Prosfic - Perfect Alignment

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

At 0.22 GMT (the lads' time!) the northern hemisphere was tilted as far from the sun as it could be, and so the sun has now set in my tiny part of the Subarctic for 20 hours and 19 minutes straight. Also - it's snowing outside! So for this long, dark, cold night - Prosfic.

Perfect Alignment



Title: Perfect Alignment
Author: Slantedlight
Slash or Gen: Slash
Archive at ProsLib/Circuit/Hatstand: Certainly, if wanted!
Disclaimer: Bodie, Doyle and the CI5 universe do not belong to me, and I certainly don't make any money out of them. I'm just borrowing them to play. Good games.
Notes: Gorgeous graphic by empty_mirrors, and many thanks also to her for betaing and general hand-holding!

Comments

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Thank you! So happy you liked it! I suppose I tend to think of the lads mostly from a relationship-y angle, but I quite like having some sort of "mission" as the background, just to give it all something to hang on... Gld it works for you! I've been bad this year about reading anything non-Pros at all, but one day I am going to go through your lj and read your stories, I promise... I just have to get my head out of the Pros-verse for a bit!

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

I love the 'mission' based stories. I love PWP too, but I feel as if I'd need to be able to write one to write the other, if that makes sense?

The only fic of mine with any hint of 'episode' is the one I did for a Spooks ficathon. But I'm busy doing an edit on a novel length detective story ...Thing is, it's original fic so I don't have to worry about canon!

BTW, daughter wants to know if you by any chance did your first degree at Sussex as she thinks there can't be too many people studying ice ...so I said I'd ask!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Ack! I can't believe I forgot to answer you, I'm so sorry! Sorry to Daughter too, I wasn't ignoring her, just... a bit useless...

No, I did my first degree at Manchester Uni, then a PGCE in Leeds, then my MA here in Fairbanks! But I wasn't studying ice back then at all... *g* And actually there are more people studying ice these days than you might think - someone said it was melting, and now everyone and their dog wants to check. (Though the dogs mostly just get in the way...) Actually I'm going to do research this summer at the Scott Polar Research Centre in Cambridge - and that place is all about the ice!

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

Thanks for getting back to me! fledge (daughter) was at Sussex with someone from Manchester who went on to study ice, so she thought she'd ask! She was interested in the articles about North Pole, which is how the conversation started ...She's a slasher too, but in Star Wars and SGA.
Manchester was my uni, but a looooong time ago!

Cambridge sounds a lovely place to spend the summer!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not really the ice itself that I'm studying, so I'm a bit of a fraud really. I mean, it is, but not in a way that means I'll ever need to go out in it (although I wish I could just for the experience...) There's lots of people here who do that though.

I'm always dead pleased when I hear about mum-daughter slashers - yeay for sharing (even if it's not Pros *g*)! (I think I'm reacting to the fact that I have a very very very old fashioned mum - definitely not on the cards to talk about anything like slash!)

Well it was a pretty long time ago that I was at Man Uni too - waaaay back in the 80s at least...

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

Definitely a mum/daughter team. In fact, she introduced me to slash but she knew in advance I wouldn't be shocked. Our taste in programmes/fics only overlaps occasionally. Sometimes I recommend Pros fic and sometimes she recs SGA (and I even wrote one, but it was part of the penguin fic silliness so I'm not sure if it counts). We go to slash conventions (Connotations; Tynemouth; October) together, and we're booked to go to a slash study day at De Montfort Uni in Leicester, at the end of February - Sheenagh Pugh's the keynote speaker (The Democratic Genre - fan fiction in a literary context).

I was at Man Uni in the 60s so I win.

I wouldn't go out in the ice for anything!!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

There are slash study days?!

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

See:
http://cfp.english.upenn.edu/archive/Computing-Internet/0324.html

Some of my flist went to the first one last year. I heard about it at Connotations (a slash fanfic writers' convention held in Tynemouth each October - and yes, there are Pros fans there, and even old Pros zines to browse through ...).
See what you're missing in all that ice? :)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Ah... I've heard of Connotations... and ooh, I should be in the UK in October this year... *g*

I'm missing many things up here in this ice - I actually think it's time to come home... I'm hoping to base myself back home to finish my PhD actually, I've just gotta persuade my advisor that I won't give up on it if I do that... :s

[moth2fic.livejournal.com]

2007's Connotations is 12/13/14 October. Join connotations for all info. Hope you can come! If hotel costs are a problem I know some con-goers who rent apartments cheaply - Fledge and I did that last year but although we enjoyed the walk along the seafront to and fro we missed the cameraderie at breakfast etc! We did it because the hotel was dire the previous year but apparently it has taken everyone's comments on board and improved!

I shall listen very carefully in Leicester on your behalf and post a review of the day! Have you read The Democratic Genre? If not, you should.