beatles time travel fanfiction

Hiya, Do you know any fics that really get the characters of the Beatles spot on? As in their mannerisms, the way they talk, etc. slbatt1997-at-gmail-com

I find this is a little subjective. What one person might think is true to life in terms of how the Beatles were, another person might disagree with. However, I think all good fan fic writers will at least try to get the mannerisms (etc) correct because - at least for me - that’s the point isn’t it? Trying to get as close to the real article as possible.

There’s a few recommended stories here - https://beatlesfanfictiondirectory.com/tagged/recommended I think all these authors try to get the characterisation spot on.

Additionally authors Das Leibchen Kind, Jjdec8 and Kiwi747 are all authors I know as friends and they all try to get the characters as close to ‘real’ as possible.

Sorry if some links are dead - try searching on Wayback Machine for archived versions.

You can also try mine at https://www.wattpad.com/user/MissODell and let me know what you think!

Apologies for the long delay in response.

Not exactly a question but I'm just dying to know if any other avid readers of Beatles fan fiction in the early 2000s remember Kerry's Beatles-Paul McCartney page. It was an MSN group so it's long gone now. If anyone remembers and happens to know who the "Linda" is who wrote the Elsham Road fic, I'd love to read it again! It was my favourite story and I think about it often lol.

Sharing this for anyone who might be able to help.

Sorry for late response @x-rambleon !

Sorry for the very late reply. 

No, you can submit stories with a “y/n” character device if you like. I don’t think there are any in the directory currently, but only because no one has submitted one yet!

Sorry for the late reply. 

There are several stories in the Lena King Perchance to Meet series. However, the last one appears to have been left unfinished (or at least the last instalment wasn’t published). 

The finished stories are: 

1. Perchance To Meet  (Part one)  Part Two and Part Three

2. Baby It’s You  (Part one) and Part Two

3. I Love You More  (Part one) Part Two and Part Three

4. Born With A Jealous Mind  (Part one)  Part Two and Part Three

5. Promise Not To Tell (Only one part to this story)

And the sixth story which was left unfinished was: 

6. The Honeymoon Song (Part One) 

The thing about Rooftop Sessions was that no story would ever be published without first being completed, so there must have been an ending to The Honeymoon Song, but I have a feeling it was in the process of being published when Rooftop Sessions went on hiatus and Wayback Machine doesn’t have it archived. I have asked on a forum that was frequented by the Rooftops editors back in the day, but I haven’t had a reply (hence my late reply). It’s possible the full version of the story is out there somewhere! 

Della Milton and George Harrison lived on opposite sides of Upton Green, Speke, Liverpool, in the 1950s. Born three weeks apart they soon became childhood best friends. George grows up and becomes lead guitarist in the phenomena that is The Beatles. It takes him far and away from that small oval green in Liverpool and gives him experience and opportunities he could never have imagined. But Della’s not concerned about George’s fame and fortune. He’ll always be her friend and her rock. He’s as close to her as family. Sometimes she thinks he’s the only one in the world she can call a friend. He’ll always be the same, he’ll always be there for her… won’t he?

BEATLE: George GENRE : Romance WARNINGS : Adult themes, bad language, adult situations. STATUS: In Progress. 

*Sequel to In Your Atmosphere* 

1966 was a year of seismic changes for the Beatles. By the end of the year, the last single Beatle, Paul McCartney, was on the verge of saying “I do” to his California sweetheart, Marisol Hemingway. And then life happened. 

“Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.” - John Lennon

BEATLE : Paul McCartney GENRE : Romance WARNINGS : None STATUS : In progress.

Isabel Garcia didn’t expect to make friends when she moved out to London, much less meet the Beatles. But between the budding tensions within the band and the mystery surrounding a surprise visitor, she quickly realizes she’s in for the ride of a lifetime. Together, they attempt to fight their demons of the past while dealing with the uncertainty of the future. Alas, real life – much like real love – is complicated.

STORY LINK: No One Compares With You BEATLE : Paul GENRE : Romance WARNINGS : Mature themes and sexual content. STATUS : In Progress.

