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hot single girls in a lake near you

#prev tagged this as seacroft and i literally made that shocked cat face when i noticed so it’s going on the blog

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the typa shit ive been on recently

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Obligatory disclaimer that the whaling industry was terrible and cruel and decimated populations of an amazing animal that has yet to recover almost 200 years later.

But it is just so fascinating to me. The only sea occupation where your destination was literally just THE SEA. That’s it. You go out there and you don’t come back until it’s somewhat worth it, however long that takes. There are familiar grounds one would go to first, yes, but no routes, no schedules, no final destinations, no sense of when one comes back if one ever comes back. Just going to lonelier and lonelier places that no other ship is going to nor has need to go to. And when one finally happens to see another whaler it was a cause for an extended social event in ways that other maritime jobs just DID NOT have time for.

Highly diverse crews that were, of course, not without racism and inequity by any means (the entire job was…rife with inequity since idle agents ashore were already taking around 60% of the cut), but also one where one’s rank was ultimately determined by ‘can you kill a whale?’. And where the social component was so closely intertwined the fact that one would be at sea likely 3-4 years and if there was ANY surviving it and ANY success of it everyone had to more-or-less get along with each other.

And over the course of those years and years staring down aimless stretches of boredom you get the most fascinating folk art. And folk art that is so often tied to domestics. Making yarn swifts and pie crimpers and valentines for your girl outta BONES. Bones that came from the moments where that boredom was punctuated by Complete Terror.

An industry that was just like…SO violent and bloody and brutal, all for the aim of bringing back materials to make things that were so staid and domestic. Lamp oil. Candles. Corset Stays. Perfume Bases. Soaps. Just…candles paid for by so much blood from people, from animals. And was something that for such a fleeting moment was one of THE American industries, before settling, mercifully, into obscurity.

IT’S REALLY FASCINATING TO ME and so unlike any other maritime professions. I feel like piracy is the thing that comes closest to whaling in terms of all of the componants above, in a weird way, but whaling is such a thing of its own. UNIQUE AND TERRIBLE CREATURE.

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Florian Hetz

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sorry if i was weird the other day i'm but a conduit for powers as terrible as they are strange

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"The City In The Sea"

Tom Shropshire

Acrylic on Canvas

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Milwaukee at Night   -    Tom Shropshire

American,b.1943-

Acrylic on stretched canvas,

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City Noctyurne   -    Tom Shropshire, 2010

American, b. 1940s

Acrylic on canvas,  16 x 20 cm.

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Tragic news like half the ways people talk about magic in fiction could irl be applied to maths

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Igor Shcherbakov, Two on a Bridge, 2021, Oil on canvas

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Cedric Morris (British, 1889-1982), Connemara Landscape, 1936. Oil on canvas, 24 x 29 in.

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Enriched uranium sword with a lead sheathe that is rumored to slowly kill its owner in exchange for god killing power.

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Who will come into my kitchen and be hungry for me? A quote from Little Weirds by Jenny Slate engraved in a wooden spoon, 2022. instagram

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hi everyone! this blog has kinda been languishing, so i think i might revamp it as a place to just reblog nice photos and inspirations for worldbuilding and textposts that make me think of my characters as opposed to creating original content. which was kinda what i was doing anyway lol! so things won't be too different, there will just be less original stuff here probably

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Sunlight through this fountain in L'Aquila, Italy, makes it look like it's pouring lava.

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Schiaparelli Spring 2022 Couture

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