The Turtle Jourtle

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 (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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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 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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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 (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 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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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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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 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!

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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