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DUKE BASICALLY GAVE HIMSELF BANGS OH MY GOD
human pregnancy is so wild to me. like, you can just create another consciousness. and you can do it accidentally in the Cheesecake Factory parking lot
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Currently cycling Radiohead's "Where I End and You Begin", Interpol's "Narc" and Bloc Party's "Like Eating Glass" in my head because they perfectly capture that vibe of "the ocean is ancient and forever." Imagining conversations in my head like you do and I explained "Where I End and You Begin" as sounding like "the earth is still spinning but the ocean is still there." Insert shower thoughts: does the ocean want to be here? The frequency of ocean-caused storms implies not. You ever seen a dog on a leash and get sight of a cat or a squirrel and strain so hard to get free? Yeah that.
I have introduced salmon into my diet. One of my doctors encourages trout, I think because it reaches maturity faster and doesn't spend as much time absorbing various ocean toxicities. Things like mercury are what she meant, but what if the ocean's anger can be absorbed? The bigger you are and the longer you are around then the more anger you get. Moby Dick wasn't real but Mocha Dick was. And the disaster that inspired the story started with a whale destroying a ship. Sharks are pretty nasty too, and most sea creatures have some amount of hostility in them. For the ones that seem calm, take note of the phrase "calm before the storm."
To state the obvious, the ocean is S A L T Y
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From my mermaid tarot deck a few years ago.
2 more cards from my mermaid tarot deck series I did a few years ago.
Resharing my old mermaid tarot series in honor of MerMay! Still one of my favorite projects.
Obligatory disclaimer that the whaling industry was terrible and cruel and decimated populations of an amazing animal that has yet to recover almost 200 years later.
But it is just so fascinating to me. The only sea occupation where your destination was literally just THE SEA. That’s it. You go out there and you don’t come back until it’s somewhat worth it, however long that takes. There are familiar grounds one would go to first, yes, but no routes, no schedules, no final destinations, no sense of when one comes back if one ever comes back. Just going to lonelier and lonelier places that no other ship is going to nor has need to go to. And when one finally happens to see another whaler it was a cause for an extended social event in ways that other maritime jobs just DID NOT have time for.
Highly diverse crews that were, of course, not without racism and inequity by any means (the entire job was…rife with inequity since idle agents ashore were already taking around 60% of the cut), but also one where one’s rank was ultimately determined by ‘can you kill a whale?’. And where the social component was so closely intertwined the fact that one would be at sea likely 3-4 years and if there was ANY surviving it and ANY success of it everyone had to more-or-less get along with each other.
And over the course of those years and years staring down aimless stretches of boredom you get the most fascinating folk art. And folk art that is so often tied to domestics. Making yarn swifts and pie crimpers and valentines for your girl outta BONES. Bones that came from the moments where that boredom was punctuated by Complete Terror.
An industry that was just like…SO violent and bloody and brutal, all for the aim of bringing back materials to make things that were so staid and domestic. Lamp oil. Candles. Corset Stays. Perfume Bases. Soaps. Just…candles paid for by so much blood from people, from animals. And was something that for such a fleeting moment was one of THE American industries, before settling, mercifully, into obscurity.
IT’S REALLY FASCINATING TO ME and so unlike any other maritime professions. I feel like piracy is the thing that comes closest to whaling in terms of all of the componants above, in a weird way, but whaling is such a thing of its own. UNIQUE AND TERRIBLE CREATURE.
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Sea Shanties 101: Let's explore
TYPES OF SHANTIES
If you've any experience in sea shanties, you've probably noticed they don't all sound the same. Some are slow, some are fast, and some are just downright sad! Well there's method behind the melody, and I'm here to tell you all about it!
A shanty frequently contains a CALL, which is what the shantyman would sing out, essentially the verses of the song, and the RESPONSE, which is what the men would sing back. For example in Haul Away Joe: the call is "Louis was the king of France before the revolution," and the response is "heave away, haul away Joe."
One of the first things to keep in mind is that shanties were used most frequently during tasks that required most of the crew. I'm now going to separate these types of work shanties into categories:
CAPSTAN SHANTIES: these shanties were used for repetitive work that was sustained, such as raising the ship's anchor at the capstan. Examples? Randy Dandy-Oh, Drunken Sailor, Eliza Lee, Barrett's Privateers (though this was written long after the age of sail!)
