#tor 2023

[a-solitary-sea-rover-backup]

It’s called the “longest-swim problem”: If you had to drop someone at the place in the ocean farthest from any speck of land—the remotest spot on Earth—where would that place be? The answer, proposed only a few decades ago, is a location in the South Pacific with the coordinates 48°52.5291ʹS 123°23.5116ʹW: the “oceanic point of inaccessibility,” to use the formal name. It doesn’t get many visitors. But one morning last year, I met several people who had just come from there.

They had been sailing a 60-foot foiling boat, the Mālama, in the Ocean Race, a round-the-world yachting competition, and had passed near that very spot, halfway between New Zealand and South America. Now, two months later, they had paused briefly in Newport, Rhode Island, before tackling the final stretch across the Atlantic. (And the Mālama would win the race.) I spoke with some members of the five-person crew before going out with them for a sail on Narragansett Bay. When I asked about their experience at the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, they all brought up the weather.

With a test pilot’s understatement, the crew described the conditions as “significant” or “strong” or “noteworthy” (or, once, “incredibly noteworthy”). The Southern Ocean, which girds the planet in the latitudes above Antarctica and below the other continents, has the worst weather in the world because its waters circulate without any landmass to slow them down. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the most powerful on Earth, a conveyor belt that never stops and that in recent years has been moving faster. These are the waters that tossed Roald Amundsen and Ernest Shackleton. The winds are cold and brutal. Waves reach 60 or 70 feet. In a second, a racing boat’s speed can drop from 30 knots to five, then jump back to 30. You may have to ride out these conditions, slammed and jammed, for five days, 10 days, trimming sails from inside a tiny sealed cockpit, unable to stand up fully all that time. To sleep, you strap yourself into a harness. You may wake up bruised.

[offjumpoladulkittiporn]

I love these two 🫶

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(12/???) COMPLETED: MIDNIGHT MUSEUM

Midnight Museum is probably one of my favorite dramas by GMMTV, the blend of horror, supernatural and mystery is well told with a compelling over-arching storyline and damn all the performances from the guests each episode are kudos. But the award has to go to none other than Gun (as always) taking his character and acting the shite out of him with the unmistakable chemistry with Tor. Not a bromance per-se, but you could be easily mistaken.

:: MUST :: LIKE :: SHOULD:: S-TIER

Midnight Museum

Thai Drama - 2023

Native Title: #พิพิธภัณฑ์รัตติกาล

Genres: #Mystery | #Horror | #Fantasy

Tags: #Bromance

Cast: #Tor Thanapob | #Gun Atthaphan | #Foei Patara | #Tay Tawan | #Bright Vachirawit | #Joss Way-ar | #JJ Chayakorn | #AJ Chayapol | #Aou Thanaboon | #Winny Thanawin | #Mike Chinnarat | #Nanon Korapat

Links:  GAGA | Viki | YouTube | iQIYI | WeTV | Youku | Tencent | NF

Catalog: Episode GIF sets | Thai Drama | Bromance Drama

[tinnchan]

Tor Thanapob as Khatha in Midnight Museum (2023)

[annieqattheperipheral]

"Start counting to five and if you have to keep going, you've done it wrong."

[juergenklopp]

Indianapolis 500 2023 winner JOSEF NEWGARDEN throws the ceremonial first pitch prior to the game between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Arizona Diamondbacks (July 14, 2023)

[blmpff]

30.06.2023

[midnight-museum]

Gmmtv 2023 Afterparty: Tor, Gun, Namtan

Cr: dinofernous

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2023: UNTETHERED SKY by Fonda Lee. I’ve been eyeballing this one since the cover reveal (for obvious reasons, if you read my URL and/or have been here for a while), and I’m really hoping it’ll redeem my recent disappointment with bird-adjacent fantasy. I enjoyed EXO, so I’m hoping I’ll like this, too!

