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are any British users also getting obnoxiously large co-op ads?? my thumbs can’t avoid them 😭

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what if I was normal about any of the media I consume. what if

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Do you wanna play mermaids? Yay. Okay so my tail is light blue and I have ice powers. And I live in the Arctic sea and watch British sailors die horrible deaths while trying to find the Northwest Passage.

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I watched Conclave… I get why Tumblr has taken those men of the cloth into their bosom

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Goodsir's bedside manner really deterioated throughout the series

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apologies to absolutely everyone, but I’m 16 years old again and twenty one pilots are taking over my life

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this is a serious scene but the matching wigs make me laugh. nothing to see here just two queens staring at each other

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Watching Terror with a friend… ‘Hickey is starting to piss me off’

GIRL you have no IDEA

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19 May 1845: Franklin Expedition leaves England

Sir John Franklin's Arctic Expedition in HMS Erebus & Terror sailed out from Greenhithe on Monday 19 May 1845. And as we all know, they sadly never returned.

[Illustrated London News, 24 May 1845. My collection]

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it's beautiful! / this place... is beautiful to me, even now.

i may be late, but still – Goodsir as this "draw the character like this" thing!

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why isnt joplittle called steward little is everyone braindead

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I wonder if Fitzjames liked William Turner's paintings. I like to think he did.

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listen i don't think edward little was actually a bad first lieutenant. when we see him in the first episode he's calm and confident. he does not say much but he's amiable enough. crozier likes him, and i don't think crozier would like anyone he doesn't think capable in some way. generally he's dependable and knows what he's doing. however unfortunately for edward he has these qualities because he has a major case of eldest daughter syndrome, which means he both wants to please his mum (crozier) and has an overdeveloped sense of responsibility for his younger siblings (crew), so when they get stuck in the ice and crozier starts going (more) alcoholic, he enables his mum bc he doesn't want to disappoint her even if he doesn't agree with her, and he has to pick up the tasks and care for his siblings she's not doing, but he can't let his siblings know about their mum's situation because they'll get worried and restless. and like a true eldest daughter he has to bear the brunt of mummy's anger for being a disappointment but he also doesn't want to seek refuge with the man she divorced (fitzjames) because that feels like a betrayal. also while this is going on there is a giant bear who hunts his siblings for sport so they're dying left and right and also a changeling master manipulator who's making his siblings mad at their mum and who wants to fuck said mum before eating her like some sort of praying mantis. anyway i think i would start being miserable and anxious too.

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'have you considered-' i guarantee you i have. that's part of the problem. i've put myself under the microscope and examined myself like a bug. too many legs.

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i think possibly the chiefest point of horror in my first viewing of the terror, which still gets me every time, is Irving encountering the Netsilik family.

it’s a great, gutwrenching scene. Irving doesn’t intend any violence to them. he’s earnest, and they’re earnest in return—Koveyook feeds him, and you know it won’t save him, he’s asking too impossibly much of them when he mentions the rest of the crew, but it’s good in what it intends. on both sides, even.

and you know watching, from the outset, that somehow Irving is going to kill these people. somehow, in short order, this officer of the largest empire in world history is going to blow all their lives up. just by showing up, he’s condemned them to something; just by being aware of them, he’s taking from them. blast radius of imperialism.

and it’s so terrible, because they fed him and he gave them the only pretty and sentimental offering he had on him and ultimately, Irving won’t ever even know he got them killed, though they will have died thinking he meant to do it.

and even so: it doesn’t matter that he didn’t mean it. because they didn’t know him!! and they fed him! and they were murdered for it. take and take and take and take. fuck

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The top of Sir John Barrow's Monument in Ulverston. Love how they put John & James Ross together.🥲 Only the latter donated to the construction of the monument.

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The Visual Dictionary of Ships & Sailing