Despatches

Note from the Editor:

Fanfic:

Son et Lumière:
Photos: hmsacasta_feed: While in town 4

Of historical interest:
hmsacasta_feed: Meet Mr. Crabb
vanilla_elf: Nelson's Teapot
oldcuddy_feed: Illustrated talk: Collingwood's Ships - Design and Construction
oldcuddy_feed: Admiral Collingwood: Of Flowers and DNA

Miscellany and meta:
hmsacasta_feed: Our Schedule
hmsacasta_feed: Post Labels

Communities and challenges:
mandc_read are reading The Ionian Mission, Chapter Five this weekend
hmsacasta_feed: Open Call to Writers
perfect_duet: esteven wishes everyone A happy Easter - Happy Spring Season

Rec of the Week:
Sharpe's Training by sharpiefan; Sharpe; U; Sharpe, Sergeant Bowaters; The first time Sharpe had fired a musket, he hadn’t known what to expect. On DW; on the AO3

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Note from the Editor:

Fanfic:
Velleity by josbanks; Aubreyad; PG; Jack/Stephen; Stephen, Father Brendan Burke; : Stephen struggles with conflicting imperatives and attachments.

Son et Lumière:
hmsacasta_feed: Images From Mississinewa
hmsacasta_feed: The Doctor's Wedding 2
Art: The Man of the Peninsula by bluebutterflyarts; Wellington

Of historical interest:

Miscellany and meta:
hmsacasta_feed: Life Back Home
hmsacasta_feed: A Letter to Captain Wesley Raley at Horseguards
hmsacasta_feed: A Letter From the Field
austenblog_feed: Your Sunday Austen Meditation 4

Communities and challenges:
oldcuddy_feed: The Collingwood Society: General Meeting 2013
mandc_read will read Fortune of War Chapter Two this weekend

Rec of the Week:
As the AoS encompasses so much more than just the few series/books that have been adapted for screen, I bring you a fic based on another of the AoS book canons. Touch in the Dark by jj_minerva; Bolitho; NC-17; Richard Bolitho, Martyn Dancer; When had Martyn Dancer come to mean so much to him?

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Note from the Editor: Quite a short one this week!

Fanfic:
The Raveled Sleeve by josbanks; Aubreyad; PG; Jack/Stephen; Killick, Bonden; Killick has a theory about Captain Aubrey's sleep problems

Son et Lumière:
Picspam: Birds for Stephen by dreamboatdreamer70

Of historical interest:
sharpiefan posts Mystery of 200-year-old British soldier found in the dunes of Holland
sharpiefan posts about Nelson's Caribbean Hell-Hole
From hmsacasta_feed: The Lieutenant's Exam
From hmsacasta_feed: Lord Collingwood's Advices

Miscellany and meta:
From hmsacasta_feed: Acasta Make and Mend

Communities and challenges:
smallfandomfest is open for prompts
esteven reminds us that mandc_read has the BGT instead of a Read this weekend

Rec of the Week: Blue Devils; Master & Commander; PG; Jack Aubrey, Stephen Maturin, Preserved Killick; Stephen and Killick care for Jack, who is injured and blue after an action.


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Note from the Editor: Hope you've all had a good week!

Fanfic:
Reenactors Chapter 4 by josbanks; Aubreyad; PG; Jack/Stephen; At the outset of the engagement between the Shannon and Chesapeake, Jack and Stephen find themselves inexplicably on the deck of USS Constitution in Boston two hundred years in the future.
Reenactors Chapter 5 by josbanks; Aubreyad; PG; Jack/Stephen; At the outset of the engagement between the Shannon and Chesapeake, Jack and Stephen find themselves inexplicably on the deck of USS Constitution in Boston two hundred years in the future.

