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you wouldn’t download a #cornelius hickey.

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uh oh this pronunciation of polycules is gonna stick in my head for a long while

#doctor stanley talking to hodgson #<- prev #the terror

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#george hodgson #<- prev #the terror

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“Orbits of some comets and planets.” Natural History. v.33. 1933. 

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hickey has never made a misstep or miscalculation in his life. i know this

#the terror #crozier #hickey

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based on this post. i take this show seriously

#oh thank you i always need to see this #the terror #collins

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Excerpt from "Short Talks" by Anne Carson

[text ID: Day after day I think of you as soon as I wake up. Someone has put cries of birds on the air like jewels.]

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36 chapters into moby dick. some thoughts:

- take a shot every time he expresses his love for nantucket or whaling trivia

- i know everyone said it was queer and usually i've come to expect that as hyperbole but this time they weren't joking

- CHILDE HAROLD REFERENCE?!?!?!?!?! BYRON QUOTED?!?!?!?! not surprised bc it is the romantic genre which byron & chp helped inspire & he was the best selling writer in early 19c usa & is noted for his oceanic refs & he & esp childe harolds pilgrimage esp are both noted on wikipedia's "nautical fiction" page but like. i had no idea they were immortalized in moby dick

- "Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian." AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

- does gay cannibal tumblr know about queequeg & ishmael?

- utterly obsessed with captain ahab for numerous reasons but does anyone else notice how similar he is to captain flint from black sails? like he's literally him but a bit older & combined with silver's leglessness.

- the part where ahab calls stubb a dog lmao

- ishmael getting worried for queequeg when he couldn't find him omg...

- "Where's that girl ? — there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter, and tell him to paint me a sign, with — 'no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;' — might as well kill both birds at once." MRS. HUSSEY!!!!

- i'm sure that all the focus on queequegs spirituality & his consultation with his god yojo wherein he was informed that ishmael had to pick their boat bc yojo demaded it TOTALLY won't prove to have any prophetic and symbolic consequences later on or anything

- love how the chapters are nice and short but on the flip side that means theyre tricking me into thinking i have less to go than i actually do... as long as i get more ahab i'm good i guess

-melville, at random: and now we take a break from our regularly schedule programming to give you . . . WHALE FACTS! [whips out multiple books on the history of whales and whaling, begins to recite]

#god i need to watch that movie after reading this

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Seascape with a sailing ship near a coast, by Christian Mølsted (1862 -1930)

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#me constantly #but especially in a few months when ill be at the sea

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Tall ship L'Hermione (2014, French Navy) during construction and after.

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The Jonah

If everything went wrong on board and you stumbled from one misfortune to the next, the sailor tended to look for a scapegoat. There had to be a reason for this, so it could only be that a woman was on board. Sometimes the carpenter’s wife (three women were always allowed on board and these were the wives of the carpenter, boatswain or gunner) was looked at askance, but she had been on board for years and was used to it and put an end to this, with a grim look on her part.

So someone else had to come along… one or the other crew member caught the eye of someone who wasn’t behaving properly and didn’t really belong to the team. And then they had their scapegoat - their Jonah.

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A Jonah was a person - on ships usually a man - who was considered unlucky. Just like the biblical Jonah was. Jonah, out of fear, defied God, who had told him to bring his word to Nineveh, by sailing in the opposite direction that he had been told to sail. God then punished Jonah and all those on board with him by conjuring up a mighty storm. The crew threw Jonah overboard to appease God and calm the waves, whereupon Jonah was swallowed by a whale or large fish. When he escaped the beast, he made sure that he obeyed God’s will.

So the sailors on the ship concluded that they would only get rid of their problem if Jonah disappeared. And usually the person concerned was forced to sacrifice himself and went overboard, drowning himself to restore peace on board. For those who have seen Master and Commander, this is where the superstition is riffed on and the victim, Midshipman Hollom, finally takes his own life after the crew declare him to be the Jonah.

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I always talk about how one of my loves of scrimshaw is being able to see the art of Just Some Guy in the 19th c. and this is the latest one I’m charmed by.

I love his face, look at how economical those lines are!

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It doesnt matter what Hickey is sitting on, or how far the floor is, or if their pose makes any sense

#MUCH to think about here #the terror #tozer #hickey #hickeytozer

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Do you love the colour of the sturgeon?

Which one?

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photography by Richard Stuart Perkins

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Every time characters get together, i get a [Live Jirving Reaction] mental pop up

#the terror #irving