The 5 Things Meme.
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Do me a favor and ask for five things. My fandoms are: Star Wars, Hornblower, RPF for Paul McGann and/or other Hornblower actors, Supernatural, West Wing, Venture Brothers, Boondock Saints and really, anything that you might desire to see done in a halfassed way. If anybody wants it, I'll even write Battlestar Galactica, Nip/Tuck, and Harry Potter.
Be greedy and ask for lots. I'm in a rut these days, and writing these short little things will help me pare down my blather tendencies. :D
Do me a favor and ask for five things. My fandoms are: Star Wars, Hornblower, RPF for Paul McGann and/or other Hornblower actors, Supernatural, West Wing, Venture Brothers, Boondock Saints and really, anything that you might desire to see done in a halfassed way. If anybody wants it, I'll even write Battlestar Galactica, Nip/Tuck, and Harry Potter.
Be greedy and ask for lots. I'm in a rut these days, and writing these short little things will help me pare down my blather tendencies. :D
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Date: 2006-09-01 04:17 am (UTC)5 ways that Horatio was unkind to Archie but didn't mean to be
5 things Bush remembers about the carriage ride to Paris
5 things Bush wishes Hornblower would remember
5 times Horatio wishes he had told Archie "No"
And finally...
5 uses for a coconut on GAY COCONUT ISLAND(TM)
5 ways that Horatio was unkind to Archie but didn't mean to be
Date: 2006-09-04 03:46 pm (UTC)5. HE WON'T EAT HIS GODDAMN FISH1. The atrocities that Horatio committed against Spanish when they were in prison together. It's a wonder he ever struggled into something approaching conversational level in French -- never mind the fact that his grammar is still better than Archie's. The man is tone-deaf.
2. The time that Horatio accidentally reminded Archie just how he came to be the senior of them: Archie had come into the service first, after all, and Horatio made a joke about how he had now accumulated more sea time than Archie. It was funny at the time, and Horatio realized the impact once he had said it, but the damage was done.
As much as Archie likes to joke about what happened at the Spanish prison, he doesn't like to actually be reminded of it.
3. Horatio is Horatio is Horatio. There's nothing intended to be unkind in that, but it works that way. Horatio is Horatio, and the fact that he exists and that he is Archie's closest friend only makes it worse. Really, this is the crux of it.
4. "Do you think we'll have long in Kingston?" Cruel only in retrospect.
5. "Archie, Archie -- " Horatio's mourning on the deck of the Renown. It made dying more bittersweet, and this cruelty filled Archie's last days on Kingston.
Re: 5 ways that Horatio was unkind to Archie but didn't mean to be
Date: 2006-09-05 12:04 am (UTC)Number 4 and 5? *wails and wails* God. You always break my heart. In the best of ways, of course.
5 things Bush remembers about the carriage ride to Paris
Date: 2006-09-04 03:54 pm (UTC)2. The embarassment of having to be helped to the chamberpot, helped onto it, and helped off. It was comedic on certain levels, but also grim.
3. Brown, wiping the mouth of the bottle with a napkin.
4. The hand-holding, of course. Every morning, the captain reached for his hand moments after the carriage wheels began to turn, and if Bush let go of Hornblower's hand to let Hornblower brood, it was only for a little while before Hornblower was reaching back across the coach.
5. Bush chooses not to remember the pain. There was plenty of the pain, both during the day and during the night, but he chooses to remember the hand-holding instead of it. It was the first time that they had shown affection for each other in years -- it was the first time, in fact, since they parted ways after the Hotspur sank.
Re: 5 things Bush remembers about the carriage ride to Paris
Date: 2006-09-04 04:16 pm (UTC)Re: 5 things Bush remembers about the carriage ride to Paris
Date: 2006-09-05 01:38 am (UTC)Re: 5 things Bush remembers about the carriage ride to Paris
Date: 2006-09-05 05:17 am (UTC)I just wish that Horatio would just hold him already. He knows he wants to. Brown respects them both enough to turn a blind eye (to borrow a phrase from the man who is truly my "free pass"). Just holding Bush's fever-stricken body against his, smoothing Bush's hair back from his forehead through the worst of it, kissing the top of his head, murmuring comforts. That's what Bush needed. :o)
Re: 5 things Bush remembers about the carriage ride to Paris
Date: 2006-09-05 12:07 am (UTC)Re: 5 things Bush remembers about the carriage ride to Paris
Date: 2006-09-05 01:39 am (UTC)Re: 5 things Bush remembers about the carriage ride to Paris
Date: 2006-09-05 11:29 pm (UTC)5 things Bush wishes Hornblower would remember
Date: 2006-09-04 11:14 pm (UTC)2. To let his lieutenants run the ship when he was sick.
