Man from U.N.C.L.E. Section VII

DtCA 2025

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 23:13:22 GMT

Posted by: timemidae

Hi all,

Sign-ups for the Down the Chimney Affair (DtCA), the Man from UNCLE (tv) fandom's annual fanfic gift exchange are now open and will remain so until October 13!

Sign ups close Oct 13, stories due Dec 15 for anonymous publication on Dec 25, author IDs revealed on New Year's Day.

Hope you will join us!

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

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Reader’s and writer’s choice

Sat, 20 Apr 2024 16:33:49 GMT

Posted by: timemidae

Reader’s and writer’s choice:

Passover begins Monday evening, so I’m sharing some of my favorite (plus one of my) stories for the holiday

1. A piece of the afikomen, by Kleenexwoman https://archiveofourown.org/works/1707809/chapters/3636386

2. Seder House Rules by girlintheglen

https://archiveofourown.org/works/6627580

3. From All Other Nights by me

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23531470 (excerpt available in Yiddish translation https://archiveofourown.org/works/46461748)

A sweet and kosher Pesach to anyone else observing 🙂

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wednesday drabble

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 05:10:52 GMT

Posted by: pebbleinalake

"Did you have to pull the pin?" Napoleon asked, after the THRUSH operative had been dragged away.

Illya, still holding the armed grenade far too casually, merely shrugged. "We wanted it to be believable, or he would have called our bluff."

"In this case, I'd say there's such a thing as too realistic a charade. Those things are called 'safety' pins for a reason."

Illya reinserted the pin with a sigh. "Next time we need to stop a THRUSH agent from irradiating a city, I'll be sure to follow proper safety protocols."

Napoleon purposefully ignored the sarcasm. "That'd be appreciated."

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Reader's and Writer's Choice

Sun, 24 Sep 2023 03:01:33 GMT

Posted by: timemidae

I have both a reader's and a writer's choice this week, each related to the Jewish High Holy days, of which we are in the midst. 

Reader's Choice: So Brazen and Stiff Necked, by A_Pen

and a bonus drabble from me for writer's choice.

 

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Writer’s Choice

Sat, 02 Sep 2023 22:10:03 GMT

Posted by: timemidae

This ficlet was originally written to mark Labor Day here in the US.

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Drabble: Ashes

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 03:35:18 GMT

Posted by: pebbleinalake

(Just barely still Wednesday, but I technically made it on time! Double drabble today because this thing didn't want to stay at 100 words lol.)

Some days, it really was impossible to reconcile the consequences of their actions with the ideals that precipitated them.

As Napoleon surveyed the burnt wreckage that had once been a home, his heart ached for the displaced residents that would never be coming home -- and for the ones that never left.

It wasn't necessarily their fault that THRUSH's latest retaliation had taken out a few civilian buildings in addition to the U.N.C.L.E. outpost nearby. Just as it wasn't their fault that there hadn't been enough time after cracking the encoded message to prevent the attack. And it was beyond impressive that they'd manged to save as many people as they had before the buildings were completely engulfed.

So, all in all, things had certainly turned out better than could be expected, given the circumstances. No doubt, the higher ups at U.N.C.L.E. headquarters would be more than pleased with the lives they'd saved today. Maybe he should be, too. But "good enough" meant nothing with the ashes of their defeat still clinging to his shoes and swirling forlornly through the air.

As he turned away from the charred remains, Napoleon promised himself that next time they wouldn't settle for "good enough".

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Reader’s choice

Sat, 19 Aug 2023 11:39:42 GMT

Posted by: timemidae

Several MFU fics from the 1980 multi fandom zine Paladin #1 have recently been made accessible on AO3. They’re each interesting in their own way and I recommend them.

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A Little Drabble Do Ya

Wed, 09 Aug 2023 16:15:13 GMT

Posted by: glenmered

Once again it’s time for those Drabbles. One hundred words, or maybe a double drabble, that tells a story or opens the door to one. Gen-Centric as usual here on Section VII.

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Short Affair PROMPTS

Mon, 07 Aug 2023 16:07:30 GMT

Posted by: jantojones

(Cross-posted to Facebook and LiveJournal)

Thank you to everyone who took part in the last Short Affair challenge. We had some wonderful stories, and it's great to know there are tales still to be told.

Here are the prompts for the next two weeks. You can post your story any time between now and August 20th.

All the rules, plus the prompts themselves are down below, but the basic idea is simple. Write us a gen story, based on one or both of the prompt words, plus the colour, which is between 300 and 1000 words in length. (If you go over a little, no worries.)

Just remember, that wherever you post it (e.g. AO3), leave us link to follow.

Have fun everyone.

-Prompt Word 1 - Fence

-Prompt Word 2 – Hear

-Prompt Colour - Black

-Last Posting Day – 20 August 2023

Challenge Rules

-Your story can be built around one or both of the prompt words plus the colour. I.E.- Word 1/Colour, Word 2/Colour, or Word 1/Word 2/Colour.

