September Prompts!

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Each month, we'll post a trio of prompts -- a theme, a quote, and a trope -- for you to use as a jumping-off point in whatever medium pleases you. Anything goes, fiction or meta, from drabbles through dissertations. Fic, art, photo-essays, vids, and more are welcome.

• For September, the theme is Marriage. Marriage to what or to whom? To your ship, to your wife, or to the lovely lady you've never met before who came out to visit in a tender that you'd like to spend a little time with? You decide.
  
  
• Two quotes this time! Both quotes are from the the book Hornblower and the Hotpsur
  

  Hotspur settled sweetly on her new course. Hornblower was growing intimate with her ways, like a bridegroom learning about his bride.

  
  and,
  

  "You've given no order about wives, sir."
  
  "Wives?"
  
  "Wives, sir."
  
  There was an interrogative lift in Hornblower's voice as he said the word; there was a flat, complete absence of expression in Bush's. It was usual in His Majesty's Ships when they lay in harbour for women to be allowed on board, and one or two of them might well be wives.

  
  
  
• The trope is Domesticity -- home or family life. What makes a home or a family? Is it the company of the ship, the ship herself, your country house, or just simply wherever you happen to be?

Mix and match the prompts, or use just one! Then come back and share what you made!