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A Thousand Furlongs of Sea by Scribe (G)
Fandom: SLINGS & ARROWS
Pairing: None
Length: 726 words
Author on LJ: N/A
Author Website: All of Scribe's fic is here at AO3
Why this must be read:
Let's see . . . because it's a Pirate AU? Yup, that's right, Scribe's taken some of the S&A characters and have made them actual pirates. Sure, it's a cracky premise (I actually did a double-take when I read the summary), but you know what? It works!
Scribe flips the S&A canon in such a clever way and using so few words that the reader can't help but ask for MOAR stories from that 'verse. Hilarious in its inherent crackiness and very much IC for everyone down to 'Oliver', this is a ficlet that deserves to be read again and again.
There were a great many rumors surrounding Captain Geoffrey Tennant.
People said he'd run away to sea at the age of eight, feeling its call so strong that it didn't matter a whit that his parents would never speak to him again. They said he'd been a natural, a prodigy, next in line for control of the entire navy. And then he'd had a falling out with Admiral Richard (some folk whispered of corruption at this point in the narrative, politics and blackmail and something rotten at the heart of the fleet, but others merely said that too much expectation and years without the sight of land had driven him mad).
A Thousand Furlongs of Sea (Link goes to AO3)
Pairing: None
Length: 726 words
Author on LJ: N/A
Author Website: All of Scribe's fic is here at AO3
Why this must be read:
Let's see . . . because it's a Pirate AU? Yup, that's right, Scribe's taken some of the S&A characters and have made them actual pirates. Sure, it's a cracky premise (I actually did a double-take when I read the summary), but you know what? It works!
Scribe flips the S&A canon in such a clever way and using so few words that the reader can't help but ask for MOAR stories from that 'verse. Hilarious in its inherent crackiness and very much IC for everyone down to 'Oliver', this is a ficlet that deserves to be read again and again.
There were a great many rumors surrounding Captain Geoffrey Tennant.
People said he'd run away to sea at the age of eight, feeling its call so strong that it didn't matter a whit that his parents would never speak to him again. They said he'd been a natural, a prodigy, next in line for control of the entire navy. And then he'd had a falling out with Admiral Richard (some folk whispered of corruption at this point in the narrative, politics and blackmail and something rotten at the heart of the fleet, but others merely said that too much expectation and years without the sight of land had driven him mad).
A Thousand Furlongs of Sea (Link goes to AO3)