half agony, half hope

historical sideblog, lots of nautical stuff, i post about my ocs a lot, main is @captainaubreysbicorne

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I guess I should make a pinned post for this blog so here we go...

Hi!! I'm Harry, I also go by Nicky or Jack (I don't mind which of these you use for me but if you cycled though them that would be cool!! no pressure though <3) my main blog is @captainaubreysbicorne , this is my historical blog, I post a lot about:

Jane Austen novels and adaptations

Aubreyad and Master and Commander (2003)

A few other historical novels and adaptations

Naval history

My ocs and writing!!

asks appreciated!! tell me about your ocs!! ask me about mine!! talk about history!! or just say hi, i don't mind :)

blog url is the title of a song (and album) by bibio that i really like, blog title is from persuasion <3

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So what's going on with Tuckeyprowse rn? I still need to get a copy of Temeraire, how are the dragons changing their story?

probably the biggest change is george will be a dragon captain instead of a navyman...i'm thinking frederick could be in the navy still though...i'm kind of playing around with their story in my head at the moment it's very much in the pre outline stage still. throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks

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george running away to be in the dragon corps and being like this was the worst thing i ever did i betrayed my father i threw away what could have been a successful career in the navy and my parents hate me. meanwhile every moment he's with his dragon is genuinely the happiest he's ever felt before

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so. tuckeyprowse has dragons now

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thinking about an au for some ocs and then starting to like the au more than their original plot...

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Man I miss Artemas who wants to talk about Artemas

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you can listen to music to get more ideas for your story. but be careful you don't get ideas for yet another story on top of it

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george and his future wife <3

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frederick with long hair........

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and those years between the war and frederick dying. those few magical years. they were the best of george's life

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Artillery fire ☆ Waterloo (1970)

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and those years between the war and frederick dying. those few magical years. they were the best of george's life

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frederick is starting to get old when he dies he's not a young man by that point but george is younger than him and lives to be older so he has like 30 years without frederick. after having him by his side basically since he was a kid (with some years in between)

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maybe george doesn't love Albatross as much as another captain might, but frederick does. he loves her enough for the both of them...and george can't help but feel jealous of how much he loves her, but at the same time he's glad of it, it takes part of the responsibility he has as captain from him--frederick cares for the ship, so he doesn't have to

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and when george comes back to her after frederick's gone and she feels like a completely different ship...because she was never really his...

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and like Albatross isn't the first ship they ever served on or the biggest but she's home. their baby <3

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maybe george doesn't love Albatross as much as another captain might, but frederick does. he loves her enough for the both of them...and george can't help but feel jealous of how much he loves her, but at the same time he's glad of it, it takes part of the responsibility he has as captain from him--frederick cares for the ship, so he doesn't have to

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I don't like it at all but there's a quiet certainty at the back of my mind that Artemas dies during the Napoleonic Wars. I've been avoiding it but it's right. He dies

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does . does this mean i have to kill osprey too

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No because this is causing me real grief. I don't know what's worse and what's most narratively satisfying. Does Osprey go down with her captain? Do they die together, so intertwined for so long they're unable to exist without the other? Does he choose to die with her? Does she die to be with him? Or must she be forced to live without him, and be commanded by a man who loves her, but not in the way Artemas did? Does she live as only a ghost of his memory, cursed to be relegated back to a mere tool rather than a living vessel in her own right as Artemas saw her? As Artemas loved her? Will she live only to remind the other men of what they have lost, with no consideration to what she has lost? What happens when a captain can't go down with his ship?