3. A certain night in Kingston where Hornblower was drunk enough to sing -- he was still incapable of distinguishing one note from another, much less reproducing them, but he was drunk enough to try. He studied Bush's mouth, the movements of his tongue, made a technical study of it as best as he could after two days and almost two nights in Kingston's best brothel, and when their money ran out, they went down the street, arm in arm, with Hornblower belting out the worst rendition of The Battle of the Nile that Bush had ever heard.
They had no money, and dawn was getting close. Nevertheless, when they sat down on the pier together to wait until it was time for Bush to go back to the Renown, Bush remembers that the stars were very bright.
4. The boarding action on the water hoy.
5. The man that he was before his children died.
Re: 5 things Bush wishes Hornblower would remember
Date: 2006-09-05 12:09 am (UTC)Number 5 makes me weep. God, so sad.
*has no words*
5 times Horatio wishes he had told Archie "No"
Date: 2006-09-04 11:33 pm (UTC)2. Kingston.
3. Horatio never really enjoyed being drunk, but he did like that time in Portsmouth with Archie, trying to drink the town dry. It was just that last round of drinking -- the Spanish wine with the strange, tarry taste -- that he wished he'd said "no" to. He woke the next morning with a full Marine band in his head and a Rear Admiral salute in his ears.
So yes, he wishes that he had said no.
4. When Archie was ill in prison and Horatio was nursing him, there were these long, terrible periods of silence. Archie would turn his face away from food and water and Horatio and stare at the blank wall; it went on and on and on, and to make Archie talk, Horatio would ask Archie questions. At first, they were technical questions about sailing because they were what sprang to Horatio's mind, but eventually, they moved to a more personal note. Horatio began to ask about Archie's family. Did he have sisters? Were they married? Were both of his parents still living? Had they been the ones who took him to the theater?
Eventually, Archie turned away from the wall, and when Archie had answered everything that Horatio could think of, Archie looked at Horatio. "And you, Horatio?"
Up until that point, Horatio had never even told anyone that his father was dead while he was away at sea. No-one had, in fact, ever asked. To make Archie laugh, Horatio even told him about the childish games he played -- he had been trying to explain why he went to sea, and a shadow fell over Archie's face. He was probably thinking of the fact that it had been so long since he had been at sea, and that had been it.
Horatio had been friendly with Archie before that. He felt an enormous sense of obligation to this midshipman whose time in prison he was responsible for, but there hadn't been a true emotional connection between them.
5. "Promise me you won't write to my family. Promise, Horatio. Do you understand why? My mother will tell everyone, and this will mean nothing -- "
Re: 5 times Horatio wishes he had told Archie "No"
Date: 2006-09-05 12:11 am (UTC)And number 5 WAAAAAH. You've successfully made me cry on all these memes. But I love them all to death.
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5 uses for a coconut on GAY COCONUT ISLAND(TM)
Date: 2006-09-04 11:40 pm (UTC)1. Breast implants. How is Horatio going to fill out his wedding gown if he has nothing up top?
2. Take old dry coconuts. Halve them -- without cutting your finger, Horatio -- and then go out into bay about thigh depth. Float the coconut shells. You can now re-enact all the Navy sea battles that your heart desires!
Just let Archie play England sometimes, Horatio. Because otherwise, if you're always the one to "close to boarding range" and "send the parties," Archie is going to end up so sore in the ass that he can't play Battle of the Nile anymore.
3. Pretend that they're midshipmen. Order them around.
4. Make a hairy sextant out of them. Calculate, from taking star positions, just how fucked the two of you are. Continue to wonder how a storm in the southern Atlantic could whisk you to an uninhabited Carribbean island.
4. Horatio, you can do this when Archie is having an Issue Day: kit out a coconut with yellowed palm leaves, leave it on a warm rock in the sun for a few hours, then cut a certain-sized hole in it. Etc.
Re: 5 uses for a coconut on GAY COCONUT ISLAND(TM)
Date: 2006-09-05 12:15 am (UTC)Horatio says he would particularly like to try number 2. :D
*loves you and your brain to death*