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OK, random little thought, but would anybody like to collaborate to put together a mini digital zine for Miami Vice? I was so charmed looking through a collection of scanned zines of all sorts a while back and thinking about how, according to @mxcatmoon, C/T was vanishingly rare in zines, that I kind of wanted to make my own. If you’re interested, please do reply or message me – anything from art to fic to meta would be appreciated, or just to say you would be interested in reading. Also, I’d love some silly name suggestions. I don’t think we can beat Miami Verse but we can try!

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Right, this got a lot of support over a short period of time so that’s encouraging. I’ve ironed out a few details now so let me present to you, as named by popular interest, HUNGRY EYES:

What’s the core concept?

Pretty much just a fanzine, so a collection of fic, art, and meta/related stuff, related to our fandom, i.e. Miami Vice and more specifically C/T. As of now we’re looking at one issue, but if it goes well then possibly we may make another. Never say never, eh?

I’m interested in contributing, what would you like?

I’d love any contributions of fanfic, fanart, or meta/analysis/essays! It would be much appreciated if these could be things you haven’t previously published, or in the case of meta, things you haven’t published in a ‘fully fledged’ form before, and a soft limit of 5k words for fic and 2.5k words for meta. Baby steps!

In terms of content, please keep fic to at most what you consider to be AO3’s ‘Mature’ label, and art to ‘Teen and Up’, but this is generally a little flexible.

To actually get your submission to me, please send me a message and we’ll sort out the transfer details on a case-by-case basis. Don’t worry, I don’t bite! Please also remember to include how you would like to be credited, though again this can be sorted out. If you’d like to be anonymous, that’s also fine.

Please don’t feel intimidated if you haven’t published any fic, art, or meta before either. This could be the start of something new! (It feels so right, being here with you…)

I don’t do any of that but I’d still like to contribute…

I would also very much appreciate any rec lists (with a brief explanation of each rec), behind the scenes trivia, or really anything that’s related. I’m not really picky! If I can find a way to get it in then I will.

When’s the deadline?

If you’re busy right now, well, good news, so am I! I’m going to be out of serious action for the next two weeks, and while I’ll do my best to respond to any questions in that time, I absolutely can’t do anything too editorial until after that. All this to say, the final submission date will probably be some time mid-August, but I can keep it open if that’s too soon. Take the 15th of August as your working deadline if you’d like one.

How do I get a copy?

When everything’s done and sorted out, I’ll make a PDF (printable) available on my blog, and if you’d like to directly be sent this file, let me know and I will send it to you. I can’t print any myself, unfortunately. It will be completely free, in case you were wondering.

Hopefully that’s a helpful summary! Reblogs would be much appreciated :)

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Right, since my laptop and I have been emotionally reunited, it's probably time for me to get on with some zine business. Drafting an editor's note, picking out fonts, yadda yadda yadda... And a little bit of asking for contributions. So, to get this out of the way, if you've expressed interest on contributing on my previous posts on the matter, I've mentioned you here, in order to a) direct you to the fully detailed reblog pinned on my blog, in case you haven't seen it and b) to get a sense of how many contributions I can expect. If you no longer want to participate, of course that's alright, but if you ARE planning on participating, then please let me know! (And if you'd like to participate but the deadline is too soon, then let me know :) )

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Again, reblogs are much appreciated on the long detailed post!

Also, sneak peek update, I'm trying to organise a sideblog for this, so watch this space :)

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Let's be real, in our imagined post-series C/T move to NYC ending, Crockett would bitch and moan to hell and back about a lot of things but the moment he got his hands on an emo little trench coat and could have one of his emo little look-at-the-horizon-on-the-beach moments except with an even more emo outfit he'd be over the fucking moon. Tubbs would come talk to him while he's looking out over the skyline with a pensive expression and ask him something like 'you okay, partner?' and he'd reply 100% seriously 'yeah I'm fine I'm just giving in to the urge to be a dramatic bitch about nothing'

