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August 1960: The dog days of summer. John's art school days have just recently come to an end, and Hamburg is right around the corner. Anticipating the tide that's rushing towards them, John and Paul are decidedly cloistered away together at all their favourite haunts, carving out pockets of time together while they still can.
Or: An excuse to write Paul reading Keats aloud to John while they lie amongst the sunsoaked stones of St. Peter's Churchyard.
(Inspired by the song Cemetry Gates by The Smiths)
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28 May 2026
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1967. John and Paul step out of a party.
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14 Mar 2026
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New York's been waitin' for John.
John's been waitin' for Paul.Bookmarked by However_Absurd
08 Feb 2026
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If you looked back and forth at someone like that in real life - even at your wife or your child - alternating between intensity and carelessness, it would alarm you and the other person, it would make both of you self-conscious about how long you should hold the look for and how long you should look away, what amount of time is normal and appropriate. But all the rules go out the window when you play and sing with someone.
John and Paul are friends and experimental musicians living in the west of Ireland with their partners and children. For their latest project, an album recorded without using any digital equipment, they have also committed to giving up their phones and devices. The removal of distraction helps their music, and also makes them aware of other, more personal things about each other and their relationship.
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03 Jan 2026
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The Witnesses of Menlove Avenue by mothmanmademedoit for dancing_sunbeams
Fandoms: The Beatles (Band)
26 Dec 2025
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The house at 251 Menlove Avenue was a fortress of middle-class respectability. Mary "Mimi" Smith saw to that with a ferocity that bordered on the divine. The brass knocker was always polished; the lace curtains were perpetually crisp. But for those who lived within its walls as boarders, the house wasn't just a quiet respite in Woolton, it was an observatory.
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26 Dec 2025
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Even before he ever knew John, he knew him, can’t remember a time when that wasn’t true. Sure, he might not have known his name, or ever spoken to him. But he’s certain they must’ve passed each other a dozen times on buses and in shops and just walking round the streets of Liverpool. So Paul knows that they weren’t ever truly strangers. And now looking back at those memories that maybe aren’t even real memories, just pictures in his head of things that may or may not have actually happened, Paul is also certain he must’ve loved him even then. That loving John has just been his constant state. His past, present, and future.
If time is a circle that loops back on itself and repeats, then Paul’s love for John is the only real proof he has of that concept.
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Something breaks in India. Beginning in the time period right after Brian’s death, this is a story that takes us from England to India, to New York, and then back to England again as Paul tries to mend something that may no longer be mendable.
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04 Dec 2025
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Wanderlust by Sminking for poisedwalrus_horny_off_main (hlw_shell_corporation)
Fandoms: The Beatles (Band)
29 Nov 2025
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“I want to see,” George confesses, voice going slightly breathless now, mouth dry. “I want to see what he did.”
“George,” Paul gasps, low and like he’s shocked.
Because there’s always been a sort of separation of church and state, if you will. For years now. George is church. John is state. And ne’er the twain shall meet.
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Or, George and Paul sleeping together in 1968, and the conversation that ensued, permanently changed the trajectory of the Beatles. But what happens when the (still together) Beatles decide to go on tour in 1974 and John and George have to navigate the reality of having to share Paul with each other?
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- Part 2 of Any Road
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30 Nov 2025
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It's 1968 and Paul doesn't want to go home.
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- Part 1 of Any Road
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30 Nov 2025
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When You Are Young They Assume You Know Nothing by Lily_Padd_23
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30 Jun 2022
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But Paul knows John.
There’s something about Paris, though...
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07 Oct 2025
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George had been nursing one of his hunches like a flat pint for a few weeks before that night at Mendips even happened. It wasn’t until then that he’d been sure, though.
Snapshots of the solar system from George’s perspective
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29 Sep 2025
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What happens when they decide It's Not Happening.
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- Part 2 of The Art Of Terrible Choices
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03 Sep 2025
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Mr. Epstein’s mid conversation with the rich bloke from earlier, a careful distance between them- nothing too untoward, as it never is when they’re around. Always so proper, is Mr. Epstein, never making his social life their problem.
Unless he’s whisking you off on holiday, like.
He finally turns to look at Paul, smiling in a way that’s a bit tighter at the edges than it is when he looks at the others. Paul returns it, flash quick and only half as charming as he is when he’s sober.
Or, another trip to Spain.
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27 Aug 2025
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Autumn of 1960.
Two boys in a local band go missing. Ringo makes a new friend.Bookmarked by However_Absurd
18 Aug 2025
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Paul McCartney's Very Heterosexual Investigation Of Fanfiction by sonderwrites
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03 Aug 2025
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Paul reads mclennon smut fanfiction.
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- Part 9 of Beatles one-shots
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05 Aug 2025
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John goes to Paul’s house after finding out Cynthia is pregnant and tells him he’s going to have to marry her. He brings up the night they kissed in Paris and asks Paul if they can have that again—just once more—before he becomes someone else’s.
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24 Jul 2025
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In the summer of 1971, during a rare few days off, Paul decides to come and see John in person. He's sure they can work things out. John isn't sure he agrees, but Paul is desperate to please.
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21 Jul 2025
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15 Jul 2025
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Some realisations take a while to turn up.
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13 Jul 2025
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Old bugs are having tea when John asks them an important question :)) A short comic strip!
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29 Jun 2025
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John kisses Paul goodbye.
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29 Jun 2025