Flight of Fancy

Bodie/Doyle Fanfiction
Title:	Flight of Fancy
Author(s):	Gael X. Ile
Date(s):	1991
Length:
Genre:	slash
Fandom:	The Professionals
External Links:	PDF
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Flight of Fancy is a Bodie/Doyle story by Gael X. Ile.

It was published in £3 Note Series #3 and is online.

Reactions and Reviews

I know it's just one of fae m glasgow's aliases, and hasn't she been rec'ed enough? Well, no, not really. ^__^ because she is a very good writer with a deft touch and a great ear for dialogue, and luckily for us, her aliases usually are used for funny stories, which this one is. it's a PWP, basically, but it has all the elements of a really good time: deaf OAPs, screaming children, an air steward named skippy, flirting galore, lion-eating lambs, 50,000-foot club, jealousy, satisfaction. . .go on now! it's laugh-out-loud fun from ms. glasgow, and really: how often does anyone get to type that?

Wonderful witty little first time story, including banter, jealousy, flirting, lions, love, sex and the Lads!

Lets start with a stroppy Doyle and a nervous Bodie. Nervous Bodie? On a plane? Even Doyle get's suspicious...

I like this story so much because of the dry, really dry, humour, the many small event scenes that are described with so much feeling and sarkasm.

And because I can see the Lads reacting and talking and acting just so.

Well... thanks for the review, but I hate this story! For me the writing style is too flippant, too glib, too determined to make it funny. I don't see these as 'my' lads at all. It's all far too fluffy and formulaically funny (sorry about the phrasing - I'm in a hurry and can't think of a better way of putting it at the moment. I might revisit later).

For me the writing style is too flippant, too glib, too determined to make it funny.

I probably shouldn't be commenting on this thread because I haven't actually read this particular story, but I just wanted to say that this is exactly why I dislike M Fae's stories.

I've probably deprived myself of some brilliant fic, because I know she's rated very highly as a Pros author by a lot of people, but the first few of her stories that I read seemed to be bending over backwards to get a laugh in every line, with the end result that I didn't find them amusing at all.

Interesting. I certainly appreciate the review from milomaus (and don't want to harsh your mellow! I hope you don't take it amiss; it's not intended in any way to counter your enjoyment). And I like the fact that M Fae wrote a lot in Pros, simply because I'm sure it contributed to the liveliness of the fandom. But I'm another one who finds M Fae's writing style almost universally irritating, so actually I'd be quite curious to understand a bit better what it is that people like about her fics. I don't mind some of her stories, but I don't think there are any that I like a lot. I should admit that I don't read her dark-ending fics since I vanishingly rarely read dark-ending in Pros at all, so that means the M Fae I've read has mostly been her light-hearted stuff. I agree very much with all three of you here, murphybabe, londonronnie and firlefanzine - her writing is so determined to be clever, so in love with word games, so much more interested in fey humour than in the lads that I usually wonder what they're even doing there at all. Too contrived, too over-wrought, too self-consciously "different"!

Loads of stuff that's disliked by others I did like. In this story.

The way she gets overboard with the descriptions, using so many whateverthey'recalled words.... I can SEE them on this plane, I can hear the kids screaming and the old couple struggling and Bodie helping and Bodie getting the giggles because Doyle is helpless entangled in the clutches of a two year old..... I can picture them in the lavatory, confined, pressed together.

I love stories without Bodie thinking this and Doyle thinking that, I mean stories where the author writes down their thoughts in words that in my opinion nobody uses. Thinking HAPPENS. I don't think thoughts can be put into words. So if the story just flows and the thoughts are written like something happening I think it's a great story!

I have mixed feelings about this particular story. I love the early bits, with the dummy tit and small child and the lambies, but I find the whole flirting-with-Skippy and sex-in-a-lavatory business to be more twee than sexy or funny.

So it's not a favorite, but there are bits that stick in my mind. Also, I suspect it's a story that would work better if read aloud.

(I like many of MFae's stories unreservedly, so this is not meant to be a general condemnation by any means.)

It's ok. But somehow it couldn't reach me.

The 'comedy' elements at the beginning are for me more annoying than funny. The 'lion eats lamb' is a nice idea, and also that Bodie is afraid of flying when it's without a parachute. Yes, nice! The first time though is a bit abrupt. I can't see them getting together because of the things that happen here. And for that stunt in the lavatory they are probably thrown out of the plane - hopefully with parachutes. Bodie 'collapsing in a puddle of total hysteria', sex in that tiny lav, the passenger at the door, the cry with orgasm, the last sentence 'they never did get to see the inflight movie...' - that all cries 'no!' in my ears.

Somehow it seems to be a fantasy of the author... ;-)

Yes, I think they are a bit hasty! And they should be more considerate! And certainly I wouldn't eavesdrop at the lavatory door.

Despite all that the story wasn't boring. And I will remember Bodie's way to handle a very annoying little girl! :-)

I like to read M Fae. This one is nice and fluffy and a bit superficial, still I had to laugh.

Sadly, this doesn't do much for me. It's got the broad brush of the lads, but I don't quite see things acting out like this. And the sex is waaaay abrupt; sort of PWP over Lads. I'd think it would take them much longer than a couple hours into a flight to get from first thoughts to actually doing something in that direction.

I like this story so much because of the dry, really dry, humour, the many small event scenes that are described with so much feeling and sarkasm. And because I can see the Lads reacting and talking and acting just so. Yes! I love this story too, for just those reasons. You can hear the author telling the story, but that's M.Fae Glasgow's style, and she does it so well that I'm happy to go with it, and it does make me smile. Lots of people don't seem to like this style at all, but to me it's fairly normal in writing in general. In fandom it certainly seems to be well out of fashion, and very far away from the tightest-possible-pov that seems to be in fashion, so that I wonder if that has something to do with people's reactions - I wonder if older Pros fans (I mean older as in fans-of-Pros-many-years-ago, not age-wise! *g*) felt the same way about Glasgow's style...