100 days of enemy recs: 97. Pirates of the Caribbean

[melannen]

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.

• 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 . . .

Comments

[sara]

Well, and the star has turned out to be a wife beating assbag, which has presumably lessened people's enthusiasm a bit.

[melannen]

That was certainly a major factor in me not watching them!

Although similar allegations didn't seem to slow down certain other xmfc fandoms, so I suspect there's more to why potc dwindled so hard.