Fic Rec: "Gruff 'n' Grim" and "X-Ray-Ted"

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Title: Gruff 'n' Grim and X-Ray-Ted
Author: HG
Link to story: Gruff 'n' Grim and X-Ray-Ted (both require membership of Yahoo group ProsLib).

So, I wouldn't normally call myself someone who had a big thing for teddy bear fic, but these were HG, so when I found them over at ProsLib (and btw, is anyone else not getting ProsLib emails, even if their settings all seem to be fine?) I had to read them on that basis alone.

And I totally found myself laughing, and feeling a bit warm and fuzzy, and laughing more... the bit after Ray reads the book! Just - heeeeeee!

Yes, there are teddy bears, but there's also Bodie and Doyle, and as HG is so good at doing, they are perfectly themselves, totally together and just... oh, go and read! I promise it'll be worth it - feel good fic at its finest. *g*

Comments

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have to say...the descriptions...I mean, I just wouldn't read these, right? *g* But I did and I fell for them completely many years ago. Fine. Label me what you will. I like these stories! Those teddy bears...oh, just go read them! *g*

[probodie.livejournal.com]

Oh I loved these stories; they are just soooo cute, arent they? I want to snuggle the bears up together :-)

I would rather have these ficlets than any that show Doyle as an Elf/Cat/whatever, quite frankly.

[squeeful.livejournal.com]

O_o I hadn't even noticed I wasn't receiving emails until you said because I have been receiving some. I just thought it was a slow week.

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

I'm ambivalent to these types of stories. The writing in these was great, and they were cute, but I found myself skimming the teddy parts and rushing to the the B/D parts. Reading the book part was fun. Funny for a romance writer to find these types a bit too much, considering the mush I'll read! The "voices" for the teddies was right on, so it's definitely just me.

I do believe I'll pass on the Doyle as an elf type stories. I've never found Blair Sandburg as an elf entertaining, so I doubt I'd find Doyle as one my cup of tea either. A cat? Is Doyle a shape shifter of some sort? Is there canon for that? +beg+ You'd better clue me in if I have bestiality stories to avoid! LOL. There are some in Sentinel since both main characters have animal spirits and have morphed into them in vision sequences in canon, so I know where those are lurking. It never crossed my mind there would be those types of stories in Pros. But now that it's been mentioned, I do remember seeing art in a zine with Doyle sporting horns. Not a good look for him I didn't think.