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Miami Vice s1 is like: popular 80s songs, Don Johnson's beautiful profile must be shown 80% of the time we're looking at him, Philip Michael Thomas needs to be clenching his jaw or extremely flirtatious, crims with more rizz than 90% of people you've met irl, white pants, gold necklaces, Don's shirt sleeve allergy, Ferrari. Philip Michael Thomas must be having sex with a woman in order to use her, boats, did we mention he has a speedboat, has it been more than 15 minutes since we've shown Don Johnson with his hair blowing in the wind in his fucking expensive amazing sexy speedboat? well guess what you're about to see! Alligator that looks fake but is actually real, oh right they're police and have a boss and supporting cast of characters of other police. The Miami skyline acting like it's recognizable outside Miami, hot chip and lie

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The spinoff they tried to sell us: Miami Vice but they're all college kids

The spinoff we would have watched: the Extended Adventures of Izzy

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Buffy and Spike

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Miami Vice 🌴 ⛱️

This is prolly the only flashy post that I will ever make LOL. One of my favorite shows, I finished this drawing last month but wasn't sure of posting it.

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Fuzzy Thought - Handlers and LRRP Dogs

There are quite a few episodes where Castillo 'unleashes the Rottweiler' - giving Crockett just enough instruction to let him 'do that thing he does so well' ... track, flush, and retrieve. With force when necessary.

They are willing participants in that relationship. Guard Dog and Handler - Castillo's word of control is crisply pronounced two syllables: "CROC-KETT!" causing Sonny to back off, but never down. Sonny continues to glare at the problem like a Border Collie told to hold a pen of cattle or a Belgian Malinois' glaring hold of ... well... anything or anyone else.

Oh - don't get me wrong. We see Tubbs call Crockett back too, but it's very much like a brother might. But Castillo? And Crockett? There's a willing participation to engage 'the enemy' as a hierarchical team - where Sonny 'gets the job done' and Martin sets the boundaries of engagement and protects Sonny from the body politic — allowing Crockett to work outside of the fence - so to speak. Beyond the chain of command and away from most of the political bull shit.

And this relationship works... usually. Every so often there's a glitch because - high powered systems with intense components can occasionally break down. LRRP dogs need their rest... and when they don't get it, all that overload is going to go somewhere.

This is one of the ... maybe 2-3-4 times in the entire series where you see Martin really concerned for Sonny - concerned enough that he tries to actually 'handle' his Sr. Detective. The diner in Shadow in the Dark - where MC is coming into to work and Crockett is already drinking bourbon - is classic Crockett/Castillo. They speak in code to one another most of the time, and that scene highlights it.

"Two coffees" - - - This case has you by the balls, lets talk. "One." - - - Naw, Marty, I gotta do this my way. "Cancel the one." - - - Alright, I'll let it go for now but lunge again and i'll pull that goddamned leash so hard your head will pop off.

This conversation is on going until, at the end of the episode, they sit behind the observation room mirror watching lightbulb guy lick things.

"I want you on the desk for a couple of days." Martin putting on his watch (time... take some time to rest) "I'm just tired. I'll be alright." Crockett scrubs his face like he's waking up from the bad dream. "I know." Martin assures Sonny before walking out (who's a good boy? let's get you off that leash so you can chill)

Beyond the creepy-ass light bulb dude and the crazy cop - this episode demonstrates how far Castillo is willing to let his charge go and how much leeway is allowed before checking in. He knows the Guardian needs space to guard and crazy times = crazy measures.

This Handler/Guard Dog repeat time and again - up to and including Crockett being allowed (one might argue encouraged) time to pop over to the Bahamas to clean up the horror of Frank Hackman.

And it works... until someone else grabs the leash.

#miami vice #miamivice #sonny crockett #martin castillo #fandom #fuzzy thoughts

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Thank you Hwang In-ho and Seong Gi-hun

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Writing outlaw fics as a shield of sanity.

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comm for @wintersoldierfell of Spock and Kirk playing Bananagrams, this was so much fun to draw, thank you for working with me! :))

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being late getting into a piece of media or joining a ‘dead’ fandom is not that bad actually cause even if it seems like the party is over there will always be people still celebrating and the decoration is still up and there’s a piece of cake reserved especially for you in the fridge you just have to come and enjoy it.