#lord hornblower

[sanguinarysanguinity]

A rattle outside the door. That could not be that they were coming for him already? Yes it was, the bars were clashing, the door was opening, the aide-de-camp was entering. Hornblower tried to rise to his feet, and to his horror found that his legs were too weak to support him. He made another effort to stand, unavailing again. He must sit and let them drag him out like a coward. He forced himself to raise his chin and look at the aide-de-camp, trying not to make it the fixed and glassy stare he knew it to be. “It is not death,” said the aide-de-camp. Hornblower looked; he tried to speak, but no word came from his open mouth. And the aide-de-camp was trying to force a smile, too—an ingratiating smile. “There is news from Belgium,” said the aide-de-camp. “The Emperor has been defeated in a great battle. At a place called Waterloo. Already Wellington and Blucher are over the frontier and marching on Paris. The Emperor is there already and the Senate are demanding that he abdicate again.” Hornblower’s heart was pounding so hard that he was still incapable of speech. “His Excellency the General,” went on the aide-de-camp, “has decided that in this case the executions are not to take place this morning.” Hornblower found speech at last. “I will not insist,” he said.

C.S. Forester, Lord Hornblower

Happy No Executions Will Take Place This Morning Day

#c.s. forester #lord hornblower #horatio hornblower #this passage probably isn't the very next day after waterloo #but I can't be arsed to look up in wikipedia what the post-waterloo timeline was #so you get it today #Happy No Executions Will Take Place This Morning Day!

[autumnillustration]

sometimes a man’s just gotta crochet a cabbage

inspired by the fact that i learnt Samuel West spent his time crocheting (edit: embroidering, but oh well) a cabbage on the set of Hornblower and i just think that’s neat.

#art #illustration #digital art #character art #Lord Major Edrington #I am the very model of a modern major general #I have information vegetable animal—all crochet-able #Hornblower #shout out to Leyendecker for the horse reference

[chiropteracupola]

FINALLY! AT LAST! GRANDDAD’S HORNBLOWER BOOK COLLECTION!!

#news from the cupola #hornblower #granddad tag #LOOK BEHOLD and SEE! #for those who do not recall I have been trying to locate these for Approximately Three Years... #now feeling large and complex emotions about the fact that he left the book-jacket in as a bookmark in lord #I know exactly where he left off when he last read it… (it was page 281) #and now he is Dead. and I miss him. #o granddad... I am stealing his hornblowers and possibly also his name... #feeling also large and complex emotions about the fact that I am only going to have space for one each of his copies of midshipman and #commodore... for each of those he had a lovely crisp copy and one that's worn and battered enough that I'm worried I'll break it #if I really open it up and give it a read! and each of them have their virtues and really it's Augh... #howEver. sorry granddad I will give away your copy of hotspur without shame. I have a lovely scratchboard paperback of which I am Fond.

[mushroomates]

ever notice how hobbit last names are all perfect cuss words? like took gives the vibes of fuck. brandybuck, motherfuck. gamgee is like damn or hell. baggins sounds like a slur. then there’s boldger, which sounds like bugger, boffin, which just sounds dirty, and hornblower, that could pass an an old timey slang for gays. you know, the hornblower across the street. idk. perfect cuss words.

#hobbits #shire #lord of the rings #jrr tolkien #lotr #pippin #peregrin took #meridoc brandybuck #merry brandybuck #pippin took #frodo #samwise #frodo baggins #samwise gamgee #bilbo baggins #the shire #brandybuck #took #hornblower #boldger #boffin #hobbit #bag end

[emilybeemartin]

Hello!

I've gained a lot of new followers recently, so I figured it was time to reintroduce myself:

I'm Emily!

I'm a fan artist! I love the Queen's Thief, Lord of the Rings, and forgotten early-aughts shows about problematic soldiers!

I'm an illustrator! My most recent book is a science-fantasy middle grade field guide to mermaids and their ecosystems!

I'm an author! I've written five epic fantasy novels about characters slogging through wilderness, overthrowing corrupt systems, and occasionally falling in love with each other! The three disaster children below are from my duology, The Outlaw Road!

I'm a park ranger! I like to bring my watercolors on hikes and paint the places I've worked and visited!

