Welcome! *waves to new friends and the new people reading my journal* It is lovely to meet you all and if I haven't spoken to you before, please come and introduce yourself.

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I've definitely emerged from my 'not reading fanfic' stage, so to celebrate here are two recs that made me insanely happy this weekend.

The Student Prince by pandarus. Merlin. Merlin/Arthur, unrated, Work in Progress!
This is a modern day au inspired by the operetta The Student Prince and set at St Andrews. I usually avoid works in progress but I was intrigued by this and gave it a go. By the middle of the first chapter I was hooked and this fic made me laugh out loud and I'm reading for the wonderful and hilarious details that make up this au and it's bringing back the insanity of Freshers week. Go read it!

Worrals and the School from Austria by chaletian. Chalet School/Worrals Series crossover. Jo Maynard, Joan Worralson, Gen, G.
Air Commodore Raymond sends Worrals on a mission - to investigate a school recently arrived from Austria.
When bookwormsarah told me about this fic, I could not contain my glee. This is the crossover of my childhood daydreams and I almost cried when the first link I found was broken. Luckily a quick google told me that it was on AO3. This is a perfect blend of both series and fits perfectly into canon. Also the cameo at the end completely made my day.

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I've been on a bit of an emotional roller coaster with the last three episodes of Doctor Who. ( Spoilers for The Hungry Earth, Cold Blood and Vincent and the Doctor and a spoilery fic recCollapse )

Last weekend, instead of catching up on all the fic on my friends list as I intended, I ended up searching the net for Biggles fic. Yes, that Biggles. The WWI and WW2 pilot, who starred in several zillion books by W.E. Johns, one really awful time travel movie, various Monty Python sketches and also a Pet Shop Boys video.

I adored the books when I was younger and I'm in the process of rereading all the ones I can find. I've bought five new books already this week. For once I'm happy that I've mostly just got the edited 1990s paperback reissues. The casual racism, so common in books of that period, is scattered throughout the original hardbacks, and it makes me feel a little sick. Despite that, I still enjoy them immensely - did anyone else read them? I badly want to talk Biggles with someone. I'm particularly fond of the First World War stories, they have such a different atmosphere to the later books as were intended for a more mature audience and feel far more realistic.

Here are some recs, not just for W.E. Johns fic, (including what are probably the only two Worrals stories out there) but also a couple of great WW2 pilot au fics that I've come across in more familiar fandoms.

( Biggles & WorralsCollapse )

( MerlinCollapse )

( Star Trek RebootCollapse )

And finally...
Armstrong and Miller WWII RAF sketches. Hilarious new take on RAF banter.