#mallory and mount

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Hi Pia.

I'm curious; do you think Mallory and Mount is going to be as 'epic' or as complex as Fae tales Verse?

And do you mind sharing some of it's worldbuilding with us?

Hi anon!

Mallory & Mount will have more complex building than the Fae Tales Verse, because it's not set on earth at all. It has different names for the days of the week, the months of the year, and its currency system is different, for a start. It has different festivals per different culture. It has new species of dog, and tree, and bird, for example (though some are recognisably based on dogs and trees and birds we have here).

It won't be as epic in some ways however because the characters aren't fae, so their stories can't stretch across decades in the same way. They can't heal from the same bombastic ridiculous injuries. They can't go and literally die and then literally come back from the dead because a Mage sacrificed some of her lifespan to save someone. In fact many of the characters have chronic illnesses and disabilities.

And it won't be as long, I don't think. The length of Fae Tales is now daunting to many new readers. So I don't really want to write a series that long again.

It will definitely be epic in other ways though! There are definitely life and death stakes, a lot of dangers, and big potentially morality destroying decisions on the line.

There's a metric fuckton of worldbuilding that has gone into the Mallory & Mount world, enough that I have a 150+ page private Wiki about it complete with hyperlinks. I'm going to share one file lol:

Blaubaas: Horse

A heavy drafthorse originating in Skemmerlicht and also found in Donwall, who often trade blaubass for the Whytefern draft. Blaubass means 'blue boss.'

They are blue-to-black drafthorses with a heavy winter coat, suited for mountaineering, difficult journeys and sled-pulling. They are slow but determined and weather dock-work well, and do not stain as badly as the Whytefern draft. Frugal and economical on food, and survives well on horsebread.

Function: Crate and stock pulling, carriages, heavy transport, mountain passes, cold weather journeys.

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I know it's not that interesting, anon, but I really don't want to reveal any spoilers yet, and I'm worried I will. You can always check out the mandm tag for more about the world itself.

[playitagin]

Found George Mallory

1999 – The body of British climber George Mallory is found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924.

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Who was The First person to reach the Mount Everest summit

Who was The First person to reach the Mount Everest summit

By Ahmet Abdulaziz…. On 29th May 1953, Edmond Hillary and Tenzing Norgay stood on the top of Mount Everest. That was the first evidence of someone reaching the top of the world, 8,849.86 meters above sea level. Sixty nine years have passed, and every year on this date , people the world over remember Hillary and Norgay, to attain this distinction. But at the same time, many enthusiasts open the…

[magiccath]

The Sniffles

tenth doctor x reader (ambiguous relationship)

Summary: In which you hide being sick from the Doctor

You stumbled into the TARDIS control room, very obviously sick, even if you refused to admit it. Companions didn’t get sick. Plus, you were still functional. Mostly. 

“I was thinking we could travel back in time today,” the Doctor said in his usually cheery voice, moving about the console with boundless energy, “Maybe Victorian England? Or the moon launch! Definitely the moon launch,” he grinned, turning to you for approval. 

You nodded and the Doctor didn’t need much more confirmation than that. He ran around the control room, piloting the ship in a chaotic manner. 

“It’s even more brilliant up close, I promise,” he rambled on, still running about the ship. “One of the greatest feats of humankind if you ask me.” 

You sniffled as quietly as possible, rubbing your nose on the back of your sleeve. The Doctor didn’t pay any mind to you, still rambling on about the moon. You wished your nose wasn’t so stuffy, you wished that you weren’t exhausted and sick.

“Very characteristic of you lot to see a rock in the sky and decide to venture to it. It’s like that guy who climbed Mount Everest, what was his name?” he frowned, momentarily pausing his chaotic movements. 

“George Mallory?” you ventured. The Doctor snapped loudly in your direction, a big grin plastered on his face. 

“That one! He wanted to climb Everest because-” 

“Because it’s there,” you said simultaneously, though in a significantly more congested voice than the Doctor. He referenced it a lot, usually as an example of humanity's stupidity. If the Doctor noticed your parroting, he didn’t show it. 

“That essentially sums up how humans feel about the moon. Great big, strange rock in the sky, you better go claim it.” 

You nodded along, your focus slowly slipping as he continued to talk. You were already so exhausted and you hadn’t even done much yet. Your head felt heavier than a bowling ball and your sinuses were clogged up beyond belief. At this point, you just wanted to crawl back into bed and never leave again. 

Sensing that you had stopped paying attention, the Doctor halted his emphatic rambling.“What’s wrong?” he asked, moving over to you and crossing his arms while frowning slightly. Usually you at least feigned interest in his ramblings.

“Nothing,” you lied, though it wasn’t very convincing. You didn’t have the energy to lie to the Doctor right now.

His frown deepened as he leaned closer to you, examining you like some alien gadget he couldn’t figure out. 

Without warning he reached his hand out, resting the back of his hand against your forehead. Mostly out of instinct, you pulled away from him with a frown. “Hey!” you snapped, swatting his hand away. 

“You’re burning up!” he retorted, his voice cross. 

“It’s warm in here.” 

“No, it’s not. You’re always complaining about it being cold,” he pointed out, challenging you to deny it. Unfortunately, he was entirely right. He kept the TARDIS much colder than you would prefer. You just stayed silent since you didn’t have anything to retaliate with. Unfortunately for your argument, your silence was punctuated with a sniffle followed by a suppressed cough.

“Come on, back to bed,” the Doctor sighed, tilting his head in the direction of your room. 

“I’m fine!” you argued again, which would have been much more convincing if it wasn’t accompanied by a series of sneezes. 

“Are you sure about that?” the Doctor huffed, looking at you condescendingly. 

