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The Professionals First week rec 1 "Wonderful Tonight"
There are 20 years and more worth of fiction and thousands of stories...it is difficult to know where to start from.
I will try to provide recs in order to give an idea of the many possibilities in this fandom, but obviously many titles and stories will escape me. Please do add your own recs in the comments!
Title of fiction: Wonderful Tonight
Fandom: The Professionals
Author: Sebastian
Author web site: none. Her stories can be found at:
Oblique Publications
The Circuit Archive
Hatstand Archive
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Why this must be read: for the final, emotional pay off, that makes all the angst-ridden and complex build-up worth reading. For the insights in the psyche of these two trained killers, and the tenderness that can be found in them were you willing to look deep enough and hard enough. For the very kinky, very hot sex :)
For the use of canonical characters in a canonical way, for making you believe this could have happened. For exploring sex and turn-ons but never hitting you over the head with it. For making you want more :)
NOTES ON the AUTHOR: Sebastian is considered one of the best writers in Pros. Chances are, if fans ask for authors' recs, Sebastian's name will turn up. At the moment she is not writing Pros, asaik.
Gryphon Press (address is Proslib's Files) has recently published Sebastian Collected 1 & 2.
Sebastian's stories always portray an intense relationship, full-rounded characters and plot.
Often, she extrapolates a canon trait of the characters and expand on it, and as a result her Bodie and Doyle are always believable. Oh, and she writes very hot but significant sex scenes - the sex in her stories is never gratuitous, but sustains the narrative. And it is hot ;) There is a melanconic, bittersweet feeling to most of her stories, but her style never fails to keep the reader involved with the characters and their emotions.
Among the many stories written by Sebastian, the following are my favourites, but there are many more:
Et in Italia Ego
November
Down to the Waterline
I will try to provide recs in order to give an idea of the many possibilities in this fandom, but obviously many titles and stories will escape me. Please do add your own recs in the comments!
Title of fiction: Wonderful Tonight
Fandom: The Professionals
Author: Sebastian
Author web site: none. Her stories can be found at:
Oblique Publications
The Circuit Archive
Hatstand Archive
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Why this must be read: for the final, emotional pay off, that makes all the angst-ridden and complex build-up worth reading. For the insights in the psyche of these two trained killers, and the tenderness that can be found in them were you willing to look deep enough and hard enough. For the very kinky, very hot sex :)
For the use of canonical characters in a canonical way, for making you believe this could have happened. For exploring sex and turn-ons but never hitting you over the head with it. For making you want more :)
NOTES ON the AUTHOR: Sebastian is considered one of the best writers in Pros. Chances are, if fans ask for authors' recs, Sebastian's name will turn up. At the moment she is not writing Pros, asaik.
Gryphon Press (address is Proslib's Files) has recently published Sebastian Collected 1 & 2.
Sebastian's stories always portray an intense relationship, full-rounded characters and plot.
Often, she extrapolates a canon trait of the characters and expand on it, and as a result her Bodie and Doyle are always believable. Oh, and she writes very hot but significant sex scenes - the sex in her stories is never gratuitous, but sustains the narrative. And it is hot ;) There is a melanconic, bittersweet feeling to most of her stories, but her style never fails to keep the reader involved with the characters and their emotions.
Among the many stories written by Sebastian, the following are my favourites, but there are many more:
Et in Italia Ego
November
Down to the Waterline
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Sebastian was one of my favorite X-Files writers, despite the extremely dark nature of some of her stories. I remember staying up until 3am to finish a 700K M/K opus, and writing immediate feedback (which is terribly rare for me!). I don't read a lot of Pros but I'd already seen the other two 'zine stories you listed (because they were hers), and I'm so glad to have read Wonderful Tonight as well. Thanks for the rec!
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See, I had no idea Sebastian used to write X-Files too - intriguing. There are quite a few other Sebastian's stories on the sites I quote in the rec (Oblique, Hatstand and Circuite Archives) and all of them event hough for different reasons, are worth reading.
I'm glad you liked WT :)
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(I still liked it...!)
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This is the best story (fic is way too reductive for something like this) I've ever read in any fandom. I'll certainly be going through the others by Sebastian
And the guys are fanta-bloddy-astic.
And you're right, darker and far more complex than any LOTR stuff.
*loves you*
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I have to say, I have read stories in other fandoms, and although of course there are great authors and great fictions, still I find that the quality of most writing in Pros is particular. Well, we do have the name of being a *very* harsh fandom that rips stories and writers apart (not true, but we do believe in criticism) and if this attitude gives us writers such as Sebastian, I'm all for it ~g~
The only really similarly satisfactory story (allitt;) I read in LotR is From the Other River Bank , by Dwimordene. It's B/F though unrequited, and I found it practically perfect.
Happy you liked WT - my fav is Et in Italia Ego (eh, well...apart from a few cultural glitches).
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Pros 10th anniversary at The Crack Van