Horatio and Archie

Page 5 of chapter 22 of my “Hornblower” fanfiction comic “Heroes of the Sea” is out, you can read the story so far on AO3:

Don’t tempt me Henry…. ;-)

Surgical instruments of Naval Surgeon William Beatty, ca. 1800

The wooden box containing instruments including a screw tourniquet, an amputation knife with detachable handles, two trephines and forceps. Inset into the box lid, behind a velvet-covered panel, are more instruments, including a fine-toothed bow saw, a knife, a hook and forceps.

Aurora Borealis, Nova Zembla   -   Louis Apol

Dutch, 1850-1936

It hurts my soul and breaks my heart to have to tell you today that I won’t be doing much more here for a while.

There is a reason for this, because there is someone out there who has made it his business to copy my blog and its content.  And this is no longer just about pictures but also about my written posts.It’s not nice to see someone taking these things and rewriting them and posting them as their own, not only my stuff but also from other blogs. And by the way I get attacked in anonymous messages, insulted and made out to be someone who is just jealous and repost them.

I know a lot of you like my stuff and you are disappointed, and it hurts me to go this way but I can’t go on like this. That means I will put bigger text posts on hold for now, even though many are waiting for the Surgeon (which I have been working on for 1.5 years) and other things. I will still write small things, answer questions and the artefacts and pictures will remain, even if not so many.

Hornblower and the Indefatigable 1794 , by Robert Taylor (1951-)