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Note from the Editor:
My week has been good, if rather long. I hope you have also had a good week?

Fanfic:
A Cat's Magic Part Three by

wayward_shadows; Show the Colours; K+ (suitable for ages 13 and up); Show the Colours AU; Terpsichore's cat, Miss Emily, changes places with Lieutenant Cartwright for a week. At sea, 1809
Mischief by

wayward_shadows; Show the Colours; K+ (Suitable for ages 13 and above); Show the Colours AU; the Shepherd twins are up to their usual tricks. At sea, 1809.
Dogwatches Chapter 33 by

wayward_shadows; Original fic; M (Suitable for ages 16 and above); Discontent and mutiny aboard a Royal Navy frigate. American Revolution, 1780.
On the Identification of Weeds by

feroxargentea; Aubreyad; G; Stephen Maturin and the Aubrey family; He watched the crouching infant lean forward, further and still further, until it fell face-first onto the soft ground, bewildered but undaunted (Spoilery for The Mauritius Command, but supposes that campaign had a different outcome.)
A Hand in Time by

feroxargentea; Aubreyad; G; Jack and Stephen; Jack paced the quarterdeck of the Surprise, marking out his daily miles as much to distract himself from tedium and hunger as to combat his slowly expanding waistline
That Untravall'd World by

ferozargentea; Aubreyad; NC-17; Aubrey/Maturin; Set a year or two after Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Readers voted DADT pre-slash rather than gen, so here is the slashy postscript.

Of historical interest:

vanilla_elf posts Don't play with this lady: An extremely rare 18th century doll

w_i_r:

black_hound posts Colonial Plantation photos

Miscellany and meta:

vanilla_elf posts Updated: "The Gillington Formula" - what year is POTC set in?

vanilla_elf posts Aw, people like Gillette

vanilla_elf posts My proper review of POTC 4 is now online

vanilla_elf reviews Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides

vanilla_elf posts On Stranger Tides Countdown Discussion: Day 5

vanilla_elf posts On Stranger Tides Countdown Discussion: Day 4

vanilla_elf posts On Stranger Tides Countdown Discussion: Day 3

vanilla_elf posts On Stranger Tides Countdown Discussion: Day 2
From

austenblog: Join Jane Austen Inside Her Novels at the Classroom Salon

Rec of the Week:
This was posted in the wake of a discussion about the phenomenon of the Mary-Sue. Maybe I should say 're-posted', it isn't a new fic, although it hadn't been posted before, to my knowledge. The lady who wrote this isn't known for being active in writing fanfic, although she is very active in fandom circles, as a member of the Horatians forum. Time by pronetopanic; Hornblower; G; Hornblower, the Kennedy family; something in the deeps of her soul still saw the frail wooden jetty and the little ‘pirate ship’, the sail-boat which their father had placed upon the lake for their use, and the boys in their bicornes, leaping on and off like buccaneers. All gone now… all vanished like the songbirds in the velvet dusk, stolen by time.

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