New MFU Fic: Pictures at an Exhibition NC-17

[kelliem]

This story was originally started for muncle's Theme Challenge #28 - "Illya's first clue" though by the time I finally finished it quite a long time after the challenge ended, it could also apply to #21 "Middle age." I guess to some extent it also answers the question Sith raised on Muncle yesterday about the Return movie, too. :-)

Title of work: Pictures at an Exhibition
Author: Kellie Matthews
Format: Short-story/erotica
Year Written: 2004
Fanfic? Yes. Man From UNCLE
Is it archived? Yes, at:
http://kellie.mrks.org/fic/mfu/pictures.htm
and at:
http://www.chromeandgunmetal.com/chrome/archive/1/picturesat.html
Brief synopsis: Relationships evolve, people change, but love remains.
Webposted 12/09/04. Appx. 140 KB.
Warning: NC-17 for graphic M/M sexuality

Comments

[wordwitch.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. Oh very nice.

"For a few moments they knelt there, Illya supporting Napoleon's weight in a strange, sweaty pieta" - oooo. I love educated porn.

Well developed, as always: not too easy, not too simple, but all the familiarity finally coming together. Um. As it were.

*salaams in your direction*

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I was a little worried-- so many people get squicked by the idea of middle-aged sex.

[wordwitch.livejournal.com]

*hrrHMMp.* Personally, I never had nearly as much fun when I was young, fairly attractive, and reasonably sized as I have had the last year, poised precisely in the middle of my forties, fat and plain.

Granted, I've been married for 16 years, but the last year my wife and I have more-or-less caught fire. So no squick here. Thank you for daring it.

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Now that's what I like to hear. :) Congrats. :)

[przed.livejournal.com]

Now *that* was fab. I love the arc you take them through over the years, and you've got their voices just right. Plus, the sex was hot. (Yes, even the middle-aged sex.)

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! It means a lot to me when people say I got the voices right. That's the most important part of writing fanfic.

Divinity virtual fudge.....

[shrewreader.livejournal.com]

I went, I read, I adored. This was just plain delightful, Kellie. I really liked how you developed their traditions (canned soup really just isn't the same, is it?) and the affection back and forth between Ilya and Napoleon. And the dermo usage was way kewl, too. Well, not kewl, but kewl, if you get what I mean. *G* Thanks!

Re: Divinity virtual fudge.....

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Eep, here is where I admit my ignorance of current slang and ask... "dermo"?

In any case, thank you very much! I'm glad you liked it! And no, canned soup is NOTHING like the real thing. I wish we still had a real deli in town that made it.

Re: Divinity virtual fudge.....

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Aha. Dermo. Thank you Google. :-) I have just added this book to my wishlist.

[sensine.livejournal.com]

This has been a wonderful evening - listening to the Nobel PP consert - and READING A NEW KELLIE STORY! I wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed this story, but I can't find words good enough. And I wanted to quote some lines from it, but that would have been tooooo long :-) so let me say you write the relationship and the banter the way I feel is right, I really, really love this. I believe in your boys, and the way they relate to each other. And the soup... The bed...

The sex? *melts*

I even survived the mention of the separation period, being in the denial-camp I normally sob just from the stray thought of it.

Thank you for every wonderful word!!!

[sensine.livejournal.com]

Oh, I forgot to say: PaaE was one of the first records I bought - way back in my youth *g*

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

It was one of mine too, though I must confess it was the Emerson, Lake & Palmer version. I thought it was a good title for a story composed entirely of snapshot vignettes from a Russian character's POV. :-)

[sensine.livejournal.com]

A very good title! And yes, I have that great ELP version too. I've been thinking that I need to buy them on CD, I rarely play my LPs anymore. Besides - I listen to music in my car, which you know, makes the LP thing difficult;-)

You know - if we wish it hard enough, maybe the new MfU movie will cast Napoleon and Illya as old partners, still working for UNCLE in leading positions - and voila! no separation, denial all over????? (sharing an apartment would be too much to ask for, although it would make me cry from happiness)hee

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Thank you for reading! And I'm very happy that I managed to bring you along through the separation. I hate the idea of it too, but you know, these things DO happen. As long as they are back together at last, I am happy. :)

[susan-peri.livejournal.com]

Hi there. I'm the Crack_Van reviewer for July and I thought I'd recommend this story. Just wanted to give you a heads up.

I like it because of the way the relationship develops and I think the idea of doing it in a series of vignettes is appealing.

There are little things in the writing that are so clever -- Illya throwing the marshmallows into the room; Napoleon saying "I am what I am;" the comments about Illya needing his glasses for close-up work. They make for fantastic reading.

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Susan, that's very kind of you! I'm glad you liked this story-- I have a huge soft-spot for Middle Aged Spies. :)

[susan-peri.livejournal.com]

I hope you find the recommendation satisfactory. :)

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

I was immensely flattered. Thank you very much. :)