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In an earlier post I asked if anyone had further information about the 1797 conviction and execution of Captain Henry Allen for sodomy (to the best of my knowledge he was the only man of captain's rank executed for sodomy in Royal Navy history).

I managed to turn up a more detailed account of the trial in Boys at Sea: Sodomy, Indecency, and Courts Martial in Nelson's Navy, by B. R. Burg (Palgrave, 2007).

Here's what Burg has to say: ( long excerpt below the cut; warning for potentially disturbing content )

joy

Hi. I thought you guys might be interested in

19thc_exchange.

19thc_exchange is a fic exchange for fanfic based on period dramas. “Period dramas” includes literature written during the 19th century in any part of the world; movies, television shows, and mini-series based on that literature; and original movies, television shows, and mini-series set during that time. Here is an overview of the purpose of

19thc_exchange.

Exchanges will occur in rounds, and each round will have a theme. One theme may be Jane Austen; the fics exchanged will only be relevant to Jane Austen’s work. One theme may be young adult period literature and media. One theme may be non-English speaking countries.

The first round is Jane Austen. Read more about it here.

If you are interested in exchanging Jane Austen fic, or other period drama fic in the future, join the comm. The sign up post for Round One goes up March 23rd, 12:00 AM PST.

Please pass the word along to anyone you think might be interested. I am currently looking for people to make banners in order to advertise both

19thc_exchange and Round One. If you are interested, please contact me, or reply to a post at

19thc_exchange.

I’m sorry this is cross-posted everywhere. If advertising is not allowed, I apologize, and please remove my post!

damned_colonial

This has been linked everywhere, but in case you missed it: Scott and scurvy is an excellent essay about how the British learnt -- then forgot -- the cure for scurvy between the 18th century and Scott's Antarctic expedition at the beginning of the 20th century.

wired

by Susan Kaye.

My charming spouse asked me what I was reading.
"Jane Austen fanfic!"

This might be construed as derogatory, but no, I really love Jane Austen fanfic. I love seeing what characters are doing off-screen, what is happening outside the purview of the book. This is a fine example of the species, in which we watch a sympathetic Captain Wentworth:
* set in motion the wheels that make the domestic arrangements in Lyme make sense
* moon about Anne
* deal with the fact that he's been beached
* moon about Anne
* instruct young midshipmen
* moon about Anne
* smack down sailors for STD gossip
* moon about Anne
* be a nice guy, even when Anne isn't watching

Persuasion is my favorite Austen. They're mostly very good books (I'm looking at you, Northanger Abbey. You are letting down the side character-wise, but the snark redeems you.), but I am a terrible sucker for romances in which people who are adults fall in love and still act like adults. This book is all about how it can be that a reasonable man can be deeply in love and yet not stupid or obsessed at the cost of his career.

I have the second half on order from the library. When we leave our hero, the Terrible Accident has just occurred. I suggest you get both books at once. They really do appear to be volumes, and not independent novels.

There was obviously a lot of loving research done on courts-martial, naval habits, menus, uniforms, modes of travel, food prices. This book is a nice resource because of that, but I wouldn't trust it explicitly. In one scene that jarred me, Wentworth talks about his ship being decommissioned and sent to "the knackers". I would have written it "the breakers", who are people who disassemble ships. Knackers disassemble animals.

I read it really quickly -- it was engaging and transparent, not too obviously concerned about slavishly replicating the tone of period writing, but still with a voice that sounds like it could be Frederick Wentworth in his private moments.

seekingferret

Hi! I'm not sure if you'd count this as an Age of Sail fandom (It's set in 1614, which is earlier than the stuff here), but I wrote two ficlets about Samuel Palache, the Pirate Rabbi, for

purimgifts.

Chasing Pirates (In Which the Pirate Rabbi Celebrates Purim)

The Pirate Rabbi in... Halachot of the High Seas (In Which the Pirate Rabbi Decides Something Is Kosher)

damned_colonial

I can't watch this one at work, but I just saw an announcement on it over at

vidding: The Pirate Song is a vid to a TV/movie version of Robinson Crusoe, by the looks of it.

Also, via my flist, Might Have Been by

jennaria is a Georgiana Darcy/Bingley fic from the recent Porn Battle IX.

(AoS comm as newsletter... do people mind me posting these links here? It makes me sad that

despatches_feed won't link to DW content.)

damned_colonial

So a while back when I was asking for recs of AoS movies with crossdressing women, someone mentioned "Cutthroat Island" starring Geena Davis but said it was a pretty bad movie. I've never seen it, but someone recently posted this fanvid to the

vidding community, and it's pretty good -- lots of swashing and buckling, and I like the song, and of course crossdressing piratical Geena Davis.

sixbeforelunch

A question for the Hornblower fans.

