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alasse_irenaSo it turns out that Rosemary Sutcliff's The Eagle of the Ninth has a fairly significant fandom (upwards of 600 fics on AO3), and that this has somehow flown over my head for my entire fandom life up to this point. Also, there was apparently a movie with Channing Tatum? (Also, according to Wikipedia, in the movie, Romans speak with American accents in order to draw parallels with modern-day imperialism. Hm.) However this managed to slip by me unnoticed until now, I am very pleased to finally discover it, and filled with a desire to go and reread the book.
On this note, the thing which brought this to my attention wassineala's excellent AU fic, which was recommended to me during Fandom Snowflake:
Chosen Man (116551 words) by Sineala
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: The Eagle | The Eagle of the Ninth (2011)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Marcus Flavius Aquila/Esca Mac Cunoval
Characters: Marcus Flavius Aquila, Esca Mac Cunoval, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Military, Canon Era, First Time, Loyalty, Shame, Submission, Romance, Action/Adventure
Series: Part 1 of Chosen Man
Summary: The son of the man who lost the Eagle of the Ninth would never be allowed a first command of his very own fort, would he? Marcus is posted not to Isca Dumnoniorum, but to a wretched and run-down garrison north of the Wall. There he finds that he is the new centurion of a group of scouts and spies, all of them British. He has few supplies and no experience. His men distrust him. His superiors despise him. His second-in-command is an incompetent drunkard. And the local tribes are determined to kill all of them. But the worst thing of all is one of Marcus' soldiers. He is an enigmatic, dangerous, and insubordinate man by the name of Esca, who makes Marcus yearn for terrifying things he has never before wanted and can never, ever let himself have...
And then there was cute holiday-themed Saturnalia fluff. So we should all go and read this fic.
In other news, I am still looking at my bingo card and telling myself that thinking about it will eventually turn into do something about it...
On this note, the thing which brought this to my attention was
sineala's excellent AU fic, which was recommended to me during Fandom Snowflake:Chosen Man (116551 words) by Sineala
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: The Eagle | The Eagle of the Ninth (2011)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Marcus Flavius Aquila/Esca Mac Cunoval
Characters: Marcus Flavius Aquila, Esca Mac Cunoval, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Military, Canon Era, First Time, Loyalty, Shame, Submission, Romance, Action/Adventure
Series: Part 1 of Chosen Man
Summary: The son of the man who lost the Eagle of the Ninth would never be allowed a first command of his very own fort, would he? Marcus is posted not to Isca Dumnoniorum, but to a wretched and run-down garrison north of the Wall. There he finds that he is the new centurion of a group of scouts and spies, all of them British. He has few supplies and no experience. His men distrust him. His superiors despise him. His second-in-command is an incompetent drunkard. And the local tribes are determined to kill all of them. But the worst thing of all is one of Marcus' soldiers. He is an enigmatic, dangerous, and insubordinate man by the name of Esca, who makes Marcus yearn for terrifying things he has never before wanted and can never, ever let himself have...
And then there was cute holiday-themed Saturnalia fluff. So we should all go and read this fic.
In other news, I am still looking at my bingo card and telling myself that thinking about it will eventually turn into do something about it...