There's very little point, I think, to trying to write Bush unless you've got at least a fuzzy kind of grip on the sort of details of his life. He's such a detail-oriented man, you know? There's that line in one of the books to the effect of how both his professional duty and his self-respect depended on getting every single detail right. And you're going to miss out on all kinds of room for interesting fic.
Then again, I'm the girl who, after being told that YES PEOPLE IN CASTLES HAD TOILETS then proceeded to tug on the docent's sleeve and ask what they used for toilet paper. :> You'd be getting those questions, too, if I hadn't caught the (unintentionally HILARIOUS) documentary included with one of the Horatio DVD's.
And yeah. That makes sense about the power structures being too complicated -- and CSF recognizes how complicated and nuanced that kind of stuff is, and we damn well know that Bush fully buys into the power structure. So. A particularly competent rating.
Would Bush have farmed out his washing, too?
And. Randomly. I'm burningly curious to see what you think of this this linguistic argument for canon Bush/Hornblower. flameofdeath and I have been talking by e-mail about it, but I don't know enough about period word usage/class structures to come to a conclusion one way or another -- I mean, all I can figure is that if B. had made an inquiry of that nature, she would have known that she was making it. And if B. did intend to make it, she's about six hundred thousand times ballsier than I am.
All I know is that it hurts my shipper heart in a profound, soul-deep way that Bush is sitting at Lady Barbara's feet and then tells her to go take care of captain. *_*
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dear god, he even looks hot with grade A hat hair. *_*
Date: 2006-01-23 12:22 am (UTC)Then again, I'm the girl who, after being told that YES PEOPLE IN CASTLES HAD TOILETS then proceeded to tug on the docent's sleeve and ask what they used for toilet paper. :> You'd be getting those questions, too, if I hadn't caught the (unintentionally HILARIOUS) documentary included with one of the Horatio DVD's.
And yeah. That makes sense about the power structures being too complicated -- and CSF recognizes how complicated and nuanced that kind of stuff is, and we damn well know that Bush fully buys into the power structure. So. A particularly competent rating.
Would Bush have farmed out his washing, too?
And. Randomly. I'm burningly curious to see what you think of this this linguistic argument for canon Bush/Hornblower.
All I know is that it hurts my shipper heart in a profound, soul-deep way that Bush is sitting at Lady Barbara's feet and then tells her to go take care of captain. *_*