Horatio Hornblower

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Of His Britannic Majesty's Royal Navy.
At Your Service.
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Sense8 Season One Sentence Starters Feel free to change pronouns/descriptions/etc. appropriately!

  • “So this is how you’ve been hiding from me?”
  • “We are born into this world the same way we will leave it: alone.”
  • “I’m not sure what’ll give me more pleasure: the money, or seeing his face.”
  • “The stuff he’s talking about? It is exactly what you need.”
  • “Say one more word and I’ll colonize your face with my fist.”
  • “I can’t tell you how bad I feel even being here, because I know I shouldn’t even be asking you this, but I have no one else to turn to.”
  • “You’re scared. You needn’t be.”
  • “I don’t owe you for what you did, but you should know: I won’t ever forget it.”
  • “You have no idea what’s going on, right? So you just kind of have to let go and go with it.”
  • “You just look them right in the eye, and you lie.”
  • “This is like some crazy witch burning shit.”
  • “You cannot kill a man like that. If you want to do it right, you aim here, for the jugular.”
  • “You came back. I knew you would.” 
  • “If I wasn’t such a bad person, I would let you get on with your life.” 
  • “It’s not something you make happen; it’s something you let happen.” 
  • “I just spent the last two hours getting my ass reamed by the feds.” 
  • “There are few things that are unpleasant to me than to hear you whine.”
  • “Impossibility is a kiss away from reality.” 
  • “I’m not calling you or anyone else.” 
  • “Sometimes, violence is necessary. Violence changes things.” 
  • “You are safer there than where you were.” 
  • “I didn’t tell you because I didn’t think I’d ever have to revisit this part of my life. I’m sorry.”
  • “If you guys are starting some crime fighting super team Charlie’s Angels shit, you count me in.”
  • “Legality is a bit of a moving target.”  
  • “I know I’m the bad guy.” 
  • “Fuck her in good health.” 
  • “I would never go straight.” 
  • “I’m sensing a bit of a negative vibe here.” 
  • “If you didn’t hear voices at least once, you were doing something wrong.” 
  • “Just promise me no matter what you have to do, you will not let that happen to me.” 
  • “Gods don’t give a shit about us. I speak from experience.”  
  • “Only thing I want to ruin is that smart mouth.” 
  • “Love ain’t nothing but a black hole.” 
  • “If life has taught me anything, it’s that I can take a punch.” 
  • “Not fair? This is the real fucking world. Nothing’s fucking fair.” 
  • “The idea of praying to a god to somehow influence my own fate is both primitive and terribly sad.”
  • “I don’t know what you should do. All I know is what I have to do.” 
  • “I was living in two separate worlds. And then somehow they crashed into one another. Now everything is dead.”
  • “I was afraid that if I came here I would want to die – or worse, that I wouldn’t want to.”
  • “I want to believe that the past is done with us the moment we are done with it.”
  • “What makes us ‘us’ is far less important than what makes them ‘them’.”
  • “Lying is easy. It’s what I do.“ 
  • “I know what you did. You will pay. I swear it!”
  • “I’m an all access kind of girl.”
  • “This is a bad place. You should not be here.”
  • “Some things in our lives are inevitable.”
  • “Crying won’t help him.”
  • “I don’t know how to use my fists, but that doesn’t mean I don’t know how to fight.”
  • “What kind of man betrays his own fucking family?”
  • “When I give instructions, I expect them to be followed.”
  • “You didn’t expect this, did you? Have you made a mistake?”
  • “Are you real?”
  • “You did it. You saved us.”
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Send me "What happened?!" to find out what state your muse found mine in.

Use a Random Number Generator to find out!

  1. Bruised and beaten up
  2. Passed out somewhere
  3. Extremely happy about something
  4. In the ER
  5. Suddenly only 5 inches tall
  6. Running away from someone or something
  7. Bouncing off the walls hyperactive
  8. In their underwear on your muse’s doorstep
  9. Bought way too much stuff at a store
  10. Completely lost
  11. Very late to a meeting
  12. Extremely frustrated with a pair of chopsticks
  13. Showing up after disappearing for a week
  14. With a stray or injured animal
  15. Mun’s choice!
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rpmememaker

meme sentences.

