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[cashmere-caveman]

some assorted rats plus a bonus goodsir (more terror text post memes)

#the terror #terror shitposting #cornelius hickey #billy gibson #harry goodsir #i will admit. his evil and unrepentant ways have beguiled me. #maybe its the silver fakename blacksails enjoyer in me but i love a guy who has no true identity or past that can be known to anyone else! #cavetext #text post meme #these are so fun to make but i am always low key worried that the posts im using have been used by someone else before #alas the trials and tribulations of being late to a fandom: accidental plagiarism. #then again. even if these post were used before theyre simply good and true!

[cryptspren-moved]

if someone reblogs from a ʼcancelled bloggerʼ & knows the cancelled bloggerʼs history but doesnʼt support their actions, leave them alone.

if someone reblogs from a ʼcancelled bloggerʼ & knows the cancelled bloggerʼs history but supports their actions, block & report them.

not everybody knows about a ʼcancelledʼ bloggerʼs history; donʼt attack someone who reblogs from them without knowing what they did -- politely & respectfully educate them instead.

#cavetext #PSA

[cashmere-caveman]

more assorted terebite nonsense (more terror text post memes)

#can u tell i couldnt sleep last night. i have three more of these in my drafts #the terror #terror shitposting #text post meme #henry collins #james fitzjames #john irving #henry peglar #john brigens #harry goodsir #stephen stanley #george hodgson #cornelius hickey #cavetext #that faggot in there is a rent lowering gunshot btw

[cashmere-caveman]

ned little voted most likey to get dealt a big losing hand 1845-48 (more terror text post memes)

#the terror #text post meme #edward little #terror shitposting #he is so fascinating to me and i am a bit sad that his most prevalent characterisation seems to be wet little anxiety man :( #bc this man has Layers!! but also im new here so idk how much of this first impression is true / how much of this convo has aready been had #which is why im making a silly meme post instead of writing 17 paragraphs of meta and putting my foot in my mouth #but yeah. nedward :D #sneaked some solittle into this post bc who am i if not someone w a narrative foils agenda 😌 #cavetext

[cashmere-caveman]

they shouldve been a weird sex cult (more terror text post memes)

#the terror #text post meme #terror shitposting #solomon tozer #billy gibson #cornelius hickey #william pilkington #thomas armitage #george hodgson #no des voeux or golding bc i dont like them. extra lots of sol bc hes my forever girl. no magnus bc i straight up forgot #once again not alt text bc i cba rn im sorry. i'll add it later i prommy #cavetext

[cashmere-caveman]

read a post about there being next to no record abt the historic edward little again (we dont even know what he looked like!!!) and now im thinking a lot about how he died in uniform again.

hes far from the only character to die in uniform (the marines die in uniform! franklin dies in uniform!) and he isn't even the only lieutenant to do so (gore, under his slops, was in uniform; fairholme, too presumably; irving famously wore his coat that hickey steals later; george wore something that used to be his uniform when he got eaten but imo atp he did not wear it as A Uniform anymore that were just the clothes that he had on if that makes sense) but at the end, he is the only one where i still felt that it was an active choice to wear it.

almost everyone else sheds their layers along the way or turns into something else, but ned starts in uniform and he stays in uniform and that's it.

fitzjames famously sheds his vanity and dies in his shirtsleeves, without any of the pomp and pizzazz of his uniform.

jopson, another character who is to me really connected with a certain mindset of holding up appearances, dies in his shirtsleeves, believing himself abandoned by the very person that was his reason to even wear a uniform at all.

goodsir as a doctor/assistant surgeon doesn't really have a uniform in quite the same sense as many others but when he dresses himself before his suicide it is not as an affirmation of his role, or at least not a positive one. he has sworn to do no harm, but he was forced to do it anyway and now he will add a final evil to his toll of sins in the hopes to balance the scales at least somewhat and for that to work, he must wear his outfit as always. he ends up with all pretenses stripped bare anyway.

tozer, a man so proud of his uniform in the beginning, again, dies in his shirtsleeves, no rank left, betrayed by someone who had convinced him to give up everything and yet! reduced to nothing but an ordinary man, he tries again where before he had given up. he cooperates, he coordinates, he even calls crozier captain again, he tries very hard to do the right thing in what looks like a no win scenario from the get go!! and he fails, of course, but he tried.

