Sunshine
| Bodie/Doyle Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Sunshine |
| Author(s): | Castalia |
| Date(s): | 1999 |
| Length: | 5 pages |
| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | The Professionals |
| External Links: | Sunshine |
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Sunshine is a Bodie/Doyle story by Castalia.
It is in Roses and Lavender #3 and is online.
Summary
"Doyle thinks it's just games they're playing. Bodie doesn't think so. A story from the darkest depths of Pros."
Reactions and Reviews
...I think this is the one that hooked my into Pros fandom... 'Sunshine', by Castalia. I know, what a way to start out!The random button bypasses the warnings. 'Sunshine' starts dark, gets darker, and ends with a memorable last line. And I thought it was awesome. And couldn't get it out of my head. But I had closed the tab without making a note of the name. I desperately wanted to read it again, and I realised that the odds of finding it on random on the circuit archive were one in... well, about a thousand?
So I ordered the CD on the grounds that I could search the text for that line. It arrived. The word I wanted to search for, it turned out, was a common one, and I couldn't refine the search from memory well enough. But that didn't matter. Because for about four months my bookshelves lay abandoned as I read my way through the entire CD.
Eventually (I read the CD backwards, from Z to A, so it took some time to read my way to C again!) I found it, and found that that 'last' line was actually the penultimate one. It was still brilliant.
Do I think 'Sunshine' is realistic? I think I think it is more ... possible... than I suspect most people do. In a 'stay too long in the job, and they might get very warped indeed' sense, and once you have gone to some places, there is no way back. Once the set-up at the start of the story (well, the flashback) has happened, I can't see how it can end well. But 'true' picture of the lads? I don't see the lads of the series ending up in that setup, so no. Just as well :) [1]
Tread carefully, my friend. :) ... BDSM and death, and I'd [say] it was an unpleasant story. [2]
I had a quick look at it, enough to confirm it's not only disgusting but totally stupid. It made me wonder why so many female authors seem to relish torture, sadism, bdsm, rape, fetish and everything kinky. And, yes, I mean especially women; the men authors (there are a few of them in fanfic) are mainly focused on action and adventure, with violence but not cruelty. My only explanation is a sort of Freudian over-compensation: even now, many women feel weak and are subservient in real life so, in their imaginary world they seek revenge, identifying power with domination and humiliation. Personally I never submitted myself to anything or anyone, not even in my work or with my parents, so I cannot understand the pleasure that some seem to feel in reading scenes where domination is described complacently, especially when associated with sex (even in the purest symbolic way). And no, I am not tolerant towards those leanings. For me, taking pleasure in reading torture scenes or torturing a living person with your own bloodied hands is exactly the same, morally speaking. [3]
I not sure I would have continued reading if "Sunshine" were my introduction to Pros! *g* [4]
What got me was that this was a fandom that could contain this, *and* The Cartland Factor. Werewolves of London and With Age, Comes a TOG Sticker... A Summer's Outing and Fly On The Wall... And we haven't even started on the AUs (because they were not a thing I really got when I arrived here). It was the sheer scope of it, and the fact that it had both gritty and fluffy. [5]
References
- ^ 2014 comments by moonlightmead at The Safehouse
- ^ 2014 comments by moonlightmead at The Safehouse
- ^ 2014 comments by moonlightmead at The Safehouse
- ^ 2014 comments by moonlightmead at The Safehouse
- ^ 2014 comments by moonlightmead at The Safehouse