  • “Are you crazy?”
  • “Are you even listening to me?”
  • “Are you even listening to yourself?”
  • “Are you sure they won’t find out?”
  • “Are you sure this is legal?”
  • “Are you sure you know what you’re doing?”
  • “Are you threatening me?”
  • “Be mine.”
  • “Do I know you?”
  • “Do you love me?”
  • “Do you remember this?”
  • “Do you trust me?”
  • “Don’t go.”
  • “Don’t let me die”
  • “Don’t look at me like that.”
  • “Don’t make me beg.”
  • “Don’t you dare come near me!”
  • “Don’t you dare.”
  • “Explain yourself.”
  • “For you, I would _____”
  • “Give it back.”
  • “Give me another chance.”
  • “Have you ever even done this before?”
  • “How drunk are you right now?”
  • “I already regret this.”
  • “I am not wearing that.”
  • “I can’t believe you missed that.”
  • “I can’t do this anymore.”
  • “I can’t even look at you.”
  • “I could kill you!”
  • “I dare you.” or “I dare you to _____.”
  • “I didn’t do it.”“
  • "I didn’t know you could do that.”
  • “I don’t want to look at you right now.”
  • "I guess this is goodbye.”
  • "I hate you.”
  • “I have to go.”
  • “I just want to cuddle.”
  • “I know your secret.”
  • "I love you, but I really wish I didn’t.”
  • "I love you.”
  • “I miss you so very much.”
  • “I missed you.”
  • “I need a drink.”
  • “I need a hug.”
  • “I never really loved you.”
  • “I owe you.”
  • “I think I broke it.”
  • “I think I’m falling in love with you. ”
  • “I think I’m forgetting something.”
  • “I think it’s broken.”
  • "I trust you.”
  • “I want to be yours.”
  • “I want to try this thing I read in a book.”
  • "I want you. Naked. In my bed. Now.”
  • “I’ll be there in five minutes.”

”This is really inappropriate.”
  • "I’m all for spicing thing’s up, but isn’t this a bit much?”
  • "I’m bad for you.”
  • "I’m dying.”
  • “I’m going to be sick.”
  • “I’m not speaking to you anymore.”
  • “I’m pregnant and it’s yours.”
  • “I’ve never heard that one before.”
  • “If you stay quiet, no one will know.”
  • "Is that my shirt?”
  • “It was me”
  • “It’s so beautiful.”
  • "It’s time to choose.”
  • "Just five more minutes.”
  • “Just go.”
  • “Just leave me alone.”
  • “Just let me die.”
  • “Just relax.”
  • “Just what did we do last night?”
  • “Kiss me you idiot.”
  • “Kiss me.”
  • “Make me.”
  • “Marry me?”
  • “My Parents don’t know”
  • “My parents know.”“
  • "Never again.”
  • “Nh, don’t be so rough!”
  • “No, that can’t be my baby.”
  • “No! You can’t die on me now!”
  • “Put it away.”
  • "Put your trousers on!”
  • “Put. The. Weapon. Down.”
  • “Shut up and listen.”
  • “Take responsibility.”
  • “That isn’t mine.”
  • “That looked easier on TV.”
  • “That sounds painful.”
  • “That was a bad plan.”
  • “That’s mine!”
  • "That’s the cheesiest pickup line I’ve ever heard.”
  • “They’re coming.”
  • "This seems familiar.”
  • “This stays between us.”
  • “Truth hurts, don’t it?”
  • “Want to hear a secret?”
  • “We need to talk.”
  • “We’re moving too fast.”
  • "Well that was unexpected.”
  • “What are we doing here?”
  • “What are you afraid of?”
  • “What are you touching?”
  • “What are you?”
  • “What do you need?”
  • “What happened to you?”
  • “What have I done this time?”
  • “What if someone catches us?”
  • "What sort of noise was that?”
  • "What the hell do you think you’re doing?”
  • “What were you thinking?”
  • “Where are my clothes?”
  • “Where did you find this?”
  • “Where do you even find this sort of thing?”
  • "Where were you?”
  • “Who’d have guessed you could pull such a face?”
  • "Why are you wearing that?”
  • “Why yes, I am as think as you drunk I am.”
  • “You could have died!”
  • "You could have killed someone!”
  • “You coward.”
  • “You don’t need to be so gentle.”
  • "You drive me crazy!”
  • “You have ten minutes, so make it quick.”
  • "You lied to me!”
  • “You mean everything to me.”
  • “You owe me.”
  • “You. Come. Snuggle. NOW!”
  • “You’re all out of ____.”
  • “You’re an idiot.”
  • "You’re bad for me.”
  • "You’re dead to me.”
  • “You’re pregnant and It’s mine”
  • “You’re really good at this…”
  • "You’re so weird.”
  • “You’re under arrest.”
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The uniforms of Hornblower, part 3. (x)

Post-Captain (with less than three years seniority). Undress. ca 1787 - 1795.

This uniform included a navy blue coat with bars of gold lace around the button holes, arranged in pairs. It had a dark collar with bars of gold lace and strips of gold lace around the pockets. It was usually worn with a white waist coat and breeches, along with a black cocked hat. Regulations didn’t have much to say about hats, but captains were permitted to wear their cocked hat trimmed with gold lace.

You can tell this is a junior post-captain’s uniform by the way the buttons are arranged in pairs (they were arranged in threes for commanders, and evenly spaced for senior captains).  

