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ci5hqTitle: iLads
Author: AngelCI5
Link to story or zine/ProsLib info: iLads by AngelCI5
Pairing: Bodie & Doyle
iLads is a funtastic Happy Older Lads fic, really a "banter" story, short and sweet and very strenuous on the midriff. *g*
It´s set from 31st of December 2007 9.41 and sadly already ends a few hours later.
AngelCI5 got the lad´s voices and wording and interacting so right, it´s like watching them on screen.
She added some background informations, which made me wanna read more about the years between then and now, how did they get along, what happened - and it all sounds just like things that would happen to them.
She´s really got a way with words, watch out for the word play, it´s hilarious.
Oh, an watch out again, extreme spoilers ahead.
The thing that really, really cracks me up everytime I read this fantastic fic, is the appendix on Bodies mails: "Sent from my iPhone!"
I know that this is set by default, but including it in the fic is such a little fun detail and makes me laugh again and again.
Wouldn´t it be just like Bodie to include it on purpose, telling everybody: "Hey, I´ve got an iPhone, I am able to sent mails from whereever I am!"?
Another thing is the cream...tells just so much about them!
I wouldn´t mind getting an insight of the things mentioned during their conversation which will happen later on.*g*
I wonder if the mail addies would get answers?
(It´s these details which make the reader part of their life, it´s like spying on them...)
Then there´s the mentioning of the Washington incident. Somebody said she would like to know more about that, and I gotta back her up to the fullest: What exactly did Bodie write?
And that´s although the one point that nags me in this story: Doyle retelling so much about that incident.
They both know what happened, so it´s just for the benefit of the reader, it doesn´t go with the flow of their conversation and it cuts off the sense of looking at them.
It´s like the scene at the beginning of "The Rack", after Doyle hands Bodie the phone when Parker calls and Bodie tells him "Informer". It´s needless and it really needles me.
Honesty now please: How many of you DID go to Twitter and/or Facebook to check out Philip Andrews and Dave Bentley?
I´ll leave it for now, even though I could go on for hours praising this story. It would be more like a re-narration, however, and there wouldn´t be anything left to be added in the comments.
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Date: 2011-06-23 05:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-23 06:35 pm (UTC)I´m glad that loads of poeple don´t mind the reminiscences at all!
So sorry, but you lost me with the ´textese´ - what´s that?
Maybe there´s usually not enough time to mail back and forth? Bodie´s first message is so short...
Thank you for the comment! It´s great to know that so many poeple have the same favourites!
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Date: 2011-06-23 08:23 pm (UTC)Ray y x u get cream on way plz x forget.
The idea is to condense long texts for two reasons - to make typing on a tiny keyboard less laborious and to reduce the number of letters so that the text isn't too big to send in one go. I try not to use it but for anything as long as some of the ones Bodie was sending...
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Date: 2011-06-23 08:29 pm (UTC)Guess they´re still kind of old school types, stick to the "real" thing...
The long way.
Thanks for letting me know!