Age of Sail Despatches #26

[sharpiefan]

Note from the Editor: Hello everyone! Hope you've had a good week. I must report the death of Professor Richard Holmes, who died in the early hours of Saturday morning (BST) of pneumonia related to the cancer he was fighting. He was aged 65.

Fanfic:
Beginnings by sharpiefan; Original fic; PG; Four soldiers of the 60th, one day some time in the winter of 1808-1809
Muskets, Fifes and Drums by sharpiefan; Original fic, PG, four soldiers of the 60th, one day in the campaigning season of 1811-1812
Dogwatches Chapter 32 by barefoot_bard, Original fic, M, Discontent and mutiny aboard a Royal Navy frigate. American Revolution, 1780.
Hunting by barefoot_bard, Show the Colours, K+, Show the Colours AU; a young Adam Starling goes hunting with his brothers and lives to regret it.
A Cat's Magic, Part One by barefoot_bard, Show the Colours, K+, Show the Colours AU; Terpsichore's cat, Miss Emily, changes places with Lieutenant Cartwright for a week.
Sharpe's Surprise by latin_cat, Sharpe, NC-17; Wellington/Sharpe; Wellington has a surprise in store for Sharpe. A little bit of smut.
Never in Life by latin_cat, Sharpe; NC-17; Wellington, OC; A mysterious plague causes particular and personal problems for Lord Wellington.
Battle Plans by latin_cat, Sharpe, 12, Wellington/Sharpe, Sharpe doesn't think much of Arthur's artistic abilities. A short piece of fluff.
Drabble for a Sunday by sid, Aubreyad; G; Killick, OCs; written for the 'History Repeats Itself' meme on perfect_duet

Of historical interest:
vanilla_elf about a Mystery 18th Century shipwreck found in the Gulf of Finland
le_russe_satan posts a little on duelling

Miscellany and meta:
latin_cat reports the death of Professor Richard Holmes
From Austenblog: "Oh! the best nature in the world a-wedding"
ar posts Diana Villiers tl:dr
vanilla_elf posts about the Guests of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' Premiere at Disneyland
vanilla_elf posts What happened to Davy Jones?
esteven posts about Wine-Dark Sea
From Austenblog: Monday Ebooks: A Tale of Two E-Readers Edition
From Austenblog: The Beautiful Cassandra by Jane Austen, Illustrated by Juliet McMaster
From Austenblog: Your Sunday Austen Meditation
From Austenblog: Wellesley College to present Sense and Sensibility: The Musical
From Austenblog: Trailer for Sense and Sensibility movie

Communities and challenges:
perfect_duet posts Day 23 of the 30 Day Meme: Your favourite Master and Commander gif/YouTube video
perfect_duet posts Day 24 of the 30 Day Meme: Here at Perfect_Duet we're all about Jack/Stephen; do you ship any other pairs?
perfect_duet posts Day 25 of the 30 Day Meme: favourite Master and Commander actor
perfect_duet posts Day 26 of the 30 Day Meme: Favourite Master and Commander Music (movie or book reference)
perfect_duet posts Day 27 of the 30 Day Meme: Character you'd most like to be
perfect_duet posts Day 28 of the 30 Day Meme: Character you'd least like to be
perfect_duet posts Day 29 of the 30 Day Meme: Your favourite thing about Master and Commander (movie or series)
perfect_duet posts Day 30 of the 30 Day Meme:Any Other Thoughts to Share?
oursin requests prompts in history
sharpiefan posts an ad for Show the Colours

Rec of the Week:
I'd like to link you to the place where AoS fandom started for me: Horatians. Unfortunately, they had a DNS attack recently which necessitated a server move and meant that they lost a lot of data, but the community is second to none. And this week, it's two for the price of one: In Flanders' Fields by latin_cat, Sharpe, PG, Sharpe/Wellington, The 33rd in Flanders.

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Comments

[vanilla_elf]

Thanks for all your hard work and a wonderful issue! :)

[sharpiefan]

You're welcome. Someone had to do it - and I've got the time. I see you're doing Despatches on LJ now. Thank you for taking that on.