#carrick bend

[this-hattan-newsie]

Baby Annie Cresta on the pier waiting for special someone

[chronicallyday]

My friend is letting me ramble on discord as I try to not think about the fact that I just had to kill off Blight and Mags today while writing.

Gonna put the current stats in this wip under the cut, but no really, I would be mad af if I asked a kid to get measurements done and then when I show up even the new measurements were wrong cuz he’s in the middle of puberty just shooting up

Finnick’s stats as I listed them in Carrick Bend during a commentary section:

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[esseastri]

I want to know more about your nano story *chinhands*

EEEYYYY

Henrietta Morgan, newest Post-Captain in Her Majesty's Royal Navy, didn't mean to fall in love with her French counterpart. But Elise Durand is irresistible. And she knows it. When war breaks out, however, the two captains find themselves on opposite sides of a shrinking sea, staring down the barrel of each other's cannons. Navigating the waters is Henrietta's specialty. Navigating the war is Elise's. But navigating their relationship amid the boom of broadsides and the whisper of sails in the dark of the night will prove the greatest challenge these two ladies will face. Well, that and the impending wrath of their Admirals, should their love be discovered...

That is the Official Synopsis, but yeee it’s kinda what is says on the tin.

Age of Sail romance with Ladies.

otherwise known as the most self-indulgent garbage I could possibly manage.

The girls meet at Henrietta’s cousin’s party and have a bit of a laugh. They admire each other’s reputations as excellent lieutenants and congratulate each other on being made captains. Shenanigans are had and Things develop from there.

But when war breaks out, they have to put their relationship on pause to FIGHT EACH OTHER, and they are SEPARATED by the BATTLEFIELD and everything is AWFUL. And they spend some time studiously avoiding each other and trying not to fight one another.

They definitely make their semaphore girls send encoded messages that are just flirting. Their semaphore girls blush.

Then Henrietta is ordered to be part of a several-ship attack on a fort, and Elise is commanded to defend the fort, and they have to fIGHT EACH OTHER AND HOW WILL IT TURN OUT?? WE JUST DON’T KNOW. ISN’T IT AWFUL?

And yes, that’s most of what I’ve got. Lisa spent the afternoon quizzing me on tiny character details and helping me flesh out Henrietta and Elise a little more, so we’ll see what happens. It’s going to be silly and dramatic and full of incorrect historical notes and really incorrect sailing terms and I’m pumped af.

[chronicallyday]

I’m really close to commissioning one of my friends for odesta art just cuz I want their little outfits I headcanonned to exist outside of my head

I could sketch the clothes myself (cuz for some reason I can draw clothes but not ppl right) but it wouldn’t be as beautiful

I just think it would be neat to see their clothes with all of the embroidery and stuff from Carrick Bend cuz I loved how in TBOSAS every district had a distinct fashion based on their industry and location

[this-hattan-newsie]

I made Odesta bracelet and in honour of my favourite fanfiction I tied it with carrick bend :)

[chronicallyday]

in chapter four of Carrick Bend there’s a reference to a song about a seagull that travels port to port meeting different people

It’s a song I’m not sure will make it into a future chapter even tho I planned on it. It may only be partially written in. But I did write a complete poem just to get an idea of it myself.

will write about it under the cut if anyone is interested in my ramblings about it

Calder, Annie’s brother in the fic, likes a song about a traveling seagull. Originally the idea was the song Annie can’t remember at the time being about the different places in District Four.

But a few weeks ago I decided to change that and it be a song that is actually about the Districts and it being a song that no one really sings anymore except when they know they’re safe.

The idea is that it would be an old, old song from before the Dark Days and maybe some lines are lost but below is what I have so far for the song:

Hey little gull, is it fun?

Is it fun over there in One?

Hey little gull, how do you do?

What’s it like over there in Two?

Hey little gull, what do you see?

What do you see when you’re over Three?

Hey little gull, do they jive?

What kind of dances do they do in Five?

Hey little gull, did you get your fix?

Did you find a retreat over there in Six?

Hey little gull, when do you return to our haven?

What’s the cold weather like there in Seven?

Hey little gull, isn’t it getting late?

Why don’t you rest a while over there in Eight?

Hey little gull, are you doing fine?

Are they treating you kindly over there in Nine?

Hey little gull, are you just around the bend?

Do you like the shores down in Ten?

Hey little gull, is it Heaven?

How delightful are the orchards of Eleven?

Hey little gull, are you mindful of your health?

Is there somewhere clear of soot in Twelve?

Hey little gull, what have you seen?

What have you seen flying by Thirteen?

Hey little gull, you’ve been coast to coast

Time to return to the port you love the most

Hey little gull, come back to our lovely shore

Tell us all of your tales back in your beloved Four

I figured that the song would change as the years passed. Even contemplated that the line about 13 would be removed from the song and people of District 4 would relate the song to their Victors and them going and returning from their Victory Tour

But it is very much a children’s song. At least that was my idea for it.

[this-hattan-newsie]

Little story on how my obsession with Odesta fic (written by @chronicallyday) turned out that I do Carrick Bend bracelets for people and it is little by little turning into my small business xdxdxd