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  1. Rec *

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    In the heart of the enemy’s country, Jack is guest of honour at an elegant night in the grand home of Adhémar de La Mothe. La Mothe is a strange and marvelous host, and he certainly seems very fond of Stephen...

    Could it all just be cover for one of Stephen’s secret missions? Or is there some deeper truth to be revealed?

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    07 May 2026

  2. Rec 5

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    A sex-changing flu pandemic adds a strange element to Stephen's marriage and friendship: Stephen has a baby with Diana and an affair with Jack.

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    04 May 2026

  3. Rec 4

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    Eating French Pasty

    My thanks to Ferox and Chrissy for beta and suggestions.

    The overlong exposition as well as other mistakes are my fault alone :)

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    30 Apr 2026

  4. Rec 26

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    What might have happened. Spoilers for Post Captain (Book 2).

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    07 Apr 2026

  5. Rec 37

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    Jack Aubrey, presumed lost at sea, has made a miraculous return to England. Stephen proposes a sort of game to keep Jack’s mind off his ordeal.

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    11 Mar 2026

  6. Rec 11

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    "Well, now I must know what you have hidden under there," Diana decided, hoping for some sort of ghastly nautical tattoo. She used her physical advantage to shove his shirt up before he could move to stop her, and abruptly she understood.

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    The first night of Diana's second marriage was in some ways not exactly traditional.

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    03 Mar 2026

  7. Rec 1

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    Just a few little between-the-scenes from the books.
    Characters belong to Patrick O’Brian, borrowed for entertainment purposes only, and also because I love them so much.

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    01 Mar 2026

  8. Rec 80

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    In which Stephen has a fancy for being flogged, and Jack is terrible at roleplay.

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    21 Feb 2026

  9. Rec *

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    Jack and Stephen accidentally become telepathically bonded, but Stephen still has to complete his mission in Minorca.

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    19 Feb 2026

  10. Rec 17

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    There must have been another way; of course there were other ways. But there had been the bearskin. And there had been a venomous, humiliated anger in Stephen. And so there had been three hundred miles of punishment.

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    They are some months in Catalunya.

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    07 Feb 2026

  11. Rec 31

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    How long since the bubbles had died? It felt too long, a deadly eternity. But Stephen couldn't count, and didn't: he simply rolled himself over the edge of the gaping hatchway and fell.

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    22 Jan 2026

  12. Rec 2516

    Mystery Work

    Part of underconstruction_ma
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    This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!

    20 Jan 2026

  13. Rec 45

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    From a prompt by alltoseek: In the 21st century, Dr Stephen Maturin, an Irish physician working in rural Spain, and Captain Jack Aubrey, an officer of the Royal Navy stationed in the Indian Ocean, strike up an unlikely but persistent friendship through their participation in an online forum for chamber music aficionados.

     
    Beta: the awesome alltoseek

    Cheerleading: JessamyGriffith

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    17 Jan 2026

  14. Rec 86

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    Stephen took hold of Jack's face again, but not this time to cherish. He held him still—Jack making a mild complaining sound—and moved back far enough for the lantern-light to fall upon Jack and bring him into focus. There—there, on his jaw, where Stephen's hands had grabbed him—a faint smudge of the silvery dust. And on the side of his neck where the shirt lay loose, another trace of it, glittering like assassins' knives; Stephen remembered how he had combed all of his treacherous fingers through Jack's hair, stealthily savouring him. Contaminating him.

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    14 Jan 2026

  15. Rec 6

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    “I’m going to fill you up,” James breathes, “till you’re absolutely aching with it.”

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    31 Oct 2025

  16. Rec 64

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    James bit into a laden slice of toast with the undamaged side of his mouth. “I thought we agreed that thinking was very dangerous,” he said, and though his voice was light Francis could feel a weight behind it. It was a weight made up of sleepless nights and crying jags; of Francis punching a solid wall and of James shouting himself hoarse; of the unbearable social calls and wrenching letters and pitying looks which they could not avoid. They carried a great many heavy things with them, now.

    London, 1848: Francis and James try to put themselves back together.

    Now complete!

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    31 Oct 2025

  17. Rec 5

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    Jopson keeps the gloves on when they do it.

    It’s convenient for him, and it only sharpens the fact that they never really touch—skin to skin. Henry doesn’t mind. He loves the gloves, that thin barrier between them, as if the white fabric could save them from getting too close. The thought makes him scoff, quietly.

    “Something funny?” Jopson asks. He looks angry, which suits him, of course. Henry wishes he’d hide it better, but then again, Jopson’s the only one honest enough to be angry with him—and that’s fair. That’s why Henry is here, on his knees, on the worn floor of the kitchen in the small apartment the ex-steward rents. Jopson may no longer serve his captain, but Henry knows the service isn’t over. It never was.

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    Thomas survives the sick camp he was meant to die in and ends up in a strange, brutal tie with the man who crossed him. Le Vesconte has his reasons. Almost none of them good.

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    21 Oct 2025

  18. Rec 20

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    James Fitzjames is vaguely lonely, and yearns for something more personal than the hairless actors he sees on most porn videos.

    That's why it's such a pleasant shock to see a charming older man, very well-endowed, who moans his name and has an earnestness about him that rocks James to the core.

    In the videos, of course, the James that Francis is speaking to isn't him, but he can still pretend, can't he?

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    18 Oct 2025

  19. Rec 28

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    Francis blinked a few more times, and the James in the mirror blinked back. His mind began shouting something at him, but Francis was still too befuddled from sleep to heed its cries. He lifted a hand to his cheek. The image in the mirror did the same.
    Francis pinched himself on the cheek, hoping to wake up from this very, very strange dream. In the mirror, James’ large hand pinched his cheek.
    Francis screamed.

    They say that to really know a man, you should walk a mile in his shoes.
    James and Francis aren't sure this is what they meant.

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    15 Sep 2025

  20. Rec 7

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    Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier is always in love. He suspects most people are deep down; he just has the rotten luck that it shows.

    (or a short history of his stupid, stupid heart)

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    401

    07 Sep 2025

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