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Fandoms in this post: The Professionals, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Starsky and Hutch

Hello, and welcome to the first post of my Old and New Project. As I explained previously, for this project I will be reading each fic in my Beloved Collection of favorites, followed by at least one new (to me) fic by the same author.

To start this step of the project, I read the two fics by Rebelcat ([profile] myrebelcat) that I had collected in the past. (I'm not sure if I'm always going to read all the fics I have by a particular author at the same time, but I did in this case.)

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Ring the bells and toot the horns, it's finally time for the last round of Lifetime Fic Bingo! Between some very bad mental health, some medical distractions, and becoming caught up in the fic I am writing, this round was a bit discombobulated. Unfortunately, that means that we are going out with more of a whimper than a bang, because my memories of some of the fics I read are now rather vague. Still, finishing this nearly two-year project is very exciting.



It's 2024. Shaboozey is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Inside Out 2. The American Dialect Society's Word of the Year is rawdog.

For this bonus round, I read five fics: one Professionals, two Man from U.N.C.L.E., one Sentinel, and one Harry Potter.

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It's 2023. Taylor Swift is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Barbie. The American Dialect Society's Word of the Year (coined in 2022) is enshittification.

For 2023, I read five fics: two Professionals, one Sentinel, and two Man from U.N.C.L.E..

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It's 2022. Harry Styles is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Top Gun: Maverick. New terms coined include: mpox and quiet quit.

For 2022, I read five fics: two Man from U.N.C.L.E., one Professionals, and two Sherlock Holmes. In a first for this game, I particularly recommend all five of them.

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It's 2021. Olivia Rodrigo is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Spiderman: No Way Home. New terms coined include: rizz.

For 2021, I read five works: one Man from U.N.C.L.E. fic, one Professionals fic, two published Sherlock Holmes pastiches, and one A-Team x Inception crossover.

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It's the plague year 2020. The Weekend is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Bad Boys for Life. (Does anyone else have no memory of such a movie?) New terms coined include: COVID-19, doomscroll, long COVID, physically distance, unidentified anomalous phenomenon, and wandering dude.

For 2020, I read five fics: two Sherlock Holmes, one Raffles, one Professionals, and one Man from U.N.C.L.E.. For some reason, all of the fics I picked out for this year were fairly short, even though I generally try to read at least a couple of long ones each round. That's okay, though. I have mostly long fics queued for 2021.

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I've been done with this year for a while, but I wasn't able to do the write-up because my laptop was out of commission. Happily, it's back now.



It's 2019. Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus are on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Avengers: Endgame. New terms coined include: large language model and review bombing.

For 2019 I read five fics: one Man from U.N.C.L.E., two Sherlock Holmes, and two Professionals.

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It's 2018. Drake is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Black Panther. New terms coined include: deepfake.

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It's (already) 2017. Luis Fonsi is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Star Wars: The Last Jedi. New terms coined include: Latine and Zoomer.

For 2017, I read five fics: one Sentinel, one Starsky and Hutch, one Man from U.N.C.L.E., and two Sherlock Holmes. Apologies to the Professionals fans among my readers. Uniquely, I think, there are no Pros fics in this batch.
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It's 2016. The Chainsmokers are on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Rogue One. New terms coined include: cancel culture, girlboss, MAGA, and touch grass.

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It's 2015, and same-sex marriage has become legal throughout the United States. Adele is on the radio again. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Star Wars: The Force Awakens. New terms coined include: aquafaba, edgelord, ghost kitchen, red flag law, and sponcon.

For this year, I read seven works: three crossovers between The Professionals and the film Lust, Caution; one plain Professionals fic; one Man from U.N.C.L.E. movie fic; and two Sherlock Holmes fics.

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I had a root canal today. Woo!



It's 2014. Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars are on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is American Sniper. New terms coined include: aro, Black Lives Matter, hard pass, land acknowledgement, manspreading, on fleek, and Zoom.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. had its 50th anniversary in 2014, and celebrations included the MFU Mini Bang, from which I drew several of the fics I read for the year. I read five fics in all: four Man from U.N.C.L.E. and one Professionals.

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It's 2012, and people are talking a variety of nonsense about the Mayan calendar. Psy is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is The Avengers. New terms coined include: escape room, generative AI, hot take, JOMO, and reaction GIF.