Son et Lumière:
Fanart: Fish Naked Like Maturin in swiss-figures.
Fanart: I was touched by Dil, a Bombay street urchin if ever I saw one by dreamboatdreamer70

Of historical interest:
vanilla_elf posts Release the hounds - Thieves steal a lock of Admiral Collingwood's hair (and more)
vanilla_elf reports Man charged, Collingwood's Lock of Hair still AWOL
From hmsacasta_feed: The Acasta Bible

Miscellany and meta:
From hmsacasta_feed: The Mail Packet - Call for creative writing! Open to Followers of the HMS Acasta
From hmsacasta_feed: Tall Ships 2013
From janeaustenblog_feed: In Defense of Persuasion
dreamboatdreamer170 posts Happy birthday Russell Crowe!
romantical posts Hornblower thoughts

Communities and challenges:
mandc_read will be reading Chapter Nine af HMS Surprise this weekend
mandc_watch will be watching Master & Commander this Saturday
esteven posts HMS Surprise - Archive

Rec of the Week: And now for something different... Badge of Hnour by lokei; Amazing Grace; G; William Wilberforce, William Pitt the Younger; It is not only his politics which set him apart. Prompt: Queues

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Note from the Editor: Hello again, hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!

Fanfic:
Cura te Ipsum by josbanks; Aubreyad; NC-17; Jack/Stephen; Stephen returns to Surprise, hoping to overcome his pathological grief.
A Reason to be Happy by corrielle; POTC: CotBP; PG; Elizabeth; Groves; Elizabeth is sad at her father's Christmas ball. Theo has rum.
Advent Calendar Day 21: Mr Hollom's Christmas by eglantine_br; Master & Commander; Hollom, Warley; The water stung his eyes. He could not blink enough to make it stop, he had to keep them open, he must keep going up, up and up.
Advent Calendar Day 23: The Long Years by takadainmate; Aubreyad; PG-13; Jack, Stephen; In the long years of their retirement, Jack finds that Stephen has been keeping secrets.

Son et Lumière:
Fanvid: Per Mare Per Terram by sharpiefan
Fanvid: Advent Calendar Day 24 - Christmas Eve part 1: High School Never Ends by latin_cat
Vid: Adventure at Sea, part 4 by amaraal; Aubreyad; G; Jack, Stephen
Vid: As it Was in Nelson's Day linked by sharpiefan; Royal Marines of 1805 relieving Royal Marines of 1930

Of historical interest:
From hmsacasta_feed: A Christmas Eve Signal in 1812
From hmsacasta_feed: Acasta and Poictiers take the Herald
From hmsacasta_feed: Boxing Day at Sea


Miscellany and meta:
vanilla_elf posts Freebie: Download "The Radiant Boy" - Merry Christmas!
vanilla_elf posts Join the Collingwood Society - your Admiral needs you!
From oldcuddy_feed: What Better Time to Join the Collingwood Society than Christmas?
sharpiefan posts Thoughts on POTC: CotBP

Communities and challenges:
perfect_duet: esteven posts Merry Christmas to everyone at perfect_duet
perfect_duet: The Admiralty Waiting Room (Contains spoilers

Rec of the Week:
Run Aground by idler_1814; A multi-part Hornblower fic; Gen/PG.

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Note from the Editor: this edition starts with an embarrassed apology. It's Trafalgar Day in three days' time and I had intended to run a Trafalgar Day Fanworks Challenge this year, to celebrate. And guess what I haven't left enough time to do?! I'll remember next year, though. How has your week been?

Fanfic:
It Has Been Many Weary Months (A multi-media fanwork) by jessamygriffith; AU Sherlock fic set in 1812; 15 for implied slash; Sherlock/John (implied); In the summer of the year 1812 at the beginning of the war between England and America, a Lieutenant S. Holmes of His Majesty's Royal Navy, banished by his superiors 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.

Son et Lumière:

Of historical interest:
dreamboatdreamer70 posts about Nautical Tattoos
esteven posts about Collingwood and the Irish Amazonian Corps

Miscellany and meta:
sharpiefan posts Websailing, a link to the website of HMS Acasta, a naval re-enactment group

Communities and challenges:
mandc_read will be reading Chapter Two of Post Captain this weekend.

Rec of the Week: Jack's Sharpe Wit by alltoseek (alltoseek); G; Jack Aubrey, Stephen Maturin, Richard Sharpe; For a prompt on perfect_duet's 2011 Aubreyad Kink Meme: Richard Sharpe repeats Harper's "violins are too fiddly for me" joke to Jack Aubrey (or within his hearing)

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Note from the Editor: Been a little busy over the past couple of days, hence this being late. Hope you've had a good week?