“It’s just a little cold.” you sniffled slightly, fighting the urge to sneeze again. 

“Mhm, even if it is ‘just a little cold’ you need to get some rest,” he chastised, guiding you out of the control room. 

“I’m perfectly fine,” you repeated but didn’t protest as he guided you back to your room. 

“Sure you are,” the Doctor rolled his eyes behind your back. Stubborn as ever. 

He guided you through your door and into your bedroom, pulling back the covers for you and gesturing for you to get in bed.

“I’m going to go grab you medicine, if you move I’m going to be very upset,” he emphasized, tucking the blankets around you. You sniffled again and nodded your understanding. Frankly, you were too tired to keep fighting him on this. Maybe a little nap wouldn’t be a bad thing.

The Doctor left the room to grab some medicine and a warm cup of tea and honey. When he returned, you were still bundled up in the blankets, sniffling quietly. 

He handed you the medicine and a glass of water, watching as you took it. When you were done, he swapped the glass of water for the tea. 

“It will help you feel better, I promise,” he urged, wrapping your hands around the warm mug. The steam wafting from the cup was so enticing he didn’t have to ask you twice. You drank the tea happily, the warm liquid heating your body and clearing your sinuses and throat a bit. When you were done, the Doctor took the cup back from you. 

“Why would you hide something like this from me?” he said, his eyebrows knit together. He was genuinely concerned about you, and he would be lying if he said it didn’t hurt him a bit that you hadn’t felt safe enough to let him know you were sick. 

“I didn’t want to be a burden,” you whispered, frowning slightly. 

“You’re not a burden,” he responded, shaking his head without hesitation. 

“What about the moon landing?” 

“It will still be there when you are feeling better.” 

“And you?” 

“I’ll also be here,” he smiled warmly, rubbing the back of your hand with his thumb comfortingly. All of time and space could wait, right now all that mattered to him was getting his favorite companion feeling better. 

“Now, get some rest. Please,” he whispered, tucking the blankets around you again, ensuring you were safely bundled up in bed. When he was done, he gently kissed your forehead before getting up to leave. 

“Doctor?”

“Hm?” He hummed, his hand hovering over your door handle. 

“Will you stay with me?” you whispered. A grin took over the Doctor’s face. He slipped his shoes off quickly before practically leaping into your bed. He was always game for a good cuddle.

“I don’t wanna get you sick,” you argued as he snuggled in next to you, opening his arms as an invitation.

“Superior Time Lord immune system,” he shrugged, beckoning you into his arms. You obliged, wrapping your arms around his slender middle.

“Not everything Time Lord is superior,” you grumbled, burning your face in his chest. In response, he wrapped his arms tighter around you. “Except maybe the cuddles,” you murmured, nuzzling slightly against his chest. Blimey, he was a good cuddler. He chuckled and placed another gentle kiss on your head.

You sniffled again and sneezed against him before quickly apologizing. At this point, you were bound to get him sick too.

“Don’t worry about it,” he cooed, brushing his thumb against your cheek comfortingly. “It’s gonna take more than the sniffles to get rid of me,” he reassured. Getting sick from you was the least of his worries right now.

“Now, get some rest,” he whispered into your hair, resting his face on the top of your head. You didn’t protest this time, you were way too comfortable. Happy and safe in his arms you found yourself quickly drifting off to sleep. 

The Doctor was soon to follow, exhausted from all of your travels, though he would never admit it.

[give-grian-rights]

being so absorbed in obscure and weird history and happenings that i forget this isn't common knowledge. talking to my mom about the man who is speculated to have potentially been the TRUE first person on Mount Everest, George Mallory, and i just casually go "obviously you know that bodies on Mount Everest don't decay," and she just goes "..no, i don't, back up?"

[thetruthwilloutsworld]

The Scotsman interview 10 September 2023

Outlander star Sam Heghan has revealed he is ready for the "next challenge" when he finishes working on the hit show - and suggested it may involve scaling Mount Everest.

Writing in a new version of his first memoir, Waypoints, the Scottish stage and screen star revealed he has been pitching the idea of a TV documentary which would see him follow in the footsteps of the British explorer and mountaineer George Mallory.

He made three expeditions up the world's highest mountain in the 1920s but disappeared during the third along with climbing partner Andrew Irvine in 1924. Although Mallory's body was eventually found 75 years later, the mystery of whether he reached the summit has never been resolved.

Heughan was previously due to star alongside Ewan McGregor in a feature film recalling the race to conquer Everest in the 1920s, however, the project which was due to start filming last year never got off the ground.

Heughan started working on Outlander 10 years ago and seven series of the show have been made to date. An eighth and final series has been commissioned, although filming has been delayed to the writers' strike which has crippled Hollywood.

Heughan has already starred in Men in Kilts, an American documentary series following the actor and his Outlander co-star Graham McTavish around Scotland. A second series was made in New Zealand.

Waypoints, which followed Heughan as he walked the West Highland Way, was described as a "journey of self-discovery" as the actor, who was brought up in Dumfries and Galloway and Edinburgh, recalled the pivotal points in his life.

In a new final chapter of Waypoints, the 43-year-old actor revealed how completing his book had felt "like the end of the first chapter of his life and the beginning of a second."

He writes: "I'm nearing the end of my time on Outlander-eight seasons and ten years' of shooting - and the show has really shaped who I am.