Upon first glance, Gail Greene appears to have it all: Beauty, confidence and a nifty job as Brian Epstein’s secretary. However, she secretly longs for something more and finds herself becoming attracted to a certain Beatle. 

STORY LINK: I Wouldn’t Change A Thing BEATLE : Paul & John GENRE : Romance  WARNINGS : None  STATUS : Complete

Hi There! 

Could you let me know what part you were on when you go the error? That story is hosted on Wayback Machine (internet archive) and sometimes it can be a little temperamental. 

I’ve just tested it myself and I could get on the different story parts okay, so I think either what you had was a temporary error with Wayback Machine (which may hopefully be fixed now) or Wayback Machine didn’t catalogue the page you were trying to access, in which case, try looking for an earlier archive of the site as that may have it or you’ve unfortunately read all of the story which was completed and published online. Like Dreamers Do was written by an author called Sandy Johnson, I think around the late 1990s/Early 2000s, but it has been offline for a number of years now. I’m linking to the archived version because it was such an amazing story, people should still be able to read it. Part one was complete, but part two only goes up to about chapter 65 I think, and was left unfinished sadly. 

Hope this helps. If not, send me another message! 

ashleyfanfic :

thesparkles59 : dqnielhowell : There’s a fic on fanfiction(.)net that I’ve kept tabs on for years to see if it’s been updated or not. While I’m no longer even in the fandom it’s written for, it just has one of the greatest storylines I’ve ever read. Last time it was updated was 2011. The other day, I decided to reread the entire thing and leave a very in-depth review of what I thought of each chapter. I also mentioned how I started reading it when I was 13 and am now 21, but always came back to see if it was ever finished because I loved it so dearly. Today, said author sent me a private message saying that her analytics showed that the story was still getting views even after all these years, but no one ever bothered to leave reviews other than “update soon!!!”, so she never felt motivated enough to finish it. She said that me reviewing every single chapter with lengthy paragraphs made her cry and meant the world to her. She also mentioned that she felt encouraged to write the two remaining chapters needed to complete the story and that she would send me a message the night before she updates the fic. I’m literally sobbing. I’m so excited :’) Please always remember to leave a review when reading fanfiction!!! It means a lot to a writer.

Seriously, this is what keeps us going; YOUR COMMENTS. 

And you think my ranting about it is just being salty! It’s not! Reviews can mean the difference between feeling motivated and feeling out of place.

Thank you for your message! 

Well, the Beatles Fan Fiction Directory is powered by Tumblr, so if you have a Tumblr account, you can leave a comment in the same way you would leave a comment on any other Tumblr post - however, only me (the BFFD admin) would probably see it, so I would suggest you either leave a comment on the author’s page/work directly or send them an email directly - because writers love to hear from readers, and if you’re enjoying a story you should let the author know, it really helps people to keep going when they know people are reading. 

Now, saying that, I have quite a few stories which are archived from the Wayback Machine (aka https://web.archive.org/ ) - these are all stories which were Beatles fan fiction gems but sadly the websites have been taken down for one reason or another. For these archived stories you can’t leave a comment as the website is only an archived version and not online any more. There may be a chance the emails would be still working but most are probably abandoned.

Unfortunately Indica’s Attic is one of those archived sites, and  I Feel Fine by Ms Moonlight is an archived story and sometimes the Wayback Machine doesn’t catalogue all of the pages, or simply the story was abandoned and left unfinished. I did think that story was finished though - the latest chapter is  https://web.archive.org/web/20111024061815/http://indicasattic.homestead.com/imagine1j.html  - Did you find that one? I have this marked as complete, but as you can’t seem to read all of it anymore I’ll update the status. 

Thanks again! And PS. You can find some recommended reads here , most of which you can leave comments on!

