After many moons absence I am showing my fiancé Mutiny and Retribution and realising both that I will be leaving him if he doesn't like it (!!) and that good god, I've missed this fandom. I miss you all. How are you?
I am new to the fandom and have been voraciously tabbing back through all of your accounts and reading every lovely thing you all have written for the past however many years. I read the novels in the 90's when I was a teenager and saw the first one or two TV episodes before moving to China and missing everything that followed. All I remember at the time was thinking, "Why is Hornblower in prison with his whole happy crew? Isn't he supposed to be sad and alone?" But I watched all the episodes on YouTube recently and totally fell in love with them all. Especially Archie. Thinking about Retribution can literally make me start crying in the middle of a grocery store. In China. Sixteen years after the fact. So I had to cheer myself up by reading happy fanfic and make myself cry more with angsty fic. I love Archie and Horatio, I am fond of Bush, and I am firmly convinced that Pellew had ONLY fatherly feelings for all his boys. Also, I love all of you authors here on LJ, all your naval research and your beautiful words. It makes me so happy that some of you are still writing HH. It makes me sad that others of you (like the wonderful Lemurling) seem to have disappeared. I'm not sure I can navigate the complexities of getting an account here, so I'll stay anonymous, but just want to let you all know that you are still being read and appreciated!
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