Comments | idler_1814: Once Burned

idler_1814

Once Burned

Mar 04, 2006 11:08

More archiving....

This one is pretty old, first posted in 1/03 to hhfic. It was written prior to the airing of HH3, and was my attempt to use the events of HH2 to explain a transition between the HH2 version of Hornblower to a character more consistent with book canon.

HH3 clearly proved that I was definitely not on the same page as the ( Read more... )

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Thanks... hms_wellington July 4 2009, 16:24:48 UTC

Stunning piece with such attention to detail and beautiful character descriptions. I find it hard to consolidate TV with bookverse even just in my head, but you do it wonderfully. Really enjoyed reading this, very moved, thanks again.

Re: Thanks... idler_1814 July 7 2009, 16:24:06 UTC

And thank YOU!!! I had wondered how the writers would manage to bring film Hornblower back in line with bookverse Hornblower--turns out, they really didn't--but it was fun to try to do so.

I'm so delighted to hear that my take on it worked for you, and I deeply appreciate that you took the time to comment. There's something particularly special about receiving feedback on a piece I considered long forgotten!

anonymous May 9 2016, 22:19:48 UTC

This was wonderful!

idler_1814 May 17 2016, 17:39:59 UTC

Thank you so much for reading, and especially for taking the time to leave a comment: I'm delighted to hear that you enjoyed it. It's such a lovely surprise to find that someone occasionally stumbles across this old journal!

sanguinity August 1 2018, 01:20:37 UTC

Oh, I like this take on where they might have gone in the next season: letting there be an emotional aftermath to Archie's death, one that both Horatio and William have to work through. I can very much see the actors' anguished little faces! (I'm very fond of the actors and their anguished little faces.)

And a SEA BATTLE. Very competently written, too! That's much harder than it looks -- although it's just as I would expect from you. :-)

(And forgive me, because apparently I don't know this parlance: hanger/hangar is a synonym for -- or a kind of? -- sword, yes? I couldn't quite get it from context, and I'm better with ships than swords, I'm afraid.)

...and do I understand from the story notes that you have EVEN MOAR stories on hhfic that were never archived here on LJ? *covetousness*

idler_1814 August 1 2018, 13:57:36 UTC

Oh, I like this take on where they might have gone in the next season: letting there be an emotional aftermath to Archie's death, one that both Horatio and William have to work through. I can very much see the actors' anguished little faces! (I'm very fond of the actors and their anguished little faces.)

Thank you! I'm relieved that you found something to like here. This piece was very much based on the miniseries and the actors. I wrote it at the outset of my foray into fanfic, and it's definitely not what I would write today: it's waaay too overtly emotional ( ... )

sanguinity August 1 2018, 16:04:17 UTC

I fear you're being much to hard on this poor story. The miniseries is overtly emotional -- so much scenery-chewing! so much anguished shouting! so much carrying each other sobbing through the rain! -- and this reads as a deliberate effort at mimicking that style. However over-the-top the miniseries might be, it is also great sweeping romantic fun, and this story is, too. I had an excellent time.

And this is all of it: I don't have anything else up on hhfic that isn't here.

Ah. I was confused because your story notes refer to an Archie story called "Second Chances," which I didn't see in your masterlist here. Although since I haven't read everything here yet, if you'd changed the title I wouldn't have recognized it.

You might find the book "A Sea of Words" by Dean King to be a useful lexicon for reading/writing in the fandom.Thank you! I've put it on hold. It remains to be seen how much writing I'll do in the fandom -- it's always a battle getting up to speed in a period fandom, and most of my knowledge lies at the other end of the ( ... )

idler_1814 August 1 2018, 16:49:06 UTC

Awww, thank you. As long as you don't take this story too seriously I'm okay with that.

And...well...it's true. Second Chances IS still up on hhfic. I wasn't sure that it was--or if hhfic was even still around! If Once Burned is overly emotional, Second Chances is absolutely overwrought. The Rear Admiral (unnamed, in the story) is a favorite character of mine from another (also unnamed) AoS series: the poor man suffered horribly at the hands of his author. I felt the need to throw him a lifeline, and so provided one in the form of Archie Kennedy.

Should you ever choose to brave it, please keep in mind that it was my very first try at fiction--and it shows. Yikes.

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