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got my hands on the terror dvd and started my rewatch 🙏

Some assorted Terror stuff because i got absolutely obssessed with this show and sailing in general, 8 years after the party. Some would say 178 years after the party

+ bonus Drax !!!

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szarnytalanszeraf

I know that I'm six days late but can I join the Franklin expedition, the heat is unbearable

c0rpseparts

forcibly pulling myself from my art rut

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paramaline

this is a good article that touches on a lot of the things i liked most about the terror but i’m losing my mind over this bit in particular

AMC i am on my knees begging you to release the blooper reels

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froggerland

“It’s all vanity…

… and we are at the end of vanity”

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archivistorage

Leading the Blind

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georgeromerosanalcavity

are we getting the wendys four for four francis? i would like that very much.

#the terror #HELP

bothvanished

hiiii! has anyone on here read the spectral arctic by shane mccorristine, and would you recommend it?

mytortoisegotstuckinatupperware

okay I had to write an entire paper on this book, so I can give more detail if interested, but I can confidently say you won't go WRONG reading this book. like mccorristine talks about some interesting material, but his language can be overly flowery and a bit disconnected. like (sorry im going to get a bit academic here), mccorristine's points stray from the thesis of the text, repeating similar narratives of women clairvoyants and non-Arctic attempts at connecting with expedition ghosts rather than spiritual experiences of the expeditions themselves.

He may have been better off breaking this project into two deliverables: one article on the representation of ghosts and dreams as written in primary accounts of the Franklin expedition, and either another article of full manuscript on the history of clairvoyance and other spiritual practices in Victorian England and late nineteenth- century America. By combining both topics into a single text, his points become cyclical within every chapter and fail to provide new or nuanced research on his goals of presenting otherworldly experiences of explorers or the proliferation of supernatural literature produced for non-explorer populations.

(^^pulled directly from the paper, so sorry)

tl;dr: it's an interesting book, but can get repetitive, and doesn't necessarily offer a ton of new polar-specific insights, but it's not egregious or harmful. if you have a copy, I say go for it!

bothvanished

THANK YOU!! these are exactly the kinds of things i wanted to know, thank you so much for taking the time to write this out! 🙏💕

#this is really helpful!! i was struggling to find any reviews which gave a good insight into the style and #particularly the academic merits & insights #it sounds like a very interesting one still but this has helped me to decide to prioritise a couple others for now #but to keep this on my list for later on!

ltwilliammowett

The Boats Place on King William Island 1859

While several search expedition moved off to learn what happened to the crew of Sir John Franklin. Lieutenant Hobson of the McClinctock expedition found a boat during his sledge trip to King William Island in 1859. This place became one of the most famous on King William Island together with Victory point, Terror bay, Cape Felix and others.

Rob Ebersol illustated what Hobson found in 1859.

#franklin expedition #1857 mcclintock expedition

hiiii! has anyone on here read the spectral arctic by shane mccorristine, and would you recommend it?

#the spectral arctic #arctic exploration #i'm almost at the end of my current book and don't know whether to get it or just get unravelling the franklin mystery (woodman)#i mean i want both but idk whether to get the spectral arctic as well or not #i'm just finishing barrow's boys which is very fun and readable as an introductory book but felt a little lacking in sources sometimes #+ i've heard mixed things about the accuracy of some parts so have had to read it fairly critically #(my dad read it about 20 years ago and gave me his old copy though so it was very much worthwhile and fun for a free copy!)#plus it introduced me properly to g.f. lyon & i'm now reading his 1818-20 journal on archive lmao

happy sail out day! i found this picture of crozier saved on my phone from 2020, over 5 years before i watched the terror