For 2012, I read five works: three Professionals fics, one Battlestar Galactica x A-Team crossover, and one Man from U.N.C.L.E. x Doctor Who crossover.
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It's 2011. Adele is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2, the final film of that franchise. New terms coined include: ASMR, blockchain, gender-affirming surgery, nanoplastic, and wokeness. (More recent years have shorter lists of coinages because most of the terms invented recently have not yet made it into the dictionary.)

For the year 2011, I read five fics: three Professionals, one Man from U.N.C.L.E., and one Sherlock Holmes. I also read significant portions of two other, long fics that I ultimately decided not to finish.

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Again, it's been a while since I posted. I'm definitely not going to finish this game by the end of the year. (Oh well.) I do hope to pick up the pace a bit, though. Reading fanfic is a healthy activity for me, and I haven't been doing enough of it lately.

And again, I'm not feeling at all excited about writing up the fics I read for this year. I've been putting it off for several days, hoping I'd get in the mood, but that hasn't happened. Hence I've decided just to do very abbreviated reviews. Sorry if they are less interesting.



It's 2010. Katy Perry is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Toy Story 3. New terms coined include: 5G, Arab Spring, bump stock, deadname, and misogynoir.

For 2010 I read five works: one Professionals fic, one Professionals x 28 Days Later crossover, one Professionals x FlashForward crossover, one Sherlock Holmes x Neverwhere crossover, and one Man from U.N.C.L.E. fic.

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I'm not feeling much enthusiasm for writing up fics today. It's been at least a month since I read the first one for this round, though, and I neglected to take any notes this time. I feel I should get something down while I still remember my reactions. The results may be sketchier than usual.



It's 2009, not a good year for me. Lady Gaga is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Avatar. New terms coined include: alt-right, body-shame, cryptocurrency, dox, gig economy, jegging, and makerspace.

For the year 2009, I read five fics: one Man from U.N.C.L.E. fic, one Harry Potter x Sherlock Holmes crossover, and three Professionals fics.

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I'm feeling quite a bit better today, but I think I will still benefit from making another rec post. Besides, yesterday's post didn't cover some of my favorite parts of my Beloved Collection.

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Enjoy!
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My mental health has been bad this week...which means it's time for another rec post. Playing with my Beloved Collection of favorite fics always makes me feel better.

These recs will have no particular structure or theme. I'm just going to root around and see what strikes a chord in me this evening. I'm not going to try to avoid overlap with past posts, either, because at this point I can't remember which fics I've already brought up. I'm turning over a new leaf.

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Today I have two years' worth of write-ups to share. I've been reading quite a bit lately, but between one thing and another, I haven't been able to post. Fortunately, I recently had the bright idea to write notes about each fic as I finish it, rather than trying to write them all up from memory later. (Don't ask me why I didn't think of this until now, because I don't know.)



It's 2007. Rihanna is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Spider-Man 3. New terms coined include: Bechdel test, colony collapse disorder, coworking, crowdfunding, hashtag, Latinx, listicle, mic drop, tweetstorm, and yeet.

For 2007, I read five fics: three Professionals, one Sherlock Holmes, and one Man from U.N.C.L.E..

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Now it's 2008. Coldplay is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is The Dark Knight. New terms coined include: adorbs, Bitcoin, fatberg, ghost pepper, infinity scarf, mansplain, Me Too, photobomb, and unfollow.

I read five fics for 2008: two Professionals, two Sherlock Holmes, and one based on the movie But I'm a Cheerleader.

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During the second 10 rounds of my Lifetime Fic Bingo game, 1996 to 2005, I read 56 fics. Of those, the five that I would most recommend today are:

The Assassin's Daughter by Lacey McBain ([personal profile] laceymcbain) (The Professionals; slash; 16,769 words)
Remember Me by Gil Hale (The Professionals; gen; 25,630 words)
To Live in Interesting Times by Taliesin (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; slash; 19,657 words)
The Uncertainty Principle by C. W. Walker ([personal profile] st_crispins) (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; gen; 20,145 words)
Verity by [personal profile] kerravonsen (The Sentinel x The Matrix; gen; 35,486 words)

(Above: Green Day performs music for the decade 1996-2005.)

All recommended fics:

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