And now for something completely different! venusinfurs90 and I have been exchanging Age of Sail related music for a while now and thought it would be fun to share some of it with you guys ( Read more... )

In some ways I'm a bit of a purist when it comes to fic. I expect the characters it be properly in character and I also want them to be in their proper time and place. Period authenticity is everything! *sniff* Which is one of the reason's that I never read modern AUs. I can't get my head round them and they're just Not My Thing. Part of the ( Read more... )

I have had "My Immortal" by Evanescence stuck in my head for almost a week now and it's driving me quite mad. Song lyrics tend to stick in my head like old staples in nylon carpet. It's an unfortunate "talent" given that I couldn't actual sing if my life depended on it ( Read more... )

Inspired by tetsubinatu's response to a rec request over at following_sea I've unlocked my delicious bookmarks and re-tagged them using an approximation of the following_sea tag scheme, because that's the kind of geek I am ( Read more... )

Title: Kennedy Memorial
Creator: Sarmatae1
Characters: Horatio Hornblower / Archie Kennedy / William Bush
Setting: Mostly Retribution
Date: 2007 (not very ancient at all really)

( A vid rec this time )

Title: Full Fathom Five
Author: Anais
Characters: Horatio Hornblower / Archie Kennedy, Henry Clayton
Rating: I've seen this rated PG but I doubt it.
Setting: The Duel / The Even Chance

I've come across this on a couple of rec lists and I adore it. Full Fathom Five is set in and around Justinian after Horatio comes on board and sometime before ( Read more... )

Title: Closer
Author: Green
Characters: Horatio Hornblower / Archie Kennedy, Mariette
Rating: "R or thereabouts"
Setting: The Wrong War / The Frogs and the Lobsters

I came across this via the defunct Frolix site on the Internet Archive and it really is gorgeous. Green sets out to present a more plausible reason than Mariette to explain Archie's ( Read more... )

~~ Lest We Forget ~~

Coming to a fandom rather late in the day strikes me as being a bit like turning up at the end of a party. You know there were lots of people people there and you can tell they had a lot of fun. However most folk are long gone and its not easy to start a conversation with those that are left ( Read more... )