Paul came across in 1963 as a fun-loving, footloose bachelor who turned on his charm to devastating effect when he wanted to manipulate rivals, colleagues or women he fancied. (...) He had enormous powers of persuasion within The Beatles. He would get his own way by subtlety and suaveness where John resorted to shouting and bullying. John may have been the loudest Beatle but Paul was the shrewdest. I watched him twist the others round to his point of view in all sorts of contentious situations, some trivial, some more significant, some administrative, some creative. George told me that when he joined Paul and John in the line-up of The Quarry Men in 1958, Paul was already acting as though he was the decision-maker in the group. According to George: "I knew perfectly well that this was John's band and John was my hero, my idol, but from the way Paul talked he gave every indication that he was the real leader, the one who dictated what The Quarry Men would do and where they should be going as a group." This made sense to me because, from what I saw for myself in 1963 and later, Paul's opinions and ideas tended to prevail with The Beatles, particularly on matters of musical policy such as whether a new number was worth recording or whether the running order for the group's stage show needed altering slightly. I didn't see any of the others resist him. They seemed to welcome Paul getting his way by winning arguments with John. When Paul wanted something badly enough from Brian Epstein he would speak softly, wooing the man rather than intimidating him. Epstein's defences would melt away as Paul looked him straight in the eye. In terms of song lyrics, Paul's idea of romantic was 'Michelle', John's was 'Norwegian Wood'.
John, Paul, George, Ringo & Me: The Real Beatles Story, Tony Barrow (2005)
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I don’t even care if the fallout tv show is bad i am so starved for new content I’ll take whatever they give me and become very annoying about it regardless ok
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Shout out to Gotham knights for having some the most mind numbing gameplay, with some of the best Batfam dialogue known to man to balance it out. It also has Jason with this fuckass haircut.
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One of my absolute favorite “cliche” tropes is amnesia fics where reader has been dating character for years, but they forget and then they can only remember dating their ex. So it’s like they go back to the ex because it’s all they’ve ever known, and their current love has to cope with seeing the love of their life in the arms of another guy.
I could read that trope a million times over and never get bored or think it’s too repetitive.
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a physical comedy bit that always fucking gets me is when a martial artist does “[animal]-style” kung fu, but instead of the actual style they literally just act like that animal
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an amoeba. a microorganism, even.
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went to go get a tooth pulled (gum was over it so it rotted + my wisdom tooth could grow in its place) and the root ended up being way more impacted than originally thought but the dentist only found this out after she had broke my tooth. so now i just have tooth roots in my now very swollen mouth and may need to get it surgically removed 💖 yay 💖
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