Age of Sail Despatches #95

[sharpiefan]

Note from the Editor: Well, with the perfect_duet Advent Calendar now in full swing, among other challenges, it's been a busy week. Hope you have a good week, and that it's as productive as this one has been! I would like to remind people that their fics must carry a rating in order for me to include them here. There have been a couple of works I could not include because there was no rating visible.

Fanfic:
Epistolary Fanfic: Sherlock in the Age of Sail by alltoseek; Sherlock (with references to Aubreyad); G; Sherlock Holmes/St John Watson; In the summer of the year 1812, a Lieutenant S. Holmes of His Majesty's Royal Navy, banished to Upper Canada for insubordination, wrote a personal letter to his friend and companion Doctor St-J. H. Watson. He enclosed this letter in a package with several other objects intended to be sent to the Doctor via the next packet ship.
Advent Calendar Day 4: Warships of Letters by heather_mist; Aubreyad; G; HMS Sophie/French ship Desaix; The following is a packet of extraordinary love letters between the Sloop Sophie (14 guns) of His Majesty’s Royal Navy and the Desaix (74 guns) a Ship of the Line of Napoleon’s French Navy
Sea-monster! by sharpiefan; PG; Jack, Stephen, Captain Howard, OMCs; It's OK to be scared of ghosties and ghoulies and things that go bump in the night... but at sea?!
Sequelae by josbanks; Aubreyad; PG; Jack/Stephen; Stephen’s struggles after returning from Gibraltar to England
The Father Sam Manual by alltoseek; Aubreyad; G; Sam Panda; Continuing a tradition of announcing new models just in time for the Christmas holiday, POB Enterprises presents The FATHER SAM Manual.
Signify by gogollescent; Temeraire/Jonathan Strange & Mister Norrell; PG; John Childermass, Tenzing Tharkay, Vinculus, and Gherni.; Mysterious social outcasts talk about talking. Takes place post-series.
Ajax by josbanks; Aubreyad; PG; Babbington, Jack, Stephen; What happened to Babbington's Newfoundland dog and why he finally stopped going to bawdy houses.
Molly's Bed by heather_mist; Aubreyad; PG; Jack Aubrey, Molly Harte; Molly Harte muses on her life and the choices she made.
Midsummer 1803 by feroxargentea; M&C; PG; Sophie and Diana; Post Captain: the book in which our heroines’ lives and friendship are disrupted by a couple of pesky men. This ficlet is set around the time of Chapter 4 and is more of a ‘what if’ than a true missing scene.
Mrs Broad and the Case of the Sneezing Badger by feroxargentea; M&C; PG; Mrs Broad, Stephen Maturin; ; Mrs Broad tells it like it is

Son et Lumière:
Fanart: Advent Calendar Day 5: Jack and Stephen as furries by dreamboatdreamer70; Jack, Stephen; G
Fanvid: Musket, Fife and Drum by sharpiefan
Fanvid: Advent Calendar Day 2: Movie - Jack and Stephen: Adventures at Sea by amaraal
Fanart: Anniversary piece - Coloured by latin_cat
Fanvid: Don't Forget Your Old Shipmate by sharpiefan; Hornblower, M&C; The minor characters

Of historical interest:
sharpiefan posts the writing on the wall

Miscellany and meta:
vanilla_elf informs us that Hornblower makes port in Germany - Ioan Gruffudd will attend Galaxy Con

Communities and challenges:
mandc_read is reading Chapter Nine of Post Captain this weekend
vanilla_elf is holding a Yuletide Contest: Garrow's Law or Goethe! 18th Century Chocolate, Spooky Goodness!
latin_cat posts Advent Calendar 2012: Opening the Ball

Rec of the Week: Not the fic I wanted to include, but that's not available on the AO3 or DW, to my knowledge. This is one by the same author, though, and just as good. Veritas by idler/idler_1814; Hornblower; PG; Bush, OC;Kronstadt, May 31, 1812. Through another's eyes...

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