"It has given me great opportunities and valuable experience that I can build on moving forward"

"I'm excited for the future. but it feels vitally important to acknowledge where I've come from"

"I would be where I am today with my past successes and (multiple!) failures"

"As a young man, I dreamed of working in the acting industry and being well-respected. It's certainly a dream come true and now I'm ready for the next challenge"

"A dream of mine has been to see the highest mountain in the world"

"I wrote in Waypoints about the Everest movie project that fell through and was disappointed I never made it to Nepal"

"However, more recently, I have been pitching a TV show that follows that dream (and the footsteps of George Mallory) from the UK to the Himalayan plateau and the slopes of Everest"

"Perhaps, If I'm lucky enough and dream hard enough I may yet find myself on the slopes of 'Chomolungma,' the earth's highest mountain"

"However, this time I'll be better prepared and ensure I'm not walking alone (and carrying plenty of snacks!)."

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The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest Film

The film The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest, Distributed by: National Geographic Society is a thrilling documentary that explores George Mallory’s attempt to climb Mount Everest in 1924. Mallory and his climbing partner, Andrew Irvine, were last seen 800 feet from the summit of Everest in 1924, and in 1999 American mountaineer Conrad Anker discovered his body frozen on the mountain. Did Mallory make it to the summit?

This is the official history of the 1924 expedition, it is considered an exceptional account of the 1924 tragedy; also of the discovery of Mallory's body in 1999 and the historic "re-enactment" of the climb in 2007, where the famous "second step" was climbed freely as Mallory would have done, had he and Irvine made the "summit" in 1924. There is a surprising amount of detail, skillfully told in a way that maintains the reader's interest. The mystery of whether Mallory and Irvine were the first to reach the summit of Everest remains, but we now know more intimately the trials and tribulations they endured in their effort to do so. In an era of technological advances, the rise from the North remains formidable. The film, the soundtrack and this book already exist.

Mallory had promised his beloved wife Ruth to leave a picture of her at the top of the mountain. No picture of her was found in Mallory’s very much intact remains. Does that mean he left the picture at the summit, and therefore made it to the highest peak in the world decades before Edmund Hillary officially climbed Everest?

Conrad Anker, in modern climbing gear, ascends a nearly vertical rock formation on Mount Everest during the filming of The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest. PHOTOGRAPH BY JIMMY CHIN

The film The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest, is a mix of historical documentary and modern-day climbing adventure. It is a love story intertwined with Mallory’s insatiable passion that haunted him to achieve his “Wildest Dream” to climb Mount Everest. It parallels Mallory’s fears and desires with that of modern-day climber Conrad Anker.

Modern climbers Conrad Anker and Leo Houlding dress in attire and use gear that Mallory and Irvine would have used in their 1924 climb of Mount Everest. Courtesy National Geographic Film

Conrad Anker, with the help of National Geographic Entertainment, decided to find out if Mallory could have indeed reached the summit in 1924. It seems very appropriate that the man who discovered Mallory’s body was the one who would return to Everest and find out. Using hobnailed boots, and recreated gabardine apparel, Anker simulates some of the climbing conditions Mallory would have faced. Using modern gear, but no fixed ladder, Anker and his climbing partner attempt the “Second Step”, the famous last section of Everest that Mallory would have had to free-climb to reach the summit.

Modern climbers in vintage climbing gear of the 1920s

An additional element of intrigue is that the film was narrated by Liam Neeson and his late wife Natasha Richardson. Richardson recorded the part of Mallory’s wife, Ruth. Just before the actress Richardson passed away in a fatal ski accident in March 2010, she was reading the part of Ruth Mallory, who had to tell her children about their father’s death. Film director Anthony Geffen said that she teared up and said she just couldn’t imagine telling her children such news. Just a few weeks later Liam Neeson had to do exactly that!

The film is based on the biography of George Mallory: The Wildest Dream. Chronicles all three of Mallory's Everest expeditions. Illuminates how Mallory reconciled his ambitions on Everest with his unquestioned love for his wife and family.

@kiaora45 It was my pleasure 💙

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"Goodnight and great love to you. We see the same stars."

—George Mallory in a letter to his wife during his 1921 expedition up Mount Everest

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The Disappearance of Mountaineer George Mallory

November 02, 2023

George Mallory was born in Cheshire on June 18, 1886, and from a young age he was interested in climbing. When he was only 7 years old, Mallory climbed the roof of his father's church.

In 1904, an experienced mountaineer named Robert Lock Graham Irving took Mallory on as a climbing companion after the death of his original partner. Both Mallory and his friend, Harry went with Irving for a trip to the Alps.

In February 1909, Mallory was invited to Wales for a climbing trip at Easter. After this, Mallory was given an application form for membership into the Climber's Club, joining in May 1909.

On July 29, 1914, Mallory married a woman named Christiana Ruth Turner, just 6 days before Britain entered World War I. The pair ended up having three children together, two daughters and a son.

Though Mallory had an extensive education and worked as a school master, he did have to enlist in the army and served throughout World War I, eventually ranking up to lieutenant in 1917.

By January 1919, Mallory returned to his teaching position which was at Charterhouse, though he was not fully happy being a teacher. He wanted to get back into mountaineering. In January 1921, the Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club established the Mount Everest Committee to finance an expedition.

Mallory was contacted by the committee asking if he would be interested in this expedition, the crew planned to do a trip later in 1921 to figure out the best route to reach the summit, and then in 1922 they were going to go again, this time actually reaching the top.

Mallory at first was not sure if he wanted to go -- it would mean that he would have to be away from his wife Ruth, and children for a chunk of time and he was sceptical the group would be able to accomplish this.

Eventually Mallory and his wife were convinced it would be the opportunity of a lifetime, and in February 1921, Mallory accepted the invitation formerly, though it was noted he showed no emotion and was definitely not excited for the trip. It was in February 1921 that Mallory resigned from his teaching position.

Leading up to this point, Mallory had quite a bit of experience having done various climbs and reaching summits. He completed several expeditions in the Alps, since his first climb in 1904. Specifically in the Alps, both Mallory and his friend Harry suffered from altitude sickness.

