sholio: pen and ink drawing of the four main Biggles characters (Biggles-team)
Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2023-12-16 09:09 pm
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Fic in a Box author reveals

I wrote - I'm sure you will all be very surprised to learn - a ton of Biggles. I wrote for [personal profile] philomytha and because she had asked for many character relationships, all of which I wanted to write, I ended up writing her a bunch of short fic with a variety of different styles rather than a long one. And then I wrote an Algy/Ginger treat for [personal profile] blackbentley because there wasn't much A/G in the collection and I wanted to make sure she got some nice gifts with her OTP. <3

Like a Kindled Flame (Biggles/EvS, mature, 2600 wds)
After their rescue, Biggles and Erich still have a few things to work out. Sequel to "Hope, and All That Means" by BlackBentley.

Both Philomytha and Blackbentley opted into recursive fic and remixes this year, and I'd been craving a follow-up to the original (which is absolutely lovely, but stops short of the romantic resolution for entirely valid plot reasons). So after checking with BB to make sure it was fine to write a sequel, I did! Delightfully, this one now has a sequel as well.

War Games (gen teamfic with light Biggles/EvS flirtiness, 4900 wds)
Erich participates in a training exercise with the team, post-Looks Back.

I just crave more fic with them Doing Things Together in the general timeframe after Buries a Hatchet and Looks Back. And the idea of all of them running around playing paintball was too charming to pass up.

Three Invitations (gen with background Biggles/EvS, 3000 wds)
Raymond and von Stalhein join each other for refreshments, on three different occasions.

I'm fascinated by Raymond and EvS's dynamic from Hatchet onward, in which they clearly "get" each other as Old Spies in a way that even Biggles doesn't. And I've been thinking about the possibility that they had run into each other more times than Biggles knows about, over the years. So that's what this is about.

Here and Away (gen, Fritz & EvS, 1500 wds)
Fritz and his uncle write to each other.

So, full disclosure, this started out as one of the No True Pair ficlets I wrote back in September, but it never really came together so I shelved it half-finished and then - as this was another of Philomytha's requested relationships - resurrected it when I needed more word count for FIAB, and I really did want to finish it properly! (Though it basically ended up being rewritten from scratch anyway.) I am really interested in Fritz and his mother's transition to living in West Berlin, a place very different from what they're used to, and what that might have been like for them, as well a Fritz's-eye view of his uncle adjusting to life in London and becoming a happier person.

All the Way Back (Algy/Ginger, SFW, 2000 wds)
Algy is lost and hurt, but he knows where home is, if he can find it. Or maybe it will find him.

And last but definitely not least, the Algy/Ginger treat, which is mostly h/c caretaking and cuddling for Algy. <3

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