Arctic Light

unsent_letters_exchange author reveals are out, and my shockingly unsurprising entry is Eloquent (Biggles/EvS, 2100 words).

In other recent exchange developments, I joined in the Mismatched Tropes flash exchange and got two lovely small gifts: A Safe Landing (Biggles wingfic) and Cuddly Circumstances (B5, Londo & Vir, literal cuddle pollen).

There is also this thoroughly satisfying snippet written by philomytha for a prompt I left her: Any Biggles characters, revolutions.

Hi! Thank you so much for writing for me! I'm very excited to see what you come up with, and I'm sure I'll like whatever you make.

Don't worry about whether you're sticking close enough to the requested horror type, or whether your story is horror enough. If the story wanders, that's fine. The prompts are for suggestions only and not meant to confine you to only writing those ideas. I'm fine with something short and atmospheric rather than plotty (but also love long plotty fic!). You can also feel free to mix and match prompts from different requests, as long as my DNW and pairing requests are respected.

I welcome treats!

( General likes )

( Horror likes )

( Horror Do Not Want )

Fandoms

( Biggles series - W.E. Johns )

( MASH )

( Babylon 5 )

Two new exchanges are currently in nominations!

caseficexchange is taking nominations until April 13. (Signups April 14-27; due July 11.) This exchange has a 3K minimum.

whumpex has the same nomination/signup deadlines, but a shorter writing period (due May 27) and a 500-word minimum.

Both of these have a 1 fandom minimum for signing up.

(Why yes, I am thinking about signing up for one or both of them.)

So this is actually NOT the fic of Ysande's from Closer Flash that I asked permission to write a follow-up to, but I was just kind of noodling on fic this morning and ended up writing a snippet following on from ysande's A Hard Bargain and specifically one of the comments (under the cut).

I'm posting it here rather than there so ysande knows there's no obligation to comment on it!

Under the cut: 800 words of Biggles-EvS-Algy post-awkward-gen-snuggling, maybe a little sad/wistful at the end, but in the same way that the fic is. I think you probably need to read the fic first for this to make sense ...

( 800 words of awkward morning-after-snuggling under the cut )

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.)

Summer of Horror authors are revealed! I had to drop out of this one, but I want to reiterate my love for my excellent ghost-story gift and the rest of the Biggles offerings. (I'm glad my recipient ended up getting a lovely gift!)

At the moment, summerofhorrorexchange is running a poll on Oct/Nov deadline dates for a fall horror promptfest and I'm hoping to get in on that! Head over and vote on a date if this is something you might be interested in too.

I haven't been around much lately and I kinda fell off a comment-answering cliff; SORRY. In the meantime, I perhaps ill-advisedly signed up for fluffityfluffexchange (signups close Apr 2) because of reasons, in spite of barely having had time to look at my h/c-ex assignment. I'm sure the fandom I signed up with will be a complete shock to everyone. (I reserve the right to delete my signup if I change my mind, but I do expect to have more free time and free mental space in April ... I hope.)

In other news, I read a book for fun this week, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, and it is *adorable*. I know some people around here don't like his books (there is no need to comment just to tell me this) and if you already hate his writing, you won't like this book because he has a very distinctive style and this book is very much in that style.

But it was exactly what I wanted: optimistic problem-solving near-future hard SF with a "working together and making friends and being our best selves" theme. I had completely mis-osmosed what it was about; I somehow thought it was about a moon or Mars colony - possibly thinking of one of his other books.

It is very much not about that.

It is about an astronaut who wakes up on a spaceship, surrounded by dead crewmates, with total amnesia and no idea why he's here, what he's supposed to do, or even what solar system he's in, so he has to piece it together from clues and then figure out how to do the thing he only vaguely knows he has to do. On top of that, he might not be alone after all.

( Spoilers for the first third or so of the book, i.e. the 'why he's there' part and the setup for the main plot )

The replacement Valentine's exchange candyheartsex (taking place of Chocolate Box), has passed its deadline and has tons of post-deadline PHs if you want to check them out! There are several posts full, so just scroll down in the comm to see what's available.

I will not pick up a pinch hit, I will not pick up ...

Me: I am not going to do any more exchanges until H/C-Ex.
Also me: *sees this*

Misinterpreted Tropes flash exchange.

Request "There was Only One Bed" and receive a fusion AU where your fave is Grandpa Joe. Request "lemon chicken" and get your fave playing fetch with citrus and a barnyard animal. Request "Pining" and get the lumberjack of your dreams.

This sounds SO RIDICULOUS and fun. Signups close Jan. 27, works are due a week later ....

I appear to have tripped and signed up for Amperslash Exchange, the exchange of ambiguous character relationships. Is it a & or a /? We just don't know! (aka the uneasy middle ground in which a large part of my id lies.)

https://amperslashexchange.dreamwidth.org/

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/AmperslashExchange2023/profile

Oh no this would also be perfect for Captain Marvel, but they're not in the tagset ... but the mods did say you can email for things to be added; I might be forced to do that ...