I love a man in uniform: Hornblower vids

[isiscolo]

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

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[raggedass_road]

HORNBLOWER VIDS! Holy crap! I didn't know this stuff existed! Excuse me while I flail around downloading. Oh my.

I don't suppose you have any Hornblower/Kennedy recs hanging around to go with, do you?

[isiscolo]

I promise I will have some eventually. I'm still avidly reading all the Hornblower fic I can find and digesting. I can point you in general to archives and writers, but I don't have actual "I loved this" recs yet. fairestrecs has a bunch, which you can find by her tags (I think), but I find that our tastes differ; maybe you'll like hers, though.

[cordelia_v]

Is this sublimation, or what?

No. I'd say that there's nothing subliminal about that, at all.

[isiscolo]

They are all cannon whores!

[cordelia_v]

I guess they must be. That accounts for why they like to fire their balls, then?

[isiscolo]

They really go for hot shots, too.

[entrenous88]

Can I ask a lame question?

When you talk about the HH stories/fanfic, are most of those based off...well, I know there are two series, but are they considered separate? Are there individual fandoms for both? Or do people also write based on the literature?

Just curious about this, as the whole concept sounds interesting (I've never read or watched anything related to HH).

[isiscolo]

Oh, it's complicated, and I haven't figured it all out. I should point out that I've only read two of the books, but comparing them to the movies, wow, they are indeed very different. The movies have been crafted to have much more depth and interest, at least in my opinion. Kennedy is a major character in the movies and a minor walk-on in the book.

It seems to me that HH fandom is more integrated than e.g. X-men (where movieverse and bookverse are specified in headers). Most HH fanfiction seems to me to be based mostly on the movies, with characterization and detail level coming from the books. For example, book!Bush has four sisters, which isn't mentioned in the movies; but this is taken as a canonical detail even in movieverse fic. But I'd say it's actually similar to the Master & Commander fandom, in which the books and movie are all sort of taken as a whole.

I'm really not the person to answer this because I'm just discovering the fandom, myself.

[entrenous88]

Thanks for giving a kind of sketch of how things seem to work in the fandom.

[nolivingman]

The movies are the main source of most of the fic, but there are a few authors who've read the books and base their fic on them, or who use detail from the books in fics that could be either verse. What you'll find is that a lot of the movie people are Horatio/Archie fans, and that a lot of the book people are Hornblower/Bush fans (this is a gross genearalization, but not too far off the mark), and that there are a small number of us who are polyamorous and like the boys in every combination. And sometimes with the girls too.

[the_antichris]

I can't believe it never occurred to me that vids existed! That Fight one had me giggling out loud.

Having a dense moment: LKBV?

Oh, had you come across this? I found it in my bookmarks and liked it a lot.

[isiscolo]

Yay, I am happy to have introduced someone to the hysterical yay that is Fight! And thanks for the pointer - I hadn't seen that story.

LKBV = Lord King Bad Vid = sort of the equivalent of crackfic, I guess. A well-done vid in which the music and clip choice is earnest and obvious and kind of eye-roll inducing. There was a competition for it at one of the cons.

[delurker]

*bookmarks for later*