When we're ashore the priest will wed us as soon as we do reach the strand

[sovay]

The #nonbinaryrake sequel to Jeannelle M. Ferreira's The Covert Captain (2018) is still in progress, but that seemed insufficient reason for me not to start making fanart for it. I am not wholly satisfied with all squares in this aesthetic post—it was harder than I thought to find photos of small children in Regency settings—but at least this time I didn't have to do all the HTML myself.



Happy Labor Day.

Comments

[selkie]

*MUCH HIGH-PITCHED SQUEALING WAS HAD BY ALL*

The silver-chased coconut kiddush cup depicting Scenes Various and Inappropriate is my favorite artifact of the month. But all of it is ridiculously lovely and wow, I write super queer books.

[sovay]

*MUCH HIGH-PITCHED SQUEALING WAS HAD BY ALL*

*HUGS*

The silver-chased coconut kiddush cup depicting Scenes Various and Inappropriate is my favorite artifact of the month.

I seriously think one of St. Clair's brothers should send it to them. (I don't know if they could have picked it up locally, because it has a catalogue number on the website but no provenance, but it's not like Kolkata in 1825 didn't have Jews.)

But all of it is ridiculously lovely and wow, I write super queer books.

You do! It's excellent! I couldn't even find room for the m/m couple!

[aurumcalendula]

*squees* I love this fanart and I'm really looking forward to the sequel!

[sovay]

I love this fanart

Thank you! Feel free to link or repost with attribution, if you would like.

and I'm really looking forward to the sequel!

Very much same.

[asakiyume]

Those are gorgeous! Where do the first and last come from? (They're all gorgeous but for some reason I'm most curious about those two.

[sovay]

Those are gorgeous! Where do the first and last come from?

Thank you! The last photo is a cropped image of Kate Lindsey as Nicklausse in the Royal Opera House's 2016 Les contes d'Hoffmann. The last photo came from Pinterest via image search, which means I had no idea, since without a Pinterest account I can't actually look at any of the pinned images without being told to sign up; after a small amount of reverse-searching, it appears to originate in this photoset by Richard Jenkins. The model's name is not given.

[asakiyume]

Thank you--and I apologize for making work for you.

Ugh, Pinterest, though. I've had that same problem, and there's No Way I am signing up for a Pinterest account.

[sovay]

Thank you--and I apologize for making work for you.

No apologies necessary! Pinterest is just annoying that way.

The other photos are a coconut-shell kiddush cup in the collections of the Jewish Museum London, the main entrance of East Riddlesden Hall, Amanda Root as Anne Elliot in Persuasion (1995), Anna Madeley and Maxine Peake as Mariana Belcombe and Anne Lister in The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010), some of the Morland kids from Northanger Abbey (I believe the 1986 TV version, but I couldn't get an attribution on the screencap), the East Indiaman Friendship of Salem, and a brilliant action photo of an early nineteenth-century British Sea Service pistol being fired by this guy. Most of these images were chosen for their visuals rather than their allusions, but I don't feel it hurts to have a shout-out to Yorkshire's most famous nineteenth-century lesbian, for example. [edit] I intended to use a photo from Black Sails for the B-plot couple, but they got crowded out by other plot elements. Maybe once the book comes out I'll make photosets for all three couples. As selkie correctly recognizes, there is a lot of queerness in this book.

Ugh, Pinterest, though. I've had that same problem, and there's No Way I am signing up for a Pinterest account.

It certainly has not encouraged me to apply.

[selkie]

I was really impressed by the accurate pistol and the East Indiaman under full brilliant sail, but you are you and not even your holiday weekend pursuits are half-undertaken.

I had not, in fact, quite realized until I saw the Friendship of Salem in your aesthetic that it's an unusual/classic pairing, the A-plot couple; one person who's never gone two miles from home and one person who's chased everything everywhere. You are a splendid friend to have.

[sovay]

I had not, in fact, quite realized until I saw the Friendship of Salem in your aesthetic that it's an unusual/classic pairing, the A-plot couple; one person who's never gone two miles from home and one person who's chased everything everywhere. You are a splendid friend to have.

You wrote it.

*hugs*

[selkie]

*HUGS*

Look, I never said I was quick on the uptake.

[ethelmay]

the A-plot couple; one person who's never gone two miles from home and one person who's chased everything everywhere

"If they be two, they are two so/As stiff twin compasses are two..."

[selkie]

This cheered me immensely! Thank you. :)

[asakiyume]

You know I wondered whether that one photo was from a Jane Austen novel! And, coincidentally, Persuasion just arrived from Netflix--looking forward to watching it.

And I Did Not Know about Miss Anne Lister. That is cool, and also not surprising--the world was way more full of LGTBQ folks all through history than the dominant narrative ever wanted to acknowledge.

[sovay]

And, coincidentally, Persuasion just arrived from Netflix--looking forward to watching it.

Enjoy!

And I Did Not Know about Miss Anne Lister. That is cool, and also not surprising--the world was way more full of LGTBQ folks all through history than the dominant narrative ever wanted to acknowledge.

She's getting a second biographical series upcoming, Gentleman Jack! If the producers have any sense, they'll use the song by O'Hooley and Tidow.

At the moment she has a rather lovely plaque.

[asakiyume]

That is an excellent plaque!

[alexxkay]

It probably isn't true, but it feels to me that Pinterest exists soley to pollute Google Image searches with badly- or not-at-all-attributed material. Because they Hate Researchers.

[asakiyume]

I subscribe to this hypothesis 100 percent. Pinterest has rendered Google image search practically useless.

[selkie]

Do [search thing you want to search about with a search term, no brackets] [space, no brackets] -pinterest

MINUS PINTEREST IS THE ONLY WAY ONE CAN CUT A SWATH THROUGH HISTORY GOOGLE.

[asakiyume]

A plus-plus solution: thank you!!

[sovay]

MINUS PINTEREST IS THE ONLY WAY ONE CAN CUT A SWATH THROUGH HISTORY GOOGLE.

NOTED FOR FUTURE REFERENCE.

[brigdh]

This is gorgeous! And reminds me to bump "The Covert Captain" higher up my to-read list.

[sovay]

This is gorgeous! And reminds me to bump "The Covert Captain" higher up my to-read list.

Thank you!

There are also aesthetic posts for the first novel, by both the author and dotsayers.

[thisbluespirit]

Very nice!!

[sovay]

Very nice!!

Thank you!