Fanfic:

Son et Lumière:
chrsvg posts screencaps of Far From the Madding Crowd
sid posts a wordle of Hidden Passions

Of historical interest:
vanilla_elf posts Great News: The Collingwood Society

Miscellany and meta:
heather_mist links to the Butcher's Bill

Communities and challenges:
mandc_read will be reading Chapter Eleven of Master and Commander

Rec of the Week:
Sharpe's Confession by sharpiefan; Sharpe; U; Sharpe, Harper, Pat Harper just wouldn't take 'no' for an answer

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Note from the Editor:
It's a nice day today - here's hoping this isn't all we see of summer. I hope you've all had a good week!

Fanfic:
Lakeside by wayward_shadows, OCs, K+ (13 and upwards), Jenny and Newbury meet again, post-war, Show the Colours
On Picquet by wayward_shadows, OCs, K+ (13 and upwards), two Riflemen alleviate their boredom while on picquet duty. Show the Colours
Fiddler's Green by latin_cat, Jack/Stephen, Jack/Sophie, Heneage Dundas, Killick, 12, Aubreyad

Son et Lumière:

Of historical interest:
vanilla_elf informs us about the Record Office lecture on Collingwood given by Dr Tony Barrow
vanilla_elf posts about the fashionable sailor of 1785

Miscellany and meta:
sharpiefan posts a list of period fabric and pattern suppliers
sharpiefan posts a list of useful AoS websites
vanilla_elf posts about POTC4: The Lieutenant Dances
esteven informs us about a BBC Radio 4 Extra - HMS Surprise
From Austenblog: Your Sunday Austen Meditation

Communities and challenges:

Rec of the Week:
Astrodene's Historical Naval Fiction A valuable reference for anyone who wants to know how the various AoS canons tie in together.

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From the editor.
Welcome to this issue of Despatches. I must apologise for the delay in issuing Despatches this week, but it was for a good cause: I have a new job! We have rather a mixed bag of links for you, from fic to historical re-enactments and a lot of stuff in between. Do remember to tell your friends about Despatches and let me know if there is anything you have written or made that you would like me to link to next time!

Also, there are two journals that I know that have been updated in the last 24 hours where the updates, set to 'public', are not showing up on despatch_reader's Reading Page. If you have updated a fic journal, a comm, or your own journal with an AoS item that is not linked in this issue of Despatches, please comment to this entry with a link. I am trying to sort the problem out and hopefully everything will be working properly by next week's issue.

Fanfic
Commentfic by sid , Stephen/Diana, wedding night, Stephen is a virgin, Diana is surprised (NC-17)
Commentfic by sid, Jack/Stephen, 'Enema', NC-17
Divided We Fall, United We Stand Part 7 by sharpiefan (PG) The events aboard His Majesty's Ship Renown, as seen by one of the Marines. Hornblower, Kennedy, Bush, Sawyer, OCs.
Divide We Fall, United We Stand Part 8 by sharpiefan (PG) The events aboard His Majesty's Ship Renown, as seen by one of the Marines. Hornblower, Kennedy, Bush, Sawyer, OCs.
All Sanding by idler_1814 (G) Hornblower, Bush
Shades of Glory by idler_1814 (G) Bush
Smoke and Oakum by sharpiefan. (U) A particular episode of the story of Examination for Lieutenant/The Fireships, told from the point of view of a Marine Private
Werebunny!Sharpe Part 5 by latin_cat (U) Sharpe, Lawford, Wellington, Harper, Chosen Men

Of historical interest
vanilla_elf quotes an excerpt from a letter by Collingwood
patches_the_shipcat has various quotes about the life of a governess

Miscellany and meta
nid_dabeille has made some 1:12 scale sea-chests
vanilla_elf tells us about a film about Goethe
black_hound is going to a live black-powder shoot at Boone Homestead

Communities and challenges
blackpearlsails' weekly drabble challenge theme is Blind

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