Lifetime Fic Bingo: 1995

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It's 1995. TLC is on the radio. (Among the songs I've featured in these posts, their "Waterfalls" is the first one that I remember being aware of at the time of its release.) Here in the USA, the year's top film is Toy Story. New terms coined include: anti-globalization, cap-and-trade, eurozone, genderqueer, jack in, lawyer up, meatspace, mom jeans, noob, and subprime.

I'm still helping my mother move and it is still exhausting. I've found energy for reading fic here and there, so that I've now finished my five fics for 1995. I have very little energy for writing them up, though. I'm just going to start and see how it goes.

For this year, I read one Man from U.N.C.L.E. fic and four Professionals fics. I hoped to read another Man from U.N.C.L.E. fic to make up for having none in the past two posts. I just couldn't get into the other one I had queued, though, and I ended up abandoning it. I also abandoned The Cat Came Back by Taz, a crossover between The Professionals and a 1993 movie called Hard Target. The fic seemed promising, but it spent a lot of time on characters from the movie, and I decided that, without seeing that, I didn't have the background to really appreciate the story.

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Lifetime Fic Bingo: Highlights 1986-1995

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During the first 10 rounds of my Lifetime Fic Bingo game, 1986 to 1995, I read 54 fics. Of those, the six that I would most recommend today are:

The Seventeen Days in October Affair by Terry L Neill and J. M. D’Agostino-Toney (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; 14,854 words; gen)
The Devil's Attic Affair by C. W. Walker (st_crispins) (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; 28,968 words; gen)
Nothing Left to Lose by Jane (of Australia) and Madelaine Ingram (The Professionals; 33,529 words; slash)
The Blue Figurine by Courtney Grey (The Professionals; 29,960 words; slash)
Brighton Memoirs by gardenerhill (Sherlock Holmes; 5,530 words; slash)
One Small Step by Lori Beatty (The A-Team; 5,713 words; gen)

(Above: Scorpions performs music for the decade 1986-1995.)

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