runnning list of fic i crave.

[quigonejinn]

Hornblower/Bush

Kingston porn. I will not pretend there is anything redeeming about my desire to see this. I just want to see Bush and Hornblower get it on, hardcore, in either the fanciest digs that they've been in in their entire lives or, you know. After they're done screwing everything in the fanciest digs that they've been in in their entire lives.



SHEERNESS FIC. Pages and pages of Sheerness fic, both pornographic and not. I want to know where Bush lived, what sort of letters he wrote, what he ate, whether he wrote to his family, everything. I want to hear about him building a boat for himself, kthx.



You know that Hornblower had his flag captain over for more than one dinner while they were on the Nonsuch. You just know it. And you also know that he's got all kinds of high-flying foods in his larder. And you just know that this can either go to total porn or to total sap. Bonus points for getting both, as well as Bush working on curtains, etc, for his cabin because he didn't have a chance to get things properly fitted out in the rush of getting the Nonsuch ready for ea. And of Hornblower watching him sew while he drinks port and trying to convince himself that this isn't a) disgustingly domestic and b) somehow, making him very happy.



Post-Commodore typhus fic, thanks. Bush, freaking the fuck out because he has to take the squadron south before the ice comes and he doesn't know whether the boyfriend will live or die? Whehter the boyfriend has already died or not, and the sheer unnervingness of having to have Hornblower declared not fit to command?



Edrington

Book Edrington, actually, plz. Book Edrington and Hornblower. Gen will do, particularly if it involves them and studiously skirting around the ugly things that they both saw in war, but bonus points for him bending Hornblower over some fine evening.



Continued, sort of from the first: post-HH Edrington in dirt and mud and general nastiness of the land campaigns in Europe.



Hot, filthy dirty fic about Edrington and Archie getting it on during the shipbound parts of F&L because, man oh man. Look what a bitch Archie is to Edrington, and look, look, look how he prefaces it with lip-biting and eye-batting. *__________*



GERARD OMG

Archie Kennedy




Kennedy familyfic.



Commander Kennedy LKU!



Hornblower bringing confirmation of Kennedy's death as a mutineer. And possibly Archie's sea chest. And having to explain to them that their boy gave up his good name and the mental ease of his family for, you know. Hornblower.



Properly snippy, conservative Archie Kennedy. He kind of is an old-fashioned sassy bitch, you know. Remember the comment about how you just don't execute kings? I know that the executiou of Louie Louie shocked England, but seriously. Look at what a stickler he is for shipboard discpline, and see, too the catty, behind-the-back bitchfits about Bush, the sassing to Edrington about his men being too pretty to fight, the EXPRESSSION on his face when he sees the nasty, poorly turned out French troops in F&L OMFG AHAHAHHA LOOK AT HIM LOOK AT HIM.

Your face is gonna get stuck that way. :(

And. Ahaha. Holy fuck, how did I never notice the fact that he bites his lip, looks down, and practically BATS HIS EYELASHES at Edrington befre he insults Edrington's men by calling them TOO GOODLOOKING TO FIGHT? And then, when Edrington speaks, how he staaaaaaaaaaares at Edrington for a long moment before turning back to look -- not at Hornblower, who's translating for everyone -- at them nasty French soldiers.

Horatio, baby, your girlfriend is flashing her panties at the Army.

Also. PS: Horatio, if Archie actually knew life-aving Spanish, he'd be able to figure out the French that Charette was speaking. <3



Archie Kennedy with older brothers in the Army. Specifically, him talking about how they ate up all the money for commissions, so he had to set to sea as a lowly midshipman.<3 Basically, I want a clear-eyed, unsentimental convincing picture of his family, thanks, as well as an explanation of why he's such a total BITCH to Edrington.

Aside from, you know, wanting to catch him some Major My Lord spunk.



