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crack_van2012-02-08 12:52 pm
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Oh No We Didn't by Gil Hale (G)
Fandom: THE PROFESSIONALS
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Length: Short story
Author on LJ:
Author Website: Gil Hale's Fan Fiction
Why this must be read: Gil Hale writes Pros as I see it in the episodes - showing a deep connection between our two lads. She understands who they are, she knows where they live and how they work and what makes them smile. There's nothing explicit in her stories - I suspect she'd deny all knowledge of any kind of "pairing" - but she writes Bodie/Doyle all the same.
Oh No We Didn't is a fun example of exactly that - of the CI5 world in which the lads operate, and of their own little circle of two. If it doesn't make you smile all the way through, but particularly at the end, then slap me in the back end of a cow suit... *g*
Excerpt:
“I can’t understand it,” he grumbled over his coffee. “I don’t see how Bodie and Doyle could have been in two places at once, but if they’re not involved how come they haven’t been up on the board looking like idiots.”
“That’s easy,” Bodie said cheerfully. He’d come in behind Murphy and had been imitating all his gestures to the silent amusement of everyone else in the room. “Doyle and I don’t get ourselves into these situations. Unlike you, my son. How could anyone miss seeing a line of bloomers big enough to power an ocean-going yacht?”
“I saw the bloomers all right,” Murphy protested. “It was the clothes prop I didn’t spot.”
Oh No We Didn't
Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Length: Short story
Author on LJ:
Author Website: Gil Hale's Fan Fiction
Why this must be read: Gil Hale writes Pros as I see it in the episodes - showing a deep connection between our two lads. She understands who they are, she knows where they live and how they work and what makes them smile. There's nothing explicit in her stories - I suspect she'd deny all knowledge of any kind of "pairing" - but she writes Bodie/Doyle all the same.
Oh No We Didn't is a fun example of exactly that - of the CI5 world in which the lads operate, and of their own little circle of two. If it doesn't make you smile all the way through, but particularly at the end, then slap me in the back end of a cow suit... *g*
Excerpt:
“I can’t understand it,” he grumbled over his coffee. “I don’t see how Bodie and Doyle could have been in two places at once, but if they’re not involved how come they haven’t been up on the board looking like idiots.”
“That’s easy,” Bodie said cheerfully. He’d come in behind Murphy and had been imitating all his gestures to the silent amusement of everyone else in the room. “Doyle and I don’t get ourselves into these situations. Unlike you, my son. How could anyone miss seeing a line of bloomers big enough to power an ocean-going yacht?”
“I saw the bloomers all right,” Murphy protested. “It was the clothes prop I didn’t spot.”
Oh No We Didn't
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If somebody wrote something like that about my stories I would feel very upset. I don't mind if people read my gen stories as slash/het and my slash/het stories as gen, but telling me how I WRITE them is imo rude.
And there IS a difference between saying: “I read your story as Bodie/Doyle” and “You wrote a Bodie/Doyle story.”
I don’t know the author of this story and maybe she doesn’t mind/care, so what I wrote here is just my opinion and doesn’t have to be taken into consideration :)
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I see where you're coming from by taking that sentence in isolation, but you really need to read it in context with my previous sentence. So:
Gil Hale writes Pros as I see it in the episodes... she writes Bodie/Doyle all the same
So I did actually say, explicitly in that first sentence as I see it in the episodes. I'd hope it's clear that this recommednation is my opinion - firstly from the fact that it's a recommendation - and secondly, from that very phrase.
People interpret things differently all the time - reviews as well as stories, clearly! As I read it, Gil Hale wrote a Bodie/Doyle story, but as you read it she didn't. It's all opinions, and that's really all it can ever be. As long as we're respectful of each other, in the discussing of it, all is good.
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