📍 in the FE rabbit hole

Franklin Expedition thinker

[classicalcanvas]

Calm Sea (1863) by Ivan Aivazovsky

[littleastrobleme]

208 and looking great! Happy birthday, sweet sailor soul. Your beloved seafaring, forget-me-nots, and a fitting verse from your own hand.

[ihatemoskatoes]

Robert Orme Sargent service record

Couldn’t find Robert Orme’s service record anywhere, so I requested a copy and transcribed it so anyone interested can see it. The informati

Robert Orme service record (until his lieutenant certificate passing) is now available! Kinda happy to confirm what I first found when searching through newspaper issues and is good to know where the guy was working before The Event..

[ihatemoskatoes]

long time without using Illustrator :')

[fromthetombs]

We had a collage zine program at the library where I work and I knew what I had to do

(made from a children's "weird facts" book, a National Geographic, almost an entire Jeep ad from said National Geographic, a quilting magazine and a striped swimsuit from the Land's End catalog)

[thesilliestpotato]

Tiny pen sketches from my trip that I hated

[clove-pinks]

Sailors aloft on Skongen, the Danish Fifth Thule Arctic Expedition's ship, in Hudson Bay, 1924.

[joe-spookyy]

Boss makes a dollar i make a dime that’s why i research the personal lives of polar explorers on company time

[tinytuunbaq]

hms erebus: a woolie

please excuse any rigging and colour inaccuracies, i went off a moodboard of various sources for erebus's shapes and colours, as well as a layperson's eye for what i can only describe as many big ropes. there were so many ropes. i don't understand all the ropes.

sailors woolworks (or woolies) were embroidered tapestries that those at sea wove to pass the time and capture the likeness of their vessels. here's a good article if you're keen to read more about them. but the tl:dr; is that they showed ships broadside, full sail. in embroidery terms, the lack of dimensional detail makes them a surprisingly good project for a beginner!!

as i said to a pal, there's something that feels very beautiful and democratised about creating folk art now, in a time when we've put art, and access to it, on such an expensive and exclusionary pedestal.

[nedlittle]

huge fan of this inexplicably yassified john franklin portrait. what lip combo is he wearing.....

[classicfrunchmisrableice]

Robert orme Sargent magic realism

[glitteringpoet1685]

How can I seamlessly weave the Peglar papers into this mundane conversation

[clove-pinks]

HAPPY 213TH BIRTHDAY, HENRY THOMAS DUNDAS LE VESCONTE!

His 32nd birthday, aboard HMS Erebus in 1845, was a day of rain and fog—but the officers arranged their books to discover "a very capital library," as described in the published journal of James Fitzjames.

[ihatemoskatoes]

Happy late birthday to Le Vesconte! Saw this yesterday but forgot to share here lol

[ihatemoskatoes]

I may not have many things but what I DO HAVE is a lot of free time so I'm using my sims for everything but play

Pd1: Let me flex that the sim actually looks like him

Pd2: a rendered Rob. Orme

[ihatemoskatoes]

Apparently nobody knew how to spell his surname, but this is another level lol its so funny

[ihatemoskatoes]

Terror: Endless Night on Steam

🧊 Set out on a rescue mission into the harsh cold of the Arctic Ocean in search of HMS “Erebus” and HMS “Terror" in this turn-based str

Someone on Reddit posted about this upcoming strategy & survival videogame based on the Franklin expedition. I remember hearing about it several months ago, apparently it got relaunched or something, but I'm kind of ignorant on the topic so not really sure. By the way, I think it looks interesting, not my fav videogame genre but absolutely would try it once it's available. What are you all thoughts on it? For me, as an avid gamer, I understand why the expedition serves as inspiration for creating this kind of projects; personally, I’d love to see one with a more historical focus (with an immersive map?), but a strategy game sounds nice, so I'm saving Terror: Endless Night.

[dedicatedfolloweroffashion]

Been researching into the history of Mesmerism and spiritualism for my diss and came across this article from 1850 which details some revelations a clairvoyant had about the Franklin Expedition.

The text is very long and small but essentially she is claiming that by 1850, Franklin and at least thirteen other men were alive and claimed they were living off of fish and wild fowls. She also claims that Franklin will “first be heard of at a place called The Cape”. Though this wasn’t true I do think it’s really interesting what theories were being thrown about at the time.

Mostly towards the end of the article there are wildly racist assertions being made about the Inuit people, but this can also be seen throughout.

I do think it’s quite interesting that no mention is made of Terror and all of the questions put to the clairvoyant are about Erebus. I get that this is because Franklin was obviously considered the most important but it’s wild to me to see how blatant they were about it.

Anyway I thought it was interesting and wanted to share :)