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twink on a boat vibes this afternoon

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the thing about yoko ono is like. is she a good person? oh absolutely not. but we're all beatles fans so I think you can deal with a woman being a little evil when every single one of your pet white men is like the devil incarnate but we're all collectively calling them our pookies

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Homies saw Yoko with a tall, attractive lady wearing glasses and went like "for sure that's John Lennon 😁"

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your piece in the paul zine was so good i had to take a break a couple of times and scream into my pillow. the way you write paul drives me insane. u get it. u fucking get it. i love you.

thank you <33333 that fic busted my ass and also is the one instance where i haven't had comments to affirm that i didn't just write a load of incomprehensible shite so i appreciate it!!

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One to One: John and Yoko (2024) Dir: Kevin Macdonald

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i love when you talk about your writing process because i've never seen anyone as as like organised and "aware" of their writing as you are? it seems like you don't write before you know what the fic will be, and how you're going to do it (even if you don't know 100% how every scene is going to play out before), but i think it really pays off. the mood, characterisation, and overall plot (or "plot" for pwp) stay consistent and i've never finished a fic of yours disappointed in an ending or confused about "why on earth would that be the course of action"

i also love that you're confident in your skill :)

thank you! it's nice to know i'm not just boring people haha.

i think my organisation is mostly a symptom of me being a control freak lol. i don't like doing things if i don't know exactly what i'm supposed to be doing, so it's impossible for me to finish a fic if i haven't plotted out the specifics of every story beat first. it's a tortuous method, but it seemingly does the job!

the confidence is mostly because i am both an only child and someone who was good at school, so i've let the arrogance of being everyone's special girl who is good at everything carry me through most of my life.

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The Beatles on board a BEA flight to Munich, Germany on the first day of their final world tour | 23 June 1966 © Robert Whitaker

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was looking at the abbey road studios website and this is so fucking funny to me

things to do: look at the outside our building :) maybe give us money in our shop :)

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i love you mirror versions i love you possession i love you cloning i love you simulacrums i love you shadow selves i love you digital copies of a mind i love you alternate timeline versions i love you tropes that play with identity and what it means to be a certain person

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if it's not too much to ask then 3 4 5 & 11 for a great threat, I thought I knew you, wouldn't it be nice? and aninut

(sidenote but I hope you had a fun time watching the match because if it's the one im thinking then I had a ball before remembering *my* team is playing tonight lol)

under the cut for dashboard brevity:

a great threat

3: What’s your favorite line of narration?

Yoko feels several things at once: a cold flush of disgust; an immediate fearful impulse to defend herself, prove herself, put distance between herself and limp, pathetic Cyn; and a strange indignation—the sense of being condescended to, manipulated, clumsily, like he thinks she’s too naïve to see it.

this is kind of a rogue choice bc there's so many lines in this fic that i adore, but i came up with this moment really early on and i just really, really like what it does in terms of like framing john's treatment of the women in his life. yoko thinks cyn is pathetic because she stole john from her so easily, but when put up against paul, he treats yoko with the same gaslighting he treated cyn (and largely got away with). and yoko still has that knee-jerk impulse to defend herself and be like "well i'm not like other girls, i'm cool" despite being aware that john is trying to manipulate her into doing just that. it's the only time john's treatment of women really affects her enough that she's upset by it on a personal level, and can't really delude herself into believing that she can escape cyn's or paul's fate.

i think all women have experience this kind of misogyny where a man just assumes you're more stupid than you are, which is something i was trying to capture here, but i also wanted to contrast that with yoko's ideas of cyn from the beginning, and create this sense of awareness that like - cyn was probably aware of it too, and probably played along with john's lies under the assumption that it would keep him (as yoko is about to do), and also that it did nothing to stop john running off and doing whatever he wanted with paul anyway (as yoko fears john will do), and also no woman in john's life can really be free of the experience of Being A Woman With John (which is what keeps paul from ever fully comitting to him).

4: What’s your favorite line of dialogue?

“She is half your mind,” she tells John, with his cock stiff in her hand. “‘s just songwriting,” John says, his chin tilted up, his eyes closed serenely.

oh my godddddd, john!!!! as if songwriting isn't everything!!! also love all the dialogue from paul and yoko pretending to have a supportive women chat but actually just being straight up misogynistic to each other. evil women who suck <3

5: What part was hardest to write?

the sex scene changed vibes while i was in the middle of writing it, so i had to rework it to fit the mood i needed, so that.

