#john torrington

[heartnell]

Do you ever go insane...do you ever lose your mind...

#franklin expedition #the terror amc #the terror #john torrington #frozen in time

[madlyfluffy]

Do you guys liek my toploaders

#i do plan on making more #the terror #franklin expedition #polar exploration #polar explorers #John Torrington #Emil racovitza #madhouse at the end of the earth #the terror amc #james fitzjames #madlyfluffy

[v1vid]

#my art #amc the terror #edward little #john torrington #john irving #george hodgson #graham gore #cornelius hickey #john franklin #john hartnell #thomas hartnell #thomas jopson #henry thomas dundas le vesconte #vivid_tiny one

[entwinedmoon]

While I don't have any new research to share today, there is one new Torrington-related development that I just have to mention:

There's an independent film featuring ice mummies that were inspired by Torrington and the Beechey Boys!!!

The movie is called The Hyperborean. It's a comedy/family drama/mystery/sci-fi supernatural fantasy genre mashup that has been described as "bonkers" Probably because the ice mummies shoot laser beams. It sounds completely ridiculous and I want to see it a million times. Right now it's making its way through the indie film festival circuit, so it's not in theaters or streaming, but hopefully it will be available for everyone to watch one day.

There are screenshots available online, though, and they did such a good job on the Torrington-looking mummy.

The half-opened eyes, the curled back lips, the yellowish skin, the kerchief wrapped under his jaw... They even have the dark stain on Torrington's forehead and nose (from the piece of navy blue fabric that had been placed over him). It's really impressive how well they did the makeup and costume. This is the closest Torrington has ever come to appearing on screen outside of a documentary, and I for one can't wait to shove this movie in my eyeballs.

#john torrington #the hyperborean #john torrington baptism party #franklin expedition

[wingedtrumpet]

Horse John Torrington sacrificial lamb eraser head baby wine vase! With Bmix clay and black slip.

#ceramics #pottery #ceramic sculpture #trans art #trans artist #pottery art #ceramic vase #handbuilding #handbuilt pottery #handbuilt ceramics #John Torrington #horse art #clay sculpting #clay art #madlyfluffyart #lamb #artists on tumblr #gay art #lgbtq artist #lgbt art #lgbt artist

[sinnaminie]

Crafting some new Beechey Island Boys stuff…

#Beechey Island #Beechey Island boys #franklin expedition #John Torrington #John Hartnell #William Braine #the terror #Erebus #stitching #crafts #hoop art

[clove-pinks]

Today for Eighteen-Forties Friday: I purchase and review this goofy-ass Franklin Expedition graphic novel so you don't have to!

The Vanished Northwest Passage Arctic Expedition by Lisa M. Bolt Simons, with illustrations by Eugene Smith, is part of a series called DEADLY EXPEDITIONS with a polar focus; and if I was 11 years old again I would probably love them to death.

From the preview pages alone, I could see that... questionable choices were made, e.g. the portrayal of Jane Franklin as some kind of unaging vampire who is still wearing the dress from her 1816 portrait in 1845.

Franklin's officers are referenced from their daguerreotypes (more or less), and we get a nice Fitzjames and Stanley (the latter with with his authentic 1840s juvenile delinquent haircut), as well as a flashback Crozier as the world's most mature 13-year-old.

Not every officer with a daguerreotype makes an appearance, and I was very annoyed that this book doesn't have any Henry Le Vesconte. We DO, however, get the Beechey Trio of John Hartnell, John Torrington, and William Braine—who inexplicably go on a mission together and wacky hijinks ensue.

That is a cute Torrington, @entwinedmoon! Although I think @radiojamming will agree with me that the real John Hartnell was more handsome.

Oh yes—and their tragic ends. It's implied that they all catch colds and die instantly in these sequential panels which, God help me, made me laugh out loud.

Way to strip all of the pathos and tragedy from their deaths. If only they had changed into dry underwear!

There is a character who looks just like Ian Hart as Thomas Blanky in the AMC Terror TV show, and the cold weather gear worn worn by the crew also resembles the TV show costuming (which was inspired by Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration gear).

There is a brief mention of lead poisoning as a contributing factor to the expedition's demise in one panel, but it's otherwise absent—making this book like the opposite of classic kids' Franklin Expedition book Buried in Ice by Owen Beattie, John Geiger, and Shelley Tanaka, which strongly implies that the whole crew is going bonkers from lead poisoning starting in 1846.

#Eighteen-Forties Friday #franklin expedition #1840s #james fitzjames #stephen stanley #arctic expedition #polar #the vanished northwest passage arctic expedition #graphic novel #john hartnell #john torrington #william braine #polar exploration

[chapuyes]

when I was a kid I got fixated on that famous picture of John Torrington’s preserved corpse & I DO think it both fucked me up a bit and shaped the course of my life, getting me into history & all. I mean here was this dead human being who looked like he just left this earth even though he died in 1846, with beautiful golden wood shavings (which as a kid I thought were blond locks of long curly hair) framing his cold discolored face & hands that look like they could start wiggling any second. Eyes that looked to me like he was just daydreaming & would focus back when he needed to. Here was proof to kid me that people from long ago were horribly & greatly human just like me & everyone I knew.

