onefellsloop

stephen maturin living rent-free in my head : maiden oscott truther : she/her

[girlwiththeflashingeyes]

really obsessed with this comment under a simon and garfunkel edit. who up revelling in melancholia and hints of the homo erotic

[nedlittle]

age of sail tracy chapman: you've got a fast ship

[firebatvillain]

One fun thing about learning new languages is reconsidering the structure of words and language in your mother tongue. It seems with each new language I study, I get more little insights into English, either in how it's similar or how it's different.

For example, a couple years ago, while learning Spanish, I encountered the word for a store, "la tienda." I thought "huh, that's a lot like tener (tiene) - the word for store in Spanish literally corresponds to 'to have/keep'. How interesting!"

Then I stopped for a moment, and for the first time in my life, thought about seriously about the meaning of English word for the place where you buy things, "a store."

[onefellsloop]

the difference is that Biggles/Erich/Marie would make everything better and Jack/Stephen/Diana would make everything worse :)

[gyrovagi]

[sailorloneperblog]

American planes fly near the sailing ship "Joseph Conrad" launched in 1880. Photo from 1942. She was then used as a training ship in the United States, and is currently a museum ship at the Mystic Seaport in Connecticut.

[seaglassandeelgrass]

Today's xkcd is going to be another hit with the boat crowd. [x]

[adonischildsupportcase]

[onefellsloop]

approaching from upwind at 4 mph vs approaching from the sun at 400 mph

[onefellsloop]

pleased to find that WE Johns got here 80 years before I did

[leona-florianova]

Sarah and Emily Sweetings

[onefellsloop]

approaching from upwind at 4 mph vs approaching from the sun at 400 mph

[onefellsloop]

‘It’s thrilling’: almost three centuries of the Belfast News Letter go online

The surviving editions of the world’s oldest, continuously published English-language daily can now be accessed free

[leona-florianova]

'Let me look to your pistols,' said Jack, as the trees came closer to the road. 'You have no notion of hammering your flints.'

'They are very well,' said Stephen, unwilling to open his holsters (a teratoma in one, a bottled Arabian dormouse in the other). 'Do you apprehend any danger?'

'This is an ugly stretch of road, with all these disbanded soldiers turned loose. They made an attempt upon the mail not far from Aker's Cross. Come, let me have your pistols. I thought as much: what is this?'

'A teratoma,' said Stephen sulkily.

'What is a teratoma?' asked Jack, holding the object in his hand. 'A kind of grenado?'

'It is an inward wen, a tumour we find them, occasionally, in the abdominal cavity. Sometimes they contain long black hair, sometimes a set of teeth: this has both hair and teeth. It belonged to a Mr Elkins of the City, an eminent cheese-monger. I prize it much.'

'By God,' cried Jack, thrusting it back into the holster and wiping his hand vehemently upon the horse, 'I do wish you would leave people's bellies alone. So you have no pistols at all, I collect?'

'If you wish to be so absolute, no, I have not.'

'You will never make old bones, brother,' said Jack.

--Post Captain

[leona-florianova]

-Post Captain

-The Surgeon's Mate

[leona-florianova]

right

[leona-florianova]

-Post Captain

-The Surgeon's Mate

[valtsv]

more stories where falling in love is a horrifying fate worse than death rather than a source of comfort and hope. more stories where love is understood as a terminal affliction.

[valtsv]

more stories where someone falls in love and understands that this means they will be changed and made more vulnerable by it, compelled to do irrational things in the name of it, and be willing to die for it, and starts lashing out and stress vomiting about it

[leona-florianova]

Diana in her Tipu's Tiger/The death of Munro dress.