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[obsob]

working w adhd hack !!! never sit down never sit down never sit down dont stop dont stop dont stop dont stop dont stop

[tozerving]

I should not be given access to this kind of technology…..

[shesnake]

Jennifer Tilly & Gina Gershon promotional stills for Bound (1996) dir. The Wachowskis

[werewolfoffeverswamp]

the phasmid in disco elysium has to be in the 99.99th percentile of effectiveness for characters that, when i actually interacted with them first, changed my perception of the entire world a piece of media had built up. like DE, pre-phasmid, has some wondrous magical realism kind of elements that appear more as you progress (the existence of the pale and its whole deal, harry’s skills allowing him insight he should not have, etc) that juxtapose some of the more gritty and real aspects (we’re investigating a murder here. and an extremely politically and emotionally charged one at that) but i just feel like the phasmid’s appearance really solidifies that yes, this game does feature serious topics and interactions that are desperate and sad and violent, but oh my god we have to keep going. like oh my GOD we have to keep living so bad. there’s hope and here is wonder still undiscovered by the rest of the world. there’s more to see out there and while we have that we have to continue seeking it out. things can be strange and impossible and beautiful and so sad at the same time and i want to see it all. all bc this big fuck-off insect that looks like a clump of reeds told me to do it for the working class. nods. okay phasmid. okay

[acheronist]

don't you know... didn't you hear...?

178 years ago today, a thirty five year old british guy wrote a poem about the sea while he was trapped in the arctic ice

one year ago i took it upon myself to create a complete facsimile of the peglar papers. two months ago i finally got my nefarious little hands on a beautifully crisp high resolution copy of this page from an actual FE historian who had seen and handled the actual pages in real life. today i'm pleased to be able to show off the most legible and accurate iteration i've done of this page so far SO EVERYONE ELSE CAN READ IT TOO!!!!!!!!! i'm including a typed up transcription because i imagine not everyone else is used to staring at faint loopy victorian cursive and would like to have an easier time reading it.

the poem that henry has written down is a recalled version of 'the sea' by barry cornwall, and he wrote it within the first of two years that the expedition was stuck in the pack-ice off the coast of king william island. admittedly i'm a bit unclear when the original poem was actually published, but the earliest version of it that i've found is from 1831, as the lyrics to a piece of sheet music (if anyone can read music and can play what this sounds like for me...... hmu i want to hear it....) for my transcription, i was more often referencing 'english songs and other small poems' which was published in 1851-- so it's a bit past the timeline of when henry would have hypothetically heard the song/poem originally, but still is close enough that i assumed it to be pretty accurate.

henry's recollection of how the poem went was actually pretty good, i think, considering the circumstances of how the scurvy/lead poison combo was probably starting to really affect the surviving men in the franklin expedition by april of 1847. the original poem has six verses, and while he only wrote four down in his version, and also they are a bit jumbled out of original order. however, there are lines and phrases that he clearly remembered very accurately.

i've created this little diagram comparing the original poem and henry's version so that the overlap of what he remembered/what he didn't is illustrated a little bit more clearly:

there are a few key pieces of research done by actual published historians about the peglar papers that all mention this poem and the context and motivation for writing it, as well as the significance it has for current FE research. a lot of them are really very interesting reads if you're into this sort of thing!! i have a lot of sources bookmarked, so if anyone wants an actual bibliography, LET ME KNOWWWWW <333

i'm gonna cut this post off here before i go on and on and on about my own speculative theories, but i'd like to leave everyone with this except from mcclintock's narrative of searching for the franklin expedition men in 1859 while aboard the fox, which was sent by jane franklin as a search party.

mcclintock was writing about the victory point cairn note here, though it is worthwhile to mention he was the same man who found armitage's skeleton and peglar's wallet originally, and that he considered the peglar papers to be a bit of a disappointment for the rest of his own life due to the difficulty to discern what they said. henry peglar wrote the open c poem one month before charles des voeux and graham gore placed the first infamous 'all well' note into the victory point cairn.

so everyone go have a beer in the sunshine today for the foretop captain & be thankful for the indomitable human urge to create art, even in dire circumstances, and even when your bosses didn't think you'd ever have anything meaningful to say.

[shipsandtea]

Peglar Papers Real which means one of the only things left of him besides his body is a journal with lines reminding him who he was. Remembering who he was. And they thought it wasn’t him at first. But it was. It is!

[terrorcamp]

A huge congratulations to Terror Camp 2025 presenter Kaitlyn Gorsalitz @alongblank on her contributions to the recent identification of the remains of FOUR (!!!!) new Franklin Expedition men, as part of Dr. Douglas Stenton's research team.

You can read the full scientific paper here!

