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[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Let's not agonise over word counts this week. Let's agonise over...well, agony. Let us know how you are planning on whumping the lads for your Big Bang. What's it to be, a nice unhealthy dose of pleurisy? Pneumonia? Flu and some stealth-hugging? Or how about that old favourite, hypothermia and enforced sleeping-bag/bed sharing? Always love that one myself.

Or are you going the more traditional route of the Pros era, and just planning on shooting and stabbing the lads, with maybe a broken bone or two thrown in for good measure? Enquiring minds want to know.

And then there's the matter of which one to do it all to, right? I personally have a thing for a gruff Doyle trying not to have worry make him ratty, and a Bodie all loose-limbed and wide-eyed from blood loss and/or fever/ blow to the head, etc.

But then a Doyle with all that feisty-ness whumped out of him is also rather appealing..

So share your thoughts and plans below for all the hurt/comfort we can look forward to.

And check this yahoo group out, if you like. dawnebeth and ancastar put me onto this. It's for fanfic writers to ask and get answers to medical shenanigans they want to put their characters through.

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(Best question ever? dawnebeth saw it just after she joined up:

"How long would my character live with an arrow through his heart?")

EDIT: And this one too (thanks liriel1810): Absolute Write, which apparently has lots of gory tidbits on gunshot wounds, etc.

Also, little_details on LJ. Thanks Drayce!

And I suppose I should also warn for spoilers ahead in some of the comments.

Comments

[maddalia.livejournal.com]

Funnily enough, most of my whumping so far is concentrated upon an original character. Hopefully I shall be able to generate enough sympathy for him along the way, that it is not a whumping wasted. *g*

Of the lads, though, I think it's going to be Bodie. My last long fic was horrid to Doyle, so I think it's Bodie's turn!

"Or how about that old favourite, hypothermia and enforced sleeping-bag/bed sharing? Always love that one myself."

Me too! I haven't read nearly enough of that lately. Any good recs to keep me going until BB time?

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Whump is never wasted in fanfic..*g* And I heartily approve of your decision to hurt Bodie this time around.

As to hypothermia, I'm forever freezing their bollocks off and dumping them in cold water, if you wouldn't mind a couple of shameless self-recs?

[maddalia.livejournal.com]

Ooh, excellent - self-rec away!

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Here we go then:

Sanctuary (http://discoveredinalj.livejournal.com/134140.html) Bodie wandering the snowy hills of Wales in search of Doyle.

pre-Red, White and Blue ficlet (http://callistosh65.livejournal.com/32819.html#cutid3) Doyle's gone into a river. Bodie's not unsympathetic - even if it is highly amusing.

A Wintry Discontent (http://the-safehouse.livejournal.com/247896.html) Doyle's the one cold again..

Bed... Or Something Like It (http://callistosh65.livejournal.com/229908.html) 2,500~ ... and here, too.

[maddalia.livejournal.com]

Ah, they were all lovely, thank you! :)

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

Whumping in fanfic is always good. I reckon, if the lads care about your original character, the readers will too. ;)

*g* It's always nice to give both lads a turn at getting whumped. ;)