Sliding back into your fandom dms

[tweague]

So, it's been a few years since I last fanned on the internet, and I've been missing it. I've been writing fic this last couple of weeks for the first time in I don't know how long. I'm very rusty, but it feels nice. And I'd love to start getting back into fan communities. First shock to the system: there is a *lot* more Biggles fandom around than there used to be! And weirdly Biggles/von Stalhein isn't a rare-pair any more??? When did that happen???? I feel truly blessed to be here in the year of our fandom 2024 where such things are possible. By way of a placeholder, my old AO3 account is here, and who knows, maybe at some point there will be something new to add to it.

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[philomytha]

You're calliope85! Hi!

I am mostly responsible for Biggles/von Stalhein not being a rare ship any more, because I was suddenly seized by total obsession with it a couple of years ago and literally the only thing I could find for the ship on the entire internet were a couple of your old LJ posts. Your Biggles/EvS timeline is a fantastic resource. Anyway, I obsessed about it here until other people I knew in fandom started shipping it too, possibly in self-defence, and then it sort of kept growing...

[black_bentley]

Hi, and welcome back to the fandom! I've only been here a couple of years, after a hiatus of about... 15 years /o\ but it's a delightful place to be. And I very much look forward to any more fic that you decide to write :DDD

[tweague]

I am! Or have been, at any rate :D I think I was using calliope85 since about...1998? And there was some verrrrry bad fic attached to it still floating about the Internet. So I thought I'd have a bit of a spring-clean in an attempt to avoid my teenage self.

I cannot thank you enough for the massive pile of Biggles/von Stalhein fic I have now jumped joyfully into. They are truly the ship of my heart in this fandom, and from what I've read so far you write them beautifully. I hope I'll be able to creep-reply through your old fic posts soon.

I'm also so delighted that the obsessive von Stalhein continuity post is doing the job I hoped it would, and helping fic writers to write All The Von Stalhein without having to plough through 'In Australia' more often than is strictly necessary. I might cross-post it here, just so I can have it handy without having to wade through the depths of LJ.

[tweague]

Thank you so much! I'm so excited to be here :D And I can't wait to start working through all the lovely fic that has appeared! Behold as I creep-reply through your old posts.

[black_bentley]

There is lots of lovely fic to wallow in, especially if Biggles/EvS is your jam :D enjoy!

[philomytha]

Oh, please do crosspost your EvS posts - I saved them to my hard drive after I found them because LJ is such a pain these days. Not having to reread In Australia too often is a distinct bonus!

The ridiculous thing is, I first read Biggles books as a kid, and if I'd known what fanfic or shipping was back then I'd have shipped Biggles/Algy (who are still a very sweet loyalty kink ship). It wasn't until my own child started reading the few old Biggles books that I had on my shelf that I went and bought a lot more for him, and eventually came across Looks Back, and I started reading and the slash was right there on the page, I was stunned... but when I went looking for the fandom expecting to find this was a popular ship, there was almost nothing, so I was very pleased to find your old posts and discover I wasn't the only person who'd noticed this.

And everyone who stays in fandom long enough eventually has a cache of earnest teenage fanfic lurking somewhere, mine's on FFN :-D

[sweetsorcery]

Hello and welcome back to the fannish fun! And welcome to the Aeroclub too!

I say welcome back, but I'm actually a fairly recent arrival in the Biggles fandom - not that this has stopped me from churning out the fic. Between exchanges and bingo cards and egging each other on, we seem to be a tireless lot frequently verging on giving ourselves burnout. :D

Biggles/von Stalhein is definitely not a rare-pair nowadays.

[tweague]

Thank you so much! Honestly, I've been having a blast this last couple of days trying to orient myself in the current fandom environment :D

Biggles/von Stalhein is definitely not a rare-pair nowadays.

This is REVOLUTIONARY I am so happy :D Because there used to be a fair wodge of Biggles/Algy, which was fine and all, but it doesn't hold the same place in my heart as the 'ahhh, my worthy adversary!' dynamic. And there didn't used to be *any* Biggles/vS to speak of on the internet and now there's *loads*, I am entirely delighted.

[tweague]

Biggles/Algy is so relentlessly canon-compliant that I never seem to feel the urge to write any :S Biggles/von Stalhein is also extremely canon, but it takes them so long to get their act together, it feels much more like there's something for the fic writer to do...

[rosanicus]

Hello!!! Joining the cacophony of welcomes, and I'm so pleased to have contributed to the avalanche of Biggles/EvS fic which you reference. Your timeline post is amazing and has been really helpful when wrangling some of my WIP plots, so thank you for that from the bottom of my heart.

[tweague]

Hullo!!! Thank you for the welcome :D And thank you for the fic! I am so excited to be rejoining the fandom and seeing that my all-time original Biggles OTP seems to have taken over the place. I am delighted to have been at least a partial enabler :D