#arctic’s death

[a-squirrel-in-the-world]

Arctic’s Death

TW: SPOILERS FOR WINGS OF FIRE DARKSTALKER, EXTREME GORE, FORCED SUICIDE

[some-pers0n]

At this point I no longer want to talk with people who go on about how WoF needs to be more gorey and gruesome I'm straight up going to strangle them through the screen

[jackbaphomet]

@naffeclipse CryptidHunter meeting Polar, am i right?

Yes, the ningen is a real cryptid and i love it 🤍

Cryptid! Eclipse design by @themeeplord

Orca! Eclipse design by me

[antiqueanimals]

Wild Animals of Yesterday & To-Day. Written by Frank Finn. Illustrated by Cuthbert Edmund Swan. 1913.

Internet Archive

[subtle-as-an-earthquake]

like a little wet kitten :')

[knackerdconverse]

OMDS LAST SHOW OF AMERICAN LEGGG IM GONNA CRY WHEN THEY GET TO DUBLIN

[nevermore-ramblings]

I finally drew him! @scrollwyrm

Perhaps there’s more of this style to come?

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

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[arabella-in-riot-van]

AH FUCK YEAH ALEXANDER DAVID FUCKING TURNER

[buzzkillchainsaw]

Uncensored version of this and more under the cut!

Albatross // Gill // Arctic

[clove-pinks]

Franklinheads, what is your top pet peeve when it comes to perceptions of the [historical] Franklin Expedition?

Mine is 100% the "most advanced technology of their day" concept of HMS Erebus and Terror. I think the origins of this are in the 1980s, when Owen Beattie's ice mummy exhumations propelled the Franklin Expedition into the spotlight. JUST LIKE THE SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER!—this was the pat comparison of the day. You could definitely draw some parallels if you tried hard enough, but no, I don't think the Space Shuttle Challenger is a very good analogy.

There was pretty much nothing unique or particularly new about the technology in Franklin's ships—not the tinned food, not the desalinator, not the heating system, and definitely not the puny steam engines—and Franklin's men knew this! They were aware that Erebus and Terror were beat-up old warships, one of the ships fought in the War of 1812 before most crew members were born! Fitzjames called them "old tubs," and Le Vesconte jokingly compared them to 17th and 18th century fictional vessels (Red Rover and Water-Witch).

Steam frigates with hundreds of horsepower were built even in the 1830s! But they couldn't carry fuel lasting for years; whereas Franklin's men had ~13 days of coal for their 20-horsepower engines, which at most might get them out of a harbour in unfavourable winds. As a child I read books that made such a big deal about the steam engines, I really thought they would be under steam all the time, crashing through the ice with their Advanced Technology just like the space shuttle.

If anything, the Franklin Expedition is part of a tradition of the British using obsolete ships and technology for polar exploration. Compare Terra Nova with the latest technology of the 1910s: she looks like the relic of an earlier age that she was.

[subtle-as-an-earthquake]

When the heat starts growing horns...❤️‍🔥

[dragnoodles-noodles]

New Wings of Fire pmv time! Darkstalker Legends is my favorite book I can't help it haha ;w;

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[scrollwyrm]

Arctic! TW: MAJOR BLOOD.

[depressedraisin]

ok but. what if. a miles kane and the death ramps comeback. what then.