"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."

[wordweaverlynn]

I think I need a 12-step program. Also, I have finally found a fandom where I actually want to write fic. Oh God, I am so screwed.

Yes, I've made the capital error of starting to read the Aubrey and Maturin novels. It's not that I don't enjoy them -- they're great fun. The problem is that I'm addicted to them, and my time for reading is limited right now. I'm working a temporary contract job and I have a manuscript due. Thank God for reading my iPod on BART.

But I am craving more, more, more Aubrey and Maturn. Talk to me about the series! Share the best slashfic! Although I'm not sure it counts as slash -- this pairing is practically canon. Some of the dialogue practically demands to be read as pillow-talk.

I adored the Hornblower novels when I was a kid and read them all. It's not surprising I should fall in love with these books.

Comments

[gramina]

Which of the books do you have or not have yet?

[schemingreader]

OH YAY! YAY!

I have to admit that I'm not as into the slash as I am into the actual books. I recognized your subject line immediately. Those books got me through some times. Not a cough in a carload.

Well, I did write a very NC-17 Aubrey-Maturin fic one year for Yuletide. It's mainly inside jokes for people who've read the books. You have to have read past volume 13. You can read it on Archive of Our Own, it's Never Mind the Manouvres.

A better one (in my opinion, anyway) is To Mycenae by Rexluscus. There is a whole LJ-based Aubreyad fandom, and those folks have a lot of stories on Archive of Our Own, but as I said, I have such a strong preference for canon that I have not developed fanon favorites. I did write a recs post about reading and enjoying POB fics in an unexpected way.

[adrian_turtle]

Are you familiar with the audiobooks read by Patrick Tull? The worldbuilding washes over me differently, but I love them just as much. They're just wonderful for when you have your hands full.

Here is the most impressive piece of fanfic I've ever seen for the series.
http://www.intimations.org/fanfic/master_and_commander/five_things-world.html
I would not have been very surprised to see it on the Tiptree shortlist.

[sara]

Hee.

I read all of those the summer I was miserably pregnant with the boychild.

I actually ended up feeling like it really didn't matter if they were screwing or not -- it's one of those partnerships where the emotional side is there, and the physical is basically secondary.

That said, astolat wrote porn for it, back in the day.

[amaebi]

I'm not qualified to talk about the books, but I thought I'd remark that I liked reading this post, which strikes me as so nice and so funny.

[ironed_orchid]

I love them, but don't have recs. Hit up tags for "age of sail"?

I was doing a writing exercise where we had to name a place, a person, and a food, and ended up writing about Jack Aubrey visiting my old house in Canberra. I told the guy running the session that he had made me write self insertion fan fic.