quigonejinn

:D Oh, do let's do HH/EP, that vibe we were getting the other day was so delightfully filthy.

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Ahah. Come on. Given that it's the two of us, I'm pretty sure that we could write filthy, like, My Little Pony slash or omething.

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What about my icon? it's not any worse than yours, just a whole lot more subtle.

I'd have to know something about MLP to slash them.

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Ahaha. I'd just been thinking of it as Madonna lyrics and not, uh. Pellew looking down at HH blowing him. That's right, HH, you're down on your news, and you want to use that mouth of yours to take Pellew there.

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BY NEWS, I mean knees. Can you tell I'm having kind of a "English isn't REALLY my first language?" sort of morning?

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It could be any of those things or all of them (I do love that song). Last night, though, when I was making it, I was thinking about how pretty and reverent his face looks with the light hitting it just so. But you know, my brain has more layers than one of those washed out overexposed looking crazy fangirly icons that were all the rage last summer, and if you try to figure out exactly what it means you'll go blind.

And there are much better ways to make yourself go blind.

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Maaaan.

Yeah, I have porn on the brain today. This morning, I spent the first half-hour daydreaming about about how Bush would pick up wee Jack Hammond for a fun Portsmouth, fleshpot afternoon of gay fucking.

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Argh! Pellew/North Star!
I knew I should've made a fimo Pellers...

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I'm really scared now.

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writethefilth! writethefilth! WAIL!!!

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...my dear boy, are they talking about us again? What stories have you been telling on your dear old Captain now? You'll have to behave better than that. I do believe I know just the way to get you back in line...

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Well, then what happened???

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And that, boysangirls, is how to keep a Kit on the edge of her chair.

(Give

quigonejinn a chance to respond, silleh!)

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What do you think?

He took Hornblower off rum for a month and had him stand totally unsexy double-watches for a week. Duh.

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PSYCH! :)

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Man. I was telling Kiri the other day that I'm just physically incapable of writing EP/HH. Especially episotlary-style stuff. Like, I keep trying? And it doesn't work. It's humiliating.

The porn, I can do. It's the setup. And the talking.

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Seriously, you don't have to. Do anything. I was just thinking that it was amazingly funny how we fell into that riff the other day. Daddy needs a backrub, Daddy's had a bad day, poor little Horatio.

I actually don't ship it, but I think I could write it. And it's your fault that I can, because honestly, I never thought of him as being the type to mess with a subordinate before! I'd look at Kit's drawings and read her short fics and enjoy them, but I didn't think I could write that!

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You are so. cute.

I understand your problem with the dialogue because I deal with that in my RPG all the time. A lot of people can't write period dialogue. If you want to learn,

commodorified or I or any of a number of people can teach you.

But I've done a lot of RPG ficcage where the chat log was me and another person horsing around and then I edited it to make it sound right.

biichan has certain Wisconsinisms that Alastor Moody would never say, but as long as she has the right tone and attitude, I can fix the language.

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You are so. cute.

*weeps* If I weren't so fond of you, my friend, I would hate you.

And once this wretched bout of work is over, I'd love to learn to write period, but I have to warn you that I'm retardedly hard to teach in writing. People have been trying to teach me for year,s and I don't write with section breaks and fragments and dashes and semicolons all over the place because of some kind of artistic choice -- it's the only way that I can write. I'm just kind of crap at filtering things as they come out, as you may have noticed. XD

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You'll have to excuse me and the screened posts and the general batshittery that I'm pulling right now. As you can tell, I'm kind of having a Hornblower period right now -- swear to GOD that I am not usually this mentally unstable, but it's a stressful time of year, and I'm so self-conscious and self-doubting and neurotic that it's pretty much socially crippling.

*should know better than to go on the Internet when she's like this*

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If you ever want to talk about it, let me know, I'm capable of lots of general batshittery under stress, too.

