Gruff 'n' Grim
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Title: | Gruff & Grim |
Author(s): | HG |
Date(s): | September 1984 "written for three friends" |
Length: | 8 typewritten pages |
Genre(s): | slash |
Fandom(s): | The Professionals |
Relationship(s): | |
External Links: | online here |
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Gruff & Grim is a Professionals story by HG. It was an 8-page circuit story that was later republished in HG Collected #2. Two sequels to the story are X-Ray-Ted and Bear With Me.
It is a story on The 1985 Hatstand Express Top Ten Lists.
Summaries
Author's summary: "Bodie and Doyle discover some old friends." On a copy of the circuit zine, these friends are listed as "Barbara, Trish, & Amanda."
Reactions and Reviews
1986
I can hear the groans from here... I guess you either love this story or hate it. I'm a bear person, I love it. As one who lives with bears I appreciate these two - the author obviously understands bears and it shows.[1]
1988
Another one of those wonderfully charming little teddy bear stories which abound in this fandom; such an engaging flight of whimsy to reunite both Bodie and Doyle with their childhood teddies. [3]
Another short story where characterization is especially fine is in "Gruff and Grimm." Not only the bears are given vivid personalities; the natures of the young Doyle and Bodie are well drawn, leaving the reader with a good feel for what the men were like as boys; thereby giving the reader insight into the adults as well. [4]
2007
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* [5]
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. [6]Not a good look for him I didn't think. [7]
References
- ^ In The Hatstand Express #6 from a fan listing what was supposed to be her top 10 Pros stories; the list turned out to be 50 stories long
- ^ from The Hatstand Express #7
- ^ from The Hatstand Express #18 (1988)
- ^ from The Hatstand Express #18
- ^ byslantedlight wrote in ci5hq, 7.16.2007
- ^ This is probably one of Jane of Australia's stories. This is one with a horned Bodie.
- ^ sc_fossil wrote in ci5hq, 7.17.2007