Fic: Storming the Seas (rpf_big_bang)
Username: vicki595
Title: Storming the Seas
Fandom: Women's basketball
Current Word Count: 42,600
Type: Femslash
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Sue Bird/Diana Taurasi
Warnings: Character death, some language, prostitution, AU
Author's Notes: This wouldn't have been possible without fadeoutin, who acted as a sounding board, held my hand, kicked my ass, helped me find the words to tell this story. Thanks, dude.
Summary: Bird, Sue. 1700-1756. Captain of the Storm (~1719-1729) who authored a series of books after she retired to Bermuda with her lover. See also: Taurasi, Diana. (Jeré Longman, An Index of Pirates in the Americas: 1600-1800 (New York: Routledge, 2008), 10.
Link to the art here by the amazing etc_and_so_on
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"Myth, memory, history - these are three alternative ways to capture and account for an elusive past, each with its own persuasive claim." (Warren I. Susman)
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History
Evans, Jayda. "Rides in the Whirlwind and Directs the Storm": A True Tale of Love and Piracy in the 18th Century. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007.
i. Front Matter | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3
Myth
Voepel, Mechelle. For Every Storm a Rainbow. A novel based on the film "For Every Storm a Rainbow." New York: Random House, 2009.
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6
Memory
Pelton, Kevin. "Dear Jennifer": The Collected Letters of Captain S. Bird. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Title: Storming the Seas
Fandom: Women's basketball
Current Word Count: 42,600
Type: Femslash
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Sue Bird/Diana Taurasi
Warnings: Character death, some language, prostitution, AU
Author's Notes: This wouldn't have been possible without fadeoutin, who acted as a sounding board, held my hand, kicked my ass, helped me find the words to tell this story. Thanks, dude.
Summary: Bird, Sue. 1700-1756. Captain of the Storm (~1719-1729) who authored a series of books after she retired to Bermuda with her lover. See also: Taurasi, Diana. (Jeré Longman, An Index of Pirates in the Americas: 1600-1800 (New York: Routledge, 2008), 10.
Link to the art here by the amazing etc_and_so_on
~*~
"Myth, memory, history - these are three alternative ways to capture and account for an elusive past, each with its own persuasive claim." (Warren I. Susman)
~*~
History
Evans, Jayda. "Rides in the Whirlwind and Directs the Storm": A True Tale of Love and Piracy in the 18th Century. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2007.
i. Front Matter | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3
Myth
Voepel, Mechelle. For Every Storm a Rainbow. A novel based on the film "For Every Storm a Rainbow." New York: Random House, 2009.
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6
Memory
Pelton, Kevin. "Dear Jennifer": The Collected Letters of Captain S. Bird. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
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