I don't suppose that any wonderful fan out there has created a video that contains only the Edrington scenes from The Frogs and the Lobsters. I have the movie, but I'm doing research for potential Edrington fic, and trying to skip around the whole thing just to get to his scenes is annoying me.

I'd try to make one myself, but lack of technical skills and access to the necessary technology makes the attempt an unpleasant proposition.

damned_colonial

I just posted a long, three-part guide to getting started in Age of Sail fandom to my DW, because people keep asking me and I thought it might be useful to have so I can just point them at it next time.

Here's my opinion/advice for those interested in getting up to speed with AoS, from a standing start:

Part 1 - viewing guide (TV and movies)
Part 2 - reading guide (fiction and non-fiction)
Part 3 - online/fandom stuff

Any other suggestions?

isis

My husband and I frequently Netflix AoS movies, and we are also both deep in a Patrick O'Brian reading frenzy. After a leisurely start with the series 6 years ago, and then years of occasionally picking up whichever book was next from the library, we have quickly gone through the four books from The Truelove (Clarissa Oakes) through The Yellow Admiral in the last couple of months. And this has had an effect on our speech.

We no longer get pissed off at people or situations. Instead we are "sorely vexed."

The house is no longer a mess - it is "all ahoo."

When one of us suggests an evening out, the other is likely to say, "I should like that of all things." (And then we both bust out laughing.)

Do any of you find that you're using these turns of speech? And do your friends laugh at you? :-)

hammerxsword

Title: Duty Bound
Fandom: Hornblower: Mutiny and Retribution
Pairing: Hobbs/Wellard
Rating/Content: Adult (+18) – bondage, dub-con, graphic rough sex and some violence
Length: 3600 approx.
Summary: Wellard is stubborn, cute, and strong, and Hobbs is determined, devious, and very surprised. I confess there are some plot similarities to Deanna's very sexy Damnation, but this is a somewhat different take on the scenario. Some spoilers for both episodes.
Notes: Written for

delphi for winning my offer for the

help_haiti auction. I'm not sure if I've ever really written slightly kinky smut before, so this was an interesting challenge!

Duty Bound

Current Mood: awake

damned_colonial

It has come to my attention that some people do not know the Edrington drinking game. So, just to ensure that everyone is up to speed on this vital piece of fannish wossname...

The Edrington drinking game: While watching "The Frogs and the Lobsters", every time Edrington says something that is better when followed by "... in bed", drink.

Feel free to play a round in the comments.

damned_colonial

Would anyone be interested in an Age of Sail kink meme? The way it works is, you start up a post (not this one! this is just to gauge interest!) with anonymous commenting turned on, and let people ask for fic they'd like to see written. (Since you can be anonymous, it's a good chance to ask for stuff you might not ask for under your own name.) People then respond with commentfic, anonymously or otherwise.

See, for example,

sherlockkink which is a Sherlock Holmes kink meme comm.

sharpiefan

Fandom/Canon: Hornblower
Author:

sharpiefan
Spoilers: Examination For Lieutenant (British title, US The Fireships)
Word count: 4683
Rating: U (Suitable for all)
Pairing/Characters: Hornblower, Bunting, original characters
Author's Note: I wrote and posted this on LJ over the Christmas break. I was watching and capping my DVD of Examination for Lieutenant, and this plotbunny bit me rather hard. It's a particular episode of the story of the DVD, told from the point of view of a Marine Private (my own creation).

The title comes from a reply I made to

esteven's comment about another fic of mine being a 'perfect oakum story'. Oakum in this sense meaning 'filler'. I told her the next story that came out at a decent length would be titled 'Smoke and Oakum' with reference to Jack Aubrey's comment that they would "run like smoke'n'oakum'. Which this story has.

I hope you enjoy it.

(Smoke and Oakum) (Fake cut links to my fic journal.)

damned_colonial

I have a vid bunny, and I'm trying to figure out whether it's possible.

I'm trying to think of AoS visual sources (TV/film) that have ass-kicking women doing any of:

* crossdressing
* wearing masculine styled clothing (eg. riding habits)
* wielding a sword, knife, pistol, etc
* riding a horse or running in a non-ladylike fashion
* doing anything else that might appear action-hero-like

( my thoughts so far behind the cut )

Any other ideas?

zarhooie

damned_colonial said to post this here, so here goes! The Blu-Ray version of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World is on Amazon for $12.49. I don't know how long that sale will last.

