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tweagueAirdrop authors have been revealed! I received three (three!!) gorgeous fics, all thoroughly recommended, and I couldn't be more delighted <3 <3 <3 They were:
winter stars by dotsayers | rosanicus - rated G, Bertie + Gimlet. An adorable scene of my best boys venturing onto the skating rink in Hyde Park, and one of them has had distinctly more practice at it than the other. Featuring the instantly-adopted headcanon that Trapper chivvied the Kittens into playing a version of ice-hockey at some point, plus Gimlet squiring Bertie around the rink. Utterly charming.
dialogue for one voice (with chorus) by Philomytha - rated G, Marie with additions from Erich, Ginger, Bertie and Marcel. A gorgeous reflective Marie character piece set during the end of 'Biggles Looks Back', as Marie sits by Biggles' bedside in the hospital at Nancy. Beautifully written and insightfully characterised.
Green Thrives by silversmith | onefellsloop - rated G, Biggles&/Marie&/Erich. A fantastic, witty, emotionally complex glimpse of Biggles and Marie as they begin to feel out what a relationship between them might look like post-'Looks Back', and where Erich fits into that. Marie is *incredible* in this, sharp and funny and fantastically terrifying, I adore her. This fic has the most wonderful OT3 dynamic, really capturing how it's the equilibrium and counter-balancing between the three of them that's going to make the relationship work <3
While I'm on the subject of gift fics - I really can't stay quiet any longer about the superb Bertie/Gimlet fic that a certain someone gifted me at the beginning of January, even though they hid it away in the Gimlet tags where not so many people would see it. It's absolutely wonderful, it hit every one of my buttons square on, and I have been gently losing my mind over it ever since I received it:
Time and Tide - rated E. Bertie returns from an SAP job to find that Gimlet has been rather in need of his company. It's set in the Bertie/Gimlet continuity I write, and it's just the most glorious bit of - I don't know, is there a genre that's like h/c or sickfic only it's when one of the characters is just so tired they can barely see? Anyway, that - combined with some wonderful smut, plenty of FEELINGS and a delightful amount of snuggling at the end. I love this *so* much, and I feel so honoured that the author wrote it in conversation with my fics <3 <3
Since Airdrop authors have now revealed, I can announce to everyone's SHOCK and SURPRISE because SURELY NO ONE COULD HAVE GUESSED that I wrote:
from all perils and dangers of this night for dotsayers | rosanicus: rated G, 5.5k. Bertie and Gimlet and assorted cave-in related trauma.
Of Christmas Past and Yet To Come for silversmith | onefellsloop: rated G, 2.6k, Biggles/Marie/Erich. Two Christmases post-'Looks Back'; loosely associated with 'Of Christmas Present' (see below).
The Lorrington Airlift for ysande: rated G, 18.7k. Bertie, Gimlet and Towser get snowed in at Lorrington Hall by the Great Snow of 1947.
International Relations for dotsayers | rosanicus: rated M, 15.9k, Marcel Brissac/just about everyone, really. Five Times Marcel Brissac Shot His Shot, And One Time He Didn't.
The latter two of which were finished with minutes to spare (at least I think they were more or less finished, I haven't yet spotted any [FINISH THIS BIT LATER] notes to myself, though they could almost certainly have done with a bit more editorial polish 😂) and the last of which was uploaded literally ten seconds before the collection opened :S On the plus side, I almost certainly wouldn't have got them done at all without the two extensions, so let's call it serendipity.
I thought I might as well use this post to do a catch-up list of the fic I've posted over the last season or so - I think almost all of it has already been linked here, and the vast majority of it is just up under my usual pseuds on AO3, so it's hardly hard to find - but here's a brief run-down anyway, for the sake of completeness.
Mr Greatorex's Profession - E rated, 25.4k, Max Carrados/Annesley Greatorex. Started about twelve years ago; finishing it last year got me back into fic writing.
Erostober 2025 - link to the AO3 masterlist of all 31 daily responses to this challenge. Various ratings from G to E, various pairings, various lengths: see masterlist for details.
My two FiaB responses, so few and such morning songs (14k) and Abide With Me (60k), both G-rated Bertie &/ Gimlet, forysande.
My Yuletide response, Alternatively, G rated, 12.7k, Biggles series / Spyflyers crossover, mostly von Stalhein & Major Fairfax, forrosanicus.
A couple of short Christmas-related fics:
Of Christmas Present - G rated, 992 words, Marie/Erich, written for the WEJverse Mistletoe collection.
The Steward - G rated, 9.3k, Bertie telling a ghost story for Christmas; forrosanicus, who likes ghost stories.
And finally, a biggle for New Year's Eve:
Open you the east door - G rated, 266 words, school age Bertie & Gimlet.
