spies are merely talking heads

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• Life During (Cold) War Time by apiphile

  Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)  

  • Not Rated
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi
  • Complete Work

  25 Sep 2011

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  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Peter Guillam/Ricki Tarr
  • Ricki Tarr/OFC
  • Ricki Tarr/OMC
  • Peter Guillam
  • Ricki Tarr
  • OFCs
  • OMCs
  • the 70s were not a healthy time
  • i hate writing sex scenes
  • compulsive fucking is not a recommended grief therapy
  • wanking about london
  • lol classism
  • how do you have a breakdown without noticing it?
  • fuck your fanon the man is not a sex ninja
  • cumberbatch is very attractive for a horse in a man costume
  • everything i know about spies i learned from 1950s boys' books
  • oh shit you're broken
  • London
  • did i mention london
  • wanking about clothes
  • there is no moral lesson in this story
  • titles from talking heads songs are totally punk rock

  Summary

  Ricki Tarr is itching to get back to work, but all is not well.

  Series

  • Part 1 of spies are merely talking heads

  Words:

  10,174

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  17

  Kudos:

  35

  Bookmarks:

  7

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• Once In a Lifetime by apiphile

  Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - John Le Carre  

  • Mature
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen, M/M
  • Complete Work

  4 Oct 2011

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Peter Guillam/Ricki Tarr
  • Ricki Tarr
  • OFC
  • OMC
  • Peter Guillam
  • George Smiley
  • increasingly nuts narrator
  • i suspect the charactersation of this is completely whack
  • author knows nothing about kiev
  • author knows nothing about geneva
  • author knows precious little about guns
  • author knows a frankly disturbing amount about pain and infection
  • dub-con
  • creepily that house is the one my mother grew up in
  • fight_bingo
  • fight bingo
  • subtle fight
  • public fight
  • just doing my job fight
  • sexual based fight
  • an inexact portrait of ptsd
  • protagonist is a dick
  • protagonist is also my favourite
  • spies make the worst people
  • Sequel
  • not safe sane or consensual
  • do not try this at home

  Summary

  Sequel to "Life During (Cold) War Time": Ricki Tarr really was NOT fit to go to Kiev, and it's a mistake Peter will pay for.

  Series

  • Part 2 of spies are merely talking heads

  Words:

  9,679

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  12

  Kudos:

  21

  Bookmarks:

  1

  Hits:

  612