ci5hq | Reading Room - Theme IV: Week 2 - Older Lads

Title: 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.