Where did June go

[sholio]

auexchange is now in signups, and AU Fest is running again - no signup needed, just submit prompts; see post here. I love this exchange but I am definitely at a point where I need to not sign up for any more exchanges for a couple of months; I may, however, need to post some prompts.

I also just realized that I haven't linked to my gorgeous gifts in Prisoner Exchange yet OH NO; I will fix this as soon as I scrape together some spare brain cells to write up recs. (It ended up turning into another mini Biggles exchange, and I think between this and h/c-ex, all 10 people in the fandom are happily drowning in fic overload.)

snickfic presents the following meme question to be answered in your own space:
What's one of your favorite shippy moments for your ship? Why do you love it?

I cannot choose. I may be forced to create a poll.

Comments

[philomytha]

Missing: Biggles fandom, last seen buried under a mountain of fic!

Yeah, the AU exchange has some amazing tags but it’s a three-fandom minimum signup - but the prompt fest has potential. Also, leaving a prompt last year was an awfully good idea, as it turned out :-D

[sholio]

On the one hand, I feel terrible about not commenting on anything other than my gifts yet, including stories I've already reread multiple times. At the same time, everyone else seems to be having that problem too! (This is not a complaint at all. This is a "I understand exactly what's going on here, and it's that we're all trying to dig our way out from under a glorious mountain of fic.")

Yeah, the AU exchange has some amazing tags but it’s a three-fandom minimum signup - but the prompt fest has potential. Also, leaving a prompt last year was an awfully good idea, as it turned out :-D

Oh, I just realized I misread the rules - I thought it was one of the ones that's gone to a one-fandom minimum, but nope, that's the part about matching; oops. >.> Well, at least that makes not signing up easier.

.... and I had a WONDERFUL time with that prompt last year! It was something I'd been wanting to write anyway, and it turned out to be a great distraction at a time when I really needed one. Actually I was just rereading some of that the other day.

Oh hey, I need to make a list of shippy scenes to do a poll. Any must-haves that you feel need to be on there? :D

[philomytha]

I was rereading it a few weeks ago, in a fandom full of favourite fics it’s particularly adorable <3

Favourite shippy scenes: too many to count, but I adore Erich immediately sharing his last cigarettes in Foreign Legionnaire.

[sholio]

Yessss, that's an excellent one. <3

[philomytha]

I love how it clearly means such different things to them both:

Erich: we are Smoking Our Last Cigarette Together before we go out and die shoulder to shoulder in a blaze of glory
Biggles: a cigarette with a friend will definitely help me think of a way to solve this problem and save all our lives

[sholio]

Nnnngghhh. This is 100% accurate, and I love how drastically differently they can see things while still clicking into perfect compatibility when it counts.

I have now put up a poll of shippy moments.

[sheron]

Oh how lovely!

I also really like how Biggles' way of inviting Erich to come with them at the end of that book is by telling him the others probably have cigarettes! Such a low key way of making it easier for him to accept ♥

[philomytha]

Yes, that’s a wonderful moment. I also am never going to be over Erich saying ‘may I have your orders, please’ to Biggles. He’s asking Biggles to make the decision for him! And Biggles’s response is, why don’t you come over here and have a cigarette (rescue thrown in free) <333

[sheron]

I love that Biggles never lets him off the hook about making his own choice. Biggles offers, von Stalhein has to make the choice ♥ It's just such a layered and wonderful dynamic, I could write a hundred fics and not be tired of it.