New story: Telemachos, or The Genealogy of Buggery

[resonant]

Horatio Hornblower litslash -- i.e. based on the novel rather than the miniseries, so don't be too shocked to find Horatio portrayed as some guy who's edging up on forty rather than as the delectable Ioan Gruffudd.

Telemachos, or The Genealogy of Buggery
Hornblower/Longley -- NC-17 -- 40K
A venerable Navy tradition is passed on

Beta thanks to cesca, darthfox, and mzcalypso. Special thanks to fabularasa for the subtitle.

Comments

[sjkasabi.livejournal.com]

A very late comment, but I just happened across this and liked it very much indeed - I'm into the books and grumpy middle-aged Hornblower too, and you've really got him. And can I add to the pleas for a Hornblower/Bush?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it!

I'm open to the idea of Hornblower/Bush -- will think about it more when I read "Lieutenant" -- but at the moment they're not really appealing to me all that much.

Hornblower will seek out Bush to work with whenever he can, but he clearly views Bush as his intellectual inferior -- so much so that it's a repeated motif in several of the books to have Hornblower make a joke at Bush's expense and then immediately feel bad about it because Bush is too easy of a target. But maybe there's some counterbalancing view of the relationship in "Lieutenant."

[sjkasabi.livejournal.com]

I can certainly see that the power dynamic in the later books is something you might choose not to explore due to its ickyness, even if they came across as H/B-slashy to you (which they did for me;-))

But Lieutenant and Hotspur do offer a rather counterbalancing view of Bush and Hornblower's relationship, I think (which makes their later one more tragic). I hope you enjoy them when you get there.

And I'll watch out for any new fic from you, whatever pairing you choose to write :-) :-)