FIC: Everything I've Wanted (Bunny Manders/AJ Raffles)

[ingridmatthews]

Annnd my fear to fic lasted exactly two days. AWESOME! A new record ...

TITLE: Everything I've Wanted
Fandom: Raffles bookverse by E.W. Hornung
Pairing: Bunny Manders/AJ Raffles
Rating: PG-13
Contains: Schmoop, Misunderstandings, Confessions
Summary: After "A Trap to Catch A Cracksman", Raffles isn't quite himself.

Comments

[scribblinlenore]

Delightful! I've never heard of this series. Obviously I've been deprived and need to remedy this!

[ingridmatthews]

Let me dance for you. DANCE WITH FANDOM LINKS WHIRLING BEFORE YOU. ;)

Netflix (streaming/play now): http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Raffles/70219653?trkid=2361637

'70's BBC series, 14 eps and WONDERFUL.

Amazon: Free downloads for Kindle Cloud Reader, etc. Scroll down for the freebies, the collections are around $1.99
http://tinyurl.com/d63q9og

ALSO WONDERFUL. (It's ACD's brother in law, who wrote it as a loving tweak of Holmes and Watson. Actually, it's a kind of AU fanfic of Holmes and Watson as criminals. It's pretty wonderful and gayer than a rainbow monkey falling out of a tree made of Kylie Minogue records. ;)

In other news, thank you so much. That's awesome that you read it without knowing the verse. :D

[scribblinlenore]

Oh, yay! I bought a Kindle to take on vacation, thinking I'd never use it otherwise, but I actually kind of love it. I'm always on the hunt now for free/cheap things to read on it. Your story definitely made the characters seem delightful, and I love the back story. ACD's brother-in-law sounds like quite the character!

Also, I always clap when I see a story from you. It was a pleasure, as always!

[ingridmatthews]

It actually reminds me of when I wrote fanfic of your fic and you were so kind about it.

ACD was probably all "HAHAH, AWESOME DUDE, HOLMES AS A MASTER THIEF!" and EW was "Are u sure? Because you rock and I love your work, yanno." "NO DUDE, IT'S GREAT, DOOOO IT, I WANTS IT."

Except 100 years ago. *grin* Which makes it even better.

[twelve_pastels]

It's amazing, the sort of plotbunnies that one can get.

[ingridmatthews]

It's the new Really Old canon! How can I resist it? Like walking on the moon! :D

[gaedhal]

I have a couple of Raffles/Bunny fics hat I saved from about 5 or 6 years ago --
if I can find them. I saved them at the time because I loved the original stories,
but I could never find an actual fandom for them.

[ingridmatthews]

crimeandcricket, there's a slightly lively tag on Tumblr for Raffles and Bunny Manders, and Ao3 has a section. FFN still has it under misc books but maybe I can change that, lol. :D

Post them!!!!! WE NEEDS THEM!

[autumnatmidnite]

Oh. My. Gods. You leave me incoherent.

There is so little fic and to be honest most of what I've read doesn't really manage to catch the flavor of the stories but this. It's among the best I've had the pleasure of reading for your Bunny voice alone. You... you actually rival Hornung - no I am not just saying that; your language was so authentic I confess to being stunned by it several times throughout. It was glorious. And adorable, with Bunny's moment of cluelessness as to whom raffles really loved. Guh. Your fic always makes my heart a squishy puddle :)

*mems*

P.S. ~ PLEASE WRITE MOAR RAFFLES.

[ingridmatthews]

I really appreciate that you think I got the language right because Hornung is even denser and bit more archaic (dated?) than Doyle's. Sometimes I actually have trouble reading it. ;)

Again, thanks for introducing me to this universe! I LOVES IT AND YES, WILL RIGHT MOAR.

[autumnatmidnite]

I'm giddy with glee that my Raffles Tumbles intro'd you to these characters!!! Effing giddy.

For some reason, I was never able to get the hang of Hornung's style, though I had more than a few plot bunnies when I first started reading the stories. I see what you mean about his writing being more dated... I'ea always thought Doyle had the more archaic style in some ways, but Hornung uses a fair bit of period slang sometimes and makes me go O__O My muse is not sure about dabbling in fic for it... so I'm very glad yours is :)

[ingridmatthews]

but Hornung uses a fair bit of period slang sometimes and makes me go O__O

YES, exactly right. Maybe because his characters are often on the edge of unsavory, so they use a lot of that coded language for naughty thieving things, which in Victorian England were really colorful. I also think that Holmes and Watson are of a somewhat higher social class than Raffles and Bunny - or more mindful of their speech and that makes it more accessible.

As for your drabbling, COME ON! I KNOW I WILL LOOOVE IT! :D :D

[nakeisha]

This was really lovely.

[ingridmatthews]

Thank you! And I'm looking forward to savoring the rest of your work on crimeandcricket. \o/

[nakeisha]

Thank you very much indeed.

I didn't cross-link all the stories to crimeandcricket but my tagging system on my LJ is very clear and I have them all in memories as well. All stories are posted to my LJ (except a couple of long ones which are only my website, but the post will be here.)

I hope to see more of your stories too.