TT fic: Seeing the Light, 24/26 (part one)

[cenea]

Seeing the Light, Chapter 24/26. Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6Chapter 7 , Chapter 8 , Chapter 9Chapter 10, Chapter 11 , Chapter 12 , Chapter 13, Chapter 14 , Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19, Chapter 20 Chapter 21, Chapter 22 - Part 1 Chapter 22, Part 2, Chapter 23
Pairing: Overall OT4/5. 

Comments

[wolfy_writing]

Question - do you think there's a potential historical fiction novel in the Piratical (And Possibly Bisexual) Adventures of Anne Bonny and Mary Read? Because they were pirates together, they were the only women who were convicted of piracy in the 18th century, and Calico Jack Rackham was jealous of "Mark" Read spending so much time around his pirate girlfriend until Mark turned out to actually be Mary. (No, this does not need to be a Take That AU). They did go in for men, according to all historical records, but that doesn't exactly preclude "There was actually something between them" (Calico Jack possibly not believing there could be anything between two women, possibly not caring as it didn't affect things like paternity, and possibly being in to that sort of thing.) And it'd make a good story.

ETA: Never mind. Apparently there already is one.

[cenea]

Female pirates are an awesome topic for a novel, though. No novel needs to be the last word on a matter! Besides, if that one is based on real events from history, there are always more awesome female pirates to be invented... :D

[wolfy_writing]

I might make up some 'inspired by' pirates, yeah.

[cenea]

That would be good! It would be lots of fun researching the setting and everything, too. Although at the moment, my main trouble is too much research which is distracting me from actually writing a bloody thing....

[wolfy_writing]

Research mostly intimidates me. It's part of the reason I haven't properly got into that weird "Hand of Vulcan" set of stories. It's this semi-Roman fantasy world, where there's an Order of Vulcan that takes in disabled children as apprentices or adoptees, and trains them in making various enchanted weapons. Cassia, who has strong arms and can stand a bit, is involved in the heavier blacksmithing parts (her mom, who's quite nice, passed her over to the temple as a kid because it was far better than any of the other options they could see). And as she's making this enchanted sword, someone comes in to steal it. She ends up stabbing them with it while trying to thwart the theft, and due to the enchantment on the sword, she's magically bound to it now (only whoever bloods it first can use it). Which leads to Angry Noblewoman being all "You ruined my Magic Gem Of Something-Or-Other! I can't take it out of the sword safely, and I don't want a sword without it! Therefore, this blacksmith has to come with me and do some of the