No, No, No, No, No. No, No. 6,000 Years And All I Get Is 'you Go Too Fast For Me, Crowley'. And Now There's

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.

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

Meddler!

Scoundrel!

Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!

Excuse me, what??!? If i could just get a cleaned up version of them doing Where Have You Been All My Life i could die happy. Please do me this one favour, Peter Jackson.

Can't remember if I shared this here or not but I made both a Lewis & Clark playlist as well as a Lewis one

The Dutch Bros brorista asked me if I wanted a straw, then handed me one saying, "I gave you a blue straw to match your blue car." ☺️😄

Are you tired of refreshing the news every five minutes and need something nice to distract you from the current world situation? Do you need something to play in the background while making pancakes at 3am?? Do you want to listen something entertaining while rearranging your bookshelf for the fourth time in a row??? Do you have a sudden need to marathon a ton of Sherlock Holmes films and series and want to have access to all of The Content in the same place???? Here’s the solution! A master post containing a lot of classic Sherlock Holmes series, movies, documentaries and radio plays to watch (and listen) for FREE babey, enjoy! 

William Gillette Sherlock Holmes film (1916)

Silent Sherlock Holmes films (1900-1923)

Arthur Wontner Sherlock Holmes films (1931-1937)

Misc. B&W Sherlock Holmes films

Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes complete film series (1939-1946)

Ronald Howard Sherlock Holmes complete series (1954-1955)

Peter Cushing Sherlock Holmes series and films (1959, 1968)

Lenfilm (Russian) Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson complete series (1979-1986)

Geoffrey Whithead Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson series (1979-1980)

Young Sherlock Holmes series (1982)

The Baker Street Boys series (1983)

Granada Sherlock Holmes complete series (1984-1994)

Sherlock Hound complete series in Spanish (1984)

The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes documentary (1985)

Without a Clue film (1988)

Bert Coules Sherlock Holmes complete radio plays (1991-2010)

Sherlock Holmes: The Great Detective documentary (1995)

The Shackles of Sherlock documentary, presented by David Burke (2007)

Sherlock Holmes stories narrated by Edward Hardwicke

"How's your naked man friend?"

Their faces--

Crowley burning up with jealousy and poor Aziraphale just wanting to get as far away as possible. I'm sure Nina enjoyed watching their reactions 🤣🤣

Genius 💯

i do hate when mclennon fics that aren't aus devalue the importance of the music and make all the tension between them romantic/sexual like are we forgetting that their biggest insecurities are directly tied to each other it's not all he loves me he loves me not it's i hate my voice bc i have to sing next to vocal virtuoso mccartney every day and im scared my art wont be taken seriously bc mr in his own write is the smart beatle and im just cute and my god ESPECIALLY the get back era where john strung out and is farting out shit like dig a pony while paul seems to have a constantly flowing creative wellspring for songs which makes john even more insecure and retreats further except the songs in question all have a thesis statement of please dont leave me please dont leave me please dont leave me