#only cursed ideas here

[britcision]

OKAY BUT DANNY BRINGING JASON HIS NEW FRIGHT KNIGHT HOME TO MEET HIS PARENTS

HIS MOM: PERFECTLY NORMAL HELLO, SEEMS LIKE A REASONABLE PERSON, JASON CANNOT RECONCILE THIS WITH DANNY’S STORIES

AND THEN

DAD BURSTS THROUGH THE WALL LIKE THE KOOLAID MAN AND OH SHIT YEAH THERE IT IS

(Maddy keeps up the illusion of being the normal one for like six more hours by sheer coincidence but then a tray of Phantom Fudge comes out of the oven and that’s it

And like she definitely challenged Jason to single combat in that time to prove he can defend her boy but that’s normal for Jason

She nearly won cuz Jason thought he had to worry about hurting her Joke Is On Him)

#danny fenton dead and loving it #fuck this is gonna be a whole ass thing #only cursed ideas here #dp x dc #jason todd as fright knight #maddy fenton as The Normal One #until jazz comes home anyway

[harvestmoth]

okay last one. au where nothing goes wrong at all ever (a lie) and melia venam gay moment

#i like this game a normal amount (also a lie) #everyone should play now do it now please #pokemon rejuvenation #oh another thing about twitter. makes me sad i cant yell about things in the tags there like i always do because there are no tags there #if i wanted to id have to make it into a thread and im pretty sure people read those. so awful #i mean not that i say anything worthwhile here usually but still. no one reads this here. i could yell my thoughts if i had any #anyways about the au :] i have no idea how it would work #i have no thoughts ever at all i was just replaying the game and the one little line melia says at the picnic made me sad #the one where she says its her last day in gearen and asks the player to go with her to gdc #and then she just goes ah nevermind that was weird of me to ask #and no… wait come back… id love to go to gdc with you… :[ #and thats where that idea came from. idk where the rest of it came from though i think ive been cursed or somethinv #and also something something her saying shes afraid to go to gdc alone only for her to end up in the past also alone sometging something. ow #my thoughts are very coherent i promise (no they arent)

[notonlymice]

rumbelle + the raven king (a french fairytale) au moodboard

#the text is strange but it’s the only english version i could find🤔 #it's basically eros and psyche #but with a green and one-eyed father #(no idea why he is green and has only one eye but i like the part where the raven king pecks his eye out) #(big fan of rumple's violence against moe lol) #and with singing grass #(no questions here) #rumple might not even be a raven #just cursed #but it would be nice if belle had to find him among lookalike birds #(it's not in the story I just really like this trope) #also we can have ruby the wolf #EQ who has rumple's dagger #and some dwarves why not #and a happy ending of course #something like that #rumbelle #rumbelle moodboard #not only mice but also moodboards #rumbelle+fairytales moodboards #my rumbelle things #my things

[tequiilasunriise]

Being in fandoms where the characters are clearly based on other pieces of media/famous figures is so much fun because then some of my ships look like this:

Parentified Goldilocks who is also The Beast x Avoidance attachment Beauty who is ALSO also The Beast, one of my fav moments with them is when they off the Minotaur together who is ALSO also also The Beast

Little Red Riding Hood if she was also the Wolf and has galloons of repressed trauma x Snow White but she’s heavily knight coded and the poster child of daddy issues

Edgar Allen Poe’s Lenore x Annabel Lee but they’re in gay ghost love

The poem ‘The Last Rose of Summer’ x Odin’s raven Huginn but they’re exes still in love in a milf yuri divorce that ends super mega tragically and domino effects mommy issues out the ass

Historical figures Cleopatra x Frida Kahlo with the most chef’s kiss height difference you’ve ever seen

A polycule with Joan of Arc x Mulan x Thor x Achilles but they’re all genderbent/trans

