#flying colours

[itswilliamleonard]

we're all outta green

[ship-to-starboard]

[sanguinarysanguinity]

“Would you like to be moved into the bed?” he [Hornblower] asked, saying the first thing which came into his head. “No thank you, sir,” said Bush. “Two weeks now I’ve slept in the stretcher. I’m comfortable enough, sir, and it’d be painful to move me, even if—if——” Words failed Bush to describe his utter determination not to sleep in the only bed and leave his captain without one.

-- C.S. Forester, Flying Colours

@vastwinterskies, the passage you were referring to, I believe.

[raguleader]

It's kind of interesting to ponder if Mariette would have ended up leading a band of Royalist guerilla fighters during the Hundred Days if she'd survived the events of the show.

[oldwindowsicons]

Flying Colours

[aubreysmaturin]

Wow annotating books is really fun! Especially when it's a favourite book. I'm writing little comments/memes/random !!!!! beside my favourite lines and scenes, it's awesome.

Also adding tabs is so satisfying!!

[theinkedfoxsl]

Someone ask me about how Artisan realized he crossed the one line he promised not to cross in his agreement with Quyen and the guilty conscience and subsequent death that followed because he is so mentally ill and fucked up and probably thankful he died because its easier than heartbreak oh my GOD I am chewing him

[oftincturedwords]

i always get massive feel whenever i read the scene in flying colours when they get the chance to escape & hornblower tells bush about they’re going to escape in the boat & bush just says ‘good luck, sir.’

like i can’t even articulate how much those words impact my heart. here is bush , knowing with his foot gone that he will slow hornblower down in a much needed / desperate escape & he just excepts to be left behind , accepts it as fact automatically. his dedication to hornblower , in ensuring his captain does escape without thought to himself. it’s devotion. logical deduction in fact in light of that.

& hornblower is just ‘you’re coming too.’ & has him & brown pick bush up, stretcher & all to take off towards the boat in the river during a snowy night. like logical & unfeeling hornblower my arse. that’s sentimentality & dedication right back to his first lieutenant that has no base in logic nor practical planning. he cares for bush & doesn’t want him to die, nor suffer.

not sure if i’m even making sense , but just ahh i have feels for these two in rereading flying colours. especially during those scenes.