a little scurvy, as a treat

she/her | 30s | uk

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meee

30s, uk, immigrant, etc.

i was on tumblr in 2011, spent years away, and came back when i realised it did a whole phoenix ass thing with my favourite fandoms that i can’t find on instagram (where i just post photos of my inbred dog and food).

anyways!

here for the terror and other assorted cold boys/various bits of 18th-19th century history, && the last of us, critical role/dispatch, the pitt, and more.

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[quilleo]

you’re dying horribly of scurvy and lead poisoning and you go to see Goodsir and he takes out his little doctor bag and it’s this wyd

[tinytuunbaq]

inside of me are two wolves (one who’s deep into fandom and hobbies traditionally seen as the realm of septuagenarian men, and the other who’s the most basic ass normie fucking reformer pilates and orange wine bitch you’ll meet)

something something we contain multitudes

[goddisposez]

My Terror fandom Hot Take is that I think it’s weird how little anyone into the real life history side cares about the Inuit who interacted with the FE. Lots of people dig in to the backgrounds of Tozer’s siblings or Irving’s friends, but nobody seems to have heard of Kokleearngnun or Too-shoo-art-thariu. I’ve observed a real lack of curiosity.

Ok, maybe not that weird, seeing as how I’ve blocked multiple people over the years for saying things like “the Inuit were/are liars”. When you’re saying stuff that was considered racist by some Victorians, it’s time to reconsider your views!

i think this is a fair take/critique that i myself can also learn from! for my part i’m very interested in ada blackjack (though i know she’s not involved with the FE), and have also noticed how non-white figures in polar history (e.g., matthew henson) receive relatively so little attention despite how compelling their lives and the obstacles they overcame are. this is not to say everyone has to let go of their white boy blorbo/interest, but expanding your mind beyond them is both imperative and rewarding!

also yeah, absolutely fuck anyone who discounts the firsthand testimonies of the inuit. i’d block their asses too 💯

[livesonthebside]

Yes!

In case anyone is interested, and you don’t fancy crawling through Charles Francis Hall’s journals yourself, I’ll give a brief summary of these two men’s most significant interactions.

Kokleearngnun told Hall about seeing a white man’s ship that became overwhelmed with ice and sank. He met a man by the name of Aglooka and a “pee-e-tu” (commonly interpreted to be a steward or non-seaman) who was called “Nar-tar”. Hall believed that that was a way of pronouncing “doctor”. Kokleearngnun was given two spoons with the initials FRMC stamped on them.

He met qallunaat at least twice (IIRC). I think that the most interesting testimony he gave was set aboard a ship. It’s quite controversial account, but I strongly believe that it is of the FE rather than of a different expedition. Hall, April 1866:

The Pelly Bay men described the Esh-emut-ta as an old man with broad shoulders, thick and heavier set than Hall, with gray hair, full face, and bald head. He was always wearing something over his eyes (spectacles, as Too-koo-li-too interpreted it), was quite lame, and appeared sick when they last saw him. He was very kind to the Innuits;—always wanting them to eat something. Ag-loo-ka (Crozier) and another man would go and do everything that Too-loo-ark told them, just like boys; he was a very cheerful man, always laughing; everybody liked him—all the kob-lu-nas and all the Innuits. Kok-lee-arng-nun showed how Too-loo-ark and Ag-loo-ka used to meet him. They would take hold of his hand, giving it a few warm and friendly shakes, and Too-loo-ark would say, “Ma-my-too-mig-tey-ma.” Ag-loo-ka’s hand-shaking was short and jerky, and he would only say, “Man-nig-too-mé.” “After the first summer and first winter, they saw no more of Too-loo-ark; then Ag-loo-ka (Crozier) was the Esh-e-mut-ta.”

Kokleearngnun's wife, Koo-narg, as well as several other women, also took tea aboard the ship with Toolooark, who gave them all ulus and, to Koo-narg, a silver pocket watch. It’s curious, because in the accounts from other expeditions, the British mostly gave the Inuit worthless (and sometimes insulting) gifts in exchange for information and items (e.g. pieces of old barrel).

Meanwhile, Too-shoo-art-thar-u definitely met the men after they abandoned ship. His group hadn’t heard that there were qallunaat on the island, so they sent their two bravest hunters (Ow-wer and Too-shoo-art-thar-u) (to use Hall’s renderings of their names) to go and investigate. They meet them at an ice crack, putting distance between them; one of the white men had a gun pointing at the hunters, but the man who was in front told him to put it down. He showed them an ulu and used it to make a line in the snow. He then pantomimed asking for something to eat. Too-shoo-art-thar-u called this first man “Aglooka”. Aglooka couldn’t speak much Inuktitut, but Too-shoo-art-thar-u eventually understood that he had come from two ships up north that had been crushed in ice. Quoting Hall again:

After this first interview the two men went ashore with the Innuits. While Aglooka was trying to talk with the Innuits (Ow-wer [my note: probably a shortening of Ukuararssuk] & Too-shoo-art-thar-u), the party with the boat and one other sledge passed by going a little lower down to a point or cape of the little bay where they then were. On getting ashore Aglooka wanted everything - every pack opened & opened them himself, the dogs' saddle bag packs, the women's packs and the men's packs, for everything was ready for making a journey across the land. Aglooka wanted meat & for this he wanted every pack opened. The Innuits were all willing he should do as he did.