The Velveteen Rabbit x fashion icon Coco Chanel if she was a lesbian with a gun

Frankenstein’s monster x a different sapphic Cleopatra bc baby gays <3333

Okay okay that black cat from Poe’s, well, The Black Cat x Poe’s Eulalie is cute yes

But I actually really REALLY love Poe’s Eulalie x Poe’s Berenice bc they’re “me and the bad bitch I pulled by being autistic” personified

The Snow Queen with mega daddy issues x Robin Hood if he was a socialist lesbian I SAIDDDD ITTTT

Imma say it historical figures JFK x Confucius were adorable bros

Aesop’s Fisherman x Odin’s other bird Munin you will always be famous my tragic old man yaoi <////3

Y’all will really have to hear me out here when I say Cinderella if she fucken snapped x ice cream Mad Hatter because couples who are terrible to each other but in a “only I’m allowed to be a horrid to them” way can be so funny

And I could go o n fer ages but the point is imagine explaining these ships to someone like 30 years ago with ZERO context their heads would explode and it’d be so funny

#most of these are rwby ships and imma be so real i couldve made an even longer list with just rwby ships alone #‘it aint much but its honest work’ -me being a multishipper #OKAY TIME TO TAG ALL THESE SHIPS. WELL THEN. man. really dug my own grave here #bumbleby #whiterose #white raven #rosebird #i like how theres a little pattern between these shipnames okay #super mega cursed idea is weiss x raven also being called white raven THROWINGGG UPPPP but also yeah that would be funny #one white raven i adore with my whole heart and then another white raven i would torch #kahlopatra #jnpr berries #i will NOT be listing each individual ship involved in that polycule holy shit #‘jaune we love you just as much as we loved pyrrha’ while in front of Pyrrha’s memorial??? like okay yeah sure gods GODS these kids #crosshares #clankie #shit hold on lemme look up these shipnames fer nevermore i only know white raven off the top of my head #okay uhhh we’ll go with spells and space bc incorrect nevermore said so and thats good enougg fer me #spells and space #boston magic #schneewood forest #<— one of my FAVES yall my reconnecting exes au fer Robyn n Winter is so <33333 #jkfucius #fairgame #spicecream #i wont tag each person bc tag limit but oh my god if anyone read these tags mwuah mwuah #rwby #nevermore webtoon #clone high #monster high

[kingsandbastardz]

Oh. 💀 for all you fic writers out there, have some symbolic jewelry.

#modern au dfs? #everyone is saying rentboy dfs - what a coincidence i uploaded the shoot for their inspiration lmao #but oh no now my mental gears are turning #hear me out: fangdi where dfs is living out his usual shitty ass karma where he's gotta claw his way off the street alone #and fdb is some rich kid trying to hide that he's growing increasingly convinced he doesn't belong here #and there's a very familiar face he keeps spying on the street unless he's going crazy like his parents seem to think #both fdb and dfs are slowly reawakening and realizing who they really are and they're stuck here living an entire 2nd life bc #bc fdb punched dfs into a fucking lotus pond full of cursed corpse brides and jumped in himself when dfs disappears and never resurfaces #basically cursed dream pond - they can only get out if they FALL IN LOVE - the dead brides' regrets lmaaaaaooosdfkajs yeah i have no idea #i got deadlines and haven't slept in 24 hours #di feisheng #mysterious lotus casebook #xiao shunyao

[demenior]

the stranger who was your self au where everything is the same but rather than buy eadwulf a bunch of fancy new clothes, fjord and jester just buy him a new tshirt at every island tourist trap they visit

this came to me in a dream

#there are SO many on the way #the group chat went wild with this prompt i was laughing all day #fealty eadwulf #my curse in life is that im actually a very good artist #but i only draw when i have stupid ideas sdlfkna;dkfaskj #wip #art is hard #is this far enough down to main tag? do i DARE maintag this? #im going to... #nay... i shan't... #but what if i did #yeah here we go: #eadwulf grieve

