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thekenobee · 8 months
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Stephen Maturin:
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firstofficerrose · 1 year
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Stephen and Diana legit got married? For real? What? What are they gonna do for soap opera shenanigans now???
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hey-scully-itsme · 1 month
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la belle dame sans merci
"‘Will you not let me go, Diana?’ he said, looking up, his eyes filling with tears.
‘No, no, no,’ she cried. ‘You must not leave me – go, yes go to France – but write to me, write to me, and come back.’ She gripped him hard with her small hand, and she was away, the turf flying behind her horse." – Post Captain, Patrick O'Brian
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thiefbird · 2 months
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A study in extremes
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lurking-latinist · 17 days
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#I also keep seeing modern au aubrey-maturin art#that makes me wish I could draw and thereby contribute#unfortunately I can't even *write* modern aus generally. but I like transferring character dynamics from place to place in my brain#and I feel like I could do a university AU very nicely if I could do AUs at all#because I have had rowers in my class with as far as I could tell jack's exact personality#(unfortunately it has to be a US university AU because (a) that's what I know and (b) afaik nobody else does randomly assigned roommates)#(and I cannot pass up the opportunity for randomly assigned roommates.#OR RATHER#for 'you seem more or less human - quick let's request each other so we don't have to go into potluck'#I think that works best)#(but maybe they are both international students anyway. that works fine. & therefore extremely alarmed by potluck [can't say they're wrong]#sophie is a sorority girl. english major I think. and I can see her so clearly#(she's the part I want to draw)#she's not that into the high-octane social schedule her sorority expects her to have#but her pushy mother was a member and it is Unthinkable that sophie should not be#and a lot of the other girls are sweet :) so it's fine :) she says#feel like she has roommate issues (unlike her original self she is able to live away from mrs williams so this makes up for that)#so she's always over in jack and stephen's room. people who know her tangentially sometimes gossip about which one she's actually dating#(at that particular moment it is actually neither of them she's just hanging out with stephen)#diana freed from the shackles of 19th century womanhood creates even more and weirder drama than in canon#idk I just want to see the plot of post captain played out over text message#don't ask me HOW idk HOW i just want it#stephen is a biology major/pre-med obvs. if he can survive organic chemistry#jack is some kind of engineering major. I think he'd enjoy that with the math. diana has changed her major 7 times#(I don't know whether to put jack in rotc. I don't think it Actually actually fits - he's in the navy in canon because he's in the navy#not bc he's Inevitably Military In All Worlds. he would not want to do that if he didn't get to sail#but at the same time I find it hard to picture him not belonging to Discipline somehow.#it's more than a disinterested passion for cleanliness that drives him to wash stephen's mug for him that has had coffee and ramen in it#(and NOT in that order)#in the bathroom sink
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aurpiment · 1 month
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Maybe you wouldn’t have to extract a bullet from your chest if you hadn’t called that guy to a duel -> maybe that guy wouldn’t have served you an insult requiring satisfaction via duel if you hadn’t proposed marriage to the woman you love (his mistress) in his house -> maybe the woman you love wouldn’t be having an affair with this shitty boyfriend (the guy who shot you in the chest, whom you killed seconds after you got shot in the chest) if you had proposed marriage to her a year ago. She would have said yes then. Now she’s running off with an American. Sorry to my dear friend Stephen for whom I have every sympathy but he snost and he lost!!
(for now. It all works out later, I’m told)
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jerichopolis · 2 months
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i do it for the sailors who have no grave but the sea
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the-dog-watch · 11 months
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The Letter of Marque
Stephen Maturin's foolproof guide to pulling a bad bitch:
be super autistic
get grievously injured and/or fall off of stuff constantly
You can scoff but this is literally how he's pulled Jack and now, in this book, Diana. It's a foolproof strategy and it always works.
Besides that, though, I wasn't as hot on this one as I expected. I think it's a structural problem; I wish they had done the Diana Swedish rescue mission and then had the general's funeral, cuz then the book would start with Jack depressed and dissociating (sidenote: I was really sad that Jack kept that information to himself, but otoh if he had told Stephen about it what would Stephen's advice have been other than "do some laudanum about it"?) and would have ended on a hopeful note, with Jack thinking he'll probably be reinstated, plus at least that old asshole dad of his is finally out of the picture.
To continue the daddy issues discussion from last time: DID STEPHEN HAVE THE GENERAL KILLED? I don't think that's the implication at all, but I like to imagine he did. Why else work so hard to find out where he is...honestly, just knock that guy on the head. Good riddance!
ONE LAST THING: I can't believe we found out Jack had a stepmother his own age in Book 2 but we didn't find out Jack slept with her until now, 10 books later. Honestly, typing this all out, I withdraw my earlier lack of enthusiasm, this book fucking rocks. AND the closing paragraph is lovely, maybe my favorite ending of all the books so far:
[Diana] pointed, and then bending and peering out of the scuttle she cried, "Here they are. Pray let the people stand by to help him aboard: he will be lying on a door." She urged West out of the cabin and on deck, and there he and the amazed foremast hands saw a blue and gold coach and four, escorted by a troop of cavalry in mauve coats with silver facings, driving slowly along the quay with their captain and a Swedish officer on the box, their surgeon and his mate leaning out of the windows, and all of them, now joined by the lady on deck, singing Ah tutti contenti saremo cosí, Ah tutti contenti saremo cosí, saremo cosí with surprising melodious full-throated happiness.
