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Jimi Hendrix: Valleys Of Neptune (2010)
Promotional Copy
Experience Hendrix
Sony Music
#my vinyl playlist#jimi hendrix#mitch mitchell#billy cox#noel redding#rocky isaac#chas chandler#eddie kramer#experience hendrix#the jimi hendrix experience#sony music#classic rock#blues rock#hard rock#70’s rock#record cover#album cover#album art
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Needing some Oscar singing comfort this morning as I struggle with yet another migraine. I love this version because he changes the lyrics and adds Elvira's name at one point; this was before they were married!
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5/11/24: NJPW Resurgence
#aimee irl: wrestling#nipw resurgence#njpw#rocky romero#KENTA#kenta kobayashi#hiroshi tanahashi#david finlay#jorel nelson#royce isaacs#eddie kingston#jack perry#jon moxley
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#Mercedes Mone#Momo Watanabe#Lio Rush#Gabriel Kidd#Mustafa Ali#Hiromu Takahashi#Robbie Eagles#Bad Dude Tito#Hiroshi Tanahashi#Tomohiro Ishii#Zack Gibson#James Drake#Tetsuya Naito#Zack Sabre Jr#Titan#TJ Perkins#Tom Lawlor#Royce Isaacs#Fred Rosser#Shane Haste#Mikey Nicholls#Hechicero#Mina Shirakawa#Trish Adora#Kevin Knight#Rocky Romero#Yoshi Hashi#Dan Moloney#Clark Connors#David Finlay
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Introducing Myself.
I'm Gerard. For any of my confused mutuals, my last username was vampiresstolemygender.
I'm autistic, transgender, have DID (not something i really post about, though), and am a minor (16).
C0LUMBINERS AND TCC DNI. I HATE YALL WITH A BURNING PASSION, FUCK OFF. YOU HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR VICTIMS.
My favorite things are:
| Non Music |
Postal (Franchise), Johnny The Homicidal Maniac (Comic), Hello Kitty/Sanrio, Gloomy Bear (Mascot), Scream (Movie, the first one), Friday The 13th (Movie), Jennifer's Body (Movie), The Binding of Isaac (Game), Guitar Hero (Game), Undertale (Game), The Crow (First Movie, Comic), Death Note (Anime), Soul Eater (Anime), Chainsaw Man (Anime) | Musicals |
Ride The Cyclone, American Idiot, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Heathers, Beetlejuice, Jennifer's Body
| Bands and Artists| Korn, KMFDM, My Chemical Romance, Mindless Self Indulgence, Green Day, Garbage, Hollywood Undead, Insane Clown Posse, Nirvana, Paramore, Slipknot, Weird Al, Metallica, The Garden, Deftones, Fall Out Boy, Mitski, Billy Cobb, System Of A Down, La Dispute, Misfits, S3RL, 100 Gecs, Dead Kennedys, Weezer, Birds Fear Death, Dresden Dolls, Lauren Bousfield, Against Me!, Devi Mccallion, Pierce the Veil, Ayesha Erotica, The Paper Chase, Linkin Park, Type O Negative, Blink 182, Limp Bizkit, The Cure, Decendants, The Smashing Pumpkins
#Postal#postal redux#postal 4#postal brain damaged#postal movie#johnny the homicidal maniac#jthm#hello kitty#sanrio#gloomy bear#scream#billy loomis#stu macher#horror movies#horror#friday the 13th#jennifer's body#the binding of isaac#guitar hero#undertale#anime#the crow#eric draven#death note#soul eater#chainsaw man#ride the cyclone#repo the genetic opera#rocky horror picture show#korn
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*peers over my glasses* Do I know you? 🤔 lol Is this a sideblog from a mutual or do you just have the same exquisite taste? Either way, love your blog. Your list of problematic husbands was so eerily tailored to my types that I frankly feel called out. 🫣
Hey Vinz Clortho!
I'm a Reddit refugee, basically. I would scan and lurk on Tumblr for stuff I like. Arcane has been my newest obsession and Silco in particular.
I'm awkward af and not great at being sociable especially considering how much I can hyperfixate on something and drive people nuts.
I thought I'd give it a go and just be my weirdo self and see if other weirdos were ok with my posting my weird shit.
