A Swarm of Bees
Title: A Swarm of Bees
Author: capt_facepalm
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight)
Characters: Dr Watson (very tenuously)
Summary: propaganda and racism
Warnings: (narrow research at best; revisionist history at worst)
More Warnings: (this one is seriously strange)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 27th prompt: (Use a random description or simile)
Upon hearing the news of the Maiwand disaster, the indolent public was up like a swarm of bees. How dare the ignorant savages defy the Empire and refuse our kind benevolence?
What audacity to take on Her Majesty’s troops, and perpetrate such horrors upon the survivors! How like the native forces to flee, leaving the Queen’s finest regiment to face the Ghazian wrath!
Too late, the masses galvanised in support of old Disraeli’s imperialist vision. See what comes of Gladstone’s moderate position?
To arms! To arms! Avenge the Empire! Avenge our blood! In Africa. In India. Avenge on every front!
.oOOo.
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Author's Notes:
[Spoiler (click to open)]Taken from The Sign of Four, which I have been re-reading, due to committing two canonical errors so far this month. John Small describes the Indian uprising, the Great Mutiny:
"The whole country was up like a swarm of bees. Whenever the English could collect in little bands, they held just the ground that their guns commanded."
Author: capt_facepalm
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Gaslight)
Characters: Dr Watson (very tenuously)
Summary: propaganda and racism
Warnings: (narrow research at best; revisionist history at worst)
More Warnings: (this one is seriously strange)
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: July 27th prompt: (Use a random description or simile)
Upon hearing the news of the Maiwand disaster, the indolent public was up like a swarm of bees. How dare the ignorant savages defy the Empire and refuse our kind benevolence?
What audacity to take on Her Majesty’s troops, and perpetrate such horrors upon the survivors! How like the native forces to flee, leaving the Queen’s finest regiment to face the Ghazian wrath!
Too late, the masses galvanised in support of old Disraeli’s imperialist vision. See what comes of Gladstone’s moderate position?
To arms! To arms! Avenge the Empire! Avenge our blood! In Africa. In India. Avenge on every front!
.oOOo.
Please sign the petition
Author's Notes:
[Spoiler (click to open)]Taken from The Sign of Four, which I have been re-reading, due to committing two canonical errors so far this month. John Small describes the Indian uprising, the Great Mutiny:
"The whole country was up like a swarm of bees. Whenever the English could collect in little bands, they held just the ground that their guns commanded."