And hey, where else do you go when you feel socially inept and terrified of human contact? *hugs*

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You ARE Kiri. I meant Kit. *SOBS*

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*pets you* It's okay, it's confusing. (There is someone at work who thinks that my name is Kitty. Because the Japanese 'r' sound confuses her.)

Just don't call me Carrie. I hate that.

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aurictech.livejournal.com

To the top of the mast with you, lad!

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Hahahahahah.

You so don't want to know where my mind took that.

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HAHAHAH SAME PLACE AS MINE WENT, I BET.

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aurictech.livejournal.com

"Masthead for the midshipmen, the cat for the men." [Robert K. Massie, Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War, page 384.]

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Ahahaha. I wish I had a formula that works as well as yours. ;_;

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The fact that I have a formula at ALL indicates the degree of teh suck, my friend.

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imadra-blue.livejournal.com

I dun have one, but at least yours works. :>

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randomalia.livejournal.com

Formula what? I love you like I'm blind! *roboclaws*

You know, I don't even think I could make a ten-point list. Mine is like: character observes weather, makes obscure remarks, nothing happens, THE END! Over and over again.

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black-hound.livejournal.com

That icon of yours?

*ahem*

*hopes that bodes well*

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randomalia.livejournal.com

Cotard has to pay the toll before he can pass. On your knees, Monseer Le Frog. :>

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black-hound.livejournal.com

Yep. That bodes well. XD

Heeellllloooooo, Porn.

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THE ICON, THE ICON, *SCREAMS IN LOVE, RESIST URGE TO PINCH HIS CHEEKS* IT'S LIKE THE ANTI-CAUDEBEC OMG.

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Are you an angel?

Ten Things I Find Much to My Delight to in a

randomalia Fic of the Biscuit Variety With Which I am Mot Familiar, in No Particular Order

Assonance and consonance. I don't know if those are the right word, but you always have the most wonderful ways of hooking words up so that the phrases that jut glow and exist beautifully by themselves. the old oil used on the surface and whose hands are shoving at his naked hips
Especially in your Hornblower fic: the presence of family bonds. Cotard has his brother; Kennedy, in "Men Who Follow Spring" has the family and the family vacation home; Parker in "Blessings" has his aunts and brothers, and of course, Jack in "Hornblower" has his uncle and mother.
The way you move across time. A lot of writers would, I think, stumble at breaking a narrative up into single, gemlike scenes the way you do, but man. I love how, if we stopped reading at the end of each individual section, we'd still feel like we'd still gained something wonderful and lovely.
Quotations! I'm too stupid to understand them half the time, but I love how they fit around your fic. They're never extraneous or weird. They're there, and they make sense, and they provide this wonder sense of balance. <3
The contrast between what you tell us and what you don't. You have plenty of rich language in your stories. There are lots of described objects, brilliant phrases, similes and metaphors and all that, but at the same time, there's always an undercurrent. There's always something important that you're not putting into words despite the fact that you very obviously could if you wanted to because you're just that good. Goddamn, I love the fact that there are two layers in your fics.
Brilliantly still endings. I have to call out the Marine Reserve Band in order to get a proper ending to a story, but there's always such a sense of possession and control with your writing that you can conclude things beautifully with a fragment, the way you do for "Alchemy" and still leave me all breathless.
Porn that is Super-Hot because it is so underwritten. Jesus, yeah, Alchemy, and that oblique description of Bush on his stomach, flushed, and getting rimmed until he comes in the sheets. It's sixteen times hotter because we have to put the pieces together, pick them up here and there, and then BAM! Suddenly, we have the image in our heads, and we're the ones blushing. The same goes for "Hornblower," which contains probably about six of the hottest ten sentences ever written in this fandom.
Dialogue. OMFG. The way you nail Movie-Bush's speaking cadences in "Hornblower" makes me peagreen, and how I love, love, love the way you've developed Lt. Kennedy's speech patterns for the older, harder Captain Kennedy in "Blessings."
I love the way you talk about weather, damn you. In fact, I love the way you talk about all the vivid, wonderfully evoked things that populate your stories -- the weather in "Blessings," the tub of water in "Alchemy," the table in "Men Who Follow Spring," not to mention that loch. By the end of that paragraph where you describe, I could practically feel it on my skin.
The role that ambition always plays in your stories. It's the Age of Sail, dammit, and these are Navy officers. Kennedy and his thirst for heroism, Hammond and his desire to be a man, and how it's so wonderfully and powerfully brought out in your writing.

