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crack_van2005-11-21 07:51 pm
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Complete Control by Nyssa, Part one and part two (NC-17)
Fandom: THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
Pairing: Napoleon/Illya
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author Website: Unknown
Why this must be read:
I am well aware that Nyssa has already been fully served in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
crack_van. Soon, all her MFU stories that are available on line will be included. But, so what? She deserves it completely.
She was, with Jane Faifax, one of my first incursions in the slash realm, fortunately; for this early experience left me with no doubt that fanfiction and especially slash fanfiction could be a legitimate literary achievement.
While its neat and clear style appealed to my taste in the matter, this story touched me personally because of its topic: I realised that the prospect of loosing control, of situations, of emotions and, still worse, of intellectual discrimination, have always been my greatest fear.
So, I recognized with a chill the worry expressed by Illya when he had to acknowledge the true nature of his feeling for Napoleon:
For as long as he could remember, he had cherished control. Loss of control was one of the very few things that truly frightened him. It meant leaving your mind, your heart, your body, open to invasion. It meant being overpowered and forced. It meant burning with mute fury while they took whatever they wanted from you and then laughed about it.
Love is a peril, the worse. love is a disease. How can you protect you from a contagious disease? A vaccin could be a solution. For our sly and wary Russian, it may be the last recourse. But for a victim of Napoleon's charm and sex appeal, the cure may well be proved rather ineffective!
And he hadn’t been able to control the conditions of the experiment with as much scientific detachment as he had hoped. It was clear that the inimical agent had lodged itself firmly in his bloodstream. The best he could hope for now was an antidote. Against such a lethal poison, no antidote would work, I am afraid.
The seriousness of this moral issue is lightened by a delicate sense of irony; though the events are shown through Illya's eyes, the reader always knows a little more than the poor experimenter does.
There is a link to Part Two at the end of Part One, and "Balance of Power", the sequel, is indissociable from this story, in my opinion.
Complete Control
Pairing: Napoleon/Illya
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author Website: Unknown
Why this must be read:
I am well aware that Nyssa has already been fully served in
crack_van. Soon, all her MFU stories that are available on line will be included. But, so what? She deserves it completely. She was, with Jane Faifax, one of my first incursions in the slash realm, fortunately; for this early experience left me with no doubt that fanfiction and especially slash fanfiction could be a legitimate literary achievement.
While its neat and clear style appealed to my taste in the matter, this story touched me personally because of its topic: I realised that the prospect of loosing control, of situations, of emotions and, still worse, of intellectual discrimination, have always been my greatest fear.
So, I recognized with a chill the worry expressed by Illya when he had to acknowledge the true nature of his feeling for Napoleon:
For as long as he could remember, he had cherished control. Loss of control was one of the very few things that truly frightened him. It meant leaving your mind, your heart, your body, open to invasion. It meant being overpowered and forced. It meant burning with mute fury while they took whatever they wanted from you and then laughed about it.
Love is a peril, the worse. love is a disease. How can you protect you from a contagious disease? A vaccin could be a solution. For our sly and wary Russian, it may be the last recourse. But for a victim of Napoleon's charm and sex appeal, the cure may well be proved rather ineffective!
And he hadn’t been able to control the conditions of the experiment with as much scientific detachment as he had hoped. It was clear that the inimical agent had lodged itself firmly in his bloodstream. The best he could hope for now was an antidote. Against such a lethal poison, no antidote would work, I am afraid.
The seriousness of this moral issue is lightened by a delicate sense of irony; though the events are shown through Illya's eyes, the reader always knows a little more than the poor experimenter does.
There is a link to Part Two at the end of Part One, and "Balance of Power", the sequel, is indissociable from this story, in my opinion.
Complete Control
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It's hard for me to get into gen stories. My fandoms seem to be one or the other; never both. I have a couple of fandoms I read strictly gen and more than a couple I read strictly slash. :-) I did read a few of Linda White's because I thought they were part of her 3rd level series.
When I started, I thought I'll have more slash than gen; but, actually, that's the opposite. The slash stories I like most are recced or in zines, and I remain with a long list of excellent gen stories that probably won't never be recced because the "readership" is in huge proportion biaised towards slash. I feel frustrated.
I noticed that last month; it was getting harder to find stories to rec I really liked. Like you say, they'd either already been rec'd or were in zines.
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