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MFU Fic: The Floating World

2022-02-04T03:57:08Z

For the record: Written for NienteZero in the 2021 Down the Chimney story exchange. First thing I've managed to finish in a while, and I was definitely out of practice. A number of false starts and given another month or two, I might have been able to refine it to the degree that I wanted but things are what they are... and it's readable. The prompt was h/c slash with banter and I'm just gonna say it's h/c adjacent ;)

Title: The Floating World
Author: elmey
Genre: Slash
Characters/Pairing: Napoleon Solo/Illya Kuryakin
Word count: 1955
Warnings: nothing in particular

Summary: "Living only for the moment, savouring the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms, and the maple leaves, singing songs, drinking sake, and diverting oneself just in floating... like a gourd carried along with the river current: this is what we call ukiyo (the Floating World)"

---Asai Ryōi

Link goes to AO3

THE FLOATING WORLD

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MFU Fic: An Old Disorder

2018-01-16T18:05:58Z

For the record: Written for jkkitty in the 2017 MFU Down the Chimney Holiday story exchange. Another entry in my on-going mission to cobble unrelated scenes together with a few segues that will turn them into a coherent whole :D It works, up to a point, and if I hadn't used the title "Snapshots" for another story, I sure could have used it here!

Title: An Old Disorder
Author: elmey
Genre: Slash
Characters/Pairing: Napoleon Solo/Illya Kuryakin, Original Characters

Word count: 2675
Warnings: vignettish

Summary: Sometimes there's nothing but the sound of silence.
Link goes to AO3

AN OLD DISORDER

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MFU Fic: Everybody Knows

2017-10-14T17:19:02Z

I forgot to post this for some reason. For the record. My 2016 Down the Chimney story, Everybody Knows, written for Tallihensia.

Author: elmey
Characters: Napoleon Solo, Illya Kuryakin, others
Relationship: NS/IK
Word Count: 2324

Summary: Everybody knows oil and water don't mix.

Link goes to AO3

EVERYBODY KNOWS

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MFU Fic: Like Ice Like Fire

2016-01-07T17:13:28Z

For the record: Like Ice Like Fire was written for the MFU 2015 Down the Chimney Holiday Story exchange, the recipient was mrua7.

The link goes to AO3

Like Ice Like Fire

Author: elmey
Characters: Napoleon Solo, Illya Kuryakin, Angelique
Word Count: 4417

Summary: One step, one twist of fate, one wavelength instead of another and the world changes. One moment when you hold the future in your hands.

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MFU Fic: The Thrush Full of Song Affair (aka Santa Goes to War)

2015-12-12T02:27:32Z

This was written for edna_blackadder for the 2014 Down the Chimney story exchange.

Title: The Thrush Full of Song Affair (aka Santa Goes to War)
Fandom: Man from UNCLE
Rating: PG 13
Pairing: Napoleon Solo/Illya Kuryakin
Length: 6525 words

Summary: This was written for the prompt: The Christmas Special MFU never had. So it's all about Peace on Earth, Good Will to All(?)... and Thrush.

Link goes to AO3

THE THRUSH FULL OF SONG AFFAIR
aka Santa goes to War

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MFU Fic: Breaking Glass

2014-10-28T15:26:13Z

For the record: this was written for the Man from UNCLE 50th Anniversary Mini Bang. It can stand alone, though yes, I know, I know, there will be a sequel.

Title: Breaking Glass
Author: elmey
Artist: open_channel_d
Genre: Slash
Characters/Pairing: Napoleon Solo/Illya Kuryakin, Alexander Waverly, Original Characters

Word count: 7783
Warnings: Angst!!

Summary:
He could shut the window again and close it all off, hide it behind smooth solid glass. But there was always a weak spot; a small push right here--how easy it would be to shatter the pane, to watch the web of cracks spread until finally it all caved in on itself. Even easier to put a bullet through it and watch the glass explode, shards slicing the air, then skin, flesh and bone, leaving a trail of bright blood in their wake.

The story follows the events of "The Master's Touch Affair"

Notes: Extended notes are on the story itself. But I particularly want to thank open_channel_d both for her fantastic illustrations, and for her help with all things Russian.

To admire her illustrations full size, and leave her kudos, please go here.

The link goes to AO3.

BREAKING GLASS

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MFU Fic: Rewind

2014-04-24T14:14:17Z

This was written for saki101, in the 2014 MFUWSS Easter Egg Exchange. It's the follow up to a story called Fairy Tales that I wrote for saki a couple of years ago.

