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[eldritchhobbit]

And one more recommendation while I'm still thinking of Bodie and Doyle...

Title: "Incident in a Stairwell"
Author: Debra Hicks
Format: short story, second in a three-part series, gen &/or pre-slash
Universes: crossover between The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and The Professionals.
Year Published: unknown
Availability: Archived at The Circuit Archive,

Comments

[fungus_files]

I _love_ the Professionals. the only problem is that they don't even show re-runs of the show here anymore - cable is the only way to see them (and even then, few and far between).

I was always more a bodie than a doyle fan. I didn't realise there was fanfic for it (I should know better by now...!).

do you have any of your fanfic research online?

[eldritchhobbit]

Hey there! :) I always preferred Bodie over Doyle, too! I'd say the best places to go for Pros fanfic are The Circuit Archive and The Hatstand. I understand that The Pros are on DVD now in the UK, but so far I think that's the limit of their availability.

Thanks for asking about my research! The recent pieces on gender in Tolkien fanfic ("Reimagining Rose: Portrayals of Tolkien's Rosie Cotton in Twenty-First Century Fan Fiction") and movieverse vs. bookverse fanfic ("Make Mine 'Movieverse': How the Tolkien Fan Fiction Community Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Peter Jackson") are in print in hard-copy form only. My older stuff on Star Trek as Arthuriana is the same. But if you'd like to email me (my email is available on my website), I'd be glad to get copies to you one way or another. :)

[altariel]

Have you seen the multi-fandom recs community crack_van? I don't think they've had any Professionals recs.

[eldritchhobbit]

Thanks for the suggestion! I think rach74 just started, but I've replied to her. Is the community just for online fic, or do zines count as well, do you happen to know? Thanks again for pointing me in that direction. :)

[altariel]

Just online, I think (the idea is to get people addicted to new fandoms as rapidly as possible!). The Professionals is very zine based, IIRC.

[eldritchhobbit]

Ah, that rapid addiction. I can already tell that's going to be a problem. :) As if I weren't intellectually promiscuous enough! LOL.

I think you're right about the Pros being a zine-based fandom, though I've heard there are efforts underway now to move some of the older classics online. I certainly hope that happens, because that's the likeliest route to the next generation of readers.