Story unearthed: "In Bourbon Veritas" (Homicide: Life on the Street)
Backke in Ye Daye, I participated in mailing-list fandom for the groundbreaking NBC cop show Homicide: Life on the Street. Homicide was honored, respected, and stylistically innovative; it's also the predecessor to The Wire, and if you've seen The Wire, you'd certainly recognize bits and pieces of Homicide. Terrific program.
Anyway, in the course of playing in Homicide fandom, we at one point had a challenge that I think was known as "Waterfront Kisses". The challenge: write two characters from Homicide kissing in the canon bar called the Waterfront (a neighborhood joint that some of the detectives eventually co-owned).
I was mulling over who I should write and why, when someone joked around about a Tim Bayliss/John Munch kiss as an example of one that would never work.
...welp, that's all it took, I had my idea:
In Bourbon Veritas (1039 words) by Dorinda
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Homicide: Life on the Street
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tim Bayliss/Chris Rawls, Tim Bayliss/John Munch
Characters: Tim Bayliss, John Munch, Chris Rawls, Frank Pembleton
Additional Tags: Kissing, Canon Bisexual Character, Coming Out
Summary: Bayliss is depressed, Munch is unflappable, and the Waterfront brings out a few home truths.
This story was written in late 1998 or early 1999; I don't precisely know, because the mailing list I was on eventually went kaput, and some time later I lost my only copy of the story in a computer mishap. I occasionally poked around online after it but never had any luck, and I had actually given up--until the magical marycrawford unearthed it via the Wayback Machine, against all hope! \o/ So here it is at last, up on AO3, and I will try not to lose it again.
If you haven't seen the show: Tim Bayliss (played by Kyle Secor) eventually canonically came out (to himself, and to his detective partner Frank Pembleton, and over time to the squad [in ways both willing and un-]) as bisexual.
And hey, I don't know the context of this, but someone posted this image on Tumblr of Tim Bayliss (left) and John Munch (right), so there's a visual reference for you.
Anyway, in the course of playing in Homicide fandom, we at one point had a challenge that I think was known as "Waterfront Kisses". The challenge: write two characters from Homicide kissing in the canon bar called the Waterfront (a neighborhood joint that some of the detectives eventually co-owned).
I was mulling over who I should write and why, when someone joked around about a Tim Bayliss/John Munch kiss as an example of one that would never work.
...welp, that's all it took, I had my idea:
In Bourbon Veritas (1039 words) by Dorinda
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Homicide: Life on the Street
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Tim Bayliss/Chris Rawls, Tim Bayliss/John Munch
Characters: Tim Bayliss, John Munch, Chris Rawls, Frank Pembleton
Additional Tags: Kissing, Canon Bisexual Character, Coming Out
Summary: Bayliss is depressed, Munch is unflappable, and the Waterfront brings out a few home truths.
This story was written in late 1998 or early 1999; I don't precisely know, because the mailing list I was on eventually went kaput, and some time later I lost my only copy of the story in a computer mishap. I occasionally poked around online after it but never had any luck, and I had actually given up--until the magical marycrawford unearthed it via the Wayback Machine, against all hope! \o/ So here it is at last, up on AO3, and I will try not to lose it again.
If you haven't seen the show: Tim Bayliss (played by Kyle Secor) eventually canonically came out (to himself, and to his detective partner Frank Pembleton, and over time to the squad [in ways both willing and un-]) as bisexual.
And hey, I don't know the context of this, but someone posted this image on Tumblr of Tim Bayliss (left) and John Munch (right), so there's a visual reference for you.