I don't want to say I have daddy issues (I literally hate my irl dad) but damn I love older men. Old Hollywood, super morally grey dark horse or villain characters --
Well, I'm glad I'm finding my people here. This has surprisingly turned out fucking awesome. I thought I would just like/reblog stuff and had no idea I hit a nerve with, of all people, Peter Cushing of late.
For every one of my irl friends that was all about Edward, 50 Shades, or the standard hot guy, story hero, I'm over here going, yeah, I'd fuck Darkness, hooves, horns and all.
#vsc answers#hi there!#nice to meet you guys#villain lover#peter cushing#silco#darkness#captain hook#jason isaacs#hans gruber#alan rickman#snape#cillian murphy#jackson rippner#hannibal#mads mikkelsen#tim curry#dr frankenfurter#rocky horror#jekyll and hyde#victor frankenstein#dracula#christopher lee#gary oldman#david bowie#jareth#labyrinth
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tao x elle (explodes)
#tao is literally me i have not related to a character so hard#those scenes in the trailer with them???? i’m gonna combust they are so adorable#them running in the louvre?? elle telling tao to get a haircut??? tao getting all embarrassed when elle knocked??? the yearning????????#love nick and charlie and tara and darcy but oh my god THEM…love is real again#my faves my besties#they’re so fucking sweet oh my god#also the teachers!!! cannot wait for their storyline as well!!!!!!#i lost interest in heartstopper for a while but idk i’m starting to like it more again#“oh ur being gay carry on” can’t believe i get to hear that with my own ears. kizzy edgell i love you#also tara/darcy going through a rocky path????????? if anything happens to either of them i will do something that ends up on national tv#need something lgbt to happen to me soon i can’t stand watching charlie and nick be sappy and shit without feeling lonely and sad!!#what is wrong with me!!!!#also why is ben hope still here nobody gives a shit about him lol he’s not even relevant at this point!!!#heartstopper#haven’t mentioned isaac and imogen yet but i love them dearly i hope they get good arcs this season#i know isaac might have an arc with him realising his aromaticism or something along those lines?? love that for him#i hope imogen’s treated well this season she’s sweet#same with the new characters!! and sahar my bestie!!#paris trip is my favorite storyline i hope they do it justice#valeramblings
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(Guillermo Del Toro + Andrew Garfield + Oscar Isaac) X rebooting Frankenstein =
The Rocky Horror Picture Show 2: Electric Boogaloo
#frankenstein#guillermo del toro#andrew garfield#Oscar Isaac#Rocky horror picture show#gay#so gay#please#we deserve this
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drew my ocs genderbent bcuz its canon and i wanted to see if i could still draw women (first pic is normal versions, second is genderbent)
#in essence tho isaac isnt really genderbent as he is 'binder was taken away by goddess who hated him'#so thats why he looks the same in both#meanwhile rocky actually does get genderbent bcuz i hate him and want him to die (lovingly)#anyway they are my beloved skrunklies and i will torture them until the day i die#also you may be asking “why doesnt isaac have a second binder???” and my answer is: mmm no#also do people have multiple binders????? i only have one and its done its job (flattened my chest but was uncomfy if i moved certain ways)#my ocs#oc art#oc artwork#(yeah im making a tag for them theyll likely be posted abt more)#isaac and rocky
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Maybe I’ve lost my mind, but I feel like a Baccano/Lackadaisy crossover could potentially work really well? They share a time period! The Lackadaisy cast are canonically human! Also it could be really funny!!
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this headcanon generator has been making the rounds, and so I decided to generate some for several of my OCs (namely SW, DnD, and the Misfits LOL)
Matt has a Mary Sue OC
you know what, I could see this being legit. his OC would just be a thinly veiled version of my Guardian tho 😜
Rocky does not know what sleep is
BIG false, this dude crashes every night without fail. and if he ever does end up having a rough night’s sleep, he just spends some extra time in the Crucible the next day to get eepy 😆
Isaac knows the lyrics to every Hatsune Miku song by heart
IM LAUGHING SO HARD OMG. this one should be switched with Rocky’s tbh ROFL
Ace is very willing to eat inedible things
considering who his dad is… this is too accurate 😝
Marvel enjoys doing taxes
heck no, watch my girl do everything in her power to avoid paying taxes without shame lolololol
Lunaa knows the lyrics to Let It Go by heart
YOU BETTER BELIEVE SHE DOES!!! 😁
Nova is tumblr famous
SHE WOULD BE OMG. she’s already really popular amongst the entire GAR, and her efforts are well-known throughout the whole galaxy; she’s basically Tumblr famous 😌
Quickdraw is a sleepwalker
he wasn’t before, but I love this idea and I’m making it canon now 😂
Mutt will go feral. Watch out.
