Fic In A Box Reveals!
Dec. 17th, 2023 09:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosanicusI wrote five (count 'em! FIVE!) stories for Fic In A Box this year! My primary recipient was wateroverstone and so I ventured deep into the teatime of the soul in order to write her some pornography, which didn't end up as smutty as I'd hoped but was definitely overfull of what I lovingly nicknamed 'pragmatic sex lichen' while chatting about it with black_bentley .
Biggles
of dubious scientific merit (5.7k, Biggles/Algy, E)
At last the mystery of who wrote the Biggles/Algy smut is solved! I've never written Biggles/Algy or sex pollen before so this was a real education in my own limits.
ddraig fach (1.3k, Biggles & Algy & Ginger, Gen)
The stealth crossover with Ivor the Engine that Biggles fandom has been asking for! I really liked the idea of the team meeting a dragon and when I decided to set it in North Wales this was the only logical conclusion to draw.
window shopping (1k, Algy & Ginger, Gen)
Biggles as the impossible-to-shop-for male relative is a headcanon I will cling to for the rest of my life.
qui est iste qui venit? (2k, &Co, Gen)
This one is an unapologetic pastiche of M.R. James' classic short story 'Oh Whistle And I'll Come To You', with a little bit of Barchester mixed in for fun. I love M.R. James (this is the second Jamesian pastiche I wrote this year, even!) so I was very pleased that wateroverstone's prompts included a bit of horror.
Original Work
AITA for trying to make friends post-divorce? (2k, Gen)
I have an unfortunate AITA habit in my spare time so obviously when the PH for this prompt came up I leapt on it like a starving tiger.
Now that this is all revealed I may finally have the time and brain to comment on all the fantastic Biggles bounty we were served with!!! And I must give extra special thanks to Rietta89, who wrote my excellent gift of 10k of Trans Biggles, the best thing I've ever woken up to in my life.
wateroverstone and so I ventured deep into the teatime of the soul in order to write her some pornography, which didn't end up as smutty as I'd hoped but was definitely overfull of what I lovingly nicknamed 'pragmatic sex lichen' while chatting about it with black_bentley .Biggles
of dubious scientific merit (5.7k, Biggles/Algy, E)
At last the mystery of who wrote the Biggles/Algy smut is solved! I've never written Biggles/Algy or sex pollen before so this was a real education in my own limits.
ddraig fach (1.3k, Biggles & Algy & Ginger, Gen)
The stealth crossover with Ivor the Engine that Biggles fandom has been asking for! I really liked the idea of the team meeting a dragon and when I decided to set it in North Wales this was the only logical conclusion to draw.
window shopping (1k, Algy & Ginger, Gen)
Biggles as the impossible-to-shop-for male relative is a headcanon I will cling to for the rest of my life.
qui est iste qui venit? (2k, &Co, Gen)
This one is an unapologetic pastiche of M.R. James' classic short story 'Oh Whistle And I'll Come To You', with a little bit of Barchester mixed in for fun. I love M.R. James (this is the second Jamesian pastiche I wrote this year, even!) so I was very pleased that wateroverstone's prompts included a bit of horror.
Original Work
AITA for trying to make friends post-divorce? (2k, Gen)
I have an unfortunate AITA habit in my spare time so obviously when the PH for this prompt came up I leapt on it like a starving tiger.
Now that this is all revealed I may finally have the time and brain to comment on all the fantastic Biggles bounty we were served with!!! And I must give extra special thanks to Rietta89, who wrote my excellent gift of 10k of Trans Biggles, the best thing I've ever woken up to in my life.
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Date: 2023-12-17 08:55 pm (UTC)I owe you many proper comments, but will repeat that the haunted biscuit tin was fantastic.
Also, I agree that trans Biggles is a joy.
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Date: 2023-12-17 09:09 pm (UTC)Whether you comment or not I have really appreciated your cheerleading messages during the whole process <3
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Date: 2023-12-17 11:06 pm (UTC)And now that authors have been revealed, I can finally ask you which is the favourite short story that you alluded to in your previous post? (I've been interested to know for a fortnight but didn't want to give myself away!)
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Date: 2023-12-18 05:07 pm (UTC)And my favourite short story is On Leave, because it has such a deeply satisfying fuck you to the war profiteer and also involves some killer aerial manoeuvres, two of my favourite things. Also the careful managing of Biggles while he's very clearly at the end of his tether, I love how 266 squadron bands together like that in so many stories. And then you made On Leave even better by making the friend of Biggles' father a new confidante <3