9 Works by Sminking
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I'm carrying (something for you) by Sminking for scratchyscribbles
Fandoms: The Beatles (Band)
29 Jan 2026
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"He found himself thinking about one of the last proper conversations he could remember having with his mum. Her face drawn and pale, eyes tired, as she showed him diagrams from one of her midwife books, explained that he wasn’t like regular boys. He’d always have to be careful, she’d said, stay away from other boys. He’d been mortified and strangely offended because of course Mike wouldn’t be getting a similar talking to. Why did he have to sit there and be humiliated, treated like less of a boy because of something he couldn’t control and hadn’t chosen for himself."
Or, that inevitable Paul is pregnant fic I've been tip-toeing around for a while now and been threatening to write for ages!
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“But they haven’t actually spoken about it. Paul hasn’t actually said I’m coming to New York. I’m coming to see you. Meet me at the usual place.”
Or, my take on an imagined 1979 Montauk motel reunion between two long estranged fiancees.
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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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It's 1968 and Paul doesn't want to go home.
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- Part 1 of Any Road
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Treat me like you did the night before?
Or, the shameless sequel to my very shameless art school John draws Paul like one of his French girls fic. They're young and dumb and extremely in love, and it's the morning after the night before. There is no more plot than that.
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- Part 2 of Must I Paint You a Picture?
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A look into the recording of Oh! Darling with Paul having a bit of a breakdown ostensibly about how his voice needs to be rougher for the song. Eventually, John helps. Yes, exactly how you're thinking.
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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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Paul is just seventeen, you know what I mean? And John convinces him to let him draw him, naked. That's it, that's the whole plot.
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- Part 1 of Must I Paint You a Picture?
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They’re at some club or another, swinging London crowd rapt around them, hanging on to Paul’s every word. And that’s when he hears him say it for the first time.
“Well, I suppose I’ve always thought it’s a bit like sex, you know. Like you wouldn’t do it with just anyone, would you?”
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Or, Paul says the quiet part out loud and John spirals just a little bit.