[destinywillowleaf]

how to go from a one-shot/conversation spawned from thinking too much about an unseen father to more than a dozen fic ideas and an overarching narrative about family heritage (and the generational trauma that comes with it), the importance of communication, and how all lives touch other lives to create something anew and alive in one easy step

#pokemon #sir aaron #blood curse of sir aaron #no seriously this was supposed to be a one-shot with maybe ONE sequel. now there's 4 sequels and at least 7 directly related side stories #and three (3) fics that are more or less gonna serve as prequels/background for all my canons at this point when riley's involved #it was also only supposed to be one and then i had Ideas and did not stop them. #(benefit of setting things during legends arceus and promptly ignoring the actual protag) #i've only had the core idea rolling around my brain for 6 months and there's this many fics. prequel 1 came before but the others are newer #at least i'm not trying to write an entire game plot this time unlike my other big pokemon project #so much of the conflict could've been avoided with better communication. not all of it mind you but the big issues? yeah #at the very least they could've been handled a LOT sooner #<- series name for all this nonsense in case i wind up talking about it more here. will probably post links here once more is written #i've got a scattered 20k worth of it so far of actual fic and over 10k worth of notes. 2k of those notes are for a single episode rewrite #i know that might not sound like a lot to some people but only the first main fic is done. the third one is arceus chronicles. #im making. choices. that's for sure. and writing so much aura lore you have no idea #i might need to make a family tree soon

[currentlyonstandbi]

that trope where two lovers are reincarnated over and over with no memory of their past lives but always end up finding each other because they’re destined to be together but with nigel and alex

#here's where i go unhinged because the kicker to this thought when i had it was that the original legend about the lord of sidon is them too #and that as the story retelling trickled down through time it was changed enough that eventually the great love of maraclea was a woman #because the moral fabric of society would not be able to handle the idea that the story was between two men #AND to top it off the ritual with the skull not only granted great power in battle but was also the catalyst for the blessing/curse #of the two being eternally tied to one another by fate. always destined to find one another in any life in any time in any place #even when they're enemies (i.e. the events of the film) #anyway i think i have heatstroke #like minds #murderous intent #like minds (2006) #nigel colbie #alex forbes #nigel colbie x alex forbes #tom sturridge #eddie redmayne

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

visual snow

i no longer recognize the faces that surround me

#my art lol #vocaloid #vocaart #vocaloid fanart #kaito vocaloid #vocaloid kaito #static #blue #pink #meiko vocaloid #len kagamine #only cause they're there in the back lol. the others were supposed to b here too but i couldnt fit them 😭😭 #also there's no code to decipher here that's just garbled/corrupted text lol #the original thoughts when drawing this then morphed into something sooo fucking depressing 😭 kaito my guy im so sorry it just happened #'ohh i kinda wanna draw kaito but idk situation to put him in...' 'oh im kinda depressed again lemme draw/vent' GOOD JOB LOOK WHAT YOU DID. #LITERALLY i never get a break i just. where do all these depressing ass vocaloid ideas come from?? idk im cursed w/ visions & mental illnes

[oveliagirlhaditright]

I still can't believe out of everyone and everything that could have gotten rid of the loophole in Angel's curse, it was Illyria (strongly hinted at the very end of the season 12 comics). Just goes to show how the Powers That Be don't care about their champions, and are really kind of evil (though we already knew that). And they were probably keeping the loophole on purpose, thinking that if it wasn't there he and Buffy would just run off and be happy together instead of fighting for them, the bastards.

