beautiful world...

Been in a state of happiness discovering and reading some Highlander fanfics (nothing like revisiting old fandoms...), then somehow or another ended up reading astolat's Master & Commander fics. I know absolutely nothing about the books and have not watched the movie, but I'm rather keen to read the books now. The two that made me cackle the most? AUs. Shiny shiny (fairly long) AUs:

Duende
Bonding! Sword-masters! Rings! Love love love it, great use of fantasy/fannish tropes wrapped in the tasty language of that period.

Five Things That Never Happened To Aubrey & Maturin
Five: The World Turned Upside Down
Genderfuck! (Sort of) Mpreg! There is no bad here.

It amused me to realize sometime while I was reading that the drama CD of Flesh & Blood was playing in the background, in particular one of the sword-fighting sequences. I would love to watch an anime with really good sword-fighting now....

In keeping with my happy mood, some shiny music:

Come To Me (Mellatron Remix) by Clazziquai

Bouncing Off Clouds by Tori Amos

BREEZE by Genki Rockets