Erostober 2025: Day Thirty-one

[tweague]

UNBELIEVABLY, WE HAVE MADE IT TO THE END OF THE MONTH! Thanks to all who have been reading along, I hope you've enjoyed at least a proportion of the fills, I now have to remember how to write things that aren't 60% filth-based, oh my god. I'm pleased to have done it, it was an interesting exercise to have to get something down on paper even when I wasn't massively feeling the prompts. I'm not sure I'll be volunteering for another daily-posting challenge at least for the foreseeable future though, because the one thing I've mostly learned is that the fun went out of it quite rapidly at the point when I started actually posting things and began second-guessing everything I had ever written, but I was too stubborn to stop 😂 BUT HEY, IT'S FINISHED NOW 🎉🎉🎉

As for today's fill - I'm not sure this is how I think this conversation is always going to go, but this is one version of it, anyway.

Erostober, Day 31: Re-union / Homecoming - Nipple play - Coming untouched - Plague / sickness
Title: And turneth the shadows of death into the morning.
Rating: T.
Pairing: James "Biggles" Bigglesworth &/ Major Mullen.
Words: 1.9k.
Summary: The morning after the night before (twenty years after).
Note: A small possible follow-up to my old fic Home Leave, February 1917.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/71612771/chapters/191457356

Comments

[philomytha]

I am SO impressed at how much you've written this month! And all of it has been fantastic, it's felt so indulgent having something new and fun and surprising to read every single day. Not sure if I could pick a favourite, though the 266 orgy was pretty impressive, and the Copper/Trapper/Cub one, and of course Stella's Angels which I think might have created an entire new AU for the fandom <333

[tweague]

Thank you so much - and thank you especially for all the comments, I really appreciate how much time and energy you put into responding, especially when I've been posting so often <3 <3

From my perspective, the ridiculous Algy/Copper and the 266 orgy were probably the two that were most fun to write; and I really enjoyed the chance for a low-stakes try at writing some characters / pairings that I either hadn't written before at all or hadn't written much. But I was also a little surprised at all the things I *didn't* get round to that I thought I might - I was really expecting more Biggles/vS, some more Marcel (including Biggles/vS/Marcel), probably some Ted Scott - but I think switching my brain between character sets was harder than I expected, and when pushed for time it was often more relaxing to go with a handful of pairings I felt more comfortable with.

And I'm so glad you enjoyed the Stella's Angels set-up - I definitely think other people should come and play in that continuity, it has so much potential 😂

[philomytha]

You are very welcome, and should you get to the Biggles/vS/Marcel you will have an extremely enthusiastic audience! Von Stalhein and Marcel are almost total opposites in every way, just thinking about it is fascinating...

[sholio]

Congratulations; that's an amazing achievement!

[tweague]

Thank you!! I (mostly) had a lot of fun with it, and it only *slightly* distracted me from the things I was actually supposed to be writing last month 😂