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crack_van2010-02-06 01:59 pm
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Grey to Black by anteros_lmc (PG-13, adult concepts)
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crack_van for the Horatio Hornblower fandom this month. A new overview for this fandom is also on its way - which will bring us up to date, has pretty pictures, and covers both the book and the TV canon - I'll link us to it in the next post.
Anyway, I'm late enough as it is! So, on with those pretty sailor boys whose only real girlfriends are square-rigged and made entirely of wood!
Fandom: HORATIO HORNBLOWER
Pairing: Archie Kennedy/Horatio Hornblower (implied); Archie Kennedy/Jack Simpson
Length: 2640 words
Author on LJ:anteros_lmc
Author website: Just at her LJ, which is fandom-specific.
Warnings: Non-explicit reference to non-con in the past.
Why this must be read:
I have to start with this, as aside from being a stunning piece of writing, it incidentally works as a brilliant introduction to one of our key characters from the TV series, the young midshipman Archie Kennedy.
This little history has been written backwards, upside-down and inside out in this fandom, and yet it's like you're reading it for the first time. This is achieved through pure storytelling ability, brilliant handling of flashbacks, an innate eye for authentic and fresh detail, and a writer who understands Kennedy through and through. If that weren't enough, the story's final payoff adds an exquisitely painful twist.
Oh. and. This was her first ever fic, ever. Read it and, literally, weep.
Grey to Black
In true Kennedy fashion, Archie's moment of joy and brief bright dream of glory was evaporating with the mist that hung in damp banks over the Gironde estuary. He was alone again.
I'm
thehappyreturn and I'm absurdly excited to be driving the crack_van for the Horatio Hornblower fandom this month. A new overview for this fandom is also on its way - which will bring us up to date, has pretty pictures, and covers both the book and the TV canon - I'll link us to it in the next post.Anyway, I'm late enough as it is! So, on with those pretty sailor boys whose only real girlfriends are square-rigged and made entirely of wood!
Fandom: HORATIO HORNBLOWER
Pairing: Archie Kennedy/Horatio Hornblower (implied); Archie Kennedy/Jack Simpson
Length: 2640 words
Author on LJ:
anteros_lmcAuthor website: Just at her LJ, which is fandom-specific.
Warnings: Non-explicit reference to non-con in the past.
Why this must be read:
I have to start with this, as aside from being a stunning piece of writing, it incidentally works as a brilliant introduction to one of our key characters from the TV series, the young midshipman Archie Kennedy.
This little history has been written backwards, upside-down and inside out in this fandom, and yet it's like you're reading it for the first time. This is achieved through pure storytelling ability, brilliant handling of flashbacks, an innate eye for authentic and fresh detail, and a writer who understands Kennedy through and through. If that weren't enough, the story's final payoff adds an exquisitely painful twist.
Oh. and. This was her first ever fic, ever. Read it and, literally, weep.
Grey to Black
In true Kennedy fashion, Archie's moment of joy and brief bright dream of glory was evaporating with the mist that hung in damp banks over the Gironde estuary. He was alone again.