ride_4ever

Those of you who are very active in MFU fandom already know this, but for those who don't know about this and might find it interesting: the winner of the 2026 Preakness Stakes on May 16th was a horse named "Napoleon Solo". Furthermore, there is fic referencing this: A Horse Named Napoleon Solo by

st_crispins.

(If you read the fic and leave comments, feel free to comment "here on a rec from

ride_4ever".)

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From:

sovay

the winner of the 2026 Preakness Stakes on May 16th was a horse named "Napoleon Solo".

I watched that race with my mother. We were surprised by the name! We looked up the bloodlines afterward to see if it was some kind of lineage name and concluded the owner had just been a fan. (My brother was almost named after Ilya.)

From:

ride_4ever

Heh, almost named your brother after Ilya. Did he get some other fandom-related name?

From:

sovay

Did he get some other fandom-related name?

After a character from a favorite book of my mother's. Naming for our great-grandfather was thus postponed to his middle name. (I am being cagier than I would be with my own name because he's not here. He doesn't have zero internet footprint, but most of it is related to his job.)

From:

ride_4ever

I understand. I was not trying to get you to give his exact name online.

From:

sovay

I was not trying to get you to give his exact name online.

I didn't think you were trying to! Just being clear.

From:

ride_4ever

*smiles and nods*

From:

aurumcalendula

Neat! I think my mom will get a kick out of that (although Illya was her favorite of the two).

From:

ride_4ever

*grin*

From:

verushka70

I'm not in the fandom but I did like the Guy Ritchie film of MUNCLE. A lot, actually. Great OT3. Also way slashy, yay. I don't pay much attention to horse racing but that's only because of the animal abuse & exploitation. I love horses otherwise. Cute little fic. Left kudos.

From:

ride_4ever

Did you ever watch ANY of the original MUNCLE? I was into it back in the day when I was so young that I had to "sneak" the novels because my mom (reasonably enough, really) thought it would be better for me to be a bit older before reading that level of sex and vioence.

From:

verushka70

No, I never watched the series. I was stuck watching what my older siblings (or father, or grandmother), who controlled the TV, wanted to watch. So if they didn't watch it, I didn't watch it. Hence all the Star Trek and Twilight Zone, The Saint, The Prisoner, The Paper Chase, Monty Python, Son of Svengoolie. (My father: CBS Evening News, MacNeil-Lehrer news hour, various PBS shows, Space: 1999, Blake's Seven, Benny Hill, Three Stooges, Looney Tunes cartoons sometimes. Grandma: Canon, Streets of San Francisco, Kojak, Barnaby Jones, Ironsides, Hawaii Five-O, Fantasy Island, and of course Perry Mason, plus every single Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movie and every Charlie Chan movie, no matter how many times she'd already seen them. She knew her handsome men, lol, and she liked mysteries and police procedurals.)

I'm not sorry I was subjected to all that, but it did mean a skewing of my TV viewing, at least until my older sibs were in high school extra-curriculars, so that I could be the TV controller over my younger sister, lol. Only then did I get to watch Dr. Who - the Tom Baker ones, mostly. I'm sure I probably zipped past MUNCLE TV episodes at various points, on my way to another channel, but it never caught my attention enough to watch - at least, not when I was already in pursuit of a different show.

I did not know MUNCLE was based on novels. They sound - I could be wrong about this - pulpy. Were they pulpy? I might have to check them out.

For whatever reason, though my parents were mindful of what we watched on TV, they never stopped me/us from reading anything, no matter how age-inappropriate. I read Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange - my brother's paperback - when I was like 10. Lord of the Flies the year before that when I was 9. I, Claudius I also read in fifth grade. Interview With The Vampire in 6th or 7th grade, possibly 8th - whenever the first paperback edition came out, my sister Chris got it, and I read it after her. I know it was before I graduated grammar school - it was the paperback first edition with no pictures on the cover, just the gold background and those big gothic-font letters with the title and author. Every one of those books wasn't mine, they were one of my older siblings' books.

I don't know why my parents didn't stop us from reading stuff like that. But then, no one in our house read Jackie Collins or Harold Robbins... normal NYT bestselling trashy books. Maybe they would have stopped me, if it had been stuff like that? I dunno.

From:

ride_4ever

I am wowed by how much you remember of what ALL those family members watched.

No, MUNCLE was not based on novels. Like the profic novels of The Prisoner and the profic novels of due South, the novels followed after the existence of the show.