Despatches

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: Hi! Hope you've all had a good week!

Fanfic:
Dogwatches Chapter One by barefoot_bard; Original; M (Suitable for ages 16 and above); Original Characters; A Royal Navy frigate gains a captain whose ideas about running a ship quickly put him at odds with the crew. West Indies, 1780.
Dogwatches Chapter 2 by barefoot_bard; Original; M (Suitable for ages 16 and above); Original characters; A Royal Navy frigate gains a captain whose ideas about running a ship quickly put him at odds with the crew. West Indies, 1780.
The Sea Service by barefoot_bard; Show the Colours; K+ (Suitable for ages 13 and above); Cotton, Newbury, Chase, Padstowe; Show the Colours AU; Some sailors observe the discomfort of the soldiers they are transporting to Portugal. At sea, 1809.
A Temporary Shelter by astolat; American Revolution RPF; M; Alexander Hamilton/George Washington; In which Washington and Hamilton are driven by necessity to seek shelter together.
Learning to Trust by sharpiefan; Show the Colours; 12; Cotton/Maggie; It is very hard to learn to trust again once you've been badly hurt. Sometimes you just have to take it slowly...
Tigers at Night Part IIB by marashar; Show the Colours/Torchwood crossover; R (for aftermath of violence); Vickery, Torrington, Pye, Rottlander, Captain Jack Harkness; Captain Jack Harkness is on a sabre-toothed tiger hunt... in 1809
Tigers at Night Part IIC by marashar; Show the Colours/Torchwood crossover; R (for aftermath of violence); Vickery, Torrington, Pye, Rottlander, Captain Jack Harkness; Captain Jack Harkness is on a sabre-toothed tiger hunt... in 1809
Tigers at Night Part IID by marashar; Show the Colours/Torchwood crossover; PG; Vickery, Torrington, Pye, Rottlander, Captain Jack Harkness; Captain Jack Harkness is on a sabre-toothed tiger hunt... in 1809
Honeysuckle by barefoot_bard; Show the Colours; K+ (Suitable for ages 13 and above); Cotton, Maggie, original characters; Cotton pretends to have forgotten something important.
The Other Side of the Hill by sharpiefan; Show the Colours; Cotton, Maggie, Vickery, Emma Vickery; They had wanted to have more than the simple jumping the broomstick, but had never been able to, not in Portugal, not in Spain, not when they finally got into France.
The Aubreyad Big Bang Fic by sid, latin_cat, esteven, feroxagentea, alltoseek, heather_mist with artwork by amethystshard; Aubreyad; PG-13; Jack/Stephen, Jack/Sophie; It’s finally here! The Big Bang fic you’ve been waiting six months for! The BIGGEST, the LONGEST and the MOST EPIC fic EVER to have graced the Age of Sail...

Son et Lumière:

Of historical interest:
wayward_shadows posts some Crimean photographs
sharpiefan reminds us about the NAM Lunchtime lecture on the 29th March: Wellington's First Battle - The Combat at Boxtel

Miscellany and meta:
sharpiefan asks Is anyone interested in RPing the Age of Sail

Communities and challenges:
mandc_read is reading Chapter Two of Hundred Days

Rec of the Week:
A fic from the recent Yuletide (I daren't say 'this year's' and to call it 'last year's' sounds... wrong.) A Naval Romance by shirasade; Persuasion; PG; Admiral Croft, Sophia Croft, Frederick Wentworth, Original Characters, Sophie Wentworth met George Croft for the first time when the family went to see Frederick off on his first sea voyage as a midshipman of barely 12 years.

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Well, here we are on Dreamwidth. For those who don't know me, I'm sharpiefan or Sharpie. I am involved in the Sharpe, Hornblower and M&C fandoms, usually cheering from the sidelines but I occasionally write fics.

I thought there was a need for a newsletter such as we are used to on LJ. So here it is: Issue 1 of DW's very own despatches. If you know of the LJ version, you will understand the ethos and aims of this DW version.

This issue will feature a lot of my fics, which is unusual and not to be considered normal. I have had some difficulty finding a suitable cut-off point in reading back over things that ought to be linked here. For the next four issues, if anyone has anything suitable for inclusion here that was written or posted on DW before this first issue was posted, please comment with a link and I will include. This only applies for the next four issues - up to and including Issue 5. After that, I will only link to works produced or posted on DW between Despatches coming out.

Fanfic
Divided We Fall, United We Stand Part 1 by sharpiefan The events of Hornblower:Mutiny/Retribution from the perspective of a Marine (Hornblower, Bush, Kennedy, Sawyer, Whiting, OCs) Rating: PG
Divided We Fall, United We Stand Part 2 by sharpiefan The events of Hornblower: Mutiny/Retribution from the perspective of a Marine. (Hornblower, Bush, Kennedy, Sawyer, Whiting, OCs) Rating: PG
Passing of an Era by sharpiefan Hornblower. Rating: U
The Dogwatches Chapter 26 by barefoot_bard. Discontent and mutiny aboard a Royal Navy frigate. American Revolution, 1780. OCs. Rating: PG
The Dogwatches Chapter 27 by barefoot_bard. Discontent and mutiny aboard a Royal Navy frigate. American Revolution, 1780. Rating: PG
The Dogwatches Chapter 28 by barefoot_bard. Discontent and mutiny aboard a Royal Navy frigate. American Revolution, 1780. Rating: PG
The Dogwatches Chapter 29 by barefoot_bard. Discontent and mutiny aboard a Royal Navy frigate. American Revolution, 1780. Rating: PG

Son et Lumière
black_hound posts about American Revolutionary War re-enactment photos
black_hound posts knitting patterns for the American Revolutionary War

Of historical interest
wayward_shadows posts excerpts about period medicine

Miscellany and meta
le_russe_satan posts Excerpts from Gleig about Wellington
le_russe_satan posts excerpts from Wellington's letters
le_russe_satan posts A Naval Incident
le_russe_satan posts about A Spanish General
le_russe_satan posts about the painting of the Vienna Congress
Show the Colours is looking for new members
sharpiefan recs British Napoleonic Uniforms

Communities and challenges
w_i_r is a new comm for women in re-enacting in the 18th and 19th centuries
cesy asks whether people would be interested in regular Heyer challenges

Got a link for the next issue?

Please comment and let us know.

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