When a sudden resurgence of Thuggee threatens Britain’s most beloved sons, the Beatles, the Queen calls in someone with a history of handling unconventional problems - Captain Jack Harkness. Fortunately he has some help in the form of archaologist Carol Lake (who might possibly be better known under a slightly different name), and his usual indestructibility. It might even be enough to keep the Beatles alive… This is a VERY wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey crossover between Doctor Who, Torchwood, and the film Help! (1965) . Fasten your seat-belt, it’s going to be a bumpy ride…

BEATLE : All Four Beatles GENRE : Comedy & SciFi WARNINGS : None STATUS : Complete. CROSSOVER : Beatles & Dr Who & Torchwood

Tragedy strikes during the filming of the Penny Lane clip.

BEATLE : Paul GENRE : Drama WARNINGS : Paul in Pain STATUS : Complete.

Paul feels the stress at the height of Beatlemania.

BEATLE : Paul GENRE : Drama WARNINGS : Paul in Pain STATUS : In Progress.

What if you could go back and do it all again?

BEATLE : Paul GENRE : Romance, Drama WARNINGS : Paul in Pain STATUS : Complete.

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I’m a new member – I found your forum via Google-ing for Beatles Fan Fiction and an old thread came up. Anyway, my site is The Beatles Fan Fiction Directory, which some of you may have seen before. Well, it has a new home here: http://beatlesfanfictiondirectory.com/ – with better search facilities (you can search for stories by Beatle, Genre, Author, Title, Setting/Era and status – finished or in progress stories). Also, all the dead links have been removed and there are some new stories listed too.

Missodell xx

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Doctor Who: The Devil’s Chord review: Is this madness?

The following includes spoilers for “The Devil’s Chord.”

For a show about time (and space) travel interwoven with British pop culture since its start in 1963, a trip to visit the Beatles is an obvious premise. So obvious that this is the second time we’ve had a “what if” episode hinging on the Fab Four’s cultural impact. After all, both the Beatles and Doctor Who became global cultural exports as Britain flexed its post-imperial soft power. But while there’s plenty of material to mine in that premise, this isn’t an episode that’s interested in doing that, relegating the Beatles to little more than window dressing.

This has always been a trick in Doctor Who’s toolbox, especially when Russell T. Davies is in charge. He loves dangling an idea, or eye-catching visual, to lure in an audience before moving the focus to something else. I’m reminded of the kung-fu monks from “Tooth and Claw” which looked great in the trailers but had no real impact on the story. It’s “Tooth and Claw” that “The Devil’s Chord” feels similar to — an early season one episode that doesn’t quite work in and of itself, but does spend a lot of its time gesturing to this year’s recurring themes. ( FilmStories reported from a recent Q&A, where Davies said that this episode lacked a central plot and was, instead, "Just some subplots.")

But to understand that, and my stance, we’re going to have to take a little look at The Context before we get to examining the meat. You see, during its history, Doctor Who has bent itself to fit the vision of its primary creative figure and Davies is a voracious watcher of TV. He’s obsessed with the form and format of TV as much as its content, and this is reflected in his work. His episodes often develop with news reports, CCTV clips and deeper forms of exposition revealed through screens. “Bad Wolf” is a great example, where the show lands at a TV studio that’s making sci-fi versions of the then-current pantheon of British reality TV.

Davies also trusts his audience to instinctively know the unspoken rules of TV even if they can’t name them. Which is why I think it’s worth looking at “The Devil’s Chord” as an episode that is, for want of a better phrase, collapsing in on itself. When Mrs. Flood talks to the camera at the end of “Church on Ruby Road,” it felt Deliberately Wrong, especially after she was seemingly unaware of the TARDIS earlier in the episode. Here, the numerous fourth wall breaks and lapses in storytelling are similarly an intentional sign of How Wrong Things Are. What starts out as a by-the-numbers celebrity historical quickly collapses into a fever dream like Sam Lowry’s descent into madness at the end of Brazil .

We open in a concert hall in 1925 as a teacher outlines the basics of music theory for a young child. He shows off that he has “discovered” The Devil’s Chord and, by playing it, unleashes Maestro (Jinkx Monsoon), the embodiment of music. Maestro is a godlike elemental force and a child of the Toymaker – featured villain of the 60th Anniversary special episode “The Giggle.” After praising the musician for their genius, Maestro then sucks the music out of their heart and eats it like cotton candy before staring into the camera and playing the show's theme tune on the piano.