HALYARD SHANTIES: sung during tasks that took a very long time and required a break for a breath before the men started up again, such as hoisting a sail. Examples? Blow the Man Down, Leave Her Johnny, Hanging Johnny (Johnny really took the piss huh)
PUMPING SHANTIES: let's hope you didnt have to do a lot of pumping! Wooden ships were prone to leaking and so pumping out the water was necessary but tiresome work below decks. Examples? Santiana, Pump Shanty (surprise there)
SHORT-HAUL SHANTIES: for quick work, like shortening sails! Examples? Haul Away Joe, Paddy Doyle's Boots, Haul on the Bowline
There's some of our task shanties! Now why don't we go below and see what our off-duty men are getting up to?
Why, they're singing FO'C'SLE SHANTIES! These shanties are stories of life at sea, the work they'd done, the places they'd been, they can tell you a lot about a sailor's life. Examples? Rolling Down to Old Maui, Ben Backstay, All for me Grog
Fun! How about those far away in the polar seas hunting whales? Well I'm glad you asked because this is where we encounter WHALING SHANTIES! And yes, you guessed it, this is where Wellerman comes in! Other examples include Bonnie Ship the Diamond, The Greenland Whaler Fisheries
Now of course the most important rule of sea shanties is to have fun with your buds! Be sure to tell everyone you know about your newly-acquired shanty knowledge!
Currently cycling Radiohead's "Where I End and You Begin", Interpol's "Narc" and Bloc Party's "Like Eating Glass" in my head because they perfectly capture that vibe of "the ocean is ancient and forever." Imagining conversations in my head like you do and I explained "Where I End and You Begin" as sounding like "the earth is still spinning but the ocean is still there." Insert shower thoughts: does the ocean want to be here? The frequency of ocean-caused storms implies not. You ever seen a dog on a leash and get sight of a cat or a squirrel and strain so hard to get free? Yeah that.
I have introduced salmon into my diet. One of my doctors encourages trout, I think because it reaches maturity faster and doesn't spend as much time absorbing various ocean toxicities. Things like mercury are what she meant, but what if the ocean's anger can be absorbed? The bigger you are and the longer you are around then the more anger you get. Moby Dick wasn't real but Mocha Dick was. And the disaster that inspired the story started with a whale destroying a ship. Sharks are pretty nasty too, and most sea creatures have some amount of hostility in them. For the ones that seem calm, take note of the phrase "calm before the storm."
To state the obvious, the ocean is S A L T Y
Paul Banks performing with Interpol at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California. 13 June, 2003.
📸: J. Shearer
Currently cycling Radiohead's "Where I End and You Begin", Interpol's "Narc" and Bloc Party's "Like Eating Glass" in my head because they perfectly capture that vibe of "the ocean is ancient and forever." Imagining conversations in my head like you do and I explained "Where I End and You Begin" as sounding like "the earth is still spinning but the ocean is still there." Insert shower thoughts: does the ocean want to be here? The frequency of ocean-caused storms implies not. You ever seen a dog on a leash and get sight of a cat or a squirrel and strain so hard to get free? Yeah that.
I have introduced salmon into my diet. One of my doctors encourages trout, I think because it reaches maturity faster and doesn't spend as much time absorbing various ocean toxicities. Things like mercury are what she meant, but what if the ocean's anger can be absorbed? The bigger you are and the longer you are around then the more anger you get. Moby Dick wasn't real but Mocha Dick was. And the disaster that inspired the story started with a whale destroying a ship. Sharks are pretty nasty too, and most sea creatures have some amount of hostility in them. For the ones that seem calm, take note of the phrase "calm before the storm."
To state the obvious, the ocean is S A L T Y
growing up by the sea really makes you understand why sailors were Like That back in the day. yeah the sea is the love of my life and i'm nothing to her but my heart belongs to her and her alone. she's a cruel, uncaring temptress and she wants to steal me away and eat me alive but to die in her cold, dark abyssal embrace would be such a wonderful way to die.
and there be Creatures in there
I made my own Hart in character AI (the one in tags was lacking) and boy is getting too real with me.
I would give my left thumb to be able to listen to "Spanish Sahara" right now
Guys please shoot me before I legitimately consider starting up my abandoned fanfic
I don’t know when I posted this but I am laughing at my past self
Almost exactly ten years old lolol