A snapshot for teh_elb, who wanted wee Stephen Maturin.

Ficlet:: Growth
by Raven
G, gen, Aubrey-Maturin series, 700 words. Stephen, at twelve, is just beginning.

( Stephen knew the meanings of a great number of words )

I am sitting in bed with a pile of books and a cup of coffee, and it is an absolutely freezing Sunday afternoon and I have no desire to get out of it again. Clearly, the time has come to talk about the eighty-three novels I read in 2009. Like I said before, this was my New Year's resolution - to read, and in doing so, maybe re-establish the habit ( Read more... )

Tired, tired, hate my baby-dissertation, tired, tired, hate applying for jobs, tired, hate revision, tired, tired some more. I'm too tired to sleep, to eat, to think, to do anything other than law. Last night I went out for dinner with lawyers. It was delightful, and I'm even grateful I've been admitted to a sorority of people that discusses ( Read more... )

I have been writing this in daily installments to cheer jacinthsong up, mostly because this was entirely her idea. (JACK AND STEPHEN IN STARFLEET OMG. Srsly.)

I'm quite aware, by the way, that what follows isn't really a story, it's the first chapter of a novel. So I am posting - so I don't write the Jack and Stephen in space novel. That would be bad.

Fic ( Read more... )

Oh dear, I seem to have written a crossover involving dragons. forthwritten is to blame for the marine life in this story.

Fic:: Small Acts of Chivalry
by Raven
PG-13, gen, crossover; Temeraire/Master and Commander. Everything is better with dragons.

For shimgray, because he started it.

( it began with a small act of chivalry )

In further news of the Napoleonic Wars, I started reading Post Captain this morning, having been greatly edified at the Taruithorn banquet as to the joys of reading novels where you don't understand every third word (Mizzens! Topgallants! Futtocks!) and, further, the woobification of Stephen Maturin is not to be missed. I believe them. I'm still ( Read more... )

(Real life is deeply, profoundly sucky. Do not wish to talk about it. Except to those people to whom I have talked about it at nauseating length, for which I am truly sorry, but grateful.)

In other news. Things everyone ought to do: read Master and Commander and Temeraire in quick succession. The thing is, this is totally not my genre at all. ( Read more... )