Y E S. he’s a goofy goober 99% of the time, but if someone hurts one of his brothers, it is ON SIGHT 😤
Gunner has chronic nightmares
…after a certain point, yes he absolutely does. and that’s all I’m gonna say 🤭
Clank has not showered in two and a half weeks
FALSE. my boy likes to be clean tyvm 😌
Gildish is afraid of doing anything without other peoples permission
LOLOLOLOLOL literally the exact opposite, he does whatever tf he wants and doesn’t care what anyone says or thinks about it 😂
Ember has fallen asleep at their desk while working in the middle of the night
I could see this happening in the modern AU where she’s a fashion designer for sure haha
Zai gets road rage
YES. OMG. HE WOULD 😂😂😂
Kal will remind others in the midst of chaos how good they're being
IM LOSING IT THIS IS TOO ACCURATE OMFG 🤣🤣🤣
Kia has punched a hole in their wall
absolutely NOT, this sweet girl has not physically hit anything once in her entire life, she is baby thanks 🥰
If Zippy was presented with an intergalactic portal, they would enter it without question
PFFFT. he would only go in if his friends did. or if there were snacks guaranteed to be on the other side 😝
Elon tackles and wrestles people to show affection
in his own way, yeah. he’s not very strong, but he would glomp people, for sure 😆
Goobert has a Roblox account
DYINGGGGGG 🤣🤣🤣 he would not, it’s too beneath him 😜
Vel gets ready for Christmas WAY too early
HE WOULD HAHA. he loves to celebrate and spend time with family, I’m positive holidays are a BIG deal where he’s from 😁
#this was so fun LOL#I'm legit gonna use this thing to make up some actual headcanons for my OCs#OC: Matt#OC: Rocky#OC: Isaac#OC: Ace#OC: Marvel#OC: Lunaa#OC: Nova#OC: Quickdraw#OC: Mutt#OC: Gunner#OC: Clank#OC: Gildish#OC: Ember#OC: Zai#OC: Kal#OC: Kia#OC: Zippy#OC: Elon#OC: Goobert#OC: Vel#my OCs
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that was an Unhinged call. there were full inches between his foot and the plate!!!!!!!
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Oscar Isaac - Green, Green Rocky Road
I could listen to him all day. And watch him. Love how he slips Elvira’s name in this version!
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All AAI2 official English character and case names rated based on whether I think they're better or worse than the fan translation equivalents:
Di-Jun Huang > Di-Jun Wang - It's the same.
Horace Knightley > Bronco Knight - Worse.
Ethan Rooke > Bastian Rook - Worse.
Nicole Swift > Tabby Lloyd - Much better.
Raymond Shields > Eddie Fender - Slightly worse.
Jay Elbird > Rocco Carcerato - Much better.
Simon Keyes > Simeon Saint - Slightly worse.
Sebastian Debeste > Eustace Winner - Sounds worse, fits better.
Justine Courtney > Verity Gavèlle - Much better.
Sirhan Dogen > Bodhidharma Kanis - Much better.
Patricia Roland > Fifi Laguarde - Much better, they've already done "patrol" twice.
Jeff Master > Samson Tangaroa - More unique, less punny. Not sure.
Katherine Hall > Judy Bound - Slightly worse because no food pun.
Isaac Dover > Artie Frost - References his nature as an artist, better.
Pierre Hoquet > Paul Halique - Same as Japanese name, no longer parrot.
Dane Gustavia > Carmelo Gusto - Worse, doesn't sound as awesome.
Delicia Scones > Delicia Scone - It's the same.
Karin Jenson > Florence Niedler - Much better. Florence Nightingale and needles.
Bonnie Young > Hilda Hertz - Better, because alliterative.
Jill Crane > Rosie Ringer - Better, alliterative. Different nursery rhyme.
Blaise Debeste > Excelsius Winner - The absolute Winner among these names. It's so pompous, contains "celsius" and "excel" and just sounds like he went to Oxford.
John Marsh > Shaun Fenn - It's the same. Shaun means John and fen means marsh.
Amy Marsh > Amelie Fenn - It's the same.