almost everyone else also ends up either dressed down (bridgens, armitage, dundy, des voeux etc) or somehow transformed (blanky, to some extend silna with her patched and bloody furs) or in hickeys case, both (iconic underwear & greatcoat combo). little never changes. he sometimes has a little scarf, theres the bandage for his headwound for a bit, he sometimes wears the full parade uniform with epaulettes and sometimes just the regular one, there are at least two different uniform hats and ofc you can tell that he loses weight by the way his shape chages under all that wool but he is always. in. uniform.

and maybe this is just my mind making up dots to connect but i think he might even be the last character that crozier ever gives an order to in his official function as a captain (in the tuunbaq seduction/boss fight scene he has been stripped of his rank, at least according to e.c.).

before his final scene, all we get is little arguing over the orders they are given, and how to interpret them. and he is still wearing his uniform!!! wait hold on im not gonna check but maybe he might only wear a jumper in the tent where dundy lauches his soft mutiny actually, so maybe this whole post is crumbling like a domino line but!!! ignoring this. moving on. (even if it is a jumper i remember him wearing sth dark blue aka Uniform Colour so im claiming it doesnt even matter bc spiritually that hypothetical jumper still is a uniform. im not going to let anything like "accuracy" and "real details" fuck up my post smh 🙄. im joking. however! Moving On as i said) (edit: i rewatched the scene and it IS his uniform actually, just v rumpled. going insane btw)

he doesnt even dress up for carnivale! the only other characters that are not in costume are jopson and crozier and they were literally too busy keeping crozier from dying to even begin thinking about joining the communal arts and crafts session! little is atp the acting no2 of the expedition so u might say he was busy but fitzjames has the overall command and still finds time to have a little gender moment in private and the imperialism-approved version of it for the Big Crowd!! (u could ofc argue that fitzy Always has time for a gender moment and who would i be to argue but my point is: i have no doubt that man was fucking busy preparing carnivale & beginning to prepare the walkout and there still was time to Express Some Character!! so how come ned didn't do anything?)

the one other scene we get where we can catch a small glimpse of characters out of their element before it all unravels (pre tuunbaq attack on the camp) is the scene at night when morfin gets shot. it shows lots of characters in various states of undress (silna big blanket burrito i love you) that allows us to see them differently, like their costumes at carnivale did, but in an entirely opposite direction. while carnivale was about putting on masks, this scene is about taking them off. and it drives me insane because i know that little must be there. he is somewhere in the crowd when morfin gets shot but so far i havent been able to make him out and i need to know what he is wearing so bad. it is actually for science (my own curiosity) ! i really need to know. and i cant help but feel that maybe it is intentional that he is just ~somewhere~ instead of In Front of the Fucking Camera because, well. that would be just ned little, wouldnt it? and we dont even know who that is.

#edward little #the terror #can u tell i got my brain fried by working on our research project paper all day until we finally turned it in at midnight #we met at 12 and didnt leave the library until it closed and then we went home to one of the members and continued working there #and now i am still sitting in the hallway from when i came in through the door even thought its past 3am bc im just so done #nothing left. no energy no braincells no filter. which is why u get this unstructured wordvomit #and i try to find the strength to get up from the floor so i dont fall asleep here. okay goodnight #cavetext

[cashmere-caveman]

when u are a guy who is super normal about his boss and also his boss' wannabe arch-nemesis (more terror text post memes)

#need to study this man in a glass jar w twigs and shit. he does Not get a cage bc hed get out of that. terrarium species i fear #the terror #text post meme #terror shitposting #thomas jopson #ik were all haha he wants to fuck that old man (which a. understandable and b. he really does) but man can we talk abt the Layers #something something ambition vs devotion vs ruthlessness vs kindness vs enabling etc etc. #can we talk abt the whole class (traitor) dynamic w hickey too.... #just the contrast of the hickeyjopson convo everything we ate growing up started w a gun. ive shot smaller hawks than u #vs the hickeygoodsir convo if im reading ur accent right uve always had to use every part of the meat ur mum could procure..... #biting snarling foaming at the mouth!!!! #anyway im tired of looking at this & i couldnt find a screenshot for one post i wanted to use so. have it anyway #cavetext

[cashmere-caveman]

im sorry (more terror text post memes)

#the terror #text post meme #terror shitposting #blacksails john silver voice the guilt goes away if u let it etc etc... #that one article where theyre like well u see who reaches for the next bit w no struggles and who needs to trick themselves.... bro #ive been reading inuit testimonies of the irl franklin expeditions cannibalism again and it fucked me up so bad i couldnt sleep last night #so i made this to cope??? idk if its working but i might as well put it here so :) bon appetit #cavetext

