loveshack at the end of the earth

notorious belgica enthusiast | https://ko-fi.com/packloafer

[packloafer]

hello

I’ve made a little website about the Belgica Expedition. it is actively under construction; I’ve updated it multiple times a day since launching it last week. this is mostly meant to be a way to corral all of the research I’ve been doing and to share my very amateur translations of various expedition-related texts with anyone who might be interested. please feel free to peruse the site and contact me via email or on here with any questions or suggestions!

image taken from Johan Koren’s shipboard diary, depicting a “starlight concert” on board the ship on September 26, 1897 as they crossed the Atlantic.

[packloafer]

where did the curator of the widow’s bay historical society study conservation. Do u think she did an online program or like has she just been winging it

[packloafer]

Gerrie Doyle from the Historical Society you are famous to me

[tartharyen]

I Love Boosters (2026) dir. Boots Riley TEASER TRAILER | IN THEATERS MAY 22

[packloafer]

discord servers are such an interesting environment. Doesn’t matter if it’s for an entire graduate program there WILL be at least two members who saw the journal factory explode

[nemfrog]

"Spiral nebulae. From drawings by Lord Rosse." A short history of astronomy. 1898.

Internet Archive

[packloafer]

where did the curator of the widow’s bay historical society study conservation. Do u think she did an online program or like has she just been winging it

[pt90]

cookmundsen brain worms.......

[pt90]

*throws a few more crumbs into the enclosure*

[theinternetarchive]

'penelope unraveling her work at night,' silk embroidered with silk thread; dora wheeler, north american, 1886.

[valtsv]

[packloafer]

I've added a few more of Raco's caricatures to my Belgica website, with the goal of finishing up my translations by the 2-year anniversary of the site's birthday (April 29) (yes, that's Lecointe's birthday. I'm corny!) Hopefully, the increased context and reorganization make the page a bit easier to read. If anyone has a specific caricature they'd particularly like to read more about, please let me know, and I'll look into it!

image credit: National Library of Norway

[packloafer]

i can be a real grumpy goat sometimes but fandom is actually one of the most beautiful glorious things in the world. i spent most of an hour trying to identify and locate a fic i read when i barely knew what fic was back in 2011 and i found out that the author purged their LJ and tumblr by early 2012 and there were no wayback archive shots or anything and i was starting to feel crazy until i found a brilliant wonderful tumblr user (whose own blog only dates back to october 2013) who had posted in december 2025 that she found a copy of that fic in her email inbox and would gladly share it with anyone who asked. and i asked and shes emailing it to me right now, in the glorious year of two thousand and twenty-six, because fandom is beautiful

[packloafer]

your fuckign sas:rh and text posts posts are sending me they're so good I've been sat giggling away at them for the past 15 mins

fekjghekjfrg thank you so much sorry im seeing this so many months late

[veryvexing]

quick pilkinghoar doodle:3

[horseplunko]

Pilkinghoar x The Soldier - M.Craft

[veryvexing]

if at any point you're looking for something to draw bc you're maybe bored or need a distraction or something, girlnavy pilkinghoar would be si peak!!

pilkinghoar for the people!

[goth-queen]

[worldsandemanations]

Athena Nangala Granites. “Napalijarri-Warnu Jukurrpa (Seven Sisters Dreaming)