11: What do you like best about this fic?

i don't even know. i love it so much, i think i did so many things really well here. i guess just girl paul. i love that she's messy and terrible. bad lesbian, bad feminist, fantastic beatle. my girl <3

i thought i knew you, what did i know

3: What’s your favorite line of narration?

He smiles, as he reaches them. Jane can’t tell if it’s for her or for John. She supposes the distinction hardly matters. It doesn’t to Paul.

oh, paul.

4: What’s your favorite line of dialogue?

“Has it occurred to you, Mrs McCartney, that you might be the other woman?”

a whopper line. also: oh, john.

5: What part was hardest to write?

this one was a while ago so i can't remember if i struggled with anything. maybe the sex scene, because i had to keep the balance of the sweetness between john and paul, and jane's shock and hurt.

11: What do you like best about this fic?

i just really managed to write exactly what i wanted it to be. i think every element of the triangle (john/paul, jane/paul, john/jane) is so well served by each other their respective scenes. also my first of many forays into '68 angst :)

wouldn't it be nice?

3 & 11 answered here

5 answered here

4: What’s your favorite line of dialogue?

"You forgot Dot existed the entire time she was up the duff," John says. "No, I didn't," Paul protests, feeling the old shame of it. Feeling annoyed at John invoking Dot again, as if that's a thing they've ever used against each other; as if Paul would ever say a word about John and Cyn. "Yes, you did," George says, at the same time as John says, "Yes, you fucking did."

i love this scene. i don't write the four of them together often enough, but i should because it's really fun! get his ass!

aninut

3: What’s your favorite line of narration? + 4: What’s your favorite line of dialogue?

combination of dialogue and narration in this moment, because i just love it so much. Paul and Brian 4eva <333333

"You used to be terribly intimidating," Brian told him, when they were out for dinner once, just the two of them. Paul had felt oddly proud of that because Brian was older, and Brian was the one who told them where to be and what to say, and no one ever saw Paul as intimidating. "How?" Brian said, "Oh, it's terrifying upsetting you." "You've never upset me, Eppy," Paul said, because he could hardly think of an instance of it. It made Brian burst out laughing with surprise—those breathless giggles he did when he really got going, his cheeks rosy like a cherub.

5: What part was hardest to write?

this was the second beatles fic i posted but probably the first fic i came up with (#onbrand #paul/brianday1). i kind of knew all the parts i wanted to write for it, but i was quite insecure about getting things wrong because i wasn't so steeped in the lore yet. i went vaguer on some things than i probably would now.

11: What do you like best about this fic

despite my not being fully steeped in the lore, i think i captured paul's psyche really well. also i just think it flows really nicely both on a structural level but also emotionally. it's a sad one, as many of mine are, but it doesn't bog you down in the angst, as some of mine sometimes do.

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11 + 12 shotgunning & baby, it's all relative

shotgunning

11: What do you like best about this fic?

answered

12: What do you like least about this fic?

there's nothing i really dislike about it. perhaps, i would've made them do more than just a handjob if i rewrote it, but i think a lazy handjob kind of suits the mood.

baby, it's all relative

11: What do you like best about this fic?

i love the lowkey air of mania paul has when they have sex is so funny to me!! it was fun to write and it's fun to reread. i like that it creates this role-reversal where john has to kind of look after him, but also john feels so flustered by the task.

12: What do you like least about this fic?

i think the dialogue in paul and jim's fight is kind of cliche, but i was too done with the fic to try to fix it.

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I soon discovered that you could take photos of the Beatles, but Paul had to be in them. A picture of the Beatles without Paul was not a picture of the Beatles. He was the magnet; he was the one you looked at, the one who would carry the mood of the situation. Like the pillow fight photo: without the charm of Paul, it’s just four young men with pillows; he’s the one standing up making the picture. (…) It’s debatable, but I think that without question Paul was the most photogenic.

