LGBT friends due to being such a huge part of the art world in New York City. Which is to say, John and Paul being gay together wouldn't be shocking to him, it would just be uncomfortable because no one likes to think about their parents having sex.

So with that in mind I think that Sean wants to push an image of John and Paul as being "more than friends" even if he isn't allowed to say it out loud (yet.) He knows perfectly well that Paul had a huge place in John's life that Yoko couldn't erase or patch over, no matter how much she tried. And truthfully I think that Sean is quietly aware of who and what his mother is and he seems to want to move away from the narcissistic image that she's promoted of John while using the website in John's name to hock her dumb shit.

What's interesting about Sean is that he's presenting Lennon & McCartney in a very different way from John&Yoko. All of the emotional intimacy is given to John and Paul with an emphasis on their creative partnership, their music, and their friendship. I've looked at the movie and the picture book that Sean commissioned for Give Peace a Chance. What's interesting about it is how little John and Yoko feature in them and then how Sean portrays them more like ambassadors and partners for peace, rather than a husband and wife doing something worthwhile together. I don't think he's trying to minimize their marriage but I do think that he's definitely biased towards opening a window into John and Paul's emotional intimacy, rather than John and Yoko's.

And that's an interesting stance to take isn't it, from a son? You'd think he'd give his parents' relationship the same treatment and he just kind of...doesn't? Which leads me to think that he's coming to grips with the entire thing, that the reason he exists is because of a bad break up between two men and that his mother wasn't the hero in the whole charade... just all of it really. And what's even more interesting is that as he's wrestling with all of this, he turns to the relationship that he knows was true: which is the love story between John and Paul. John and Yoko's work for peace was important (at least in his mind) and he really values that but it's clear that he knows who his dad was really in love with, and that it wasn't his mother, and that...Sean is okay with that.

So overall I'd say that Sean would very much like to openly celebrate John and Paul's relationship as it really is, a love story between two gay men and how that love story changed the world through the power of musical pop culture.

In my opinion I think that he is friendly with and likes Paul, probably reveres him a little too much but on the other hand Paul is the love of John's life. So he has good reason to feel that way. At the very least Sean seems dedicated to dismantling the story that John and Yoko told, that John had hated Paul all along and resented him and blah blah blah. Sean wants to replace it with something resembling the truth while still giving a nod to the value of John and Yoko's marriage. So that's my take on that.

When it comes to the Beatle kids, I don't really know. I think they treat each other like close cousins but that's just my opinion. I don't think that they are all particularly close, they all seem to stick close to their family units. The real miracle is that Sean and Julian seem to be friends as well as brothers, which wasn't always the case. But when it comes to Stella and Mary...well, who knows.

And honestly I don't think it really matters that much because they have their own lives and Paul should pick someone else to carry on his legacy once he dies, if he's smart lmao. Stella and Mary are perfectly acceptable as people but they're plastic surgery addicted nepo babies who live off their father's money. (Stella crafts couture fashion that never fails to achieve a high watermark in being generic and Mary...well I don't know what Mary does. I guess she writes cookbooks and promotes plastic "vegan" products?) They aren't suited to running estates and the aftermath of Paul McCartney will need a deft touch if they're going to divide his wealth without a circus. Which Sean can't help with. He and Julian are close and have presumably gotten everything material sorted behind the scenes so they don't have much experience in wasting a lot of money on lip fillers and buying careers they aren't suited for.

Of all the Beatle kids, Sean and Julian are the ones I like the most. They're both artistic, have strong opinions, and they both tried their best to make something of themselves (even if Julian is the only one who has succeeded.) I've got some thoughts about how Sean is running the estate (which won't fit in here...I've rewritten this answer eight different times and can't get it to work lol).

Overall I think Sean is a force for good, that he knows what John and Paul are, that's he's willing to play along with Paul's requirements, and that he's generally cool with his Beatle cousins behind the scenes. Other than that he seems to be a functional adult which is astounding for a celebrity's kid.

[prettycoolbeagle]

Sean Lennon be just tweeting whatever comes to his mind, like the "woke virus" thing