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Finally back at it after several days of work.
M was Maybe by Siskiou
Short and sweet, Doyle musing on his Bodie.

N was Not in the Bush Not by Slantedlight
Really liked this one--Bodie eying the crowd of new agents and sizing them up. Seeing Doyle and liking the fit of his jeans, and the glint in his eye. When he provokes Doyle, they fight, and he knows they will fit together.

O and P shall come soon, hopefully over the weekend.

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I particularly liked Kinky Boots by Terence -- a funny discussion about The Avengers, leather trous and a bit of a roll in the sheets.

Later that Night by Hux_CI5 had Doyle musing on the new relationship with Bodie. Almost melancholy but not quite.

M and N in the next day or so--yeah, I know, I am going straight through the alphabet instead of doing my bingo card. It's still reading more Pros.

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I could have sworn, hand to God, that I've read this before. I remember clicking through different parts of it ... but now I have read all 5 parts on The Circuit Archive, I can't have read the last two or three parts. I definitely wouldn't have thought I'd finished the story while Bodie and Doyle weren't together (Part 4), and I definitely did not read the resolution of the haunting of Bodie's house(Part 5). I still feel it's slightly unfinished, but there's no Part 6. I recommend it, even more highly now that I've read all 5 parts. There's a lot of sex in it, but I like the characterization and the setting. Go and read it! thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/13/birwatchers.html

Update: x pointed out in the comments that the zine's art and Part 6 are online. The art is gorgeous and Part 6 is satisfying: not much more plot, but the very last about the Mousehole "gang" and Bodie's haunting are definitely worth it!

part 6: https//palelyloitering.com/Dialj/BirdwatchersGuideChapter6.htm

Art: artconserv.dreamwidth.org/399.html

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In With the Old by Istia
Interesting, told from the POV of an OC after being dumped by Bodie. Bodie, of course, is going back to his Doyle.

Join the Queue by Lizzie
Very cute--Bodie grousing about having to post a package for Doyle ten days before Christmas. In the end, Doyle gives him a lovely pressie in return.

K and L up next as I wend through the alphabet.

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Grand to Manhandle by jat Saphhire
Doyle wants sex--NOW.

Hawd Awa Hame by Callisto
Very funny--the lads having dinner and Bodie grossing Doyle out.

Between advancing through the alphabet, I am totally enjoying chapters of Birdwatcher's Guide to Cornish Ghosts which may have surpassed Harlequin Aires as my favorite Pros fic.

Onto I and J.

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"T1" by JGL

thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/21/t1.html

Some drabbles should be actual stories. Not recommended.

"Ulrike" by byslantedlight

thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/20/ulrike.html

On the other hand, some drabbles are perfect as they are. Recommended.

"Valentine's Day" by Anonymous 1

thecircuitarchive/tca/archive/12/valentinesday.html

CI5 agents take part in a Valentine's Day contest. Bodie says he doesn't have a romantic bone in his body. Doyle proves him wrong. This story has a particularly likeable Kate Ross in it. Recommended.

"The Waiting Room" by Lizzie

thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/6/thewaiting.html

Ghost story; historical AU. Doyle spends a night in a railway station waiting room and sees a woman who died there and Bodie, whom he meets again later. Recommended.

"X Marks the Spot" by O Yardley

thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/7/xmarks.html

Cowley goes golfing, then goes missing. Bodie and Doyle find him because of some aerial photographs that Bodie saw while developing Doyle's Christmas pressie. Recommended.

"Yes, Minister" by O Yardley"

thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/9/yesminister.html

Poems. Riffing off A, A. Milne. I suspect that the main poem is funnier if you are an afficionado of Milne's poetry. Recommended.

"Zeno's Paradox" by Miriam Heddy

thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/9/zenosparadox.html

In which Bodie turns 50 and an ancient Greek philosopher proves that there is no motion. Recommended.

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"Quick One" by Mauvemaz

thecircuitarchive.com/tca//archive/9/quickone.html

What the tin says. Recommended.

