For once, this fill is not based around the "Windfalls" universe. No, it's a sort of prologue for the other major story/crossover I'm planning on writing. I have some other stories to finish first, but hopefully I'll start posting it here sometime this summer. That's why the dialogue is deliberately oblique; I want to keep the other side of the ( Read more... )

Picspam to go with nodbear's recent fic To Be An Indefatigable :)


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A vignette in the complex, if not always bitter, brew that is a captain's life.

Author:Nodbear
Rating:Very safe for work or anywhere else!
Characters: Captain Pellew,Mr Bowles, the C-in-C Portsmouth,John Gaze,a [real] senior midshipman and offstage Archie and Horatio,Cleveland and Hether.
Length: 2008 words.

( To be an Indefatigable )

I started reading Stephen Taylor's book on Pellew ( Read more... )

I just started reading Taylor's book on Pellew. Asked husband: "Would you give a 15 year old 6 months of advance pay and two weeks leave?" (As was given young Pellew)

His response, (Based on his own 20 years in the Navy,) "F**** No" "

But I suppose it turned out Ok. 

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AUTHOR: Anteros
CHARACTERS: Evan Nepean, Simpson, Kennedy, Hornblower, Pellew
RATING: G
WORD COUNT: 350

Sir,

Your recent missive has been brought to their Lordships' attention by Lieutenant Horatio Hornblower of His Majesty's ship Indefatigable. I regret to inform you that correspondence between deceased and serving officers is highly irregular ( Read more... )

TITLE: A Letter from Hell
AUTHOR: Sarah B
CHARACTERS: Jack (yech) Simpson
RATING: PG for general yecchiness
DISCLAIMER: I don't own any of this, darn it!
WORD COUNT: 1030
NOTES: This is a "Classic" from my submissions to the HHfic mailing list back when it started in 1999 ( Read more... )