[cashmere-caveman]

once again i bring my humble offerings (more terror text post memes)

#the terror #terror shitposting #do i tag all of these. ugh im already procrastinating in for a penny in for a pound here we go #john irving #dundy le vesconte #john morfin #stephen stanley #billy gibson #cornelius hickey #harry goodsir #james fitzjames #text post meme #again no alt text but i will add it eventually rip #cavetext #will i ever finish the jopson compilation. now thats a riddle for the ages. for now it sleeps safely in my drafts like a sick owl

[cashmere-caveman]

tfw u realize that a triangle has three sides and one of them has nothing to do w ur corner at all

#i <3 recycling my own uquiz answers into shitposts on tumblr dot edu #black sails #truly moments in bisexualism. for both silver and me.... cant even imagine how devastating this mustve been for his repressed ass #i stole the image from the uquiz so i wouldnt have to look it up myself and for that i needed to retake it #and i got joji this time hehe #anyway. do u think this is when the dread set in for silver. the dread like u know The Dread??? #was abt to tag this as john silver but then i went like bro thats not even his name #to me he is silver blacksails the way flint is flint blacksails madi is madi scott and max is max nolastname #anyway. black sails show of all times abt triangles (the shape) and triangles (the polycule arrangements) #cavetext

[cashmere-caveman]

happy valentines day or whatever (more terror text post memes)

#the terror #text post meme #francis crozier #terror shitposting #my apologies to the homoerotic assisted suicide community but i've thought of this ever since i came across that text post #i dont even fully go here (fitzier) but i believe in their beliefs #(sad old man yaoi & jared harris sexy) #anyway. enjoy! #cavetext

[cashmere-caveman]

since the debate about whether or not silver lied about flint in the finale is making the rounds again i thought abt it again and my conclusion is not necessarily that silver lied and killed him, but that silver lied about Something.

i am not sure about which part, it could be anything from flint being dead to flint being in savannah but thomas being dead to flint getting shipped to london idk idk! somewhere in the story he is telling is a lie and even if it only was that he would wait a day, a month, a year

because i think the thing is that when he sold the war for madi THAT was true. that was his grand gesture of truth. but i dont even think it was about her, i think that choice was about him admitting to himself that if he let this war happen this would turn Too Big, Too Visible and too final for him to weasel out of in case he ever needed to. no more place to run for someone who is a nobody from nowhere u know? he needed to get the fuck OUT of there

and for the record i don't think that made his love for madi any less true i think he really thought he loved her but i think he never understood her the way flint did and this was just the breaking point where he was unable to fill the space flint and madi made for him anymore and snapped back into his old self-preservational habits bc he was under a lot of stress and pressure except This Time, unlike before, his actions affected others as well and he cared about it

and as much as silver is obv the most repressed guy alive i think he is v much self aware, at least insofar as that awareness extends to others' perception of him. so i think he Knew this truth would be unforgivable and i am sure he also knew how madi would react, bc he knows her principles, even if he cannot necessarily rationalize or understand them himself, so he knew he would lose her for this (flint voice you're too smart not to know this) but :) he loves her! and he is loved by her! and from what we know of him this seems to be something incredibly rare and unprecedented for him he is literally starved for care and affection bc he is Mr Detached Solo Nobody Fakename plus lbr he is pathetic ♡ so obviously he would try to hold onto that love despite the betrayal! but how?

and that is where i think the lie comes in: imo he had a lie Somewhere In All Of This to soften the truths impact bc he knew what would happen and even if he saw no other way around it he wished there was another way around it (there was. just not to him not like this) so he lied to make it less terrible bc what can a lying liar who lies do when he knows the truth is the worst thing to say?