On August 18, 1921, Mallory and 3 others left their camp at around 20,000 ft. They discovered a gateway to the mountain, and after figuring out the most viable way to reach the summit, on September 23, 1921, a group of climbers left camp to descend into the East Rongbuk Glacier, to pitch camp. The frostbite and winds were extreme however, and eventually on September 25, 1921, Mallory called off the expedition.

It was the groups goal to be the first to reach Mount Everest's summit. On May 20, 1922, Mallory and his group began this goal. After two failed attempts to reach the summit, in June 1922, the group tried a third.

At one point during their ascent, an avalanche began on an ice cliff above, sweeping over the group. Mallory and three others were able to dig themselves out of the snow, unharmed, but saw a group of 4 porters had fell 150 ft below them. The avalanche had caused another 9 porters to be swept into a crevasse.

A search and rescue effort was started, and 8 out of the 9 porters were found. Unfortunately only 2 of them had survived. This was the end of the third attempt to the summit.

Mallory's next attempt at reaching Mount Everest's summit wouldn't be until June 1, 1924.

By June 8, 1924, Mallory and Andrew Irvine, would begin their attempt to reach the summit at 8 am. This morning, another climber, John Noel, perched himself at Eagle's Nest Point, with a camera so he could film Mallory and Irvine. The flimer also had 2 porters with him, however no one could see Mallory or Irvine.

By 10am, still having not seen any sight of the two mountaineers, the cloud and mist had completely obscured the view of the summit ridge.

The last person to see Mallory and Irvine alive was Noel Odell, a support climber, just after 12:50 pm. He saw them from a distance, two black spots moving, before the clouds obstructed his view. Mallory and Irvine were never seen alive again.

On June 9, 1924, Odell and another inspected the Camps, looking for Mallory and Irvine to no avail. It was impossible for the two mountaineers to have returned to camp, as everything they had left there was as it was — having not been touched. After days of searching and finding nothing, the expedition was over and on June 15, 1924, the surviving members returned home. 

On June 19, 1924, Ruth and Mallory’s children received a telegram stating that Mallory and Irvine had died. On October 17, 1924, a memorial service was held. 

On May 30, 1933, almost 11 years after Mallory and Irvine had disappeared, an ice axe had been discovered at an elevation of 27,723 ft, by the leader of the expedition, Percy Wyn-Harris. At first, Wyn-Harris and his climbing partner, Lawrence Wager left the ice axe where they had found it, but after their own failed attempt at reaching the summit, on the way down Wyn-Harris decided to take the ice axe, leaving his own in it’s place. 

The ice axe was eventually determined to either be Mallory’s or Irvine’s, though it is unsure which mountaineer’s it was. After Odell inspected it, he noticed there was 3 marks on it, which Irvine used to mark his equipment. Ruth stated that she had never known Mallory to mark any of his stuff that way, so most likely the ice axe was Irvine’s, however, some of the expedition members from the 1933 expedition believed the axe belonged to Mallory because it had Swiss manufacturers. 

In 1962, Irvine’s brother found a military swagger stick, which belonged to Irvine and it had the same 3 identification marks on it. 

In 1937, a man named Frank Smyth wrote a letter, and in the letter he stated that during the 1936 British Mount Everest expedition, he scanned the North Face of Everest with a powerful telescope and saw a body, believing it to be Mallory or Irvine. This sighting was unknown until 2013, when Smythe’s son revealed it in a book, after finding his father’s letter in a diary. 

The 1999 Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition began, with the goal to find evidence of the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition and find information about whether or not Mallory and Irvine reached the summit. 

On May 1, 1999, around 10 am, members of the expedition reached 26,900 ft, where they were going to set up camp. Setting off, it was 11:45 am when a member found a corpse laying at 26,760 ft. The body was partially frozen, but well preserved to the cold condition, fully extended and had both arms outstretched with the head pointed uphill. 

The right leg was broken, with the left leg crossed over it, suggesting the mountaineer must of been still conscious. The rear of the body was exposed, the wind having blown away some of the clothing. The exposed skin was white, but the hands and forearms appeared dark. Most of the internal organs had been consumed by alpine choughs, a specific type of bird. The birds had pecked away leaving damage to the right leg, buttocks and abdominal cavity. 

Tied to the waist was braided cotton climbing rope, the right foot had an intact green leather hobnailed boot, but the left boot only had the tongue remaining on it. Many had suspected that Irvine had fallen in 1924, and this body was his.

When looking at the layers of clothing and removing them, there was a label on the shirt with red print, “G. Mallory.” The body of George Mallory had finally been discovered, almost exactly 75 years later. 

Mallory’s body had several injuries — his tibia and fibula of his right leg were broken, his right scapula was deformed, his right elbow had been fractured or dislocated. He had multiple cuts, bruises and abrasions, his ribs had been fractured. It was without a doubt that Mallory had fallen. The climbing rope that had been looped around Mallory’s waist had crushed his ribs and burned his skin. It was also determined that when this happened, Mallory and Irvine were roped to each other. The exact circumstances are unknown, no one will ever know what caused the accident or made them fall. 

A few weeks later, an oxygen cylinder was found at an altitude of 27,789 ft to 27,805 ft. The cylinder’s stamp no. 9 confirmed that it was from the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition and was used by Mallory and Irvine. 

Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, the first mountaineers to have reached the summit of Mount Everest, welcomed the news of the discovery of Mallory’s body, and acknowledged that Mallory might have reached the summit of Mount Everest decades earlier. 

