#fighting top
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ltwilliammowett ¡ 2 years ago
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USS Constitution’s Main Fighting Top in action, by William Gilkerson (1936-2015)
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clove-pinks ¡ 2 years ago
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As the battle between USS Chesapeake and HMS Shannon raged in June, 1813, Chesapeake was blown into her opponent after a devasting carronade salvo, becoming temporarily hooked on a fluke of the British ship's anchor as the ships collided.
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The Tars of Old England Triumphant, 1813 print (Old Print Shop, NYC).
In this close action, the Shannon's officers and crew boarded the enemy ship—and those in the fighting tops ran across yard arms, including midshipmen.
As Chesapeake’s sails began to fill the ship lurched forward. As her side scraped down the Shannon’s forward end her foreyard fouled Shannon’s briefly. Seeing a momentary opportunity, Midshipman John Smith stationed in the foremast fighting top, ran out over the yard followed by five of his topmen and onto Chesapeake’s foreyard. Fighting their way up into the enemy foretop they forced the Americans there to flee down the weather-side shrouds.
Seven men in Chesapeake’s mizzen top armed with muskets and a small howitzer were still causing great execution amongst Shannon’s boarders. Seeing this, Midshipman Philip Cosnahan across in Shannon’s main top began to pick them off one by one using a succession of loaded muskets passed down to him through the lubber’s hole.
— Martin Bibbings, "The Battle," in Broke of the Shannon and the War of 1812, edited by Tim Voelcker.
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A model diorama of an early 19th century fighting top by Flagship Models.
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symphonyofsilence ¡ 4 months ago
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Let the poor man rest.
#also no he doesn't want to experience life as a normal person. no he wouldn't sacrifice his powers to live again.#he LOVED being powerful. he was very proud of his powers. he was at the top of the world. what he disliked was being so lonely at the top.#which having reunited with Geto now he is not.#and he wanted to keep the next generation safe due to his past regrets and teach a generation of kids to be at the top together.#and he wanted to get rid of the corrupt higher-ups and reform the Jujutsu society.#and he did all of that. Yuta and Yuuji are both alive and safe and the kids are all reunited with each other stronger than ever#and the higher-ups are d**d.#Gojo obviously wouldn't hate to keep living. he clearly didn't expect to lose and die. but as he himself confirmed#he died doing what he loved. he went out the way he wanted. he went out with a bang. he had the best fight of his life and gave it his all.#as he said 'he had fun'. he said it would have been embarrassing if he died of old age or sickness.#and now that he's gone he's happy with his friends and especially Geto. he found peace.#He said it himself 'Now i'm wishing that it's not just a dream'.#also for those of you who say that Geto & Gojo wouldn't be together because one would go to hell and one to heaven... no. just no.#first of all. Gojo did a mass m*r*** before his death#second of all. they're Buddhists. they don't have heaven and hell. don't bring Abrahamic religions into everything.#and you'd be surprised by the excuses the Abrahamic religions find to not let people in heaven.#probably Gojo wouldn't go to heaven even if he didn't kill the higher-ups due to...idk... occasionaly doing pranks or sth.#but Gege apparently created a whole other afterlife of his own. and Toji Geto Gojo Nanami and everyone were all gathered there together.#you SAW that. so stop.#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#gojo satoru#satoru gojo#jjk gojo#gege akutami#my two cents#satosugu
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oobbbear ¡ 1 year ago
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I want to post this here too because I’ve seen it happen a few times
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Please understand that there are cultural differences and language differences, if you see this happening let the person clarify what they meant, that person might just not be familiar with words the western side of the internet use
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basedjamil ¡ 19 days ago
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silly little retainerswap au . . . baur was a bodyguard for one of kalim's ancestors; kalim is at NRC specifically so that sebek can go without abandoning his post. the vipers are the traditional retainers for briar valley's royalty and they REALLY disapprove of lilia for book 7 spoilers reasons
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crucifiedcastiel ¡ 9 months ago
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we’ve all been so caught up in the emotional turmoil of another category 5 destiel event that i’ve barely even seen people taking about how misha’s quotes confirm that cas tops
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shrimpyjackal ¡ 4 months ago
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I fluffing swear I am so happy that i drew that-
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oooocleo ¡ 9 months ago
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sometimes u just gotta slap a screentoney texture on ur flats and pretend ur a comic artist….
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upthewitchypunx ¡ 2 months ago
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originalartblog ¡ 6 months ago
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Unforeseen learning opportunity!
(wikitionary to explain the scar)
(bonus)
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puppppppppy ¡ 2 months ago
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so fucking normal abt this cat
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sophsun1 ¡ 5 months ago
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Interview With The Vampire – 2.05: Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape
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pinacoladamatata ¡ 6 months ago
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blink and you'll miss it moments around skyhold....
#solavellan#solas#gotta put out some tender stuff to balance the chaos target team leader solas has caused.#look i just need to go feral in the tags for a moment#okay the fucking. what's he call himself? the great adversary of her people's mythology....falls in love w a woman being forced into a role#not unlike his own#i t makes me c r a z y#like at one point he's all ooooh we're elves need to make sure the humans trust us to ensure safety. gives them a castle......#then he's all ''ooh you cant change the way your legend is getting out of hand. might as well accept it''#but he disapproves if you lean into it/call yourself the herald.#he approves of you fighting against the status quo. encourages sera to sow chaos and has a VERY interesting convo w her about power#''what lop of the top?'' ''yes.'' ''well what's that do except make room for a new top to come and fuck it all up?''#at which point he fuckin STUTTERS and is like. oh fuck. you're right. my bad. and then he shuts up in quiet contemplation#he's clearly wrestling w himself. and Ohmygod the felassanstuff.#like the Guilt. the Regret.#haunting that fucking rotunda.#and yet he's so in love w lavellan if they go that route.#like clearly some stuff was missing/fumbled in game. but like#how he fuckin screams for the inquisitor at the well?????!?! OK BOI?!#im just. the dread wolf. great adversary of the dalish pantheon.#turns out to be some somber grim guy with a fatalistic sense of humor who hates tea and greatly values free will#pina art
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dredgesnails ¡ 9 months ago
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hermitcraft season 10 and water
1. grian and gem are haunted (infected…?) by the ocean
2. false is the mary poppins of rivers. her briefcase is waterlogged
3. pearl and xb are fish
4. mumbo is growing gills
5. beef and skizz are henchmen for the salmon mafia
6. doc is in a swamp (and being terrorised by said salmon mafia)
7. keralis is on a boat :)
8. joel has a shrine for axolotl ocean queen lizzie ldshadowlady [NEW!]
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magpiedraws ¡ 6 months ago
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So I started watching Once Upon A Witchlight-
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kernalbot ¡ 3 months ago
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Goku would be taught the concept of "anal training", walk into the hyperbolic time chamber, and come out a day/year later able to gape on command
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