"A Rainy Night in Soho," by Kitty Fisher

thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/5/arainy.html

Bodie seems to be retreating. Doyle wants their old bond back.

"A Safe Bet" by D Ramsay

thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/2/asafe.html

Cowley observes his best team at a pub. Recommended.

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"Natural Emotions" by Derry

thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/2/naturalemotions.html

A girl that Bodie dated fell pregnant. He'll pay maintenance but won't be a father. I don't get the title. I guess I recommend it.

"October" by Rowan

Considering how often I ran across Rape stories when I hadn't expected them, it amazes me that I've been through more than half the alphabet before finding one in this challenge. The beating and rape in this story happen before it even starts. Bodie makes it to Ray's and Ray gives him super-fast painkillers and cleans him up. The story is over almost before it really starts. I'm too squeamish about rape to recommend this.

"Pancake Tuesday" by The Hag

Doyle makes pancakes for Mardi Gras, and Bodie eats them with everything Doyle has. No cats. I recommend this.

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E is for Evasive Manoeuvres by PRZed. She is always an author I can rely on to write a story I will enjoy. Bodie trying to hide his feelings for Doyle, and not really doing a very good job.

F is for Four Times Bodie survived and One Time he Didn't by Callisto. This was the five short snippets that have vague parallels, and honestly, I wanted much more of each.

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"Keepsake" by PFL,/b>, followed by "Isolation" and "Yule" (links in the stories)

thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/18/keepsake.html

PFL is so good at writing trilogies that I couldn't just rec "Keepsake" and stop. Starting at the Silver Jubilee, Bodie remembers how important their partnership has been to him and decdes it's time to leave CI5. Highly recommended.

"The Last (Generic) Bodie and Doyle Story" by IM Adine O'Soar

thecircuitarchive.com/tca/4/thelast.html

I was plleased, in a grumpy way, to see this title declare itself to be the LAST generic B/D story. In general, I don't like meta-fanfic, crackfic, or stories with joke writer-names. (Adine? May I call you Adine? I hope you're a triceratops as that is my favorite kind of O'Soar.) Despite all that, I enjoyed this story. I suppose that were I facing imminebt mass extinction via asteroid, I might write about Doyle turning into a budgie. Maybe. Tentatively recommended.

"The Mad Scientist Strikes" by Anne Higgins

thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/0/themad.html

When I first joined the fandom and was reading through the Bodie/Doyle stories on AO3, and I read Anne Higgins' work, I found her characterizatins of Bodie and Doyle quite ... peculiar. If you have not yet read this story and also wondered at how ... feminine ... her Bodie is, this story goes some way towards explaining it. Bodie has to be weepy and irrational about bra decoration and hairstyles to be convincingly female in this story. (Anne is a biological woman, is she not?) I guess I reccommend this.

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C was Christmas Confessions by Merentha
a sweet story of Doyle lonely and pining for Bodie on Christmas eve.

D was Don't let the Sun Catch you Crying by Istia,
I was surprised how much I liked it because much of the story is a version of Bodie's early life before Doyle, and how Doyle changed him. This paragraph was great:

Which was Doyle in a nutshell: he simply refused to see the world
in black-and-white. Doyle's world was a dizzying spectrum of
greys, as heaving and changeable and striated, sometimes-
dangerous/sometimes-gentle, as the Merseyside waters Bodie'd
grown up beside, as the vast, chancy North Atlantic depths on
which he'd sailed to early manhood.

4 letters down and 22 to go. Good thing I am on vacation next week.

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H.M.S. CI5 by Fanny Adams

thecircuitarchive/tca/archive/3/hmsci5.html

I am a closet Gilbert and Sullivan fan, so I enjoyed this. I suspect that if you aren't humming along, the jokes aren't strong enough to stand on their own. Reccommended with reservations.

"I Just Knew" by Zoe

thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/9/ijust.html

Short PWP, kind of mushy.