Dai-Long Lang > Da-Long Lang - It's the same.
Jack Cameron > Alf Aldown - Better, only because it's a Deid Mann tier awful name rather than a boring realistic name.
Turnabout Target > Turnabout Trigger - Better, sounds more like a presidential assassination attempt.
The Imprisoned Turnabout > The Captive Turnabout - Better, less long-winded.
The Inherited Turnabout > Turnabout Legacy - Better for same reason as above.
The Forgotten Turnabout > A Turnabout Forsaken - Sounds more pretentious, but probably better because less confusion with The Lost Turnabout, where Phoenix forgets.
The Grand Turnabout > Turnabout for the Ages - Worse, I think. It sounds cooler, but doesn't have any chess connotations. They should have called it "The Grandmaster's Turnabout" or "Turnabout Checkmate", I think.
Also, have updated case cards to help you get used to the new names.
EDIT;
Some extra things:
* iFly Airlines in AAI1 has been reverted to its Japanese name of "GoYou". This was probably done because iFly is the name of a real Russian airline with global sanctions against it since 2022.
* As a result, Hugo Ifly is now Ugo Hughes and the tanuki called Mr. Ifly is now Captain Ugo.
* Moozilla is now Taurusaurus, which I think is a better name.
* The Grand Tower is now the Bigg Building, suggesting that Big is not merely its size, but a Mr. Bigg is its proprietor.
* The Zodiac Hall galleries are now referred to as seasonal "Wings" rather than "Palaces". Makes more sense.
* Edgeworth Law Offices is now referred to as Edgeworth and Co. Law Offices, the Co. being Eddie Fender (aka Ray Shields). Again, makes more sense.
* Rocky the bear is now Teddy, since his owner is now already Rocco as a Rocky reference.
* Anubis the hunting dog is now Helmut, a lame pun on "hell mutt".
* Astique the elephant is now Azea, like an "Asian" elephant.
* Ally the alligator is still the same. Regina Berry is not very good at naming animals.
#ace attorney investigations#ace attorney#aai2#aai2 spoilers#miles edgeworth#localization#taurusaurus#excelsius winner
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POE DAMERON
╰┈➤ 18+ none of these stories belong to me! this is a masterlist of all poe dameron stories i’ve read and reblogged! just thought it would be nice to have them all in one spot! (if your fic is on here and you wish not to be, let me know <3) some will have summaries if provided <3
MASTERLIST • OSCAR ISAAC CHARACTERS • 09/01/24
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@the-little-ewok ☼ a sincere apology Poe Dameron simply can’t just get drunk and pass out, can he? Oh no. He has to go one better; full throttle and put himself into yet another dangerous situation. And while he offers an apology you want him to show you just how sorry he is. ☼ im scared Poe teases you after your first experience with a sandstorm. ☼ stay Poe is scared to love you... and about to make the biggest mistake of his life... does he have time to get you back before you leave forever?
@writingsoftheloser ☼ deflection, deflection Poe's back from a mission but he can't find you.
@never--doubt ☼ full-time problem In a universe where everyone has timers that freeze when they meet their soulmates, it’s hard to focus on that when a war is brewing. What will Rey and Finn do when they figure out that Poe has already found his soulmate? ☼ ruin the friendship Poe Dameron has been your best friend since you can remember, and your roommate for years now. When Rey says something about your dating life in reference to Poe, will that change how you view him? Is there more between you both than just friendship? [Modern AU!]
@light-yaers ☼ sweet escape Being a Resistance newbie was always going to have its challenges, but you’d never expected them in the form of Poe Dameron; Black Leader, heart-throb of the fucking Resistance; being your bunkmate from day one. You realise he isn’t someone you want to indulge in early on, but the more you treat him coldly, the more he latches onto you.
@reallyrallyauthor ☼ first loves Rekindling the romance you’d had with Poe as teenagers takes a backseat to the war and the Resistance. But when he convinces you to join up, you have no idea if you can finally be together, or if you should find someone who puts you first.
@campingwiththecharmings ☼ birthday It's Poe's birthday and all he wants is to spend it with you.
@ramblers-lets-get-ramblin ☼ let’s get physical When Commander Dameron enters the base gym during your workout, you find yourself distracted.
