[jckielantern]

cold boys on the brain... help

[psilocervidae]

Was anyone gonna tell me that there's a Creature in The Terror. I thought it was just about 20 men named John sucking and fucking and eating each other in the Arctic.

[jessaerys]

imo the increasing popularity of rpf is a sign of the tumblr population aging. every day i log in and have to look at ugly men from 20-2000 years ago and i'm like yeah, well, this is just culture. it's like reading the new yorker. do i care about it? no. but it does make me feel cosmopolitan. do you think tumblrinas in 2012 would have cared about the franklin expedition. no. they had the bishounen from free exclamation mark. they had bbc sherlock

[vespermyotis]

i think possibly the chiefest point of horror in my first viewing of the terror, which still gets me every time, is Irving encountering the Netsilik family.

it’s a great, gutwrenching scene. Irving doesn’t intend any violence to them. he’s earnest, and they’re earnest in return—Koveyook feeds him, and you know it won’t save him, he’s asking too impossibly much of them when he mentions the rest of the crew, but it’s good in what it intends. on both sides, even.

and you know watching, from the outset, that somehow Irving is going to kill these people. somehow, in short order, this officer of the largest empire in world history is going to blow all their lives up. just by showing up, he’s condemned them to something; just by being aware of them, he’s taking from them. blast radius of imperialism.

and it’s so terrible, because they fed him and he gave them the only pretty and sentimental offering he had on him and ultimately, Irving won’t ever even know he got them killed, though they will have died thinking he meant to do it.

and even so: it doesn’t matter that he didn’t mean it. because they didn’t know him!! and they fed him! and they were murdered for it. take and take and take and take. fuck

[not-euclidean]

Photos taken by Harald Sverdrup of the aurora borealis as viewed from ‘Maud’, 1918-1925

[cdr-edwardlittle]

Edward Little's handwritten letter

I already shared this on the Facebook group, but if you've missed it, there it is : I have found a letter handwritten by Edward when we was serving on the HMS Donegal, and adressed to Captain Drake

ADM 1/3004

It reads as follow :

" HMS Donegal, in the Tagus,

July 21st 1838

Sir, being desirous to join HMS Excellent for the purpose of becoming more efficient in the exercice of gunnery, I have to request you will be pleased to forward this my application for an appointment to that ship, to Read Admiral Sir John Ommanney,

I am, Sir, your Obedient humble servant

E. Little, Lieutenant

To Captain Drake, HMS Donegal "

On the back we can read :

"Submitted for the consideration of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.

Donegal in the Tagus,

22 July 1838

John A. Ommanney, Read Admiral"

(I can't seem to decipher the rest except for the date)

But there is no mention of the transfer in his record, so I guess it was refused ? Since he was still aboard the Donegal until 1840

Comparing it to his signature on the Terror allotment papers from 1845 :

From the Franklin Expedition Wiki

My bet is on him being left handed !

[fredoesque]

"soon the whole city was dotted with these lone columns of personal smoke and the whole view smelled of roast duck" + carnevale happening in the episode where jfj first start showing signs of scurvy + stanley having been the doctor that treated jfj after he was shot. your scar tissue is dissolving your past bleeds into your present & that chinese sniper will have his revenge! i love television

[staud]

Mamianaq. I'm sorry.

-> 10/∞ CHARACTER DYNAMICS in The Terror

[cinematicnomad]

THE TERROR ▸ 1.09 the c, the c, the open c

[kafkasapartment]

Endurance frozen in the ice, 1914-1917. Frank Hurley Platinum print.

The Endurance was an exploration ship that became trapped in pack ice in the Weddell Sea off the coast of Antarctica in 1915. It was Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The ship was squeezed by the ice for ten months before being crushed, but the crew all survived.

[guiildenstern]

The Terror (2018) S1 / Black sails (2014-2017) VIII

There are no legacies in this life, are there? No monuments. No history. Just the water. It pays us and then it claims us. Swallows us whole. As if we'd never been here at all.

[roaldamundsen]

paul. paul your hair

[requiem-on-water]

A storm hitting the lighthouse in Porthcawl by Marcus Woodbridge

[catonhottinroof-deactivated2023]

William Trost Richards  (1833 - 1905)

BRIGANTINE SHOALS

[laissezferre]

favorite bits from the terror screenplay, 9/?

[cinematicnomad]

THE TERROR ▸ 1.07 horrible from supper

[johntorrington]

dracula daily for the franklin expedition where i may 28th you get an email with the first message from the victory point note and then a year later you get a second email letting you know sir john has died. and then that’s it