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Fic: by excess or defect
Aug. 24th, 2023 08:51 pmMy first non-Biggles fic since I picked up Dreamwidth as my primary sounding post! This is also the first time I've ever successfully completed a Big Bang, and for all that it was massively stressful I am quite proud of myself for getting it done.
The real problem with writing this is that I did the first 5k or so and then I read this little book called Biggles and the Black Peril and lost my entire mind. So The Terror (very good television programme, ruined my life in early April) was superceded in my brain by Biggles (we all know Biggles) and it became more difficult to get back to Goodsir and Collins investigating a Jamesian mystery.
This fic is a wholesale pastiche of Casting the Runes, which is one of the very best M.R. James stories and my own fic pales in comparison. But perhaps there is a comparison to be made! Also this story has much more gay sex in it, which is to say that it is on page instead of extrapolated by yours truly from implication (Dunning and Harrington sitting in a train compartment etc etc). Even if you don't read this which I would understand as it is even more niche than my usual fare, I do want to know what your favourite M.R. James is. Mine is The Ash Tree <3
Anyway yes. I wrote twenty three thousand words of semi-epistolary horror with a significant smutty interruption. It's maybe the least typical of me thing I've ever written. And that's good!
The other advantage of writing to a Big Bang deadline is that you get to receive Big Bang art! And I did get some fantastic art, which I will post below. It's by dadforplaid and we had a great time sending panicked messages back and forth about how badly we were procrastinating. But it all turned out alright in the end...
The real problem with writing this is that I did the first 5k or so and then I read this little book called Biggles and the Black Peril and lost my entire mind. So The Terror (very good television programme, ruined my life in early April) was superceded in my brain by Biggles (we all know Biggles) and it became more difficult to get back to Goodsir and Collins investigating a Jamesian mystery.
This fic is a wholesale pastiche of Casting the Runes, which is one of the very best M.R. James stories and my own fic pales in comparison. But perhaps there is a comparison to be made! Also this story has much more gay sex in it, which is to say that it is on page instead of extrapolated by yours truly from implication (Dunning and Harrington sitting in a train compartment etc etc). Even if you don't read this which I would understand as it is even more niche than my usual fare, I do want to know what your favourite M.R. James is. Mine is The Ash Tree <3
Anyway yes. I wrote twenty three thousand words of semi-epistolary horror with a significant smutty interruption. It's maybe the least typical of me thing I've ever written. And that's good!
The other advantage of writing to a Big Bang deadline is that you get to receive Big Bang art! And I did get some fantastic art, which I will post below. It's by dadforplaid and we had a great time sending panicked messages back and forth about how badly we were procrastinating. But it all turned out alright in the end...
