kateoftheangels

Dear Yuletide Creator,

I'm Kate_Wisdom on AO3. Thank you for offering to create for me! I promise that I'm easy to please, and am certain I will be delighted with whatever you devise.

Here's some further information if you think it might be helpful, and possible directions you may want to take your story in, should you find yourself in need of inspiration. If this additional detail is not for you, please feel free to skip it in its entirety.

My AO3: Kate_Wisdom

General likes: Banter, Best Enemies, Bodyswaps, Comrades-in-arms, Canon-era Crossovers, Enemies to Lovers, Emotional Constipation, Emotional Intensity, Ethical Dilemmas, Explicit Content, Forced Intimacy, Historical AUs, Hurt/Comfort, Iron Woobieness, Moral Shades of Grey, Plot, Punishment, Restrained Language, Spanking and Corporal Punishment, Sex Pollen, Situationally-Appropriate Crying, Third Parties Made Them Do It, World-Building

( Public Eye (TV), Enemy at the Door (TV), Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV) RPF, Colditz (TV) )

Thank you again for creating for me, and I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with this Yuletide!

Dear Yuletide Creator,

Thank you for offering to create for me! I promise that I'm easy to please, and am certain I will be delighted with whatever you devise.

Here's some further information if you think it might be helpful, and possible directions you may want to take your story in, should you find yourself in need of inspiration. If this additional detail is not for you, please feel free to skip it in its entirety.

My AO3: Kate_Wisdom

General likes: Banter, Best Enemies, Bodyswaps, Comrades-in-arms, Canon-era Crossovers, Enemies to Lovers, Emotional Constipation, Emotional Intensity, Ethical Dilemmas, Explicit Content, Forced Intimacy, Historical AUs, Hurt/Comfort, Iron Woobieness, Moral Shades of Grey, Plot, Punishment, Restrained Language, Spanking and Corporal Punishment, Sex Pollen, Situationally-Appropriate Crying, Third Parties Made Them Do It, World-Building

( Public Eye (TV), Enemy at the Door (TV), Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV) RPF )

Thank you again for creating for me, and I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with this Yuletide!

After pitching head-first into Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV) fandom, and inhaling a half-century of fic across a variety of websites, it surprised me to learn that there was a dearth of fic featuring more recent fandom tropes!

While MFU (TV) fandom practically wrote the primer on hurt/comfort fic (and a superb body of work it is, too), I didn't come across many soulmate stories, or woke-up-married fic, or that current fandom staple, omegaverse. Also absent was my favourite, the bodyswap trope, which - - in this fandom of mission hijinks and problem-solving and a troubleshooting spy duo who are ostensibly as different as chalk and cheese - - you would really have thought the fic would be primed to delve deeply into...

…Anyway, nature abhors a vacuum, and the heart wants what it wants. And, as such, behold my latest chaptered fic! Involving bodyswapping, and also discussions on the nature of the soul, Napoleon's body wearing a turtleneck, Illya's body wearing exploding underwear, dogs, seduction, boys in peril, and more pining than you could shake a stick at. (COMPLETE.)

The Turnabout Affair (…because The Bodyswap Affair would be too on-the-nose ;-) )
Napoleon/Illya, [Mature]. No archive warnings apply.
On a mission, Napoleon and Illya accidentally trigger a mind transference device, and discover something they should have known all along.
Beta by timemidae and vysila.

I will say, MFU (TV) fandom does a good line in injuryfic! Here is my own there-was-only-one-bed injuryfic - - if you were into something smuttier, and also complete. Written for smut4smut.

The Dangerous Pleasures Affair
Napoleon/Illya, [Explicit]. Depictions of aftermath of violence.
Illya has rescued Napoleon from the usual dangers of THRUSH captivity. But there’s nothing more dangerous than having to take care of his partner in the way Napoleon wants him to.
Beta by sparky955.

Come join me in the MFU (TV) handbasket, and enjoy 60 delicious years' worth of fannish output! Or, you know, create your own ;-)

ETA: Turnabout is now complete! With an explicit scene that you may skip and not lose plot or outcome, if that was your preference.

As it happens, I am in fact still around! But just when I was telling folks that 2022 could absolutely not be as bad as 2021 had been (and I'm aware I said the same about 2020), February proved us wrong.

That said, the fickle fandom gods being what they are, it has been the perfect time to fall in love once again with old school telly's Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV), and that pair of irresistible, snarky spy partners on opposite sides of the Cold War divide: suave, decadent American Napoleon Solo, and cool, sarcastic, prickly Soviet Illya Kuryakin, who did hail, in canon, from Kyiv, Ukraine.



(Yes, yes, you aren't surprised at all by this turn of events; you'd be a monkey's, you know.) That said, I have always loved them, and, revisiting this fandom, which envisioned a brighter world of international co-operation, to say nothing of friendship, and intimacy across geographical and ideological divides, is proving a present source of comfort in the midst of the current goings-on.

