SPAM-A-LOT. AKA: what commodorified does to me.

[quigonejinn]

Death and Desire were walking together through a village.

"Look," Desire said, pointing to a window. Sitting on the other side of the glass was a young boy, alone, bent over a thick book with great concentration despite the fact that it was a lovely summer day outside.

"I rather like him," Desire said, and blew a kiss to him through the glass such that the boy's cheeks colored. After that, he not only looked as pretty as a girl when his cheeks all pink, but in that flush, he also displayed a hint of the spirit that would charm men and women alike when youth had passed from him.

After a moment, Death said, "I like him, too."

And the boy smiled while reading more of Quiberon Bay under Hawke.



Pellew was not a man who feared hangings: he knew their value in maintaining discipline. He had been a bloody captain on occaision, and when circumstnaces required, he could be flexible about proof of guilt.

As a result, it should have worked in his favor that he, of all the court, wanted to wait and let Kennedy die on his own. Nevertheless, it was only by persuasion and rank and certain other concession that he was able to carry the day. Collins pointed out, in fact, that Pellew was notorious for having his favorites. Hammond looked at him from the corners of his eyes, and it had taken Hammond, voting with Pellew, to achieve the delay.

If Kennedy had lived through to the afternoon, he would have died on a rope.

A few months later, Hammond claimed the favor he was owed by having a certain young gentleman admitted to Hornblower's ship.

Comments

[nautacarus.livejournal.com]

Interesting! Would love to read the rest of the second one in particular, especially to see how you "connect" the chararcter(s) of Hammond in HH2 and HH3! (Though, sadly, I fear I haven't time to read anything much longer than these snippets just now...)

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

I'm having issues sitting down to write more than a snip or two of somethign at a time becaue'm so easily distracted. XD And yeah. The Hammonds are fascinatingly underexplored, yeah. The more I think about how center they are to Retribution and Loyalty, the more stunned I am that there isn't a whole body of fanfiction about them.

[nautacarus.livejournal.com]

I suppose there's a general lack of fanfiction about non-central/non-heroic/non-hot characters... even though they're probably the figures who'd make the best novels... Maybe! My point being that a lot of the "neglected" figures are really very interesting.

so easily distracted

I can relate... But I hope your Muse returns in lengthy and connected form!
(Err, I'm really not making sense today, am I? The muse is a centipede, hehe.)

[randomalia.livejournal.com]

Ahhh you pain my wee Kennedy-lovin heart.

And I love having a Pellew view on those events.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

commodorified was talking to me the other day about how they might very well have hauled Kennedy out into the yard and hung him then and there, and how they would have LEFT HIM THERE TO ROT OR SOMETHING. O.o and o.O and HH sailing away from Jamaica with the body hanging like a signal flag from a very small mizzen?

Oh, R. This fandom is full of hearbreak, AND I CANNOT STOP WRITING IN IT LD:KJ:GLHF.

[randomalia.livejournal.com]

:O

*tries to glue heart back together*

Why, why is there not more good fic for that whole thing?