Rachid (Professionals story by Lainie Stone)
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| Bodie/Doyle Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Rachid |
| Author(s): | Lainie Stone |
| Date(s): | |
| Length: | 41 typewritten pages |
| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | The Professionals |
| External Links: | ProsLib CD |
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Rachid is a Bodie/Doyle circuit story by Lainie Stone.
It is a story on The 1985 Hatstand Express Top Ten Lists.
E.T. also wrote a Professionals story with the same name.
Reactions and Reviews
I admit it, I always had a weakness for Sinbad movies. This is hokey as hell, and full of cliches, and absolutely delightful. I want to see a picture of Rachid, in the green silk trousers, with the emerald in his ear...[1]
Just read this tonight, and I'm all happy-in-the-glow somehow, so I thought I'd better share it! This story was lovely! I really liked it! If you have any interest at all in AU Doyle-type/Bodie-type slash, based on other roles they've played, then do go and read it now!Rachid is based, of course, on MS's character in "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad" - which movie/screenplay was actually written by Brian Clemens, and contains the wise words: "Trust in god - but tie your camel first"! Now where have we heard that before?! More importantly, it also contains MS as a swashbuckling sailor from the exotic Far East - and in the story by LS he meets a character who looks remarkably like Bodie, and makes me believe even more happily in reincarnation...
I read it all the way through in a sort of mock-Rachid accent, without being thrown into the modern world once, and LS also managed the trick of making me care for these characters, where I normally would be reading un-B/un-D with a sort of tolerance. So yeay! [2]
Oh yes, I like this. Well, I like all of Lainie Stone's stories. I wish they were online, because I think too many people miss them on the CD.[3]
I know I definitely have missed them from the CD - I think I read one that I didn't like (can't remember which one now) and she ended up in my pile of "authors who aren't my cup of tea" which is very very unfair of me, because I know that even if I don't like one story from an author I might like another! [4]
I love Rachid and Brass in Pocket. She has a brilliant way of approaching sexuality - if it feels good, do it, and if it's not good (like the rape stuff), her guys get over it. If there is any angst, it's in the love story, not the trauma. Rachid is pure fantasy, and I think we've gone away from that, so it's kind of refreshing in a backwards-looking way to read "old school" like hers and realise it can fucking work. And that you can read terms like "velvet column" and not have conniptions about purple prose because she's such a good storyteller.[5]