ci5_boxoftricks | Confronting the Abyss

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stories and art 2011

Confronting the Abyss

Title: Confronting the Abyss
Author: lbc
Artist: Roven
Archive to Pros Lib:Yes
Genre: Slash
Characters/Pairing Bodie/Doyle
Word count: 32,472
Warnings none

Summary: An old friend from Bodie’s merc days has re-entered his life much to the detriment of his partnership with Ray Doyle.
Notes: Thanks to all the authors and artists who contributed to this challenge, and especially to the moderators who worked so hard to help all of us.
My special thanks to Roven for her artwork on my story.

Link to Fic:Fic Master Post/Confronting the Abyss
Link to Art:Art Master Post

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Congratulations on your posting! I shall dive into your story very soon. Thank you, longstrt.

The art is so nice! I want it! LOL! I always want the lads. Thanks, roven!

I hope you like the story. Roven did a wonderful job on the art. I'm hoping that I can figure out what I did wrong on AO3 so that I can post there as well. Thanks again for the note.

If you need help posting the art to AO3, drop me an email. In a nutshell, you need to upload your art to some place that provides the html code. I used photobucket. Then copy and paste the code in the place you wish the art to appear directly into your story file, preview, then post.

Roven was able to post her art on AO3 wonderfully; it was stupid me who couldn't post my story to AO3. Hopefully with the instructions I've been given, I can do so in the next couple of days.

Thanks for the offer of help.

I want the lads, too! Shows just what good taste we have ;) Thanks, Kat!

Congratulations on getting your story online! :D

So yeah, we did it, and after tackling LJ for the better part of the day I think you deserve a nice and quiet evening now :)

Thanks for doing the art. I know it couldn't have been easy, and I definitely think you shouldn't take up crochet because your art was very good. Thanks again.

Ah, thanks, C, I'm not totally pleased with it but I'm glad I got it done! And I won't take up chrochet, I have too many hobbies as it is ;) I need to practice them!

Looking forward to the story; Love the art.

I hope the story meets your expectations. Roven did a great job. Love Ray in his purple robe. Thanks for writing.

Thank you :)

Wow! This was quite an emotional ride! You did the lads reactions well, from Bodie's withdrawal to Ray's anger and hurt, they stayed in character. I liked the way you used scenes from canon to illustrate how and why they felt like they did. I really enjoyed this!

The artwork was gorgeous. The individual portraits are stunning. (I'm particularly fond of the purple robe! *g*)

Well done to both of you! Enjoy the feeling of being done! *g*

You're right that the art was gorgeous. The purple robe is always one of my favorites. I like to use canon episodes if I can and I thought some of the scenes fit the story very well. Thanks for reading the story.

Yes, the purple robe was an image I couldn't get out of my head after reading lbc's story. I really wanted to paint it, although it took me four tries to get something halfway passable, and it could be so much better still. Ah well, might give it a try again! For now I enjoy the feeling of being done, like you said :)

Congratulations on getting it posted. With that many LJ posts I know it must have been a bear. Now you can sit back and relax. :D

It was a bear to post 7 chapters, but I had such trouble with AO3 that I figured I better get it on lj or it wouldn't get posted. I'm going to relax because I feel drained, but I hope to figure out what I did wrong so I can put it on AO3.

I don't know if you usually post your stories to LJ in the Rich Text or the HTML window.

I just ask because a common problem first time posters seem to have with AO3 is that the HTML window is obvious but the tag for the Rich Text window is right above it.

If you have a word document where you used the word program's automatic italicizing, etc., without adding the HTML tags your easiest posting option is to click on the Rich Text window and then click on the Word symbol within that window. A clip board window will pop up. If you copy your document in to that window it will load in exactly the same fashion as your word document.

I don't know how to thank you. That's exactly what my problem was and with your explanation, I think I can do it. I posted a story to another fandom on AO3 quite awhile ago and didn't have any problem so I really wasn't aware of what I was doing wrong.

Thanks again.

I'm always happy to help. :D

That's a really sweet story and I'm glad they both saw sense in the end! Roven, you did a great job, what fantastic original artwork! xx

I wanted readers to feel the tension between the two men, but I could never have them split up totally so the end was inevitable. Thanks for reading it.

Thanks ILWB! *hugs*

I'm looking forward to reading this. I love all that is related to Bodie's merc days.
Fantastic artwork, Roven, the colors and texture are real eye-catchers, Bodie is gorgeous and now I can't get Doyle in his purple robe out of my head. ;-)

I wanted something about Bodie's merc days in the story, but I didn't want that to dominate the story, but it definitely played its part. I hope you enjoy reading the story.

Cloud, you're so nice, you go everywhere and comment - I'm starting to feel silly *g*

I think I might give the robed Doyle another try, maybe a different color, see how it turns out. It still bugs me I didn't get the face right. I'm open for suggestions!

I'm just trying to keep you busy so that you've no time to be hard on yourself. ;-)
I'll think about Doyle and send you suggestions by email.

Edited 2011-10-27 18:42 (UTC)

Congratulations on posting - the art work is fabulous, and I'm so looking forward to reading it. *beams*

Roven's drawings are fantastic. I'm so pleased that you like them. I hope you like my story. Thank you for writing.

Thank you! :)

Yay! Congrats on posting!

I think you've really captured one of the main conflicts in B&D fanfic - their ability to admit both the relationship and that it could be more than a passing fancy. Given their characterization, their despair and innate stubbornness is part of the package. That's a big thing to me.

Roven's artwork captures that crucial point, too - you both got it down.

Kudos to you both!

Thanks for the nice note. I sometimes have trouble with characterization, but I was hoping I carried it off this time. Their relationship is always enigmatic being what the two men are.
Roven's art really helped display that despair so well. Thanks again.

And it feels so good to be done! *g*

Yeah, Bodie's kept his independent streak and it comes out in the story; I'm glad it shows in the picture, too. And you only know what you'd be missing when you're about to lose it or have lost it, right?

Massive congrats on posting, this is really going to be a treat, now I just need a few more hours in the day to catch up on my reading.

Posting this time was a real bear. I tried for hours on AO3, but I couldn't get it to past into the work frame so I figured I better put it on lj and that I even messed up so I was drained by late in the afternoon, but it's finally done. Now I hope I can get it on AO3. Hope you enjoy.
BTW, I love the image on your icon for the episode, Blind Run. That sequence shown is one of my favorites.

Cloudless has taken the words out of my mouth! I also love anything to do with Bodie as a merc so I'm looking forward to reading this. Thanks for your hard work.

I hope you enjoy the story. This long of a story was much harder than I thought it would, but the posting of the story beat everything else. I definitely wasn't expecting so many problems.

An amazing roller-coaster ride above the 'abyss' of emotions! So sorry you had even more difficulties getting the story into its AO3 home than the lads did finding their true home! *g*
The art complements the story beautifully - especially the purple robe!

Thanks so much for your note. I'm still going to try AO3, but it was disheartening to be so inept. You're right that the purple robe is great. Thanks again.

The artwork is gorgeous and I love your summary, so I'm fully intrigued! I look forward to reading this as soon as I can catch up! Thank you!

I very much enjoyed the story, well done!
Without giving anything away I'm just saying I'm glad how the story ended ;)
Thank you!
And many thanks to Roven for the wonderful artwork!

I'm glad you enjoyed it. I was pretty sure about the ending. The trouble was getting there. Thanks for taking the time to write.

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Your art really was great

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Innate stubborness is a good description

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Thanks so much for the note