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Perfect Duet's paid account and the Oakum Meme (II)

Feb 03, 2012 13:25

Some lovely person was so kind to gift perfect_duet with two months of paid time. Whoever it was, please pm me, so I can thank you properly. :D The gift makes the Oakum Meme so much easier because it brought the subject headers back.

So, once more onto the breach:

Here at this post you will find all prompts/requests we have so far received on LJ and on DW ( Read more... )

fanfiction, admin, meme: oakum

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Sir Joseph, the Bachelor anonymous February 3 2012, 13:33:55 UTC

At one point Sir Joseph Blaine begs Stephen for something to help his "flagging spirit", as there is a particular lady he has in mind. Not much later, he has decided quite firmly that matrimony is Not For Him. What exactly happened in between? I'd love to hear the lady's opinion!

(Surgeon’s Mate -Reverse of the Medal)

Far Side of the World anonymous February 3 2012, 13:34:53 UTC

Either Jack and Stephen after falling overboard (expand on this scene!) or on the raft (also fun!) or on the desert island (huzzah!)

Swimming with seals anonymous February 3 2012, 13:36:01 UTC

Letter of Marque, chapter five

Stephen is stranded on a small island and Jack swims over to help him get to Surprise for breakfast.

I know there is no break, but I feel there should be one :D

Of All the Islands in All the World (part 1) anonymous February 4 2012, 13:16:47 UTC

Of All the Islands in All the World

(Minor spoilers for The Letter of Marque, but avoids any mention of the major mid-series spoilers ( ... )

Of All the Islands in All the World (part 2) anonymous February 4 2012, 13:18:58 UTC

He had left the Surprise at anchor only a few cables’ lengths away, between the little rabbit-nibbled isle - Dr Maturin’s private paradise - and the chalk cliffs of the mainland, but she was no longer visible from where he lay. Tom Pullings had been leading the Surprises through yet another drill, this time involving the turning of their vessel by springs to her cable, and now the island, low as it was, blocked both the sight and sound of her. As far as Jack could perceive, he and Stephen might just as well have been the only people left on earth ( ... )

Of All the Islands in All the World (part 3) anonymous February 4 2012, 13:21:04 UTC

He became aware that Stephen had been talking for some time, cataloguing aloud the morning’s discoveries and dwelling at length on a possible new varietas of some xerophytic plant or other that would likely stun his botanical colleagues ( ... )

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Wine-dark Sea, chapter 10 - hurt/ill Jack - comfort!Stephen anonymous February 3 2012, 13:39:30 UTC

'If you spend another two minutes up to your neck in water at this temperature, striving to do so, I will not answer for your life,' said Stephen. 'Last time it was nip and tuck, with hot blanket, fomentations, and half a pint of my best brandy.'

I crave hurt/ill!Jack and comfort!Stephen. Someone please tell me what happend Last-Time-When-It-Was-Nip-And-Tuck

Nip and Tuck (part 1) anonymous February 9 2012, 15:13:30 UTC

“If you spend another two minutes up to your neck in water at this temperature, I will not answer for your life,” said Stephen. “Last time it was nip and tuck, with hot blanket, fomentations, and half a pint of my best brandy.”
-The Wine-Dark Sea, chapter 10

Author’s note: This story starts out in the last chapter of The Wine-Dark Sea (in which the HMS Surprise is maimed by an encounter with an iceberg, by a run-in with an enemy frigate, and finally by a lightning strike). Then it dashes off in the opposite direction, ignoring canon and assuming that the Surprise never meets the Berenice and has no option but to bear away for the nearest attainable land. “Naturally I neither comment on nor criticise Captain Aubrey’s actions,” said Stephen Maturin sourly, helping himself to the meagre broken meats left over from the gunroom’s dinner. “I merely observe that a willingness to delegate has always been considered one of the greatest parts of command, at least by all those opposed to megalomaniacal tyranny in all its forms, and that there ( ... )

