Today's PicFic Prompt

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There's still time to whip up a MFU story using last week's prompt:



No time or ideas right now, that's okay; just post your story later.
Better late than never!

Not familiar with the PicFic challenge? You can find the rules HERE.

For those of you who might have missed this:

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It’s that time of year again when Section VII features

The Seven Days of Halloween!

This year we’ll post a PicFic photo prompt for each of the seven days
as inspiration for you to write.

It can be a poem, a drabble, dialogue, a short paragraph,
a short story, or a long one.
Unable to write? The repost one of your old
Hallowee Fics!

However the inspiration takes you
as long as it’s Halloweenish and involves the

Men from U.N.C.L.E.

Just remember it must be gen or gen-mature for this writing site.

Our yearly Halloween event runs

October 22nd

through

October 28th

               

So get ready to get your SCARE on!

PicFic Tuesday Prompt for October 17th

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Every Tuesday a photo prompt will be posted and you have until the following Tuesday to post your gen Man from UNCLE story. For those of you new to the challenge the rules are as follows:

Your story is Due: Tuesday October 17th. Please post on this date, but it you’re late, that's okay. Better late than never!

Statistical stuff: Minimum 500 words, no maximum

Subject Matter: Write a MFU story based on the photo prompt.

Posting here should fit into the GENeral concepts of the section7mfu community, contain nothing explicit
and reflects the 1960's series in style and content, featuring our brave men from U.N.C.L.E.

However, that being said, there is a GEN-mature tag option for stories that contain violence, torture,
angst or very mild het. So if your story falls under one of these categories, please use the appropriate tag(s).

Your fic. can be specifically about the prompt, featured or just mentioned in your story. It's meant to inspire!

Where to post:

Gen stories, gen-mature post in section7mfu,

Het, long term romance & AU post on our other site mfu_map_room.

All other genres post in uncle_du_jour

Subject Header: Please include in the Subject Header your title, the phrase:'For Picfic Tuesday' and the due date.

When to post:

PicFic stories post on the following Tuesday after the prompt is given. So you have a week to write your fanfic. Try to keep your story postings on Tuesday so readers will know when to look for them.

You can also post a story for any previous PicFic prompt that you might have missed. Just use the tag 'picfic' to locate any older prompts. Please note the date of the original prompt if you're posting a story for an older 'PicFic.'

( FYI: previously prompts were posted on Monday, they'll now post on Tuesday of each week)

Please include the photo prompt with your story! It's easier for the reader to relate to the story when then can see the image.

Due to LJ's new user agreement issues, we recommend that you post your stories on another host site such as AO3 or Fanfiction.net or our mirror community, Section VII on Dreamwidth and post links to them here instead of text. Still it's up to you.


Here's your prompt for next week:

"Sentimentality" for the PicFic Tuesday Challenge

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Summary: Napoleon and Illya are testing the newest issue weapons.

Click on the Pic to take you to the story:

Leave us alone

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Leave us alone
Berlin 1957. Illya takes a risky responsibility
Early days 4



Winter in Berlin seemed to consist of permanently grey skies, intense cold, and occasional snow. It was once an austerely beautiful city, and might be again, once the ruins of war were finally obliterated. But, just now, and particularly for a Russian acting as an agent of the Western powers, it was pretty wretched.

The work was interesting, but often taxing and stressful. As Harry Beldon’s junior in Section 1, Illya was given the task of dealing with the more delicate diplomacy that his ebullient chief delegated to him, for which the most sensitive translation and interpretation was required. He knew he was good, but every language contains concealed tripping points to catch out even the most fluent interpreter, and in this place a careless remark could bring a return to war.

Beldon invariably addressed him by his name and patronymic rather than his surname. “Ilya Nikolaevitch, go and see so-and-so in the British Sector… the French sector…the American sector.” And sometimes, even, “Ilya Nikolaevitch, I need you to talk to Igor Ilych in the Russian sector.”( Read more... )