There are many theories about what led to Mallory and Irvine’s deaths in 1924. Research in 2010 suggested that an extreme storm may have led to their deaths. The research provided stated that when Mallory and Irvine attempted the summit on June 8, 1924, there was a drop in barometric pressure and temperature. Believing this could have resulted in a blizzard, however, Odell described the morning of June 8, 1924 as clear and not extremely cold, but turned into a severe blizzard by 2pm which lasted until 4pm. 

While it is unknown what exactly happened, many researchers believe the weather was way more extreme than previously believed, and this could have contributed to the deaths of both Mallory and Irvine. 

On November 14, 1944, Mallory’s younger brother, Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, an Air Chief Marshal, crashed into the French Alps, everyone on board was killed. Mallory’s daughter, Frances Clare, married a man named Glenn Allan Millikan who was killed in a climbing accident on May 25, 1947 at Buzzard’s Roose in Fall Creek Falls State Park. 

Frances’ sons, Mallory’s grandchildren, Richard and George Millikan became climbers and were very well respected in the 1960’s and 70’s. On May 14, 1995, George Mallory, Mallory’s grandson reached the summit of Everest, leaving a photo of his grandparents on the summit, ending “unfinished business” for his grandfather. 

In early 1923, Mallory was asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest, his answer: “Because it’s there.” 

[southern-fried-simpin]

Edward Nygma x Reader who knows a lot of weird facts

A/N: Mainly about death and other oddly specific things 🤙🏼🤙🏼

Tw: mention of sex, mention of Mount Everest, mention of dead body, nsfw a tiny bit, but also fluffy



He is already intrigued by you when you first meet

But when you come up to him at work one day, just absolutely giddy, and tell him about a cool new fact you learned he’s just absolutely enamored with you 😍

“Ed, Ed! Did you know that there’s two different graves for Jesse James?!”

“I…did not…why does one man have two graves, exactly?”

“There’s two different men who claimed to have been Jesse James, one is buried in Texas while the other is in Missouri! There’s still debate as to which one is the real Jesse James to this day!”

Well, damn he’s hit the jackpot!

You’re not only cute, you’re also intelligent and he finds that very hot 🥵

It’s become a daily ritual for both of you to share your own niche specific knowledge with each other when you see each other first thing in the morning: him a riddle and you, an odd fact

Just like how he probably uses riddles to flirt with you, you have most definitely dropped hints to him through little bits of trivia that you like him

Some, however, are not entirely clean, and are therefore shared only between the two of you when you have a moment alone

“Eddie, I have the best Friday the 13th fact for today, do you want to hear it?”

“Absolutely! What is it?”

You lean in relatively close, and whisper to him: “According to research, the timed duration that is desired by most people when having sex is between 7 to 13 minutes.”

And just like that, he is a now a very bright shade of pink (and he rocks it, I might add)

Trivia night at a bar is a fun little date night activity you both enjoy frequently

He doesn’t even care about any of the prizes, he just loves it when you get so excited about sharing your little tidbits of knowledge 🥺

Speaking of which, even if you tell him something he already knows, he’s going to act very surprised because he loves you so much

There was a man that went missing in 1924 found on Mount Everest in 1999?! That’s so cool, y/n! He already knew about the case of George Mallory but he doesn’t even care you’re too cute for him to spoil your fun!

You guys are a nerdy power couple and at the end of the day, he’s incredibly happy he found you.

[not-poignant]

Omg Vexteria's design!!😳😳😳 He looks SO amazing! The aesthetic/mood of that pair kind of reminds me of Iason and Riki from Ai no Kusabi xD Ah but all the couples look fantastic, it's so nice to see Gary as well! And Mount's shit-eating smile! I'm very excited about the future couples^^

Ohhhhh, I didn't think of that, but yeah I can totally see the Ai no Kusabi aesthetic! Tbh there's some similarities, but then also some pretty big differences too. I do love some of the yaoi tropes though :D

I was so happy to get Silvia drawing Gary, that honestly made me thrilled, she did such an amazing job of everyone. When I saw Lewis Mount for the first time I about screamed, I have a bunch of sketches of him in different poses behind the scenes, and maybe Silvia will let me share them one day. He's wonderful :D

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EAST HAVEN'S 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY EVENT: THE WIND STORM

With the 1 year anniversary of East Haven's opening, we have decided to have an event that centers around a wind storm that is blowing it's way through town, inciting chaos where ever it goes. The event will start on January 5th at 12pm (noon) and end on January 15th at 12am (midnight). No new starters should be posted after January 10th.

You were placed into groups that are listed below. You will be expected to write with at least one character in that group that you normally do not write with. You are still free to do other threads with others in the group, but are required to at least one.

Participation for this event will be mandatory. Acceptances and checks will be held as usual. Reminder: Injuries need to be in by January 3rd*. You can find the form here. Details of this will be posted on the 5th.

Characters and locations are listed under the cut and will be updated with acceptances & unfollows. Please use the tag easthavenevent007.

East Haven Memorial - Maple Hills

Stevie Wagner - Kayla Johnny Wagner - K Sunny Hussan - Jennie River Jackson - Star Sarah Ruiz - El Gale Peterson - Nadine Callum Jackson - Madison Alec Kincade - Justin Aubrey Miller - Lital Wesley Levitt - K

City Hall - Downtown

Nate Clairmont - Kayla Brody Evans - Jackie Aarin Duskin - K Chantel Bedford - Katelyn Ann-Marie Seigert - Jennie Maggie Sommers - Kayla Mallory Sinclair - K Verity Wagner - Mat Max Diax - Star Isabella Castro - JimJam Andrew Jackson - Nadine

Willow Springs Apartments - Downtown

Ashi Hussan - Kayla Emre Ediz - K Orion Blakely - Justin Jude Sanchez-Khalid - Star Amerie Chen - Mat Dana Allen-Lopez - K Apollo Williams - Desi Riley Day - Marie Celine Ediz - Gigi Beyza Senkan - Kayla

