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The Forsyte Saga arrived today from [livejournal.com profile] inlovewithnight - thank you, darling! Cue much anticipatory squeeing over Ioan as Bosinney - I don't expect to mind the straightened hair, even. I mean, he was missing the curls as Freddy Bywaters in Another Life and still managed to be smoking scorching hot.

And look, new icon! This is my vision of Horatio in [livejournal.com profile] inlovewithnight's Racket Boys universe, a Hornblower gangster AU. Two parts so far: Racket Boys and Luck May Have Died. I'm not usually much of a fan of AU's, but this one rocks, and it's entirely due to [livejournal.com profile] inlovewithnight's deft hand with characterisation and the way she introduces little familiar touches of plot and background from the original. Recommended reading if you're a Hornblower fan, even if AU's are not your usual cup of tea!

There are three pics from the same shoot under the cut - they're what I immediately saw in my head when I read the first scene of Luck May Have Died, where Horatio's waiting for Archie to be released from prison. I couldn't remember where I'd seen them before, so it took much dedicated research on Ioan Online to track them down - oh, the suffering! *g*



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Date: 2006-03-11 05:15 pm (UTC)
ext_15621: The Pixel in a paper bag (Racket Boys Ioan)
From: [identity profile] rosiespark.livejournal.com
You see, I'm hoping the pics will help to inspire more Racket Boys - being glaringly obvious and unsubtle, once again. *g*

I knew I'd seen a shot of Ioan leaning against a car in a parking lot - except that I thought he was smoking in the pic, just as Horatio is in your fic. That would have been absolutely perfect!

I shall choose to ignore the fact that you distinctly mention that he's wearing a shirt and tie. Ahem.

The way he looks in these pics, though, is the way Archie describes him: "He was thinner, the angles of his face sharp and stark where before there had been a bit of a softness, a gentling over those fierce bones." Precisely.

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Date: 2006-03-11 05:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] inlovewithnight.livejournal.com
Hee! I do have the next one mostly plotted. Just have to get through thesis-draft and one or two promised fics and then I'm on it. :;salute::

He does look just about right in these, as long as you mentally edit out the turtleneck. Mmmmm.

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Date: 2006-03-11 05:50 pm (UTC)
ext_15621: The Pixel in a paper bag (Racket Boys Ioan)
From: [identity profile] rosiespark.livejournal.com
Hurrah! And drat that pesky thesis... ;)

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