Oooh, thank you for reccing me yet again! And especially for reccing this story, which seemed to sink without trace -- I'm rather fond of it, and I like writing Jack's serious side; often well-hidden but very definitely there beneath the merriment and sway.
One thing, though -- 'Scarborough Fair' isn't anachronistic; I grant that Jack won't have heard the Simon and Garfunkel version, but it's a traditional English folksong (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/soldonsong/songlibrary/indepth/scarborough.shtml) that been around for centuries before they got their grubby mitts on it and left out the 'Trad. arr Simon and Garfunkel' in the attribution.
Actually, I'm grateful for this rec for another reason -- reviewing the fic, I noticed a background detail which is creeping into more and more fic, including a WIP: this is almost certainly where it started.
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One thing, though -- 'Scarborough Fair' isn't anachronistic; I grant that Jack won't have heard the Simon and Garfunkel version, but it's a traditional English folksong (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/soldonsong/songlibrary/indepth/scarborough.shtml) that been around for centuries before they got their grubby mitts on it and left out the 'Trad. arr Simon and Garfunkel' in the attribution.
Actually, I'm grateful for this rec for another reason -- reviewing the fic, I noticed a background detail which is creeping into more and more fic, including a WIP: this is almost certainly where it started.