A Game of Two Halves by JoJo

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

Title: A Game of Two Halves
Author: JoJo
Artist: roven75
Archive to Pros Lib: Yes
Genre: Slash
Characters/Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Word count: 20,574

Summary:  Football is not a matter of life and death.  It's much more important than that.

To the lovely roven75, constant_muse, londonronnie and probodie - many thanks, mateys!  All mistakes my own.

Link to Fic: Fic Master Post/A Game of Two Halves
Link to Art: Art Master Post

Comments

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

Yay! JoJo posted! I'm thrilled to see your story go up and Roven's art is amazing!

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

Thank you *g* I've enjoyed the heck out of writing it, and I love love love Roven's art :D

[lillianorchid.livejournal.com]

Seeing the art has made me so very curious about this story! I can't wait to read it. :D

Well done to both of you! :D *\o/*

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

Ooh good, I'm so glad the art has made you curious :D Roven has done a wonderful job of illustrating the story - I hope it's an enjoyable read!

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

Whooo-hooo! Look at you! Posted! Congratulations! I'm off to admire the art work and will, hopefully, be downloading the story in the near future!

YAY!!! Take a bow! Better still, have some wine! And chocolate!

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

I know! Posted!! I am now a real whizz at doing html for italics, as it turned out great swathes of the story is dialogue over the phone.. *headdesk* Heh, it was great fun and I love the art work to pieces :D

*Bows* *Runs for the wine and chocolate*

[cloudless-9193.livejournal.com]

I'm so looking forward to reading it. Excellent artwork by roven, too! :-)

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

I love the artwork! Hope you enjoy the story :D

[cloudless-9193.livejournal.com]

I love it, all of it, the football analogy and how they spend time together in front of the telly, and how Bodie takes care of Doyle in the most tender way, but most of all the way you manage to make perfectly clear they love each other without them ever having to express it verbally. :-)

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

\o/ \o/ massive congrats to both of you on posting, this sounds fantastic and I can't wait to have a read and look at the art. ♥

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

thank you, lovely mod!

[shooting2kill.livejournal.com]

I'm now woefully behind with my reading but I really am looking forward to reading your story. Thanks so much for all your hard work.

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

I haven't even started on this year's stories yet - it's great to have lots of reading to look forward to though. I hope you enjoy!

[krisserci5.livejournal.com]

Look forward to the read. Great art.

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

It is great art, isn't it? Hope you enjoy the read!

[sw33n3y.livejournal.com]

I like the interesting angle you've used! I can't imagine how this will play out, but I'm looking forward to finding out. :D

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

I hope you enjoy how the story goes :D

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on hurling yourselves over the finishing line! The artwork is absolutely beautiful, and I'm dying to read the story... thank you both.

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

I´m here, finally.
I have to stop for a bit and take a breath and some time before I start on your story, I´m just so looking forward to it, it´s not funny any more. *g*

The Art is wonderful, and I have to admit I was told a bit of the plot, just to talk Art of course!

And NOW I´ll start it. Plunging in!
Thank you so much for sharing and writing and - okay, I´m off for real now!
Honest!

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

Heh - I hope you enjoy the story and yes, the art is very wonderful, I'm so impressed with roven's work.

[potztausend.livejournal.com]

I just read the story and it's great. First it is the "construction" of the story, like football, the two different points of view (two halves of a game) and the extra time. It is the way you didn't write what happened at the end of part two, and I had to read the extra time oh so quickly, because I was *really* afraid. That is building up tension!

Second it is the way you are writing. Nothing soppy, no hours-long-discussions about their relationship, but just both men acting like they would in an episode (well.. with a bit of afters added *g*).

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

Yay, I'm glad you liked it! Thanks for letting me know that the construction worked for you, that you felt some of the tension (eeep, sorry for the scare!) and that the lads were recognisable - I really appreciate that :D