Personal Ranking
The Far Side of the World (10) > HMS Surprise (3) > Desolation Island (5) > The Reverse of the Medal (11) > The Ionian Mission (8) > The Fortune of War (6) > Master & Commander (1) > The Surgeon’s Mate (7) > The Letter of Marque (12) > Treason's Harbour (9) > Post Captain (2) > The Mauritius Command (4)
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gohoubi · 1 year
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hey sorry we let your boyfriend get shot and now he's all grey and feverish and half-dead and if he wants to live he's gonna have to do surgery on himself in a tent on this weird little rocky island. yeah it's gonna take all night. sorry
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kissmefriendly · 2 years
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I’ve just finished chapter 2 of Post Captain.
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Just finished the first chapter of Desolation Island. Here’s my wandering brain constructions:
I Love the twins, I do. They have to be colour coded so their father remembers which one is which. Also being raised by a bunch of sailors, they’re gonna be brilliant. I adore Sophie. I love that she’s getting more character in just the first chapter. Not only bless her for being the only sane and stable person around, but her love for Stephen! Makes me soft. She and Jack are just a delight.
Speaking of Stephen ‘I can quit whenever I want’ Maturin, he’s never gonna catch a break, is he. Christ. His comrade died under his care, he gets pickpocketed while trying to run an errand for his friend, he’s still bad on the drops. And then that’s all before mentioning meeting Diana in London. Also, the blurb on the back says there’s a ‘beautiful spy’ aboard the Leopard, so. Spy vs Spy!
I am looking forward to seeing if Diana appears in any of the chapters. It’s stressing me out lol
I’ve seen the name Andrew Wray come up before so I know he’s gonna play some important role (is he the spy? yes I’m treating this like a whodunnit but it’s more like a whoisit).
Also, I had to check, but apparently wife purchasing was a real thing? The only thing that surprised me about it was how recent it was. What - what the fuck. At least it’s acknowledged that it’s a pretty fucked practice.
Anyways, I’m gonna call it now, Jack is gonna lose a massive gamble. Everything is going a little too well for him, I can’t wait to see Jack shoot himself in the foot.
Anyways, I’m really loving the book! I can’t wait for everything to go to shit!
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thekenobee · 8 months
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I don't know which bit is funnier- 1) Stephen (speed)running out of the room, 2) Diana, pregnant, almost jumping out of the coach or 3)Sophie not giving a fuck about a meeting with Admiral and telling Jack to just leave
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dukeofriven · 5 months
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The coming of Richard Canning and Diana Villiers had been a godsend to Bombay, bored as it was with the Gujerat famine and the endless talk of a Mahratta war. Canning had an important official position, he had great influence with the Company, and he lived in splendour; he was an active, stirring man, ready and eager to take up any challenge, and he made it clear that he expected their ménage to be accepted. Several of the highly-placed officials had known her father, and those with Indian concubines made no difficulty; nor did the bachelors; but the European wives were harder to persuade. Few had much room to cast stones, but hypocrisy has never failed the English middle class in any latitude, and they flung them in plenty with delighted, shocked abandon—rocks, boulders, limited in size only by fear for their husband's advancement. Conciliating discretion had never been among Mrs Villiers's qualities, and if subjects for malignant gossip had been wanting she would have provided them by the elephant-load.
Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise, 1973.
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hey-scully-itsme · 8 months
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a really funny percentage of my drafts are very long ramblings about stephen and diana and while i'm not gonna post any of them rn i do need everyone to know that i love them both with my whole heart, in this house we love and support diana villiers. and also stephen i guess but he's got jack for that, diana needs it more
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thiefbird · 1 month
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Too Hard A Knot (8950 words) by Thiefbird Chapters: 3/? Fandom: Master and Commander - All Media Types, Aubrey-Maturin Series - Patrick O'Brian Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin Characters: Jack Aubrey, Stephen Maturin, Preserved Killick, Barrett Bonden Additional Tags: Trans Stephen Maturin, Trans Character, Trans Male Character, Whump, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Period-Typical Homophobia, Period-Typical Sexism, Period Typical Attitudes, Period-Typical Transphobia, Aftermath of Torture, Set during HMS Surprise, outing of Trans character, Jack doesn't get it but he's Got The Spirit, despite the title implications this is not omegaverse, I just thought Twelfth Night was a good idea, transmasc character written by transmasc author Series: Part 2 of So long lives this Summary:
After the daring rescue from Mahon, Jack learns Stephen's longest-kept secret.
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A new chapter! Jack and Stephen have a heart to heart, and Stephen makes a decision
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lurking-latinist · 1 month
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