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sid ([personal profile] sid) wrote in [community profile] where_away2013-03-21 07:51 pm

Jack's flowered silk dressing gown

The bell struck; and at the pipe of the bosun's call the hammocks came flying up, close on two hundred of them, to be stowed with lightning rapidity into the nettings, with their numbers all turned the same way; and in the rushing current of seamen Jack stood tall and magnificent in a flowered silk dressing-gown, looking sharply up and down the deck.

Chapter Five
HMS Surprise
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Dressing Gown

[personal profile] esteven 2013-03-22 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you for bringing this over. I sincerely hope Jack's gown is not something flimsy and clingy. The excerpt is also evocative (for want of a better description) *g*
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[personal profile] esteven 2013-03-22 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
He certainly stands tall and magnificent as I am sure Stephen will be able to testify.
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[personal profile] feroxargentea 2013-03-23 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
A manly man in the full bloom of his manhood! No damned flowers could make Jack look anything else *g*
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[personal profile] feroxargentea 2013-03-23 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG Jack cures the plant kingdom of hermaphroditism! O.O
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[personal profile] feroxargentea 2013-03-23 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a botanical sensation! He'll be addressing the Institut with Jack as his beautiful assistant/specimen.
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[personal profile] feroxargentea 2013-03-23 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Imagine the effect on the audience, though. Not sure the philosophers could handle such a wave of naval testosterone!
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[personal profile] heather_mist 2013-03-23 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
*Applies to join the Royal Society*
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[personal profile] feroxargentea 2013-03-24 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Very sorry, my dear, but I don't think they took lady members at the time. Male members only. Lots and lots of 'em *g*
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[personal profile] heather_mist 2013-03-24 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
You aren't helping!!
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[personal profile] heather_mist 2013-03-24 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
*mutters and grumbles*
;-)
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[personal profile] heather_mist 2013-03-24 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Male members only
Damn those male members! I don't suppose I'd get away with it if I bound up the old boobs and stuck a sausage down the front of my breeches, would I? Although that does rather defeat the object of the exercise... and there is still the question of the giveaway 'child-bearing hips'
*scratches chin thoughtfully*.
Maybe I'll just loiter outside looking all come hitherish... a member might just come hither? Maybe?
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[personal profile] feroxargentea 2013-03-25 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
It may not be genteel to mention it but *whispers* there is a shiny patch on your breeches where your sausage has oozed grease...
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[personal profile] heather_mist 2013-03-26 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
*g*
I hate it when it does that....