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Horrors!

2026-09-21T19:20:01Z

Very short post - I'm in the grips of a WIP at the moment.

On Sunday, I went to see Resident Evil and it was an absolute blast. I've never played the games (although I did buy the RE2make off the back of the film) and I still had an incredible time. It's nothing like the Mila Jovovich film I watched back in lockdown, by dint of actually being good, and I loved the frenetic pace and sheer wetness of the protagonist. He's a good guy but not a brave guy. He needs time to make decisions. He's bad at talking on the phone. He says things like 'oh, interesting' while watching two zombies merging through tendrils of organic matter right in front of him. I love him so bad. I am writing him in the Torment Nexus (time loop) right now.

Also on Sunday, I bought a stack of books from Waterstone's with my voucher from last year's class and in that stack I got Uzumaki by Junji Ito, which I'd obviously heard of and absorbed some panels from but had never read all the way through. What a fucking nightmare of a book! So good! Loved the escalating insanity and the feeling that I myself was getting stuck in the spiral - I really couldn't look away. Art was insane, plot was demented, I felt a bit sick while reading it. Big recommend.

(Here's the time loop WIP, by the way. I'm currently most of the way through a second chapter, trying to get Bryan to the next save room.)

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Id Pro Quo Reveals

2026-08-12T16:10:45Z

Guess what everyone, I learnt an entirely new skill just for Id Pro Quo! An interactive story about Biggles' unknowing journey through the Torment Nexus (Erich von Stalhein's terrible horrible no-good very bad time loop). This is a different time loop than the other one. I just love Time Loops.

Biggles Loops The Loop (17 words) by dotsayers
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Biggles Series - W. E. Johns
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: James "Biggles" Bigglesworth/Erich von Stalhein, James "Biggles" Bigglesworth & Erich Von Stalhein
Characters: James "Biggles" Bigglesworth, Erich von Stalhein, Algy Lacey, Ginger Hebblethwaite, Bertie Lissie
Additional Tags: Time Loop, Interactive Fiction, Temporary Character Death, Pre-Slash, Angst with a Happy Ending, Present Tense
Summary:

Air Detective Inspector James "Biggles" Bigglesworth, DSO, MC, stands on the pavement outside the Mount Street flat he shares with his fellow air policemen. It is a cold and cloudy day in mid-October.

He smokes a cigarette idly as he watches the corner of the street, hazel eyes scrutinising each pedestrian that walks past. He seems to be waiting for someone in particular.

Direct link to the itch.io page

( Some Twine related thoughts )

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Biggles Gets His Men

2026-07-29T15:43:41Z

Now that term is over and I've had the necessary Full Calendar Week to recover (haven't actually recovered and am struck down with a cold), I have finally had the time to actually read a Biggles again!

( Musing on Gets His Men )

Naturally the result of all this is that, in the final furious countdown to Id Pro Quo reveals (lots of excellent fic to be read in there if you haven't perused it yet!!), I penned just over 2k of iddy, dubiously horny sort-of-torture fic, as Biggles/EvS often deserve. I hope you enjoy(?).

Despite it all I did really love getting to hang out with Biggles & Co again. It's been too long! Hopefully my class next year (a seemingly calm bunch of Year 4s) will leave me slightly more time to read rather than requiring regular 2+ hour meetings with the SENCo...

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Id Pro Quo Letter (WIP)

2026-05-03T19:56:18Z

Hello!

I have requested Biggles for this exchange for convenience - if you feel moved to include any characters from the wider WEJLU please feel extremely free to do so.

Requested ship/s: Biggles & EvS, Biggles/EvS
DNW: Permanent character death, rape/non-con, underage, infidelity, WW2 setting

List of requested tags and some general prompt-like thoughts below the cut.

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The Biggles TV Series

2026-04-26T17:58:37Z

As yet another method of novel work procrastination (really don't want to replan this stupid line graphs lesson, but alas...) I have spent the weekend once again scouring the internet for information about the Biggles series. And this time I have actually FOUND THINGS!!

You may already be aware that back in 2024 an episode of the show was uploaded to Youtube. At the time I left an effusive comment and was informed that the rest of the show was extant, but the uploader only had that one single episode. Said episode was pretty naff, and Biggles doesn't even show up until almost eight minutes into a twenty four minute episode. It's not helped by the fact that it's the final of three parts, so we all lack the context necessary to truly appreciate the tragedy of the sinking toy boat.

