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100 days of enemy recs: 97. Pirates of the Caribbean
PotC is what I generally call my second ever fandom, though you have to count in a very particular way to get that result. But it was, definitely, the first fandom where I was there for the beginning - watching, at least, even if I didn't participate much - so it holds a special place.
It's also a great fandom for enemy ship! Honestly the only one I can think of that doesn't count one way or another is Pintel/Ragetti. And of course the whole trilogy is shaped around the most fundamental enemy ship of them all, Jack Sparrow/the Black Pearl.
I never watched any of the post-AWE movies, though, because honestly by the end, Jack was the least interesting character in the franchise. Someeday maybe? At least the ones that have Barbossa in them.
But this recs set is going to be Jack/Norrington. Old Jack/Norrington, from before the second movie came out. Mostly old Jack/Norrington that I haven't reread in at least fifteen years. Because. Some things are just foundational.
And also because POTC was one of those fandoms that landed squarely in the heyday of LJ fandom, from the first movie just as LJ really became everything, to the last movie right in time for us to sing our way through Strikethrough. So everything was on LJ. Stuff's hard to track down.
It's also a great fandom for enemy ship! Honestly the only one I can think of that doesn't count one way or another is Pintel/Ragetti. And of course the whole trilogy is shaped around the most fundamental enemy ship of them all, Jack Sparrow/the Black Pearl.
I never watched any of the post-AWE movies, though, because honestly by the end, Jack was the least interesting character in the franchise. Someeday maybe? At least the ones that have Barbossa in them.
But this recs set is going to be Jack/Norrington. Old Jack/Norrington, from before the second movie came out. Mostly old Jack/Norrington that I haven't reread in at least fifteen years. Because. Some things are just foundational.
And also because POTC was one of those fandoms that landed squarely in the heyday of LJ fandom, from the first movie just as LJ really became everything, to the last movie right in time for us to sing our way through Strikethrough. So everything was on LJ. Stuff's hard to track down.
- Misdirection (11383 words) by Jenavira
Fandom: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Pirates of the Caribbean (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James Norrington/Jack Sparrow, Sparrington
Characters: Jack Sparrow, James Norrington, Joshamee Gibbs, Groves (Pirates of the Caribbean), Governor Swann, Various original Naval officers, and a squiggly thing
Additional Tags: seafaring adventure, unnecessarily complicated seduction techniques, adorableness, content stolen from Irish myths, and also C.S. Lewis, I am not sorry
Summary: Jack Sparrow's taken a letter of marque, and Norrington's life has taken a turn for the strange. Still, any excuse to get out from behind a desk for a while. - Full Moon (18515 words) by firesignwriter
Fandom: Pirates of the Caribbean (Movies)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Jack/Norrington
Characters: James Norrington, Jack Sparrow
Summary:Caught between a rock and a bajillion pirates, Norrington is forced to rely on Jack Sparrow's aid...and then his hospitality.
- Marooned (23259 words) by GloriaMundi
Fandom: Pirates of the Caribbean
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: James Norrington/Jack Sparrow, Jack Sparrow/Various, Anamaria/James Norrington
Characters: Jack Sparrow, James Norrington, Anamaria
Additional Tags: Pirates, Historical, C17, AU
Summary:The world's changed. When everything you loved is gone, what's left? Duty, honour, dreams, dust . . .
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Although similar allegations didn't seem to slow down certain other
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whoa these neurons have awoken. I don't remember anything about Jack/Norrington, I'd forgotten it existed, I don't remember the fanon, and yet when I saw the link to Full Moon by firesignwriter a little part of my id sat up and said yes please. I can't even tell you when I was reading it! I just know I loved that story at some point in my past.
Man, reading this is going to be weird. Will I still love it? Will I dislike it? Be confused by it? I don't know.
... I am so sad you're almost done with these. I haven't read this much fic in years.
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I am super glad to be almost done because it has been, four months, okay, and I didn't think I would make it and I'm starting to feel like butter over too much bread (and also I need to work on my yuletide assignment at some point? probably?) But also it has brought me so much joy and I have re-found so much wonderful fanfic and so much love for and in fandom, and I will miss it too.
I think what I want is for these post to keep going up, but somebody else to make them.... (tempted to try to start up some kind of latter-day ship_manifesto where people claim a pairing and post a little intro and a few recs of all-time favorite fic. With possible mandatory maximums so people don't feel obligated to make five-part manifestos/ I would love following it, and going back to old ship-manifestos made me realize just how much value it brought to fandom that things like fanlore can't really replicate, and it feels like something current dw fandom could do. But also that feels like work.)
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