When the titles end (notice the theme is playing out of the jukebox) it’s clear Ruby has been on the TARDIS for some time. She asks the Doctor if it would be possible to visit the recording of the Beatles’ first album at the EMI’s studios on Abbey Road. Before they open the doors, she asks if it might be worth them changing into less conspicuously modern clothes and they spring off to sample the delights of the TARDIS wardrobe, complete with a wig for the Doctor.

The pair sneak into George Martin’s producer’s booth but quickly spot something is wrong with the scene in front of them. Rather than playing any of Please Please Me’s big and recognizable hits, they’re turning out mop-top music about animals. The Doctor doesn’t know it yet but Maestro has spent the last few decades swallowing all of the music out of people’s hearts. It’s a genius way to get around the fact that, even with all the cash thrown at Get Back and Disney’s vast bank balance,  Doctor Who still can’t readily afford to license Beatles songs .

Next door, (famous British singer / TV presenter / notorious diva) Cilla Black is similarly stricken with a case of the muzaks while a concert orchestra is just about mustering a version of Three Blind Mice . The Doctor and Ruby head to the canteen to corner John and Paul to try and find out what went wrong with history. They then head to the roof with a piano, where Ruby plays a tune she wrote to help a friend get over a breakup. But once the Doctor hears Maestro’s giggle, he sprints away, hiding in a nearby basement.

The Doctor explains that any villain who laughs is tied to the Toymaker and is a sign of the fractured universe. Fighting the Toymaker in “The Giggle” was sufficiently draining and difficult, especially given how powerful these elemental forces are, that he doesn’t want to do it again. Maestro is hunting for them, but the Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to kill all of the sound in the area. (The Doctor knows just enough about how the form and format of TV works to turn the tables on their opponent.) Maestro works out how to undo the blocking – with some magnificent sound editing — but is then distracted from their pursuit of the Doctor by an older woman Ruby had inspired to play the piano.

The eagle-eyed among you will notice that this is the second time in two episodes that Ruby has inspired another person to be bold to their detriment. Her words were enough to encourage Eric to try and take on the bogeyman single-handed in “Space Babies,” nearly imperiling him. The older woman isn’t so lucky and gets consumed by Maestro

Because of how long Doctor Who has run, it's often its own source material. Ruby, once they’ve escaped, assumes that everything is okay because she recalls listening to music as a child and so therefore Maestro can’t have won. So, in a scene pulled from “ Pyramids of Mars ,” the Doctor takes her to 2024 in the TARDIS to show the wreckage of the alternate future. Because while she’s protected from the ravages of continuity by the fact she’s traveling through time, the rest of the universe isn’t so lucky.

But this flash-forward, in an echo of the meeting with the Toymaker, flips from a visage of a bombed-out London to a stagey set. Maestro arrives behind a white piano to outline their plan to rid the universe of music, leaving just the aeolian tones of the wind brushing against objects. But the Doctor says that a universe without music, unable to express joy or anger through art, turns sour and destroys itself. It's a feeling I can relate to — like when love becomes so painful in its absence that you'd rather disappear into the void than keep going on. Davies is also a nihilist so many of his episodes have revolved around the dark face of humanity that reveals itself when denied Earthly pleasures.

Escaping back to the ‘60s, the Doctor and Ruby meet Maestro and find the walls of reality are collapsing. Murray Gold’s swirling soundtrack isn’t just the background music, it’s bled into the fabric of the show itself. The Doctor and Ruby start trying to find a chord that will bind Maestro with the Mrs. Mills piano , a (real) fixture of Abbey Road’s studio. As they play, the notes are rendered floating over the piano, but the pair fail to identify the final note before Maestro turns up.

Maestro begins attacking, throwing around musical scores as weapons and hurling the piano into the hall. It’s here that the episode’s coherence starts to sag, the scenes get longer and odder, a wonky version of a standard monster-of-the-week TV show conclusion. The tension builds, and all looks lost, until John and Paul stumble upon the piano in the hallway. They’re able to see the notes hanging in the air over the piano and with their, uh, innate musical nous, and complete the chord to bind the villain. But before they’re whisked away, Maestro has time to reveal they aren’t the only one of the Toymaker’s minions coming, and “the one who waits” is lurking in the background.