-Word Count - must be between 300 and 1000.

-All stories should be headed with ‘Short Affair’ Challenge, the due date and your title.

-Please state at the top of your post which prompt combination you are using.

-Tags - please use short_affair, gen, gen-mature or het.

-Section VII is a Gen community, so stories should be appropriate, i.e. nothing explicit or overly-graphic. However, there is the Gen-Mature tag for anything containing violence, torture or mild Het.

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Short Affair - July 25

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 00:29:28 GMT

Posted by: timemidae

New Short Affair, somewhat silly this time, for the words: green, reflection, stomach.

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Mon, 24 Jul 2023 11:00:14 GMT

Posted by: jantojones

(Cross-posted to LiveJournal and Facebook)

Thank you to everyone who took part in the last Short Affair challenge. We had some wonderful stories, and it's great to know there are tales still to be told.

Here are the prompts for the next two weeks. You can post your story any time between now and August 6th.

Just remember, that wherever you post it (e.g. AO3), leave us link to follow.

Have fun everyone.

-Prompt Word 1 - Reflection

-Prompt Word 2 – Stomach

-Prompt Colour - Green

-Last Posting Day – 06 August 2023

Challenge Rules -Your story can be built around one or both of the prompt words plus the colour. I.E.- Word 1/Colour, Word 2/Colour, or Word 1/Word 2/Colour. -Word Count - must be between 300 and 1000. -All stories should be headed with ‘Short Affair’ Challenge, the due date and your title. -Please state at the top of your post which prompt combination you are using. -Tags - please use short_affair, gen, gen-mature or het. -Section VII is a Gen community, so stories should be appropriate, i.e. nothing explicit or overly-graphic. However, there is the Gen-Mature tag for anything containing violence, torture or mild Het.

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Reader’s Choice

Sat, 22 Jul 2023 15:48:13 GMT

Posted by: timemidae

Finally scraped by and passed my driver’s licensing test this week! (11 years late is better than never.) Celebrating with a duo of car/driving themed reccs:

Out of the Mouths of Babes - Hypatia_66 https://archiveofourown.org/works/27162796

Test Drive - St. Crispins (CW Walker)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/13119423

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Two Men - A Little Drabble Do ya! (a day late) - 13 July

Thu, 13 Jul 2023 08:20:31 GMT

Posted by: jantojones

Two men, one American and one Russian, each sprinted around a corner into a corridor and stopped. They faced one other, though stood a little way apart.

Two smiles of recognition appeared on their faces, which quickly faded as both men raised their weapons and aimed in the direction of the other.

Two fingers quickly squeezed the triggers and fired their bullets.

Two agents felt the projectiles fly past their heads and they each turned to see an enemy fall behind them.

Two friends smiled once again. Each knowing he could rely on the other to protect him when needed.

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Short Affair - Blue, Knife, Brink

Wed, 12 Jul 2023 14:35:15 GMT

Posted by: timemidae

This way to fic

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AO3 is Under Attack

Tue, 11 Jul 2023 14:04:42 GMT

Posted by: jantojones

AO3 has temporarily been shut down as they try to deal with a hacker attack. The mods are asking that people don't go to the site at the moment, as this adds to the traffic and makes things harder.

In the meantime, if you have a story to post, you can do so here, or on LiveJournal, (and, of course, there's always fanfiction dot net)

Hopefully they will get this resolved soon. Not even our guys can help with this one.

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Mon, 10 Jul 2023 11:30:28 GMT

Posted by: jantojones

(Cross-posted on Dreamwidth and Facebook )

Following the rather successful trial run of the Short Affair challenge a couple of weeks ago, it is now back to being a scheduled challenge.

For the time being I will be posting prompts every two weeks, and you can post your stories at anytime until the next prompts. All the rules, plus the prompts themselves are down below, but the basic idea is simple. Write us a gen story, based on one or both of the prompt words, plus the colour, which is between 300 and 1000 words in length. (If you go over a little, no worries.)

Just remember, that wherever you post it (ie AO3), leave us link to follow.

Have fun everyone, and I hope we get as good a response, if not better, than the last one.

-Prompt Word 1 - Knife

-Prompt Word 2 – Brink

-Prompt Colour - Blue

-Last Posting Day – 23 July 2023

Challenge Rules -Your story can be built around one or both of the prompt words plus the colour. I.E.- Word 1/Colour, Word 2/Colour, or Word 1/Word 2/Colour. -Word Count - must be between 300 and 1000.

-All stories should be headed with ‘Short Affair’ Challenge, the due date and your title.

-Please state at the top of your post which prompt combination you are using.

-Tags - please use short_affair, gen, gen-mature or het.

