the queerest ships you've ever seen

Katie // ace/aro author of queer naval fiction 🌈⚓🌊 // the Nightingale/Courtney trilogy out now // lover of all things maritime and polar

[kdayshauthor]

Hi all! I'm on Tumblr! 🌈❤️ I'm Katie, an ace/aro author of queer historical maritime fiction!! My Nightingale/Courtney series is basically Hornblower if the queerness was actually canon 🌈 Pls like/follow/reblog if you're into maritime and polar history and fiction, because I need to find my people ❤️❤️

[hms-ratfiish]

"i asked chatgpt-" well i asked the lieutenant on watch and he looked embarrassed and told me to ask the captain and the captain said ha'hm and made me play whist for two hours

[angrysann]

Sketch of mr Cherry and his pengwings 😌

[polaresque]

scott & wilson. again

[polaresque]

to sum up he has proved himself a greater treasure than even I expected to find

[polaresque]

:-)

[icegrotto]

what if the solution to all your problems is to get really into the history of polar exploration. Have you tried that

[sandovers]

Even if you allow that the reverses on the homeward journey from the South Pole that killed Scott’s party were mostly his own fault, rather than tragic bad luck, still they occupy the place in this kind of story reserved for inevitabilities, whatever their cause; they come in as downward turns of events that seem almost stipulated by the story’s structure; while at the same time as you feel the approaching deaths to be inevitable, the perpetual present tense in which the story happens every time keeps hope helplessly alive.

Francis Spufford, I May Be Some Time: Ice in the English Imagination

[polaresque]

am I reading this right. cherry wrote little notes to cheer his friends up on their way back from the pole, and then ended up finding them again himself while searching wilson's dead body?? christ

[thehutpoint]

And traditionally, we welcome the New Year with beautiful painting by Bill, this time "Exercising the ponies". Happy New Year, polarheads.!

[pseudepigraphon]

"great god! this is an awful place...", drypoint & monoprint tunnel book

[birdiebowers]

this photo makes me feel sick, it's so uncanny, why he stares into my soul

[lawfulgoodsir]

royal navy captain giving officer pep talk: one more thing.. men..as you are dressing your hair in the morning..it is vitally important that you at least pull some slut strands out in the front

[evergreensounds]

connected through space and time

[polarpics]

Cherry and his pony Michael, Terra Nova expedition 1911

[buildoblivion]

[bambistjames]

non-writers will never understand the mental illness of writing an entire conversation in your head while doing dishes and then forgetting every word the second you open a blank doc