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Belated Reading Post

2026-04-04T15:32:04Z

HELLO EVERYONE. I am alive. We got our Ofsted call a full term early and therefore I have been snowed under for quite some time, so not much actual reading going on, but I thought I'd drop some thoughts on my current reading material and also very briefly note that the Project Hail Mary film was excellent (went to see it so I was awake enough for end of term karaoke...) even though I don't have immediate plans to read the book.

CURRENTLY READING

I am struggling my way through Can't Spell Treason Without Tea, which I received for Christmas and wish so very deeply I liked more than I do. Cosy fantasy is a tough genre to balance, I think, and to be honest while I understand the criticism of Legends & Lattes I think that book was much more adept at understanding the appeal behind the idea of a fantasy coffeeshop. Meanwhile this book spent about sixty pages on the admin of getting deed authorisation from local government, ten pages on baking nice things for the shop, and maybe one page on the actual books being sold at the magic bookshop run by The World's Most Powerful Mage.

Relatedly, the main couple's excellent conflict resolution skills have been driving me up the wall. I need them to have a proper argument just one time. However, I am compelled by the mystery of the dragon eggs, so I continue my upward climb to the resolution one painfully obvious therapy speak conversation at a time. May or may not do a write-up of my various quibbles with the plot, but it all depends on whether it sticks any sort of landing with the dragons.

Thankfully, the WEJLU discord is just beginning a read-through of the Steeley books so I'll have that to sink into like a warm bath when I need it. Tubby Wilde <3

RECENTLY READ

One of my ongoing projects at school is organising our poor neglected libraries, and while weeding the KS1 library I came across a book I have genuinely been searching for (sans title) for years. It's an extremely short book in the Yellow Bananas strand called Ollie and the Trainers, about a boy who is taught to read by a pair of magic trainers. It was exactly as delightful as I remember it being when I was about seven. Then about ten minutes after finding that one I picked up The Perfect Hamburger by Alexander McCall Smith (yes, that one) which was another hit of pure nostalgia to my veins. Really I should stop reading so many of the books while weeding but it's just fun. I also keep opening cupboards which disgorge hundreds more unsorted books just when I think the whole library is organised. It's unfortunate really.

FUTURE READING

One day I will finish reading The Hands of the Emperor. Is it this day? I don't know. But god I love Cliopher Mdang more than my own life.

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Dear Yuletide Writer [WIP]

2025-10-22T17:46:44Z

Hello! Fandoms I'm requesting this year: A W.E. Johns clean sweep.

General Likes: Presumed Dead, Hurt/Comfort, Identity Porn, Established Relationship, Time Travel/Time Loops, Outsider POV, Curtain Fic, Casefic, Whump General DNWS: Major Character Death, Terminal Illness, Infidelity, Rape/Non-Con between protagonists, Hate Crime/Violent Homophobia, MPreg, Omegaverse, Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic scenarios and AUs

Fandom specific DNWs will be in each sub-category.

Biggles - W.E. Johns
( Prompts )
Worrals - W.E. Johns
( Prompts )
Gimlet - W.E. Johns
( Prompts )
Steeley - W.E. Johns
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The Spyflyers - W.E. Johns
( Prompts )

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Whumptober 2025 Day 20: Symptomatic

2025-10-20T18:53:43Z

No 20: "That's new."

Symptomatic | Fancy Event | Resignation

A little sprinkling of Cub whump, although really he's got nothing but comfort in his near future - and in just the way he can cope with, aka Gimlet puts him to bed then smokes thoughtfully at the window instead of asking any questions about his physical or mental state.

( Cub & the Kittens, 323 words )

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Whumptober 2025 Day 19: Dehumanisation

2025-10-19T18:25:05Z

No 19: "You're on your own, lost in the wild."

Dehumanisation | Living Weapon | On Patrol

Okay so I have been behind on Whumptober this week. But IN MY DEFENSE, it was double Parents Evening this week and I got home at 8pm multiple times. I may or may not catch up, but either way I will be trying to get back into the rhythm soon, and we're about to start the last week of term!

Finally yielded to the Sakhalin fic impulse again, this time with some minor Pat Manton introspection. This also ended up having a bit of an allusion to a Whumptober fill from last year, because I love being self-referential.

( Pat on Sakhalin, 567 words )

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Whumptober 2025 Day 13: Insignia

2025-10-13T19:16:07Z

No 13: "How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished."

Never Enough | Insignia | Forced Retirement

Just a touch of King's Kittens angst, teetering on the edge of their demob.

( Copper & Trapper, 200 words )

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Whumptober 2025 Day 12: Sacred Place/"It'll be for nothing."

2025-10-12T18:52:12Z

No 12: "It'll be for nothing."