After each man Innuit had given him some seal meat, it was all put on a (one) dog's back & then by the request of Aglooka all 4 Innuit men with the dog laden with meat went down with Aglooka and the man with him to where the men and the boat where, the men erecting a tent. As they approached the tent, one man came out to meet them. Aglooka spoke to the men when he and the Innuits were near the tent. The men along side the tent and the men alongside of the boat stood in line holding up their arms and open hands above their heads, showing they had nothing (that is no weapons) about them.

The men stayed for a bit. One of them caught a fish and one shot down a bird. In exchange for helping them, Aglooka handed out gifts.

The strange thing is that, several years earlier, in 1864, Hall heard a different story from the one above. That one was given by Too-shoo-art-thariu's cousins, and in it the white men stay for one night. The 1864 testimony was given by Too-shoo-art-thariu's mother and son. In that one, the white men stay all winter. They travel with Too-shoo-art-thariu and his family. They hunted and travelled in an inflatable boat. One of them died of illness, and the others left so that they could go back to their country. In thanks, Aglooka offered Too-shoo-art-thariu his rifle - Too-shoo-art-thariu turned it down because he didn’t know how to use it, so Aglooka gave him a “long knife” instead.

Ten years later, Schwatka met Ahlangyah, his wife, who claimed that the family had met ten qallunaat who stayed for five days. Just like in the previous accounts, two of the men were called Aglooka and Toolooah, but their physical descriptions don’t match Kokleearngnun's descriptions of the men he had dinner with. Furthermore, Rasmussen collected the testimony of a man whose father (Mangaq) had been with the group. It has similar features - the hunters meet the white men at a crack in the ice, the qallunaat (three this time) stay in their own tent (which is peculiar because it is not made of animal skins), they say their ships were crushed by the ice, they exchanged a knife for seal meat, and the white men leave because they want to go home. Rasmussen, as quoted in Unravelling the Franklin Mystery by Dave Woodman:

Father and his people would willingly have helped the white men, but could not understand them; they tried to explain themselves by signs, and in fact learned to know a lot by this means. They had once been many they said; now they were only few, and they had left their ship out in the pack-ice. They pointed to the south, and it was understood that they wanted to go home overland. They were not met again, and no one knows where they went to.

However, there was not a caribou hunt like in the first account, and this time they share a tent with Mangaq and the white men stay at least three days.

I’ll admit, I chose Too-shoo-art-thar-u at sort of random, because he’s a candidate for the man who was given the sword of a great officer , but when I checked my books and notes the story turned out to be more complicated than I remembered! But I decided to relay it to show everyone how difficult it can be to interpret Inuit testimony.

If you want to learn more, the best secondary sources with free pdfs of them floating around tumblr are Unravelling the Franklin Mystery by David Woodman and Encounters on the Passage: Inuit Meet the Explorers by Dorothy Harley Eber (slightly problematic in that it uses people’s Christian names instead of their proper names, so please ignore them). For an Inuit perspective, and what a lot of people say is the best book, there is The Land Was Always Used: An Inuit Oral History of the Franklin Expedition (if you have £40 to spare).

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introducing Terror Classic Movies!

Recently a post about films that influenced The Terror has been going around, and I decided to set up a discord watch club for these films. Films will be streaming Saturdays starting around 12pm est / 5pm gmt, kicking off next week with Alien! Come and watch along with us!

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gay people on boats alignment chart. if you care

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shot dead in the first minute

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tumblr is so so beautiful to me because where else would I see yaoi of my great great great great great uncle's failed arctic expedition

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first ever fic, first ever wip??? 😳

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The Terror Intro Theme

I totally forgot I transcribed some of the music from The Terror a few months ago. Here's a little piano sheet music for The Terror's intro theme, specifically the one from episode 1. If you watch the intro of every episode, you will notice the music actually changes slightly with each episode, becoming more discordant. It's a super cool detail that I always loved!

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Feel free to use this sheet music however you like, though tag me if you do! I would love to see what you do with it!

[tinytuunbaq]

happy sailout day ⚓️

i recently took to relearning embroidery stitches and i’m quite pleased with this one!! i printed and traced the bottom of the james fitzjames letter he sent to elizabeth coningham john barrow (thank you @jamesfitzjamesdotcomand) and kept the last line which feels poignant.

next time i think i’d try to make the lettering bigger so the strokes are smoother. and make armfish’s bicep just a wee bit less hench.

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Hello! First of all a MASSIVE congratulations on everything and I’m so happy you finally get to share everything! Genuinely massive kudos to you for lying to all of us so convincingly at Terror Camp being able to hold onto this for so long!

