February EMP Meme

[enablemeplz]

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hornblower (age of sail generally); arthuriana (medieval generally)

[midship]

[character offered]:
horatio hornblower ] hornblower
archie kennedy ] hornblower {on behalf of another player}
sir mordred ] arthuriana

[looking for]:
if there are other hornblower muses out there, please come immediately to my arms. book canon, miniseries canon, just hit me. let me type long awkward prose at you. LET ME RP WHIST WITH YOU. cross-canon friendship with other sailors/soldiers/whathave who'll let him be a little off at them would also be a++.

more specifically, a lovely friend and i have, between us, horatio and archie (which isn't to say either of us wouldn't love duplicate friends to play with). as happy as we are to nerd away together, i think it's safe to say we would both fall to pieces with joy for a MR. WILLIAM BUSH or MR. HENRY WELLARD for these nerds to love and/or parents as appropriate.

also more specifically, if anyone has a LADY BARBARA lying around, please. please come to me. please come to me always.

also if there are other arthurian knights and/or merlins that would like to handle mordred, that'd be gr9. (if there is a ragnelle out there i could also see my way into dusting off sir gawaine.) i'm also a little curious about canonsmashing with things like game of thrones/narnia/medieval fantastical canons, and have a moderately developed modern au for general magical/fantastical crosscanon use.

[preferences]:
- Museboxes/memes/PSL hijinks would be ideal
- Crosscanon is definitely also loved
- Casual speed is probably best for me (esp. once finals hit)
- Shipping/smut is okay by me (m/m, m/f works) BUT i am also here for gen/fluff/friendships/mentorships/adversariships

comment here/pm me on this account if you like!

Re: hornblower (age of sail generally); arthuriana (medieval generally)

[calicojack]

so my canon knowledge of Hornblower is... um... I'll admit, it's limited to watching an episode or two at a friend's house and barely following the plot because we were busy talking about it being gay. I'm sorry, we're terrible people.
BUT
I have a pirate here if you'd like any shenanigans with him?

I also actually have a Merlin (from Merlin) that I dust off occasionally, and a couple other characters that fit in a fantasy canon. ...Or totally non-fantasy characters that I occasionally shove into fantasy canon because who doesn't love a bit of sword and sorcery.

[midship]

In genuine fairness, the miniseries is 90% sailors crushing on each other. Maybe 80% but. Definitely above 75%. (The books think they're more subtle but they are not that much more subtle.) But the other 10-20% is amazing sea battles I swear!

So mostly yes hello I would love a pirate to drive Horatio up a wall and argue about the sea with please.

[calicojack]

I'll be honest black sails isn't much better. And when I say better I realise it makes it sound like I don't approve, but really gay pirates fighting epic battles is my aesthetic. I'm actually quite tempted to watch Hornblower. Because of totally academic and not at all shippy reasons. Ha. Ships.

Anyway, Jack is very good at driving people up the wall and I feel like they would be good frenemies, are there any memes around that take your fancy atm or would you like to figure out some kind of vague setting and throw them together in a musebox?

[midship]

That is an A+ solid aesthetic.

Aaah yes please to frenemies. I'm such a sucker for the lawless-lawman trope of constant fist-shaking and begrudging almost respect. Looking at bakerstreet, I could go for a modified 'partners in crime' of temporarily not attacking each other to instead attack the French, perhaps? If you're feeling something else, I'm also happy to throw something more generic at the wall in his journal.

[calicojack]

Me too, it's such a good trope <3

Either of those options sound good to me, would you like me to throw Jack in there so you can start or would you prefer me to start something?

[midship]

I am in hecka slow mode; if you don't mind starting, I threw Horatio here.

[calicojack]

apologies for the delay! I hope everything's okay there let me know if anything needs changing :) happy to switch to action tags if preferred as well.

[thequitecontrary]

I know she's not really what you're looking for, but I'd throw Mary at your Arthurania character as well.

[midship]

I'd like that! He's much better at flirting but he's also 9000% more of a genuine asshole, as a caveat.

I need less trashy characters, honestly.

[thequitecontrary]

Ha, ok. What's the username?

[midship]

There's this one, plus his modern AU account. I admittedly don't throw him out as much as I do Horatio.

[bettingman]

HI I MADE THIS ACCOUNT YESTERDAY AND DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M DOING ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

but seriously: I watched the miniseries not too long ago, I plan on watching it again, and I recently started the books, so while I'm not ready to tag with this turnip-hater yet, I WILL BE. and I wanted to alert you to my presence.

so.

'sup.

[midship]

/SCREAMS SOFTLY INTO THE NIGHT

This is. the best day??? I am overwhelmed??? I cannot even punctuate anymore???

Please come into my arms as soon as you're feeling a thing I have so many bottled up emotions about these two genuine fools I don't even know how to be chill about this.

[bettingman]

PUNCTUATION IS FOR LOSERS

a good friend of mine is actually also playing Horatio and I wound up in a super unlikely but A+ ship involving him, which is what got me into the series in the first place, so you can thank them.

anyway yes I will be in your arms at some point, pinky promise. and hopefully then I will be ready to write Many Feelings About the Sea.

[midship]

GET IN LOSER WE'RE HARASSING THE FRENCH

That is?? even better??? Please pass on my high compliments to your friend also for loving the worst best captain in the world and inducing others to do the same. Also please pass on invitations into my arms. They are so open and so gleeful.

GOOD. Good. Yes good.
Good.

I am very excited don't mind me I will be here vibrating low-key until forever.

[bettingman]

points to eyes, points to you, points to Friday

I'm gonna look out for you come TFLN time. I HAVE SEEN YOU AROUND BEFORE. I KNOW THINGS.

and I will be flying blind but whateverrrrr. it's a date.

[midship]

idk if I feel scandalized or gleeful or both. both is good, probably.

also, listen. mucking around in tfln is an A+ way to get into things. drunk lieutenant friendship is the actual best friendship.

[bettingman]

(ʘ‿ʘ✿)

FRIENDSHIP

[midship]

( /)w(\✿)

ACCEPTABLE FRATERNIZING



I MEAN FRIENDSHIP
NORMAL FRIENDSHIP

[bettingman]

SUPER NORMAL!

if you have plurk and you want to add me, I wouldn't mind that at all! just know that right now all I'm really talking about are The West Wing, fandom-wise. mostly.

but if you just wanna wait for me to hit you up that's cool too. o7

[midship]

A THING WHICH COMES NATURALLY TO BOTH OF THEM FOR SURE!

I will do that thing. Everyone needs more West Wing in their lives, honestly. o7

[hardballsy]

yeah fun fact Josh here is the one in a relationship with Mister Hornblower. down in Hell.

YOU HAVE FUN WITH THAT MENTAL IMAGE

[midship]

I AM SCREAMING SOFTLY AGAIN

STOP BEING SO BEAUTIFUL

[hardballsy]

whispers softly: no