You can also find me on Instagram!

What will I post next? Who knows? Not me!

www.emilybmartin.net

#emily b martin #meet the artist #meet the author #queens thief #lord of the rings #hornblower #sharpe #a field guide to mermaids #woodwalker #ashes to fire #creatures of light #sunshield #floodpath #the outlaw road #watercolors #park ranger

[heathcliffgirl1847]

hornblower and bush coparenting richard save me..... hornblower and bush coparenting........ save me hornblower and bush coparenting...............

#what is lord hornblower ive never heard of that one ..? i dont think thats canon

[lulu-cat-princess]

If YouTube exists in the early 1800s, I will pay big money to see:

Jane Austen

Lord Byron

Dr James Barry

John Keats

William Wordsworth

Percy Bysshe Shelly

The Brothers Grimm

Anne Lister aka Gentleman Jack

Eliza Hamilton

React to Thomas’ poems. Also I like to see these fictional people who would be alive at the same time as Thomas react to his poems:

Dr Henry Morgan from abc forever

Horatio Hornblower

Richard Sharpe

The bridgerton and featherington families

#gentleman jack #anne lister #dr james barry #19th century #thomas thorne #bbc ghosts #lord byron #jane austen #john keats #william wordsworth #percy bysshe shelley #eliza hamilton #the brothers grimm #bridgerton #horatio hornblower #richard sharpe #henry morgan #forever abc

[hornblower-diary]

I wouldn't have minded if Major LORD Edrington had more appearances.

#hornblower #horatio hornblower #ioan gruffudd #royal navy #hornblower series #archie kennedy #jamie bamber #major lord edrington #LORD edrington #samuel west #age of sail

[elweleth]

I'm so happy to announce that I've written a short cozy story about Melilot and Adamanta Hornblower for this LOTR zine project. If you'd like to see what these two mischievous sisters are up to, be sure to back the project! You get awesome extras too like an enamel pin and wooden bookmark > HOBBIT GIRL AUTUMN ZINE

#hobbit #lord of the rings #lotr zine #lord of the rings zine #hobbit oc #lotr oc #hobbit women #melilot hornblower #adamanta hornblower

[quatregats]

Aughhh I've been thinking about the Hornblower sibyl fic again and it's such a good idea and I'm obsessed with it and also I am absolutely terrified to write it for fear of messing up what might be the best story idea I have ever had

#the concept is setting the bar very high for the execution and i fear my writing skills are not up to the task #ho hum. we will see what happens i guess #it's just like good lord conceptually this is such a banger that i'm losing my mind over it #it hits ALL of my weird thoughts about hornblower. from the transness to the discomfiture with the hero narrative #(sorry those were Words my brain is not working rn) #but it just all fits together and the plot feels like it's clicking into my place in my brain and now i'm scared to write it #begone perfectionism. let me rest and have fun #perce rambles #percy yells at cecil scott

[isaacathom]

thinking about the hornblower/bush pleading paragraph again and being reminded of a scene earlier in that same book where hornblower is trying to tell bush about how he can navigate and demonstrating the math for him and all bush can do is nod dumbly and admire hornblower's delicate and nimble hands

#not a direct quote i dont have the book on hand despite my attempts to find a copy. i gotta contact that bookstore #but its an early on chapter like 7 or so in lt hornblower and it was the first bit where i went OH I SEE NOW #cause id watched most of the show and had gotten 0 hornblower/bush energy from mutiny/retribution #and then i read lt hornblower and went oh! i see where you fuckers get it from actually. i see the nucleus of it here #lt hornblower is fully the gayest of the novels (of the ones i read which was through till flying colours) #next gayest was probably flying colours. when i finally read lord hornblower we'll see where that figures #but i assume lord hornblower WILL rank on the gay list. most of the books do not in the slightest #yknow actually beat to quarters and ship of the line rank too just bc of how often hornblower goes #'damn my lieutenant (not bush) is an attractive man. im jealous of him' are you horatio? something you wanna tell class #idr the name of the lieutenant but his entire role is to be hot and lean and good with women #so those rank. the others dont though these bitches got nothing #we may give a partial point to midshipman for having the character of archie kennedy for all of 6 lines over two chapters #where in his first appearance its just the two of them being dumb theatrical for no reason. its very cute

[lost-victorian-sailor]

guYS HAVE YOU SEEN LORD COCHRANE???? HAVE YOU SEEN HIM?? I MEAN LOOK AT HIM. LOOK AT HIS SEXY POSING. LOOK AT HIS FLAWLESS OUTFIT. JUST. LOOK AT HIM. LOOK AT HIS BEAUTIFUL RED HAIR. AAAA!!! AND THIS MAN WAS AN INSPIRATION FOR C.S. FORESTER WHEN HE CREATED HORNBLOWER....