© Harry Benson

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Don’t mind me, just imagining John with a big family and getting sad

John Lennon and Mimi Smith meet relatives in New Zealand, 22nd June 1964

Also, of course Paul was amazed that anyone could look like John…

While I was talking to John, the other Beatles walked in. Paul McCartney was amazed at the family resemblance. When it was time to go, John asked me to take care of Aunt Mimi. You could sense the strong bond and love that John felt for Mimi, the woman who raised him. In fact one of the main reasons the Beatles visited New Zealand was because John knew that his aunt had several relatives out here, and he wanted to give something back to her. (x)

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Requesting Maxwell's Silver Hammer at the club

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Paul McCartney & Comic Books

Paul & Marvel:

Magneto, Titanium Man, and Crimson Dynamo art shown during live performances of Magneto and Titanium Man.

Yes, that’s about Marvel Comics. When we were on holiday in Jamaica, we’d go into the supermarket every Saturday, when they got a new stock of comics in. I didn’t use to read comics from eleven onwards, I thought I’d grown out of them, but I came back to them a couple of years ago. The drawings are great. I think you’ll find that in twenty years time some of the guys drawing them were little Picassos. I think it’s very clever how they do it. I love the names, I love the whole comic book thing.

Paul McCartney In His Own Words, Paul Gambaccini

In 1975, around the time I wrote ‘Magneto And Titanium Man’, I was reading and looking at a lot of comic books, and as far as I was concerned, that was real art. It took some skill – not to mention perspective and imagination – to pull off these illustrations. So, I decided it would be nice to bring these two comic book characters into a song. Magneto is the archrival of the X-Men. Michael Fassbender has been playing him in the recent Marvel films. Titanium Man is one of Iron Man’s enemies. And the Crimson Dynamo turns up as well; he’s a bad guy too. So we have three baddies, and I made up a story that could have been in one of these comic books.

The Lyrics, Paul McCartney & Paul Muldoon

So this song is my nod to comic books being high art.

The Lyrics, Paul McCartney & Paul Muldoon

Left: Linda McCartney in a Magneto shirt. Right: Paul McCartney in a Titanium Man shirt.

The McCartneys meeting comic book artist and Magneto's co-creator, Jack Kirby, backstage at a 1976 Wings show in LA.

Original art by Jack Kirby, depicting the band fleeing Magneto.

Incredible Hulk Vol 1 271: Now Somewhere in the Black Holes of Sirius Major There Lived a Young Boy Name of Rocket Raccoon! (1982)

‘Rocky Raccoon’ is quirky, very me. I like talking blues so I started off like that, then I did my tongue-in-cheek parody of a western and threw in some amusing lines. I just tried to keep it amusing, really; it’s me writing a play, a little one-act play giving them most of the dialogue. Rocky Raccoon is the main character, then there’s the girl whose real name was Magill, who called herself Lil, but she was known as Nancy.

Many Years from Now, Barry Miles

Paul & The Dandy

Paul McCartney in The Dandy (2012)

Text reads:

Dear Dandy, The Dandy was a favourite comic of mine when growing up in Liverpool and each week I would look forward to the exploits of Desperate Dan and his other comic book colleagues. I feel a little sadness that I see its final issue is appearing in December. In 1963, in the NME, when asked what my personal ambition was, I replied – to have my picture in The Dandy! I hope it’s not too late! Thank you, Dandy, we loved ya!

Paul & DC

Superman comics featured on the organ Paul plays in Help! (1965) (x)

Batman and Superman: World’s Finest (2022) featuring Paul McCartney.

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For the fiction writers ask game: 5: What part was hardest to write? — for "john girl 4 john girl,"

and 14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic? — for "a great threat," please! Thanks in advance!

John girl 4 John girl

5: What part was hardest to write?

I don’t think anything about it was too difficult. I think capturing the nuances of what was going on in Paul’s head was the trickiest element. Making him project on Linda, and project on John, and project on John girls, while being wilfully obtuse about what any of that meant to him on an emotional level (but without painting him as stupid), while also having him on some level aware enough to feel shame about it. It was a lot of moving parts!

A great threat

14: Is there anything you wanted readers to learn from reading this fic?

I don’t know if there was anything to learn. The main driving force of this fic was me going “sickos: HA…HA…HA…YES!” I guess I wanted people to be intrigued by girl Paul (which I think they were). Maybe I wanted people to learn a bit about what drives Yoko, in the sense that I was partly motivated by figuring out what drives Yoko.