Age of Sail Despatches #47

[sharpiefan]

Note from the Editor: If I say it's only 11 days to Christmas, I hope I don't panic anyone! I do hope your week's been a good one! You will all be pleased to know that I'm back on my proper laptop - no more tiny keyboard to type this out on! Huzzah!

Fanfic:
Performance Anxiety, or, The Perfect Duet by sharpiefan; G; Aubreyad; Jack,Stephen. Maybe there really is such a thing as performance anxiety after all...
sid posts Sophie's Lee Shore; Aubreyad; R; A sudden draft came down the chimney? Probably the same wind that blew Jack home before he was expected....
Gifts of Gold and Paper by jasmasson; Aubreyad; G; Jack/Stephen; A ship's Christmas
The World in Stillness by feroxargentea; Aubreyad; PG-13; Jack Aubrey, Stephen Maturin, Jack watches Stephen asleep
Five Christmases aboard HMS Surprise by feroxargentea; Aubreyad; Jack/Stephen; PG-13; How many attempts will it take to make 1813 perfect?
A Night Like This by esteven; Aubreyad; NC-17; Jack/Stephen; Playing cards
Riding Lessons by sharpiefan; Show the Colours; U; John Vickery; Written a while ago for the prompt Childhood injury: Any character
Christmas tidy by conjure_lass; Aubreyad; PG; Jack/Stephen; It's Christmas morning, and Jack has decided to play chambermaid. I know we're all disappointed that he couldn't find the French maid uniform.
From the Vickery Family Papers: Letter 9 by sharpiefan; Show the Colours; U; John Vickery; Correspondence from the papers of the Vickery family, between Captain John Vickery of the 5/60th and members of his family. The ninth extant letter


Son et Lumière:
AoS pic: rowdy_tanner posts Happy Birthday in georgette_heyer; General AoS; G; unknown couple
Aubreyad comic strip: johanirae posts I want my cormorant!; Aubreyad; G; Stephen, Jack, Bonden, Killick, HMS Surprise
AoS fanart: Untitled sketch by bbshrimp; Aubreyad; NC-17; Jack/Stephen
sharpiefan posts a link to AoS dress-up dolls

Of historical interest:
latin_cat posts some Apsley House trivia
latin_cat posts More from the Apsley House guidebook>
sharpiefan posts about Upcoming Lunchtime Lecture at the NAM on Wellington's First Battle:The Combat of Boxtel

Miscellany and meta:
vanilla_elf posts a Reveiw of Garrow's Law Series 3 Episode 4: The Baby in the Basket

Communities and challenges:
mandc_read: esteven posts Flailing fangirl weekend 1 at the read
vanilla_elf posts Molly Joyful's Yuletide Contest

Rec of the Week:
Whither Thou Goest by mswyrr; Garrow's Law; PG-13; Garrow/Lady Sarah; Coda to Series 2, Episode 4. They are not beaten. But where do they go from here?

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Comments

[mswyrr]

Oh, oh, oh - a vid!! :D

:DD I'm putting the final touches on it now -- very excited to share it soon!

If you have anywhere that you regularly post stuff on DW, I can follow you with [personal profile] despatch_reader - basically, just subscribe to your journal or whatever. Don't add that journal back and don't allow it access, and if you post anything fannish publicly viewable, I can link to it. Absolutely no hassle for you at all. :D

Oh, cool! Well, I've been trying to copy/paste or link to my favorite parts of the meta we GL folks have been doing on my DW Garrow's Law tag, but the main volume really is over on my GL tag at Tumblr. We've been pretty enthusiastic over there, covering everything from the poetry Will would likely read to the precise nature of Lady Sarah's title to intersectional feminism. :)

[sharpiefan]

:D

I'm actually surprised nobody's set up a Garrow's Law community over here yet. Though it might have rather a small membership. Still, big oak trees from little acorns grow... :D