#buffy the vampire slayer #angel #bangel #buffy comics #buffy season 12 #buffy the vampire slayer comics #buffy the vampire slayer season 12 #but this has gotten me thinking 'could only someone in the series who was a god. or had god-like powers. get rid of the loophole then?' #and making me want to write some different aus now. like part of me is now wondering if maybe in the future dawn could have somehow gotten #rid of it. as she was the key connected to the goddess glory. and in the comics she stars figuring out how to use her powers and stuff #there are some ideas here for fanfiction #especially since usually in fanfiction that gets rid of it it's usually willow (maybe with tara helping her. sometimes buffy's blood being #involved) #which i GET. but the idea that it was illyria opens some other doors in fanon maybe #and how i wish more 'canon' things would explore it. and bangel in general again. looking at you boom #but you know the god thing kind of does make sense because there's also how buffy and angel have sex in s8 when they're both gods and that #doesn't trigger the curse. either because angel's technically not a vampire with a cursed soul there he's a god and/or they keep the curse #(probably he does) keep the curse being triggered with their powers or something #but back to the dawn thing: as silly as this no doubt is. there's a part of me that wants to write her just portaling the loophole away whe #she discovers her portal powers. lol. i don't think anyone's ever done anything like that before #but i bring this all up because i just read this one really well-written fic where illyria got rid of the loophole #which got me thinking about how she's the one to do so in canon #and then about the loophole in general

[stillcarmine]

AU where Thalia and Luke find Leo as well as Annabeth. 

Annabeth and Leo, traumatized besties. They get to be Annoying Children together. 

Hephaestus is still a dead beat, and doesn't claim Leo.

He ends up in the Hermes cabin, even though he's pretty sure where he's meant to go.

But this makes it easier to hide his fire. 

He still sneaks into the forge to tinker and Beckendorf takes him under his wing.

It's not unheard of for the children of other gods to be interested and good with machines, but Charles is pretty sure Leo is his brother.

But the kid isn't saying saying anything for a reason, is staying in a crowded cabin for a reason, and Beckendorf has a guess.

He leaves it alone and just looks out for the kid.

Luke and Annabeth don't know about his fire. At least, he didn't tell them.

The closest he came to was when the cyclops was after them and he asked if fire could hurt them and Grover told him that they were immune.

Leo slumped, because that was his only way to help his friends.

He either never visits Thalia's tree or is there all the time, but only when no one else is around.

He like. Doesn’t get Annabeth’s longing for a quest. He doesn’t want anything to do with the dangers of demigod life.

They’re best friends but this causes the worst arguments between them and after one, Leo runs from camp.

Annabeth thinks that she’ll have to be allowed a quest to look for Leo, but that doesn’t happen.

They originally aren’t going to look for him, figure a satyr will likely find him, but Beckendorf pushes for one.

He eventually finds Leo and Leo doesn’t want to come back. He tries to give the older demigod the slip but Beckendorf just keeps finding him and it stirs up a lot of Emotions(tm) for Leo.

Eventually Leo snaps and breaks down for the first time in years and his brother holds him asks him to come home. Leo relents.

Annabeth doesn’t know how to apologize when Leo comes home, and Leo doesn’t know how to ask for one or give his own. But from what he’s seen of actual siblings around camp, siblings usually don’t make big productions out of saying sorry, and he guesses that can work for him and Annabeth too.

He manages to keep his fire powers a secret for years and then Percy Jackson shows up with his water powers and Leo scratches the back of his neck and thinks “Damn, I can’t afford a narrative foil.”

Leo was never as close to Luke as he was with Thalia so his betrayal doesn’t hit him quite as hard, and he’s better able to see him for who he is.

Cue years of Annabeth and Leo growing apart as she gets wrapped up in all of the quests.

Things between them are tense when Thalia comes back to life. None of their relationships are what they used to be, but Leo is so happy his friend is back, and feels such a pang of grief for his mom that he can’t breathe.

He bites his tongue but wishes he could bring the Fleece to the ashes of her shop and revive her too. When Annabeth goes missing, and the Hunters of Artemis go on a quest to find her, Leo is ready to sneak after them, but runs into Percy, who says he’s planning on doing the same thing.

Then Nico di Angelo finds them both and this just isn’t going to work.

