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I really like this thing The Terror does where no one ever kisses. At first I thought it was just being neo-Victorian, than it was about the vibes, but now I just think it's because as they said in interviews this show is about love between people and as a result they purposefully choose to only use elements that can be equally used to build romantic, platonic, familial and sexual relationships. If Bridgens and Peglar or Hickey and Gibson or Sophia and Francis kissed, their relationship would stand out, would be marked as special which is why they become worthy of a "bigger" gesture than their other relationships and that's the opposite of the point that The Terror is trying to make. Even Bridgens, who literally dies of a broken heart, is sobbing at James' deathbed that there will be poems. How people express love in The Terror is never differentiated in a way to imply that one kind of love is more important than the others.

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Herman Melville's Moby Dick: or, The Whale. Custom binding designed by Susan Ebanks and bound by Chaim Ebanks of Exeter Bookbinders; white Chieftain Goatskin leather with blind tooling, gilt lettering, and glass prosthetic eye, 2023. [x]

Part of an upcoming exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum, "Draw Me Ishmael: The Book Arts of Moby Dick" opening on June 1, 2024.

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THE TERROR ▸ 1.09 the c, the c, the open c

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"On Gibson’s part I think he might have thought: if we live, perhaps they could’ve picked things back up again. I think that was his motivation for joining the mutiny, kind of full force. But for Hickey, I do sometimes wonder if he ever imagined, like a little shack on the beach in the Sandwich Islands that he and Gibson shared. I think he probably did."

if you even care

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i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

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I am wishing everyone with BPD a full heart, a support network, kindness, patience, understanding. You are not the entirety of your pain, you are allowed to feel as deeply as you feel, you are alive, real, wanted, deserving. No one should tolerate or buy into the stigma, and no one should make you feel like you cannot be who you are due to others using your pain as a shield.

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Silna

Tuunbaq will not obey me

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a few quick studies (quick as in “don’t zoom in thank you”) of shots i like from the terror. this show is gorgeous and the ships in particular

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anyone else destroying and betraying themselves for nothing 🤣

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i don't know much about art but i think my favourite painting is the banjo lesson by henry ossawa tanner

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i maintain that every boat show has a hickey except for black sails where every other character is a hickey and the rest are croziers if they never went through withdrawal. yeah i’m typically pretty normal.

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'Only to hold your hand in mine. Make me forget my tears. Hope on my pathway seems to shine. The sad world appears when in your eye love light I see all the sad world is true telling me that you are to me all that I am to you. NE'

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The sick reality is that many of the renowned academics and writers among Gaza's thousands of martyrs will, in twenty years time, be quoted and memorialised by the same universities and institutions that have denigrated them and enabled their slaughter.

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Being a young adult is so strange. You enter a coffee shop. The 20 year old girl waiting behind you cried all night because she just came to a new city for university and she feels so alone. That 27 year old guy over there works a job he is overqualified for, he lives with his parents and wants to move out but doesn't know what to do about it. That one 24 year old dude already has a car, a house, and a job waiting for him once he graduates thanks to his dad's connections. The 26 year old barista couldn't complete his higher education because he has to work and take care of his family. The 28 year old girl sitting next to you has no friends to go out with so she is texting her mother. That couple (both 25 years old) are married and the girl is pregnant. The 29 year old writing something on her laptop has realized that she chose the wrong major so she is trying to start all over. We are not alone in this, but we are actually so alone. Do you feel me

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I’m going to unlearn shame *bursts into tears and beats my head against a brick wall*

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Jared Harris posted this on his instagram story and it makes me so happy to see that the cast is still as invested in this show as we are 🥹