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It's 1983. Michael Jackson is on the radio again. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Return of the Jedi. New terms coined include: 12-step, AIDS virus, beta test, breakdance, cell phone, cyberpunk, designer drug, empowered, gender nonconforming, green screen, information superhighway, liposuction, mosh, and nuclear winter.

For 1983, I read two Professionals fics. I had a couple more selected, but one of them turned out just not to be my thing, and the other persistently annoyed me until I gave up on it.

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It's 1984. Michael Jackson is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Beverly Hills Cop. New terms coined include: bi-curious, death metal, desktop publishing, genetically modified organism, glass ceiling, moonwalk, plug and play, power walk, spin doctor, and wack.

For 1984, I read two Professionals fics and one Professionals x Starsky and Hutch crossover.

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I enjoyed the first step of my Old and New Project, but I couldn't resist another year-by-year game. So here is the first post of Lookback Fic Bingo. I may end up alternating the two.



It's 1985. Katrina and the Waves are on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Back to the Future. New terms coined include: attachment parenting, AZT, beatboxing, biodiversity, intifada, IP address, latte, mixtape, n-word, and trendoid.

For 1985, I read three Professionals fics.

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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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During the final 9 rounds of my Lifetime Fic Bingo game, 2016 to 2024, I read 46 fics. Of those, the five that I would most recommend today are:

The Craven Hive by OldShrewsburyian (Sherlock Holmes; 35,627 words; gen)
The Moon and Planets by LaurytheLatrator (Sherlock Holmes; 33,924 words; femslash)
True by JoJo (The Professionals; 13,366 words; slash)
Out of Reach by [personal profile] cornishcat (The Professionals; 23,187 words; slash)
High Water by [personal profile] unbelievable2 (The Sentinel; 9,633 words; slash)

(Above: Lil Baby performs music for the partial decade 2016-2024.)

All recommended fics:

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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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Despite having only one round left, I haven't been making very rapid progress on Lifetime Fic Bingo over the past couple of weeks. My mental health has been bad, and my concentration has suffered. What I have been doing, to my surprise, is coming up with an idea for a long Professionals fic and making it concrete to the tune of six pages of notes and a 2,500 word outline. All this inspiration came too late for me to sign up on time for this year's Big Bang, but the kind BB mods have just welcomed me as a late entrant. So here we go. A rough draft by July 1st shouldn't be too much of a problem, right? Right?
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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 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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During the third 10 rounds of my Lifetime Fic Bingo game, 2006 to 2015, I read 52 fics. Of those, the five that I would most recommend today are:

Babylon Is Fallen by PR Zed ([personal profile] przed) (The Professionals x 28 Days Later; slash; 29,990 words)
A Mercenary's Tale by Fictionwriter (The Professionals; slash; 46,849 words)
Ice-Cold in Alexandra Palace by [personal profile] unbelievable2 (The Professionals; 27,135 words; gen)
Dust and Shadow by Lyndsay Faye (Sherlock Holmes; 336 pages; gen)
Cards on the Table by Mab ([personal profile] mab_browne) (The Sentinel; slash; 26,762 words)

Only one partial decade left!

(Above: Muse performs music for the decade 2006-2015.)

All recommended fics:

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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 been a long time since I posted. My bingo reading slowed down a lot in October. Part of that was a planned break to allow me to read the entries in the Professionals Big Bang, which were released over the course of the month. Part of it was turbulence in my mental and physical health. (What else is new?)



It's 2013. Miley Cyrus is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. New terms coined include: adulting, bingeable, and virtue signalling.

For this year, I read five works, almost all crossovers. I read one Professionals x Racing Game crossover, one Professionals x Inspector George Gently crossover, one Psmith x Chronicles of Narnia crossover, one Battlestar Galactica x A-Team crossover, and one plain (though AU) Sentinel fic. (There are no Man from U.N.C.L.E. fics in this batch. Expect several next time, however.)

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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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