Kingsman Fic - The Summer Folly

Title: The Summer Folly
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: Kingsman
Rating: R (for sexual content
Characters: Harry Hart | Galahad, Gary "Eggsy" Unwin, Charlie Hesketh, Original Female Characters, Original Male Characters
Pairings: Harry Hart/Eggsy Unwin (Hartwin)
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~6800
Summary: A non-spy AU, set in Cornwall, circa 1924. Harry Hart is a landed aristocrat and Eggsy, a student at Oxford, and somewhat friends with Harry’s young cousin, Charlie, has been invited to spend the summer at Harry’s estate. Nothing, though, is quite as simple as it seems.

Author's Notes: Written for the 2019 poetry_fiction challenge, for the snippet from O Great Beauties! by Tishani Doshi

Just explain the mystery to me.
Did darkness burn all around?
Or did you see, as I see—a quiet wood
Outside the town, with a banquet
In a field of belladonna?

I don't know why, but this snippet took me in the direction of Kingsman meets Downton Abbey (or Brideshead Revisited, or God Is An Englishman if you prefer), or maybe I just wanted an excuse to put Harry and Eggsy in period formalwear.

Fills the "Moonlight" square on my Fluff Bingo card, the "May/December Romance" on my Trope Bingo card, and the "Historical A/U" on my Gen Prompt Bingo card.

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Elrhiarhodan's 2019 writing challenge - I have prompts and I'm gonna write 'em!

While I don't have a lot of works in progress, I do have a problem controlling my word count. It's rare that I can write something under five thousand words these days. It's not that I feel that my writing is bloated or redundant, it's that I just get so enthralled with a story idea that I let it take over my brain.

I used to do wonderful short stories and ficlets; three hundred words was a sweet spot, and for years, my average story length was between two and four thousand words and completed in a week or less. But lately, my stories are just getting longer and taking longer to write, and while that's not necessarily a bad thing, I would like to be able to write shorter, less wordy stories, too.

Last December, anarchycox and I were talking about her WIP problem, and how every idea she had seemed to go epic, and we brainstormed rules for her personal writing challenge. After finishing two challenge assignments (chocolateboxcomm and poetry_fiction), I thought this would be a good time to start my own personal writing challenge, employing a few of Anarchy's excellent ideas.

Using my very beloved list of prompts from The Writer's Book of Days, I've eliminated prompts I've written before (I've used this list for a variety of personal writing projects over the last several years) and then ruthlessly cut it down to one hundred prompts, and each are numbered.

The goal is to write two fics a month based on one of the prompts. I have a random number generator that will give me three numbers, and I pick one prompt from the three. I'm allowed to roll twice, because the goal is to write a story, not to NOT write a story.

Rules:

1 – Each story can be no more than five thousand words and be complete when posted.
2 – Stories may be interconnected but they have to stand alone.
3 – Stories can be based on already published worlds/series.
4 – Prompts are selected on the first and third Sundays of each month

Now every good challenge needs a reward. If I complete three months in a row, the fourth month I can take two prompts on the first Sunday of the month and combine them into a single fic and write something that is more than 5k, but it MUST be finished that month and be 10k or less. Or I can continue on as before and write two stories 5k or less each.

Wish me luck!