So, I posted new UNCLE fic!

Title: To earn your wings
Characters: Heather McNabb, Napoleon Solo, Illya Kuryakin
Rating: PG
Word Count: 7041
Summary:Heather McNabb's career as an airline hostess comes to an end in much the usual manner: she meets a man.

(Two men, really, though not at once, and she wouldn't know it until later-but that's getting ( Read more... )

So I made this post about all the old news articles I'd tracked down about the early UNCLE girls - mostly just to say, damn, these nearly-forgotten bit characters actually got a lot of press back in the day, and here's a rough timeline to back that up. But when I came back to update it with some new links (turns out the archive I was using keeps ( Read more... )

Intrigued by the section on the various tie-in novels in C.W. Walker's book Work/Text: Investigating The Man from UNCLE (which goes into the subject in quite a bit more detail than Heitland's earlier book on the series), I had a bit of a poke around the web to see whether any were available online. What I discovered, largely by accident, is that ( Read more... )

Back during my very first viewing of UNCLE's first season, I made an off-hand joke after watching (and, I must say, thoroughly enjoying) the infamous Bow Wow Affair about Illya "having to maintain his team's mandatory heterosexuality quota in Napoleon's absence". If you've read A Unified Theory of UNCLE (and if you haven't, you probably ought to do ( Read more... )

Poking through the old slashfic archives for The Man from UNCLE, one soon notes that where other fandoms have hooker AUs, MfU has the popular Illya Kuryakin: Gay KGB Honey Trap fanon backstory. Like so many old 90’s slash tropes, this one seems to have waned in popularity in today’s (at least theoretically) more culturally sensitive times, which ( Read more... )

Just when I thought I was done with the girls-from-UNCLE, I discovered the archive of newspapers.com. They don't let you see whole articles without a subscription, but with a little creativity it's not too hard to find pages with partial OCR text, which covers more than enough to give you the gist (if not the full text) of many an article. The auto ( Read more... )

The most famous girl from UNCLE is, of course, April Dancer, who starred in her own spin-off series, and many will at least remember Lisa Rogers, Waverly's assistant from the final season. But UNCLE was never short of female staff in a variety of lesser-known roles, some of whom would become the longest recurring characters in the show. Though they ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to write up some proper tumblr recs for all the best Man from UNCLE slashfic I've been finding around the web since I fell for the show, starting with three of my all-time faves. It turns out, however, that I can't adequately explain how much I love the work of authors like Cord Smithee and Kellie Mathews without the post growing ( Read more... )

Notwithstanding that I am completely out of the habit of posting fic here first, I figured I'd at least bring the record up to date on what I've been writing over the last six months or so. Below: A brand new short Cable/Deadpool ficlet posted last last year, a prequel chapter to that old Little Mermaid-AU story which (I kid you not) has been ( Read more... )

(Cross-posted from tumblr, but probably rather more readable here)
Sometime around September of last year, I happened upon a trailer for the recent The Man from UNCLE movie on youtube, and on a whim, decided to give the original 60's TV series a go. I knew very little about the show going in beyond the general notion it was one of those classic old ( Read more... )