Argh, time keeps getting squished and I never seem to have enough time to write, fiction or blogs. My job is crazy-busy but I'm enjoying it. I'm trying to get my pension sorted - getting the benefits from my previous pension scheme into my new one. Also trying to organise the visual tech rota for church for Christmas time, need to get that sent out ( Read more... )

Title: Watching The Flames Burn High
Fandom: Ripper Street
Characters: Dick Hobbs/Homer Jackson, Susan Hart, Edmund Reid, Albert Flight
Rating: M
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Spoilers: season two.
Summary: There’s much darkness surrounding those Hobbs cares about. He gnaws on the knowledge that Jackson is looking to a future away from London. He ( Read more... )

Okay, I have admitted defeat. After getting sick last Wednesday, so sick in fact that I had to leave work early, I have caved to my husband's repeated requests to see a doctor, especially as my parents agreed with him. I understand their concern; since June I have days when I feel so nauseous that I cannot eat as I vomit and I feel so drained that ( Read more... )

Title: Copper Kisses
Fandom: Ripper Street
Characters: Dick Hobbs/Homer Jackson, Long Susan Hart, Edmund Reid
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Summary: Hobbs is a gentleman and a dreamer and a realist, all under a constable's hat. Jackson is definitely not a gentleman. They both have copper in their hearts and hands.
Author Notes: Part Three ( Read more... )

Title: Bright As His Buttons
Fandom: Ripper Street
Characters: Dick Hobbs/Homer Jackson, Inspector Reid, Long Susan
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I own nothing
Summary: Hobbs proves his worth to both Inspector Reid and Long Susan. Jackson is pleased to have such an eager student.
Author Notes: Part Three in the To Live Is To Drown series.

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Title: Anchored
Fandom: Ripper Street
Characters: Dick Hobbs/Homer Jackson, Long Susan Hart
Rating: M
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Spoilers: An AU version of the last two episodes, set after the finale 'What Use Our Work?'
Summary: After Jackson gets his job back, Hobbs waits and contemplates what the Captain will do next. They have one hell of a ( Read more... )

Title: Awaiting The Ferryman
Fandom: Ripper Street
Characters: Dick Hobbs/Homer Jackson, Susan Hart
Rating: T
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Spoilers: Set after the episode 'A Man Of My Company'
Summary: In which death is only temporary and Hobbs visits Jackson during the Captain's time locked away in a police cell.
Author Notes: First part of the To ( Read more... )

So series one of Ripper Street is done here in the UK and I say congrats to the BBC for coming up with such a great vivid period drama. See, instead of trying to compete with ITV's monster hit Downton Abby by reviving the similar upper class-lower class period piece Upstairs Downstairs (the revival only lasted 2 series, whoops, that didn't work), ( Read more... )