I think the only thing of any significance that hasn't ended up on AO3 yet was a fragment of school-age Bertie & Gimlet that I wrote over the summer to ysande's prompt for school holiday shenanigans, and which I'll probably work into a longer fic at some point: What We Did On Our Holidays, 2k, Bertie & Gimlet.
I've had an absolutely blissful year in fandom, I've just been having *so* much fun, and it's been such a pleasure sharing these characters and stories with people here and on the WEJverse Discord server <3 All the same, I've been very aware that I'm probably going to have to start cutting back at least a little bit - it's been a blast and I don't regret a minute of it, but just for this year I've allowed myself to devote as much time as I sensibly could to fic and fandom stuff, because it's been the first time I had a chance to do so in so long, and next year I think I need to eg start taking sensible amounts of exercise again, maybe do some knitting, stop neglecting the garden etc 😂 I was looking after my children full time for a fair few years, and while I was very aware that I was immensely lucky and privileged to get to do so, it did take up pretty much all my mental and physical energy as well as my time. Since the youngest hit full time school age I've been having a wonderful time getting back to the things I missed doing in those years - I've joined a choir again, I've read more, I've nerded out more, and most significantly for me, I've got back to fandom and writing after not really engaging in either of those things for about a decade. It's been *wonderful*, it feels very much like getting my own brain back, and I've been astonished just how much I can write when I get to do it during the daytime with maximum mental energy and minimal distractions (duh). I am extremely aware of how lucky I am that I get to do this. As I said, however, I think it's probably time to rebalance and put the fic writing back in its box at least a *little* bit; but I really have been having the *best* time, and I'm hoping to keep going with it next year - just a little more sensibly, perhaps, but we'll see how we go!
Fandom-wise, I had a great time roaming around the WEJverse in 2025 - there's been quite a lot of Biggles fic still (especially Bertie fic, though more on this later), but I've written lots for Gimlet and read the whole of Worrals and Steeley and written oddments of fic for both. I've also committed the first fic on AO3 for Spyflyers (albeit a slightly weird take on a Spyflyers fic), the first fic for the Ted Scott series, one of the first for the Max Carrados series, and the first fics for a handful of (admittedly sometimes bizarre) rare-pairs, including Algy/Copper and Cub/Copper/Trapper.
The big news this year, however, has been my absolute brain-rot surrender to the pairing that was creeping up on me when I dropped out of fandom about twelve years back: Bertie &/ Gimlet. I posted a couple of fics for them in 2024, including my first ever foray into Bertie/Gimlet, but this year it's probably been more than half of my fic output. It has eaten my brain to the tune of a 60k presumed dead h/c-fest between two characters who meet one (1) time in canon, and mention one another about three times. I am aware this is ridiculous, but I'm enjoying myself too much to care. They have taken up residence in my brain and don't show any signs of being winkled out any time soon. Massive shout-out to ysande who has enabled me absolutely shamelessly and I am forever grateful that I can share my brain-worms with her.
Stats wise, AO3 tells me I posted 370,684 words in 2025, which is honestly pretty astonishing to me, it didn't *feel* like that much :S Like I said, next year I should probably cut back a bit and do more Other Stuff, though I honestly don't wanna, I'm having too much fun 😂 Of that, my Bertie &/ Gimlet fics took up a bit over 200k (!), including the aforementioned 60k monstrosity, which was my longest fic for the year by quite some margin. The other astonishing artifact was Erostober, which I think covered over 91 000 words - again, it *definitely* didn't feel like that many, though at least there it's more that all those fairly manageable 4-5k oddments really add up when you're posting one a day. I think I started writing for it about halfway through September, so I guess there was about 6-7 weeks of writing time total; not every fill was written new for the challenge (though most were), not every one was a winner and plenty of them didn't end up being the fics I thought they'd be, but it was still a really interesting exercise in getting something on paper no matter what, and some of them were really fun.
My most-hit fic (apart from the multi-chapter things like the Erostober masterlist) was the gen fic rambling about Bertie's eyesight, 'Hindsight': possibly the Lord Peter Wimsey fandom also hit it up a little because of the crossover in the last section? Possibly it just hit the sweet spot of slightly silly-sounding gen that the Other Section of the fandom allows as acceptable.
