#aubreyad gifs

[elodieunderglass]

On Sharpe being a comedy: I have started the Aubreyad after you blogged about it, and it’s also a comedy.

Favourite exchange so far is when Stephen excitedly spots a bearded vulture, and Jack finds his own joke (“I dare say he forgot to shave this morning”) SO FUNNY that doubles up in knee-slapping laughter for about 10 minutes, after which James Dillon says to Stephen the 18th century equivalent of “Ohh, he’s a himbo! No wonder you like him”:

“‘There are times’, said James quietly, ‘when I understand your partiality for your friend. He derives a greater pleasure from a smaller stream of wit than any man I have ever known.'”

Well first off, congratudolences contracting the Aubreyad, a disease that lasts a long time but gives a long-term pleasure!! It is ABSOLUTELY a comedy. Thank you so much for telling me. I hope everyone who starts reading it tells me.

I would argue that the Aubreyad in its original text is slightly more of a comedy than Sharpe in its original text. It is easier to see the comedy in Sharpe, because Sharpe had its famous adaptation, which (among other good choices) let sean bean off the leash, allowing for maximum exploration of potential, as they were all getting, like, worldbuildingly realistic dysentery in the crimea while filming or whatever, allowing him to just shout swears at people and roll around in the dirt (enrichment for him) (allowing the comedy to happen).

But the Aubreyad has comedic mechanisms operating on so many levels that we can only be grateful that PoB wasn’t on socials in his lifetime. Playing 5d chess with his puns and buttsex jokes. Could you STOP, PoB!!!! We’d be crying, and he would not.

Anyway in conclusion. The Napoleonic fandoms are a slippery fcking slope and if you go too far into them you do unhinged things, like “inventing Star Trek” or “inventing ao3”. The only way to stay safe is to keep repeating to yourself:

This is a comedy. It’s a comedy.

[mystery-star]

Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey and Paul Bettany as Stephen Maturin in Master and Commander, The Far Side of the World (2003)

[neosatsuma]

made for like 2 friends but it's still cracking me up so here's a look into my mind palace while reading the aubreyad books

[m-a-salter]

Period Drama Appreciation Week 2024 | Day 4: Favorite Relationship | Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin as portrayed by Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany in Master and Commander (2003)

[russell-crowe]

russell crowe in master and commander: the far side of the world (2003)

[thekenobee]

Russell Crowe just *CANNOT* tease us that there’s a “Master and Commander” series in the making I’M SIMPLY AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*sails away*

[sheriffclownkins]

Stephen Maturin and i share a braincell because when they first mentioned the Galápagos Islands i thought “omg are we gonna see its beautiful and evolutionarily unique fauna including my favorite reptile the marine iguana” AND THEN WE SAW MY FAVORITE REPTILE THE MARINE IGUANA

[jus-alilcomforblelad]

it's just.

y'know?

[gigamuffin]

[chicafinal]

oh stephen

[marcusnotbrutus]

WE'RE GONNA PARTY IN THE HOUSE TONIGHT

(I'm forcing all my friends to watch Master and Commander and we'll be drinking grog (ginger ale) and eating hardtack (crackers) and a lot of vitamin-C filled anti-scurvy food)

[aubreysmaturin]

"You think you're so great because you have boats!" is a real line said by Napoleon in the new film about the British lmao

[mystery-star]

Russell Crowe as Jack Aubrey in Master and Commander - The Far Side of the World (2003)

[onefellsloop]

Stephen ‘gradually retired to the rooms he had long retained in an old-fashioned comfortable shabby inn called the Grapes, in the liberties of the Savoy, leaving Diana in the handsome modern house in Half Moon Street, a house shining with fresh white paint and new-furnished with elegant but fragile satinwood… It was not a parting in any sense of unkindness, but a mere geographical separation, one so slight that Stephen usually covered it every morning, walking up through the Green Park to breakfast with his wife.’

As you can see, Half Moon Street leads immediately on to Green Park: no doubt very pleasant for a semi-resident ornithologist. We aren't told the Maturins' exact address, but I've photographed number 25 because it's still in its unaltered 18th-century state (the houses were built in the 1730s/40s, so perhaps not entirely modern in 1813...)

Here's a map of the area from 1761...

... and a plan of a nearby townhouse built in 1727.

[beggars-opera]

debauched

[neosatsuma]

Jack spending literally ALL NIGHT pacing the quarterdeck because he needs to see Stephen back safe before he can relax I'm