Yesterday was reveal day at ( Read more... )

Over the last several nights B and I watched Longitude, the A&E Television movie based on Dava Sobel's book about the 18th c. carpenter John Harrison, who essentially invented the marine chronometer in his pursuit of the prize for finding a method of determining longitude at sea. It's quite an enjoyable movie, although the format of jumping back ( Read more... )

I listen to audiobooks while I run, and this morning I finished up The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (read, incidentally, by Adrian Cronauer, whose own story formed the basis for the movie Good Morning, Vietnam). In 1757 he takes passage on a packet to England, and one of his fellow passengers is a captain in the Royal Navy named...Archibald ( Read more... )

I was looking at some jaw-droppingly delicious Sharpe fanart the other day, and an epiphany hit me: I suddenly realized what my fandoms have in common - or rather, what it is that the characters I swoon for seem to (mostly) share.

( My fandoms have spiffy jackets with lots of buttons. )

I spent the day skiing, got home late, and so figured I'd just knock off a drabble for today's Porn Battle contribution. Didn't work out that way. (Ran up against the comment character-count limit yet again. Sigh.)

The Morning After
Hornblower, Archie/Horatio, "hangover" - R, 752 words.

( The Morning After )

Or, What Isis is Into These Days. Since you might not be able to tell, considering the dearth of fannish content in my lj lately.

Stargate Atlantis: Um. He who lives by the slash, dies by the slash. By which I mean to say, I started watching the show because I fell in love with the fanfiction, and I loved the show because I loved the characters ( Read more... )

Via friendsfriends: auction of props and models used in the Hornblower series. I want a ship model! Er, not that I have anywhere to put it.

pearl_o has posted a bunch of, um, dS 6 degrees macros? My favorites are the HCL ones taken as a set, and the "made you a cookie" lolmountie.

The preliminary discussion post on fandom nominations has gone up at yuletide ( Read more... )

Where 'recent' means 'in the last two weeks', because at first I was waiting until I had enough to post, and then I got hit by the Great DreamHost Zapperoo, and then I was too depressed to read anything for a while. I was going to organize things nicely, but now I just want to get it posted. So here's some vids and some fic in a bunch of fandoms ( Read more... )

I am going to use my brand-new icon by dar_jeeling, even though there is no due South content to this post. (Although as I said to china_shop, Hornblower is Fraser, kind of.) I've been watching a lot of Hornblower vids lately. Reading the fic, too, but I'm still sifting through what appeals to me and what doesn't, in this fandom. With vids, though, I know exactly ( Read more... )