And for access to Kaitlyn's presentation “When We Meet Next”: Investigating Franklin Men and Their Families, please email command [@] terror dot camp for last year's TC recordings.

💙

[byjove]

this is a highly controversial opinion, I have no doubt King Arthur was bisexual but I think he was one of the few people in Camelot not interested in fucking Lancelot. he wanted to retain him as an employee but it did not cross his mind that Lancelot was fucking his wife because Lancelot is such a weird little twerp that he did not perceive him as a sexual being. my interpretation.

[byjove]

So true. The Galehaut/Lancelot relationship was like a dynastic marriage to resolve the conflict between two imperial powers. I like to imagine Galehaut was like “I have decided to abandon my plans of capturing [what is now] all of southern England and surrender to you despite my military advantage, all for the love of my achingly beautiful and spectacular new male wife, Lancelot du Lac.” and Arthur was like “Okay. Weird. Not homophobic or anything but Lancelot? You’re in love with Lancelot?”

[byjove]

Co-signed. That’s some real shit you said. Also, unlike Arthur, he was willing to yield and share his lover for everyone’s benefit. And then he died for love. A real freak. One of the best freaks in 13th century French literature.

[byjove]

he’s the most interesting gay wifeguy in literary gay knight history

[byjove]

please, I’m begging all of you, get in the kitchen and start cooking

[thesiltverses]

Amazing first couple of episodes of Our Wars Have Ended, I’m so excited to hear more! I really want to give you kudos on Episode 1’s sequence between Timmer and Finick as he was dying; the writing, acting, and sound design were all incredible and so immersive!

I found that seen to be a spiritual sibling to the scene of Goodsir and David Young in episode 1 of The Terror. Lots of meaty parallels around service, choice (or lack thereof), and of course the unrelenting horror of a man, dying in pain and fear. Incredible work to establish such fulsome characterization and a (foreboding) sense of what we have to look forward to on this journey.

Also, much like with Goodsir, I know that Timmer is about to become an all-time favourite character of mine.

So glad to have your fantastic writing and storytelling back on my feed.

Thank you very much for your very kind words, Tosca and Shaun are both fantastic actors so it's all on them! (There's really not much sound design, which is always fun.)

I can totally see that parallel with Goodsir and you have made me think I need to rewatch S1 of the Terror, which is always nice, so thank you for that as well.

[ghostwriterofthemachine]

Goddddddd thinking about that narrative moment when something horrible is happening and the character who has been frantically trying to come up with a way to fix it and getting more and more frantic and panicky just—stops. Because. Oh. There’s the solution. They’re not getting out of this alive but like. It’s a solution for everyone else. Okay. Okay.

[antimony-medusa]

Why would you do this to me.

[jennamoran]

this is going to be a controversial one but I think the optimal number of cats for facilitating making the bed is not, in fact, "every cat in the house" but perhaps even ... zero

[rickybabyboy]

dangerous misinformation

[loveandlegacy]

as a rule it's always more interesting when two people who know each other outlive a third person that they both loved and then their relationship becomes So Much Weirder and more emotionally fraught, entangled, and charged when that third person dies

[mynorthernattitude]

they should make a sleep that feels like you’ve slept

[bookofbabadook]

THE PITT SPOILERS S02E15

since it got taken down on extweeter (rip @mohanpillled, thank you so very much for all your service!) and some people are asking me for it:

[ayda-agueforts]

oh they are GOING to watch the fireworks together

[trankinstein]

Less magic schools. More magic universities. Unlearn the simplified models of your secondary education. Discover how to reference scrolls written by a wizard possessed by a different wizard. Identify bias in the voices that whisper from beyond the veil. Have your institution be accused of promoting a Merlinist agenda. Become addicted to energy potions.

[dracula1992soundtrack]

being online is so scary aren't you guys worried about the world wide spider

[redfagdiver]

It took 36 years for someone to make this joke and by god it was worth the wait

[fallout-lou-begas]

it's finally that time of the year again for the clinically depressed newscaster describing february with disco elysium music

[fallout-lou-begas]

what is the single best line in this video

it's a month that doesn't hold up life any better than it really is

something great happened here but it's over with and that's the way february is

like the desperate flinging off of something that's not true anymore

the expedition is getting desperate. people are throwing things aside

this looks like a place where people who are being punished are sent

nobody is tap dancing or breaking into a rogers and hammerstein song

theyre just barely able to get across the street and hunker over a bowl of chili

most of the birds who can afford it have flown to florida

it's as if there's some awful truth out there in the trees

something that's been bothering you for a long time is out there. what is it?

to hide the bleakness of feb., man invented valentine's day. also mardi gras.

what other month can host a holiday designed to remind us we're all gonna die?

Voting ended onFeb 11

character limit forced me to paraphrase

[craymor1]

yeah,