you've debauched my sloth

i write fics (diskotheque on ao3) @heybluechild's sideblog for boats & the sad men on them they/them | an adult

[diskobabe]

about

call me v or disko | 20s | they/them

sideblog for posting about boats & such:

the terror

aubrey–maturin / master & commander

polar exploration

general maritime/shipwreck history

I post about other fandoms at @heybluechild and follow back from @dannydakota

& i write terror fanfic on ao3 sometimes — find me as diskotheque :)

[fuckyeahkitschy2]

[songbird-is-crying]

i think peak historical fiction is when there is a random ass major historical figure but as a comedic relief side character. like geoffrey chaucer being a naked gambling addict in a knight’s tale or leonardo da vinci being cinderella’s fairy godmother in ever after. like. nothing can top that.

[jacquelying]

lieutenant in an ice cube

[fr1yys]

First attempt at drawing Fitzjames

[maidward]

Im drunk and I just wanna say Girnavy Joplittle scissoring Thank you

[goddisposez]

although i largely love terror/polar exploration fandom and think it's significantly more sensitive and thoughtful than most historically fixated spaces, there is also an undercurrent of subconscious racism and uncritical buy-in to the great man theory + belief that white men's stories no matter how relatively mundane/unremarkable are the center of everything. but then everyone thinks you're crazy for noticing it

[artdecohomeg1rl]

You can successfully subvert this undercurrent by assuming they are all transmen.

[goddisposez]

no you cant because this post is about racism

[sgtjakes]

2012 called they want their scarfs & emo bangs back

[blixalesbian]

Old, perfectly happy Fitzier by a fire somewhere?

ok maybe this is more than a doodle… but i couldnt resist

[scorchroots]

I've never loved anyone as much as I love Ursula Le Guin

[awhbeans]

Another pulp horror-inspired Terror comic book cover, featuring a big brave boy!

[ben-dover-art]

James Fitzjames being my muse for expressing my gender dysphoria in visual form but also will I ever be as pretty as he is?

Sorry AMC's The Terror still has me by my little T-boy ovary still.

[boatcats]

There is a story that dead sailors come back as storm petrels. It's just another way of being at sea - of being with the world.

Image sources:

SS United States under tow

Storm Petrels

[veryvexing]

blanky & jopson

[qqchurch]

[predatory-lesbians]

wait, isnt NSFW the letters on the compass

[yeenobabino]

So close.

[the-foolish-fool-who-gets-fooled]

north south FUCK west

[joppening]