Pirates vs. RL

Two more days and I'll be back at work. It's been a lovely couple of weeks off, though, and good fic has been icing on the cake. I owe big thanks to...

tiamary who wrote me the lovely and so very funny Home for the Twelfth Night in the merrypirates fic exchange;

savepurness, who wrote me the beautiful and angsty The Ghosts of Christmases Past in the 3fan_holiday fic exchange;

luvvycat who is writing The Christmas Stranger - Part One, Part Two, and Part Three, with at least one more to go, maybe two! Wheee! What fun!

And celandineb wrote me two great drabbles for Christmas, Good News (W/E, on my Christmas card!), and The Geese Are Getting Fat (W/E/J, Christmas in England, per my request).

More wonderful reads...

artaxastra has written the hilarious New Years Day in the Green Room, featuring Jack Sparrow and SGA's John Sheppard. "Bloody bloody bloody Marys."

viva_gloria has written new impofperversity fic, Junctus Sordidissimus: or, The Virtues of Literacy, and it's perfect funny and edgy and, yes, heartwarming in that unique Impverse way. (R - Slash)

torn_eledhwen received a wonderful Blackadder fic for Yuletide, Somewhat Akin to a Limpet by Skew, and the characterizations are perfect.

Over at Archive of Our Own, zarahemla posted a PotC fic she wrote back in July '03, right after CotBP came out, black eyes, "In which Jack Sparrow is the Han Solo of the Caribbean. With makeup." - great Jack Sparrow action here, very entertaining!

And last (for now) but definitely not least, some weeks ago p0wdermonkey finished her Nuts Out of the Locker series with a two part ending that actually makes sense of the final bits of AWE. Amazing and hilarious, and I, for one, am so grateful to her. (NC-17 - Slash)

Happy New Year, everyone!

For a good time, here are two fabulously funny fics you might want to check out: hippediva's Teague's Boy (Summary: A brief look into Captain Teague's trials of parenting.), and penknife's Merlin/PotC crossover, To Say Nothing of the Goat (Summary: Everything's better with pirates. Including Camelot.)

1. ladymouse2, who has time and again proven herself a brilliant artist, now gives us fic! What's Blue and Gray All Over is set in the Good Omens universe (the one Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett made up) and is wonderfully entertaining (and I'm not saying that just because I had the privilege of beta reading for her). You should check it out!

2. As The Wife Of Riley and others on my flist have reminded us, today is Johnny Depp's birthday. We have, of course, already given him his gift, and have received his note of thanks. There is a nice Vanity Fair article about him officially hitting the stands today in most of the country. ;)

One of the very first multi-chaptered PotC stories I read here on Live Journal was elspethdixon's A Pirate's Life and I have fond memories of it to this day. It's E/W/J, but not explicit, and it's really a wonderful post-CotBP story.

Recently she offered to write short pieces by request, and I requested more E/W/J. She came through with this delightful look at the threesome, post-AWE, for which I owe her profound thanks. Again, there is no explicit sex, but there is a lot packed into that 750 words. Check it out!

Thanks to ladymouse2 for emailing me the link to this one. Beautiful!

This is about a gentle passing and a beautiful goodbye. Tir Nan Og is the fabled "Country of Youth," located beneath the crystal waters of a clear lake. It is a magical place, where you never age and you never die. Basically the ancient Celtic version of Heaven.

I was a big Star Wars fan when the original trilogy was being produced, back in the late 70's, early 80's, and Leia/Han becoming canon in Empire was like a dream come true - bless you, George Lucas, for giving me and a zillion other fangirls what they wanted! hereswith recently sent me over to read Victory, Later by jeanniemctavish, and it's so good, SO good, fits right in with canon, with a perfectly characterized Han and Leia, angsty, sweet, and just a little hot, wonderful stuff!

I've rec'ed p0wdermonkey's Nuts Out series before -- hilarious, perfect mad Jack, with touches of Awwwww... thrown in to savor the pot. Her latest offering, Sixth Nut Out of the Locker, is just as wonderful, covering the portion of AWE that includes Jack's encounter with Sao Feng, his discussion in Beckett's cabin, his escape from the Endeavor (with attendant Jacks in tow), and his talk with Will later that night. Rated 'R' for language and references to the shenanigans between Jack and Barbossa in Nuts 5. Superb writing! Don't miss it.

Gird Thou Thy Sword by watersword (link goes to her Insane Journal, for which she abandoned LJ some months ago). Post-CotBP, Will and Elizabeth marry and go off to play pirates on the Pearl, to Jack's delight and dismay. Fabulous Jack voice. Pairing: Pearl/Jack/Elizabeth/Will. PG-13. Not to be missed.

Most of my flist has read piratemistress's Dear Jack, but if you missed it, as I did until this morning, go read! It's post-AWE in epistolary form, superb in all its details, funny, and heartbreaking, and perfect. So much love!

piratemistress is a wonderful writer, and here is a list of all the PotC she's written.

Recs pages are a great way to find the best stories. Check out the recs page fried_flamingo posted -- which is where I found Dear Jack. Also, I've added a few new stories to the J/E recs page that hereswith and I compile.

A final note: the drabble challenge of the week at blackpearlsails is "I should have...", and we've gotten over a dozen entries so far, and such wonderful ones, too! Thanks to all who have participated, and if you haven't, get to work! Only a hundred words! You can doooo eeeet!!

And now, I have to get ready to go to lunch and the opera (Othello) in L.A. Happy Sunday, all!

1) Watched Napoleon Dynamite FINALLY, this evening. I really liked it, much to gingersnapps dismay. Guess you had to be there. Made the icon for weemonkey6 -- it's her favorite quote.

2) I like Daniel Day Lewis, but Johnny should have won. There's a cute article under the picture at right...

Speaking of JD, depp_daily has had so many amazing and amusing picspams this week -- certainly brightens my day!


3) We've had a spectacular number of wonderful drabbles posted to Black Pearl Sails (the Yahoo Group) and blackpearlsails this week for the 'Inch' theme! Many thanks to all who participated! A new drabble challenge will be posted tomorrow.



Good Night, All!