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1. on the keeping of a thing of beauty by calamityjack

   Fandoms: The Beatles (Band), Yellow Submarine (1968)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Complete Work

   19 Aug 2025

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   • George Harrison/Ringo Starr
   • Ringo Starr
   • George Harrison (The Beatles)
   • Lord Mayor (Yellow Submarine)
   • butterfly stompers
   • the denizens of pepperland
   • Original Characters
   • submarine operator Ringo
   • Surrealism
   • Romance
   • Pepperland
   • a story about nothing at all really
   • ignoring your problems in the name of tea
   • Alice in Wonderland Elements
   • absurdity
   • pepperland is slightly sinister but we love it
   • thinly veiled metaphors about fame

   Summary

   The word was out—someone beautiful was coming. One of the Seven Things of Beauty, no less. Ritchie wasn’t sure what the other six were—pearls, sunsets, the perfect chip butty—but apparently this one had a name, and a face, and hair worth describing at length.

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