(stephen maturin, who has been weird in front of 3 whole different crews) would that be weird? i don't want to seem weird

Thinking about how in the movie, Master and Commander: Far Side of the World, Stephen is actively preforming surgery on himself, with his rib being physically lifted up, but then he stops for a moment, turns to Jack (who is clearly upset by the sight of his dearest friend performing surgery on his own body) and says "Are you alright?"

Stephen, the man who while in extreme pain is attempting to pull a bullet out of his own body with no modern medicine and only a mirror to see the part of his body he is operating on, PAUSES TO ASK IF JACK IS ALRIGHT!

Post Captain in which Stephen and Jack share a cottage. every single phrase in this chapter is gold

There was never going to be any form of Jewish self defense that the world would deem acceptable, and there was never going to be any act of anti-Jewish terrorism that the world would deem unacceptable.

There is nothing Israel could ever do to defend itself that wouldn’t be accused of going too far, of being “way beyond self defense.” There is no method of Israeli self defense that wouldn’t be maligned as “genocide.”

Inversely, there is no atrocity that could ever be committed against Jews that wouldn’t be denied/excused/justified. There is no level of violence against Jews, however gruesome, however blatant in its goal of genocide and targeting innocents, however many children and babies are burned alive and kidnapped, that wouldn’t be justified as “resistance,” as something that the Jews must have provoked, as the very least that Jews deserve, as something that the terrorists were driven to and couldn’t possibly be expected not to do.

No act of violence against Jews was ever not going to be called “resistance,” and no response from Israel was ever not going to be called a “genocide.”

The only Jewish country in the world was never not going to be maligned as the worst country in the world.

For fuck’s sake, use some critical thinking skills.

He was distracted, your honour.

AAAAAHHHH MY PEOPLE ARE HERE (well one of them anyway)

Beni (B’nai) in Hebrew means “son of” or “children of” so this must be a specific subgroup of Jewish people. Jewish liturgy often refers to Jews as “B’Nai Yisrael” for example.

Jack Aubrey has standing permission to board at any time and I will not object to wrecking (or being wrecked, sometimes even an older gal enjoys a good wrecking)

Jack Aubrey getting wrecked sexual style

'Now one more cup of coffee and I must attend to my calculus, nearly always a difficult subject.'

'So you have suddenly taken to the calculus?' cried Jack. 'How very glad I am - amazed - quite stunned. By just calculus I take it you mean the differential rather than the infinitesimal? If I can be of any help...'

'You are very good, my dear,' said Stephen, putting down his cup and rising, 'but I mean the vesical calculus, no more: what is commonly known as a stone in the bladder, the utmost reach of my mathematics. I must be away.'

'Oh,' said Jack, feeling oddly dashed.

The Commodore by Patrick O'Brian

someone just called the science museum to complain that this eclipse wasn’t as good as the one in 1979.

he wasn’t even a visitor, he was just mad about the eclipse not being visible without special glasses and wanted to complain to me about the eclipse “not being dark enough” for ten solid minutes

jack aubrey

‘Never look so care-worn, brother,’ said Stephen. ‘Sit comfortably on the ground and listen to the noble booming of the sea, how it thunders.’ (The Far Side of the World by Patrick O'Brian)

The amazing art of Geoff Hunt (1948-)

“did you see me”

so i know that paul bettany is really much too tall to play stephen maturin

but the movie did so well in everything else that my mental image of jack and stephen is

a normal sized russell crowe

and a shrinkray'd-to-5'6" paul bettany