In any case, I've had the most delightful year in fandom, and I'm hoping next year will be as good - though maybe with a bit more gardening in the mix...
winter stars by dotsayers | rosanicus - rated G, Bertie + Gimlet. An adorable scene of my best boys venturing onto the skating rink in Hyde Park, and one of them has had distinctly more practice at it than the other. Featuring the instantly-adopted headcanon that Trapper chivvied the Kittens into playing a version of ice-hockey at some point, plus Gimlet squiring Bertie around the rink. Utterly charming.
dialogue for one voice (with chorus) by Philomytha - rated G, Marie with additions from Erich, Ginger, Bertie and Marcel. A gorgeous reflective Marie character piece set during the end of 'Biggles Looks Back', as Marie sits by Biggles' bedside in the hospital at Nancy. Beautifully written and insightfully characterised.
Green Thrives by silversmith | onefellsloop - rated G, Biggles&/Marie&/Erich. A fantastic, witty, emotionally complex glimpse of Biggles and Marie as they begin to feel out what a relationship between them might look like post-'Looks Back', and where Erich fits into that. Marie is *incredible* in this, sharp and funny and fantastically terrifying, I adore her. This fic has the most wonderful OT3 dynamic, really capturing how it's the equilibrium and counter-balancing between the three of them that's going to make the relationship work <3
While I'm on the subject of gift fics - I really can't stay quiet any longer about the superb Bertie/Gimlet fic that a certain someone gifted me at the beginning of January, even though they hid it away in the Gimlet tags where not so many people would see it. It's absolutely wonderful, it hit every one of my buttons square on, and I have been gently losing my mind over it ever since I received it:
Time and Tide - rated E. Bertie returns from an SAP job to find that Gimlet has been rather in need of his company. It's set in the Bertie/Gimlet continuity I write, and it's just the most glorious bit of - I don't know, is there a genre that's like h/c or sickfic only it's when one of the characters is just so tired they can barely see? Anyway, that - combined with some wonderful smut, plenty of FEELINGS and a delightful amount of snuggling at the end. I love this *so* much, and I feel so honoured that the author wrote it in conversation with my fics <3 <3
Since Airdrop authors have now revealed, I can announce to everyone's SHOCK and SURPRISE because SURELY NO ONE COULD HAVE GUESSED that I wrote:
from all perils and dangers of this night for dotsayers | rosanicus: rated G, 5.5k. Bertie and Gimlet and assorted cave-in related trauma.
Of Christmas Past and Yet To Come for silversmith | onefellsloop: rated G, 2.6k, Biggles/Marie/Erich. Two Christmases post-'Looks Back'; loosely associated with 'Of Christmas Present' (see below).
The Lorrington Airlift for ysande: rated G, 18.7k. Bertie, Gimlet and Towser get snowed in at Lorrington Hall by the Great Snow of 1947.
International Relations for dotsayers | rosanicus: rated M, 15.9k, Marcel Brissac/just about everyone, really. Five Times Marcel Brissac Shot His Shot, And One Time He Didn't.
The latter two of which were finished with minutes to spare (at least I think they were more or less finished, I haven't yet spotted any [FINISH THIS BIT LATER] notes to myself, though they could almost certainly have done with a bit more editorial polish 😂) and the last of which was uploaded literally ten seconds before the collection opened :S On the plus side, I almost certainly wouldn't have got them done at all without the two extensions, so let's call it serendipity.
I thought I might as well use this post to do a catch-up list of the fic I've posted over the last season or so - I think almost all of it has already been linked here, and the vast majority of it is just up under my usual pseuds on AO3, so it's hardly hard to find - but here's a brief run-down anyway, for the sake of completeness.
Mr Greatorex's Profession - E rated, 25.4k, Max Carrados/Annesley Greatorex. Started about twelve years ago; finishing it last year got me back into fic writing.
Erostober 2025 - link to the AO3 masterlist of all 31 daily responses to this challenge. Various ratings from G to E, various pairings, various lengths: see masterlist for details.
My two FiaB responses, so few and such morning songs (14k) and Abide With Me (60k), both G-rated Bertie &/ Gimlet, for
ysande.My Yuletide response, Alternatively, G rated, 12.7k, Biggles series / Spyflyers crossover, mostly von Stalhein & Major Fairfax, for
rosanicus.A couple of short Christmas-related fics:
Of Christmas Present - G rated, 992 words, Marie/Erich, written for the WEJverse Mistletoe collection.
The Steward - G rated, 9.3k, Bertie telling a ghost story for Christmas; for
rosanicus, who likes ghost stories.And finally, a biggle for New Year's Eve:
Open you the east door - G rated, 266 words, school age Bertie & Gimlet.
I think the only thing of any significance that hasn't ended up on AO3 yet was a fragment of school-age Bertie & Gimlet that I wrote over the summer to ysande's prompt for school holiday shenanigans, and which I'll probably work into a longer fic at some point: What We Did On Our Holidays, 2k, Bertie & Gimlet.