@eyelessfaces ☼ i don’t love you like i did yesterday it’s not because he, poe dameron, gives you more attention and affection than your own boyfriend ever will that you are in love with him. ☼ just in case while fiddling with bb–8's memory, you stumble onto an audio message– poe's prerecorded goodbyes.
@freelancearsonist ☼ what now
@spctrsgf ☼ rocks and faulty plans you and poe make an unexpected stop to a rocky planet. with a broken ship.
#poe dameron#poe dameron x reader#star wars#poe dameron series#poe dameron fluff#poe dameron angst#poe dameron smut#poe dameron imagine#poe dameron masterlist#poe dameron fic rec#poe dameron one shot
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Lieutenant! Can you tell us about Cape Horn and why it was so dangerous?
Of course I would,
So let's get to the location:
Cape Horn is located at 55° 59′ south latitude and 67° 17′ west longitude. The headland is located on the rocky island of Isla Hornos (Horn Island, not to be confused with the Horn Islands in Micronesia, also discovered by Schoutens), which belongs to Chile, and is the southernmost point in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago. Like the southernmost 2,000 kilometres of South America, it lies in the cold Antarctic circumpolar current. Unlike South Africa, which is twenty degrees further north with the warm Agulhas Current, Tierra del Fuego is never reached by a warm Atlantic current (Brazil Current). Instead, the cold polar current (Falkland Current) reaches as far as the Río de la Plata in the southern summer and as far as southern Brazil in the winter, meaning that Cape Horn is under the influence of a large-scale subpolar current all year round.
The air temperature at Cape Horn is almost identical to the water temperature all year round - day and night - which is 8 °C in January and 5 °C in July. During the day, it rarely gets warmer than 12-13 °C. There are only occasional frosts in winter and it almost never snows, although it rains over 280 days a year.
With few exceptions, the wind blows from the western half of the compass rose all year round; easterly winds are very rare. However, the wind force in the sea area around the Cape tends to be lower than in the neighbouring south-east Pacific and off the Chilean coast near the Strait of Magellan, for example, where there is always one wind force more and twice as much chance of storms. Nevertheless, the wind blows almost constantly in summer (January) with at least five Beaufort, but only once a month with more than seven Beaufort, and once a week to the west. In July, at least seven Beaufort and one storm per week are recorded every third day, while two storms per week can be expected to the west.
The Cape was rounded for the first time by an expedition of Dutch sailors Willem Cornelisz Schouten and Jakob Le Maire on 29 January 1616, sailing on behalf of the Australian Company, which was founded by Jakob Le Maire's father Isaac Le Maire together with other Hoorn businessmen after an internal dispute with the Dutch East India Company (VOC). As Dutch ships at the time were only allowed to use the Strait of Magellan if they belonged to the VOC, Isaac Le Maire was looking for a passage to the Pacific untouched by the rights of the VOC to trade with the East Indies Spice Islands.
The expedition's mission was to explore a new route to the ‘East Indies’.It was considered fulfilled when a passage opened up between Tierra del Fuego (in the language of the Spanish owner) and the hypothetical huge southern continent of Terra Australis.It was named Fretum le Maire (literally Le Maire Strait) in Latin in honour of the initiator and most important financier Isaac Le Maire, and the ‘peninsula’ to the east belonging to Terra Australis was given the name Staatenlandt in honour of the newly constituted Dutch parliament.The rededication in favour of the son Jakob Le Maire took place after his tragic death at the instigation of his father.The island character of Staatenlandt, which is only sixty kilometres long, could not be recognised, as even at sea you can rarely see further than about forty kilometres. Not being able to see the connection of the state island to the huge Terra Australis only proved that one could not see further than twenty nautical miles - and this was already known.
According to the published records of the ‘shipwrecked passenger’ Jacob le Maires (his expedition ship, the Hoorn, burnt up during cleaning work in Patagonia), he and Captain Schouten were of the opinion that Tierra del Fuego was a rugged, rocky but contiguous island, the supposed southern tip of which was named Capo Hoorn in Latin by Schouten, who was responsible for it, in honour of the second great financier, the council of the city of Hoorn.The Le Maire Strait, the short and easy passage between America and Terra Australis at Staateninsel or Staatenlandt, was the important discovery; Cape Horn was already a clear 180 kilometres into the Pacific. Isaac le Maire had the discovery of this passage, supported by a ‘silent’ Schouten, attributed to his son by court order, with the father as heir.However, the associated and desired exploitation rights of the strait were immediately expropriated and granted to the monopoly of the East India Company.The last lawsuits over this were lost in 1648.
