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"God," Harry breathes, without meaning to, and they both look at him then -- this lazy, knowing, expression which says they're in this together, whatever it is.
"Hey," says Ringo, low, "you want to know what it was like, being a Beatle? C'mere."
OR: In 1974, during the recording of the Pussy Cats album, Harry gets a glimpse of what it was like to be one of the Fab Four. It's not quite what he expected.
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18 Feb 2026
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Some realisations take a while to turn up.
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18 Feb 2026
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On their first trip to Hamburg, John and Paul accidentally get their hands on a gay porn magazine. Naturally, smut ensues....
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It all feels upside down, like the door to that shop was an entrance to some parallel universe or Wonderland-like rabbit hole. He isn’t hiding under the covers with a flashlight in one hand, his throbbing cock in the other, and some meticulously-posed bird’s chest spilling over the pages and onto his lap. Instead he’s in some Hamburg back alley, the concrete chilly beneath his bum and his best mate warm by his side, while he gazes over naked men and pretends not to feel the unexpected interest in his trousers.
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16 Feb 2026
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It feels strange not to say anything else, but Paul can’t articulate anything else. His throat feels chafed raw, scraped clean, like someone had shoved their arm down his throat and pulled out his innards. It aches all the way down to his chest, every breath dragging against it. He keeps expecting sound to come out, but there’s only this tight, abrasive sensation, as though grief has a physical texture and it’s lodged there.
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John Lennon is dead. Paul goes to work.
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16 Feb 2026
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John realizes he might have an ulterior motive for dragging everyone out to buy a Greek island.
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16 Feb 2026
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1963 (chapter 1): Shortly after Julian’s birth, John stumbles upon a long-held family secret and confronts Mimi about the past.
1980 (chapter 2): John and Mimi reveal secrets of their own.In a husky voice, John says, “There was a baby.”
Mimi sets down her cup, frowning, noticing how his face has gone pale. “Before Julian?” She chokes, remembering Baby Julian’s tiny button nose and shell-like ears as she held him at the hospital a few days ago, inhaling the soft baby scent of milk and talcum powder. Was there another baby before him? Did Cynthia get an abortion? Or did she miscarry? Or was there another girlfriend that Mimi never learnt about?
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11 Feb 2026
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John's not unaware that over the past year, he's starting looking like a dyke. He just hadn't expected that real dykes would start making passes at him.
Or; the Great Gender Spiral of 1968.
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10 Feb 2026
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John thought Paul looked a bit like Elvis. This had more consequences than was strictly sensible.
Or, a story told in three parts spanning nearly three decades.
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10 Feb 2026
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All Mike really knows, lately, is that one day Paul was planning to marry Linda, and then the next he was calling Mike and explaining in an easy tone that the wedding was off, and would you mind telling Dad for me? Great, thanks, gotta go. He's been hiding away on that farm of his ever since, for reasons Mike can only guess at.
(Or: Mike visits his brother at High Park. Things are a lot more complicated than he’d anticipated.)
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09 Feb 2026
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Fill for this Kink Meme Prompt:
John and Paul 68 breakup/Decision to Leave. Centered around the quote, “The moment you said you loved me, your love ended. And the moment your love ended, my love began.”
Starts post-India, but I wanted McBeardy, so it continues through the rooftop concert
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07 Feb 2026
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This is a look at what might have happened to the band, and especially John and Paul, if Paul had come to the conclusion before he met John that he wasn't straight. This fic tells the story of the band with that new context, and therefore it will diverge from the events as we know them.
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you were the one (who imagined it all) by scratchyscribbles for Sminking
Fandoms: The Beatles (Band)
05 Dec 2025
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"You want some, Georgie?" He asks, voice muffled around his fingers. “A lil' taste of Johnny?”
George watches, fixated on the way the fingers disappear in his mouth messily, a bit of spit dribbling down his hand. He feels himself nod, a tiny jerk of a movement and then Paul is promptly shoving the same wet, sticky fingers into his mouth.
Or, delving a little more into their psyche following the events of the first part of the series.
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- Part 2 of all those years
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04 Feb 2026
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"A bit selfish, don't you think?" Paul says then, his eyes never moving away from George's face. "To want to be someone's favorite."
George shrugs, lighting up another fag despite the oncoming headache, "People always have favorites, even when they don't realise it."
Or John, Paul and George through the years.
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- Part 1 of all those years
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03 Feb 2026
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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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03 Feb 2026
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Some unspecified magical fluke temporarily gives Paul a cunt. John’s loathe to waste a good opportunity.
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03 Feb 2026
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“You don’t need to worry about it, Geo, you’ll be fine.”
“I wasn’t worried,” George says. John makes a face like perhaps George should be.Well, it’s difficult when you’re the youngest one in a group; it’s downright impossible when you’re the youngest one and the other two are John and Paul.
(John, Paul and George, 1957-1969.)
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03 Feb 2026
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When Paul was nine years old, he watched John Lennon sing Twist and Shout on Sunday Night at the London Palladium.
Where Paul is a rising singer in the 1970s who grew up idolizing performer-turned-producer John Lennon.
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02 Feb 2026