Reporting in from the fic mines

[sholio]

Just Married is revealed and I wrote a thing!

For Luck and For Love (Biggles/EvS + team, mature, 2800 wds)
A not-quite-legal wedding, with beauty and with love.

This was a treat, written at the very last minute (actually posted post-reveals). I wanted to write something to make up for all my recent defaults, and the "secret wedding" prompt called to me. (I also liked the idea of trying to write marriage fic in the canon world, as much as I adored the homophobia-free AU ones and have written my own, but I liked the challenge of keeping it canon-compliant, and it also felt very them to me to do something like this.)

I still haven't decided whether to sign up for ficinabox. So tempting! But do I really want to sign up to write 10K of fic during a summer when I defaulted on multiple exchanges due to Inability to Word? It seems like a bad idea!

But you know what I am currently eyeing:

....And Your Blorbos Closer flash exchange - forced proximity (one bed, handcuffed together, etc), 300 word minimum, signups close Sept. 2, 1-week writing period. I am TEMPTE. I may be brainstorming tags as we speak. (Signups open on Friday.)

Comments

[sweetsorcery]

Oh god. Okay, is that flash exchange past the nominations stage? I can't find a way to nominate anything nor, for that matter, to sign up. 😱


But also... yay for that particular treat! :D

[sholio]

It is just starting! There are two tagsets; that might be the problem you're having. One is for relationships, and one is for freeforms.

[sweetsorcery]

Got it now! I was confused by landing on the profile page rather than directly on nominations or signups, because it's late afternoon and I'm me. :D

[sholio]

Also, I know Biggles/EvS, Biggles & EvS, and Biggles & EvS & Algy are already in - they just haven't been associated yet - and I nominated EvS & Algy (not in yet) because I am UNABLE to resist the idea of Erich and Algy trapped in an elevator together.

Also re: eta - yay!! (For complete honesty, I wrote it post-deadline because I saw you didn't have any Biggles gifts, I knew you'd written quite a bit for it, and I felt it was only fair that you get some Biggles in return ...)

[sweetsorcery]

Of course those are already in! :D

Aww! I wondered whether that was why I got so lucky. It was very kind of you! ❤️

[black_bentley]

FORCED PROXIMITY MY BELOVED. Oh no I am also tempt.

And I still haven't commented on anything in the justmarried collection, but please know that your contribution is gorgeous and I love it <333

[sholio]

I feel it should be known that I have nominated Algy & EvS because I need them trapped in a lift together.

And thank you! <3333 (I was surprised and delighted to see that you had written something for it, and a long one too! Although I am way behind on reading and commenting on things. T__T But it's so nice to see you posting fic again!)

[black_bentley]

Any confined space would do, really...

I'm glad to be posting again! <333 Not least because I was beginning to worry about whether I'd be able to manage FIAB (which I REALLY want to do), but the fact I managed to pull that one out in a couple of weeks has left me reasonably optimistic :DDD

[sweetsorcery]

Ooh, I'm so glad you're going to do FIAB! You have every reason to be optimistic. :D

[sweetsorcery]

Same!

And same! I've only managed to comment on my gifts so far, but I adore your fic and am delighted you couldn't resist that prompt either. :D

[black_bentley]

Thank you! It was an excellent prompt, 10/10, and I'm very glad it inspired you! :D

(I will confess to an extremely startled and delighted cackle when reading your contribution, because I did in fact get married at Gretna Hall...)

[sweetsorcery]

It really was! I knew I'd end up writing something long, so I made myself wait to claim the PH until I was very sure I could get it done in time without keeling over. Of course, you'd beaten me to it by then, but I don't think rietta89 minded getting two chocolate cakes.

And oh wow! Very cool. :D

[rietta89]

I was levitating with glee to get two chocolate cakes! I could devour an entire bakery of that prompt, especially when they were all SO GOOD. And now that work has finally released me for the weekend, I am very much looking forward to spending my Saturday wallowing in them again and lavishing them with comments ;-)

[sweetsorcery]

Hehe
So pleased you feel that way about it. My initial sadness about being too late to claim the PH turned into sheer delight when I rattled your gift and realised that you (and I, and all of us) would get to read another interpretation of that delicious prompt. :D

Oooh, looking forward to the comment! I'm glad RL has loosened its horrible grip a bit.

[philomytha]

Oh, that is an extremely tasty flash exchange, that entire family of tropes is like candy to me :-D

[rietta89]

OMG, Algy &/ EvS in forced proximity? Heck yes I'm in!

...I might have thrown a couple of other ships in too, just because. Forced Proximity is pretty much my favourite trope ever; thank you for alerting me to this before the nominations period ran out! =D


With the week I've been having, I haven't even had the time & braincells to comment on all my own gifts yet, let alone anyone else's, but I very much enjoyed your fic <3