I JUST CAN'T....

LOOK AT HIM!!!

when i see a pretty naval officer, i can't resist....

#horatio hornblower #hornblower #lord Cochrane #admiral Cochrane #naval history #or better #naval fangirling #bernie's simping over dead british men

[chiropteracupola]

ack ow uh oh oh no

#em is posting about sharpe #one suspects that the emmothy may perhaps just be a wee bit too autistic for an infidelity plot of any kind #already well aware that lord rossendale is scum but now I dislike him more than finding him merely annoying #for reasons of his Improving Landscaping Plans :| #also I like that sally bunting pronounces badajoz with a hard j... implications thereof... #the mills! the general wretched state of Everything! the 'but all he said was - I know how to blow things up!' of it all! #'major sharpe what if you hit the bricks' I say repeatedly as things worsen on the whole labor area of things :( #do not have a lot of faith that this is going to go well :( #unrelatedly I had begun to wonder whereabouts I knew truman's actor from and it turns out he was smollett in the 2012 treasure island #OH and he was also in hornblower. that is probably why he's familiar.

[handfuloftime]

They’re married.

(C.S. Forester, Commodore Hornblower)

#okay i swear i'll stop soon #but i'm about 2/3 of the way through lord hornblower so i'd rather think about this instead #horatio hornblower #commodore hornblower

[napoleonic-sexyman-tournament]

Friends, enemies, comrades, Jacobins, Monarchist, Bonapartists, gather round. We have an important announcement:

The continent is beset with war. A tenacious general from Corsica has ignited conflict from Madrid to Moscow and made ancient dynasties tremble. Depending on your particular political leanings, this is either the triumph of a great man out of the chaos of The Terror, a betrayal of the values of the French Revolution, or the rule of the greatest upstart tyrant since Caesar.

But, our grand tournament is here to ask the most important question: Now that the flower of European nobility is arrayed on the battlefield in the sexiest uniforms that European history has yet produced (or indeed, may ever produce), who is the most fuckable?

The bracket is here: full bracket and just quadrant I

Want to nominate someone from the Western Hemisphere who was involved in the ever so sexy dismantling of the Spanish empire? (or the Portuguese or French American colonies as well) You can do it here

The People have created this list of nominees:

France:

Jean Lannes

Josephine de Beauharnais

Thérésa Tallien

Jean-Andoche Junot

Joseph Fouché

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Joachim Murat

Michel Ney

Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte (Charles XIV of Sweden)

Louis-Francois Lejeune

Pierre Jacques Étienne Cambrinne

Napoleon I

Marshal Louis-Gabriel Suchet

Jacques de Trobriand

Jean de dieu soult.

François-Étienne-Christophe Kellermann

17.Louis Davout

Pauline Bonaparte, Duchess of Guastalla

Eugène de Beauharnais

Jean-Baptiste Bessières

Antoine-Jean Gros

Jérôme Bonaparte

Andrea Masséna

Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle

Germaine de Staël

Thomas-Alexandre Dumas

René de Traviere (The Purple Mask)

Claude Victor Perrin

Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr

François Joseph Lefebvre

Major Andre Cotard (Hornblower Series)

Edouard Mortier

Hippolyte Charles

Nicolas Charles Oudinot

Emmanuel de Grouchy

Pierre-Charles Villeneuve

Géraud Duroc

Georges Pontmercy (Les Mis)

Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont

Juliette Récamier

Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey

Louis-Alexandre Berthier

Étienne Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald

Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier

Catherine Dominique de Pérignon

Guillaume Marie-Anne Brune

Jean-Baptiste Jourdan

Charles-Pierre Augereau

Auguste François-Marie de Colbert-Chabanais

England:

Richard Sharpe (The Sharpe Series)

Tom Pullings (Master and Commander)

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

Jonathan Strange (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell)

Captain Jack Aubrey (Aubrey/Maturin books)

Horatio Hornblower (the Hornblower Books)

William Laurence (The Temeraire Series)

Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey

Beau Brummell

Emma, Lady Hamilton

Benjamin Bathurst

Horatio Nelson

Admiral Edward Pellew

Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke

Sidney Smith

Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford

George IV

Capt. Anthony Trumbull (The Pride and the Passion)

Barbara Childe (An Infamous Army)

Doctor Maturin (Aubrey/Maturin books)

William Pitt the Younger

Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (Lord Castlereagh)

George Canning

Scotland:

Thomas Cochrane

Colquhoun Grant

Ireland:

Arthur O'Connor

Thomas Russell

Robert Emmet

Austria:

Klemens von Metternich

Friedrich Bianchi, Duke of Casalanza

Franz I/II

Archduke Karl

Marie Louise

Franz Grillparzer

Wilhelmine von Biron

Poland:

Wincenty Krasiński

Józef Antoni Poniatowski

Józef Zajączek

Maria Walewska

Władysław Franciszek Jabłonowski

Adam Jerzy Czartoryski

Antoni Amilkar Kosiński

Zofia Czartoryska-Zamoyska

Stanislaw Kurcyusz

Russia:

Alexander I Pavlovich

Alexander Andreevich Durov

Prince Andrei (War and Peace)

Pyotr Bagration

Mikhail Miloradovich

Levin August von Bennigsen

Pavel Stroganov

Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna

Karl Wilhelm von Toll

Dmitri Kuruta

Alexander Alexeevich Tuchkov

Barclay de Tolly

Fyodor Grigorevich Gogel

Ekaterina Pavlovna Bagration

Ippolit Kuragin (War and Peace)

Prussia:

Louise von Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Gebard von Blücher

Carl von Clausewitz

Frederick William III

Gerhard von Scharnhorst

Louis Ferdinand of Prussia

Friederike of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Alexander von Humboldt

Dorothea von Biron

The Netherlands:

Ida St Elme

Wiliam, Prince of Orange

The Papal States:

Pius VII

Portugal:

João Severiano Maciel da Costa

Spain:

Juan Martín Díez

José de Palafox

Inês Bilbatua (Goya's Ghosts)

Haiti:

Alexandre Pétion

Sardinia:

Vittorio Emanuele I

Lombardy:

Alessandro Manzoni

Denmark:

Frederik VI

Sweden:

Gustav IV Adolph

#napoleonic sexyman tournament #new pinned post for now

[theteablogger]

Hi Tea, I’ve been researching Andy a lot lately and was wondering if you had any good sources for his pre-LOTR days (Strwriter/Voagerbabe). I’ve been struggling to find good links and sources for that era.

I love your blog and it has been an incredible source for me, thank you for the work you do.

Thanks, Anon!

Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of good sources out there for Andy's early fandom activity. As far as I know, all of his Sharpe and Horatio Hornblower messages were lost when Yahoo! killed Yahoo! Groups. His old Usenet posts are still floating around, though. If you Google alt.startrek.creative, alt.tv.due-south, or alt.tv.due-south.creative, you can then search the archives for Strwriter or Voyagerbabe. @notreallyhappeningtoday has also shared some highlights: 1998 | 1999 | 2000.

There's also this document, written by someone who knew Andy pretty well in the Star Trek: Voyager fandom. (Note that it refers to Andy by his birth name and with she/her pronouns.) The writer describes her interactions with Andy, his parents, and his sister; the introduction of Voyagerbabe/Ciyerra Tallaver to the Voyager fandom; Voyagerbabe's horrifying (and utterly false) backstory; and the death of an almost-certainly-fake boyfriend.

Here is an archive of Voyagerbabe's old Voyager and Due South website, which later became Victoria Bitter's Lord of the Rings website. Strwriter's website was never archived.

That's all I know of that's still available online. I hope it helps somewhat!

#andythanfiction #thanfiction #andrew blake #andy blake #craftycatdad