He asks them both to stay, because they don’t have any experience with quests. Percy was just trying to be logical but he accidentally hits on Leo’s feelings of inferiority, because it’s true, there’s nothing Leo can do out there to help Annabeth, except his fire, which only ever hurts people.

Suddenly Percy’s got two people he doesn’t know well asking him to bring back their loved ones.

He pulls Leo aside and asks him to keep an eye on Nico. Leo is not in favor of this idea because 1) should a twelve year old be watching a ten year old (irony oh irony), 2) Nico is annoying and reminds Leo too much of himself, though he doesn’t yet recognize that’s what’s bothering him about the other boy and 3) Leo is. Bad with people. He is bad with emotions. He should not be left with a kid he doesn’t know who is feeling Big Emotions while Leo is also feeling Big Emotions.

But he eventually agrees.

It’s bad for a while. Leo doesn’t know what he’s doing. The older campers are helpful but Leo doesn’t let them do everything because he gave his word and he’s going to keep it. Leo and Percy made a deal, and he isn’t going back on it.

It’s not fun though because Nico is chafing at being given a babysitter. He eventually blows up because he’s been under so much stress and Leo remembers how he did the same thing once and how Beckendorf stayed with him through it.

So that’s what he does.

When Nico’s calmer, they talk about how they’re both worried and tell each other about their sisters, though Nico seems a bit sour about hearing about Annabeth’s adventures with Percy.

And it’s better from there.

Until Percy and Annabeth come back to camp.

Leo isn’t there for what ever happens, knows that Nico’s run off and… Chiron seems fine with that?

Leo isn’t though, and taking another page from his older brother’s book, he goes to find Nico.

Leo’s no good at goodbyes, and after just getting Annabeth back, and learning that Thalia is taking a different path that means they’ll only see her a few times before they die and she goes on living-

Well, he can’t bring himself to say anything in person. He leaves a note for Beckendorf, knowing he’ll understand and tell the others.

Kronos forces somehow learns about his fire and use that to try to convince him to join their side. How the gods cursed him with this awful power and then just left him without any acknowledgment. That they must have something terrible planned for him, that’s the only reason they want heroes in the first place.

How his father, god of fire, stood by while his mother died in a fire and did nothing.

That one gets to Leo.

But he’s got a mission, and doesn’t have time for the problems the titans have with the gods or the gods with the titans or whatever. He can’t change big, lofty stuff like that, is no child of prophecy but he can pay forward the kindness shown to him in the past.

That's what he can do.

#leo valdez #annabeth chase #thalia grace #percy jackson #nico di angelo #charles beckendorf #i love the idea of Leo siding with Kronos but idk how to write it and having a real family has a major impact on his life #damn if only Leo and Beckendorf got to be brothers #pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #the lightning thief #the titans curse #tbh I have like 0 memory of the og series so there’s prob plot mistakes here #that’s also why I cut it off there lol #I’ve been meaning to do a reread so if I ever get around to that maybe… #look leo cares deeply about people and if he had a loving influence earlier in his life like dang just imagine

[the-crow-binary]

Reason #11 Hecula is peak: the scenario of the forbidden, open secret relationship :) Hector and Dracula having private sessions or conversations :) Hector keeping Dracula's company in his private quarters when he needs to rest :) the two meeting in the darkest corners of the castle... perhaps with the help of said castle, who only wants what Dracula wants :) (also, you're free to imagine Hector hidden under Dracula's cape while he sneaks a kiss)

I will need a throat lozenge because of how much I am SCREAMING. (but outside of that, i am perfectly normal about them)

The mental image of Hector hidden by Dracula's cape....... while they k..... ki...... aaaaaa 🥺 Also Dracastle real <3 the Castle is the real bro here

