Fic: Crossing the Bar (21/?)

[honorat]

Author: Honorat
Rating: R for blood and language
Characters: Norrington, Groves, the crew of the DauntlessPairing: Jack/Anamaria somewhat; Jack/Pearl definitely but not in this one

Comments

[gott1172]

I literally exclaimed out loud when I saw you had posted another chapter. I am beginning to sound like a broken record, but once again you have out done yourself. I love the interaction between Jip and Groves.

I remember seeing a re-enactment of a civil war amputation when I was a young teenager. It still haunts me twenty years later. If the ones taking place during the mid 1800's were so bad, I can only imagine what the amputations 100 years earlier were like!

[honorat]

What a lovely thing to say. It's wonderful to hear you look forward to these. I'm glad my little OC Jip meeting my favourite Naval officer Groves was entertaining.

I have to see that reading the research for this chapter provided some pretty unforgettable images. I did come across some US civil war information, which was gruesome enough even with chloroform available, but the earlier accounts--urgh! If one was an officer rum might take the edge off, but the ordinary citizen faced it stone cold sober. Modern medicine is one reason I wouldn't want to have been born a day earlier in history!

[outinthestorm]

*is now too squeamish to go to lunch*

Excellent chapter, but... urg.

My favourite line would have to be “When that imp recovers, we are going to discover that half a pirate with half a leg is too much pirate for this entire ship.” Hee!

[honorat]

is now too squeamish to go to lunch
I edited this while eating lunch. Now that was an interesting sensation!

I'm glad you enjoyed this chapter in an "Urgh" sort of way :D

Groves definitely has something in that last line of his. I tried to put in a few laughs in all the gore.

Thank you so much for commenting.

[lunatic_hero]

Totally splendiferous...as usual. Your eye for going into detail without adding useless things is remarkable, and I admire your use of texture and substance, every object used by any character gives a feeling of meaning and purpose to the reader, every whittled gag, or plank of wood seems to hold its own soul.
Its beautiful.
I can't wait until the next chapter, ta for now.
Lunatic_hero

[honorat]

Thank you so much for your kind words. I'm glad to know the obsessive detail is not superfluous. I try to picture this as an entire, inter-connected world with its own logic and specific flavours.

every object used by any character gives a feeling of meaning and purpose to the reader, every whittled gag, or plank of wood seems to hold its own soul.
That's a really lovely way to see it. When I was a kid, I used to try to take all my toys to bed so none of them would feel left out, but I had to apologize to the furniture--it just wouldn't fit! So things have always seemed to have their own perspective to me.

I'm thrilled to know you look forward to these.

[honorat]

Wow! Getting through this on a squeamish stomach is an act of heroism in itself. I'm honoured you'd make the attempt.

I think I'm going to be sick now
It's a funny world when an author can take a comment like that as an indication that the job was done right. This was a very brutal chapter. I'm glad Groves was there for Jip, too.

Thank you so much for commenting in spite of sickness!

[justawench]

Brave little Jip! I can't wait to see what trouble he causes. ;)

[honorat]

I'm always tickled when people like my little OC. He's definitely a favourite of mine. Jip in trouble is truly an incredible thing. He's such fun to write. Thank you for commenting on this.