Vogeltanz (Fic)

[intradependency]

Title: Vogeltanz
Pros-Lib / Circuit Archive: No thanks
Characters: Bodie, Doyle, Cowley, an interviewer, a plot device necessary for fast and clumsy exposition via dialogue random dude from MI5
Rating: Everyone
Word count: ~1780
Warnings: It could be considered crack.
Summary: Early in CI5's establishment.  A segment from Bodie and Doyle's respective

Comments

[merentha13]

This was great fun! I think I'll be smiling all day. Some great lines - about Doyle's hair and both mens response to THE question - I can picture them answering in just the way you've written it! Well done!

[intradependency]

Hey, thanks! Glad to bring a smile. I couldn't stop grinning myself when I was trying to imagine how they'd respond to it.

[potztausend]

Omg - I didn't know this dance is international... in Germany it's sometimes called "Vogeltanz" and sometimes "Ententanz" which means "Duck's Dance".

It might interest some that the German word "Vögel" (the plural of Vogel, a vowel mutation, Voegel), which means "birds", nearly sounds like "vögeln" (voegeln), which means shagging or screwing. F.e. a "Vögeltanz" might be a "birds dance" or a "shagging dance". So your genre "gen" ist a sort of "gen with a tiny bit of slash" ;-)

Btw - I like your story, it's funny and realistic for Bodie, Doyle and Cowley.

[intradependency]

Thanks! I didn't know either about the Vogeltanz -- Wikipedia enlightened me a little, the dance has been in existence in some form or another since 1953?! I thought only kids or very drunk blokes on celebratory football drinking binges did it. ;)

Hee, shagging dance. :D If they ever compared notes on how they responded, it would surely lead somewhere.

[firlefanzine]

That is fun to read!
I like Cowley's method to gather all information and methods, but then deciding on his own - gut feeling... :-)

(that dance IS terrible!)

[intradependency]

Thank you! I figured in the early days of CI5, Cowley would have to play an appeasement game with various departments, in exchange for the relative amount of freedom he's been given. (That whole CI5-totally open brief still throws me!) So he is very nice, and nods and smiles a lot, and lets other people do all the work they want to do...then goes off and does his own thing.

(...but there is bum-shaking!)