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You may recall that I did not care for the film War Horse; my feelings about it are well summed up by this parody poster.
My loathing for the film did not impede my enjoyment of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
halotolerant's wonderful story "A Sweet and Proper Thing," however. Nor should not having seen the film be a problem, if you are among those more fortunate than me who have been spared the experience of swelling music and technicolor sunsets.
It's not about the damn horse. The horse is barely in it. Halo focuses on two human characters we meet only briefy, Jim Nicholls (the officer who buys the horse, played by Tom Hiddleston) and his friend Jamie Stewart (Benedict Cumberbatch). She gives them personalities, histories, aspirations, lives. Also, to my particular delight, she gives Jamie a set of cricketing whites. And what's not to love about a story that includes the phrase, "His parents . . . believed in socialism, atheism and carbolic soap, in more or less that order"?
My loathing for the film did not impede my enjoyment of
halotolerant's wonderful story "A Sweet and Proper Thing," however. Nor should not having seen the film be a problem, if you are among those more fortunate than me who have been spared the experience of swelling music and technicolor sunsets. It's not about the damn horse. The horse is barely in it. Halo focuses on two human characters we meet only briefy, Jim Nicholls (the officer who buys the horse, played by Tom Hiddleston) and his friend Jamie Stewart (Benedict Cumberbatch). She gives them personalities, histories, aspirations, lives. Also, to my particular delight, she gives Jamie a set of cricketing whites. And what's not to love about a story that includes the phrase, "His parents . . . believed in socialism, atheism and carbolic soap, in more or less that order"?
A Sweet and Proper Thing (16948 words) byhalotolerant
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: War Horse (2011)
Rating: Explicit
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jim Nicholls/Jamie Stewart
Characters: Jim Nicholls, Jamie Stewart, Topthorn
Summary:"Jamie, taking a deep, shuddering breath and then sipping his tea, gave him a slight smile. And now Jim felt warm, warm through and through, and awake, somehow, as if at long last suddenly roused from hibernation and stumbling into the light."
In which Jim and Jamie meet, fail at introductions, read too much science fiction, get together, mess up, fail to appreciate the importance of the Agadir crisis, buy horses, try their best and fight a war along the way, and most definitely nobody dies *g*
