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

yes times a trillion XD

[randomalia.livejournal.com]

ARGH, my internet just ate my reply, so you might get a repeat.

6. And in 1793, a year before he dies, uncle Archie finds a place for his namesake with an old friend that he served with back in the day, a fine captain by the name of Keene.

*______* BRILLIANT. Especially being the nephew - I didn't want to put him in the immediate family, cos there really isn't a place for him. But being the nephew just gives it more resonance, that he has a namesake who succeeded in the Navy before him (and dies the year that Horatio goes to sea; I love that). And he wants to go to sea, to separate himself. It works so well. Also because Keene's ship isn't where he wants to be. He's almost beside himself with glee when they get to go to the (bloody) Indy.

I wonder if the raising of an 'independent company of foot' means an army type thing.

And, it's a pity your exam isn;t on 18th century England. <3

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[black-hound.livejournal.com]

Raising an 'independent company of foot' is an army thing. Goes way back to medieval times when lords and barons did just that. And 'raising' the company generally means that you paid for all the expenses of same -- muskets, uniforms, equipment, etc. and then generally got to ponce around as the commander of same.

It's actually a pretty complicated premise because it depends on time and circumstance as to how an independent company would function. Sometimes they are used as local militia or they function outside of the general army hierarchy and chain of command. And sometimes they are absorbed into another regiment as a levies.

But bottom line -- to raise one of these companies took $$$$$

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[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I think that one of the pages that I was digging through last night aid that Earl #12, the one who raised the foot company, left an estate of 160K pounds in the 1830s. T_________T

I've only got what Hornblower mentions at the end of FC for reference, and there had to have been inflation, but holy fuck!

What the bleep would you raise a foot company for in Scotland in 1790, though? "COME, WE MUST RAISE A FORCE AGAINST ADAM SMITH AND HIS REALLY ANNOYING HABIT OF BEING RIGHT!"

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[randomalia.livejournal.com]

It might have been in response to some unrest, at least in the Highlands, but that seems strange. Maybe, as black_hound suggests, it was a way for the son to get to be in charge of an army force. And I found this mention of a later Kennedy having a volunteer army regiment:

His great grandson, the 3rd Marquess (founder of the Ailsa Shipbuilding Company- 1885)... It was he who displayed the 716 flintlock pistols and 367 swords on the walls of the Armoury in a most dramatic array. These along with the canon outside, were to 'fight off Napoleon', and issued to the local volunteer force The West Lowland Fencible Regiment. This force was disbanded soon afterwards and the Ayrshire Yeomanry was formed.

They had really quite huge lands in Scotland, from what I can tell.

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[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

*snorts* Fighting off Napoleon?

And. You know, I'd normally feel a little bad about investing Archie with these ritzy connections, but really, what the hell am I supposed to think? That first name! An allusion to what is probably his father's personal gamekeeper! A taste for theater and quoting Hamlet and those bonny good looks.

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[randomalia.livejournal.com]

Napolean could be right outside your door, bitch. XD

I think he does come from a wealthy background, absolutely. But I like the idea that the center of power/wealth lies in his extended family, and not his own immediate one.

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[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

If by "Napoleon" you mean "snotty, hot Frenchman whose family had a bad case of the guillotine" and by "your door," you mean "Bush's cot," SURE.

Sorry. That made no sense, but I couldn't resist. Your icon tempts me into dangerous waters or something.

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[randomalia.livejournal.com]

Someone needs to write that. And it should be rough and annoyed and someone trying to get the upper hand.

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[black-hound.livejournal.com]

eft an estate of 160K pounds in the 1830s

Equivalent to £10,560,883.12 in 2004 money. That's a lot of haggis.

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[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Hm. As, uh, BH's below link points out, the American Kennedy came over with money -- I think I must have just mentally hallucinated background tiles over the stuff on the Peerage page about Archie #1 marrying into old New York Dutch money. So scrap #3, but I'll stand by the rest.

*meditates on the hunting lodge and hunting and Archie's father, a la Men Who Follow Spring*