#john torrington #I have conflicting feelings about how widely disseminated that pic was & how removed it gets from the context & the disrespect of sharing #a persons remains who had no say in the matter. but nothing can change the effect it had on me

[littleastrobleme]

OH NO ANOTHER POEM? I haven't had much writing bandwidth but I'm practicing where I can! Here's another Frankliny attempt.

The Death of John Torrington, a Stoker

I took my strength away to sea;

To stoke the boilers in the heat,

The stomach of the ship my home,

And soot-faced friends my company.

Their faces I cannot recall;

Most Englishmen, but that is all.

The evil sank into my chest,

My stubbornness no match for blood

That stained my teeth like coral beads

And made me fitful in my rest.

I'm buried on this lonesome beach,

The Passage just outside my reach.

The laborer became a ghost.

The strength I gladly offered to

The empire gently disappeared.

A shadow of myself at most.

My hands are waxy, spider-white.

They're bound, I think. The ties are tight.

How long had I been sick, you think,

For hands as strong as these to fade

To soft, uncalloused, pallid things?

The muscles in my arms to shrink?

My chest went still, my last breath free.

The bloodstained aprons circled me.

I miss the acrid smoke of coal;

The sludge inside my skull recalls

That smell as work, as home, as me

When I was young, alive and whole.

The cold has forced my eyelids back,

But all there is to see is black.

Did they who gently dressed my frame

Remember all the strength I had?

The joyful, virile sailor soul,

Before the sickness left me lame?

The rocks they shoveled in to start

Knocked loudly like a racing heart.

I dream of hungry fires to feed,

The rippled muscles, swelling back,

The satisfying sweat of toil--

For to be needed is a need.

Please tell Sir John that I have passed.

I was a stoker till the last.

#franklin expedition #hackneyed poetry attempt two! #john torrington #poem

[maridemira]

John Torrington's family matters

(This is just a concept I thought of when I read the Torrington series post by entwinedmoon and this is based on the Torrington Update post and some information may not be accurate)

John Torrington was just smoking tobacco on the upper deck when William Braine approaches him and starts a conversation with him.

William Braine: Mate, how come you never told me about your family matters? Mr. Hartnell always told me that you are always bummed about it, so would you like to discuss it with me?

John Torrington: Sure, but yeah, it's kind of complicated

William Braine: How? I heard that your sister had the middle name of Mary, what's yours?

John Torrington: Well......in our early records we were listed as Shaw Torrington, Shaw is always are assumed middle name, so when my sister Esther had a middle name of Mary, it's unclear if Mary is truly her middle name or if it's just another first name or if Shaw Torrington was our shared last name.

William Braine: Oh ok, well I heard that your sister married this year, what is the reason and is that why you're bummed about it too?

John Torrington: Um......it's out of love and something hanky panky was going on before they married, so yeah, that......

William Braine: Oh, but I heard that you married a woman named Elizabeth Browning, is that true?

John Torrington starts to become agitated

John Torrington: NO! No!! That is a fanfiction! Stop passing that off as real!!

William Braine: Woah woah woah, chill out mate.......Just by the thought of it, yeah, it does seem concerning given our society expectations.

John Torrington: Well I would be concerned if our society norms are just getting very weird

#john torrington #william braine #john hartnell #franklin expedition memes #john torrington memes #original concept #beechey island #beechey island boys

[chiropteracupola]

there's nothing that gets me wanting to draw like 'book that has never to my knowledge been illustrated' and also 'book that been repeatedly illustrated in a manner that I viscerally disagree with'

#today's art adventure #there's nothing quite like seeing a character you've got a STRONG visual idea of turn up looking like john torrington after 138 years froze #and I need to remedy this in my typical art-shark fashion... #BUT I have an essay. which I have not worked on as much as I ought to have.

[acheronist]

if you don't have 4-5 favorite mummies then literally what the fuck are you even doing

#john torrington. otzi. rosalia lombardo. tolland man. gebelein man. i could go on #🦇

[v1vid]

And today i saw John Torrington..

#my art #john torrington #franklin expedition #illustration #artists on tumblr #mummy

[entwinedmoon]

As per my tradition, I made a cinnamon crumb cake for Torrington's B(aptism) Day (and this year I actually remembered to put foil under the candles to prevent the wax dripping into the cake so I don't have to dig it out later lol).

#john torrington #john torrington baptism party #lil torrington

[polarexplorerspoll]

POLAR EXPLORERS SHOWDOWN: ROUND 2

#round 2 #polar exploration #poll #frank wild #john torrington

[sinnaminie]

Beechey Boys ornaments are going to be on Christmas trees this year ☺️

#beechey island boys #beechey boys #john torrington #John hartnell #William Braine #the franklin expedition #the terror #Erebus #stitching #crafts #felt ornament #christmas