Out of nowhere, the episode ends with a big musical number that features the cast dancing through the Abbey Road sets, delighted at the return of music. Even the steps of the road crossing light up as the Doctor and Ruby cut a rug across them. I can’t work out if it’s simply an indulgent sequence, or another big sign that the show’s structure is breaking down. That the Doctor and Ruby are blind to the apparent Wrongness of it all hints at the latter, especially given the deeper context of the song’s title — see below.

There are other signs that Doctor Who is collapsing into its own TV series, including the casting decisions. The older woman who plays the piano is June Hudson, the show’s costume designer from 1978 to 1980 — who famously redesigned the fourth Doctor’s costume. The musician at the piano during the dance number is Murray Gold, while the figures the Doctor and Ruby dance with at the end are Strictly Come Dancing stars Shirley Ballas and Johannes Radebe. Maybe the big nemesis haunting the series will be some form that could threaten its existence as a TV show itself.

It’s worth saying that Doctor Who has an uneasy relationship with “big” villain performances which can turn hard into hamminess . But Jinkx Monsoon manages to pitch Maestro as just big and flamboyant enough to steal every scene they’re in, but never too silly. It’s also the right side of charming and magnetic, and while they don’t have anywhere near enough time to properly face off against Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor, it’s still a great match-up.

The problem of Susan Twist

As much as I don’t want to get into the weeds here, it’s possible this stuff is going to come up later that I need to flag it. Doctor Who has been running for more than 60 years with a revolving door of creative figures who paid little-to-no attention to consistency. A convenient way to justify these is by suggesting time travel, by its very nature, would always mess up your personal history. But, in latter days, the show has often preferred to overlook the thornier parts of its backstory, like the existence of the Doctor’s granddaughter, Susan.

When the show started, the Doctor was joined on his adventures by Susan and a pair of teachers who followed her home one night. Long before any mention of Time Lords or Gallifrey, she was just the kid figure who often wound up needing rescuing. Then, in “ The Dalek Invasion of Earth ,” the Doctor exiles her to 22nd century Earth because she wants to kiss a boy. His goodbye speech has been long since de-contextualized and made to sound noble. But it is essentially him going “yeah, you’re interested in boys now, so you go make babies (eww babies) and stay here while I go off running around the universe.” Yes, it is a bit yikes.

This ties in with a small body of writing about this trope in children’s literature about the way female characters are treated when reaching adulthood. In combination with a sexual awakening, this is often used as justification to dump them out of the narrative. It’s even called “The Problem of Susan,” albeit named after Neil Gaiman’s rebuttal of what happens to Susan at the end of The Chronicles of Narnia . If you’d like to learn more, you can read Elizabeth Sandifer’s essay on "The Dalek Invasion of Earth " which talks about this in some detail.

Why is this relevant? Because when Davies’ returned to Doctor Who , he cast the same actress in two different episodes. Susan Twist played Mrs. Merridew in "Wild Blue Yonder" and was seen again in "The Church on Ruby Road," which sent keen-eyed fans into a frenzy. She pops up here as a tea lady and, on the roof of Abbey Road; the Doctor even talks about the fact another of his incarnations is living in Shoreditch in 1963 with his granddaughter. That the episode ends with a musical number called “There’s always a Twist at the end” with Ncuti Gatwa winking to camera is as big a neon sign as you could hope for.

Doctor Who fans — never ones to not scour the text, metatext and paratext of each episode — took Twist’s repeated casting as a signpost. They assumed, not unjustifiably, that this series would feature a twist about Susan, and that Davies was subtly signaling this to diehard fans. Given Twist’s appearance here, and that we get a song saying the quiet part out loud, seems to vindicate those theories. Unless, of course, it’s all a triple bluff, but I’m not sure how anyone could game that successfully. The only question that remains, of course, is what Davies' plan is, and how exactly it’ll play out in the next six episodes.