Heywood University - Downtown

Liliana Santos-Blake - Nadine Cami Quintana-Lopez - Marie Cristian Hernandez - Dix Asher Spring - Kae Wyatt Wheeler - K Prue Cassidy - Kayla Marcus Reyes - K Alex Fontenelle - Madison Frederick Sullivan - Star Genevieve Hernandez - Beki

Fire Department - Downtown

Connor Bowen - K Penelope Ruiz - Nadine Benjamin Jackson - Justin Harlow Hanlon - S Eddie Castro - Kayla Ari Seong-Paterson - Katelyn Keely Seigert - Desi Brady Levitt - Jennie Roman Rhodes - G Javier Rivera - Dix Renee Thompson - K

Mount Aston Lodge - Mount Aston

Josiah Huddington - Katelyn Neena Wagner - Gigi Dilara Baysal - K Malik Farouk - Jackie Travis Jackson - Kayla Samuel Bradford - S Cameron Hatcher - Dix Mason Paterson - K Josh Pryce - Nadine Diego Castro - Star

Gas n Go - Sutherland Park

Shane Marshall - Jay Alice Cheung - K Bridget Levitt - Kayla James Morrison - Sam Quentin Levitt - Nadine Hunter Renner - Star Bee Bowen - El Estella Harris - Lital Julieta Alvarez - K Alliannah Vaughn - Katelyn

Animal House Shelter - Maple Hills

Evren Osman - Katelyn Morgan Fontenelle - K Alaric Farrow - S Lance Browne - Justin Roberta Rhodes - Kayla Gavin Gunther - Jackie Chanse Ainsworth - Kae Chloe Austin - Madison Mateo Torres - K Isla Ricci - Mat

South Pines - Primrose Heights

Abraham Wilson - K Julian Heywood - Nadine Luciana Medina - Kayla Owen Bentley - Star Ricky Thompson - Jennie Luna Morales - Lital Simon Heywood - Marie Matt Wheeler - Kayla Valentina Delgado - K Rohan Belton-Stone - Justin

Old Maple Way - Maple Hills

Dean Walker - Dix Nicole Peterson - Kayla Haven Sinclair - Katelyn Oliver Hensley - JimJam Aster Moon - G Hazal Senkan - K Kanyon Webb - Jackie Aindreis Blythe - Marie Yasmin Ansari - K Sydney Heywood - Gigi Demir Ediz - Lisa

Tequila Cowboy - Sutherland Park

Donovan Morgan - Star Marcel Vaughn - Mat Amayah Fontenelle - Nadine Abel Morgan - K Teagan Weatherford - Katelyn Jaslene Clairmont - K Maverick Bennett - Dix Sofia Carmichael - Kayla Romeo Clark - Jackie Graham Winters - JimJam

Maple Hills Mall - Maple Hills

Parker Campbell - K Xia Huang-Clark - Kayla Viktor Pierce - Dix Lenny Clairmont - K Nancy Lee - Kayla Nora Sinclair - Beki Tyler Day - Star Summer Cassidy - El Ali Webster - Sam Daniel Kwon - Nadine Harrison Lee - Jennie

Moose Lodge Rentals - Primrose Heights

Nick Wagner - Kayla Eli Browne - K Vivek Virani - Jackie Charlie Davis - Star Waverly Erickson - Em Cael Montgomery - Nadine Adem Sahir - Madison Jeremy Lieberman - Kayla Jo Spring - Marie Logan Walker - K

*We did change this so we could have time to talk to and plan these injuries.

[stevenspector]

Steven's books

okay. I did a very reasonable thing and looked at screenshots of Steven sitting at his desk in episode one when he was trying to stay awake. And i tried to figure out as many of his books as i could

I'll show you the screenshots and then under the cut my deep dive into figuring out the different books (also: tumblrs picture cropping sucks)

Okay, PREPARE. This is a LONG post. I put screenshots of all the books i could kinda see on here. If you can figure out any more, let me know or add onto this! now, enjoy:

a book about Ancient Egypt:

a book about Greek History

"Area 51 Fact or Fiction"

“World Mythology”, possibly “Larousse World Mythology” by Pierre Grimal

"What’s old is new again: Asgard", probably a book about New Asgard

"History of Wakanda"

“The Paradice Papers” by Merlin Stone, original on right

a book about Peru

a book about the silk road

"Rome and her Empire" by David Shotter, original on right

“Valley of the Kings” which is the royal necropolis of the New Kingdom of Egypt

some more books about Ancient Egypt

"The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mount Everest" by Conrad Anker, original on right

"Pompeii: The Living City" by Alex Butterworth and Ray Lawrence, original on right

“Free-Born John: A Biography of John Lilburne” by Pauline Gregg (and above it anything about anything classical), original on right

“Luther: Man Between God and the Devil” by  Heiko A. Oberman (and above it one with no title or indication), original on right - above and under 2 books i haven't figured out

“Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King” by Antonia Fraser, original on right

“The Revolution of the Dons; Cambridge and Society in Victorian England” by Sheldon Rothblatt, original on right - under it one with only a snippet i haven't figured out

Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred & Other Contemporary Sources, published by Penguin Classics (thank you @sta33ington for helping with this one)

[patrice-bergerons]

“you can’t save everyone” and “don’t make me do this” for the angsty prompts? ☺️

send me prompts!

this one veered right into very self-indulgent 00Q angst and h/c, for 'you can't save everyone.' Thank you for the prompt!

~*~

Q watches in abject disbelief as Bond’s signal slows down and then stops moving altogether on his screen.

“007, what the hell are you doing?” he all but hisses into the headset. 

