a perfect son of a bitch

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[whalersandsailors]

Hard to believe that it’s already been two years since I posted my first Terror fic to ao3 — poised on the edge of the world. Since then I have written extensively for this fandom with my works totaling more than sixty.

To celebrate my Terrorversary, I’ve compiled a masterpost of all my fics, organized by pairing and character. {Find it here!} 

Or you can skip to one of my personal favorites linked right here:

no men but animals

I knew it was love (and I felt it was glory)

a fine lobster kettle

everyday’s most quiet need

A Sunday Aboard HMS Terror

you & me & the devil makes three

Thanks to everyone who has read, commented on, bookmarked, and reblogged my fics as well as just making me feel super welcomed! It has been a real honor participating in this small but passionate fandom. ❤️

[samael-jpg]

Cosmic love.

[olympain]

“But when they found that I was not such a ruffian as I looked, I could even stroke them as they sat on their nests.”

[wanna-be-marie-antoinette]

Debenham’s penguin drawing vs. Ponting’s picture which I think might be debs inspo

[jayessart]

what have they done to us... what have you done to us...

instagram / twitter

[coyluvr]

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

[weepingwidar]

Theodor Severin Kittelsen (Norwegian, 1857-1914) - Pesta Farer Landet Rundt (The Plague Travelling Through the Country) (1904)

[favouritefi]

Finally bought some good china

[soli-terri]

A netsuke showing three rats eating a fish head. Made in the 18th / 19th century during the Edo / Meiji period. Believed to be carved from a sperm whale tooth.

A netsuke is a Japanese miniature sculpture that originated in the 17th century.

[devcrap]

for @lisondraws

[segamascott]

[gabriestat]

it's like that guy from acclaimed horror amc the terror said. One summer when I was seven, my parents sent me to live with two aunts in Oxfordshire. I did not want to go. The elderly have that effect on children. But they loved me. And I grew to love them. They were papists I came to find. Devout. Each Sunday they would leave me with a housemaid while they attended a Catholic Mass. I was frightened for them. I had been told they were doing some great, unforgivable thing. Then one morning, they took me with them. I was shaking. The service was not the howling spectacle of sin I had imagined, but was beautiful. The singing sounded delivered by angels themselves. When it came time for the Eucharist, I found myself moved to step forward. My aunts were surprised, but pleased, I could see. I took the wafer on my tongue. Drank from the chalice. I felt clean. With the body and blood of Christ within me I felt forgiven of every poor weak or selfish thing within my soul. It was a perfect moment in a whole imperfect life. The next week when it came time to dress, I, I pretended to be ill. They knew I was pretending. To this day, I don't know why I did it. They never asked me to join them again. We never spoke of it. It was the last and only time I stepped into a papist church. But tonight when I close my eyes I'm there. If I were a braver man, I would kill Mr. Hickey. Though it would mean my death, too. But I am hungry. I am hungry and I want to live

[archivecloth]

Putrid

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x03 - “Finally Got The Name Right”

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x08 - “Killing is a Cycle”

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

Since I talk about the difference between history as a hobby and as professional research reasonably often, here are books I think you should read if you want to think more about how history is created:

Time’s Monster: How History Makes History by Priya Satia

Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-century Europe by Hayden White

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

The Past is a Foreign Country by David Lowenthal

Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense by Ann Laura Stoler

Dust: The Archive and Cultural History by Carolyn Steedman

If other people have books they would consider key, please add them. It might be good to start a longer list.

[enlitment]

Georg Igger's Historiography in the Twentieth Century: From Scientific Objectivity to the Postmodern Challenge has a useful overview of historiography/is a solid place to start in my opnion

[polinomnom]

The Herald and The Defender