the lovers that never were

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[sherlockedsstuff]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Feeding the McLennon Shippers

Always my friend, you‘ll be my only one

Why is it that we only realise what really matters to us, what we truly love, after we’ve suffered a blow? Why does the universe always have to take everything away from us first before we notice the one thing that is truly important to us, the thing we really need, the thing that keeps us alive?

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The story of Paul and John over the years, at different times and important places.

12,634 words, teen and up audience

[glittercupcakeunicornpuppy]

gay person: i’m gay

society: ok

your strange vaguely bisexual friend you try to ignore: hey have you read the secret history yet

[sherlockedsstuff]

definitely not just vaguely bisexual but the rest fits

[alienoriana]

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#we two #the boys of dungeon lane

[motheta]

something something The Method Acting and May Decembering of Lennon-McCartney moodboard

[sherlockedsstuff]

I have so much faith now for the movie ahh

[epiphainie]

hell is not enough for what they put me through

[daylightglitch]

aw they're gonna kiss when they're finally alone in the bookshop- nvm

aw they're gonna kiss after they made their decision- nvm

aw they're gonna kiss before they disappear- no what is the hand thing- nvm

maybe they'll kiss as humans- and then they pointed at me and laughed WELL FUCK ME THEN

[chaosandcardigans]

do you think we're together in another universe?

I don't care, I just want you in this one.

[sherlockedsstuff]

Idk if it is more common in English than in German (my mother tongue is German) to call your best mate babe or baby but the amount of times Paul calls John babe/baby in interviews after his death is crazy to me

[goononthehill]

i swear to god if we get mclennon hard launch 2026 im going to lose it

[amoralto]

January 23rd, 1969 (Apple Studios, London): The group wraps up sessions for the day. Robert Fraser, who’s been visiting, teases Paul on his appearance.

ROBERT: Ah, you look like a Victorian miner now, you know. [Paul laughs]

PAUL: Aye.

ROBERT: A D.H. Lawrence.

PAUL: Well, I can’t afford to mess around here, you know. No.

JOHN: [camp affect] Mess me up baby, in my red-hot fire.

PAUL: I’m a golden garter.

[fab-faux]

It sounds like Paul is singing the “I’m a golden garter” phase so I googled “Golden Garter song lyrics” and got this back from Gemini:

Okaaay. I…uhhhh…I’m just gonna go now.

Here’s the song:

[sherlockedsstuff]

#I’m going insane

[sherlockedsstuff]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82329501/chapters/216686696

Looking for an angsty McLennon Fic? I got you! Just finished my first “bigger“ fan fic, feel free to check it out! <3

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I need somebody, not just anybody

March 1965. The black void inside of him grows bigger everyday. John Lennon is alone in his house and writes Help, his cry for help which nobody seems to hear.

Nobody, besides Paul who will catch him when he falls, always.

18,298 Words, Explicit

[sherlockedsstuff]

[sherlockedsstuff]

I need someone to make an McLennon Edit to „I can‘t have you around me anymore“ by Reneé Rapp. It fits a little to well.

[sherlockedsstuff]

fine I‘ll do it myself

[sherlockedsstuff]

I need someone to make an McLennon Edit to „I can‘t have you around me anymore“ by Reneé Rapp. It fits a little to well.

[irisasis]

PAUL MCCARTNEY: One of the great blessings in my life is that we made up. It's beautiful and it's sad at the same time.

You know we’d loved each other all our lives.

Paul McCartney, Man On The Run (2026)

[nimabe321]

Yeah, Morgan Neville understands Paul re: John…. Because really, how can any rational, intuitive human being not see this?

“This is something I’ve been reading in books my entire life, so I know it feels intimidating to ask about it, but actually Paul loves to talk about John Lennon.”

“Even today, everything Paul does is going to be judged in some way against the Beatles. That’s also why I ended the film where I ended it—when John dies. Everything changes. He never records with Wings again. He starts writing with George and Ringo again. I feel like the Paul we have today began at the end of this film.”

Why Did The Beatles Break Up? Paul McCartney Is Still Thinking About it.

Morgan Neville, director of 'Man on the Run,' the new Prime Video documentary about McCartney’s post-Beatles life, told us why the legend ha

[sherlockedsstuff]

just watched man on the run. I cried like half of the documentry