#wouldn't be funny if everyone in the castle knew about them except Isaac #either because he stoopid or because he's in deep deep denial #the poor thing :) #those two guys from the manga definitely knew about the true nature of Hector's relationship with Drac #Isaac got mad because he did not want to be forced to admit it was real <3 #(i'm only going with canon here) #anyway the THEM #i am drooling just thinking about them #love the idea of the castle changing according to Dracula's current desire ;) #castlevania #(yeah i'm not afraid of shit i am tagging it) #hecula #dracastle #(i had to tag this one too sorry not sorry) #vlad dracula tepes #hector castlevania #beevean ask #curse of darkness #castlevania ship #now what about all this but with the mactor context :) #local bastard

[dnangelic]

i don't think daisuke even hates krad. i think the same way he feels that he doesn't properly understand or fully know dark, he likewise struggles to grasp even the first aspect of krad as well. the few times he's ever had an interaction with krad in canon, they've always been immensely antagonizing instances. physically painful and emotionally terrifying. satoshi, his friend, vanishes, and the wings take over. there's always a fight and so much unpleasant tension. krad endlessly obsesses, while satoshi painfully suffers over and over. a part of daisuke wishes he could reach out and try to somehow reason with dark's second half, but dark himself insists that it's naive and impossible. whatever line of thought krad's on, it's completely parallel. there's no way any of the hikari tamers would ever willingly give themselves up to their curse, nor would krad ever seek a thing like coexistence.

#every once in a while i think of th post hiatus chapters where daisuke gets mANHANDLED #and he looks so MISERABLEEE #and calls it scary. it sure is #dai vc why can't we be friends #dark vc the power of friendship isnt working here i think we need to use a gun #fear's legitimately his first response but the same way that satoshi would only dark mostly as a nuisance #as the niwa's curse #that's how daisuke is with krad too. he's aware there's so much to it + w satoshi the way it is with dark and himself #but he just has no idea #*･ﾟ⊰ 𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒. ⊱ ✦ › OUT.

[bunnihearted]

🐇🩹🚪

#i hate myself real bad today.... like it's this constant gnawing feeling in my stomach nd chest #i am such a fucking burden. i am deadweight weighing everyone around me down. im such a fkn pathetic failure #our living situation is rlly bad nd unhealthy nd toxic. im the only one who can disconnect nd shove it all down nd wanna pretend like nothin #but my sister nd my mom are going insane like they cannot stand it anymore. nd they're also getting super depressed so im worried #my mom's been trying to apply for appartments bc she's been on waiting lists for several years so she can actually maybe get one #so they were thinking that my mom nd my sister can move nd me nd my sister can live here #she even found an apartment close by that she would actually get!! so they could move!! #however...... you're not allowed to put more ppl on this contract so if my mom moves me nd my sister can stay here :/// so she cant move.... #cant** stay here #she cant move at all unless my sister nd i have our own places... #my sister has a job nd is an actual responsible adult. so she wont be long until she fixes that #but me???? im 25yrs old... never had a job. cant even graduate highschool even if i try. i have no fkn idea how to survive on my own!!!!! #im just a fkn burden on my mom. i keep her down. i chain her down nd keep her feom being free #im such an awful daughter. im such a bad person. im so worthless. i hate myself for hurting her #i hate seeing her so sad nd depressed bc she wants to get out of this situation so bad #and *im* the one keeping her here. im the reason she cant feel better. bc im a pathetic fkn 25yr old who lives off of her mom like a parasit #ooof i ... i hate myself more deeply than i ever have. how can i do this to my own mom???? why am i so useless???? #idk what to do. idk how to move out!! where to?? how do u get a place to live??!? #atp i'd even take living with someone else. like renting a room or smth. just to free my mom of the curse that is me #but idk how to find anything like that bc im completely and utterly incapable nd useless #i feel so bad for my mom.... i know she doesnt want this but it makes me wanna kms even more #if im dead i cant weigh her down i cant ruin her life!!!! if im dead she'll be free of me. im nothing but a parasite she deserves to be free

[get-back-homeward]

The Saga of the Bowler Hat: In Four Acts

Sep 30-Oct 15, 1961: Paris trip

We planned to hitchhike to Spain. I had done a spot of hitchhiking with George and we knew you had to have a gimmick; we had been turned down so often and we’d seen that guys that had a gimmick (like a Union Jack round them) had always got the lifts. So I said to John, ‘Let’s get a couple of bowler hats.’ It was showbiz creeping in.