To say that they don’t have time is a massive understatement:  Bond is bleeding heavily from a gunshot wound, the few operatives he hasn’t killed off are hot on his trail, and he needs to dispatch them and make it to the secure meet-up point before he loses consciousness.  Even for him, it’s a tall order.

A car door opens and shuts on the other end of the call, followed by footsteps and laboured breathing.  And yet, despite the pain that cuts through it, Bond’s voice is infuriatingly nonchalant when he speaks.

“I’m appreciating the sunset.”

Q almost lets out the most incredulous, high-pitched laugh, gripping the edge of his desk tighter in his despair.  He is appreciating the bloody sunset.

“Have you lost your mind?  Get back in the car, now.”

What lies ahead is an operation with a razor thin margin and near-impossible odds, and just because he cheated death half a dozen times before doesn't mean he will get away with it now.  His heart rate is already elevated, blood pressure inching down; Q’s own heart had been beating in his throat ever since he got shot.  God, the raw, muffled sound he’d made-

A soft thud follows a groan.  Q is going to yell tell me you did not just sit down when Bond beats him to it. 

“It’s beautiful,” Bond says breathlessly, a far away quality to his voice, and Q closes his eyes, this time gripping his desk for support. “Like something out of a painting.”

No.

M rolls into the conversation with all the grace of a WW2 era tank.  You have no idea, do you, Q thinks blood rushing in his ears and furious enough that he could punch the twat, as he says, with the the audacity to sound impatient and even a tad annoyed, “007, we hardly have the time to be prattling on about paintings-”

“Kick Mallory off the line.”

Q has never been happier to oblige.  

“Is he pissed off?”

Bond is so badly hurt that he has to pause after every other word so that the question becomes, is he- pissed- off-?

Q inhales and somehow finds his voice.  M is glaring at him with the appalled disbelief of a man who is not used to being denied what he wants, is saying “you are going to regret this.”  Q has no doubt.

“Very.”

Bond makes a noise that could be a laugh if not for how mangled it sounds—”good” he adds—and even now a smile tugs at Q’s lips for a split second, manic and wildly out of place. 

“Now please get back in the car.  There are hostile operatives headed your way.”

It can’t end like this.  He won’t let it.

But there is no shuffling on the other end of the line, no sounds of an injured, dogged man dragging himself to his feet.  Only a soft “it’s alright, Q”.

Q tries to summon the power to be upset with him, to cling onto his early outrage, the visions of himself in Muğla with Bond strangling him with his bare hands.

So you are giving up, is that it?  And I’m meant to do what—stand here and listen to you die?

“You are giving up,” he says quietly.

For a man who is always trying to retire, you are surprisingly bad at having any actual plans for your retirement, Q said, laughed, once, smiling at him over the rim of a pint glass, summer breeze playing in his hair.  He had just been ribbing Bond about the long term effects of his martinis on his liver.  Bond had shrugged, and even though no words left his mouth, they had still echoed through the still too warm night:  I will not die in bed.

“You can’t save everyone, you know that.  I had a good run.”

His voice is kind.  He wants to absolve Q as if absolution is what Q is after.  And this is the most at peace Q has heard Bond sound which makes him want to hurl his mug at the monitors mounted on the wall and scream, perhaps, for good measure until he has no voice left.  

“Is that what you think you are to me?” he replies.  Ordinarily, he goes to great pains to divorce his voice of any internal turmoil when he runs command; panic spreads like wildfire and affection can become the deadliest weapon of them all in the right hands.  None of that now.  His voice trembles.  He leans into it; lets tears cloud his vision.  If Bond is going down, if he wants to go down, he needs to know.  “Just anyone?”

Bond inhales sharply.

“Q–”

“Please.”

Hell, he isn’t even above begging.  

For a moment all he can hear is Bond’s laboured breathing, exhale after inhale after exhale, and he thinks that maybe all is lost after all, that maybe it is kinder to let him die here on his own terms rather than get mowed down on the road, to sit here and enjoy one last sunset together.  

Then he hears fabric shuffling and the sounds of Bond pulling himself to his feet.  Q exhales—a wet, giddy sound almost like laughter.  

Oh there will be no end to the insane favours Bond asks of him now.  Destroyed cars, schemes aplenty, paperwork probably ripped to shreds.  Q could not care less.  He will love it all. 

“I’ll make you an exploding pen for your next mission, how does that sound?” he asks as he hears the car door open and then shut closed, fingers already flying over the keyboard again to get Bond to safety.  

*

The first thing James becomes aware of is the clacking of a keyboard.  He smiles, even in the cold dark—there is only one person he knows who can type that fast.  When he through great difficulty cracks an eye open, there he finds him, perched on an uncomfortable looking chair, his face and curls washed in the blue-white glow.  It takes him a moment to find his voice and even then he sounds like a tortured dying beast.  Seems par for the course given how shit the rest of him feels.  And yet—he is alive.

“Thought you didn’t like flying.”

Q startles and James takes some small gleeful pride in being able to sneak up on him even now.  Laptop set aside, Q smiles at him warmly. Then he takes James' hand into his own and James thinks maybe it is worth it after all, all this pain.

“I certainly don’t do it for just anyone, 007.”

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Western history is full of the daring feats of explorers—Lewis and Clark in North America, John Cabot in Canada, Marco Polo along the Silk Road, and the list goes on.

But what about the explorers who set out with the same optimism as these navigational celebrities, only to face mysterious adversity?

Here are five explorers who had all the advantages of their more successful counterparts, only not to reach their goals and leave very little trace of their true fates.

Franklin’s failed Northwest Passage quest

British explorer Sir John Franklin left England in 1845 with 129 crew members and officers in search of the Northwest Passage, a shipping route from the Atlantic to the Pacific through Canada.

