Notes on a Nondescript Vegetable
✍️ fic by #Dorinda
🌺 #aubreyad
🌺 #JackAubrey / #StephenMaturin
🌺 13k, mature, canon compliant
🌺 When they stop at an uninhabited island, Stephen discovers a previously unknown plant
🌺 As he records his scientific observations, he becomes aware of some physical responses in his own person
🌺 In other words: it's an aubreyad sex pollen story
https://archiveofourown.org/works/35763307
NSFW #FicRec
#Rec #FicRec #Hornblower #Aubreyad
Dissimulando Con Brio (tothom al meu voltant sap la tornada), by joanereb
https://archiveofourown.org/works/64409002
➜ crossover fic in which Horatio Hornblower has an evening of music with Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin
➜ poor tone-deaf Hornblower loves the mathematics of music but is not...into playing it. or listening to it. he has accidentally trapped himself in an evening of suffering!
➜ what a perfect job the author has done with the characterisations of all three of these guys! so fun and funny, to play them off each other like this!
➜ 3k words
This is one of those words that I instantly imagine into the #AubreyMaturin books. Maturin calling Aubrey an ‘opsimath’ and Jack looking back all hurt and saying some non sequitur like “I don’t know how you can say such a thing, Stephen. I do eat the occasional vegetable!”
#Aubreyad
https://mastodon.online/@KarenStrickholm/113052000784373592
Another cool word! Definition of: 'opsimath' is: 'a person who begins to learn late in life'. Learn more at: 'https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-day/opsimath-2024-08-30/'
“But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not suppose that I intend any preposterous comparison, when I observe that Homer was farther removed in time from Troy than I am from the Napoleonic wars; yet he spoke to the Greeks for 2,000 years and more.”
― Patrick O'Brian
#books #LiteraryQuotes #LitStuffFromTheEyrie #PatrickOBrian #AubreyMaturin #Aubreyad
And on the seventh...
✍️ fic by #Dorinda
🪽 #Aubreyad #MasterAndCommander
🪽 #JackAubrey / #StephenMaturin
🪽 11k, rated Teen, canon compliant
🪽 Jack & Stephen go overboard during a battle & end up on a desert island
🪽 Stephen's leg is injured
🪽 Jack works like mad to set up camp, & keep Stephen safe
🪽 Stephen tries to make Jack rest
A kiss slowly rising to the eyes of the sea
✍️ fic by #Dorinda
🕺 #MasterAndCommander #Aubreyad
🕺 #JackAubrey / #StephenMaturin
🕺 14k, Mature, canon compliant
🕺 Jack & Stephen travel to Paris
🕺 They stay with a friend of Stephen's
🕺 The friend orchestrates a lovely fancy party for Jack
🕺 Stephen has something on his mind
🕺 Jack's POV
🕺 Only one bed!
Salt Water Unbounded
✍️ fic by #Dorinda
🌊 #MasterAndCommander #Aubreyad
🌊 #JackAubrey / #StephenMaturin
🌊 3k, rated General, canon compliant
🌊 After Stephen's rescue from torture at Mahon, he stubbornly clings to his pride while recovering
🌊 Jack is desperate to help but restrains his impulses
🌊 Stephen eventually agrees to join Jack on his daily ocean swims
🌊 Hurt/comfort, slow recovery and building trust
The Fragile Skiff Attains the Shore
✍️ fic by #Dorinda
⛵ #MasterAndCommander
⛵ #JackAubrey / #StephenMaturin
⛵ 13k, rated Teen, canon compliant
⛵ Stephen doesn't return to the ship at the appointed time
⛵ They should leave him behind, but instead Jack goes looking alone
⛵ Hurt/comfort
⛵ Perfect characterisation
⛵ Subtle and profound
lookitmychicken
Soph (they/them)
Felicity Shoulders
Jane Alyson Clarke
Dr. Anne, PhD