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Sooo nervous about this ...
Dec. 2nd, 2015 06:22 am... But I suppose I'd better just take the plunge and post it.
https://sites.google.com/site/uncleandlondon/home
My Man From U.N.C.L.E. site, detailing the ins and outs of my fic verse and why things are the way they are in it. I don't know that anyone other than me will get a kick out of it at all, but here it is. Really, I think I do a good job with Napoleon and Illya's characterizations and their interactions, but this is the first time I'm going live with the details of my verse and my backstories for them in it and I am worried that those elements won't go over so well. I'm kind of proud of them really, though. It was fun trying to think out what their pasts could be like if the show was set in the present-day (which still seems plausible to me since most episodes were not dated).
Time period aside, I hope that there aren't any other bumps. I was thinking that Napoleon's and Illya's backstories were pretty up in the air, which is why everyone seems to have different ones (albeit they often have some similar elements). But I made one mistake in the past by not being aware of one little detail about U.N.C.L.E. operations that I really don't think was ever featured in an episode despite being in the series bible, so I hope there aren't other, similar errors. I kind of consider the episodes themselves to be the only 100% canon, even though of course behind-the-scenes intentions are important too. I really am interested in the series bible and just wish it wasn't only available in a huge PDF file. PDFs don't tend to get along well with this little laptop. But sometimes they work not too poorly, so maybe I'd better just take the plunge on that, too, and see if it will work.
I also just finished a piece where Ecks and Wye clash with Siegfried and Shtarker from Get Smart, LOL. I've linked it on the site; it's on Tumblr. I'm not quite sure what to do with it on LJ, since Napoleon and Illya are not in it and it wasn't inspired by a prompt comm. That would leave posting it here or on the fic journal, but since I'd doubt anyone would be interested anyway without Napoleon and Illya, I don't know whether to bother.
The piece is generally humorous, but also touches a bit on something I've been thinking about since the idea was first introduced to me, that Ecks and Wye's organization (or at least, other, similar ones in U.N.C.L.E. verse) is worse than THRUSH. I ... kind of think I disagree. THRUSH does things similar to KAOS, which is repeatedly, canonically described as a terrorist organization. My guess is that they are both similar and just as bad, if not worse, than the unnamed extremist organization Ecks and Wye worked for. I realize that THRUSH and KAOS are shown doing larger-than-life things, which makes it really hard to always take them seriously, but when you really stop to think about how horrifying and frightening their schemes would be if they were really possible, I just can't swallow that Ecks and Wye's organization is worse than them (particularly when we don't know many of the details of what they're doing, other than trying to take over countries and using, well, larger-than-life spy objects, same as the other bad organizations in spy series).
https://sites.google.com/site/uncleandlondon/home
My Man From U.N.C.L.E. site, detailing the ins and outs of my fic verse and why things are the way they are in it. I don't know that anyone other than me will get a kick out of it at all, but here it is. Really, I think I do a good job with Napoleon and Illya's characterizations and their interactions, but this is the first time I'm going live with the details of my verse and my backstories for them in it and I am worried that those elements won't go over so well. I'm kind of proud of them really, though. It was fun trying to think out what their pasts could be like if the show was set in the present-day (which still seems plausible to me since most episodes were not dated).
Time period aside, I hope that there aren't any other bumps. I was thinking that Napoleon's and Illya's backstories were pretty up in the air, which is why everyone seems to have different ones (albeit they often have some similar elements). But I made one mistake in the past by not being aware of one little detail about U.N.C.L.E. operations that I really don't think was ever featured in an episode despite being in the series bible, so I hope there aren't other, similar errors. I kind of consider the episodes themselves to be the only 100% canon, even though of course behind-the-scenes intentions are important too. I really am interested in the series bible and just wish it wasn't only available in a huge PDF file. PDFs don't tend to get along well with this little laptop. But sometimes they work not too poorly, so maybe I'd better just take the plunge on that, too, and see if it will work.
I also just finished a piece where Ecks and Wye clash with Siegfried and Shtarker from Get Smart, LOL. I've linked it on the site; it's on Tumblr. I'm not quite sure what to do with it on LJ, since Napoleon and Illya are not in it and it wasn't inspired by a prompt comm. That would leave posting it here or on the fic journal, but since I'd doubt anyone would be interested anyway without Napoleon and Illya, I don't know whether to bother.
The piece is generally humorous, but also touches a bit on something I've been thinking about since the idea was first introduced to me, that Ecks and Wye's organization (or at least, other, similar ones in U.N.C.L.E. verse) is worse than THRUSH. I ... kind of think I disagree. THRUSH does things similar to KAOS, which is repeatedly, canonically described as a terrorist organization. My guess is that they are both similar and just as bad, if not worse, than the unnamed extremist organization Ecks and Wye worked for. I realize that THRUSH and KAOS are shown doing larger-than-life things, which makes it really hard to always take them seriously, but when you really stop to think about how horrifying and frightening their schemes would be if they were really possible, I just can't swallow that Ecks and Wye's organization is worse than them (particularly when we don't know many of the details of what they're doing, other than trying to take over countries and using, well, larger-than-life spy objects, same as the other bad organizations in spy series).
