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Ship's Cat Chiclet - the Mascot of the Mary A. Whalen (1938) a retired oil tanker, Brooklyn, New York

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1829, Frederick Myrick, Scrimshawed whale tooth depicting the whaleship Susan

Below the ship, not visible in the images is an inscription reading: "Death to the living long life to the killers / Success to sailors wives & greasy luck to whalers."

Source: Nantucket Historical Association, 1918.0015.001

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Lake Superior , Canada 🇨🇦 / USA 🇺🇸

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going thru my recent notes I found a terf blog in there (thank you shinagami eyes) so even tho this has nothing to do with the blog theme I just wanted to quickly say that this blog is and always has been a safe space for trans people no matter what.

terfs and transphobes do not even bother interacting with this post you will be blocked immediately.

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happy 1 year anniversary to the very first tournament match on this account!!

⛵Boat Media Tournament⛵

Round 1, left side

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✨ Please reblog the polls to make them reach out to as many people as possible, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people listen to the music with an open mind 💖 Artists and titles will be revealed after the poll's conclusion, check the original post for an update! ✨

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as a bonus, here are all the quarterfinalists ranked by how many total votes they accumulated:

2. Aeneas = 4,120

3. Stephen Maturin = 2,770

4. Davos Seaworth = 2,148

5. Edward Little = 2,117

6. Ishmael = 1,661

7. John Silver = 1,315

8. Cpt Teach/Blackbeard = 1,162

and the winner of the saddest, soggiest LOSER bracket is Le Vesconte with 590 total votes (from both tournaments)

🌊Sad Soggy Boat Men Tournament🌊

FINALS

Propaganda and image sources under the cut (warning for possible spoilers):

propaganda for Odysseus:

image from Wikipedia

propaganda for Stephen Maturin:

gif from here

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the long postponed winner's congratulation post!!

we are here today to celebrate tumblr's soggiest boy, odysseus

through the course of the whole tournament, odysseus racked up 10,869 total votes!!

🌊Sad Soggy Boat Men Tournament🌊

FINALS

Propaganda and image sources under the cut (warning for possible spoilers):

propaganda for Odysseus:

image from Wikipedia

propaganda for Stephen Maturin:

gif from here

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exactly the kind of homework you'd expect the mod of the boatmediatourney account to be doing

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Will there be a big celebration post congratulating the winner and commending the ones who fell?

probably not anything too grand - the original plan was just a simple congratulation like in the past, and maybe even a little winner banner like for the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald!

unfortunately i've been so tied down with class work for the past month past week so i just haven't gotten around to it

but it's on the to-do list :)

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Just wanted to check in: you’ve said your a long time Odysseus hater, how are you coping with him taking the saddest, soggiest, boatiest man crown?

hi!! i've been so swamped with homework the past week that i kinda forgot about the whole thing but i'll make sure to send out a thingy about him winning soon!!

while yeah, i'm a bit disappointed bc i think it would've been cool to see someone more "niche" (in comparison to a work as widely known as the odyssey) win the tournament, this is basically the classics website so i was resigned to my fate early on

at the end of the day, it was always going to be a popularity contest, and it also comes down to the way that i put the brackets together and the audiences they reached

while i'm personally not a fan of odysseus (at all) i do have to admit that it's pretty cool that a character from a story that's nearly 3,000 years old can win a popularity contest!!

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5 hours left...

🌊Sad Soggy Boat Men Tournament🌊

FINALS

Propaganda and image sources under the cut (warning for possible spoilers):

propaganda for Odysseus:

image from Wikipedia

propaganda for Stephen Maturin:

gif from here

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1 day left!

🌊Sad Soggy Boat Men Tournament🌊

FINALS

Propaganda and image sources under the cut (warning for possible spoilers):

propaganda for Odysseus:

image from Wikipedia

propaganda for Stephen Maturin:

gif from here