geeking out on shakespeare's histories

Title: This Deed Was Done at Otterburn
Author: gileonnen
Play: pre-1 Henry IV (and technically pre-Richard II as well)
Recipient: speak_me_fair
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Hotspur, Douglas, various other assorted Douglases; implicit Hotspur/Douglas fantasy
Warnings: Liberties taken with Shakespeare, history, and meteorology
Rating: PG-13
Summary: In the aftermath of the Battle of Otterburn, two foes meet for the first time.

( This Deed Was Done at Otterburn )

Title: Fail Trying
Author: gileonnen
Play: 1 and 2 Henry IV, Merry Wives of Windsor
Recipient: gehayi
Characters: Falstaff, Doll Tearsheet, Mistress Quickly, Hal, Poins, Mistress and Master Page, Fenton, brief mentions of Hotspur, Kate, and Shallow
Warnings: Foul language, references to prostitution and sex droids, characters expressing misogynistic and fat-bashing attitudes and using ableist language
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Jack Falstaff is a space pirate--but not a particularly good one.
Notes: I have taken some liberties with the prompt in order to keep the worldbuilding internally consistent; I hope that this will be acceptable.

( Fail Trying )

Title: To pluck bright honor from the top of the world, Ma
Author: roz_mcclure
Recipient: gileonnen
Rating: 15 (for swears)
Pairings: Hotspur/Kate, kind of Hotspur/Douglas
Warnings: Guns and liquor
Summary: IF Hotspur were a police commander in the 1930s, AND also everyone in the story were genderswapped, THEN he might look like Katharine Hepburn, and anachronisms and tacked-on happy endings would probably abound.
Author's note: Shakespeare condensed characters from the history, and I've condensed characters from the Shakespeare! Another few rounds of this and Hotspur will be the only character in the entire story.

( It wasn't raining during the medal ceremony, for once, although the promise of it was heavy enough in the air to make Harriet's hair frizz under her blue cap. )

Title: The Base-String Of Humility
Author: speak_me_fair
Recipient: fuunsaiki
Play: Richard II/Henry IV, Part I.
Character(s): Hal, Poins, Henry IV, Hotspur, York.
Pairings: Hal/Poins
Rating/Warnings: Rated below an R, even with the slash. Set between Richard II and Henry IV part 1.
Summary: Hal's playing the game well, but he knows he's getting in over his head in more than one way…

( Hal sometimes thought that the one thing which could be said for having apartments of his own was that when, as occasionally and inevitably happened, he got a missive - a missile, a missive, it's the same thing, touches me where it hurts the most and leaves no mark because it makes no outward wound - from his father, he could have a fit of petulant, childish, uncontrollable temper involving every vaguely moveable object in the room, and there would be no-one who was brave or unwise enough to dare even to remark on it. )

Title: Harry To Harry Shall
Author: speak_me_fair
Play: Henry IV, Part I
Recipient: house_kitten
Characters: Hal, Hotspur, Kate Percy
Warnings: Slash, threesome. Um, sex.
Rating: NC-17, for language and sex.
Notes: Hal/Hotspur/Kate. Hal/Poins implied.
Summary: Hal's drowning his perpetual sorrows. Hotspur joins him. Kate rescues them.

( 'Cos, cos, cos...' 'I'm not your coz,' Poins muttered to the table. )

Title: A Good Jest For Ever (1 H IV 2.2.94)
Author: lite_bright
Play: I + II Henry IV (plus hilariously inept quoting of Henry V, by Pistol)
Recipient: borusa
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Pistol, Bardolph and Poins.
Warnings: (if necessary) None. Well, drinking. Also Pistol trying to whore it up.
Rating: PG
Notes: Very silly. Not really much redeeming value. Like beer, in a way.
Summary: Pistol has a good time. This is not such a great time for everyone else. Everyone may play beer pong. Whatever, internal chronology; set in some nebulously pre-modern pubs. Hackneyed attempts at rhetoric and humor follow.

( It is an unseasonably warm evening for April, and the matted and rich-smelling rushes from winter have been turned, leaving their heavy stench in the air. The tavern-keeper and his mistress purposefully bustle, limiting their movement by foreknowledge, practice, and simple lethargy, as their lone patron sluggishly naps. )