Bush and Kenendy fic, and no, I don't even mean slash. The two of them aren't exactly good friends at the start of Mutiny. There's Kennedy with his bitchery, and then, as randomalia has pointed out, Bush later slapping Kennedy down by being like, "Bring your bitch to heel, boy" to Hornblower. *

And yet, Kennedy probably spends a hell of a lot more time talking to Bush before he knocks off than he spends tlaking to Hornblower, and once Retribution is over, it's Bush who's taking care of Horatio. I want to see this evolution.

* Note that Edrington does the same thing, actually, in F&L. After Archie sasses him, he address Hornblower and only Hornblower while he rubs their faces in the fact that he's an Earl and they, um, are not. And Hornblower looks TOTALLY BEFUDDLED as to why he'd get sassed like that after Edrington seemed reasonably friendly and hgdkjf. That little twitch of the eybrow while Archie watches him go. I can't stop LAUGHING, and oh my God.


[21:22] quigonejinn: And I'm just like "... wow, Archie is a manslut."
[21:22] stella_belli: Archie = fagzor

Comments

Re: *tosses some American history onto the bonfire*

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Duke of Clarence (later William IV) who was in the Navy in the Rev War as well.

That's the sailor king, right? The one that they mention in Hornblower as being the prince who later lets the Navy drink their health sitting down? XD

This interest in Kennedy is more than a little weird and entirely unexpected after all the ranting I've done about how he's not as fundamentally appealing to me as either Bush or Hornblower, but what can you do? randomalia got me into Hornblower in the first place, and then points out all the Hamlet references and the fact that he's kind of an ass and not actually all that sweet of a guy, and behold! I get up early in the morning and end up writing crappy, pretentious fic at 10AM in the morning isntead of studying for said exam.

And thank you.

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[black-hound.livejournal.com]

My hope is that you can make him appealing, to me at least. XD

I've never bought into the cute golden haired moppet with the sweet gooey center fanon Archie meself.

And being the junior lieutenant and coming up against someone like Bush? Who respects and admires the Navy for all she's worth? And hates that sort of babbling noise?

That little bit that you and randomalia referenced around here somewhere -- of Bush telling HH to get his bitch in line. Best. Shit. Ever. XD

Kennedy always came off to me as someone who shouldn't have been in the Navy but had no where else to go.

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[randomalia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the only reason he gets picked up as being sweet, I think, is that he is good to Horatio. But really, he has very little time for anyone else, unless it's someone like Wellard, who he does keep an eye on. He's got a sharp mind and a sharp tongue and is quick to mock people. He doesn't suffer fools gladly. Would he have made up that confession for anyone but Horatio? I have my doubts.

I do think he has a mile-wide romantic streak though - not in the horrible modern sense of the word, but in aspiring to, and admiring, grand things. Joining the Navy, and his excitement at getting to go to war, seem to be a part of that.

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[black-hound.livejournal.com]

I do think he has a mile-wide romantic streak though - not in the horrible modern sense of the word, but in aspiring to, and admiring, grand things. Joining the Navy, and his excitement at getting to go to war, seem to be a part of that

And there was a lot of that going about during that time in poetry, literature, art, etc., plus the fervent nationalism and fear that the French were about to land on English soil ANY MINUTE NOW so yeah, a young man could easily buy into it all.

i am spammy tonight. :D

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

cute golden haired moppet with the sweet gooey center fanon Archie meself.

adjgh ahahahaha. :/ No. Despite the sweet gooey center in the fic that I wrote today, no. Do people not see what a snippy, angry thing he is when, like, mobile and reasonably healthy? Did we watch different versions of Mutiny and F&L, muthafuckas?

Archie is not suited for the Navy, I think, in the way that Bush is, where life is tough and thems the luck. And he doesn't take to it by sheer dint of brilliance the way that Hornblower does, but he's got the requisite toughness and stubborness and love for orderliness underneath, and yeah. I think he's shaping up into a reasonably good officer by the time of Mutiny and would have been one much sooner if he hadn't had such wretched luck in the Navy.