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[pop-punk-girl-thing]

oh hey did you all hear that they're calling it electriclighting now? since no one uses gaslights anymore

[birdiebowers]

BIRDIE & "THE BRUTES" — about Bowers arachnophobia

I desperately need to share it with all of you so... Enjoy Bowers-scared-of-spiders content from his George Seaver's biography, because there is no way you didn't read it!

TW: This may contain some sensitive descriptions of spiders and may cause discomfort to people struggling with arachnophobia BUT it doesn't contain any graphical content.

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1. Birdie's arachnophobia:

"But there was one creature which he could not endure to see, still less to touch; an object which filled him not merely with aversion but with physical loathing, shrinking and horror: this was a spider. His sisters remember how in infancy he would scream, and how even in his young manhood he would stiffen and turn pale, at the sight of one. It was in their opinion the one and only thing in heaven or earth that he feared."

(p. 9)

If it weren't for my arachnophobia, I would find it amusing that of ALL the things he could be afraid of, it was spiders. Not the pain, not the claustrophobia, not the blood, but those little creatures he was supposed to find useful in a hot climate like this Indian one.

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2. His usual habits in spider-investigatuons:

"On joining a new ship he would carefully inspect his cabin for the least vestige of a cobweb, and if any revealed itself would make his servant scour the cabin and turn over the bedclothes in his bunk before he occupied it: when at home he would request the maid to thrust her brush into the corner of every room in the same way — and would personally superintend these operations. In his own words in letter home after one such encounter — 'It might seem to anyone a little thing to make a fuss about, but it means a good deal to me.'"

Birdie, I totally understand you, I still scream every time I see a spider. I'm in a slightly better position because (although I find them frightening) I limit myself to chasing them away from where I am (crime of being small 🎀). Not by myself, of course, but by someone else. No way I will touch it, ew.

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3. Mentioned reason of this phobia:

"Seeking for an explanation of this peculiar dread his mother found it when she recalled an incident before returning from India. She was giving him his bath, when a tarantula appeared creeping up the wall. She called to the coolie to come in and kill it. The coolie did so with his slipper, the unpleasant result of which indelibly imprinted itself on her baby's memory."

If I were Bowers, I would simply die. I went to a spider exhibition once (one too many), and the only thing that stopped me having a panic attack was knowing how tight the terrariums' glasses were. Tarantulas are the ones I remember the worst. Also, I would have left this world if it had been one of those spiders that carried its young, so they run away in each direction if you smash them. Thank God Birdie probably didn't know of their existence.

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4. Here's a part of his diary written in Bombay, 3rd November, 1905:

"I have been allotted a cabin which has never yet been occupied. The ship was new in February. Of course it is fitted up well — with electriclight fans and every convenience, but to my horror I observed cobwebs, and directed my boy to down all curtains and remove everything. When this was done, I pushed up the iron bunk, and then there was what seemed to be an audible scuttle, and out rushed a mouse — as I thought — but along the wall. You may guess what it was. If it had been a Cobra I should have been cool, but a Spider ! ! ! Well ! I retired as gracefully as I dared in my boy’s presence, and told him to kill it. He missed it and out it came right up to me — then there was a mess on the deck, I did it as quickly as I could. Oh ! it makes me shudder to think of it ! I would face anything in heaven or earth rather than a Spider like that ! You can imagine my feelings though. I have had the room washed and scoured in every corner, watched it done — and yet I shall always dread sleeping there. I shall most certainly sleep on deck as long as I can."

(p. 53)

SERIOUSLY, i CAN'T IMAGINE THIS ONE. Spider?? Running towards me?? Nah cuz hell i'm out of this shit. Royal Indian Marine must accept my resignation.

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5. Another one, from 11th May 1907:

"From now till the beginning of the rains it is very warm and just after them, too. It is excellent for Spiders as regards development. Two brutes emerged from the Captain’s room the other day. I sent a Petty officer to chase one and he caught it in his hand, its great hairy legs were so long that they all protruded between his fingers. I saw it safely into the water too."

(p. 66)

This is so hilarious, I must find my petty officer to chase the spiders for me... but Birdie's spiders--- hairy ones, eurgh?? I feel relief when I am reading the process of kindly removing them like this. Eww.

