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[teenagedirtstache]

[staud]

James, I wish you were here ... James, dear, I am sadly alone, not a soul have I in either ship that I can go and talk to ... I know not what else I can say to you I feel that I am not in spirits for writing but in truth I am sadly lonely and when I look back to the last voyage I can see the cause. — Crozier's letter to James Ross (1845), text from Erebus by Michael Palin

-> 16/∞ CHARACTER DYNAMICS in The Terror

[myimmanence]

My piece for notkingyet’s (@notkingyet2) fantastic story ‘Spoke and Wheel’ of our favourite steward turned Lieutenant Jopson as part of the @theterrorbigbang event! The story contemplates relationships forged through peril, with our dear steward at the helm: striving to heal and serve, as is his duty.

Please stay tuned for the notkingyet’s glorious work here (the link will update when it’s live!)

Thank you to the moderators at @theterrorbigbang for this opportunity of collaboration <3

[laissezferre]

“My helplessness is intolerable. I was the one who set this machine running, and now cannot control it…. Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?”

― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

[leadandblood]

More photos from Aidan Monaghan

[the-golden-vanity]

I think the thing I like most about The Sea, as, like... a setting or a concept, is that in its vastness, its untameable nature, its unknown secrets, you have a lot of historically documented events that sound more like tales out of mythology and folklore.

Take, for instance, the fate of the Victory Expedition of 1829.

The Victory expedition was a private polar expedition led by veteran British explorer Captain John Ross. Twenty-three men set sail for the Canadian Arctic on the steamship Victory, but when the ship became trapped in the polar ice, there was no way to free it. The crew spent four years in the frozen north, surviving on rations from the wreck of a previous polar exploration ship.

Eventually, twenty survivors packed their belongings into small boats and hauled them over ice towards open water. And in that open water, there was a ship, the whaler Isabella of Hull.*

The Isabella's crew couldn't believe their eyes, because, as they told the Victory's survivors, "Captain Ross has been dead these two years."

And if that wasn't strange enough, the (very much alive) Captain Ross of the Victory had, on a previous Arctic expedition, been captain of the Isabella.

*Side note: the more I read about the Age of Sail, the more I realize that wherever official Explorers™ from a given Western nation go, their whalers have already beaten them there. Sometimes that's even the reason the explorers were sent.

[idontkniwanythgin]

Reading anything about Arctic explorers you're just sitting there like

[vertigoartgore]

2001's Superman Adventures Vol.1 #58 cover by artist Alex Ross.

[cinematicnomad]

THE TERROR ▸ 1.10 we are gone

[pretendingday]

he was the what

[crancisfrozier]

One thing I really wish they would have had more time to develop in the show was the relationship between Crozier and James Clark Ross. Like there’s a little of it there but not “My Dear James who I will walk an hour to see, who I went to Antarctica with and spent many a night with at the observatory, who made the doctor write to him about my health when I was sick, and who I confided my deepest insecurities to” levels. It makes the ending hurt so much worse. Like historically thats your best friend in the whole world!! Right on the other side of that tent!! He has literally traveled thousands of miles into unforgiving terrain to find you!!! You are sacrificing something you hold so dear because you can’t forgive yourself!! You are rejecting love in the name of penance!!!

[dailydccomics]

Justice League of America by Alex Ross

[jetslay]

Superman & Lois by Alex Ross.

[representative-democracy]

Oh you think you're special because you have scurvy while on an Arctic exploration mission? Get in line fucko

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+ a dash of JCR

[littlelouprophetjohn]

i was sorting through a bag of stamps that i got at an antique store for £2 and you will Not believe who showed up out of the blue

[leadandblood]

Some make-up photos I haven't yet seen. Collected from the actors' respective instagrams (+ elsewhere I can't recall)

gore warning but like... it's kinda silly and goofy. Worth a look though. Burnt Stanley and a bloodied Darlington (?)