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New York's been waitin' for John.
John's been waitin' for Paul.Bookmarked by never_knows
15 Feb 2026
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John goes to sleep in Rishikesh, and wakes up in London, in a world where he and Paul have been together for years. Part of him is unsettled by it, even a bit put off — but another part of him is helplessly curious. He does his best to navigate a life that could almost be his own.
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15 Feb 2026
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London, 1967: Wish fulfilment, a lot of interrupted kisses, drugs in excess, and a hot, hot summer.
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09 Feb 2026
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Glimpses of John and Paul's relationship throughout the seventies, via their songs to each other.
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27 Jan 2026
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In my life, I love you more.
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27 Jan 2026
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The storm that was keeping them locked up seemed to rage anew in sympathy, battering the hotel with such howling force that for a few moments, it drowned out all else. John almost felt, in those moments, that he was dissolving, becoming a part of the raging hurricane himself.
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21 Jan 2026
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In late 1979 or early 1980, John spends a night on Manhattan Bridge trying to talk a stranger off the edge.
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19 Jan 2026
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Modern day John Lennon has a crash out about fan fiction and Paul McCartney.
Humor, John/Paul
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19 Jan 2026
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“There’s something wrong with you, Paul. You must realise that.”
Or, 1968 woes.
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05 Jan 2026
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John’s most redeeming quality—Jane always thought—is that despite everything else about him, he’s always been so very fond of Paul.
From the kink meme prompt: John/Paul, getting caught by Cynthia or Jane.
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05 Jan 2026
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From the kink meme prompt: john/paul, shotgunning weed
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04 Jan 2026
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Paul kisses John in 1964.
Post-break up, among John's many interviews, he does one where he airs this bit of dirty laundry.
(Interview excerpt)
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27 Dec 2025
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Set during the Hamburg years.
John gets jealous of a German guy who likes Paul.
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27 Dec 2025
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He couldn't be sure how to feel at all when he couldn't understand John's feelings anymore.
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18 Dec 2025
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In which Paul and John swap t-shirts, and also somehow change the nature of their relationship...
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04 Dec 2025
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They had driven back from the studio. Paul in his pearl-white suit and plum loafers. John in striped apricot pants and a wine silk shirt. They floated into John’s home, navigating the music room by lamplight. John cradled a violin to his flushed cheek and Paul sat at the keys. The tapes spun and the tabs on their tongues melted. And then so did everything else.
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22 Nov 2025
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In the balmy heat of the midday sun in Jim’s garden, Paul strumming at his guitar and humming that sweet little Connie Francis number, John contemplates asking. They’ve been chatting idly about using John’s money to fund a hitchhike somewhere, John curled around his guitar with his legs folded underneath him and making quick glances to Paul’s drifting fingers so he can mirror their arrangements.
“I was thinking Madrid.”
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What John asks in '61, what John doesn't tell in '63, and what Paul finds out from Hunter Davies in '67.
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20 Nov 2025
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His mother’s skin always shimmered in the light, like she was a wavering mirage in the wind and nothing more. John half believes she never really died — she was never really there in the first place. And he supposes he can't hate her for that — he's not really here either.
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“I always was sort of psychic or intuitive, always seeing things in a hallucinatory way. I always saw beyond the mask. And it’s scary when you’re a child because there’s nobody to relate to. Neither my auntie nor my friends, not anybody, could ever see it… and it’s very, very scary.” - John Lennon
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20 Nov 2025
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He let it linger and fester. This vulnerability at his side, this queer bend in the rhythm of his life. The strange lode-bearing sunbeam that Paul had become for him. John got to thinking it was romantic. That it would last because it was so absurd, and John’s life was nothing if not absurd.
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John and Paul, then and now.
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19 Nov 2025