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6. This one describes an incident from one of Birdie's many expeditions in search of butterflies:

"I saw an immense spider. He had spun a web of at least 12 sq. ft. right across a glade. I had to break it down to get past, though it gave me the spasms to go near it. The web was more like elastic than anything and strong enough to hold a pigeon I should think. I had to throw 3 heavy boughs at it before it was demolished and I did not kill the centrepiece."

(p. 122)

The fact he was so afraid of spiders that he was seriously scared even of killing it! Also, the worst thing is to walk right into it. When I was a kid I had a nightmare where I was running through the woods and I fell face first into a web and a spider ate my only eye. Throwing stones seems to be the safest option when I have no other choice.

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7. This piece was written in 1909 when Bowers was serving on the collier 'Waronga':

"It is long since I have been so dirty. The work was done expeditiously though, and any idea of there being kid-glove officers on the Fox was soon dispelled. That collier had some of the healthiest-looking spiders I have ever seen aboard. I was always glancing up in a furtive manner for fear of being dropped on by a hairy monster —ugh ! they give me spasms as badly as ever."

(p. 105)

FALLING SPIDERS??

b y e .

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8. Again, 1909, but at Colombo:

"I have brought my Wordsworth up here and read it a bit in my room at night, keeping one eye aloft for spiders, one of which fell on me the other night. - The brutes try to spin round the lamp ; fortunately we are well supplied with lizards. . . ."

(p. 119)

9. Extract from his notes made on 31st July, 1910:

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"Talking about spiders — I have to collect them as well as insects. Needless to say I caught them with a butterfly net, and never touched one. Only five species were known before, and I found fifteen or more — at any rate I have fifteen for certain. Others helped me to catch them, of course."

(p. 155)

I just LOVE his narrative style - everything he includes, the obvious, the jokes, the euphemisms, the exaggerations and the epithets. He would be a great storyteller. He writes about something terrible for him, but at the same time it's so positive, so perfectly reflective of his character! This joy pours out of his diaries and letters and I can't stop smiling while reading it. 🥹

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10. This one is from Scott's diary!

"Bowers caused much amusement by demanding to know 'If the pycnogs (pycnogonids) were more nearly related to the arachnids (spiders) or crustaceans.' As a matter of fact a very sensible question, but it caused amusement because of its sudden display of long names.’”

(p. 197)

Very important question!! Should he be afraid of them because they are spiders, or not because they are crustaceans? Well, I hope Nelson has answered that question for him.

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11. And finally, the Birdie comments on an article in defence of spiders that he read in a newspaper. Personally, my fav one:

The author eulogizes the scrawly horror and introduces a strange theory (his subject was the common house spider). He said that they were probably unable to see more than an inch or so and were guided to victims entirely by web vibrations-away from the web, they will not touch an insect-even one-sixteenth of an inch away, provided the insect remains motionless. He also says a lot more in favour of these brutes. The eyesight test, however, fails with outdoor spiders. Here one saw me 2 yards away yesterday and I tested the sight of others — at a safe distance."

(p. 126-127)

This bit is hilarious: he watches the spiders from a few yards away for fear of being hurt. After all, what do they have so many pairs of eyes for? What if they're watching him by each one? It's better not to risk, isn't it?

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you don't even know how I love this little red-headed guy with smile and fear of spiders. he's so special for me!!

All extracts are from George Seaver's "'Birdie' Bowers of the Antarctic" (1938) which you can read for free here!

Birdie's caricature was originally published in "South Polar Times".

[glo-katt84]

hello! 20 and 27 for music box asks?

20)  a song for car rides

Um I'm never trusted with the aux but if am maybe if you want more of some upbeat songs I recommend "fine" by lemondemon or"Mr Blue Sky" by electriclight ocestra or maybe if you want a abasute BANGER probably like "ARE WE STILL FRIENDS ?" By Tyler the creator

27)  a song you’ve seen live

Blame game - Beach bunny it's very good and has a good message I used to enjoy the band a lot more than I do now but still has good songs

[wearedailypoets]

do you hear what I hear?

it sounds like summer, when you stand outside and breathe through your mouth because the humidity is steaming off the pavement...

it sounds like summer,when you stand outside and breathe through your mouthbecause the humidity is steaming off the pavement,or the grass has signed upto be jungle, and you’re not certainif your mind is buzzing like an electriclight or if the insects are so omnipresentthey have taken over the universe

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Gaslighting is bad for the environment we need to start electriclighting people instead

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Baby fox sitting in front of the torii gate, Kyoto. // Daiki_Inada