I’m still working my way through the Cambridge article and the rest of the publications so apologies if these are questions that you or Douglas Stenton answer there!

It was my understanding that (at least according to the wikipedia article which is not always the most reliable source) that the Canadian History Museum genuinely have just. Lost? Misplaced? the Gladman Point skeleton (now known to have been Peglar)? Any update on that front or were the DNA samples used in identification ones that were acquired prior to the misplacement?

Speaking of remains and whereabouts, what has been or is being done with the four that have now been identified? If you’ve been talking to descendants, do any of them now get to decide what happens going forward regarding reinterrment on KWI like I think I’ve heard has been done for other remains, or has that already happened? What’s the most respectful and proper way to move forward with the knowledge we now have and the fact that this happened almost 180 years ago?

Also, I’m super interested to hear more about the timeline for all of this if you’re able/willing to talk about it! You mentioned that you’ve had at least most of the information for like ten months now, were all four identifications confirmed within that period? Was it a matter of waiting to get news back regarding any of them before publishing anything rather than announcing each one as it was found out, or did they all happen so close together?

This is also just a request for you to be as absolutely obnoxious and insufferable about all of this as you fully deserve to be and say everything about it that you want to and are allowed to do now that the news is out!

Thanks! I'm very happy I did not accidentally spill the beans, because that was a real fear lol

It was my understanding that the Canadian History Museum genuinely have just. Lost? Misplaced? the Gladman Point skeleton...

Yeah Peglar's skeleton was lost and remains lost. It was first found by McClintock in 1859, then rediscovered in 1973 during a Canadian military training exercise. They removed it and sent to the museum, and then it has since disappeared. Douglas Stenton went back, found the original site again, and they were able to find a few small bones missed by the military, such as a metatarsal. The DNA samples came from those. Some of that is mentioned in the Cambridge article that you're still reading, but there's more on it in an earlier paper here if you want even more reading material haha

There's a picture of his skeleton from 1973 after a partial reassembly.

Finding “Harry Peglar”: Re-examining the discovery of a Franklin expedition sailor’s skeleton by the 1859 McClintock search expedition

Speaking of remains and whereabouts, what has been or is being done with the four that have now been identified?

To my knowledge the remains were re-interred in KWI after the DNA samples were first taken years ago. Except for teeth, which I think get destroyed in the DNA testing process. I don't really know a lot when it comes to interment and repatriation and all that. I know at some point Fabiënne Tetteroo had talked about the potential for repatriation when it came to James Fitzjames, and it sounded complicated. Especially since we're talking only about a couple of bones for each person, not a full skeleton.

Also, I’m super interested to hear more about the timeline for all of this...

I talk about the timeline in my blog here! I jump around a bit in the narrative, so if it helps, I found out about:

John Bridgens on July 19, 2025

David Young on August 15, 2025

William Orren on August 18, 2025

Harry Peglar on September 16, 2025

The initial paper was just Bridgens, but then it kept getting delayed because we kept getting positive matches! What a problem to have haha. After the Orren match we still had two DNA kits in transit, so we decided to just wait until they got back to submit it in case we got lucky again. And then we did with Peglar! But Peglar was significant enough that he got his own paper. Anyway my blog post goes into more detail on all of that, if you once again would like even more reading material 😉

Thanks again!

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I have not shut up about this all day

[roaldamundsen]

Four sailors from doomed Franklin expedition identified through DNA

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have identified the remains of four more crew members of Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated expedition

HELLO

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the entire terror fandom right now

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Next Terror Tournament Poll!!!

you gotta vote to decide what the next terror tournament will be!!!!

the next terror tournament should be...

who would you eat first

kinkiest

most annoying coffee order

most tumblr followers

worst drunk texter

most likely to be abducted by aliens

most likely to fall for a pyramid scheme

most likely to still have their baby blanket

most likely to be addicted to chatgpt

best hypothetical husband

best twitch streamer

best at being a pet

Voting ended onMay 3

[tinytuunbaq]

i'm here to campaign for my idea: who would fall for a pyramid scheme?

would crozier sell liquid herbalife supplements? could gg convince you to buy some toxic deep conditioner? which steward might look best in a pair of lularoe leggings in a facebook live? would hickey go for broke up the sales leaderboard so he could win a trip to hawaii??

there's only one way to find out, and it's with your vote 🤝

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let’s get earnest on main!

spending yesterday at the rgs to see @jamesfitzjamesdotcom was so utterly delightful, not only did fabiënne deliver a brilliant lecture but she spent a good two hours afterwards chatting, answering all our questions, spilling more fitzbarrow tea.

some of us found this space through academia, some through pop culture (myself included) and no matter what, everybody is welcomed and included — which feels like a revolutionary act in a time when community can be so fragmented, and fraught.

also the society puts on a little coffee social after lectures, it’s in the beautiful hall where lady jane keeps watch in the corner 🥹 they literally had to kick us out we were hanging for so long, the polarverse equivalent of the lights coming on at the club.

you can (and should!) watch the recording here

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rarepair shippers be like