lonely winter skies

Hi. I like boat lads and lasses. Sometimes I draw them.

[vastwinterskies]

gonna start saying "On s'engage, et alors on voit" before any mundane but annoying task now

[vastwinterskies]

ok let me know the most unhinged fic you wished I would write

[weshouldtotallyjuststbcaesar]

Wellington and Nelson meeting for the first time will never NOT be funny to me 😭

[vastwinterskies]

the more I learn about Joachim Murat the more I am like pheww they didn't have tiktok back then. dude would have been on live all day. mewing on horseback

[laterkiss]

worry about it kitten daddy fucked up

[pussyronin-deactivated20260120]

if i were in charge of star wars i would end the last movie witth yoda reading the story out of a big book and he gives a little chuckle and says "happened, none of that did." and then he gets out of his truck and waddles into walmart

[vastwinterskies]

Stephen Maturin Imagine Dragons Radioactive AMV. on "I'm breathing in the chemicals" he snorts a massive line of straightup gunpowder

[vastwinterskies]

I feel like there comes an age where every time you wake up you go to the fear & hunger coin flip screen

[boatcats]

Hornblower: I guess I should eat dinner. I don't have any cabin stores, by the way. Besides these two lobsters I stole.

Doughty:

[butchvarric]

let's give it up for emotionally constipated women. let's give it up for women who can't think about being vulnerable without throwing up in their mouth a little. let's give it up for women who don't have the words to say what they feel even if they wanted to

[peppermoths]

does anyone want to see a really good picture of my kitty cat

[peppermoths]

[cheddar-baby]

not a cat, first off

[cheddar-baby]

snale

[fluffyrockyroad]

[Bookbind] Hornblower Short Tales of the Sea

Hornblower Short Tales of the Sea

A series of short stories by C.S. Forester:

The Hand of Destiny

Hornblower and the Widow McCool

Hornblower's Charitable Offering

Hornblower and His Majesty

The Last Encounter

Size: A6. 24,543 words. 127 pages. Printed on Munken 90gsm bookwove

Font: Dante 10 + Times New Roman 9.5 for Italics. Typeset by me.

I wanted to read the three Hornblower short stories that are no longer in print. So I made a book. As you would. The stories were arranged in chronological order. Widow McCool and The Last Encounter were threw in to bulk out the book.

The title came from the blurb on the back of the Hornblower books, which always starts with "A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea". I guess it makes these his "Short Tales of the Sea".

Forester allegedly discouraged the republishing of these three short stories. Having read them I understand why. To quote Sean Gilder (who played Styles in the TV series):

"Hornblower, by comparison, is just a series of well-described events"

Sean was comparing Hornblower to Joseph Conrad, which I have not read. But as a Hornblower fan who loves Hornblower for how diabolical he (and the writing) is, it did make me chuckle. The earlier short stories are the pinnacle of "a series of well-described events", that are out of place in the later canon. Though it is interested to see the parallel between The Hand of Destiny and Lieutenant Hornblower.

This is the second time I bound this text. The first attempt was an A5 copy set in Dante 13, which I wasn’t too happy with.

Big book, little book. The big book has too much hinge gap, the little book has just too little. One day I will get it right.

If anyone is looking for a fic rec, The Bare Word (Hornblower/Barry McCool, Explicit) is the perfect companion piece for Hornblower and the Widow McCool, also known as Hornblower's Temptation (this is canon I did not make this up).

[captainaubreysbicorne]

hello jack aubrey enjoyers

[nat-20s]

out of curiosity, how many books have you read this year

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1-5

6-10

11-15

16-20

21-25

26-30

31-35

36-40

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45-50

over 50

Voting ended onJun 5

[penny-anna]

they should have made another search engine called Ask Wooster where it gives you the wrong answer every time

[bunniesandbeheadings]

Who would win?

Darth Vader

Napoleon Bonaparte controlling an army of a billion lions

Voting ended onJun 9

Napoleon controls the lions the way a pokemon trainer controls pokemon. It’s not esp, but they will obey commands like “claw” or “get in line”

Darth Vader and Napoleon + the lion army are magnetically pulled to fight one another. There is no hiding.

[bunniesandbeheadings]

Okay, let’s make it a little more reasonable

Who would win?

Darth Vader

Napoleon Bonaparte controlling an army of 200 lions

Voting ended onJun 9

[bunniesandbeheadings]

From this poll, Darth Vader can beat over 200 lions but less than a billion

That’s a pretty wide

wide variable

[vastwinterskies]

Important question!! do yall have music recs for... well I'll call them "galloping songs". you know. the kind where the music INEVITABLY makes you imagine a horse or sth else going AT FULL SPEED?