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Deep Space Nine, Aubrey-Maturin, Good Omens, Disco Elysium, etc. fandom stuff I'm not putting on main. don't worry about it. main: @theonewhocounts

[astralbondpro]

Star Trek Deep Space Nine // S04E16 Bar Association

[devyat10]

[dataentryspecialist]

I don't know what kind of strange labyrinth of thinking in the deepest parts of the uncharted mind led to this brilliance but I am so here for it

[soundoftheirwings]

historical fiction that make you google things like

“Is it common for people in the 1800s to call each other ‘joy’ single word”

“Early 19th century terms of endearment with quotes”

“Georgian era precedent for vocative direct address ‘soul’ between friends”

[soundoftheirwings]

Diana - Jack - Sophie - Stephen as the four temperaments from a 1553 English medical-astrological manuscript

Diana Villiers - Choleric ("is hot, dry, lean, slender, covetous, ireful, hasty, deceitful, and he loveth black, russet, and gray color, and he hath his wine of a lion.")

Jack Aubrey - Sanguine ("is hot, moist, liberal, plenteous, merry, ruddy; he drawith to women, he loveth his colored cloth, and hath his wine of the ape.")

Sophie Williams - Phlegmatic ("is cold, and moist, heavy, slow, sleepy, ingenious; he spitteth when he is angry, he loveth green color, and he hath his wine of a sheep.")

Stephen Maturin - Melancholy ("is cold, dry, heavy, covetous, back-biting, malicious, and slow. He loveth to be clad in black and colored cloth, and he taketh his wine of the hog.")

Because this is a medical-astrological text and warning its reader of disease and possible frailties, the characterisations seem pretty harsh. But these would be the 4-humours-based temperaments I associate them with!

[leona-florianova]

anatomy of this wind-propelled colonial organism confounds me

[clockheartedcrocodile]

really can’t emphasize enough that the main plot of HMS Surprise is that Jack rescues a fragile and sickly Stephen after days of brutal torture at the hands of the French and attempts to nurse him back to health only to spend the rest of the book in steadily rising panic as Stephen climbs the ratlines, does drugs, calls his ex, gets his dick out in public, starts a duel, buys a sloth, gets shot, proposes to his ex, blows his cover, drinks bird shit, kills a man, gets marooned, breaks the law, and almost adopts a nine year old

[ltwilliammowett]

The Reappearance of the Waakzamheid, by Geoff HUnt, 2007

[thestuffedalligator]

There’s a certain folkloric idea that if you die at sea, your soul is sort of. Inextricably stuck in the sea. Because your body is irretrievable, your soul is also irretrievable, down out of the reach of the gods who look at the surface of the world. In Norse mythology, they said that the souls of sailors who died at sea are caught in the sea-goddess Rán’s net and dragged into her domain, a distinct and separate afterlife alongside Hel and Valhalla. Davy Jones Locker. The funayūrei. A lot of cultures agree that once the sea has a hold on you, even when your body has rotted and dwindled and been made food for crabs, it still won’t let you go.

Do you think we’re going to wind up saying the same thing about astronauts.

[orphic-mysteries]

Officially the coolest antique shop in Venice

[ferengi-waiters-union]

what antique shop is this please? I'm going to be in Venice soon and I have a mighty need

[yeehawpim]

I can be the ship and its sailors

[bugyarn]

hello jack aubrey enjoyers

[the-penalty-box]

I recently learned an old French euphemism for bisexuality. It means to be powered "by sail and steam," and it absolutely comes from a specific flavor of 19th-century ship.

HMS Terror and Erebus were bisexual, you heard it here first.

Happy Pride!

[charlemane]

one of my favorite things in Master & Commander the book is there's a side character with a blatant huge gay crush on Jack and everyone else is like "does he know... he has to know... there's no way he doesn't know..." and then you get Jack's POV and it's extremely clear that this man is a remarkably smart dog who was bred to understand the world strictly in terms of Ships (fantastic) and Not Ships (?)

[skrankku]

[tio-trile]

I had a sudden revelation while trying to see Project Hail Mary in Spiderverse's style in my mind

[gothinkdexign]

[gothinkdexign]