( It's actually adorable to go through the few times that HH actively pisses off Bush. I mean, he's a bitch to him almost constantly, but I'm trying to identify those moments when even the patient, reliable, and frankly lovestruck Bush chafes at it. )

Title: Finesse (or, The four times that Lieutenant William Bush lost at cards and the one time that he didn't).
Rating: 17, slash
Pairing: HH/WB
Word Count: about 2500
Disclaimer: not my guys.
Notes: Written for the prompt given by iansmomesq  for the five things meme. I have tried my very best to shoehorn this one into canon, but I can't find a single book with ( Read more... )

I'm feeling a desperate fic-hunger. There's been some great things lately, but there's not enough of it.

I need some good, timber-textured, hairy-handed stuff about that romance of the century between Mr Bush and his wooden girlfriend. I want him fussing about the ropes coiled down properly, taking dawn watches in a gale and loving it, I want him ( Read more... )

( ignore this! sarlania came to my rescue! )

I am, of course, avoiding work. Which means I'm here posting on my fic LJ about nothing. Nothing to see here.

Where I live right now I have to catch a very short ferry ride over to central Amsterdam. It takes five minutes and nothing beats the pleasure of being on a little boat every morning. The IJ is a busy passage out to the North Sea so there is ( Read more... )

REMOVEZ LE CAP

That's 1950!Bush telling the French captain to take off his hat in Hornblower's cabin.

OH MY GOD I LOVE 1950!BUSH

AND THE COMPLETELY INDIGNANT LOOK HE GIVES THE FRENCH CAPTAIN

WHY IS THIS NOT ALREADY FANDOM CANON

Sometimes wonders just happen, like finding a DVD of 'Captain Horatio Hornblower' in the only English bookshop in your city, and finding it only costs seven euros. Joy ( Read more... )

Ok, in real life I am very politically correct. I consider myself a feminist, in the broadest, race-class-gender-sexuality-ability-other oppressed identities united-against-the-patriarchy sense. And I know that I am currently having an extremely politically incorrect response. This is, frankly, where slash fandom gets a bit wrong, when I as a ( Read more... )

I'm searching for inspiration for smaller fics, so I thought I'd do this meme that's going round
You post a topic, list, category, whatever, in comments. (examples: "Five Things Hermione Never Mentioned Finding in Hogwarts: A History", or "Five Times Merlin Has Seriously Considered Turning People Into Frogs" or "Five Things Will Won't Ever Tell ( Read more... )

Wow!

A US-based salvage firm is believed to have found remains from the wreck of a legendary British warship which sank in the English Channel in 1744.

Odyssey Marine Exploration is expected to announce on Monday that it has found HMS Victory, the forerunner of Nelson's famous flagship of the same name.

The bit that worries me is this: If confirmed, ( Read more... )