With the realisation that even Staatenlandt was not connected to Terra Australis and that Cape Horn was the decisive landmark, neither the Strait of Magellan nor the Le Maire Strait could be permanently managed with customs duties. Due to the factually and historically incorrect, commercially motivated court judgement that Jacob le Maire found his way into the Pacific via the Le Maire Strait, the discovery of Cape Horn is attributed to him just as incorrectly and abbreviated. Usually, however, all discoveries made on such a voyage are attributed to the captain, as he decides which unknown waters his ship sails into, is responsible for them and also has to assess and interpret what he sees. However, Schouten did not insist on a public acknowledgement of his exploratory achievement, presumably due to an ‘agreement’ between him and Isaac le Maire. In addition, the published documentation of the voyage was undoubtedly written by the representative of the shipping company Jacob le Maire, so that the impression of a discovery by the travelling merchant was already being conveyed to contemporaries
But according to the German author Wolf-Ulrich Cropp, the Englishman Francis Drake was the first European to sail around the Cape 40 years earlier, in 1578, on his circumnavigation of the globe, after he had reached the Pacific through the Strait of Magellan and then travelled south-east for a few days in search of the missing escort ships. However, this discovery was declared a state secret by Queen Elizabeth I.
At the time, it was believed that the Pacific could only be reached from the Atlantic via the Spanish-controlled Strait of Magellan further north, and the British did not want other nations to know about the second route.Drake's first discovery was only claimed after 1618 for political and economic reasons and was quickly disproved by examining the records and voyage reports and by interviewing the surviving travellers.The English naming of the sea area Drake Passage was only given in 1769 by James Cook when he surveyed the coast and is presumably only an expression of general reverence for the greatest English naval hero to date.
In fact, Drake no longer had any escort ships in the Pacific that he could miss; he had already lost them in the Atlantic or in the Strait of Magellan.In the event of a separation, a rendezvous point 2500 kilometres to the north had been agreed with the remaining Elisabeth; a search for missing persons in the south was therefore not very promising. Instead, Drake sought shelter between the islands west of the Strait of Magellan in a supposed ‘50-day storm’ and had no interest in drifting further and further south-east, where he would inevitably be wrecked on the expected Terra Australis in the storm.In any case, he took his time to ‘conquer’ the inhospitable islands of the archipelago one by one.Furthermore, the navigational documents show that he never travelled further south than 55° south, which, in view of his otherwise perfect latitude measurements throughout the voyage, rules out the possibility that he came closer than about 300 km to Cape Horn.Under no circumstances was he south of the Cape, travelling through the Drake Strait and the Le Maire Strait or Falkland Strait to the Atlantic entrance of the Strait of Magellan, in order to make a statement about its passability.The ambitious Drake would have seized even the slightest opportunity to make and verify such a glorious discovery, as he was well aware of the economic, personal, political and military benefits.Similar legends were subsequently spread about the Spanish captains Francisco de Hoces (1526) and Gabriel de Castilla (1603). However, the sources and evidence for both are so sparse and uncertain that the best that can be surmised is that they both sailed past the entrances to the Strait of Magellan for different reasons and then wandered south of it for a short time. In the case of de Hoces, the legend led to the same conclusion as with Drake: the sea area south of Tierra del Fuego, the Drake Strait, is called Mar de Hoces in Spanish.
The rounding of the Cape was one of the most feared passages for ships, as evidenced by the founding of the Cape Horn Community. Commanding captains who conquered Cape Horn on a cargo ship without an auxiliary engine became honorary members of this international community.
Until the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914, sailing around the Cape was the slightly more favourable way to reach the west coast of South America from the Atlantic. The Strait of Magellan and the Beagle Channel, which had already been sailed through centuries earlier by ships of the Dutch East India Company and British exploration ships, also offered difficult weather and current conditions for sailing ships.
At Cape Horn, the passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific against the westerly wind drift was particularly dangerous and difficult. It required ships sailing in this direction to constantly cross in high seas, rain, cold, poor visibility and icebergs. The False Cape Horn caused additional navigational difficulties due to the risk of confusion. However, to this day there are still ships that round the cape, albeit with the help of engines and modern navigation. But that does not mean that it is any less dangerous.
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