Even better!
Handsome brooding vampire guy has to swoop in all sensitive mouth and overhanging forehead. How 'bout leaving some scraps for the homely-looking fellows who don't turn evil when they get some?
Doyle ,'Life of the Party'
Buffista Fic: It Could Be Plot Bunnies
Where the Buffistas let their fanfic creative juices flow. May contain erotica.
sumi - Nov 01, 2004 12:28:25 pm PST #9735 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Anne W. - Nov 01, 2004 3:38:15 pm PST #9736 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Okay, I need a bit of help, if y'all don't mind.
I'm trying to set up a suicide (in my story, not IRL) that will look more like murder until things are examined more closely. The people investigating the case will be inclined to dismiss suicide as an option, so that's something of help.
Thoughts? I need to make sure that the suicide-not-murder realization is believable while still giving good HSQ.
deborah grabien - Nov 01, 2004 3:46:23 pm PST #9737 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Anne, are you asking about methods, pathology, or....?
erikaj - Nov 01, 2004 3:52:10 pm PST #9738 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Hmm...funky looking ligatures from a hanging? Cause it worked in reverse for D'Angelo Barksdale on "The Wire"...of course part of that is that law enforcement didn't give a crap about D.
Anne W. - Nov 01, 2004 3:54:51 pm PST #9739 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Anne, are you asking about methods, pathology
Um, both, I guess. I need to figure out how the deed is done, and what will make the investigators assume murder rather than suicide.
Funky ligatures could work--what makes them funky, though?
Signed,
Hasn't yet seen "The Wire"
erikaj - Nov 01, 2004 4:04:43 pm PST #9740 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Something about the way the noose landed across Barksdale's neck iirc showed that he couldn't possibly have done it himself, and I forget why. Maybe there were bruises on other parts of his body. But DOC didn't care cause he was in on drug charges so even the ME was kind of like "Eh." McNulty, who stirs up the pot by getting up every morning, found the "mistake". You'll either love The Wire or find it deadly slow. There seems to be no middle ground on it.
Betsy HP - Nov 01, 2004 4:53:27 pm PST #9741 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
If you have a suicide and somebody destroys the note before the police see it, that always helps.
Anne W. - Nov 01, 2004 4:56:53 pm PST #9742 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Ooh! That's a great idea, Betsy! In fact, if I play it right, it could just add to the pain, which is of the good in this case.
erikaj - Nov 01, 2004 5:28:48 pm PST #9743 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Pain? Of the good. Can only mean Bayliss!fic. Or you know, Xander Harris.(Which is kind of the same thing, minus about twenty years and one always-open murder case, but I've already talked about that a couple other places.)
Connie Neil - Nov 01, 2004 6:49:55 pm PST #9744 of 10001
brillig
If you're going with hanging, there's also the point that if the drop wasn't far enough to break the neck, then the person got to go out the slow way. So if he's died of strangulation without much sign of a struggle, then odds are he didn't do it by hanging. There would also be different wear signs on the rope if a body's weight dropped to the end of it, as in jumping off a chair, or if the body was hoisted up.
(researched it for another story)