The High-up Singing and Alive Fruit

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Sliding in just before deadline again... veronicaluv assigned me luxuria - lust. Be warned. There is naked writhing behind the link... *g*

The High-up Singing and Alive Fruit


Title: The High-up Singing and Alive Fruit
Author: Slantedlight
Slash or Gen: Slash. Definitely.
Archive at ProsLib/Circuit: Certainly.
Disclaimer: Bodie, Doyle and the CI5 universe do not belong to me, I just watch from afar and then play.
Notes: Many thanks to paris7am, shooting2kill, kiwisue and empty_mirrors for helpful beta comments!

Comments

[myrebelcat.livejournal.com]

Oh, all the misunderstandings and miscommunications, on everyone's parts! I didn't see the final one coming, which made for a wonderful ending. Left me with a huge grin on my face.

Thank you! I very much enjoyed this one, especially the way you used the weather throughout the story to set the scene and bring in a bit of peril near the end.

Seems these two never talk except when mortality hits them upside the head, eh?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

D'you know, the whole miscommunications/misunderstandings/for-gawd's-sake-speak-to-each-other is so not me actually, so I was kind of surprised when I realised it was heading that way...Usually I want to slap them around the head myself, but somehow that just didn't work this time!

It's good to make you grin - thank you for telling me!

[myrebelcat.livejournal.com]

It's a device that when poorly executed leaves me wanting to scream with frustration. But when it's well done, it makes me want to go back and read the story again to catch all the little hints I missed the first time.

Poorly done, it's Passions (gag-moi avec un cuillere). Well done, it's any movie by M. Night Shyamalan.

Yours was well done. :-) I had to go back to see events again from Doyle's POV.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh gawd, I remember Passions! *is wide-eyed in wonderment* Oh, and I love Shyamalan - I've still got to catch up on his latest, mind...

Thank you! I'm so glad it worked - that's exactly what I was going for! *breathes huge sigh of relief*

[myrebelcat.livejournal.com]

Was his latest "Lady in the Water"?

We just saw that, and I have to say it was terrific. It had a slow start, mainly because you don't know where he's going with any of it yet. But it's definitely worth hanging in there. By the second half of the movie we were all making wild guesses and getting most of them wrong. It was a hell of a lot of fun - it felt like he was playing with us, leading us first in one direction and then in another, and every now and then breaking the fourth wall to speak directly to the viewer through his characters. Actually, Shyamalan himself plays one of the characters in the building.

It was great fun, as long as you don't take anything too seriously. I think he made that movie for himself first, and the rest of us second.

And pity me - my mother in law watches Passions (and three other soaps) Every. Single. Afternoon. Without fail. If she can't be there, she tapes them. Given that she lives with us half of every year, and the house is too small to get away, I was just about ready to rip my ears off rather than have to overhear any more of that crap. OTOH, she's gone back home now and I already miss her. Not her soaps, just her.

But Fancy needs to die. Now.