(I don’t know why they decided to dress Pellew in a junior post-captain’s uniform. Especially since his full-dress coat seen later appears to be that of a senior captain. The historical Sir Edward Pellew had more than 10 years seniority by the outbreak of the war with revolutionary France in 1793, far too senior to wear this kind of coat.)

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verecunda
Anonymous asked:

I just have to say that I adore your enthusiasm about Nelson and Georgian Age of Sail in general! It's so cool! Thank you for writing this blog! Can you recommend any books, besides the obvious?

*blushes furiously* Ahhh thank you, anon! The Age of Sail is so fascinating, and Nelson is so ridiculously awesome (emphasis on the ridiculous), it’s impossible not to get enthusiastic about it all! :DD

For book recs, well, it really depends what part of the Age of Sail you’re interested in! But here are the ones I’d recommend to everybody.

For general Age of Sail:

  • Nelson’s Navy, by Brian Lavery. The indispensable reference book for most aspects of the navy between 1793-1815. Lavery’s an eminent naval historian who knows his stuff, so it’s worth checking out his whole backlist.
  • The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy, by N.A.M. Rodger, one of the definitive studies of life in the Age of Sail. Rodger also has a two volume Naval History of Britain series. The second volume, The Command of the Ocean, covers the Georgian period.
  • Roy and Lesley Adkins have published several great books on the subject, packed full of info, and very readable. Their Jack Tar is a fabulous book about the lives of the ordinary seamen of Nelson’s navy, very much recommended. There’s also their The War For All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo and Trafalgar: Biography of a Battle.
  • If you want to get technical, Seamanship in the Age of Sail by John Harland is the book. It’s also very rare and expensive - I got my copy for £65, and that was a steal!
  • William James wrote a six-volume Naval History of Great Britain in the 1820s. It’s a stunning work, painstakingly researched, and more accessible than you’d expect. It’s fascinating to dip in and out of - James arranges his history by year, and by type of action: fleet, single-ship duels, boat actions, etc. And you can get it online! :D
  • As a general rule, historians like David Cordingly, Andrew Lambert, Sam Willis, and Tim Clayton are worth checking out, and they write on a variety of naval subjects, from biographies to certain battles/wars/ships. Seaforth Publishing are a division/imprint/whatever of military publishers Pen and Sword, and publish loads of naval history books, so worth checking out.

And because nothing beats a good, old-fashioned memoir, here’s the ones I have:

  • Autobiography of a Seaman, by Thomas Cochrane. I’ve only read bits of this one, but even those were very entertaining! 
  • A Voice from the Main Deck, by Samuel Leech, who was a ship’s boy in both the British and American navies. Fascinating, even if Sam himself is insufferable!
  • The Narrative of William Spavens. The backstory behind this one is quite poignant: Spavens was a Chatham pensioner who was compelled to write his memoirs as a way to make ends meet.
  • The Adventures of John Wetherell. I’ve actually just started reading this one, but so far so good! He hates his captain and writes terrible poetry, what’s not to like? XD
  • A Mariner of England, by William Richardson. The point of view of a pressed man who eventually ended up as a gunner. 

For Nelson:

  • John Sugden has written a recent biography of Nelson in two massive volumes: A Dream of Glory and The Sword of Albion. Phenomenal work, and totally terrifying! I use them as reference books, for dipping in and out of; I haven’t dared try to read them cover to cover yet!
  • The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson, by Roger Knight is a much more manageable size than the Sugden, and full of interest.
  • Nelson: A Personal History, by Christopher Hibbert is just what it sounds like, and full of delightful anecdotes.
  • Basically anything by the late, great Colin White, who was the Nelson expert until he passed away in 2008. I haven’t actually got round to reading his Nelson: The Admiral, but that one in particular seems to be about him as a leader.
  • For Nelson in his own words, the various volumes of The Dispatches and Letters of Lord Nelson can often be picked up quite cheap, there’s Nelson: The New Letters edited by Colin White, and the two volumes of The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton (if you have a Kindle, you can get these for free!).
  • Also, if for some ungodly reason you haven’t already read it, the Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson by my bb Dr. William Beatty, Victory’s surgeon, was, and still is, one of the key eyewitness accounts of Trafalgar and Nelson’s death. And it will make you cry ALL THE TEARS.

Whew! That’s a start, anyway! Hopefully there’s a few less obvious ones in there for you. :D I’m also prone to flail a lot over naval surgeons, women at sea, the War of 1812, Philip Broke, and James Cook, so if you’re interested in any of those things, I have recs for them as well!

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morbidology
The Octavius was discovered West of Greenland on October 11, 1775. Crew members boarded The Octavius and discovered the crew dead and frozen solid. The Captain of the ship was found in his cabin, frozen at his desk with his pen still in his hand. He was found accompanied by a deceased woman and a child covered in a blanket. The ship’s log showed that the ship had been afloat with the frozen crew on-board for over thirteen years.
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