#yes this is basically just my tags from the poll post but w additional rambling #do u get it tho. do u see my vision #elsewhere ive said that the moment flint and silver split is the moment the silver who is loved splits from the silver who goes on #but the same can be said about madi. the moment she is taken there is a shift. #anyway i shant elaborate further it is bedtime (1am) and ive got uni tmr so. goodnight #cavetext #black sails #black sails meta #<- ig??? idk

[cashmere-caveman]

[1] Richard Siken, Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light [2] Being Human S1E5 [3] Clint Smith, When people say, “we have made it through worse before” [4] Being Human S3E8 [5] Guillermo del Toro at the 2018 Golden Globes [6] Being Human S1E6 [7] Allie X, Fresh Laundry [8] Being Human S1E5 [9] Christian Wiman, The Parable of Perfect Silence [10] Being Human S3E8 [11] Hanif Abdurraqib, And What Good Will Your Vanity Be When The Rapture Comes [12] Being Human S2E8 [13] Allie X, Fresh Laundry [14] Heidi Priebe, To Love Someone Long-term Is To attend A Thousand Funerals of The People They Used To Be [16] Being Human S3E8 [17] Christian Wiman, Flight

#being human #john mitchell #being human uk #ok enough business tags. behold my magnum opus #according to my notes i started making this in fucking DECEMBER last year. it is now JUNE #it took me six fucking months..... this is truly a disease but i am so happy w it #webweaving as a format is so perfect for me bc its just the adhd experience of going wait this reminds me of-- #anyway can u tell im a tragedy enjoyer. i love a good downfall #i also have so many thoughts abt george and annie and i have a whole idea abt the bt20 arc #and tbh i rlly wanna make one abt what the concepts of monstrous and human mean within the context of the show #but uhhhh exam season incoming so! see u in six months i guess rip x__x #i will come back to this and add alt text dw i just dont have the spoons rn #words #poetry #cavetext #caveweb

[cashmere-caveman]

My Country: The New Age, Episode 16 & Leonard Cohen's final letter to his dying muse Marianne Ihlen

#my country: the new age #seo hwi #nam seon-ho #this was supposed to b part of a larger thing but it drove me too insane #like. bro. BRO!!!!!!! [i explode into a giant heap of toxic sludge] #watching this show has opened up so many new fun ways to go mad im just !!!! out of my mind. like they did that #they didnt have to do that and yet. #they did that #in the name of the best friends to enemies to dying in each others arms enjoyer community: yang sejong and woo dohwan thank u for ur servic #anyway i watched this scene and i immediately had to think of this quote. do u get it #cavetext #words #mctna #nam seon ho #caveweb

[cashmere-caveman]

shogun ep. 9 is just bisexual suicide speed chess toxic breakup edition

#the scream i scrumpt when ochiba no kata basically confessed to mariko under the cover of the heir requesting the anjin!!!!! #i KNEW IT #their flashbacks were sooooo homoerotic teenage friendship coded #like yes. mariko/blackthorne is the main tragic romance if we go by the way the show is written #but mariko has 2 hands! she can have 2 tragic love stories about loyalty and betrayal <3 #shogun #cavetext #this episode fucking ruined me. also blackthorn asking 'would u consider living for Me?' #in shambles. in goddamn fucking shambles. the convo between mariko and her son..... fuck!!!!!! #like yeah ok she finally found a socially acceptable reason to kill herself after trying to die for more than 14 years #but bro. Bro. BRO #lord kiyama not showing up to be her second. Blackthorn stepping up to take his place. fuck. FUCK!!! #THE LAST MINUTE ASSHOLE EX MACHINA!!!!! god i fucking hate him. #and then the cliffhanger at the end. blowing up fx headquarters #shogun spoilers #<- to be safe lol #anyway this episode was so so full of tenderness. war and hate but also love and peace on planet earth. u understand

[cashmere-caveman]

list of guys (and girls!) in the terror i think i can identify after my first watch

this is a post for me to keep a record in order to be able to compare it on subsequent rewatches to find out if i get better (even tho i feel like i have a p high initial terrorspotting stat simply from several years of dashboard osmosis before finally succumbing to the siren call of miserable men dying in the arctic)

since theres sadly no list to tick off faces and fill in names and i can hardly do this by just going on imdb or sth i decided to just google The Terror and look at the pictures in the image results. the first image counts which means if a guy appears in a shit ass grainy background shot then thats the pic i will use for my list no matter if theres a 1080 4k hd shot just two results later!

these are so many guys. how are there so many guys and it isnt even all of them. also pls ignore my spelling i started this yesterday when i got tired of darning socks

WAIT I FORGOT TO MENTION. og mr hickey. cornelius 1.0 if u will....i know him as well he had a sweet face :') but i think thats mostly everybody

no wait agian i forgot about billy orren..... "his name is billy orren!" sorry collins i will do better in the future (-_-)

#i lowkey still want to make a little spreadsheet w everyones face and name and occupation. i need an Overview #the terror #anyway. can u tell i like little from the fact that he shows up three separate times here evn tho i said only one pic per guy #cavetext