#I am no expert!

[saints-who-never-existed]

Who do you think was the Gladman Point skeleton? I’ve seen most sources place it as a toss up between Armitage and Gibson since I believe both of them had sailed with Peglar before and The Terror went with Bridgens, though I don’t believe the real life Bridgens was ever considered an option, but which of the them would you think is more likely?

I honestly don't know mate, I really don't!

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Out of those two, my gut says Armitage.

He and Peglar, as you mention, knew one another having sailed together on HMS Gannet and to me, it seems more likely that they could have become and remained friends in some capacity, especially given that they seem to have been relatively close in age. Gibson also sailed with Peglar and did so more recently than Armitage but somehow I just have a harder time picturing Peglar becoming fast, firm friends with a man something like 10+ years his junior?

On other points Armitage and Gibson are on fairly level pegging (or Peglar-ing, as the case may be). Mentioned in the Papers, for example, are two locations that Peglar visited alongside one man but not the other - Venezuela with only Armitage, and the South Atlantic with only Gibson.

Armitage edges ahead by virtue of "All my art, Tom" but Gibson may well hold his own by the fact that he was literate whereas Armitage was still signing papers with an X as of 1845.

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But then that brings me on to my final point: that, unless I'm really out of pocket and missing something glaringly obvious, there are certain assumptions that seem to often be made on this subject that I'm intrigued by and think are always worth interrogating further.

I've seen people confuse and conflate the Gladman Point skeleton with the second writer of the Peglar Papers themselves, for instance, and argue as a result that the skeleton could not be Armitage due to his illiteracy. That assumption - that the man who wrote the papers alongside Peglar is the same man that carried them on his person - doesn't sit entirely right with me...

There's also the matter of the scraps of clothing and other personal effects found with the skeleton - the cloth-covered buttons and neckerchief, comb and clothes brush all pointing to a Steward. I find it really interesting though that so much store has been placed in those artefacts and in the idea that Peglar would never ever have worn/possessed such things. Is it not possible that rather than, say, Armitage, taking Peglar's papers and carrying them forward, it could have been Peglar instead making use of his lost friend's clothing and carrying some of his stewardly paraphernalia as a keepsake?

It's a wild sort of thought to put out there, I realise, but those dudes travelled 3000 miles into the unknown and ended up fuckin' eating each other - who are we to suddenly place limits on what they would or wouldn't do?

[hinamie]

unconditionally

[the-woman-upstairs]

Cressida going from calling Eloise a “radical ruffian” to listening to her rants about women’s rights oh we are so back.

[inkskinned]

the thing is there's like, a point of oversaturation for everything, and it's why so many things get dropped after a few minutes. and we act like millennials or gen z kids "have short attention spans" but... that's not quite it. it's more like - we did like it. you just ruined it.

capitalism sees product A having moderate success, and then everything has to come out with their "own version" of product A (which is often exactly the same). and they dump extreme amounts of money and environmental waste into each horrible simulacrum they trot out each season.

now it's not just tiktokkers making videos; it's that instagram and even fucking tumblr both think you want live feeds and video-first programming. and it helps them, because videos are easier to sneak native ads into. the books coming out all have to have 78 buzzwords in them for SEO, or otherwise they don't get published. they are making a live-action remake of moana. i haven't googled it, but there's probably another marvel or starwars something coming out, no matter when you're reading this post.

and we are like "hi, this clone of project A completely misses the point of the original. it is soulless and colorless and miserable." and the company nods and says "yes totally. here is a different clone, but special." and we look at clone 2 and we say "nope, this one is still flat and bad, y'all" and they're like "no, totally, we hear you," and then they make another clone but this time it's, like, a joyless prequel. and by the time they've successfully rolled out "clone 89", the market is incredibly oversaturated, and the consumer is blamed because the company isn't turning a profit.

and like - take even something digital like the tumblr "live streaming" function i just mentioned. that has to take up server space and some amount of carbon footprint; just so this brokenass blue hellsite can roll out a feature that literally none of its userbase actually wants. the thing that's the kicker here: even something that doesn't have a physical production plant still impacts the environment.

and it all just feels like it's rolling out of control because like, you watch companies pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into a remake of a remake of something nobody wants anymore and you're like, not able to afford eggs anymore. and you tell the company that really what you want is a good story about survival and they say "okay so you mean a YA white protagonist has some kind of 'spicy' love triangle" and you're like - hey man i think you're misunderstanding the point of storytelling but they've already printed 76 versions of "city of blood and magic" and "queen of diamond rule" and spent literally millions of dollars on the movie "Candy Crush Killer: Coming to Eat You".

it's like being stuck in a room with a clown that keeps telling the same joke over and over but it's worse every time. and that would be fine but he keeps fucking charging you 6.99. and you keep being like "no, i know it made me laugh the first time, but that's because it was different and new" and the clown is just aggressively sitting there saying "well! plenty of people like my jokes! the reason you're bored of this is because maybe there's something wrong with you!"

[wombywoo]

retro 🪖

[evenlyevi]

👁️ Fortune 👁️

[tampire]

Yuna finishes off Seymour and his minions by learning the Ga spells a bit too early

[tizeline]

More propaganda for the @tmntaucompetition !!

