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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

Back on my bullshit*

*His Majesty’s Sloop Sophie

#amReading #Aubreyad #AubreyMaturin

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!”

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“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

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/13017516

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#aubreyad fans, look at this piece of art https://www.tumblr.com/thekenobee/713248906062020608/this-might-have-been-just-the-most-stupidest-thing

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!

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/21647041

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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

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/9351809

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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

:ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/8829418

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#Introduction

Been so quiet at work today I read nearly the entirety of Patrick O'Brian's "Fortunes of War." If it keeps up like this I might end up finishing the whole dang #Aubreyad by Christmas. And then what would I do with my life?