FIC: Surprise (Master and Commander, Aubrey/Maturin, PG)

[cruisedirector]

Title: Surprise
Author: cruisedirector
Fandom: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the WorldPairing: Aubrey/Maturin

Comments

[katie8787]

Brilliant! I'm actually very glad to know that there are talented authors capable of writing short fics that don't have to include physical consummation to convey such a strong relationship.

I love Jack and Maturin's relationship in the sense that their either very good friends mistaken as lovers, or lovers mistaken as very good friends, and we're just left to guess.

And so I'm just going to say it again: This was brilliant! ^_^

[cruisedirector]

Thank you! I do think there's a lovely ambiguity in the film at least, far more obvious than in a lot of movies where I feel like people are really straining to see subtext; it is very obvious that these men love each other, though whether one can fairly extrapolate physical love from that is a different issue.

Now I am getting scared that if I give in and write mindless, plotless Jack/Stephen smut, everyone will lose all respect for me. *g*

[ladyvyola]

Now I am getting scared that if I give in and write mindless, plotless Jack/Stephen smut, everyone will lose all respect for me.

If I swear I've never had any respect for you, will go give in and write the smut? Oh, wait.

::heads over to Reverie::

*happy sigh*

In fact, the smut's so good I'm going to slander you to everyone I meet and drag your reputation through the on-line mud. See? Who needs respect? You've got our attention, which lasts much longer!

[cruisedirector]

ladyvyola of "Trios"? Wow, it's been forever! Ahh I remember Voyager fandom fondly. How neat to see you here! Thanks so much -- and feel free to slander my reputation, it's not like I'm clinging to much of one anyway. *G*

[ladyvyola]

it's been forever!

I love LJ -- it's like the cocktail party of fandom. You never know who you're going to run into, wearing a fabulous new dress and sipping an intriguing drink. Another fandom? Ooooo, shiny!

Just found your Unhappy/Happy MU!B fics. Amazing. Am friending you because reading this much good writing by one person in less than 24 hours is like finding an unexpected pressie under the tree. You're right, the short-short form is very much like poetry when done right (and in your hands, it's definitely right). I like it for much the same reason I enjoy looking at fabulous jewelry without needing to own it -- it's the facets and the play of light that attract me. Plot is good, plot is important, but feeling the characters is the crack I live for.

[cruisedirector]

Cocktail party! I love that description. I have run into all sorts of people from a.s.f.s. and a.s.c.e.m. and various Sentinel and X-Files and even Space: 1999 lists (and hee, Bren Antrim, Pam B and lots of people from Trek whom I hadn't seen since their e-mail changed).

Am thrilled to be Friended and have Friended you back but had better go hide long schmoopy Boromir fic before you find it and laugh at me. *G* I agree completely about characters and I'm also a language nut and better with both than plotting...