nothing is sure in a sea fight above all.

incendiarywit:

Bush: I know what happens when metal overheats. My uncle was a blacksmith. 

Hornblower: I believe they call it the coefficient of expansion.

Bush: I call it bloody dangerous.

Hornblower: I’m glad you find some amusement in the situation— because of my elementary mistake. 

Bush: Come, gentlemen. No time for soul-searching. The furnace awaits.

Hornblower pounding his left hand with his right fist as he upbraided himself was a comic sight; Bush could not help but laughing at him. And Bush knew perfectly well that Hornblower had done excellently so far, really excellently, to have mastered at a moment’s notice so much of the technique of using red-hot shot. […] Yet it made the sight of Hornblower’s present discomfiture all the more amusing at the moment. 

Aww sulky Hornblower

aaa i messed up the font damnnit

twohandedengine:

william bush and horatio hornblower // navy blue

for pel

tatzelwyrm:

♥

missing the best part of that scene though, which is Pellew’s stunned what the hell just happened? face.

fixed that. ;)

(Source: fuckyeahioangruffudd)

sully-s:

I’m playing Portal 2 tonight so all I have to show is this sketch I did at work of Horatio and Archie as kids. 

askanavalofficer:

Well my lovelies, I have to get offline soon because my Nana is staying with us for 4 days and she is sleeping in the family room where my computer is. So I bid you adieu until tomorrow.

the-efaf:

#Hotspur Husbands is one of the few ships I can get behind (gods, the puns), and rereading Lieutenant Hornblower really reminds me of that. I’ve never been able to get on the Sherlock/Watson ship, it just never made sense to me, but these two… Bush spends far too much time talking about Hornblower in ways that are a bit more than just friendly, and Hornblower when he’s lonely starts waxing a bit too poetic about missing Bush.

Personal canon here? Bush is (probably) forever unrequited (hey I like a little ambiguity). Hornblower’s just too obtuse about this stuff to realize what’s going on, even in his own head. Besides, he did fall in love with Lady Wellesley that one time…as much as Hornblower ever seems to recognize that sort of thing.

And that’s my yearly update on OTPs!

sully-s:

There’s a battle about who’s better over at askanaval officer so I thought I do the ghetto version. 

P.s. I have no clue who Aubrey is. I’ve never watched Master and Commander or read the books so I’m pretty sure he’s not that much taller than Horatio (who’s pretty tall in the books 6 something.) I just like the idea of Jack being a big strong burly man and Horatio smaller twig.

askanavalofficer:

*awkwardly spectates the fandom*

sully-s:

What happen to Hoartio!? and more importantly Bush’s pony tail!? lol. TBC… for high res

sully-s:

I was playing around with a quick skin coloring before bed. I hardly get to do more paintery styles these days. There are so many things wrong with it but I think for 45 mins I did good :)

lastbeerbender:

“I hope that one day, Hornblower, you will fight for more than England.”

“What is there more than England?”

10 screencaps - Hornblower: Duty (2003)

sully-s:

I was watching Retribution. I liked that pairing when it was originally my OTP but he’s not in the books. Plus I like the idea of Bush pineing for Horatio much more than than him and Archie now a days. And I mean come on Archie with a little more time could of snagged Horatio. 

textsfromageofsail:

Submitted by captainviolet.

bravolittlegavroche:

Horatio and Archie

speep:

marathoning the hornblower movies today & drawing lots of tiny midshipmen

(note to self; learn to draw guns.)