They were expertly equipped with iron-sheathed ships, three years of food and drink, even an early daguerreotype camera.

Instead of finding the passage, however, the ships became trapped in the Canadian Arctic’s most treacherous, ice-choked corner, north of King William Island.

Twenty-four men died by April 1848, including the captain.

The new captain, Francis Crozier, apparently abandoned the ships and set out with the remaining crew over the icy terrain in a desperate attempt to reach land.

Inuit hunters reported seeing bedraggled crewmen dragging sleds across the ice.

A few bodies have since been found, along with deserted campsites and bits and pieces, including silver dessert spoons and cotton shirt fragments.

In 2014, the wreck of Erebus was located, followed by the Terror in 2016.

While the wrecks themselves did not solve the mystery of what killed the men, the recovered bones of some men bore knife marks, suggesting the crew was fending off starvation by cannibalism.

Fawcett’s Lost City of Z

British explorer Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett already had undertaken several expeditions into the Amazon early in the 20th century when he came across an irresistible Portuguese document at the National Library of Brazil.

Detailing the discovery of a “large, hidden, and very ancient city, without inhabitants, discovered in the year 1753,” it told of grand ruins hidden in the Mato Grosso jungle.

Fawcett instantly decided to find the ruins, which he named the Lost City of Z.

After one failed attempt to find this awesome site, Fawcett, his son Jack, his son’s friend Raleigh Rimell, and two local laborers departed into the Brazilian wilderness in April 1925.

They wrote their last dispatch home on May 20.

Their Brazilian helpers had left them, Fawcett noted, but “You need have no fear of failure.”

No one ever heard from the party again.

Their disappearance became an obsession, with adventurers over the next decades trying to retrace their steps.

A reporter who went after Fawcett in 1930 also disappeared, as did a Swiss hunter and his search party.

Unconfirmed reports filtered out from the jungle of pale-skinned prisoners and their young children, but Fawcett and his party have never been found.

Mallory’s ill-fated Everest summit

The hopes of the world, or at least of the world’s mountain-climbing community, were pinned on George Leigh Mallory when he began his third attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest in April 1924.

The handsome English climber had reached 27,235 feet, 1,800 feet below Everest’s peak, on a 1922 expedition.

This time, he intended to make it to the top.

On June 8, Mallory and his young companion, Sandy Irvine, set out on what they hoped would be the final sprint.

A fellow climber spotted them, two black spots, about 800 vertical feet below the summit. Then a snow squall closed in, and the climbers disappeared.

Mallory’s body was not recovered for 75 years.

In 1999, climber Conrad Anker discovered Mallory’s frozen corpse at 26,760 feet on the moun­tain’s north face. Irvine’s body has not been found.

Whether Mallory was on his way up to the sum­mit or was coming down from a successful ascent is unknown.

If he did reach the peak, he would have beaten Edmund Hillary, the New Zealand mountaineer who has been lauded for being the first man to reach the summit since his successful ascent in 1953.

But the world may never know.

Amelia Earhart’s strange disappearance

Amelia Earhart was world famous. She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and the first person to fly from Hawaii to California.

Her round-the-world flight in 1937 was her final challenge.

Accompanying her when she took off from Miami on 1 June 1937 was an experienced navigator, Fred­erick Noonan.

The first legs of the 29,000-mile trip were ardu­ous, but the 2,556-mile Pacific leg from New Guinea to tiny Howland Island was the toughest of all.

From the air, Earhart radioed she couldn’t see the island and was running low on fuel. Then silence.

Recent forensic analysis suggest that bones found in 1940 on the Pacific island of Nikumaroro were those of the avia­tor.

Dimensions of Earhart’s body accord­ing to photos and clothing matched measurements recorded of the bones.

Unfortunately, the bones themselves were lost—so DNA testing cannot be done.

Researchers are still following every lead, from a skull fragment found in a museum to underwater fragments possibly from her plane, but so far, her disappearance remains a mystery.

Ambrose Bierce’s baffling Mexican quest

Ambrose Bierce isn’t the typical explorer. A Civil War veteran, he was also a journalist and poet, known for his cynical and misanthropic writings.

One such entry in his Devil’s Dictionary, for example, reads, “Fidelity: A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.”

In 1913, with his family dead and his career waning, the 71-year-old Bierce headed out to visit Civil War battlefields, including Missionary Ridge and Chickamauga, and onward to Mexico.

“I am going to Mexico with a pretty definite purpose, which is not at all presently disclosable,” he wrote to his secretary.

He may have joined up with Pancho Villa’s rebel army and traveled with it to Chihuahua.

Reports from one of Villa’s battles told of an “old gringo” killed in the fighting.

Could that have been Bierce? Or did he live on in Mexico, California, France, or Brazil, where reports have placed him over the years?

[maximumwobblerbanditdonut]

SH is in Albion St, in Glasgow with Jake Norton, Everest climber, writer, photographer, filmmaker, speaker, & United Nations 🇺🇳 Ambassador Mountain Partnership.

Note that Sam says... I look forward to hiking with you 🥾 and not climbing with you 🧗‍♀️ SH is a hiker, not a mountaineer, much less a climber. Put that in your head!

Jake Norton’s photos East-Northeast Face of Stob Dear from Kingshouse 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The book on the car roof 🚗 next to SH’s motorcycle helmet 🪖 is THE GHOSTS OF EVEREST: The Authorised Story of The Search For Mallory & Irvine by Jochen Hemmleb; Eric R. Simonson; and Larry A. Johnson.

The book recounts the adventures of a group of mountaineers who climbed Mount Everest in 1999 in search of evidence that George Mallory and Andrew Irvine had reached the summit in 1924, decades before Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953.