Age of Sail Despatches #108

[sharpiefan]

Note from the Editor: Doing this from the kitchen breakfast bar while I'm colouring my hair. Funtimes.

Fanfic:
What It Really Is, Chapter 1 by mmejavert; Les Miserables/POTC; PG13; Grantaire, implied past Grantaire/Enjolras; July, 1832. Grantaire can't live in France anymore, and sets off to see the world, taste new kinds of alcohol, and try to forget. An unforgettable and irrepressible pirate captain crosses his path and helps him with that...
What It Really IS, Chapter 2 by mmejavert; Les Miserables/POTC; PG13; Grantaire, implied past Grantaire/Enjolras; July, 1832. Grantaire can't live in France anymore, and sets off to see the world, taste new kinds of alcohol, and try to forget. An unforgettable and irrepressible pirate captain crosses his path and helps him with that...

Son et Lumière:
From hmsacasta_feed: Images of Life...Ashore
From hmsacasta_feed: Images of Life at Sea #20
Fanvid: All I Want is You by sharpiefan; Sharpe; PG; Sharpe/Wellington; All Wellington wants is... Sharpe
picspam: esteven posts a HMSS Chapter 4
More from the (fictional) Guidebook to Fallbrooke House by sharpiefan (picspam for an RPG character)

Of historical interest:
shapiefan posts In love with a pair of 200-year-old shoes
vanilla_elf asks for help in identifying an unknown portrait, possibly of Admiral Collingwood
From hmsacasta_feed: Captain William Rogers
vanilla_elf posts No Flowers for Admiral Collingwood, but he gets a bust

Miscellany and meta:
sharpiefan wants to know if there are any seamstresses or reenactors out there who can answer a question
From hmsacasta_feed: 19th Century Auditions
From hmsacasta_feed posts An Acasta Event Announcement: The Pressgang is Coming!
sharpiefan links to Three Sharpe vids

Communities and challenges:
mandc_read are reading Chapter Five of HMS Surprise this weekend
lunarwolfik asks about interest in a Temeraire fic/art exchange
lunarwolfik posts A Summer of Temeraire : Fic and Art Exchange 2010 Roundup

Rec of the Week: Bush, Meditative"> by Atropos_lee; Hornblower; PG13; Bush/Hornblower, Doughty, HMS Lydia, off the coast of Nicaragua, (1808)

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