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This really is like hockeyshow if it was more insane. Like it's some level of nerd/popular guy and enemies(?)-to-lovers extremely boring concept that actually unlocked some fascinating characters and completely outgrew whatever it was supposed to be originally. Also there's a blond(e) bisexual party rat athlete who needs to sort their life out really really badly

#carles is like ilya if he was cooler. if you think about it #went back and reread the original version of this i wrote when i was 14 and it's soooooo boring tbh #it genuinely kind of is all the fantasies that hockeyshow/hockeybooks are about #but there was a kernel of something interesting there and boy did i turn it into something interesting #i WILL shut up and write this at some point i'm just having fun playing around with what i have for now #perce rambles #la dinàmica del joc #percy chirps

gender-kenvy

You know what, I bet Patrick O'Brian is the reason I always feel the need to extensively research every subject I write about. That man gave us the entirety of maritime jargon and then an audience surrogate with zero practical sailing skills just so he could teach us all the maritime jargon. And then also gave that character extremely niche scientific hobbies so he could also teach us about critters and natural sciences in the 1800's. I swear it's the epitome of 'i learned this while researching something completely different, fell down a rabbit hole of discovery, and now i'm adding it to the story bc i think it's neat! :B'

#he really does have an enviable ability to create a period atmosphere and it absolutely changed me as a writer #likely for the worse but also maybe for the better #aubreyad

oliviarampaige

“Borealis”

Day 25 - Dangerous

The ol’ North Wind starts to howl.

#ART #DRAGONKING

henryhodgson

I tried arranging Hornblower's (romantic) theme to the best of my ability for the violin. I used this video as a reference, it might not be very accurate and I cut the ending short because I was a little tired but please enjoy!

#!!!!!#i'm not honestly that attached to the show or its theme but this could be fun to learn haha #excuse to get out the violin that i am very scared to pull out after so long :')#hornblower #ref

Okay I think we're going with "La dinàmica del joc" as temporary title/tag because I need an organizational system. In partial homage to "Galerari" by Skakeitan, which feels like an appropriate theme song, amongst others.

#i will go back and re-tag things as this. feel free to idk tag-stalk or block or whatever you want #i simply cannot keep calling it carles i núria. that's not a name #perce rambles #la dinàmica del joc

cloudabserk

when men are like “women need to be nicer and more complimentary to men” i CRINGE! why don’t MEN get more complimentary to men. start telling your friends you want to fuck them. don’t make women pick up YOUR slack

cloudabserk

people are commenting like “yeah we need to support healthy friendships and boost men’s self esteem” i don’t care about that tbh i just think everyone should be gayer

#really crazy when you hit the point with straight men where they get cagey about talking about other men. like oh my goddddd #you're literally so boringgggg. can you get gay with it please

berrytart

You need to stop being 19 as fast as humanly possible no matter what it takes get out of there it’s dangerous and bad for you

#CARLES SOLER #la dinàmica del joc

Also the delightful thing about going back to Núria i Carles is that there are so so many women in this story and like zero men. There's like maybe two male side characters in this story who get repeat mentions and one of them is Carles's dad

#the 2020 dk draft had a complete dearth of women. i had to genderbend hamide and trans adan's gender #plus add in a few more characters on top of that #but like. genuinely there was not a single major character in 2020 dk who was a woman. which is frankly embarrassing #so coming back to this draft and realizing how many complex and interesting women characters there are is super fun #i HAVE to draw sara and sònia. they're so so delightful. but even like gemma and elena and marta etc etc are really chewy #there's literally zero guys. there's pere and carles's dad that's pretty much it #there's ONE convo between carles and núria's gay guy friend/acquaintance from uni #and ONE convo between núria and carles's brother #anyways very nice to let the balance swing in the other direction and also have some interesting women to fiddle around with #perce rambles #la dinàmica del joc

dykeselfcest

there are a lot of female characters where you can say that lesbian sex would fix them but it's kind of even more fun when it wouldn't. like clearly she wants to be having it but it would make everything worse and ruin her life. and i would like to see it.

