quigonejinn: (hornblower - YO MAMA)
quigonejinn ([personal profile] quigonejinn) wrote2006-05-07 10:26 pm

Horrylocks and the Three Beds.



Once upon a time, there was a boy named Horrylocks who was rather fond of playing castaway in empty pig-troughs. Alas, one evening, the pig-trough was being used to feed the pigs, so he was forced to find other entertainment -- actually, his father picked him up off the step of the cottage, gave him a good clout for being dreamy, and then told him to go into the wood and not come back until he'd stopped being such a wretched sensitive pansy.

After a good half-hour of wretched meandering and sensitive neuroticism, Horrylocks came across a small cottage in a clearing, and seeing as the door was open and seeing as how he was a very curious boy (his other hobby was to read scandalously anti-Christian books that extolled the virtues of dead pagans), he went in directly. The cottage was a handsome one, built with good materials, but despite the signs of recent habitation, it had fallen into wretched disrepair. The smell of laudanum was very strong around it, and after poking around the downstairs for a while and not finding anything to entertain him, Horrylocks found that he had become quite tired and thus went up the stairs to the loft, where there were three beds. The first -- with the name CAPTAIN SAWYER on the headboard and decorated all around with (dusty) scenes of military glory -- but was much too hard. The second -- with the name LIEUTENANT BUCKLAND on the headboard and a great number of pillows and comforters and blankets -- was much too soft.

The third bed, though, contained a delightful, rather handsome blue-eyed fellow, and after Horrylocks laid down in the bed, he decided that this Lieutenant Bush was, in matters of both beds and entertainment, as well as a number of other things, just right.

[identity profile] nautacarus.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, it's lovely... and the only version I've read where one of the "bears" is IN the bed!

Wretched meandering and sensitive neuroticism

Hahah! Reminds me of all them poets, "alone and palely loitering" or whatever ;)

*ships HH/WB across not only gender but species lines*

[identity profile] quigonejinn.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a poet inside all of us, you know. With some of us, it's just, um. A little more deeply buried. The idea of HH trying to act like a Romatic poet is pretty hilarious. XD

Re: *ships HH/WB across not only gender but species lines*

[identity profile] nautacarus.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
The idea of HH trying to act like a Romatic poet is pretty hilarious.

Rather more Kennedy than Hornblower, I'd say... but you do get that vibe with Little Horny (and His Pig Trough), which you picked up on nicely :)

*ships HH/WB across not only gender but species lines*

Hah! Is it really wrong that I once considered a sort of Hornblower/Bambi or Hornblower/Beatrix Potter crossover? ;)
cleverthylacine: a cute little thylacine (freedom)

[personal profile] cleverthylacine 2006-05-08 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :)

[identity profile] spacekat13.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
Fantastic! Great idea! Where the hell do you get your inspiration?

Thanks for making my shitty day better. Chinese went really badly! And I have a presentation to give about Censorship by the end of the week, and my preperation isn't going well *sigh* Damn language :p

[identity profile] spacekat13.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
P.S. Do the flags in your icon mean anything? I could get a sailor friend to translate, but none of them are here at the moment, so I am being lazy and asking you...

[identity profile] quigonejinn.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Damn language indeed. XD

And ahaha. I stole the idea from Gundam Wing fandom way, way back in the day, have been fiddling with magic in HH stories for a while, and then [livejournal.com profile] quietcontrary put a fine point on it by talking about how she wants to fit Bush into the Cinderella story, and this got to broiling in my head. [livejournal.com profile] quietcontrary = smarter than [livejournal.com profile] quigonejinn.

... and now that I've typed all that up, I realize that it was probably a rhetorical question. *facepalm* But I am glad you liked this, and the flags in my icon are a crude attempt to use Popham's flag signals to spell out "YO MOMMA." I use it when, um, I'm feeling kind of sassy.

[identity profile] lamis-p.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
Lt. Bush is just right. I’m glad Horry the wretched sensitive pansy, found him.

[identity profile] quigonejinn.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Bush is pretty much always right. WWWBD?

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_oggy_/ 2006-05-08 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
"wretched sensitive pansy"
hehehe, i love it.

[identity profile] quigonejinn.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
I cannot tell a lie. Sometimes, I just want to beat Hornblower in the head and tell him to stop being such a whiny fuck. -_-

[identity profile] drbillbongo.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
*SPORFLE*
OMG, what an absolutely brilliant little fairy tale! *applauds and adds to memories*

[identity profile] quigonejinn.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
Ahahah. Glad you liked it. ^__^

just right ;)

[identity profile] dastier.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
sensitive neuroticism

now that's a good diagnosis! :D

his other hobby was to read scandalously anti-Christian books that extolled the virtues of dead pagans

and now i know my diagnosis: the real reason why i love HH. ha!

and of course, the final paragraph is a killer :D

Re: just right ;)

[identity profile] quigonejinn.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
and now i know my diagnosis: the real reason why i love HH. ha!

Ahaha. I swear, I gave a little shriek of joy at that bit in Beat to Quarters where we find out that Gibbon is HH's model author and all that. God bless CSF, really.

[identity profile] randomalia.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
Your fairy tales have just the right amount of bite and charm. :D

[identity profile] quigonejinn.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
*pets the crazy HH-icon* The hardest part, really, was coming up with a name for him in the story. There was a solid week where I was trying to figure out whether the name "Goldiblower" might, um, work. XD