It is easy to think of discipline as a code of behaviour imposed by external authority and maintained by force, as it often is. Discipline of this sort existed in the Navy in the eighteenth century only in a limited and subsidiary form, riding on the back of the real, natural discipline of the Service. This was something inherent in the nature of seafaring, and common to ships and seamen everywhere. It owed almost nothing to the authority of officers, and almost everything to the collective understanding of seamen. A ship at sea under sail depended utterly on disciplined teamwork, and any seaman knew without thinking that at sea orders had to be obeyed for the safety of all. This was not a matter of unquestioning obedience—those working aloft in particular had to exercise a great deal of initiative—but of intelligent co-operation in survival.
— Nicholas A.M. Rodger, The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy
Charles Brooking, 1723–1759, British, English Ships Running before a Gale, before 1759, Oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art.
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Right *slaps hands against things and stands up, every joint in my body cracking like a bowl of rice krispies* time to read world ain't ready again
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aaaaa hiii i made cool stuff
Wooden slugcat pins and holographic iterator charms up on my Etsy now! Feel free to check the other stuff out as well while youre there c:
Pins - http://tiny.cc/ef6dvz
Charms - tiny.cc/ff6dvz
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you know the Wondergirls' Motto: Kidnap or Be Kidnapped. Concuss or Be Concussed.
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Lestat’s piano plank has grooves in it from how long he’s been playing it :(
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made a fake theatre poster for him, also some movement concepts, he fights like a ragdoll sometimes
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The principle of the divisional system was, and is, simply that each of the lieutenants should take charge of a division of the ship's company, for whose welfare and efficiency he should be particularly responsible. Under the lieutenants the midshipmen were allocated sub-divisions. [...] The midshipmen of the subdivisions were to train their men in the use of the great guns and small arms, and all divisional officers were to take pains to know their men as individuals, and attend to their welfare.
— Nicholas A. M. Rodger, The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy
'Under the Pallas's half deck': a 1774 drawing by Gabriel Bray, second lieutenant of HMS Pallas.
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I have this headcanon that Wanda is obsessed with antiques and vintage appliances and stuff...like she loves to go antiquing, she likes to visit old people house and abandoned old building hoping to find and collect old items....She likes it even better if the item is possessed by a spirit...she tried scrolling through an online shop once to find more items and got scammed and she never did it again, I love the idea of Wanda Maximoff having a lot of weird trinkets and knick knacks (>_<)<3
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been listening to life in the world to come. these guys r weirdd ( + wooden overcoats .. )
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Wooden bench on top of the the world🌿🌱🍃
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What do you think they've done with all those diapers Cas and Kelly bought?
extra fuel for the funeral pyre perhaps?
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