#horatio hornblower by cs forester

[incorrect-hornblower]

My friend @otterfire made a comment about Archie and Horatio being sea-otters holding hands and then I blacked out and made these

Bonus

[macaron-n-cheese]

GOLD

(BUT WHY IS THERE ONLY ONE?!)

[juehs34]

Me: Mmm I’m gonna read this book series surely it’s written in chronological order or at least labelled as to which book is which

Fucking CS Forester: think again bitch

[nixtheclause]

it turns out drawing big smiles can noticeably improve your mood 10/10

[dickensianenglishbulldog]

This lad!

i keep forgetting how funny hornblowers internal dialogue was. like ok diva

[werewolfetone]

I would like for everyone who is unfamiliar with the hornblower books by cs forester about main character captain horatio hornblower to know that he is nicknamed both "horry" and "horny" different times throughout the books like it's nothing and that's a normal thing to say

[brooklynislandgirl]

☕ cozy things tag game

comfort food(s): chicken fried steak and mashed potatoes with cream gravy and pepper, grilled cheese, or mac and cheese especially if the cheese is a little brown and crispy at the edges.

comfort drink(s): coffee with a splash of cream and two splenda packets. cocoa with whipped cream and sprinkled with cinnamon.

comfort movie(s): Starship Troopers, Tombstone, While You Were Sleeping

comfort show(s): Law & Order SVU, The Adventures of Brisco County Jr, Jack of All Trades

comfort clothing: my oversized bathrobe, especially paired with my Longhorns tee-shirt and grey leggings, my sea-turtle slippers.

comfort song(s): Alice's Restaurant and City of New Orleans by Arlo Guthrie, Donald McGillavry by Silly Wizard, literally any piobaireachd. Hunger Strike by Temple of the Dog.

comfort book(s): Night Watch, Maskerade, Reaper Man, {{really all the Discoworld novels}} by Sir Terry Pratchett, The Princess Bride by William Goldman, Mona Lisa Overdrive and Burning Chrome by William Gibson, The Jungle Book and the Just So stories by Rudyard Kipling, The Horatio Hornblower series by CS Forester, The Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell <goes on listing books for a solid two weeks>....

comfort game(s): American Football {{College is better than pro but I have teams in both brackets}}, Dragon Age, Pathfinder, World of Darkness, Texas Hold 'Em....I mean I think we need to define this catagory better.

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Tagged by: my beloved C over @nightmarefuele Tagging: Seven incredibly tired hedgehogs in an inflatable dinosaur suit. Just tag me back.

[musewrangler]

Some of your older ao3 fics seem to focus on a "Horatio Hornblower" fellow. Might I inquire as to who this is?

OHOHO.

You sure can! Horatio Hornblower was the main character in novels by CS Forester about the great Age of Sail. He rises through the ranks of the British navy in the Napoleonic Wars and is a boss, though internally he's always plagued by self doubt. I love the series, and they made a wonderful tv adaptation staring Ioan Gruffud in the early 2000s. I highly recommend it if you like that historic time period. So I did indeed do some work there because I love tall ships and as you know, have allowed Piett to sail in this time period as well. ;D Thanks for the ask!!

[nix-xon]

Yeah, kinda! It'll only take me 20 hours and 55 mins, so like whatever

what if I went on an evil road trip to cs forester's grave this summer. does anyone want to come with me on my evil road trip to cs forester's grave this summer.

[vera-dauriac]

understand the blogger (because @verdiesque said I should)

Emma (1815) by Jane Austen

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Casablanca (1943)

The Brother Karamazov (1880) Fyodor Dostoevsky

Tosca (1900) Puccini

The Marriage of Figaro (1786) Mozart

La Traviata (1853) Verdi

Lord of the Rings (books [1954-1955] and movies [2001-2003]) JRRT

Horatio Hornblower (books [1941-1967] and TV [1998-2003]) CS Forester

The First Law universe (2006-2021) Joe Abercrombie  

The Musketeers (2014-2016 A great show that ran 2 seasons)

The Borgias (2011-2013)

Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009 but only the first two seasons. This limitation says everything about me.)

[mercurygray]

Currently Reading - May 2023

Currently Reading

Spitfire Girls, by Giles Whittell - This is proving to be quite a slog because of the way it's written, which is more like a string of profiles rather than an overview of what these women did.

How to Pray, by Fr. James R. Martin - still working on this one, only because I seem to get very overcome any time I'm reading it.

Currently Watching

The Gilded Age (2020) - Decided I needed to rewatch this. It's still just frothy and fun but I enjoy the name-drops.

Quirke (2013) - crime procedural following a pathologist in 1950s Dublin, staring Gabriel Byrne.

For All Mankind (2018) - Have had this on my watchlist for forever and am just finally getting to it with my Apple TV subscription. I'm not a huge fan of the pacing, and I'd like to get to know the characters a little more, but it's fun so far!

Just Finished

Beat to Quarters, by CS Forester - Someone put Horatio Hornblower back on my radar in January, and finding the first book in the series at the library booksale was a good reason to re-read. I forgot how much Joan Warren (fictional woman with RL famous family) owes to Barbara Wellesley (fictional woman with RL famous family.)

The Good Shepherd, by CS Forester - While I was looking up the Hornblower books, it was brought to my attention that the new Tom Hanks film Greyhound was also based on a Forester novel, which I then of course had to read.

Greyhound (2022) - Another one I finally watched courtesy of new Apple TV subscription. This was an interesting book adaptation - the book itself is very...cerebral, and focused on the intense physicality of being in charge of a convoy in the North Atlantic. I don't feel the movie quite captured the spirit the book embodied.

Firelight (1998) - Watched this purely for the trope factor of 'arranged relationship ends with falling in love'.

Fire and Blood, by George RR Martin - I have to say, this was much easier to read once I'd seen the show in its entirety. I started it just after the show started and couldn't get into it until just now.

Perry Mason (2020) - Season 2 continued to entertain. Other people don't like the pacing and they're probably not wrong but I genuinely enjoyed watching this every week.

[incorrect-hornblower]

Pellew: I told Mr Hornblower he had a moth crawling on the back of his neck and he just said very plainly “Identify It”

[macaron-n-cheese]

Horatio Hornblower every single episode

2/3 way through episode 8 and he's at a new low

[mediamaven]

This year I’m reading the 11-book series about Horatio Hornblower. The books are by CS Forester. Very nautical. This is an education for me. I’m reading these with a small group on Booktube.

[lets-get-ready-to-ramble]

I have started reading horatio hornblower and i adore this poor miserable midshipman. He’s 17, he’s gangly, he’s shy, he gets seasick, he’s good at math, and he cries himself to sleep. He’s my son I love him

[ratuszarsenal]

between the "he exaggerated disparingly to himself," and the "The four elements of Aristotle, Hornblower thought, insanely" and of course wishing he was dead for half the page count, midshipman hornblower is a flawless representation of what it's like to be 17