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the double-edged sword of old British literature is that there’s a solid chance it’ll feel gay but there’s an equally solid chance it’ll also feel racist

#red randomness #acd canon #acd holmes #raffles #crime and cricket #jeeves and wooster #poirot #father brown #biggles #<-have not read Biggles yet but have been hearing about how it fits this exactly from my buddy cel #will never stop liking old British books I am very fond of them and it bleeds into my writing style #but oh how I miss the days when I didn’t get junpscared by the n word #as an old lit fan who is both queer and black this is my eternal struggle #100 and up neat

draw more big x knuckles please ive been shipping them since i was a child and ive never seen anyone else talk abt them or post abt them

[Biggles be upon ye!]

#hedgehog doodles #pictured: big #pictured: knuckles #biggles #bic x knuckles #knuckles x big #knuckles yuri #big the cat #knuckles the echidna #sonic yuri #honestly everyone should ship Big with Many Characters #i’m also very fond of shabig and sonbig. and sonshabig

Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman at NADWCON 2011 (North American Discworld Convention) ❤

Neil: The single worst experience that we went through was, I think, the film. The first go round on the film, where it was bought by very nice people who convinced us they were very nice because we were absolute innocent. And I just remember going up for the first meeting with them.

And we were going up for the meeting, and Terry says, 'Here, come over here.'

I said, 'Okay.'

He said, 'Um, look, I'm not sure about these people, and you're not sure about these people. If this is our first meeting, if they're just completely barking, we should have a code word. And whoever says the code word, we both get up in unison and we leave'.

I said, 'Okay, so we need a code word that neither of us could conceivably say in normal conversation.'

And Terry says, 'Yes.'

I said, 'Okay, what about Biggles?' Now, Biggles, for those of you who don't know, was a famous...

Terry, joking: A famous Cardinal. [Cardinal Biggles in Monthy Python].

Neil: He was. Of course.

Terry: They're young, that's the only one they know.

Neil: Captain W. E. Johns wrote books about Biggles, who was a World War I flying ace who, with his pals Ginger and Algy used to go out and shoot out the evil Germans. So, if any Germans are here, you're not evil, it was just in this book. So. So, I say, 'What about Biggles?'

And Terry is, 'Okay. Biggles it is.'

So we head up for the meeting, and we're sitting there around the table talking to what seemed to be terribly nice, sensible people. And then the executive walks in. And the executive in this case was a woman who looked like she had mugged somebody 20 years younger than her and stolen her hair. And she walked in and she didn't... She said like, 'Hi, Neil. Hi, Terry. It's lovely to meet you both. Now, I'm sure that the guys have been talking to you about your book, Good Omens, and what we're thinking about now. Okay, let me just run some stuff past you. We figure the dynamics of this are the kid, Adam, whatever his name is, Newt, the witchfinder. We see him as, like, maybe being Tom Cruise, young, goodlooking, hunky, but he's looking for the witches. And the witch, Athaneema, I think her name was. Okay, so there's Newt and there's Athaneema'.

And I look at Terry, and I need to actually mime this - I think we should do this together.

Fun fact: Neil wrote the 'Athaneema' into the Good Omens series :).

Biggles at the Home Front - The Beginning

Two clips from this episode are available here (starting at 33:59)

#biggles #em chiropteracupola i did think of you when he cracked out the phonetic alphabet #biggles 1960 #i am on a mission to get this show released. please please please #biggling like mad #mine*

My Lil guy in his costume 🎃

#hes so cute i laugh every time i look at this pic #biggles #cat #halloween

approaching from upwind at 4 mph vs approaching from the sun at 400 mph

#hypothesis: the timey-wimey in each series cancels the other out #so the fundamental balance of the universe remains stable #aubreyad #biggles

I'm a big fan of stories that feature a famous historical or fictional character transplanted to a new story, and completely ruling it. The dumber the mechanism, and the larger-than-life the character, the better. Think "Sherlock Holmes preserved in 19th century cryo storage and returned to a cyber punk world to solve crimes."

Space Commander: "But are you sure you can fly our high tech space crafts?" Android loaded with the magnetic tape storage of the brain of 20th century ace pilot James "Biggles" Bigglesworth: "A plane is a plane, old chap. Even in space. Now point me at those boogies."

FBI coordinator: "Infiltrating the mafia will dangerous. They call this guy 'the Cardinal of crime'. Are you sure you can handle him? O.g. Femme fatalle Milady de Winter of the Three Musketeers fame, currently possessing a police officer through means of a cursed piece of jewelry: "Mon cher, you have no idea!"

Wall street hotshot: "Gentlemen. It's official. The digital revolution is upon us. Whoever controls the copper lines control the digital highway. Fortunately, our contacts in at the Mesopotamian archeological dig just so happened to find a sealed copper coffin..." Entering a man in dressed in sharp costume and flashing smile: "Just leave it to Ea Nasir!"

#writer's corner #biggles #three musketeers #ea nasir