Your weekly check-in post

[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

[murphybabe]

Never mind them - it's me that's in agony. My hard drive has died and the man said I will most likely lose all my data. That's 7000+ of BB gone. I am gutted.

If I can either retrieve or recreate it, Doyle was in a lot of pain, last time I looked.

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Noooooooooooooo...! God, that's awful about your hard drive. I really hope you can somehow recover it. We *need* Doyle in pain.

[murphybabe]

Thank you. I do know all about back-up, it's just...

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Oh noes! A dying hard drive is a major catastrophe - and you're sounding so brave about it too. You have my deepest sympathy - I hope the very nice man can work a wee miracle and get your data back.

[murphybabe]

Thank you. Fingers crossed. I hope he's a miracle man too.

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

Oh nonononono.... Oh crap, I feel your pain. My motherboard went caput on me at the end of last year and I thought all was lost. They retrieved most of the data off the hard drive in the end so I got my words back. The whole experience got me up to speed rapidly with the cloud, back -up drives and things like dropbox, just so the agony would never repeat... I do so hope the Man is being overly pessimistic about your poot :(

[murphybabe]

I'm glad you got most of your data back - here's hoping they can do the same for me. I do know about back-up, and in theory Norton is looking after everything for me and all I will have to do is reload Norton, click a few times and it will all be put back as it was. However, I'm not sure that that's the normal experience of Norton.

Sorry, edited to add that I said I do know about backup - I'm also one of those stupid people who thinks there's plenty of time to do that and I'll get on to it tomorrow...

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

How horrible! I once accidentally erased half a story. I feel your pain--and Doyle's. Can you scribble down longhand or get as much as you can remember quickly onto the computer in the form of disjointed notes?

[murphybabe]

I like your icon, although gin might be more appropriate at the moment. There is a bloke trying to extract data as I type (on my daughter's laptop) so fingers crossed he can get it back again.

[marjorammax.livejournal.com]

Oh no, I feel for you. Hope you get it sorted.

Meanwhile, where's my USB drive ...?

[murphybabe]

Thank you. Yes, SAVE, SAVE, SAVE!

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

Oh, that HURTS! :( I hope the techy guy can save your data. *hugs* I do hope it can be saved... Doyle in a lot of pain is utterly delicious!