Navyboys and Pirates

[donnaimmaculata]

In fannish news, shiny new fandom is still shiny. I wrote six Hornblower fics since October. This makes it officially my second most proficient fandom after Harry Potter.

Apparently, all it took to get me hooked were pretty navyboys


exchanging soul-searching looks


and being angsty.

And so there's more navyboy porn:

TITLE: Fearless
AUTHOR: Donna Immaculata
RATING: NC-17
WORD COUNT: 3500
PAIRING: Horatio/Archie
DISCLAIMER: These are not my characters. I just take them out to play.
SUMMARY: The morning after; Archie angsts and Horatio is speechless.
NOTES: For eglantine_br, who asked for a “second-time” fic. Consider it a birthday present. I didn’t know it was your birthday today until I saw anteros_lmc’s post, but I have planned to post it today anyway and am now very pleased with my timing.




In other seafaring news: I watched Treasure Island with a couple of friends last week, and we had a blast. I can't say whether it's a good show, but it's got Eddie Izzard as a very charismatic Long John Silver - and that's all it takes to make me happy.



There's also some serious costume porn going on, Frodo goes mad and Gene Hunt is as masterful as ever.








Seriously, costumes. Who made them? They're fab.


As are the pirate haircuts


and teef.


Frodo goes mad


and wants cheese.


Gene Hunt tells everyone off


agrees to a parley with Action Transvestite Long John Silver


and is a leader of men.


Long John is seriously fabulous


and a father figure to the boy who comes of age and finds treasure.


Also, there's a parrot.


And after we had watched Treasure Island, one of my co-watchers outed herself as a fan of Age of Sail kind of movies. And so I told them about that one show I watched, with ships and battles and naval officers, and if all goes well, we'll be watching Hornblower together one of these days. They will totally pick up on the slash vibes. It will be brilliant.

This post has been brought to you by my period drama fetish that I discussed at length before.

Comments

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

I wrote six Hornblower fics since October. This makes it officially my second most proficient fandom after Harry Potter.
HUZZAH! I'll look forward to reading this as soon as :)

Apparently, all it took to get me hooked were pretty navyboys exchanging soul-searching looks and being angsty.
*sigh* How could you resist?

We watched Treasure Island too and thought it was very stylish though I thought Squire Trelawny was terrible hard done by. Izzard is awesome as Silver but you're wrong about that being Gene Hunt. Every Hornblower fangirl knows that's Gunner Hobbs ;)

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

How could you resist?

I know! It's impossible not to love them.

Treasure Island really was stylish. I loved the mad costumes. The only other version I'm familiar with is the Muppet film, and that didn't have Eddie Izzard in it.

Gunner Hobbs was so sending mixed signals, because I saw Gene Hunt and I couldn't believe he would let the snotty upstart boys talk to him like that ;-)

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

I know! It's impossible not to love them.
Completely impossible. I wrote "one" fanfic two years ago and I've been here ever since!

The only other version I'm familiar with is the Muppet film
We concluded that Muppet Treasure Island was closer to cannon in many places XD Btw have you seen the fabulous Muppet Treasure Island / Hornblower vids?

Sailing for Adventure by kittycallum
and
Roll Call by acouplanutcases

PS Still haven't had a chance to read your fic :( I took sneak pic at me desk at lunchtime but I want to save it until I can read it properly.

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

I can't for the life of me remember whether I've ever read Treasure Island. I know for a fact that my parents had the book when I was a child, so chances are I did read it, but I have absolutely no memories of it. Obviously, it didn't capture my imagination. But the Muppet film did ;-)

Thanks for the links to the vids! I ♥ the second one; earnest, sombre Horatio providing the background noises.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the links to the vids! I ♥ the second one; earnest, sombre Horatio providing the background noises.
All of acoupleanutcases vids are brilliant. This is another one that crease me up every time XD

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yes, I've seen the Hornblower Spoof before! It's delightful. And so true. "Straight people!" No, not in this series, dear.

And I've never before noticed that Mr Bush licks his lips as he hands the spyglass to Archie. He, at least, seems to like straight people.

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

"Straight people!"
Shurely shome mishtake!

[lyras.livejournal.com]

Somehow it never actually occurred to me before that Jamie Bamber was in Hornblower. I mean, I knew it logically but not emotionally, until I saw your caps. *runs off to find show*

Eddie Izzard looks fabulous!

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

Oh, you've got to watch the show and then we can squee together! It's such fun, and the boys are so lovable. Seriously, there is no end to their adorableness. (If you can't find it, I might be able to, um, facilitate.)

Eddie Izzard was amazing. I've seen him in other shows before, but I forgot how good an actor he is.

Oh, and I've only just noticed you've got an Apollo icon :-)