#peter franklin

[awesometothe3rd]

[burningfudge]

Spider-Man/Human Torch (2005) #5

[sirwillby]

johnny and peter go to build a bear and make each other as bears

johnny's is wearing a spider-man costume and has a little camera

peter's is bright orange with a flame design and a fantastic four suit

[the-spideytorch-fanboy]

Johnny: So… would you like to stay for dinner?

Franklin: Would you like to stay forever?

[skygemspeaks]

divorced spideytorch announcing they're getting remarried (on the same day they decide to get back together) by sending a selfie of them in suits to all the relevant group chats with the message "x courthouse. 2pm sharp. First two people to arrive get first dibs on the best man position".

Franklin is on a date when he gets the message but he drops everything to dash to the courthouse. He arrives, panting and wheezing, before peter and johnny even get there. He calls dibs on being Peter's best man (johnny is very offended)

Wyatt and MJ arrive at the same time, and argue over who gets to be Johnny's best man. MJ wins.

With such short notice, there are maybe 15 people that make it to the courthouse in time.

Sue is pissed because she and Reed were out of town that day and couldn't make it. She decides to host a proper reception for them the next month at the baxter building, so that all the people who missed the wedding can come celebrate with them

(They were only divorced for four months.)

[giddyaunt425]

ANOTHER

[cada4us]

i guess i didn’t post this 😞

[tyger-land]

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙄𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 1961

[dailaz]

1- Spider-man/Fantastic Four(2010) #4

2-Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man(2019) #12

[anarchyspider]

Still thinking about this. He's such a hilarious hater. Tell em, Franklin.

Can't NOT be a hater for five minutes actually like alright sure you can't stand him. Your lips have touched

[creepynostalgy]

The Innocents (1961)

[good-night-space-kid]

Geology and The Terror

As a geologist who is incapable of turning off their geology brain even while watching shows for fun, one of the things that baffles me a bit about The Terror is why they continuously refer to the landscape as shale when both King William Island and the filming location in Pag, Croatia are dominated by limestone. Given the desolation of the landscape, the geology is rather at the forefront of many scenes so it was fun to try and parse it out as I watched.

King William Island, Nunavut, Canada

According to the official map of the bedrock of the region as published by the Canadian government (Harrison et al., 2015), the entirety of King William Island is mapped as dolostone, dolomitic limestone, and limestone with only minor components of shale, sandstone, conglomerate, and breccia. This is a shelf marine deposit dating back to the Late Cambrian, so this is very old sedimentary rock but younger than most of the surrounding hard rock that composes various parts of the Canadian shield. Notably, the pink units mapped on the Boothia Peninsula are Paleoproterozoic in age (2.5-1.6 billion years old), potentially up to 2 billion years older than the limestones of King William Island.

(This is an absolutely massive .pdf file with some scaled features so I would recommend viewing via the official publication to actually read anything or see fine details: publications.gc.ca/pub?id=9.557274&sl=0)

Notably, this map was published in 2015, 8 years after the novel was written. However, according to the bibliography for the map (which can be accessed via the previous link) a preliminary geologic map has existed for the area since at least 1967, though I was unable to track this publication down online. The novel was clearly thoroughly researched and Dan Simmons could have easily accessed this publication and others through multiple institutions.

The surficial geology of King William Island has also been mapped, and is predominantly glacial, as one would expect given it's location. For those unfamiliar with glacial geology processes, this is basically saying that the bedrock is buried under a bunch of glacial deposits. Glacial till is composed of rocks and sediments plucked from the bedrock and ground up. This is why the surface of the island is not one big rock, but a bunch of smaller pieces. Interestingly, the material on the southern part of the island is sandier because it contains more material derived from the Canadian Shield further south. If you're interested in glacial geology, I highly recommend zooming around a bit on Google Earth because the features here are GORGEOUS.

(This map is absolutely massive and the lines scale with zoom so it's hard to see at this resolution, access it here: publications.gc.ca/pub?id=9.834073&sl=0)

(Google Earth Pro, satellite imagery from 2020)

According to the surface geology map and Google Earth, the actual landscape of King William Island is much more water logged than it appears in the show. It's not entirely impossible that there has been some geomorphological change since 1848, but most of the features mapped would have been formed during the last ice age and as the glaciers melted and not more recently. This would have been handy for the men of the Franklin Expedition because each of these pools is filled with freshwater.

Pag, Croatia

Tracking down a geologic map of Croatia was somewhat challenging as I don't speak Croatian. I was able to find a map of the whole country, and while it's all in Croatian the symbol for the geologic time periods is universal so time periods can be correlated. This shows that the units that make up Pag are Cretaceous and Paleocene-Eocene in age.

(Map accessed here: https://www.hgi-cgs.hr/en/geoloska-karta-republike-hrvatske-1300-000/)

I was able to find a .pdf (access here: http://kig.kartografija.hr/index.php/kig/article/view/158/274) that had a bit more information on the map above but at a lower resolution. This states that the Cretaceous units are dominantly carbonates from the Adriatic sea and the Eocene units are also carbonates. This makes sense as both the Cretaceous and Paleocene-Eocene boundary/PETM are times of increased global temperature correlated with increases in global sea level.

As always, the best geology website out there, Macrostrat, also came through on the unit lithologies. I was unable to access the source listed on Macrostrat, but both the Cretaceous (green) and Paleocene-Eocene units (orange) are listed as limestone.

(Source: https://macrostrat.org/map/#x=16&y=23&z=2)

One of the best views that we get of the geology on Pag is the last scene with Bridgens in episode 9. During the zoom out of this scene we get a really nice view of the bedrock and debris covering it.

Given all of this, I'm really not sure where the landscape description as shale came from. If there is historical precedence for calling the rocks on the island shale, let me know! I have read a few books but none of the primary sources from the expeditions to this region, so if it comes from that I wouldn't be surprised.

Overall though, I have to say that the filming location was well chosen given the similarities it holds to the geology of King William Island.

[burningfudge]

Fantastic Four #512

[sirwillby]

they are so special to me :(

[the-spideytorch-fanboy]

Johnny and Peter are trying to babysit Franklin while Reed and Sue are out for a weekend getaway.

On the first day, it's fine. They have fun. They eat too much sugar, they have pancakes for dinner and breakfast, and they play games. They also put Franklin down to bed at 12:00 AM.

Then, on day two, they have to deal with a sleep deprived, sugar fueled, mutant 5½ year old who can bend reality at will.

[wwprice1]

Stunning Alan Davis Fantastic Four covers!