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[quigonejinn]

It's Trek! It's Hornblower!

It's _oggy_ and me writing about Horatio Hornblower as a captain in a world where money doesn't exist, where food comes from nothing, and nobody has to eat ship's biscuit if they don't want to. It's all great and wonderful, or uh. Not. It's Hornblower, after all, captain of the USS Lydia, first officer Bush, tactical officer Gerard, and Ambassador Wellesley with Maria lurking in the background. :D

Really, James T. Kirk was supposed to be modeled on Hornblower, you know. Where do you think Kirk got his propensity for womanizing and going on away missions, much to the )(@*#)@(#* of his stoic second-in-command?

Comments

[flax.livejournal.com]

This is amazing because literally right before you posted this I had quite a hankering to watch some Trek. :)

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Aahaha.

I was grocery shopping today and saw cereal with an Avatar promotion. I thought of you.

[flax.livejournal.com]

:D

Uhm. Avatar cereal. I may need this.

[aetherbunny.livejournal.com]

Oh, is the 'Hornblower in Space' theme persistent, even in profic. :) My favorite space-Hornblower is A. Bertram Chandler's John Grimes, although he has no Bush :)

(...I think you just wrote Honor Harrington and Alistair McKeon in reverse. You win.)

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Oh my God. I just read the wiki entries on Harrington and McKeon and. *brain explodes* It's seriously Hornblower in Space. Wow.

Bush as a chick = solid crack. :D

[aetherbunny.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, and IIRC those wiki entries don't even touch upon the subtext. Much less of that then there is with Hornblower and Bush, but it is so very there.

I like solid crack and look forward to more installments of it in future. ^_^

two great tastes, that taste great together!

[plasticity.livejournal.com]

I am unreasonably excited about this fabulously cracktastic idea.

Re: two great tastes, that taste great together!

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

It's like _oggy_ and I decided to jointly increase the crack consumption in fandom by 100x.

Re: two great tastes, that taste great together!

[plasticity.livejournal.com]

speaking of crack, somehow I got drawn in (through your tags, I believe) into your old Q/O SW fic and, holy hell. I thought I'd passed through that particular 'ship years ago with only a few scratches along the way but I've always had a weakness for Obi-Angst and, whoops, there I went.

you are one seriously potent writer, you. it's just these little flashes of character through the details, in these lovely little vignettes of longing and sadness and regrets. you write adults. and the relationship(s) are adult ones, meaning that they're important and lovely but not the whole reason for existence. gah, I don't know how to say this. I'll stop before I hurt something. in short: *retroactive salute.* thanks for the loveliness.