Cuz y'know, there's a theme to the competition, so I thought I should actually make art for that. For anyone who doesn't know, this year's theme is different 1900s decades for the main competition, but for the prelimenary rounds it was anything before the 1920s soooo I put the Drax Bros in outfits inspired by historical Japanese clothing, look at 'em go-

[tiercel]

Giant blue worm (Megascolex coeruleus?)

Photographed by Abhishek Jamalabad

[yuudamari]

Notes on swords

[ritavonbees]

listen, it is important, for those who can, to confront antisemitism wherever you find it, including in leftist spaces, AND you need to think before you speak.

when something trips your antisemitism sensor, you could be looking at:

a committed believer in an anti-Jewish ideology like Nazism

a grifter who may or may not believe that shit but is saying it on purpose to attract people who do

a troll who believes in nothing and is just Saying Trigger Words To Upset Someone

an approximately regular person who has casually absorbed some cultural stereotypes and not yet questioned them

someone expressing genuine grief and rage about a recent atrocity using clumsy word choices that may not reflect an underlying anti-Jewish ideology

someone talking about a specific thing that you associate with Jews in general but they only associate with Israel (rightly or wrongly)

and probably more options I haven't thought of!

each of these requires a different approach. for the latter half, a sudden escalation will probably do more harm than good (and while Jews are not obliged to educate people about our own oppression we should probably let someone else handle it if we're seriously triggered and unable to approach constructively).

everybody wants to punch a Nazi, but that's just not the kind of situation most of us are going to be confronted with. we're going to see messy, contextual shit because we live in a messy, contextual society. we need to maintain a level of self-awareness that allows us to do the best we can with what we've got. thanks for listening

[saints-who-never-existed]

Ok, maybe this is a really stupid question, but why the hell did Tuunbaq consume souls? What does it do with them? Digest them? Tasty snack nomnomnom? Why not just kill those pesky sailors? I have an understanding of what Tuunbaq represents, but why the soul sucking? Sorry, I still have whiplash from that show…

Anyway, thank you for enlightening me in advance! <3

Not a stupid question at all!

I'm going to give an answer based more on personal knowledge and opinion rather than cold hard fact - apologies in advance if that's not what you're looking for. Rest assured though that this is something I intend to chase up further sources on and think/write a great deal more about in future. :)

For all you couldn't strictly define it as cannibalism, when I think of the Tuunbaq and its consumption of souls, I think of what I know about various cultures throughout the world that have practiced cannibalism historically, and I think about the reasons why they did so.

Often, it was a reverential and sacred practice, enacted in a very focused and particular way. In many cases, specific body parts were eaten with the intention that one would gain characteristics associated with the deceased - eating a man's heart to gain his courage, eating a person's eyes to gain insight or their brain to absorb in some way their wisdom.

I think that's part of why Tuunbaq eats souls. The men are invaders within the landscape who are alien in every conceivable way so it make sense to me that Tuunbaq could gain knowledge of/insight into/power over them by absorbing their souls - the very essence of who they truly are.

But I also see Tuunbaq's consumption of souls as something potentially more akin to exocannibalism - eating one's enemies as an open expression of hostility, the ultimate indignity, the most extreme act of domination. And make no mistake, Franklin's men are enemies.

They've invaded and desecrated the land, killed Silna's father, caused Tuunbaq to go "off" in the first place. It makes sense to me that an enemy of that magnitude would warrant the extra horror and indignity of their soul being consumed as well as their body.

[24601orwhatever]

MIN WOO-HYUK AS VALJEAN

you're standing in your grave 📷: 23-24 trailer

[ominouspuff]

Son of Dathomir

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My sister, looking upon the first Maul of my career, quoth “he look lika chicken”

[hater-era]

what if elle woods was a 29 year old man who is a sad alcoholic and crushed on a guy so much that he joined a revolution he did not believe in for said guy only to be disillusioned that said guy does not love back him at all

Im procrastinating on law school (😮‍💨)to draw a fictional man in scenarios inspired by a woman going through law school i have excellent priorities y'all. anyways:

- in this thing enjolras is somehow both emmett and warner.

-I forgot how to draw enjo’s hair in the barriere du maine one so he has long hair now. Let’s pretend he grew out his hair at some point before cutting it all off as some kind of symbol idk

-COURFEYRAC 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

-'(he)looked at Enjolras with indescribable gentleness' okay loser (affectionate)

songs referenced:

what you want

chip on my shoulder

rant in tags!

[zaycheese]

The Mechanisms from someone who has never listened to The Mechanisms

There's an album where it's all the brothers Grimm fairy tales but now it's futuristic space fantasy and war crimes

gay space pirates

There is a sentient ship

The sentient ship and it's engineer are in a gay wlw relationship

Things keep going into the sun apperantly

Some dude forgets trans people exist, this causes problems

There's a character named like, tinker toyman or something

Everyone dies all the time

In Ulysses dies at dawn, Ulysses dies at dawn

If you have a mythology, congrats its mechanisms now

Everything is a mechanisms reference, you're gay? Mechanisms refrence

More gay people

The ship goes into the sun, everyone dies this may happen more than once I don't know

The Ship x Engineer Yuri gets broken up tragically

Seriously forgetting trans people exist causes more problems then you'd think