The Strength to Care
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| Bodie/Doyle Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Strength to Care |
| Author(s): | Robin Goodfellow |
| Date(s): | 1993 |
| Length: | 28 pages |
| Genre: | at least one fan calls it slash |
| Fandom: | The Professionals |
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The Strength to Care is a Bodie/Doyle Professionals story by Robin Goodfellow.
It was published in British Takeaway #5.
Reactions and Reviews
1990
Kate Nurenberg DOES accept slash. But it has to be a good story and not explicit - no slash for slash sake. There is a very good story in British Takeaway #5 by Robin Goodfellow - just the right length, the right amount of h/c and angst, plausible motivations and it builds slowly to an acceptable realization - none of this rutting by page 2, wot? Not often you read a fan story that's "just right".... [1]
1994
I've been gathering some of my favorite Pros h/c stories to lend to a new fan and just reread one of my favorites - The Strength To Care, by Robin Goodfellow. Now why is this a favorite, you ask? Well, it has some really heavy-duty Doyle torture without going into too much gross detail (if I want gross detail I can imagine it) and a really nice 'discovery scene' where Bodie finds Doyle chained up in a cellar. Bodie gives him first aid, and it is wonderfully touching, and reads like the medical details were checked with an authority. I Really Like discovery scenes. I suppose it's the mingling of fear and relief and the sense of deep emotion that is so erotic. I also like the first aid that generally goes with it - I can play both parts at the same time. There is no sex, but since I'm one of those who 'read for the Relationship' I don't miss it, much. It is a romantic first time story, but not sticky. This story also has some good small parts for women; they are drawn as nice people with lives of their own. Bodie has a woman Friend who appears briefly; the part is too small for a fully-drawn character but there is some individuality to all the women. This story appears in British Takeaway 5, and here is my reason for posting (besides that I wanted to waffle on about the story). How do people control their British Takeaways? For those of you who have not seen one, they are hole-punched and then fastened together with a sort of screw-post thing. These screws work loose, and the pages shake, and you can't open the zine flat, and the holes tear, and in general they are kind of unwieldy. The used copies I have did not even have their screw posts; they are just bundled together with rubber bands. I thought of putting them in binders, but the size seems to be a little bigger than most binders, and the cover sticks out and gets tatty. [2]
1995
My most recent reread was "The Strength To Care", from British Takeaway 5. It has my favorite hurt/comfort 'momemt of discovery' scene, where Bodie finds Doyle chained to a wall, suffering from dehydration, filthy, and with his girlfriend dead at his feet. [3]
References
- ^ comments by Linda Terrell in Short Circuit #3 (October 1990)
- ^ posted to the Virgule-L mailing list, quoted anonymously with permission. (November 10, 1994)
- ^ posted to the Virgule-L mailing list, quoted anonymously with permission. (May 5, 1995)