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i had been watching the terror with my best friend, and we watched the last episode last night. she turned to me and said "wow. that was really good, but i feel dead inside. my chest feels like, empty. i love you, but i don't think i ever want to watch that again."

tell me why the first thing i see when i open my phone this morning is a text from her saying, "rewatching the terror"

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FLEABAG (2016-2019) CONCLAVE (2024)

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“I remember on the first day of shooting being struck by the way he smoked a cigarette. We weren’t sure how much he was going to smoke yet, but I had made some comment early on – because he doesn’t smoke and is very healthy – where I said, ‘Just make sure you don’t smoke it like a high-school girl.’ He must have taken that as a challenge because by the first day of filming he was smoking a cigarette like it was a joint.” - Cary Fukunaga, True Detective director and producer (x)

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just read this interview with Nive Nielsen where she says that she’s “pretty sure what was meant is “tuurngaq” [not Tuunbaq] and I say it like that in the TV show” and I want to talk about this for a second. because in the interrogation scene in ep5, the way Crozier and Blanky pronounce the name of the creature is so clearly different to how Silna pronounces it and she even corrects them after they say it wrong. but neither of them listen to her and continue to pronounce it as “Tuunbaq”. it’s the continuation of the colonial tradition of gradually destroying Indigenous languages but it’s done in such a subtle and seemingly harmless way that most people wouldn’t really bat an eyelid at it. I mean, what harm can two people pronouncing one word wrong do? but that is exactly how the eradication of indigenous languages began. with ignorant Europeans finding a similar pronunciation that is easier for them to say

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A very detailed report on the wrecks of Erebus and Terror from Parks Canada, including drawings of the wrecks and the items found. It's a huge document, can't wait to properly read it. READ IT HERE.

[Figure 5.2.1: Terror and Erebus, Plan of Upper Deck (as Fitted) overlaid with the upper deck site plan (Image: B. Lockhart, Parks Canada; Drawing: C. Pillar, Parks Canada; 89M2017-101-1; Ship plan: National Maritime Museum Greenwich, London (ZAZ 5675, J1409))]

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My beloveds, some more sketches of the main cast

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The equivalent of Antarctic research stations but in fantasy worlds like for example there’s an evil terrible region of rotting and nightmares but like nine miles from the edge there’s a very ugly little building optimistically called Observation Center 1 and it’s full of normal humans just vibing. for like 90% of the year they can’t leave because that’s Death Fog Season but it balances out because they can study the ghost migrations and also hear the whalesong-like calls of The Unspeakable Ones asking you to come outside for a game of checkers but thankfully the checkers set is kept locked up to slow down anyone that gets tempted

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Vorja Sánchez (Spanish, based Barcelona, Spain) - Interventions series, Photography, Photo Drawings

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you can go outside and hit things with a stick. it’s spring you can do anything

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DAY #21 — MAY 14, 2025

WALMS WEDNESDAY

today’s walms is…..tuckered out ouppy (suggested & submitted by @drizzit)

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SELECTED PUBLIC DOMAIN HORROR & GOTHIC FICTION ONLINE IN ENGLISH

Short Stories

Benson, E. F. | sentimentality, spiritualism, satire

The Room in the Tower (1912)

Visible and Invisible (1923)

Spook Stories (1928)

More Spook Stories (1934)

"How Fear Departed the Long Gallery"

Hodgson, William Hope | occult detective, electric pentacle, fav

Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder (1913)

Ingulphus (AKA Arthur Gray) | Jesus College, Cambridge

Tedious Brief Tales of Granta and Gramarye (1919)

James, M. R. | scholarly, unsettling

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904)

More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1911) - this has "Mr Humphreys and His Inheritance," which is one of my favorite ghost stories I've ever read, please read it if you like labyrinths

A Thin Ghost and Others (1919)

A Warning to the Curious (1925)

Lee, Vernon (AKA Violet Paget) | tormented artists, Italy, fav

Hauntings (1890)

Swain, E. G. | sweet and mild, East Anglia, i would go on a date with you mr. batchel

The Stoneground Ghost Tales (1912)

Novels

Maturin, C. R. | dissolute traded his soul for 150 extra years of life and wanders tempting the desperate to take over his bargain

Melmoth the Wanderer - Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, ebook version (1820)

Radcliffe, Ann | best to ever do it, no supernatural explanation

A Sicilian Romance, ebook version (1790) -- good intro novel

The Romance of the Forest (1791)

The Mysteries of Udolpho, ebook version (1794)

The Italian (1797) -- the one with Father Schedoni

Reynolds, George W. M. | penny dreadfuls, I just started reading, female villain

Wagner the Werewolf (1846-1847)

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why can't i be that?

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'The Tempest'. Michele Tedesco. 1888.

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Lance Henriksen (and friend) at Alien 3’s premiere, May 19th 1992

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if not friend why friend sha—

never mind

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by Alexey Suloev

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Still can't believe travis martinez does drugs so he can be a lesbian and also his younger brother. Win for travnation