Gustafson happened to bump into them the day they left, Saturday September 30. “They both had bowler hats on, with the usual leather jackets and jeans. They said they were off to Paris, so I walked down to Lime Street station with them and watched them go. They were an incredible pair: always great fun, irreverent, and so close.” [x]

We still had our leather jackets and drainpipes – we were too proud of them not to wear them, in case we met a girl; and if we did meet a girl, off would come the bowlers. But for lifts we would put the bowlers on. Two guys in bowler hats – a lorry would stop! Sense of Humour. This, and the train, is how we got to Paris. [x]

March 2-4, 1964: Filming A Hard Day’s Night train scene

The specially-hired train was destined for Minehead and back, where for the next three days scenes were filmed in the suitably cramped setting. There was a dining car for The Beatles to eat in...[their] dialogue was recorded using microphones hidden inside their shirts, but numerous retakes were required due to sound problems.

The first we did was the train, which we were all dead nervous in. Practically the whole of the train bit we were going to pieces.

I’m sure it’s less noticeable to people watching in the cinema, but we know that we’re dead conscious in every move we make, we watch each other. Paul’s embarrassed when I’m watching him speak and he knows I am. [x]

March 29, 1967: With A Little Help From My Friends day

At two o’clock in the afternoon John arrived at Paul’s house in St. John’s Wood. They both went up to Paul’s workroom at the top of the house...John started playing his guitar and Paul started banging on his piano. For a couple of hours they both banged away. Each seemed to be in a trance until the other came up with something good, then he would pluck it out of a mass of noises and try it himself. They’d already established the tune the previous afternoon. Now they were trying to polish up the melody and think of some words to go with it.

“Are you afraid when you turn out the light,” sang John. Paul sang it after him and nodded that it was good. John said they could use that idea for all the verses, if they could think of some more questions on those lines.

“Do you believe in love at first sight,” sang John. “No,” he said, stopping singing. “It hasn’t got the right number of syllables. What do you think? Can we split it up and have a pause to give it an extra syllable?”

John then sang the line, breaking it in the middle: “Do you believe—ugh—in love at first sight.”

“How about,” said Paul, “Do you believe in a love at first sight.”

John sang it over and accepted it. In singing it, he added the next line, “Yes, I’m certain it happens all the time.”

They both then sang the two lines to themselves, la-la-ing all the other lines. Apart from this, all they had was the chorus: “I’ll get by with a little help from my friends.” John found himself singing “Would you believe,” which he thought was better.

Then they changed the order, singing the two lines “Would you believe in a love at first sight/Yes I’m certain it happens all the time” before going on to “Are you afraid when you turn out the light,” but they still had to la-la the fourth line, which they couldn’t think of.

It was now about five o’clock. [x]

The Beatles began by recording the rhythm track in 10 takes, the last of which was the best. It had Paul McCartney on piano on track one, George Harrison’s rhythm guitar on two, Starr’s drums and cowbell played by John Lennon on three, and George Martin playing organ on track four.

A reduction mix, numbered take 11, made free some space on the tape for further overdubs. Starr then added his lead vocals to tracks three and four, with backing vocals by Lennon, McCartney and Harrison. This session ended at 5.45am, and recording for the song was completed on the following day. [x]

1967-1968: Paul’s favorite artist inspires Apple Corp name and logo

We were discovering Magritte in the sixties, just through magazines and things. And we just loved his sense of humour. And when we heard that he was a very ordinary bloke who used to paint from nine to one o'clock, and with his bowler hat, it became even more intriguing.

