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Tug of War by luckysheepharmony
Fandom Music RPF, Real Person Fiction, The Beatles (Band)
08 Jun 2026
Summary
What does it mean to grow up in a world that teaches you to want the wrong things, love the wrong people, and build a life you were never meant to live?
This eight‑part McLennon series follows John, Paul, Yoko and Linda in the late 70s and early 80s: brilliant, selfish, frightened, ambitious; as they try to survive the emotional wreckage left by fame, silence, and compulsory heterosexuality. It’s a story about middle age, regret, desire, and the generational inheritance of not knowing how to speak the truth.
A queer tragedy disguised as domestic farce.
A love story warped by the world that made it impossible.
An excavation of the lives they built, the lives they wanted, and the lives they lost.Each fic builds on the emotional consequences of the previous one. Recommended reading order is chronological for maximum devastation.
Author’s Note:
This fic explores darker emotional themes within a fictional universe inspired by real people. The characters here are narrative constructs, not historical claims. If you prefer softer interpretations, this is not the universe for you. Even the rare moments of tenderness here have sharp edges.- Words:
- 114,225
- Works:
- 5
- Bookmarks:
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Bookmarked by runnnnche
13 Jun 2026
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A straight-lined full-draped jacket with broad square shoulders and velvet cuffs. His drainpipe trousers hug his legs in a way that’s hazardously flattering. He smooths a hand over his pink-striped waistcoat, grinning like a loon at his reflection. He has never felt this empowered, this invincible, this dangerous.
The oily sculpture of his jelly-rolled quiff gleams in the light streaming in through the window - a literal illumination occurring in the humble bedroom of one young John Lennon.
This is what he wants to do. This is what he wants to be.
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John and Paul are Savile Row tailors that go into business together.
Bookmarked by runnnnche
28 May 2026
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The possibilities of everything else they once did together, the friends they used to be, dissolved as the hands working on his jeans brought the sharpness in his groin into focus. So it’s going to be sex – lovely, more than. But less than a song.
(John and Paul meet in an unnamed 4-star hotel. London, 1981.)
Series
- Part 1 of close encounters
Bookmarked by runnnnche
28 May 2026
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the birds are singing at night by mynamesbetty (waltwhitmans)
Fandoms: The Beatles (Band)
29 Oct 2025
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It was the most insane thing Paul had ever heard, and Yoko was talking about it like it was a weekend jaunt up to the Hamptons. They would troop up the cold, windy north of Scotland, do some ritual, charter a boat and fetch John from the dead. Why not? Paul had no reason not to believe her, after what he’d lived through. He had no reason to believe her, either, but maybe he would get the closure that was kept from him. Standing on the shore and staring out at the water, thinking about John and all the good times they had, could be as close to a funeral as Paul would ever have for John.
1981: Paul and Yoko team up to bring John back.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 12,678
- Chapters:
- 3/3
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- 104
- Bookmarks:
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Bookmarked by runnnnche
16 May 2026
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Falling out of the sky, together. | Snapshots of the Beatles in Greece, July 1967
Bookmarked by runnnnche
12 May 2026