Cardiac Arrest | Sacred Place | Withholding Medical Treatment

Struggled mightily today so here is a drabble about the saddest little man in the Jamesian canon, amateur archaeologist Paxton from A Warning to the Curious.

( Paxton, 100 words )

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Whumptober 2025 Day 11: Laceration

2025-10-11T18:57:37Z

No 11: "Can you get through all the pain inside you?"

Hidden Injury | Laceration | Forced Reveal | Alt Prompt: Concussion

It's Ted Scott! He's a fantastic pilot! A fearless mailman! A bearer of plot armour so thick he could jump out of a space shuttle and land with barely a scratch! And today I gave him a concussion <3

This is a sort of alt-canon for an early scene in Flying Against Time, the NINTH Ted Scott book. God. There's too many of them.

( Ted Scott & Walter Hapworth, 1047 words )

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Whumptober 2025 Day 10: Secrets

2025-10-10T18:24:32Z

No 10: "There's nothing you can ever say, nothing you can ever do."

Without Consent | Lips Sewn Shut | Secrets

So in the Steeley book Murder by Air there's a side character called Helene who is [SPOILERS] almost immediately supposed (by Steeley) to be a man crossdressing as a disguise. However, within the canon of the book there's plenty of opportunities for Helene/Constantino to pull back the curtain and return to dressing in a socially expected way, and they don't! So I have adopted the headcanon that Helene/Constantino is exploring some transgender feelings, which is the point of this fic.

( Helene, 743 words )

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Whumptober 2025 Day 9: Touch

2025-10-09T18:42:13Z

No 9: "We'll make it alright to come undone."

Touch | Flashbacks | Scalding

Thanks to Tweague I've developed a Max Carrados interest! This is based on the episode of the Rivals of Sherlock Holmes and its featured physical affection between Carrados and Greatorex, but I have also been reading the short stories from the beginning and enjoying the Max Carrados ride while it lasts (there's not quite as much canon for this as Biggles, lmao).

( Max Carrados, 632 words )

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Whumptober 2025 Day 8: Self-Inflicted Injury

2025-10-08T19:00:35Z

No 8: "Oh horror, oh horror, what did you see?"

Self-Inflicted Injury | Held at Gunpoint | Dissociation

Last year Sholio wrote this great fic which includes a mention of Biggles self-harming during WW1 and since then the concept has lived in my hindbrain like a crouching little gremlin. Obvious warning for self-harm in this one!

( Biggles, 266 words )

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Whumptober 2025 Day 7: Trapped with the Enemy

2025-10-07T18:41:29Z

No 7: "Tell me that you're okay, and I'm fine."

Trapped with the Enemy | Elevator | Pushed Beyond Breaking Point

It's.............. the Daemon AU! I struggled mightily with the prompts today, then I thought, hey, Foreign Legionnaire exists, and then I subsequently thought, I miss my silly daemon OCs.
( Daemon AU, 389 words )

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Whumptober 2025 Day 6: "No grave can hold my body down."

2025-10-06T18:59:31Z

No 6: "No grave can hold my body down."

Caught in a Net | Medical Restraints | Pinned to the Wall

A shorter one today. It's the sort of thing I might revisit later in the month, as at the moment I am battling an entrenched autumn cold and didn't have time for Proper Revenant EvS, which is the vibe I wanted to capture. Warning for MCD (This is my MCD icon. I've decided.)

( Buries a Hatchet AU, ~400 words )

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Whumptober 2025 Day 5: Phobia

2025-10-05T15:08:45Z

No 5: "My panic's at the ceiling, but I'm face down on the carpet."

Quivering | Dream Journal | Phobia

Gimlet whump! Come get your Gimlet whump! This is set post-Gets the Answer, and is basically a snippet about Gimlet responding poorly to his own trauma responses. He doesn't have time for this, guys.

( Gimlet, ~700 words )

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Whumptober 2025 Day 4: "Don't be scared, I've done this before."

2025-10-04T18:02:45Z

No 4: "Don't be scared, I've done this before."
Non-human Whumper | Iron Rod | Loss of Powers

VERY loosely based on the prompts today. This is a side-fic to verse. chorus. verse. in honour of Biggles' terrible horrible no-good very bad day in the time loop where EvS kills him on sight.
( Biggles & the spectre of EvS, 1459 words )

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Whumptober 2025 Day 3: Candlelight

2025-10-03T19:41:58Z

No 3: "I look in people's windows, transfixed by rose golden glows."
Isolation | Candlelight | Found Family

NOT EVEN WHUMP, SORRY LADS.

