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[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

When I heard Laurie was joining the show I thought he might be Control. And we now have an Ann. I wonder how she is.

[tinkertailorsoldierguy]

Rewatched tinker tailor soldier spy tonight and just have to say:

Jim prideaux shooting his traitorous secret gay boyfriend through the head with a sniper rifle right after they’ve made eye contact for the last time…River Cartwright could neverrrrrr.

Also how bill haydon is like btw George that whole business with me fucking your wife…it really wasn’t personal, Karla just figured I probably should. And how apparently in the book George’s slutty wife is bill’s COUSIN?? Just some casual incest on behalf of mother Russia (hey we’ve all been there chap)

George Smiley:

Ann Smiley:

[killer-kelp]

My John Le Carré-verse fics

La gente si sveste -- 3,978 words, Rated E, Bill Haydon/Magnus Pym Bill Haydon/Jim Prideaux Axel/Magnus Pym. Milan, 1965. (Immensely entertaining to put two of the more outrageously weird characters in canon in the same situation (and in my hometown, too!). IMO some of the funniest dialogue I've ever written).

Dear Little Boy Of Mine -- 4,267 words, Rated M, Axel/Magnus PymAxel & Magnus Pym Magnus Pym/Mary Pym Axel/Mary Pym Wengen, 1968.

(I wanted a Magnus/Mary/Axel threesome, as a birthday treat to myself, but I also wanted it to make somewhat narratively plausibile. Set in a Swiss town/hotel so expensive that when I was there in my student days one time for lunch I had just bread, cheese being firmly out of my spending range)

Dirty Work -- 2,259 words, Rated T, Bill Haydon/Jim Prideaux Max (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)/Jim Prideaux Max (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)/Bill Haydon London, 1973 (Max is an EXTREMELY HOT novel-only character that has been hounding my fantasises since the first time I read TTSS).

Des reflets d'argent -- 1,774 words, Rated E, Bill Haydon/Jim Prideaux Oxford, 1937. (One of my favourite stories I've written: the beginning of Jim and Bill's relationship, featuring a healthy dose of Czech linguistics and a lot or rather explicit scenes) Mi ami? -- 446 words, Rated M, Magnus Pym/Axel Axel does sometimes have women. (My latest venture into fandom: an exploration of Magnus Pym's VERY UNCOMPLICATED lifelong obsession with Axel. More to follow)

It's Our Tradition To Control -- 3,183 words, Rated E, Magnus Pym/Axel Axel discovers something about himself. (Features: Axel not defecting, a threesome, Becherovka, a sudden shift in a character's perception of his own sexuality, new pieces of decor for the barn, a nap) Ton meilleur ami -- 668 words, Rated G, Nicholas Elliot/Kim Philby Beirut, 1960. (RPF inspired by that really really excellent biography of Kim Philby on which I base most of my Bill Haydon takes) Keep Your Comrade Warm -- 667 words, Rated E, Bill Haydon/Jim Prideaux Bill likes it up the arse. (Well this particular summary is not quite as ermetic as the other ones, lol. You'll notice that Jim breaks into French here, bc at the time I wrote this I didn't speak any Czech but I've never been able to resist the temptation of playing up the multilingual aspect)

Sed bene velle minus -- 1,171 words, Rated M, Control/George Smiley, Ann Smiley/George Smiley "Close as thieves, Smiley and Control were, so they say, right to the end." (No hate to poor book-Smiley, but I was definitely picturing Gary Oldman while I wrote this)

Col tuo schifo di educazione -- 545 words, Rated G, Bill Haydon/Jim Prideaux Bill is set in his ways. (I was the lover of a serial philanderer for a couple of years and in my experience at some point it's not even the lies thar are the problem, you just get really annoyed by the pointlessness of the whole thing) Some Underworld Spy, Or The Wife Of A Close Friend -- 800 words, Rated T, Bill Haydon/Ann Smiley Ann loves to hear Bill say her name. (A pretty hot story if I do say so myself. When this was written, due to COVID, it was straight up illegal to go out and fuck people, so I had a lot of time to sit and think about things that sound sexy over the phone)

A Ja Ljublju SSSR -- 2,386 words, Rated M, Bill Haydon/Jim Prideaux 20 August 1968: Soviet tanks roll into Prague. (My favourite story I've ever written, I think. An attempt to explore Bill's approach to life and Jim's split loyalties between the countr(ies) he loves and the man he's in love with. Heavily coloured by conversations with my fiancé, who spent his childhood in Communist Czechoslovakia, and his visceral reaction to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. In spite of the heavy background themes quite romantic and even slightly funny imo)

A Little Harder When You're Second Best -- 2,418 words, Rated T, Sirius Black/Remus Lupin Remus Lupin/Peter Guillam 1978: Peter Guillam meets someone at a party. (Look, yeah, I used to write Wolfstar. Didn't we all?)

Learned My Passion In The Good Old-Fashioned School Of Lover Boys -- 952 words, Rated E, Axel/Mary Pym Axel/Magnus Pym Magnus Pym/Mary Pym "...and if you don't came back soon and tell me what to do, you may very well find us in bed together, because after all, as you used to assure me in Berlin, you can't beat a little sex for breaking the tension and removing social barriers." (Well Mary, if you insist)

A Liubov Katyusha Sberezhet -- 2,707 words, Rated M, Bill Haydon/Jim Prideaux Bill Haydon/Ann Smiley A day in the life of Bill Haydon (A double POV! Getting experimental here (for my standards). Features a nice night for Jim and the beginning of Bill and Ann's affair) Řek' Mi U Slivovice -- 2,564 words, Rated M, Bill Haydon/Jim Prideaux Jim Prideaux/Axel Vienna, 1968. Jim makes a new friend. (Jim and Axel are my faves, I thought it would be fun to have them meet. I also really like Max. Axel as a honeypot is both a very funny concept and actually pretty in character for him I would say)

Keep the Customer Satisfied -- 1,470 words, Rated E, Magnus Pym/Axel Axel services his best agent. (Karlovy Vary <3) Primavera non bussa -- 1,835 words, Rated M, Magnus Pym/Axel Athens, 1984. (Really interesting to write from Axel's POV. A nice one I think, my favourite one out of the ones I've done for this pairing)

[cinemaocd]

Made a better mood board for my fic. 

[autisticandroids]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Ann may be known for her affairs. But George, too, in his own way, strays.

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wow i wrote curse ttss fic whoops

[slowspinningredemption]

“I said I love you” + George Smiley for the prompt thing, pleaseandthankyou.

(for the five word prompts!)

The Games We Play

Ann doesn’t know why she decided to marry George. Perhaps she thought it would be a challenge, somebody new to play her games with, and in a way she wasn’t wrong. The only problem is that she’s come to expect the kinds of reactions she’d get, and George refuses to give her any of them.

Read on AO3!

[j-august]

That was Ann: Let me know. Redeem your life, see whether it can be lived again and let me know. I have wearied my lover, my lover has wearied me, let me shatter your world again: my own bores me. I want to come back to you... I want, I want...

John le Carré, Call for the Dead

[j-august]

That was what Smiley wanted, really - a way to like Mendel. He was not as quick as Ann at finding one. But Ann was Ann - she practically murdered an Etonian nephew once for drinking claret with fish, but if Mendel had lit a pipe over her crêpe Suzette, she probably would not have noticed.

John le Carré, Call for the Dead