#he's writing his own little stories about hornblower! he's making up theories about his family! girl get on ao3! | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

quatregats · 2 months ago

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I did kind of enjoy the first chapter of Parkinson's Hornblower "biography" because it offered some things that I had either been wondering about or which I thought were delightful little headcanons, but I have to say that since then it has just been making me hate Hornblower an unbelievable amount and/or occasionally go he would not fucking say that

#on another note this is very similar to the little stories on hmssurprise.org in that it gives the vibes of #'someone needs to introduce these guys to the concept of fanfiction'#he's writing his own little stories about hornblower! he's making up theories about his family! girl get on ao3!#it is also like reading a fic in that sometimes you're like 'i'm going to steal that' and sometimes you're like 'he would not say that'#he is making hornblower horrifically ambitious and he's somehow doing maria even dirtier than cs forester if that was even possible #so. y'know. he's taking him in the opposite direction he's making him be exactly what cs forester wanted him to be which is perfect #and him being perfect is absolutely godawful when you don't have his personal torment nexus brain monologue going on over it #perhaps this is a light into the brain of the Boat Dad Experience when reading these books. idk #it does present a fun angle of analysis of his character he is a guy consumed by ambition i'll give him that #i'm not buying all these guys saying he'd end up happy that way though sorry #perce rambles #percy yells at cecil scott #+ bonus yelling at my other pal cyril northcote!#i'll perhaps post stuff i found interesting if other people would like. let me know if you'd want to see that though

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