despatches | Age of Sail Despatches #53

Note from the Editor:
Another week gone! I hope it was a good one for you!

Fanfic:
Broken and Mended by

mithen; Aubreyad; PG=13; Stephen Maturin/Jack Aubrey; Stephen tends to an gravely wounded Jack and contemplates the requirements of honour and of friendship. Set during Post Captain and showing the missing scene after the Polychrest is sunk.
Dogwatches Chapter 6 by

barefoot_bard; Original; A Royal Navy frigate gains a captain whose ideas about running a ship quickly put him at odds with the crew. West Indies, 1780.
Dogwatches Chapter 7 by

barefoot_bard; Original; M (Suitable for ages 16 and above); Original Characters; A Royal Navy frigate gains a captain whose ideas about running a ship quickly put him at odds with the crew. West Indies, 1780.
Dogwatches Chapter 8 by

marashar; Show the Colours/Torchwood crossover; PG; Vickery, Torrington, Pye, Rottlander, Captain Jack Harkness; Captain Jack Harkness is on a sabre-toothed tiger hunt... in 1809
Tigers at Night Part IVc by

le_russe_satan posts about Newish books

Miscellany and meta:
Meta: The Peasants are Revolting, Sire! Piracy and Fans by

vanilla_elf

vanilla_elf asks Garrow's Law fans: please tell the BBC you want more
From

garrowslaw_feed: Garrow's Law Series 4 Update

Communities and challenges:

mandc_read will be reading Chapter Four of The Hundred Days this weekend

Rec of the Week:
Kiss of Life by

anteros aka

anteros and

anteros_lmc; Hornblower; Horatio Hornblower/Archie Kennedy, Edward Pellew; Believe it or not this is a sequel to Friend or Foe, which I wrote in January 2010. I've been carrying the bare bones of this story around in my head ever since. It didn't turn out quite as I expected though :}

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