#barbara wellesley HAS had lesbian sex and it did NOT fix her. thank goodness

World's most profoundly Carles song ever

#the important thing about carles is that at different points in the story they are both the subject of this song and the one singing it #hashtag growth. hashtag characterarc. hashtag fragilemasculinity #també l'estic compartint simplement perquè fa gràcia i no he escoltat tant de svetlana com hauria d'haver fet #perce rambles #songs for the void #you guys i need a tag for this story SO badly. i need a name for it also. it doesn't have a name besides 'carles i núria'#la dinàmica del joc

quatregats

Hornblower and the Storm • A Hornblower fic by quatregats

He had made his fatal mistake, lost his ship, and now he would wait out his days in Ferrol until the war ended and he might be allowed to return home. Who knew what he would find then—would there be anyone who would remember him? No, likely not. He would die alone and forgotten, as befit the gravity of his error. There was no reason to hope otherwise; if he had wanted to be remembered, he would have done his job and safely delivered Le Rêve home to England.

Horatio Hornblower, newly made lieutenant, has been a prisoner in Ferrol for six months. There are few thing so lonely as that.

(Or, Hornblower trying to fix his depression by walking in an Atlantic gale on the hills above Ferrol.)

You can read it here!

#this is the hornblower in ferrol fic with the coplas i mentioned in that other post btw #also the last time i did a full linocut+watercolors for a hornblower fic! which i am doing for the upcoming one :)#very fond of this one. exceedingly self-indulgent i just love the muiñeira de ons but it was a fun structure i feel like #hornblower

cedar-rayne

✧ sturgeon ✧

sneak peak of a new sculpture coming to my shop! this is the underglaze painting before the clear glaze is applied.

anomalocaris-in-da-clurb

@sturgeonposting

#art #els peixos en l'aigua

blakesghost

one day you're a normal gay and the next day you're a not normal gay who gets excited about 1800 ships. you can seek help.

#i thought i was fine but sail boston really got me good :/

rpfofficial

it's crazy how february-june didn't happen

#LITERALLY WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED THERE #i feel like i've suddenly come to. i genuinely don't recognize the person i was in march like wtf

Trying to make a Carles playlist and going to my other soccer story playlist and about half of the songs can just immediately be transferred. I'm sensing that I have some recurring motifs here

#though coses de nois by svetlana is SUCH a good song for carles and that was NOT on the other one #plus a couple of others. idk. we must see #perce rambles #la dinàmica del joc

sailatina3

I wish it were more common to have "bilingual" stories. By that i mean stories where it's important that 2 or more languages are spoken throughout. There isn't any translation, there's just multiple languages spoken by the characters. I understand why this is seldom done considering how heavily limiting it is to the number of people who can actually read or watch it. But idk I think the world would be better off with some stories like that.

sailatina3

Many of us live bilingual lives. What those lamguages are, what they mean to us, the historical and political state of those languages, are very very important! So at some point I think it would be nice to write something that is simultaneously English and spanish, and there would be a pretty sizable number of people who could read that.

A story like this would probably be impossible to translate into a third language though, for obvious reasons. Which i feel conflicted about, because I on one hand believe that all art should be in all languages and have as many accessibility options as possible. But I also think this specific type of story *needs* to be in those languages and removing one or swapping them would miss much of the point. Hrmmm...

headspace-hotel

Translate it into a third AND fourth language

headspace-hotel

Actually reading something like this even as a monolingual person would be very cool because you would have to figure things out yourself. And you would pick up some of the language possibly.

#incerta glòria with the aragonese <333 #it was really interesting hearing about how peter bush translated it into english too #also this is my hornblower and the storm fic. you don't need to know spanish or galician to read it #but if you can understand the coplas there's like a whole nother story going on that he's missing out on #(it's not THAT complex or well done but i'd love to do that on a larger scale someday)#(story where character is surrounded by a language they don't speak but if YOU speak it you know more than they do)#carles and núria is the cursed version of this bc i was scared to write catalan prose but i couldn't write the dialogue in english #it felt too weird

deckhanddandy

WHY IS HE ALWAYS STANDING ON DECK NAKED

#he's so crazyyyy 🤪🤪🤪🤪#hornblower

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