Title: Rewind
Fandom: Man from UNCLE
Rating: Mature
Pairing: Napoleon Solo/Illya Kuryakin
Length: 1286 words
Summary: Sometimes you have to rewind the film to see what you missed the first time.
Link goes to AO3

Rewind

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MFU Fic: Variations on a Russian Theme

2014-03-03T00:14:00Z

For the record:

This story was written as a Valentine's present for open_channel_d (so if you're allergic to romance, scroll on by :D). It was supposed to be from a secret admirer, but she's obviously a better spy than I am, because she guessed who it was from before she'd finished reading it :) She then made this lovely banner to go with it, and so I'm putting the whole thing up on AO3. A big thanks also to injj who found some great sources on Moscow in the winter for me.

Title: Variations on a Russian Theme (link to AO3)
Author: elmey
Pairing: Napoleon Solo/Illya Kuryakin
Rating: PG-13

Summary: It's winter in Moscow, the evening is free...

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MFU Fic: Border Crossing

2014-02-05T16:39:36Z

Title: Border Crossing
Author: Elmey
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Illya Kuryakin, Napoleon Solo, various Original Characters

Summary: London and Berlin had been easy, criss-crossed with threads that tied him to home; he understood them in a way he didn't understand New York.

A while ago, Annie ( akane42me ) gave me the prompt "resolution" for a story I owed her as the result of an ill-considered bet (careful--she knows her football!!). The story is done, and if you squint, you can still see the vague shadow of the prompt in the middle section :) Link goes to AO3

BORDER CROSSING

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MFU Fic: Spies

2014-01-02T22:22:08Z

For the record: Spies was written for kleenexwoman for the 2013 Down the Chimney Exchange on LJ's muncle.

Title: Spies
Author: elmey
Rating: PG-13
Length: 8037 words
Link goes to AO3

Summary:
"Might you be interested in going birdwatching with me tonight, Mr. Solo?"

The life of spies is to know, not to be known.
-- George Herbert

SPIES

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perfect day/rip lou reed

2013-10-29T13:14:28Z

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17 Moments of Spring Fic: Herr Bolzen

2013-06-13T01:11:06Z

I have committed 17 Moments of Spring Fic. 17 Moments is an iconic Russian TV series from 1973, almost unknown to English language Fandom. You can read about it here, and watch it on youtube with English subtitles. An absolutely fantastic program.

Thank you to azdak and to akane42me for their suggestions and encouragement. Cause it's the first time I've written in a different fandom ;) Link goes to ao3. We actually have a tag!

Herr Bolzen

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MFU Fic: Snapshots

2013-04-04T21:04:20Z

For the record: written for elijahwildchild for the 2013 mfuwss Easter Egg prompt fest.

Title: Snapshots
Author: Elmey
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 1194
Link goes to AO3

SNAPSHOTS

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MFU Fic: The Animated Affair

2013-04-03T21:51:09Z

For the record: This was ~~written~~ created for kleenexwoman for the mfuwss 2013 Easter Egg prompt fest.
Genre: n/a, Ratings: n/a, Warnings: Heh.

THE ANIMATED AFFAIR

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MFU Fic: Shadowland

2013-01-03T15:05:00Z

For the record: This year's Down the Chimney Fic, written for saki101. The link goes to AO3

Title: Shadowland
Genre: Slash, NS/IK Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 6590

Summary: "You have too many mirrors, Napoleon," he said. "Sometimes I can't tell if it's you I see."

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MFU crack van rec #34

2012-10-22T22:11:04Z

My crack_van rec number six went up last night, and the winner is... uh, I mean the story is Doors by akane42me

( ...and it's another Must Read )

Doors

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MFU crack van rec #33

2012-10-19T02:09:09Z

The fifth crack_van rec went up yesterday, it's Hints and Allegations by jessebee

( Hint of Darkness )

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Richard Burton discusses poetry

2012-10-17T05:18:58Z

I found this in the Paris Review tumblr today, and it's so oddly charming that I'm putting it here. From Richard Burton's diaries:

