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[laughinggas13]

Help. Why am I writing Hornblower and Maria's wedding night? I really, decidedly do not ship them, so why did this seem like a good idea? Oh yes, because in my head, TV!Hornblower is incredibly ace and no one else sees it, and so I must write meta thinly disguised as fic to work out my never-ending asexual frustration. That's why.

(No but really.

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[eglantine_br]

Oh, he is so Ace. Come on over to Following Sea. That is where the Hornblower fans are. We are a very friendly group. There is not a lot of Maria fic. I would love to read your take on her!

[laughinggas13]

You should see my face right now. It's a huge silly grin of Someone Else Believes!!! Ahem. I mean, I am in fact perfectly normal and not at all overly attached to my headcanons.

Actually, I'm already a member of Following Sea, I just... am not very good at talking to people. But if I do ever finish this fic, I'll be sure to post it there.

[rikibeth]

For you, I'll read that fic! Normally I'd be running in the other direction.

I don't see Horatio as ace, just clueless. If he really didn't experience attraction he wouldn't have gotten flustered when Kitty Cobham was hiking up her skirts to conceal the dispatches in her petticoats. And in my headcanon, he'd just kinda never considered the possibility of a sexual relationship with another man until Archie spoke up, but it took him about three kisses to get to the point where he was wondering why he hadn't thought of this in the first place.

But, you know, Horatio/Archie is my OTP, so I'm not going to interpret the evidence in ways that might disturb that. We're ALL attached to our headcanons!

[laughinggas13]

Ah, see I interpreted that as him going 'Aagh, this is weirdly intimate, DO NOT WANT.' But then, if I can interpret anyone as ace I will. Absolutely no arguments from me on the clueless front though.

Archie/Horatio is my OTP too (because god damn, they were about two inches of air from being canon in The Duchess and the Devil and nothing anyone says will convince me otherwise), but I prefer to look at it as them both being passionately devoted to each other, and Horatio thinking that as this sex business is an enjoyable enough activity and Archie's so keen on it, why not? (Well, apart from the tiresome matter of it being illegal, that is.)

[eglantine_br]

Oh, good. I have Horatio and Archie and William in my head all the time. Their world has just taken me in.

[kradie]

I've never thought about it before, but when you say it... I can see that.