Piratical Cookie, Recs, and Drabble

[dwgm]

oiseaurobyn, our Alaskan Cruise buddy, made gingerbread cookies today, and she made a Jack Sparrow one for me! How cool is that?

I didn't realize I hadn't posted anything in a week. I've been struggling with January Blues, although I'm not taking the decorations down until next weekend, when I have an extra day off. It's been raining all week, off and on (definitely "on" for the last 36 hours), and ordinarily I like rain, but I'm just getting tired of it. We've had more than our annual average already, and it's only the first week of January. weemonkey6 caught strep throat this week, which necessitated a visit to the doctor for meds. My new computer is OK (not great, just OK).

One truly wonderful thing about the last week has been the abundance of great new pirate!fic. megpie71 posted some untitled het Pirate!smut, featuring Jack and an OFC, so very unusual at pirategasm, and which I quite liked. My fellow Black Pearl Sails crewmember, torn_eledhwen, finished her exciting 13-part J/A fic, Escape Is Not An Option (the link goes to the last chapter, the others are linked at the bottom of that page). the_stowaway has favored us with an excellent new story, Compromises, which is a sequel to her Trust and Honor. the_stowaway is another Georgette Heyer fan, and it shows in her writing, which is replete with delightful period detail. Then (miracle of miracles!), on the first day of the new year, darling firesignwriter started finally posting the final bits of Jjail, which is, arguably, the best Sparrington in existance, utterly hilarious, amazingly hot, and Jack and James absolutely in character throughout. Jjail has been a work-in-progress since about this time last year, and faithful readers despaired over the cliffhanger KayJay left. However, all is now well: the story proceeds apace, and it's as though she'd never set it aside for all those months: as brilliant as ever!

Also utterly brilliant is viva_gloria. As if her previous outpouring of great PotC stories and the genius of her work at impofperversity wasn't enough, she is now posting a story called Marooned, a chapter a day over the course of this month. What a treat it is to check my flist each morning and find a lucious new bit of this great story waiting to be read!

Gloria is famed for her 1200-word "sentences", fics that take punctuation abuse to new heights. ;) Besides her excellent Sparrington ones, which can be found at her website, she has written a huge series of them for impofperversity--very hot stuff: you will go *thud* upon reading them, more often than not. Anyway, I borrowed this strangely enthralling style of writing for my latest drabble, which is another Harry & the Pirate I "Outtake", written for the "Bad Weather" Drabble Challenge at Black Pearl Sails (which I issued, btw, due to my disgust with the constant rain and cold this week). It's a double drabble: 200 words without the title.

Comments

[viva-gloria.livejournal.com]

ooooh, you recced me! Thank you!

And of course I don't mind you playing with the single-sentence form: hopefully you'll find it addictive ...

Have just posted today's chapter of Marooned: apologies for delay, I was away. Sleepy now, after much hill-walking!

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Hill-walking! That sounds like fun. I've been watching the pouring rain all day, and watching movies when not reading Pirate!Smut (instead of writing thank you notes and paying bills). I was checking the flist every so often in the hope of finding more Marooned. Thanks for alerting me.

I have grown very, very fond of your "Sentences", and that particular scene just seemed to call for it. ;)

Off to read Marooned now. Nitey nite!