I've had an absolutely blissful year in fandom, I've just been having *so* much fun, and it's been such a pleasure sharing these characters and stories with people here and on the WEJverse Discord server <3 All the same, I've been very aware that I'm probably going to have to start cutting back at least a little bit - it's been a blast and I don't regret a minute of it, but just for this year I've allowed myself to devote as much time as I sensibly could to fic and fandom stuff, because it's been the first time I had a chance to do so in so long, and next year I think I need to eg start taking sensible amounts of exercise again, maybe do some knitting, stop neglecting the garden etc 😂 I was looking after my children full time for a fair few years, and while I was very aware that I was immensely lucky and privileged to get to do so, it did take up pretty much all my mental and physical energy as well as my time. Since the youngest hit full time school age I've been having a wonderful time getting back to the things I missed doing in those years - I've joined a choir again, I've read more, I've nerded out more, and most significantly for me, I've got back to fandom and writing after not really engaging in either of those things for about a decade. It's been *wonderful*, it feels very much like getting my own brain back, and I've been astonished just how much I can write when I get to do it during the daytime with maximum mental energy and minimal distractions (duh). I am extremely aware of how lucky I am that I get to do this. As I said, however, I think it's probably time to rebalance and put the fic writing back in its box at least a *little* bit; but I really have been having the *best* time, and I'm hoping to keep going with it next year - just a little more sensibly, perhaps, but we'll see how we go!
Fandom-wise, I had a great time roaming around the WEJverse in 2025 - there's been quite a lot of Biggles fic still (especially Bertie fic, though more on this later), but I've written lots for Gimlet and read the whole of Worrals and Steeley and written oddments of fic for both. I've also committed the first fic on AO3 for Spyflyers (albeit a slightly weird take on a Spyflyers fic), the first fic for the Ted Scott series, one of the first for the Max Carrados series, and the first fics for a handful of (admittedly sometimes bizarre) rare-pairs, including Algy/Copper and Cub/Copper/Trapper.
The big news this year, however, has been my absolute brain-rot surrender to the pairing that was creeping up on me when I dropped out of fandom about twelve years back: Bertie &/ Gimlet. I posted a couple of fics for them in 2024, including my first ever foray into Bertie/Gimlet, but this year it's probably been more than half of my fic output. It has eaten my brain to the tune of a 60k presumed dead h/c-fest between two characters who meet one (1) time in canon, and mention one another about three times. I am aware this is ridiculous, but I'm enjoying myself too much to care. They have taken up residence in my brain and don't show any signs of being winkled out any time soon. Massive shout-out to ysande who has enabled me absolutely shamelessly and I am forever grateful that I can share my brain-worms with her.
Stats wise, AO3 tells me I posted 370,684 words in 2025, which is honestly pretty astonishing to me, it didn't *feel* like that much :S Like I said, next year I should probably cut back a bit and do more Other Stuff, though I honestly don't wanna, I'm having too much fun 😂 Of that, my Bertie &/ Gimlet fics took up a bit over 200k (!), including the aforementioned 60k monstrosity, which was my longest fic for the year by quite some margin. The other astonishing artifact was Erostober, which I think covered over 91 000 words - again, it *definitely* didn't feel like that many, though at least there it's more that all those fairly manageable 4-5k oddments really add up when you're posting one a day. I think I started writing for it about halfway through September, so I guess there was about 6-7 weeks of writing time total; not every fill was written new for the challenge (though most were), not every one was a winner and plenty of them didn't end up being the fics I thought they'd be, but it was still a really interesting exercise in getting something on paper no matter what, and some of them were really fun.
My most-hit fic (apart from the multi-chapter things like the Erostober masterlist) was the gen fic rambling about Bertie's eyesight, 'Hindsight': possibly the Lord Peter Wimsey fandom also hit it up a little because of the crossover in the last section? Possibly it just hit the sweet spot of slightly silly-sounding gen that the Other Section of the fandom allows as acceptable.
In any case, I've had the most delightful year in fandom, and I'm hoping next year will be as good - though maybe with a bit more gardening in the mix...
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Date: 2026-01-27 07:52 pm (UTC)And sadly, I hear you on being over 40 and needing to do sensible things like exercising, why are bodies. Not to mention doing something about the
weed collectiontotally pesticide-free nature reserve in my back garden... on the bright side, both exercising and gardening are great for plotting fics in your head :-Dno subject
Date: 2026-02-03 12:59 pm (UTC)I have so much to do in the garden, I wish the weather would start cooperating enough to let me do some of it 😂 My neighbour replaced the fence which separates our properties at the beginning of the summer, so my poor climbing rose which was trained up against it lost all its supports, and has been flopping around sadly ever since waiting for me to put some new guide wires up 😂 Poor garden, definitely a victim of fanfic.