"Jack the Zipper" by PJ

thecircuitarchive/tca/archive/13/jackthe.html

Humorous case fic. I didn't laugh. DNF ater I hit the character named Fig Newton. Not reccommended.

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For the letter B, I read part one of Birdwatcher's Guide to Cornish Ghosts. Had heard about this novel many times but never sought it out. I enjoyed it thoroughly and was so happy to have the time to read the whole part one in a single day! Set in 1902, Bodie is a lonely birdwatcher in Cornwall and Doyle a visiting writer interested in ghosts. They get together. Wonderful stuff and can't wait to read more parts.

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Trying the Pros Bingo Challenge--A Silent Moment by PFL read this morning. Couldn't get the Bingo card to load, but have decided to go in A-Z order.

This was a sweet, but intense story with the lads involved in a gun battle with unknown criminals apparently hired to set them up. Of course it leads to thoughts of desperation and losing a loved one, with some caressing and a kiss to spice up the longing.

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"A Different Game" by DVS

thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/18/adifferent.html

Bodie and Doyle have an elaborate game they play when on obbo. After they are in a bad car accident, Doyle learns that Bodie has made the Game true and has fallen in love with Doyle. I'd reccomend this story just for the Game part.

"Encounter in a Greenhouse" by Doylebaby

thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/13/encounterin.html

Poor Bodie listens in agony as Doyle is tortured, but the situtca/archive/ation is not as it seems.

"The Flat" by DVS

thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/2/theflat.html

When he was in art school, Doyle and a group of friends had rented a flat together, each of them paying a seventh of the rent and having exclusive use of the space one day per week. Running into one of those frieds, Doyle finds that one night a week is open, so he buys in. Bodie, however, becomes jealous and tracks Doyle down.

"Gaudy Night, or The Art of the Smear," by Dog Rose

Bodie and Doyle watch Dalgliesh and Bodie asks why Doyle stopped painting. The crossover joke isn't worth it. Not recommended.

thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/19/gaudynight.html

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"About Doyle" by Quill

Short ficlet. I thought there'd be a companion story "About Bodie," but there wasn't. I enjoyed it, though I suspect I would have enjoyed its companion more.

thecircuitarchive/tca/15/aboutdoyle.html

Bodie's Letter" by Ellis Ward

Older Lads. After Cowley's funeral, Doyle finds out that Cowley intercepted and forged a leter to him from Bodie (and one from him to Bodie). They've lost 9 years and eight months. I remembered this story when I was thinking about this challenge. I recommend it.

thecircuitarchive/3/bodiesletter/html

The Christmas Fairy" by Anonymous 1

Doyle is alone at Christmas--or is he? I find that while I am not fond of the whimsical Santa's elves stories (or Doyle-as-elf stories) I am even less fond of stories that leave the decision up to the reader.Not recommended. thecircuitarchive/tcaarchive/12/thechristmas.html

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The mods over at

ljbookbingo have started a fun new game this year - Alpha-book bingo, which I decided to play in my lj as I read this year. And then as I was reading a Pros fic the other day, I suddenly thought... can you guess? *g*

Stamp out the squares for every fic you read beginning with a different letter of the alphabet, and give a link to it in a post in your lj (or here in

ci5hq if you'd rather). It might be a nice way of getting some more Pros into our flists, and reminding everyone of the different Pros stories out there, if anyone else would like to play, just as a personal kind of game?

And a thousand thanks and kudos to

keli, who made the Alpha-book Bingo board, and then tailored it especially for Pros! *vbg*

Would anyone like to join me in playing?

tinturtle

Today I feel a hankering for casefic: stories that follow the Lads as they work through a case, investigating and trying to stop some threat to the public. Anyone have favorites in this genre that they'd like to recommend?

tinturtle

I got my Proslib DVD in the mail today. Whee! Anyone want to recommend a fic for me to read that can be found there but not online?

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Thank you everyone who joined in the Prosfic Advent Calendar again this year - I'm looking forward to catching up with all the festive reading!

You can find the full list of this year's stories here on the Advent Calendar post. *g*

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