Piratical Stuff

[dwgm]

In an effort to focus on my Piratical Happy Place, as opposed to RL which is verging on out-of-control, I shall post some Links of Interest...

fabu posted this one, this morning, a really good analysis of why AWE got such bad reviews among critics. Makes sense to me.

Ramblings and Musing on Elizabeth the Sufferer, interesting meta that compassrose7577 posted, and that I replied to.

More Harry Potterish than piratey, celandineb wrote Honeymoon for ME ( !!! ) at felaine's request. Very cute ficlet featuring Ron/Hermione.

penknife posted a wonderful commentary track for her excellent post-AWE fic, Nine Pieces of Eight, in which nine of the characters of PotC meet up again with Calypso.

artaxastra posted a great commentary track as well, of Cradle Tales, the fourth chapter of her Outlaws and Inlaws series, which I can't really say enough good things about. Read it, if you have not, it's fabulous writing -- 1 The Swan in Flight, 2 Outlaws and Inlaws, 3 Four Days of Advent, and 4 Cradle Tales.

Things have been hopping over at impofperversity -- much slashy Sparrow/Shaftoe goodness has been produced in honor of tessabeth's natal day, and the current long fic she and viva_gloria are working on, Bounty, is wonderfully involved and suspenseful. I've been a slacker about commenting over there lately, but I assure you, the writing is consistently excellent.

That's all for now. Hugs to the flist!

Comments

[cacopheny.livejournal.com]

Thank you for all your linkage, Sharon. I would never find any of this excellent stuff on my own. And the story by artaxastra has redeemed AWE for me, the one bit that just didn't sit right with me, with her fanon, so I appreciate it all the more that you've linked her to me.

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome. Can't help wanting to share the great writing one finds here on Live Journal. It makes me very happy that you've enjoyed it, too!

[sunshine304]

Great links! Thanks for posting them. I would surely have missed penknife's commentary... really interesting (I loved that story, so it's really interestuing to find out what the author thought while writing it^^)!

And yes, "Cradle Tales" is just awesome.

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome. There's so much pirate stuff being posted at present that it's not hard to miss things. And some of my flist, personal friends and family, don't look at the pirate comms as a rule anyway, though they mostly love PotC.

[captaintish]

Thanks for all the links! The Piratical Happy Place is always a good place to be -- I hope things get more in-control for you in RL soon. :)

On a side note, I loved the first two stories in Artaxastra's series, but then she posted warnings for the next two that were R and NC-17, and you know me, I don't like things above a PG13 rating. Do you know of any good post-AWE fics that are PG13 or so?