Not that she has the strength to do such a thing, poor dear.

-VR
She'd probably lose a shoe in the process, or have her pants fall down around her ankles tripping her and breaking a leg.
"They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind,
And I left 'em sweating and stealing a year and a half behind."

I really ought to do something a little more properly archival with the whole business, given the occasional problems we've had with the Forum's arthritis. I'll put that on my summer to-do list, I think. In the meantime, I've done what I probably should have done the first time and made an anchored treasury thread over on the UF Source board.

--G.
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I'm curious: what other ships do people have in the Fly Girls fandom? I mean, we know LightningBug is canon (and it took me embarrassingly long to come up with that ship name), but what else? One I've always kinda liked is Beaufighter X Corsair; they're both super cute, they both worked together as seaborne fly girls in the Eastern Conference, and I just want good things for Beaufighter. She's adorable. Also, she's chubby, and it's nice to see body types beyond conventional skinny girls. And her stuffed kangaroo Mister Dap is really cute.

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

Translated from Plane Dork: the Bristol Beaufighter was extremely popular with the Royal Australian Air Corps, and they used it as a heavy fighter and torpedo bomber against the IJN extensively. As fighters go, it's heavy and slow, but it packs a hell of a punch; there's a long-standing urban legend that the recoil could make the damn thing go backwards if it fired everything at once. Thus, making her plus-size seems... fitting. And also, more plus-size waifus please, I am but a poor weak lesbian in need of succour.

A CorBeau fan? It's not one of the things I think about much, but when I do, it makes sense.

Peter Eng
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Well, I mean, there are the obvious "dear enemy" ones (Spitfire and Me 109 in Europe, P-40 and Zero in the Pacific, both of which are even at least vaguely canon), and the perennial trollish crack pairings of characters that, canonically, should end in murder (109/190, Zero/Haya, Ilyusha/Stalin). Lots of people like to pair up P-47 and P-38 for the obvious Queen joke (although I prefer the interpretations where they have a Contentious Bromance, like Lanc and B-24). And of course there is the ship that launched a thousand dōjinshi-with-suspiciously-low-page-counts, P-51 and B-17.

Personally, I've always had a soft spot for the short-lived, doomed romance between Hurricane and D.520. That scene in "Au Revoir, Marianne" where the Britannia team is leaving France, and they both know they'll never see each other again, but neither says it out loud? Tellin' you.

--G.
also Me 163 and Stuka, because it's hilarious
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Yeah, I kinda get that. I remember one doujin shipping Haya and Beaufighter, though, and while both are attractively designed? They're not, like. Good for each other. Which is something I look for in my ships. Why would you pair the chubby genki Aussie with the psycho mantis? Who, as they say, Is This For?

>Lots of people like to pair up P-47 and P-38 for the obvious Queen joke

Mozzie finds the prospect of losing her girlfriend to someone more conventionally attractive very, very frightening. =]

>Personally, I've always had a soft spot for the short-lived, doomed
>romance between Hurricane and D.520. That scene in "Au Revoir,
>Marianne" where the Britannia team is leaving France, and they both
>know they'll never see each other again, but neither says it out loud?
> Tellin' you.

I do love a good Cannot Spit It Out ship, and D.520 is a cute and adorable shortstack, which massively works (for me at least) with Hurry's supreme Mum Friend Vibes. I just want good things for the French girls, y'dig?

>also Me 163 and Stuka, because it's hilarious

that.

i.

i think my brain just went on strike.

the shipping nonsense. it consumes me. flames. flames on the side of my face.

=]

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

Hurry/D.520 is literally "Do not talk to me or my son ever again: Gay Ass Plane Ladies edition"

Britannia Academy

- As the eldest member of the fighter team in an era of rapidly advancing technology, Hurry was retired from the line-up almost immediately after the Second Great Tournament ended. This sad news was counter-balanced by a grand send-off from the Academy staff and student body as she headed off to university. Upon graduation, she was approached by none other than Col. Sopwith with an offer to rejoin the Academy as an instructor. Newly-minted Professor Hawker swiftly earned a reputation as a fair if strict instructor, teaching whole generations of new pilots (including kid sister Hunter) the sweet science of aerial combat. The final surprise came when Col. Sopwith announced his retirement...as well as her promotion to headmaster of the entire Academy. As the 50th V-E Day approaches, Brigadier Hawker (affectionately known as "The Brigadier") finds herself approaching a well-earned retirement to her estate in the countryside.

- Spitfire's own retirement was held off for a a few years after the Tournament's end, though she found herself increasingly used in the fighter-bomber role as new jet fighters were recruited to the team. When she was finally retired from combat in 1954, she received an even more lavish ceremony that Hurry had years prior, including a knighthood granted in recognition of her critical role in Britannia's ultimate victory over Germania. Upon being released from the team, Spitfire was approached with offers from dozens of different companies for everything from modeling to acting careers, but she shocked the British public by instead announcing she was pursuing a career in the Civil Service. However, unknown to the public, one of the most famous faces in Britain was now an agent of Her Majesty Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), roving the globe to spy on both friend and foe alike. This began a steady rise in the ranks through skill and cunning, so that by the end of the 1980s she had succeeded in rising to the coveted title of "C." With the dawn of the post-"Cold War" era, Lady Supermarine still remains one of the most famous faces in the United Kingdom, only now it is as the face of "Her Majesty's Secret Service."

- Between her versatility and the slow adoption of jets for Britannia's bomber team, Mosquito enjoyed a longer career than her fighter counterparts reaching into the 1960s. But all good things eventually come to an end and the introduction of new faces like the "V" trio and new girl Canberra were that end, the latter especially painful due to many unkind words in the press about how she was "better" than Mossie ever was. Not wishing to call it quits yet, Mossie chose to accept offers from other (smaller) teams that still had room for propeller bombers. This globe-hopping lifestyle would actually be the boon Mossie needed, giving her the contacts and experience necessary for her next career: Establishing a global cargo carrying business. Calling in some favors from war-time pals in the old Britannia and Columbia cargo ranks as well as some (secret) favors at court, Mossie was able to quickly stitch together a respectable crew to carry cargo all over the place. The fleet that started out with surplus planes from the SGT eventually evolved into a top-notch service comprised of the best aircraft in the business. Today, after decades of weathering storms both figuratively and literally, Mosquito is one of the wealthiest CEOs in the cargo hauling industry, though she remains the only one that keeps a bloody big stabbin' knife up on her office wall.

- As another long-toothed veteran in the Britannia ranks, Lysander was slated for retirement as soon as the SGT ended. This left a bit of a bitter taste in her mouth, as while the fighter and bomber girls had the fame of their tournament exploits to trade upon, her own shadowy record left her with few prospects in the civilian world. No studios were rushing to her with offers of acting jobs, no businesses wanted her as their face in advertising, and publishing companies showed no interest in printing her stories. But what she could count on was the various contacts she'd made in the ranks during the tournament, men and women who were finding it difficult to assimilate back into civilian life and wished to keep "fighting the good fight." Pulling this disparate band of brothers together, Lysander began offering their services to various countries and companies that needed experienced fighters at a low cost and few questions asked. She was even able to coordinate with Her Majesty's government through contact with Spitfire to conduct a few less-than-savory missions in far-off places. By 1995, the security company that Lysander established still operates across the globe in conflicts great and small, though she is largely retired from the business due to age and mileage.

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