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I VERY SHOCKINGLY and no doubt to everyone's surprise wrote a whole lot of Biggles.
My assignment was![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
black_bentley, who asked for a variety of different pairings, and I promptly decided to stretch my writing wings by writing a pairing I hadn't written before.
All the Winter Long (Algy/Ginger + EvS, 8K, case fic)
Snowbound at a chalet in the Swiss Alps, Algy and Ginger try to recover a missing packet of papers - and contend with Soviet spies after the same thing.
I had tremendous fun with this. My original plan, as I'd been reading a lot of Golden Age murder mysteries, was to basically put them in one of those - a snowbound hotel, a murder, a missing Maguffin (originally planned to be a box of jewelry), secret doors and clandestine sneaking around, etc. It morphed into more of a Cold War spy adventure when von Stalhein got involved, since I couldn't come up with a good reason why he'd also be there coincidentally when a murder happened, but making the Maguffin a Cold War spy thing was perfect. Anyway, as well as just really enjoying the Algy-Ginger dynamic and the caper/casefic elements, it was also a fun change to write a fic in which the protagonists have absolutely no sympathy for him and a complete indifference to his problems (well-earned, I have to say, since he's also kind of murderously awful towards them). Somewhere in an abandoned farmhouse in Switzerland, von Stalhein is bandaging himself and muttering about how this kind of thing never happens when he's chasing Biggles.
A Kiss From a Fist (Biggles/EvS, 3500)
Undercover with a gang of jewel thieves, Biggles comes face to face with his nemesis and has to interrogate him to keep his cover.
And then to fill out the rest of my wordcount, I flipped back into my wheelhouse with a bit of fake undercover interrogation and dubconny kissing.
I also picked up a pinch hit for Biggles & Algy:
Sunflowers (Biggles & Algy, 1300 words)
Missing scene for Biggles in the Terai, set just after their return to Shara.
Algy really deserved some petting after that book, so I decided to give it to him. This was fun and sweet and made me want to write them some more.
Exit Plan (gen, casefic & h/c, 5600 words)
"What do you mean," Biggles said, "he went to do a job for you, and didn't come back?"
This was either a treat or a pinch hit, I genuinely can't remember now. Either way, this fandom is frankly tailor-made for some flogging h/c. I mean, flogging is canon! It's not my fault.
Days Like These (Biggles/EvS, 1400 words)
Von Stalhein tilted his head slightly to the side. His lips pressed together briefly, as if he was trying to suppress a smile, but it slipped out anyway; his face, so often cool and reserved, was now vividly alive with fond amusement. "Bigglesworth," he said. "Do you want to show me your city?"
And this was just a bit of fluff because they DESERVE a nice date to tourist around a bit.
Anyway, it was great, and I got amazing comments (this fandom has the BEST commenters, I swear) and also absolutely incredible gifts. <3 A+ exchange, would do again.
My assignment was
black_bentley, who asked for a variety of different pairings, and I promptly decided to stretch my writing wings by writing a pairing I hadn't written before. All the Winter Long (Algy/Ginger + EvS, 8K, case fic)
Snowbound at a chalet in the Swiss Alps, Algy and Ginger try to recover a missing packet of papers - and contend with Soviet spies after the same thing.
I had tremendous fun with this. My original plan, as I'd been reading a lot of Golden Age murder mysteries, was to basically put them in one of those - a snowbound hotel, a murder, a missing Maguffin (originally planned to be a box of jewelry), secret doors and clandestine sneaking around, etc. It morphed into more of a Cold War spy adventure when von Stalhein got involved, since I couldn't come up with a good reason why he'd also be there coincidentally when a murder happened, but making the Maguffin a Cold War spy thing was perfect. Anyway, as well as just really enjoying the Algy-Ginger dynamic and the caper/casefic elements, it was also a fun change to write a fic in which the protagonists have absolutely no sympathy for him and a complete indifference to his problems (well-earned, I have to say, since he's also kind of murderously awful towards them). Somewhere in an abandoned farmhouse in Switzerland, von Stalhein is bandaging himself and muttering about how this kind of thing never happens when he's chasing Biggles.
A Kiss From a Fist (Biggles/EvS, 3500)
Undercover with a gang of jewel thieves, Biggles comes face to face with his nemesis and has to interrogate him to keep his cover.
And then to fill out the rest of my wordcount, I flipped back into my wheelhouse with a bit of fake undercover interrogation and dubconny kissing.
I also picked up a pinch hit for Biggles & Algy:
Sunflowers (Biggles & Algy, 1300 words)
Missing scene for Biggles in the Terai, set just after their return to Shara.
Algy really deserved some petting after that book, so I decided to give it to him. This was fun and sweet and made me want to write them some more.
Exit Plan (gen, casefic & h/c, 5600 words)
"What do you mean," Biggles said, "he went to do a job for you, and didn't come back?"
This was either a treat or a pinch hit, I genuinely can't remember now. Either way, this fandom is frankly tailor-made for some flogging h/c. I mean, flogging is canon! It's not my fault.
Days Like These (Biggles/EvS, 1400 words)
Von Stalhein tilted his head slightly to the side. His lips pressed together briefly, as if he was trying to suppress a smile, but it slipped out anyway; his face, so often cool and reserved, was now vividly alive with fond amusement. "Bigglesworth," he said. "Do you want to show me your city?"
And this was just a bit of fluff because they DESERVE a nice date to tourist around a bit.
Anyway, it was great, and I got amazing comments (this fandom has the BEST commenters, I swear) and also absolutely incredible gifts. <3 A+ exchange, would do again.
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And I was very glad to have your Terai postscript after I finished that book! POOR ALGY.
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I find it hilarious that Biggles is so present in the fic that he's not even in, because von Stalhein is so disappointed that he's not there, and Ginger and Algy are so baffled by whatever weird thing Biggles and von Stalhein have going on that they can't forget about as they'd rather because von Stalhein keeps bring it up.
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THIS CANON, I SWEAR.
Ginger and Algy are so baffled by whatever weird thing Biggles and von Stalhein have going on that they can't forget about as they'd rather because von Stalhein keeps bring it up.
LOLOLOL. The one thing EvS and Algy have in common in that fic is that they'd both vastly prefer that Biggles was having to deal with this instead of Algy.
I also loved the comment(s?) I got on the interrogation fic pointing out that Biggles and von Stalhein are being so weird about each other in that one that they're making the bad guys uncomfortable.
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This was amazing and I also loved it.
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It was a great exchange! There was SO much good fic; I don't think there was anything that wasn't a great read. It was like a mini Biggles exchange inside the bigger exchange - and now we have the actual Biggles exchange coming up! :D