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randomalia.livejournal.com

You're breaking my heart! *falls over* (And because you used that icon, and that line, I'm stuck imagining boy!Anakin comically going OOPS! in response. ROTS would have been so much funnier if they'd swapped the Anakins around.)

Um, which is to say, this is the best and kindest list in the history of ever, and you are too lovely, thank you. :D :D :D

I always read your fic and, without fail, wish I could write an actual story like you do, where the characters are so vivid and present, and they develop and you draw the reader along through that with them.

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"Avastly" rocks. Oh, and your ten things are good things because they're so different to most people's ten things. (Like good ol' third person past tense, hehe) And your last lines are great!

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And your last lines are great!

Ahaahaha. XD I usually end up writing them when I'm about 1/3 of the way through the story -- I write from the beginning up until I figure out the last sentence, write that, then spend the rest of the time trying to make the shit match up. So really, some people write because they have an idea in their heads? And others write because they really care about the characters, but me, I write because I'm a pompous bitch.

And randomly. It was your version of this that made me start thinking about what I always had in my stories.

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Sounds like a better way to write than "start writing aimlessly until you stop" (I try not to do that any more!). There is nothing pompous about writing with a sense of purpose and direction!

It was your version of this that made me start thinking about what I always had in my stories.

I'd forgotten about that! Oh dear, all so true :)

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There is nothing pompous about writing with a sense of purpose and direction!

Unfortunately, it's more like ZOMG I HAVE THOUGHT OF A TOTALLY KEWLIEZ AND CLEVER IDEA THAT EVERYONE WILL LOVE AND PRAISE ME FOR ^_______________^

A writing teacher of mine (the only one I've ever had, actually) beat it into us, actually. Authoritative voice and strong closings. Authoritative voice and strong closings.

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That's OK, because it IS cool :)
(If it sucked, it might be pompous!)

Authoritative voice and strong closings.

Ah! If only I'd had a writing teacher... all I ever did was "creative writing" assignments at high school where you write some page of descriptive waffle and the teacher gives it 19/20, thus aiding and abetting a lifetime of the aforementioned method (or lack thereof!)

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Actually, I lie. My father attempted to teach me how to write, too, and it was just the most AGONIZING EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE EVER except for, uh, all the times that he tried to teach me math. XD So that's two writing teachers.

Anyways.

I think that fandom can be a pretty goddamn fine writing teacher, not only becaue it makes you PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE, but also because other people are treating the same themes. It's like those exercises where the teacher make everybody describe the same object, but done over and over and actually made enjoyable. XD

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think that fandom can be a pretty goddamn fine writing teacher

Oh yes. Especially since I've never wanted to write anything that wasn't at least partly fanfiction. I mean, say, "The Further Adventures of Pownoll" would only be very tenuously related to Hornblower, but still I wouldn't write it if it weren't for Hornblower... (Not that I'm going to write it!)

The other thing it teaches me is a whole lot of stuff about ships, history, Pellew &c. that I would never have known otherwise... and I'm so glad.

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Last night, on the way to dinner, tw of my friends knew to turn to me with a quetion about women on British Navy ships. I was able to refrain from going ZOMG PELLEWWWWWW HAD WOMENNN ON HIS SHIPPPPPP <3 <3 <3 AND THOUGHT THEY WERE BRAAAAAVE <3 <3 <3 only by the greatest exertion of self-control.

Pellew &c. that I would never have known otherwise... and I'm so glad.

O_o Holy cow. I'd assumed that you were semi-pro with history and stuff because you know so freaking much and so good at weaving it in.

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