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#this just woke me from my slumber #henry drax #the north water

Well remembered 180th deathday John Torrigton!!!(1825-1/1/1846)

Here's triptych I made a year ago of the beechey island mummies, it was meant for a zine project but it wasn't finished in time. I find the portraits quite ugly now that I actually had a painting course.

@corydoric

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Cherry Garrard photo study

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1915 polar exploration wrap up: this year you were all about THE PROF you listened to 5000 hours of THE PROF your number one genre was GEOLOGY

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good dirk will have a mf laid up watching italian film saying shit like so that's the night porter?

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so that's gustav von aschenbach?

#so real and true

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The Terror (2018) / The Great White Silence (1924)

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One of my biggest dislikes in au fanfic is when Silna is just there as a cameo character - or when she's happily married to Goodsir (and worse, when she's taken his last name!) with no real explanation of how she got there or what she's doing in England (usually it's England). This is not to say I don't want her there! But to have her cameo as just "part of the gang" often feels so disingenuous. In canon, she is fundamentally an outsider, she is not there by choice, and her entire relationship with the individual men and with English/Western society is defined by her status as an indigenous woman of color and the trauma that brought her there. I'm not saying every fic she shows up in needs to discuss her Trauma or dive into the colonial politics of it all, far from it, but throwing her in as a "fun" namecheck feels very different than it does with the rest of the characters. I love it when she shows up in a well thought out way, I also love to see her get to flourish in other circumstances. I just want the author to have answer to why Silna specifically is in this story. Nothing throws me like having her just randomly be in England with no reference to what she's doing there, her background, etc. It's not the same as having Pilkington be the bus driver: one is a character with a very specific and marginalized history and character, one is a background white man known in the fandom as "if you know this guy you're never getting out".

(While I'm here, "Silna Goodsir" especially feels like the author missed a huge part of the point and the entirety who she is as as character. You expect me to believe this Indigenous woman is taking the name--an inherently Western custom--of an English man?? On a similar note, making Tuunbaq her pet dog in the vein a fun fluffy Great Pyrenees is just as galling if not more so in ways that would take an entire other ask to get into.)

This fandom is filled with incredible writers. I just want Silna to get the same (ideally more, really) consideration when transposing her into an AU as the English/male characters get.

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#YES TO ALL OF THIS #get my girl out of england what did she deserve to be in that wretched place 💔💔💔