I had hoped to sneak that in under the wire, but I'm a little late... :}

Many Happy Returns!


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(I'm just about getting in under the wire here...)

Sir Edward is here to serenade you on your birthday. I hope you'll be as impressed with his fine rendition of "Happy Birthday" as Lieutenant Eccleston is!


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Sir Edward keeps a weather eye on the horizon as the Indefatigable sails up the Thames to wish Nodbear a very Happy Birthday!


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Some time ago marine_lapwing asked if she could arrange for some of my fics to be translated into Russian for Fandom Kombat. At the time I was rather astonished that anyone would want to go to the bother of translating anything I'd written, but I was more than happy to donate some fics ( Read more... )

Title: Fire
Author: Anteros
Characters: Hornblower, Kennedy, Pellew, Bracegirdle
Rating: G
Notes: I'm a few days late with this now, but never mind. This is for eglantine_br who wondered what they were doing on the Indy at midsummer. Bretons, Cornish, Scots, they all share common traditions.

( It was Hornblower who had been first to notice the unusual activity on shore )

Posting Duchess and the Devil screencaps over at following_sea reminded me of something else I've been meaning to post for ages. I've always been curious about Pellew's reaction to Hornblower's captivity and escape, and the utterly improbable reappearance of Archie several years after he'd presumably been given up for dead. How would he have responded to ( Read more... )

Title: Bequest
Author: Anteros
Characters: Horatio Hornblower, (Lord Exmouth, Archie Kennedy)
Rating: R
Notes: A response to the Missing Muster Challenge, inspired by the circumstances of Lord Exmouth's death and a very particular bequest.

ETA This story has been beautifully illustrated by the fabulously talented katriona_s here.

( He was at his desk at Chatham when he heard the news )

Title: The Fortunate Few
Author: Anteros
Characters: Archie Kennedy, Horatio Hornblower
Rating: G
Notes: This was inspired by nodbear's "The Day Before" challenge fic To be an Indefatigable. This time it's written from Horatio and Archie's perspective.

( The contingent for the Arethusa had left the previous day and those for the Indefatigable were to leave the following morning. )

Title: Making The Most Of It
Author: Anteros
Characters: Kennedy / Hornblower, Pellew, Bracegirdle, Kempthorne, Hart
Rating: R
Notes: Something for the solstice. In which Archie does naval things and Horatio frets. Inspired by various reports nodbear and I have come across of the Indefatigable's young gentlemen undertaking various dashing cutting out ( Read more... )

Title: Paid in Full
Author: Anteros
Characters: Hornblower, Pellew, Kennedy
Rating: G
Notes: Just a bit of gap filling towards the end of The Duchess and the Devil. Hornblower's perspective on his improbable return and subsequent departure from the Indefatigable. More to follow.

( Hornblower faced the captain with a sinking feeling )