Is there a TMFU fic big bang challenge this year?

Or a James Bond big bang?

Just watched both the TMFU and Spectre films on a flight, and I’m brimming with fannish feels once again. I feel quite inspired to poke at my unfinished Napollya, 00Q and MalloryQ fics. :D

TMFU Fic: Saw You Him Whom My Soul Loves (Illya x Napoleon)

Here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/5114120 (5.4k words)

Summary:

The whole business about God creating Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve, makes him laugh. For one, he had there, too. For another, pretty much everything back then had been made by God, when the world was still all shiny and new.

He doesn’t think he has ever gone by the name of Steve, though. Not that it matters much. These days, he usually goes by the name of Napoleon Solo.

Or: The one where Illya and Gaby are reincarnated throughout history, but Napoleon still manages to find them anyway. Please be warned that this fic contains liberal reinterpretation of biblical themes and references. If this is not your cup of tea, you may wish to give this fic a pass.

I think the only thing I can say to about this is, what did I even write ohmygod. More author’s notes and fun history facts on the AO3 page. And again, please be warned for the liberal reinterpretation of biblical themes and references (if it isn’t evident from the opening lines)!

(Source: hoechlin)

Man From Uncle Credits Files Transcribed for Ease of Access

blinkingkills:

If you wanted anime level stat uselessness, here it is

Alexander Waverly-  http://blinkstep.com/post/132193987935

Napoleon Solo- http://blinkstep.com/post/132194967380

Illya Kuryakin- http://blinkstep.com/post/132195633850

Gaby Teller- http://blinkstep.com/post/132196149455

Misc.- http://blinkstep.com/post/132197256295

(via blinkingkills)

illyanapoleon:

To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved (insp).

On Illya Kuryakin and the uses of violence

fabula-unica:

I cannot get away from thinking about that last scene with Illya, in which he is ordered to kill Napoleon because Napoleon has the disc.

Now, here’s the thing: this is some clever film-making. Because of course, Illya begins to have a psychosis reaction as soon as he gets this information, right? But which information? In other words, there are two important bits of information Illya is handed in that phone call: a) Solo has managed to snake the disc out from under him, and b) he has been ordered to kill Solo. So… which one is it? Is he freaking out because Solo got the better of him, or is he freaking out because he has to kill this man he has come to respect, to like, and to trust as he has very few, maybe, in his adult life? The film teases the viewer, and refuses to give us the answer directly.

The clue is this: every other time Illya has a psychosis reaction, it is in response to verbal or physical violence, threatened or otherwise. He does NOT have a psychosis reaction because someone has gotten the better of him, or because a strategy has not turned out the way he hoped, or because of a sudden plot twist. It is violence that he responds to, every time. Violence begets violence.

Illya has a psychosis reaction because he is being asked to kill. He knows it is unavoidable. He knows – or thinks he does, until Solo shows him the way out – that he has no choice. It is the imminent violence that is causing his reaction, and for the very FIRST TIME, he is having a psychosis reaction not because he is longing to kill, but because HE DOES NOT WANT TO KILL. This is huge. This is a character-defining moment for Illya. It is his first moment of powerful revulsion at violence, his first rejection of it.

Illya Kuryakin has a psychosis reaction because he does not want to kill; because something – someone – has become more important to him than his orders. I’m not trying to suggest that Illya at this point has a romantic attachment to Solo; I’m suggesting that their partnership, and loyalty to that partnership, has quietly become the single most important thing to him. If you doubt me, check out his foot pressing that pedal on the torturer’s electric chair, the torturer who caused Solo such unimaginable pain.

So this beautiful scene is doing double duty: it is showing us how deep, how powerful, is Illya’s connection to his partner, and it is showing us that maybe, just possibly, with a lot of help from that partner, he will be able one day to emerge from this horrible feedback loop his body is caught in, of pathological desire for violence.

tl;dr Illya loves Napoleon all other interpretations are WRONG WRONG WRONG.

Anonymous asked: oh god while we're on the topic of napoleon & agency how about how his response to getting fucking drugged is "i'll just lay down & make myself comfortable then, been here before" TALK ABOUT CLINGING TO SCRAPS OF AUTONOMY

ingu:

building on this post

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(x) Honestly the gender politics in this film is some curious stuff. Reverse the genders and both this scene and Napoleon bedding Victoria becomes infinitely more sinister. Same goes for Gaby slapping Illya. From start to end, Victoria treats Napoleon like a plaything, an object, something to be toyed with.

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Further to the re-blog earlier today about Napoleon’s character, agency and control - because, yes, I would agree with this view.

Also, the mention of the subversion of gender roles, which I was already having some thinky thoughts about after watching the film.

slashmyheartandhopetoporn:

illya upon seeing the woman he’s attracted to for likely the last time: teary resignation

illya upon being reminded he needs to maybe kill napoleon, the man he spent the whole movie arguing with: LITERALLY DESTROYS THE ENTIRE HOTEL ROOM

YES. Ahahaha.

That said, my take on Illya wrecking the room is more along the lines of Illya feeling ~betrayed, because he thinks that the trust which he and Napoleon had started to share was just a ruse by Napoleon to get the disk first.

Then Napoleon tosses him his father’s watch, and Illya realises that what they have, this indescribable, fragile thing between the two of them, is actually ~real. He feels foolish as he fumbles the watch back onto his wrist, but when he looks up to Napoleon’s indulgent (if understandably also rather wary) smile, he knows that he’s forgiven.

Napoleon will bring this incident up again every now and then, mostly to tease Illya about his temper. Illya will scowl that they wouldn’t be where they are right now if not for my father’s watch , before looking away with the faintest of smiles.

(Source: slash--y)

TMFU Fic: If the Truth Has Been Forbidden Then We’re Breaking All the Rules (Illya x Napoleon)

Here: http://archiveofourown.org/works/4863944 (4,600 words)

Summary:

“You know,” Napoleon offered, “that first night you chased us in East Berlin - we weren’t sure that you were human. Not then.”

Or: A Man from U.N.C.L.E. / His Dark Materials fusion fic where everyone has daemons, moving from the end of the Vinciguerra affair in Rome, through Istanbul, and on to what happens (happily ever) after.


Well, that’s done. First fic I’m posting since 2011, first fic in a new fandom, first time making a proper stab at this whole tumblr thing. That feels like a lot of firsts and newness. Frankly, I’m terrified.