( Bertie & Gimlet at Strathcarglas, 300 words )

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Whumptober 2025 Day 2: Taking Accountability

2025-10-02T20:07:44Z

No 2: "You’ve got a lot of nerve to dredge up all my fears.”

Prophecy | Sewer | Taking Accountability

This is a loose accountability-taking but I was once again staring at the prompts for most of my free time today in despair. So hooray for writing things at all!

( Fritz & Frau Lowenhardt, 490 words )

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Whumptober 2025 Day 1: Beg for forgiveness

2025-10-01T20:12:21Z

NO 1: "Please don't cry"
Lamb to slaughter | Ceremony | Beg for forgiveness

I don't know if this quite works, but I was struggling mightily to get anything written so I'm just grateful this appeared.

( Algy & EvS, 300ish words )

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The Unofficial Biggles Activity Book

2025-09-28T18:51:05Z

Sometimes you have an idea in the dead of night and then, several weeks later, spend a lazy Sunday bringing it to life.

The puzzles include a logic problem, a ciphered postcard from a Very Mysterious Person, a dot-to-dot picture and several other little problems that I hope bring some measure of joy and whimsy to your day.

Download link is available on Ao3, and can be printed booklet style or as individual pages depending on your preference.

I really enjoyed putting this together, so a sequel may one day occur, but when it does I will definitely spend less time putting together puzzles that turn out to be rubbish and having to bin them (viz. my inability to draw mazes).

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Fic: verse. chorus. verse

2025-09-21T22:50:13Z

verse. chorus. verse. (13374 words) by dotsayers
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Biggles Series - W. E. Johns
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: James "Biggles" Bigglesworth/Erich von Stalhein, James "Biggles" Bigglesworth & Erich Von Stalhein, James Bigglesworth & Ginger Hebblethwaite & Algy Lacey & Bertie Lissie & Erich von Stalhein
Characters: Erich von Stalhein, James "Biggles" Bigglesworth, Algy Lacey, Bertie Lissie, Ginger Hebblethwaite, Lorrington "Gimlet" King
Additional Tags: Time Loop, Temporary Character Death, Suicide, Whump, Angst with a Happy Ending, Unreliable Narrator, Dubious Morality, Not Beta Read, POV Third Person Limited
Summary:

A sharp clatter from the street woke Erich from an uneasy dream.

(Erich von Stalhein is trapped in a snare from which he cannot escape alone.)

a year and a half ago i posted an excerpt of this wip on dreamwidth, then barely touched it until 2pm today. then i wrote nine thousand words of it

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hAPPy birthday exchange reveals!

2025-08-20T19:28:56Z

I joined this exchange expecting to write a bit of Biggles fic to keep my hand in, which admittedly I did. But I also committed almost five thousand words of original vampire filth, which was less expected.

My main assignment was for karanguni, who I only discovered after writing and posting actually coded the app which the exchange celebrates, and I ended up writing Original Work because emulating Pterry felt too difficult for an exchange with such a tight turnaround. So instead I wrote, as mentioned, five thousand words of original vampire filth.

I thought about the characters in this a normal amount and now I've got Ideas for the continuing adventures of Laurence de Ros, horrible vampire, and his tailor William Cooper, horrible vampire fetishist. They will have a spring wedding if they don't kill each other first.

For treats, I wrote in plane sight for philomytha, for her prompt about EvS as a were-plane which I've always thought is a fantastic prompt so I was pleased to knock out a triple drabble for it, featuring EvS as an off-pattern biplane with dubious instruments and Biggles Just Going With It. I imagine he's been awake for three days and has essentially thrown his hands up at the universe. I also wrote observant for ysande , which features Bertie and Gimlet sniping at each other for two hundred words while things blow up in the distance.

I RECEIVED a FANTASTIC fic from ysande, a courtroom transcript fic about EvS being put on trial for hurting Biggles, and it's such a perfect encapsulation of the Algy&EvS dynamic as well as the Biggles -> EvS dynamic, it's so wonderful and I can't stop smiling thinking about it. It really evokes the first chapter of Strong Poison in tone, I enjoyed it muchly - and the cameo by the most handsome man in England, of course!

And lastly I must rec Steeplechase by Philomytha, just the most perfect bit of Bertie&EvS whump with GIMLET EX MACHINA!!!!

EDIT: ALSO ALSO ALSO, not in the exchange but tweague wrote a TWENTY THOUSAND WORD Ted Scott fanfic of filth and delight, it is SO fucking good, everyone must read it immediately even if they have less than 0 interest in the actual books.

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