-Section VII is a Gen community, so stories should be appropriate, i.e. nothing explicit or overly-graphic. However, there is the Gen-Mature tag for anything containing violence, torture or mild Het.

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Reader’s Choice

Sat, 08 Jul 2023 12:21:40 GMT

Posted by: timemidae

In this interim between the Fourth of July and Bastille Day, I’m recc-ing a long read on the theme of revolution, CW Walker’s The Lion of Ngambo

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Prepared - A New Story

Fri, 07 Jul 2023 11:55:26 GMT

Posted by: jantojones

In this story, we follow Illya on assignment

Click this link to go to AO3. Prepared - JantoJones - The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

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For the Weak - A Little Drabble Do ya! - July 5th

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 16:31:22 GMT

Posted by: jantojones

“Visiting time is up,” U.N.C.L.E. head nurse, Maisie Redfearn stated, as she entered Napoleon Solo’s room.

Long-term vigils were only allowed when a patient was in serious trouble. Once the danger had passed, partners had to abide by the rules; including sticking to scheduled visiting times.

“Napoleon needs his sleep,” she continued.

“Sleep is for the weak,” Solo replied.

“It is also for those who are recovering from injury,” Kuryakin told him, standing up to leave.

Both CEA and nurse stared open-mouthed at the Russian. He was not known for following medical advice.

“What?” he asked. “I am not weak.”

For the Weak - JantoJones - The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

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Jumping in to the Short Affairs game

Sat, 01 Jul 2023 18:06:05 GMT

Posted by: timemidae

My first Short Affair! Hope y'all enjoy. I had fun.

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Up For Another Challenge?

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 18:16:04 GMT

Posted by: jantojones

The Short Affair Challenge is still ongoing for anyone who fancies taking a crack at it. However, how about another to run alongside?

The PicFic challenge has always been hosted by mrua7 in the past, so I hope she doesn't mind me treading on her toes with this. The premise is simple. Write a story based on the photograph below. For the time being, there will be no rules for this challenge. Make it whatever length you like, and post it whenever you like. (Hopefully, we'll be able to get back to our proper schedule, but until then we'll make do.)

The only thing you need to remember is that Section VII is a gen community.

Here's your prompt image, and I look forward to what comes from it.

(Cross-posted to LJ and FB)

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Potentially Explosive - Short Affair- 29 June

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:51:29 GMT

Posted by: jantojones

I wrote a short Affair story.

Prompts - Hold / Gray

Follow the link to go to AO3 - Potentially Explosive - JantoJones - The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (TV) [Archive of Our Own]

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Return of the 'Short Affair' Challenge

Tue, 27 Jun 2023 17:38:22 GMT

Posted by: jantojones

So.....

It's been a while.

Things are a little quiet around these parts and I would like to try and pick things up again. I may be peeing into the wind, but I have to try.

I know that many people haven't written for a while, and can't find the inclination to do so, and I figured 'How about a challenge?'. For the short Affair you only need to write between 300 — 1000 words, based on prompts comprising of 2 words and one colour. (You can use one or both of the words, but you must use the colour.)

So, how about it? Are you for the challenge? For those of us who haven't been around, I'm sure our boys have missed us. Well, maybe not Illya....

Anyway, you'll find everything you need to know below. There's no official time limit on it, but I was thinking of posting another prompt in a couple of weeks.

Have at it!

(Cross posted to LiveJournal)

-Prompt Word 1 - Beach

-Prompt Word 2 – Hold

-Prompt Colour - Grey/Gray

Choose to use one of the prompt words, or to use both in your story (not forgetting the colour element), remembering to state which combination of prompts you are using.

Challenge Rules

-Your story can be built around one or both of the prompt words plus the colour. I.E.- Word 1/Colour, Word 2/Colour, or Word 1/Word 2/Colour.

-Word Count - must be between 300 and 1000.

-All stories should be headed with ‘Short Affair’ Challenge and your title.

-Please state at the top of your post which prompt combination you are using.

-Tags - please use short_affair, gen, gen-mature or het.

-Section VII is a Gen community, so stories should be appropriate, i.e. nothing explicit or overly-graphic. However, there is the Gen-Mature tag for anything containing violence, torture or mild Het. The Map Room should be used for Het stories, but again, nothing overly graphic.

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Writer's choice

Sat, 20 May 2023 14:58:02 GMT

Posted by: timemidae

Thanatopisis - by Timemidae. A first for me from a few months ago, dipping my toes into the metaphysical. Not my usual genre, but I had fun!

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Icons!

Sat, 06 May 2023 13:42:18 GMT

Posted by: pebbleinalake

Made some MFU icons and thought I'd share them here as well in case anyone would like to use them :)
Mostly for the original show, but also a couple for Girl From Uncle and the 2015 movie.

Preview:

Full set can be found here

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