Some resources:
- An episode guide, an original script archive, and seriously hilarious slashy episode recaps courtesy of Ms. Morgan Richter
- Cinema Retro's UNCLE HQ, with classic anecdotes about show and actors, and delightful, obscure memorabilia, and the ultimate archival fansite (both TV and film)
- A comprehensive chronology, and a postulated link to Philip Jose Farmer's Wold Newton universe; other chronos here and here
- A fantastic repository of post-show canon short stories and novels (and a repository of the actual canon)
- A discussion of the official tie-in novels, from whence some of the fandom’s fanon mainstays derived
- Old school fic archives Chrome & Gunmetal, and Observations (by Linda Cornett); this is Elizabeth Bear’s smart, gorgeous story.
- Adorable, funny fanvids: Catherine Mamontova, For_Love_and_Mercy, Mary van Deusen, PRZed, and the amazing Vysila.
- A joint Return interview, and McCallum hilariously hosting the 60s version of Top of the Pops, as Illya!

And in the spirit of international co-operation and friendship, the fandom is running a fundraiser for Ukraine. I have managed to snag a couple of fic offers, which I am very excited about. Bids on offers are still open, if you were keen! (It's for an excellent cause!)

Edited to add: I've just received one of the MFU stories which I bid on for Ukraine -

Normalization [Twenty Years Later] by timemidae
Twenty years after The Final Affair, Napoleon and Illya meet for coffee.

A sequel to Timemidae's amazing, heartbreaking The Super-Final Affair, written in the same universe as David McDaniel's semicanon novel The Final Affair. The original broke my heart; with this follow-up, twenty years later, she has put my heart back together again. I'm a very grateful recipient! Everyone should read this <3

Dear Yuletide Creator,

Thank you for offering to create for me! I promise that I'm easy to please, and am certain I will be delighted with whatever you devise.

Here's some further information if you think it might be helpful, and possible directions you may want to take your story in, should you find yourself in need of inspiration. If this additional detail is not for you, please feel free to skip it in its entirety.

My AO3: Kate_Wisdom

General likes: Banter, Best Enemies, Bodyswaps, Comrades-in-arms, Canon-era Crossovers, Enemies to Lovers, Emotional Constipation, Emotional Intensity, Ethical Dilemmas, Explicit Content, Forced Intimacy, Historical AUs, Hurt/Comfort, Iron Woobieness, Moral Shades of Grey, Plot, Punishment, Restrained Language, Spanking and Corporal Punishment, Sex Pollen, Situationally-Appropriate Crying, Third Parties Made Them Do It, World-Building

( Colditz (1972), Enemy at the Door (TV), Public Eye (TV), Political RPF - UK 20th-21st c. )

Thank you again for creating for me, and I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with this Yuletide!

Dear Creator,

Thank you for offering to create for me. Your taste is excellent, and you would also be doing these small and lovely fandoms a great service by creating for them. I promise that I'm easy to please, and am certain I will be delighted with whatever you devise!

Here's some further information if you think it might be helpful, and possible directions you may want to take your story in, should you find yourself in need of inspiration. If this additional detail is not for you, please feel free to skip it in its entirety.

I should also clarify I am agnostic to (and would welcome your own take on) in-heat and A/B/O dynamics and world-building, am neither for nor against pregnancy/mpreg as a result of the heatsex in question, and am perfectly content with your choice of who tops/takes charge, and if so how.

( Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Colditz (1972), Enemy at the Door (TV), The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (TV), Yes Minister )

Thank you again for creating for me; I hope you will enjoy the exchange!

The yuletide season is almost upon us, and I have been considering my requests. Most of my fandoms are very small, and none more so than Enemy at the Door (LWT, 1978-1980), starring old British stars of the small screen, Alfred Burke and Simon Cadell.



( Tales of expected quality and unexpected quantity, of the not-entirely-safe-for-work variety )

Here's a lovely photo of Alfie Burke and Bernard Horsfall beaming at each other, rather than the camera like the rest of the stars in the shoot, in LWT's Winter Lineup Photocall 1977-1978 (with Emily Richard, for ITV's Enemy at the Door [1978]).



Creator: ITV/Shutterstock
Credit: ITV/Shutterstock
Copyright: Copyright (c) 1977 Shutterstock. No use without permission.

Information extracted from IPTC Photo Metadata - - reproduced here for strictly personal, non-commercial, fannish use.

Today's tidbit is brought to you from the depths of my admiration for Jack Hedley, Colditz (1972)'s dashing Colonel Preston.

This is an excellent resource on both the show and the actors, including photographs of its filming locations: Colditz on Wordpress.

And the resource links a rather darling article, from some women's magazine column Kathie in the Kitchen, featuring Jack and his wife and a recipe for veal in soured cream: Cooking with the S.B.O. Next week, how to make delicious strawberry cheesecake!