Kat

sarlania

Six 100 word drabbles. One Story.

TITLE: Echoes of a past glory.
WORD COUNT: 100 words each, 600 words in total
RATING: G
FANDOMS (in order): Hornblower, MFU, Doctor Who, M&C, Wellington/Alava, Sapphire and Steel
SPOILERS: None really.
WARNINGS: This is a homage to a famous naval battle and a great man, so there is plenty of angst and a non-canon death. There are hints of m/m relationships. You have been warned.
DISCLAIMER: None of the characters belong to me, I only play with them and derive no profit from them. Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington and Miguel de Alava are historical people and I mean no insult to them and their descendants.
NOTES: This is my tribute to the Battle of Trafalgar, which was fought on this day, October 21st, 1805, between the navies of Britain and France & Spain. Not a crossover in all the senses of the word. Understanding of all six “fandoms” not that necessary, but does help. Sapphire and Steel section set after Assignment 2. #5 based on Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington by Earl Stanhope.

( October 21st 1805: Echoes of a Past Glory )

sharpiefan

I did this list a while ago on my own LJ, and I thought I'd post the updated version here. It's the chronological list of Aubreyad, Hornblower, Ramage, Bolitho and Drinkwater novels, with Peter Smalley and Dewey Lambdin books added for here. It's not an exhaustive list, by any means, merely including the most popular series. Cross-posted to anything_aos on LJ. For other series, you may like to refer to Astrodene's Historical Naval Fiction page.

( The Ramage Series )

( The Aubreyad )

( The Drinkwater Series )

( The Hornblower Series )

( The Bolitho Series )

( The Alan Lewrie Series )

( The Kydd Series )

( The HMS Expedient Series )

( The Sam Witchall Series )

sharpiefan

This is a list of links I've discovered, or that people have pointed out to me. It is intended to complement listings made by others, such as

joyful_molly. This is the list as it stands at Show the Colours. Cross-posted to anything_aos on LJ.

(Any links added in replies will be put into the main post here. Or, if you know of a really good AoS related website, PM me the link.)

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue Period slang

Cleverley.org Contains information on ships and some AoS characters

Sailing Navies Contains a list of all ships and characters to appear in AoS novels and fiction (Scroll to the bottom of the home page for Age of Sail Fiction listing)

Astrodene's Historical Naval Fiction Contains chronologies and summaries of all the major and not-so-major AoS Naval novels

Ships of the old Navy A list of historical ships, battles and people of Nelson's day

Timekeeping at Sea Explanation of bells and watches

The Articles of War What it says on the tin - the Articles of War used at sea in our period

Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine The 1780's dictionary of naval terms and other useful information. A great period reference.

Boy's Manual of Seamanship Various seamanship tasks explained

Trafalgar roll A list of 1640 names of men of all ranks who were at Trafalgar.

The Ayshford Trafalgar Roll Searchable database of names of those at Trafalgar

Aubrey-Maturin Chronology How the Aubreyad fits into the historical timeline

Scaryfangirl.com The website for Hornblower fans - honestly not as scary as it sounds.

Molly Joyful's List of Useful Resources Again, does exactly what it say on the tin. A great collection of some fantastic websites and useful information

zebee

Lobscouse and Spotted Dog is a cookbook focused on the food of the Aubrey/Maturin series. The authors hunted down the recipes and ingredients, tried them out, and report on same.

They even took advantage of a Blessed Event to get milk straight from the cow to make Syllabub.

http://www.wwnorton.com/POB/SpottedD/welcome.htm
with
http://www.wwnorton.com/POB/SpottedD/psoup.htm as an example recipe.

Age of Sail fans

the sodomy trial of Captain Henry Allen

Period Drama Fic Exchange

Scurvy!

Book Review: None But You

The Pirate Rabbi

Another AoS vid, and some P&P fic from Porn Battle IX

Vid rec: The Pirate's Gospel

request for Hornblower video

Getting started in Age of Sail fandom

AoS language creeping into your everyday life

Fic: Duty Bound, Hornblower, Hobbs/Wellard, Adult (+18)

Edrington Drinking Game

Kink meme?

Smoke and Oakum: A Hornblower fic

Asskicking women in the Age of Sail

DVD heads up!

A multifandom tribute to the Battle of Trafalgar and Horatio Nelson

Chronologies for Naval Series

Sharpie's Sources

Lobscouse and Spotted Dog

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