athenasdragon:

velvet-jellyfish:

In the past two weeks I have watched The Terror, Hornblower, Master and Commander, and started rereading Temeraire. In honor of this hole that I have fallen into, I’ve made a drinking game:

Drink every time:

– There is a long shot of a ship that slowly zooms out

– Someone gets flogged

– Something terribly nautical and fascinating happens (drink twice if you have no idea what part of the ship that word refers to)

– Something homoerotic happens

– Someone drinks grog and/or gets their grog ration cut

– Someone British insists on following tradition when it is impractical, irrational, irrelevant, or outright dangerous 

– Two men have an intensely emotional heart to heart while standing at attention and calling each other “Sir”

– Two men engage scathing insults by standing at attention and calling each other “Sir”

– You realize that serving in the British Navy in the 19th century was actually horrifying and pretty awful

– Someone mentions Nelson

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