An artist I watch needs help in a school project. It's an Age of Sail themed animation which needs to be voiced ( Read more... )

I've just posted a short review of the National Museum of Scotland's event Cochrane in Fact and Fiction over at my LJ. The event featured two lectures; David Cordingly, author and naval historian, summarised Cochrane's naval career, the impact of his conviction for stock market fraud and his lasting legacy in Latin American, and Stuart Allen, ( Read more... )

A couple of items of interest ( Read more... )

Yankee Buccaneer (1952 ( Read more... )

Three groups of screencaps from Napoleonic war movies:


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I think this would be really fun to do! I've created a survey post over at my LJ to see what people think. If you're interested, please do wander over there and let me know.

X-posted to AoS communities. Sorry to spam your flists, but the more the merrier on this sort of thing.
 

The acting's good. Loved the Ha-hm - straight out of the books! Bush was good, very well played. Though he didn't lose his leg - just got it injured so he couldn't walk properly. And Brown was renamed Quist, and looked like a modern submariner - beard were not accepted during the period ( Read more... )

Ahoy, the fandom!

Tomorrow (TOMORROW) we will have another viewing of Master and Commander over at mandc_watch , where we all hit the play button on our DVDs at exactly the same time and squee in unison all over the world.

BE THERE! It's insane amounts of fun!

We hoist anchor at 6pm UK time. You can calculate what that is in your own time zone with this ( Read more... )

Title: Talk the Talk
Pairing/Characters: Jack Sparrow, James Norrington
Rating: PG
Fandom: Pirates of the Carribbean
Word Count: 444
Spoilers: None
Summary: James can look like a pirate, but can he talk like one?
Notes/Warnings: Written for Talk Like A Pirate Day. Rating for kissage. Beta by umbralillium

Title: Seductions
Pairing/Characters: John Dickinson, Edward Rutledge, John Adams; John Dickinson/Edward Rutledge, Edward Rutledge/John Adams, John Dickinson/John Adams, John Dickinson/Edward Rutledge/John Adams
Rating: R for vague descriptions of naughtiness
Fandom: 1776
Word Count: 1,584
Summary: John Dickinson and Edward Rutledge wonder how ( Read more... )