René Magritte, The Son of Man (1964)

One day [Robert Fraser] brought this painting to my house. We were out in the garden, it was a summer's day. And he didn't want to disturb us, I think we were filming or something. So he left this picture of Magritte. It was an apple - and he just left it on the dining room table and he went. It just had written across it "Au revoir", on this beautiful green apple...So it was like wow! What a great conceptual thing to do, you know. And this big green apple, which I still have now, became the inspiration for the logo. And then we decided to cut it in half for the B-side!

René Magritte, Le Jeu de Mourre [The Game of Mora] (1966)

The title was found by Magritte's friend, the Belgian poet Louis Scutenaire, and is probably a play of words on Les Jeunes Amours [Young Love] (1963), the title of a work by Magritte showing three apples. The game of mora is "a game in which one of the players rapidly displays a hand with some fingers raised, the others folded inwards, while his opponent calls out a number, which, for him to win, has to correspond to the total of the raised fingers.” [x]

Epilogue

Paul McCartney’s 1989 My Brave Face single cover

My Brave Face lyrics, written early 1988 with Elvis Costello

January 1988: The Beatles are inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

#bowler hat #john and paul #mclennon #blaming friendodorothys tags for this #one google search in curiosity led me down quite a rabbit hole #i had no idea how deep the bowler hat thing went #but MLH did as shown in his j&p fanfic #theres two bowler hats in paris but fairly sure both AHDN and mar 67 are pure hat stealing #fashion accessory stealing is paul's equivalent of a hair twirl #also that game of mora thing is nuts do click the links #im now convinced that apple painting is cursed #violating my 1980s dont exist here rule :( #only because i realized the glasses are a dead match for johns 67 ones #and i couldnt stop thinking about it #then i realized the writing of it links with paul missing the induction ceremony and i was a goner #the labyrinths #fic bunny #for whoever wants it #1961 paris trip #a hard day’s night filming #march 1967 #rene magritte #the dangers of iconography #cursed apple painting #my brave face #paris #paul wearing johns things #mine

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posting this cursed thought while im tired so i cant take it back later

#its not the funniest possible phrasing but #listen i was watching a cat video and the thoughy came fully formatted into my brain #my brain fully formulates insane tweets to the word in my head a lot #bearer of the curse (niche unfunny instatweet subconscious) #no im not tagging this #i think the fact that it actually works is the key part here like itd be extra funny #we should be applying weird cat habits to catboys more #WAIT I CAME UP WITH SOMETHING EVEN BETTER #whenever shopkeeper watanuki is stressed especially when its not visible on his face #itll look totally normal from the outside and then hell like #totally neutral smile faced just fucking thwap drinks off the table #unhealthy coping habit where he just baps stuff off tables and then cleans it up while complaining to himself #obviously hes like a polite boy at heart but i like the idea that when hes in the trenches he just acts a bit wacky #imagine the scene with the girl asking if she can fuck his man but instead of whatever he actually did he just silently baps her tea #i need to think of more weird cat habits to apply to him #he wakes up one morning and hes been sleeping in shrimp pose like an idiot #imagining a felt genshin hoyofair style scenario where zhongli style he just has ears and a tail with no explanation and nobody cares #the only person questioning it is him hes like why arent yall mad at me isnt this weird???? #and then like 10 yrs later hes obsessed with like tail care regimens like tighnari or something #for a second i was like oh god this is cringe and then i remembered i dont care! #and also its canon compliant to exploit this specific character for funny catboy yaoi and dress him up like a bjd #like thats one of the key charm points of the character like hes prepackaged for these sort of fucking stupid shenanigans #hes like THE catboy everyone everyone else calls catboys dont even come close lol #watanuki is literally exploitable catboy girlsgogames dress up doll maker 5000 (with bonus depression) #when i get good enough at art to do some sort of MAD for cat food or envy cat walk or something its fucking over for everyone