There's one in the Wire too(I believe it's his first name, but in a show with people named Wee-Bey, Bird, and Stinkum, who knows?) That's a funny visual.

I believe my brain went to a scarier place than anyone else's.

What, you have a problem with futuristic dystopia underaged rollerskate sex?

IOW: your scary place is my scary place, now with added absurdity!

I've never seen an instant of the Professionals, but was exposed to their fanfic through academic studies. It's very difficult for me to give a shit about fanfic, or indeed the intellectual point being proved via fanfic, when I have no idea who the characters are. So in my brain, I called them Starsky and Hutch. Which, I gather, they basically are, with fewer Miranda rights to deal with, and possibly cooler cars.

How weird to not use Bodie's first name, then.

Now that is a canon thing-- Bodie has first names about as long as your arm (all names of kings or princes or something-- there was a time when I could have quoted them, but I didn't spend long in the fandom, and that time has passed)-- but he hates using them. Everyone calls him 'Bodie', except in very occassional (usually formal) circumstances-- there's a very memorable episode in which Bodie and Doyle are accused of killing a suspect who died while in their custody. At their trial-- which is held in the room where the man died-- Bodie is forced to give all his names.

ETA: Google is a beautiful thing. His full name is William Andrew Philip Bodie.

I don't remember (and it's been a while) Doyle being called anything other than Doyle.

If I had some free time, I'd haul out the DVDs and refresh my memory ..

He isn't called Ray often, but I think both Bodie and Cowley do call him that sometimes-- and I think various of the girls-of-the-week may call him Ray, which would encourage the slashers to do so, and to have Bodie do so.

ETA: actually, Bodie calls him 'Ray' quite a lot of the time. According to these transcripts, in the first ten episodes the name Ray is used for Doyle in eight of them, and in seven the users include Bodie. So not as much of a fan-thing as I'd thought. I'd run up full statistics if I had time.

Doyle, (the fic writer, not the Pros character or the Angel character) wrote a cute little piece of Wes/Gunn.

Huh. Admittedly, I've seen two episodes of Pros, but I've read enough of the fic that the use of Doyle's first name didn't make me blink.

I need this t-shirt; do you?

Oh, I so need the Feedback Whore mug.

I just wandered over to fanfiction.net to check a story of mine to see where I left off and discovered they've now gone to this rating thing from FictionRating.com. WTF?