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In honor of the first snow of the year in my area, please enjoy some pictures of Arthur Conan Doyle skiing.

Doyle took up skiing in 1893 and published in article in The Strand about his experiences that helped popularize skiing in England.

The “ski” are the most capricious things upon earth. One day you cannot go wrong with them. On another, with the same weather and the same snow, you cannot go right… Or, again, you may have had a long outing without any misfortune at all, and as you shuffle back along the road, you stop for an instant to tell a group on the hotel veranda how well you are getting on. Something happens – and they suddenly find that their congratulations are addressed to the soles of your “ski”. - An Alpine Pass on "Ski", 1893

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The best scene in Nosferatu 1922, sound remastered because i felt that we had to have this

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HAGGIS!!

Everyone! Look at little Haggis!!

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David Lynch | What Did Jack Do?

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Guys PLEASE consider throwing @theholmwoodfoundation some pocket change

They have barely more than a week left of their Kickstarter and only have a third of the funds raised. If you can't donate, please spread the word to fellow Dracula enthusiasts and folks out here looking for good inventive horror podcasts!

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it’s amazing the entire dashboard is just old things. shakespeare. arthuriana. gargantua. the epic of gilgamesh. the brothers karamazov. beowulf. wuthering heights. medieval mystics. dracula novel discourse. lawrence of arabia 1962. al pacino. die girlies auf tumblr are thriving and having a ball going about as if media stopped happening post 2010

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I know I've said this a hundred times but if you're worried about palestinian fundraisers being scams at least consider donating to MSF. It's a highly reputable organization which has broken its long-standing neutrality to denounce Israel in front of the UN. Here's all the aid MSF is providing to Gazans (documentation available in multiple languages).

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I think we should teach David Lynch how to use RPGMaker and see what happens

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Today, David Lynch turns 78.

Happy birthday, Maestro!!!

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david lynch thinks about lana del rey, circa 2021.

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Ravenous (1999) dir. Antonia Bird

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CHENG DIE YI: Don't you remember our teacher's words? DUAN XIAO LOU: Which words were they? CHENG DIE YI: "Stick together until the day you die."

Farewell My Concubine (1993)

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the thing is that i do wholeheartedly believe hannibal would be a good husband. not a good person at all but you dont need to be a good person to be a good husband

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Shaderunners returns November 3rd!

The third and final act of the story begins with two pages per week on Sundays and Wednesdays! The chapter is already complete, so updates will be consistent until mid-March at least. Thank you sincerely for your patience while we were on hiatus.

We were originally planning on dropping each chapter in its entirety once it was completed, but after receiving some feedback from readers we decided to return to our previous update schedule instead. We hope that you enjoy the upcoming chapter!

-Alex and Lin

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pisses me off to no end when people on reddit or whatever complain that the show wouldve been better off without the tuunbaq.....did we watch the same show? the tuunbaq is everything, it held everything together. the tuunbaq is the main transformative element of the terror. the tuunbaq elevates the text beyond mere historical fact and lets it say something about the expedition's broader context of imperialism. it hunted the british men who were trampling on its home as a mere stopover, a side casualty, to finding the northwest passage (for, you know, "trade with china" after britain beat china into submission after the imperialist opium war). silna couldnt complete a proper ritual with it because of the british men - just as british colonizers have historically intruded and disrupted the practice of indigenous culture. and in the end the tuunbaq dies, after all the injuries it's taken from the british over the course of 10 episodes and finally chokes to death on the worst of them. because there's no escaping the reality of colonial history, and there is especially no fantastical escape for the colonizer. there's no proper way for us to move forward otherwise.

good historical fiction doesnt have to limit itself to accuracy - it needs empathy to draw out meanings in history using literary craft. thats what the tuunbaq means to me.... if you wanted a straight depiction of historical record, just go watch a documentary.. TUUNBAQ DENIERS DNI