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Comment to 'Youth of Delight, Come Hither, Part 7' by lemurling in following_sea
I created a Dreamwidth account, but I just couldn’t get used to it. The format didn’t appeal, and I gave it up. If I’m looking for fan fiction, I usually go to Archive Of Our Own, because it’s so easy to find everything by searching tags. There has been a small but continuing trickle of new Horatio/Archie fic there, some of it good, and even some ( Read more... ) -
Comment to 'Youth of Delight, Come Hither, Part 7' by lemurling in following_sea
Okay, now I read it, savoring every long-awaited paragraph. It was delicious, erotic and yet restrained - to my mingled frustration and relief, Horatio was being Such a gentleman! - and angsty-sweet, in the way we love our poor boys to be. I notice you’re still reserving some extra angst for later, since Horatio is a little slow on the uptake as to ( Read more... ) -
The End at Last!
I finally finished Moby Dick. The beginning of the book was cute, and the end was tragic and exciting. It's just that it took soooo maaaany chaaapters of doom, gloom, fearsome omens, and soliloquies to get from A to Z. My chief feeling now is one of relief. Now I can read something fun and happy! Hooray! -
Discovering old treasure - HH/AK slash rec (plus bonus Star Trek)
Lately I've been feeling like I've already read nearly all the Horatio/Archie fanfiction there is, at least two or three times over - certainly everything on hhfic and AO3, and most everything on following-sea. I know there are still undiscovered gems that I haven't yet found, especially those which are buried in sesquidecade-old blog archives and ( Read more... ) -
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
I just saw it, finally. I wasn't really interested when it first came out because zombies aren't my thing AT ALL, but decided to give it a chance because Pride and Prejudice is the very definition of my thing, and I already had all the other versions ( Read more... ) -
More Moby Dick
I'm still plugging away, listening to Moby Dick on audiobook, at odd moments, like now when I'm taking out summer clothes and putting/giving away winter clothes. (My almost-4-year-old, meanwhile, was amusing himself by jumping onto the bed, but then decided to make the bed, all by himself. Hooray!)
So...Moby Dick. I read the abridged version as a ( Read more... ) -
Somebody wrote a fic for me, for me, for meeeeee!
This may be the most exciting day of my fandom life so far! I made a plot bunny, all unawares, and hyarrowen made it into a fic! A real fic! I am still in shock and amazement! *turns metaphorical handsprings*
But I don't actually know how to link to it, or even if I should. It's "Scarlet Macaw," on following_sea. And it has everything one could want in a feel-good fic ( Read more... ) -
And now, Bolitho
So, I'm on a Revolutionary-to-Regency era reading streak, yes? It started, of course, with everything ever written by Jane Austen, multiple times over. Then I read most or all of the novels she mentioned her characters reading, like Belinda and Cecilia. Then I read the entire Richard Sharpe series, and associated fanfic. Then Hornblower fanfic. ( Read more... ) -
Lord Hornblower
I have been reading Lord Hornblower on my lunch break at work. This was a mistake, because I just got to The Bad Part. Now I have to sip my coffee and face the wall so people won't see me crying.
And also...I am kind of mad at Horatio. Why didn't you ever actually tell him he was your dearest friend, you grumpy old lump? I know you're going to ( Read more... ) -
Moby Dick and Hornblower
Lately I've been endeavoring to fill in the yawning week-long voids between chapters of bbcphile's Harboured and Encompassed http://archiveofourown.org/works/9135700?page=2&show_comments=true&view_full_work=true#comments by reading through all the Hornblower novels when I'm home, and listening to the free Librivox audiobook of Moby Dick when I'm driving or ( Read more... )