#hornblower

[boatcats]

"Every lieutenant could dream... promotion was at least theoretically possible... Lieutenants undoubtedly were promoted on occasion..."

Everyone's favorite situation of Too Many Officers (but also probably Not Enough Officers. Somehow.)

[deckhanddandy]

IMPRESSING MEN FROM THE EIC CONVOY???? HORNBLOWER WHAT ARE YOU DOING

[i4got-myname]

Do you think if I watch Retribution for the millionth time he won’t die?

[butternuggets-blog]

I tripped and my money just fell out of my pocket, I don't know what happened!

[hms-ratfiish]

oh tvtropes accurate as ever

[hms-ratfiish]

h.m.s. atropos - fate & destiny & the snipping of a life's thread - the figurehead painted red and white holding gilded shears - maria & little maria & little horatio beside him when he first sees her - "and then the oars began to swing rhythmically, slowly, like the pendulum of Fate" - destiny favours him; death is his fate - "he would be glad to exchange with them his loneliness, his responsibility, the complexity of his problems; so he felt for a moment before he laughed at himself, knowing perfectly well he would be horrified if some freak of Fate forced such an exchange on him."

[hms-ratfiish]

hornblower: I've got absolutely no support from anyone powerful in the navy :(

pellew:

cornwallis:

collingwood:

[fluffyrockyroad]

“… the earliest known letter in Hornblower’s handwriting, the first anyone bothered to keep. It was sent from the Retribution to Mr Bush”

From The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower by C. Northcote Parkinson, aka the OG Hornblower fanfic.