Nip and Tuck (part 2) anonymous February 9 2012, 15:16:09 UTC

“How very irritable Grainger has become of late, beneath the genteel veneer,” he thought. “Or is it I who am become irritable with weariness, snapping at Jack for doing no more than his duty and doing it cheerfully at that? He refused his dose, it is true, but then he almost certainly supposed it a purgative that would have confined him to the quarter-gallery tomorrow, the creature. His notions of medicaments are as incurably narrow as any mariner’s, and as incurably expansive too: self-medicating with Billingsworth’s Patent Embrocation, for all love, the merest empirical quackery, and all the time he believes me unaware. It will do him no more good than his quacksalves have done his corneal abrasion. It is the greatest fool that he is; he can barely see out of that eye now, when such a superficial lesion should have been resolved weeks back ( ... )

Nip and Tuck (part 3) anonymous February 9 2012, 15:19:17 UTC

“’E was muttering something about flightless grebe skellingtins, God ’elp him. ’E don’t know where ’e is,” said Killick, unfolding more blankets than Jack had known the ship possessed. “If them fucking idle-arsed tar-spots ’adn’t of chased Mr Adam’s marmoset down this way, we wouldn’t of found ’im till morning ( ... )

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The Yellow Admiral, chapter 10 -between supper and billiards anonymous February 3 2012, 13:40:57 UTC

What happens between Jack and Stephen having supper at their club and then playing billiards... because there's a gap of a couple of days there where they're alone together. Entertaining themselves. :-D

Re: The Yellow Admiral, chapter 10 -between supper and billiards anonymous February 3 2012, 17:13:24 UTC

Tallis (1)
The club was rather full - not only was this the beginning of the London season, but all those members who were sea-officers and free to move had hurried up to besiege the Admiralty and all their influential friends in the hope of one of the few commands available or at least of an appointment of some kind. They sat at the large round members' table, where Heneage Dundas had been waving his napkin since first they appeared.
'It is long since I had the pleasure of seeing you,' said Stephen's neighbour on the left. 'Are you in town for some time?'
'At the Academy of Ancient Music, so it was,' replied Stephen. 'No: for a few days only, I think.'
'Still, you will be here tomorrow and I trust disengaged? They are singing a great deal of Tallis.'After supper, he and Jack parted from Heneage Dundas, and Stephen felt a certain sympathy with their friend as he watched him disappear through the doors and down the stairs into St James’ Street. Jack had murmured something about Dundas having an appointment with Lord Melville, his older ( ... )

Re: The Yellow Admiral, chapter 10 -between supper and billiards anonymous February 3 2012, 17:14:48 UTC

Tallis
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The concert over, they wandered companionably towards Black’s, not feeling the need for conversation, each thinking about the music in which they had taken deep pleasure. When they had nearly reached the turn into St James’ Street, Stephen looked up at his friend, who had been humming a tune over and over. Stephen had recognized it as one of the songs they had just heard.

‘You are in much better spirits than yesterday, I find.’ He smiled. ‘Is that not one of the tunes for the archbishop’s psalter?’

Jack smiled in return. ‘It is indeed. It truly lifted my heart when the chorus swelled at The Kings arise, the Lords devise. Much like the waves in a stormy sea, carrying us and our ship ever higher and faster towards our destination. It made me think of the time when we rounded the Horn with dear Surprise in the year ’13 ( ... )

Re: The Yellow Admiral, chapter 10 -between supper and billiards anonymous February 3 2012, 17:15:49 UTC

Tallis (3)
They drew apart and silently walked the remainder of the way, thankful for the night’s breeze that cooled their brows. They nodded to the night porter when he let them in. Jack had the presence of mind to ask him about Captain Dundas, only to be told confidentially - they being such good acquaintances - that the gentleman had asked that his room be kept for him for the next couple of days.

Meanwhile, Stephen had gone ahead to his own room, bolted the door and turned down the covers on his bed, feeling daring. A few moments later he heard a soft knock on the connecting door between his and Jack’s room and soon enough Jack’s arms were around his waist. He turned and lifted his face. They kissed and then Jack led him to the bed.

The next day and most of the day after they did nothing whatsoever but take their ease in the library, talk to their many acquaintances in the bar or the front morning-room, walk along Bond Street to try fiddles and bows at Hill's, or play, not very seriously, at billiards.Notes ( ... )

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