"How's Your Naked Man Friend?"

To celebrate Ian Leslie's long anticipated biography of John & Paul, here is a look at a vintage McLennon article written by Michael Gerber all the way back in 2015. Don't skip the comments. Gerber responds to them and they bring out even more insight.

From the article: "A love affair between John and Paul, ended abruptly in March 1968 and followed by Paul’s departure from Rishikesh, explains a lot that the conventional narrative doesn’t."

From the comments: "But this is an obsession for a significant subgroup of Beatle fandom, and a significantly thoughtful, well-read and (strange as it may seem given the conjectural nature of the topic) evidence-based subgroup at that. And I’m as interested in that subgroup as I am in the unanswerable question itself."

Hey Dullblog, the Beatles fan blog

Were John and Paul Lovers?

Two heads are better than one, 1965. There's a topic simmering in a few comment threads at once, and so I thought I'd surface the topic

A useful thing to know about AO3 tags is that they're wrangled by humans. A human being will read your tag, understand what it means*, and then connect that tag in the backend system to other tags that mean the same thing (if there are any)

that's why, for example, the tags

not beta read

no beta

no beta we die like men

no beta we die like mne

no beta we die like [insert character who dies in canon]

unbetad

unbeta'd

unbeta-d

un-beta'd

and a million more versions are all searchable and filterable if you just tag one of them. A Tag Wrangler (the job title of a human volunteer who manages AO3 tags) has made sure that AO3 understands that those are all synonyms, so AO3 treats them that way.

When you're tagging your fic, or searching for a fic, or filtering a tag to find or remove works from the list you do not have to use every possible version of a tag. You just need to pick one - unless using more is a stylistic choice you're making, in which case have at it.

*or research what it means - which is why wranglers really appreciate it if you put (OC) behind the name of your original characters so that they don't have to scour every source they can find to see if it's a named background character in canon.

"I don't trust him anymore. I don't trust him. We're starting from square one again and it's up to him to build his integrity back."

"With Ringo's self-explanatory 2004 collection Postcards from the Boys reproducing Lennon's missives to him, moreover, the absence of any letters from Lennon to McCartney is perhaps most conspicuous in Hunter Davies' book [The John Lennon Letters]. He tells me he did approach McCartney, however: "Paul said he had two letters from John, but they were personal."

I didn't like the Gabriel/Beelzebub story. I know it's meant to parallel Aziraphale and Crowley but Nina/Maggie already does that much better. Besides I think it detracts from Aziracrow Endgame by having two of the most powerful supernatural beings on opposite sides fall in love first. 🤷🏻‍♀️

✨ can’t trust a big butt and a gemini ✨

Dammit! I'm out of listening for the month. Good thing I also bought a copy. Just gotta read the last hundred plus pages.

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Ohhhh my heart, this episode of Chris Powell Encourages People to Love Themselves is the best one I've seen yet. I'm 10 minutes in and I've already teared up a dozen times. Go Trina, I believe in you! Chris believes in all of us.

It's official! WhatsApp's Meta AI ships McLennon!