#Terror Adjacent

[so-i-did-this-thing]

Had a Facebook marketplace adventure today with @crowtoed to pick up an 1855-80s(?) era ship's compass for a shockingly good price.

#hiking adventures #my cat dexter #terror adjacent #the order of photos implies the compass took us on a magic quest to find pączki #which isn't too far from the truth #so the manufacturer of the compass split from its parent company in 1855 #that is the earliest it could be from #haven't done much digging beyond that

[full-of-terrors]

Apparently there's an academic journal devoted to Gothic Studies. Apparently in November of 2017 they published an issue dedicated to Nautical Gothic. Nautical Gothic. nAUticAl gOTHic. NAAAAUUUTICAL GOOOOTHIC

I am going to get my inexplicably perpetually cold little hands on the articles in that issue by whatever means necessary.

I mean look at this table of contents:

I've already gotten hold of the Roberson, Bowers and Constantini articles. If anyone knows where I can find any of the others please let me know.

#i can share the articles if anyone's interested #i'll probably post my thoughts as i read them too #NAUTICAL GOTHIC #where have you been all my life you beautiful genre term #terror adjacent

[saints-who-never-existed]

"The play limits its depiction of homosociability, representing only the ideal world in which men were bonded to one another by respect for authority and a common purpose. Extremes of homosociability -mutiny or sodomy, for example - are outside the representational and expressive economies of the play. This was arguably prescriptive: by staging only one model of homosocial relations, the play excludes “dysfunctional” relations from shipboard life."

Loss and Cultural Remains in Performance: The Ghosts of the Franklin Expedition. Heather Davis-Fisch. 2012.

(The play in question was named 'Zero, or Harlequin Light' and was performed in 1851 aboard HMS Assistance, one of the earliest searchers for the Franklin Expedition. It was written by the ship's assistant surgeon, Charles Ede.)

#The Terror #The Terror AMC #Terror Adjacent #Franklin Expedition #History #Historic Context #Was skimming a few sources before I answered the previous ask and came across this little quote #Just found that line about mutiny and sodomy being the two extremes as really interesting #I should stress that I haven't actually read the source itself in full so I can't speak more on it just yet

[moongazeonastarfillednight]

Some Ice terms definitions to be used as reference, Courtesy of one Sir John Ross (1777-1856)

Extract of the Narratives of his second voyage

Never thought the sky actually looked different if land was around or water :o

#reference #the terror #cold boys #adjacent #ice #those are so many terms for ice 😭 #19th century dead sailors

[pretendingday]

he was the what

#the yassification of james clark ross #this is from gillin's an empire of magnetism #polar exploration #the terror adjacent

[cockroachesunite]

I think this one speaks for itself

#a helpful guide #james fitzjames #og james fitzjames #historical james fitzjames #og jfj #the terror #amc the terror #the franklin expedition #franklin expedition #the terror fanart #the terror amc #age of sail #my drawings #inspired by that @jamesfitzjamesdotcom poll about pillowfights that i reblogged earlier #the terror adjacent #i love to bully my favorite characters #<3 #let’s be honest #neither one of them is exactly ‘cool’

[suddenly-frankenstein]

crozier: i'm going to ask for tea. want some?

jcr: no, thank you, i'm busy.

also jcr the same second francis got his tea:

and here's the photo from pinterest this was based on – i just saw it randomly and was like ah yeaaah THEM.

#james damn it use your own cup!! #just another rossier nonsense i think #pls open the picture for better quality tumblr hates me #the terror #(adjacent) #rossier #francis crozier #james clark ross #hms terror #hms erebus #ross expedition #polar exploration

[bamboo-vulture]

what if instead of visiting some more boring museums and drinking coffee in the small streets of old european cities we went to the antarctic next time??????

#antarctic exploration #polar expedition #GIRL YOU’RE SO DEEP DOWN IN THIS SHIT YOU CANNOT EVEN FIND YOUR WAY OUT😂🤣🤪 #GIRL YOU HAVE YOUR THESIS DEFENSE NEXT WEDNESDAY #terror #(?) #erebus #(??) #whatever you prefer #lil stupid sketches #the terror #(adjacent)

[fritzllang]

obsessed with this automatic translation on an ebay ad for a terror commemorative coin that calls it a terrorist ship. yes it is. hms emotional terrorism

~RARE! 50 pennies 2021 terrorist ship british antarctica HMS~

#the terror #adjacent #yes they caused terrorism... in my heart #hms terror

[johntorrington]

thank you goodsir

#i love his letters i love to hear about the creatures #like oh this guy was autistic autistic #(circus music starts) #the terror #adjacent #🗺️

[full-of-terrors]

Important information from I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination (a very serious and scholarly book about the cultural impact of polar exploration in the United Kingdom in the 19th Century)

Citing Eric Partridge's DIctionary of Slang:

"North Pole" = arsehole in rhyming slang around 1870.

That is all.

#did people call each other north pole #or say go to the north pole? #enquiring minds want to know #i may be some time #polar exploration #terror adjacent #imbst

[saints-who-never-existed]

In other news, I went to Dundee - my home for four years and site of my undergrad escapades - and took some rubbish pictures of RRS Discovery (which I completely failed to appreciate the significance of when I lived right by it all those years ago!).

#Terror adjacent #History #Historic Context #Polar Exploration #RRS Discovery #Feat. Tuunbaq's Dundonian Cousin

[moongazeonastarfillednight]

Thinking about James Fitzjames sharing with Elizabeth C. the letters he received from these little girls to show off their penmanships and express how much it touched him to receive them 🥺

And little Fanny be all: "Frostbitten toes be upon thee!"

God, children are magical and that's the most precious thing I've ever read.

#the terror #adjacent #historical James Fitzjames #reading the book of letters #19th century dead sailors #excuse me but omg he's so fucking precious #James Fitzjames

[pretendingday]

Terror and Erebus by Gwendolyn MacEwen

#had a very normal time reading this play #words #terror and erebus #gwendolyn macewen #franklin expedition #polar exploration #the terror adjacent

[cockroachesunite]

Finally tried my hand at drawing The Lad

#james fitzjames #og james fitzjames #historical james fitzjames #og jfj #my drawings #the franklin expedition #franklin expedition #age of sail #the terror #the terror adjacent #the terror fanart #i may redraw this later #this guy is So Hard to draw #but for a first try i don’t think it’s too bad

[hyperboreus]

thinking about the "northwest passage" song but from like ross's perspective from when he went to get them and crying

#james clark ross #the terror #adjacent #m. #i'm still not coming back but i had to put this somewhere #otp: the same spirit animates each