Despatches

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We had meant to post over the weekend but ended up trying to get a new battery for the car (it had to be jump-started three times in two days! Yippee!) How's your week been?

Fanfic:
ohveda posts A Warm Bed on a Cold Winter's Night; Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (JS&MN); NC-17; John Segundus, John Childermass, Vinculus, original characters
rosefox posts Making Arrangements; Original Regency fic; PG; Original characters

Son et Lumière:
Poetry! rifleman_s: The Rainbow of Jack at perfect_duet
Fic recs: ohveda at friendsofenglishmagic: Childermass/Secundus
bookhobbit: Norell headcanons at friendsofenglishmagic
wolfinthethorns: Norrell headcanons at friendsofmagic
ohveda Segundus headcanons"> at friendsofenglishmagic

Of historical interest:
austenblog_feed: Happy Birthday, Jane Austen!
hmsacasta_feed: Shirts!
hmsacasta_feed: Meet the REAL Acasta!
hmsacasta_feed: How to paint a bosun's hat

Miscellany and meta:
bookhobbit in friendsofenglishmagic: An Enquiry on the Nature of Eternal Darkness
bookhobbit in friendsofenglishmagic: On magic as a language
scripsi in historium: Fanfiction I have written (includes JS&MN, POTC and Sleepy Hollow 1999)
Book review: Slaver Captain on hmsacasta_feed
Picspam: Asleep on the job at hmsacasta_feed
Picspam: Images for nightwatch by hmsacasta_feed

Communities and challenges:
fukurodani: Any hopes that this community can be reignited? at temeraire (a Temeraire fanfic community)


Rec of the Week:

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