[scumpatrol]

oc: masha lugo character: aymeric cassel game: cyberpunk 2077

[transcendence-au]

Do you know if anyone has taken anything they've written for this AU and edited it into something original to publish? I was having some ideas about a fic I started a while ago and now I'm curious if anyone has actually done it, since the AU itself is such a departure from the original show, and some of the fics I've read are 100% OCs, so it wouldn't be hard to change it from fanfiction to inspired-by-fanfiction. It would be neat to read something like that and see the influence.

off the top of our heads no.

that being said, if anyone wants to file the serial numbers off their fic and turn it in, fucking go for it baby

[a-solitary-sea-rover-backup]

Interview with Liz Wardley, 2 December 2023

This was really such an incredible experience, I'm mutuals with offshore sailor Liz Wardley on LinkedIn and we'd talked in DMs a few times and met IRL at the Ocean Race Newport stopover in 2018 and accidentally when Maiden was at Mystic Seaport last year. I worked up the courage to ask her if she'd be interested in being interviewed for this blog while I'm home on sabbatical this winter and she said yes! We had some trouble working out the time difference because Liz is currently in the Canary Islands getting ready to leave for the World's Toughest Row, a 3000-mile transatlantic rowing race to Antigua, on 12 December. But she took almost an hour to chat with me about childhood jungle adventures, the lucky moment that got her into the Ocean Race, pesto, rubber duckies, and what she has over Jimmy Spithill.

Timestamps:

0:54: Early Days

5:10: The Sydney-Hobart Race

15:32: The Volvo Ocean Race 2001, Amer Sports Two

20:07: Offshore sailing in France

26:03: VOR 2014, Team SCA

29:40: VOR 2017, Turn the Tide on Plastic

32:25: Liz in lockdown

34:44: The Maiden Project

36:30: The Ocean Race 2023, WindWhisper

41:37: The World's Toughest Row

47:06: (Not) Getting Philosophical

[frostbeees]

“Another NHLPA Rookie Showcase in the books.”

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For Him | S01E06

Thai Drama - 2023, 12 episodes

Episodes | Gaga | Viki | YouTube | iQIYI | WeTV | Tencent | Catalogue

[faith-gigliorosa]

Midnight Museum (2023) | Ep.07

Who killed the witch? I did. I killed the witch.

[libertyreads]

Book Review #114 of 2023--

System Collapse by Martha Wells. Rating: 4 stars.

Read from September 6th to 8th.

Before I get into the review, a quick thank you to both NetGalley and the publishers over at Tor giving me access to one of my most anticipated releases of the year in exchange for an honest review. If you've been here for any length of time then you already know about the Murderbot Diaries, but let me give you a quick series synopsis. In the series, we follow a Security Unit (SecUnit) who has hacked their governor module and all it wants now is to do its job while watching its shows. But SecUnit finds itself getting attached to humans as it travels the universe which inevitably leads to more danger and drama and dealing with more Corporation Rim companies than it would like. In this one, we follow SecUnit and its 'friend' ART who must protect their humans and some how prevent a company from seizing a colony of humans for their own selfish reasons. If only SecUnit wasn't starting to malfunction. This is the seventh in the series and it comes out on November 14th. Available for preorder now.

Discussing Murderbot with people who haven't read the series is hard, especially now that we're on number seven in the series. But we all know the basic premise, right? A SecUnit has gone rogue because it wants to not be controlled by a system that can kill it for disobeying. Oh, and so it can watch its shows. I will always enjoy getting back into this world. I think the author does such a great job with both the human characters and the constructs that always draws me in. This one actually made me like Ratthi way more than I did before which came as a huge surprise and showed me just how good of an author Martha Wells really is. At times I hated that something was wrong with Murderbot and that they weren't on top of their game the way they usually are. But we also got to see how trauma has impacted them and what happens when trauma just keeps getting compounded without any sort of treatment. The thing that I LOVED about this one was that we got both Murderbot and ART while also getting all of their humans. I love that the teams were mixed together based on task and ability instead of who came from where. And I loved that by the end Murderbot found itself attached to all the humans not just the ones it knew before meeting ART.

There were a few moments that felt unclear in the action. There is usually a decent amount of fight sequences/action scenes in this series and usually I can follow them pretty well, but in this one it felt more muddled. I think it might actually be me and not the book. I have a lot of real life stress going on at the moment so I feel like my focus has been pretty split. I'm willing to say it might not be the book's fault here. Just my attention span at the moment. I also wasn't 100% sure where this fit timeline wise for the series. It seems like it would fit after Network Effect and not the latest novella which is Fugitive Telemetry. Please correct me if I'm wrong here.

Overall, it's Murderbot and you cannot go wrong with reading some Murderbot. I will always sing this series' praises. Probably not my favorite but up there for sure.