Friday, October 20, Capo Caccia

“On Sunday morning I read poetry at the Union with Wystan Auden. He read a great deal of his own poetry including his poems to Coghill and MacNeice. Both very fine conversation pieces I thought but read in that peculiar sing-song tonelessness colourless way that most poets have. I remember Yeats and Eliot and MacLeish, who read their most evocative poems with such monotony as to stun the brain. Only Dylan could read his own stuff. Auden has a remarkable face and an equally remarkable intelligence but I fancy, though his poetry like all true poetry is all embracingly and astringently universal, his private conceit is monumental. The standing ovation I got with the ‘Boast of Dai’ of D. Jones In Parenthesis left a look on his seamed face, riven with a ghastly smile, that was compact of surprise, malice and envy. Afterwards he said to me ‘How can you, where did you, how did you learn to speak with a Cockney accent?’ In the whole piece of some 300 lines only about 5 are in Cockney. He is not a nice man but then only one poet have I ever met was—Archie Macleish. Dylan was uncomfortable unless he was semi-drunk and ‘on.’ MacNeice was no longer a poet when I got to know him and was permanently drunk. Eliot was clerically cut with a vengeance. The only nice poets I’ve ever met were bad poets and a bad poet is not a poet at all—ergo I’ve never met a nice poet. That may include Macleish. For instance R. S. Thomas is a true minor poet but I’d rather share my journey to the other life with somebody more congenial. I think the last tight smile that he allowed to grimace his features was at the age of six when he realized with delight that death was inevitable. He has consigned his wife to hell for a long time. She will recognize it when she goes there.”

—In Which Richard Burton Discusses Poetry
From The Richard Burton Diaries, edited by Chris Williams, Yale University Press, 2012. Copyright © 2012 Swansea University.

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MFU crack van rec #32

2012-10-15T14:10:13Z

The fourth crack_van rec went up yesterday, it's nothingeverlost's
(wiccagirl24 ) Kinship

( Family matters )

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MFU crack van rec #31

2012-10-11T03:42:27Z

The third crack_van rec went up last night, it's epicyles' Orienteering for Dummies.

( Categorization )

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MFU crack van rec #30

2012-10-06T03:39:09Z

My second crack_van, rec this go around went up tonight, it's
kleenexwoman's The Pomegranate Affair.

It's another of the wonderful, unusual stories that she manages to produce in this fandom.

( Strange Worlds )

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boring postcards

2012-09-08T22:42:14Z

Why did no one tell me about these books by photographer Martin Parr before? He's been collecting postcards for thirty years, and this is the result:

Boring Postcards (UK)
Boring Postcards USA
Langweilige Postkarten (Germany)

Lots of pictures at the links, a few selected items under the cut. I'm going to have to go searching for these books now. I can see why the cards attracted Parr, there's an odd fascination to them, you wonder why these pictures were chosen, unironically by someone, for postcards. Today we'd choose to take these shots ironically and call them post-modern. I really love photography books, the effect is much more cohesive than seeing a slide show on the internet.

Autobahn Raststätte Büttelborn

( Modern Times )

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obscure 60s tracks

2012-08-06T03:07:27Z

Gene Clark solo version of "Here Without You". Well he wrote it in the 60s for the Byrds, no idea when this track was recorded. Just putting it here so I can find it again. Why has no one put up Gene's "She was an Elevator Operator" on youtube? She was an elevator operator, she had her ups and downs... :D

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bad moods

2012-05-01T01:18:33Z

Am I in a bad mood or what? Some little kid (I assume but god knows) posted on AO3 today, one of those "stories" that has 30 fandom tags, one of them MFU so it showed up on the MFU feed, and about 50 pairing tags including NS/IK. The story itself is 1200 words long (!). I mean I had to look, it's 500 words just to list all the names. It turns out she plans to do one paragraph for each pairing, when I looked she'd only done five of them.

So I wrote a comment pointing out that I felt I was being snookered into clicking on the story by false advertising, since she hasn't actually written about my fandom, and why doesn't she wait to add the fandom tag after she's actually written something. (She's got over 3,000 hits for her five paragraphs so it's pretty clear why she's doing it the way she is).

She did add a summary now (there wasn't one before) saying that not every pairing is done but you can click to see what's already available. Yeah sure, I'll do that any day now.

I must be in a bad mood, because really, what do I care. I think I was just looking for a fight but jeez it didn't come to anything. I'm losing my touch ;)

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MFU Fic: Fairy Tales

2012-04-10T22:12:49Z

Written for saki101 and originally posted at mfuwss for the annual Easter Egg story exchange. Link goes to AO3

Title: Fairy Tales
Author: elmey
Pairing: NS/IK
Rating: PG 13
Length: ~1100 words

Fairy Tales

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