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: 2006-09-05 01:41 pm (UTC)2) Five things Hornblower never told Bush.
3) Five things Hornblower didn't know about Bush.
4) Five things Bush didn't know about Hornblower.
5) Five times Edrington fell in love.
6) Five times Bush fell in love.
7) Five alcoholic beverages none of Paul Mcgann's various incarnations would ever drink.
8) Five opinions on why naval hats would have been horribly stupid-looking if it weren't for the fact that they're connected with AoS, one of the coolest things in the world. Ever.
9) Five Irate Canon Girlfriends and what they really thought.
1) Five things Bush never told Hornblower
Date: 2006-10-01 06:45 pm (UTC)The fact that certain things were never said, though, did not mean that they were unexpressed. The important things were communicated.
2. Here is one thing that Bush never expressed to Hornblower, in either words or gesture, though: that he knew his captain was tone deaf. He had known since that night aboard the Renown when Hornblower walked him to bed. Bush had been drunk, but so drunk as to fail to notice that his friend had no idea what Bush had been humming until Bush began applying words to the melody.
3. Here is a second: that he knew Hornblower's children had died of smallpox.
4. Also: that their friendship notwithstanding, Bush had told Lady Barbara to look after his captain.
5. And finally, something that Bush never said, at least not as a form of address: Hornblower's given name. He said Hornblower's given name on a number of occaisions -- describing his friend to family at Chichester, for example, or when talking about Hornblower to friends in Sheerness -- but it was "Hornblower" during intimate conversations and, in other times, "sir" or "Captain" or "Commodore."
Bush died before Hornblower became an Admiral.
2) Five things Hornblower never told Bush.
Date: 2006-10-18 02:54 pm (UTC)2. Tone-deaf. (with regards to Hornblower)
3. The arm over the chest -- Hornblower lay under Bush's arm for a while, listening to the rain and the birds starting to wake. Bush was snoring; Brown seemed to sleep silently, and the rain stopped. Hornblower got up and walked out to the where the boat was, and Bush never knew that he'd put his arm over his captain.
4. Hornblower bought the fruit with his last hard cash on hand. While Bush was still weak and while the prize money had not come through, Hornblower made do with ship's rations while the bumboats went up and down the sides with promises of fresh meat and fruit and vegetables and women. Hornblower just set his jaw and squared his shoulders.
5. One night, in Gracay, Hornblower woke and thought, for a moment, that he had returned to the bank by the side of the Loire. There was the sound of rain, and the birds were starting to wake.
Marie was in her room, though, and Hornblower was alone in bed. The arm that he'd felt lying on his chest was, in fact, his own.
3) Five things Hornblower didn't know about Bush.
Date: 2006-10-18 04:00 pm (UTC)2. The name of Bush's mother.
3. Whether Bush really did know every dirty song to pass through a seaman's lips.
4. Hornblower had a notion that Bush was from Chichester, and he knew that Bush had grown up in a cottage on the edge of the town, but Hornblower had a very imprecise idea of the circumstances. There was a garden, and the roof leaked, and there was a painting of Bush's father above the mantle, but that was the extent of it.
5. There was very little else that Hornblower didn't know about Bush. He had heard the Trafalgar story; while they were in Portsmouth during the Peace together, Hornblower heard about Bush's temper as a young lieutenant, and while they were captain and captain together near Sheerness, Hornblower heard about Bush's troubles as a mid. In the years after Caudebec, in fact, Hornblower found that he had a vivid memory of all the things that he knew about Bush; they sprang to mind and presented themselves, afresh, for examination, multiple times each day.
4) Five things Bush didn't know about Hornblower.
Date: 2006-12-04 01:25 am (UTC)2. Almost everything about Hornblower as a young adult. He met Hornblower as a full-grown man at sea, after all, and Bush had a limitedability ot guess at things that had taken place on land.
3. That both the childhood and the years immeidately following it had been lonely ones. Bush was a convivial man, and he had grown up at sea, where there wasn't space or leisure for loneliness. Even when he was at Gracay, ignorant of French, he had a warm place at the kitchen fireplace if he wanted it and plenty of family
4. How much Hornblower valued him as a friend.
5. How much Hornblower regretted Caudebec.
5) Five times Edrington fell in love.
Date: 2006-12-04 01:49 am (UTC)2. Nine, which is the first time that he got a pack of hounds of his own.
3. Nine, same day. Over field and heath and hedge, almost out of his mind with excitement. Cold air, a cold feeling in his hands and legs, and then hot blood oer the over the forehead and cheeks.
4. Fifteen. With female parts and sexual practices entirely expected of a young, goodlooking man.
5. In the normal course of things and in complete honesty, it would be the first time he watched his men go down into battle -- the drums and smoke and shouting that every born Army officer fall sin love with, but for Edrington, it was bound up with a realization of what it meant to be a man, to serve King and Country. To hold responsibility for something entirely within your hands.
The first time he felt it was when he was sixteen. Childhood pets live a long time, but like all things, they come to an end. Edrington did the job himself and shot his old childhood horse himself with a musket that a groom loaded for him.
6) Five times Bush fell in love.
Date: 2006-12-04 01:53 am (UTC)2. The Nonsuch.
3. The Witch of Endor, trim little darling that she was, with her head high above water and sides prettier than anything Bush had ever seen with his own eyes.
4. While bleeding on the deck of the Renown, and Hornblower was begging him to speak. Bush, being a proud man, pretended to be too busy losing consciousness to pay attention to the fact that he was falling headlong in the kind of life that ballad-writers would sing about on the corners if they had any sense.
5. The Nonsuch.
7) Five alcoholic beverages none of Paul Mcgann's various incarnations would ever drink.
Date: 2006-12-04 02:00 am (UTC)1. Nothing. McGann wants you to know that he takes deep pride in being able to drink anything that has ever been set in front of him. Even if it involves sugar frosted on the glass. Or little umbrellas.
2. "What's wrong with umbrellas?" The Doctor wants to know. He'll drink anything. Especially if it has little umbrellas in it.
3. "What're drink umbrellas?" Mo says. He's from Liverpool. Mickey doesn't want him drinking anything with alcohol with it because he's in training, but what Mickey doesn't know won't hurt him. Much.
4. "All right," the Doctor says, after a brief consultation with TARDIS. He sounds a little faint aorund the gills. "Dirty Mexican."
5. Bush wants to know, before he drinks the Dirty Mexican, whether it is properly classifed as a Frog drink (on account of the mayonnaise) or a Don drink (on account of the tequila).
8) Five opinions on why naval hats would have been horribly stupid-looking.
Date: 2006-12-04 02:03 am (UTC)2. Image. 1000 words:
3. Hornblower. Bush is not a creative man, but one time, when he'd woken after a particularly restless night and wandered up onto the quarterdeck without thinking about it, Bush thought that his captain rather looked like a seagull had landed on his head and been partially covered with tar.
4. They have an unfortunate tendency to escape. Especially in high winds. And over the sides of ships.
5. What do you mean, stupid-looking?
*RUNS LOW ON INSPIRATION*
9) Five Irate Canon Girlfriends and what they really thought.
Date: 2006-12-04 02:09 am (UTC)1. "This man, he brings fleas to my bed!"
2. "This man, he brings babies to my bed!"
3. "This man, he has lieutenants who tell me to go cheer his captain in bed!"
4. "This man, he no longer brings me pineapples. :| Now that he is married, he brings me. . . leaky ships and boxes of sea biscuit."
5. "This man, he is leaving me. Again." *bleeds to death*