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captain ahab 🤝 captain flint

unapproachable terrifying intelligent captains who are viewed as gods of the sea and who bribe their crew with the promise of spanish gold to achieve a years-in-the-making revenge scheme they're utterly obsessed with to the point of madness

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happy 176th victory point note day to all who celebrate!

25th April 1848

HMShips Terror and Erebus were deserted on the 22nd April 5 leagues NNW of this having been beset since 12th Sept 1846.

The officers and crews consisting of 105 souls under the command of Captain F. R. M. Crozier landed here — in Lat. 69°37’42’’ Long. 98°41’

This paper was found by Lt. Irving under the cairn supposed to have been built by Sir James Ross in 1831 — 4 miles to the Northward — where it had been deposited by the late Commander Gore in May June 1847.

Sir James Ross’ pillar has not however been found and the paper has been transferred to this position which is that in which Sir J. Ross’ pillar was erected.

Sir John Franklin died on the 11th of June 1847 and the total loss by deaths in the Expedition has been to this date 9 officers and 15 men.

[signed] F. R. M. Crozier Captain & Senior Offr

And start on tomorrow 26th for Backs Fish River

[signed] James Fitzjames Captain HMS Erebus

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Hickey's packing list:

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I think Sam Reich needs to do just one regular, normal, vanilla version of Game Changer randomly so that when it ends Brennan never feels safe.

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Haunted Depths, by Nicole Gustafsson. 

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No divine creation for rat boys

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not to f1 on main but the fact that nico rosberg and lewis hamilton met as a rich white son of a f1 world champ living in monaco and a poor black boy from a blue collar family in state housing in england who were ostracized from other karting kids for different reasons and befriended each other and grew up having sleepovers in hotel rooms and doing setups for each others karts and going on holidays together and G R E E C E..... eating frosted flakes together bcos it was nicos favourite food. being kids who raced but raced together as best friends most importantly. making it through the ranks of feeder. winning junior championships and each getting their gp2 champs. both making it to f1. hugging each other and jumping up and down after both getting on a podium together in 2007. only for lewis to win his 1st championship in his second year. and the next, end up as teammates with nico in a team that seemed to be a backmarker. only for it to Very Much Not Be That the next year. and lewis kept winning in this team, he got his 2nd and 3rd championships beating the other teams and beating nico. and tensions grew between him and nico as the two became more aggressive in fighting for titles and nico who was so competitive began to break himself down to beat lewis (rethreading his gloves for grip, waking up at like 4am, taking more time away from his family, etc) until they took each other out in spain 2016 in the first corner of the first lap. and things between them reached a point of no return. head to head for every race after until finally nico cinched his first f1 title. on a day where he was so nervous, all he could do was eat frosted flakes. He had finally won but, he'd also lost his best friend. no longer on speaking terms. and after all of that effort nico was so burnt out he retired from the sport completely not even a month later. and he became a commentator. in the paddock, still around. and he and lewis danced around each other for YEARS. it was like they had double restraining orders against the other each. nico brought up lewis whenever he could and lewis did his best to just ignore nico and focus on racing which he did perfectly. he got more championships for himself and mercedes. and this year he called valterri the best teammate he'd ever had. and nico not a week later at a heineken sponsored event was filmed on someones phone sitting down with this big group of people talking about the entire breakdown of his relationship with lewis and how toxic it become like every person there was a fucking therapist with this being FIVE YEARS AFTER HE RETIRED like they had to opposites in grieving this friendship. one reservedly and privately and one loudly and publically. and then later in the year abu dhabi 2021 comes around and lewis is fighting for a championship for the first time since nico and hes asked if hes a better driver than he was in 2016 only to respond "yes. And a better teammate" acknowlegding the breakdown for the first time. admitting for the some fault in the 2 way car-crash that was nico and his equivalent of two super-attached wlw teenagers' homoerotic friendship imploding in on itself into a messy, emotional split. and then not 3 seconds after the clip of him saying this the fucking camera crew cut to the sky broadcast team sitting there in shocked SILENCE for like 5 whole seconds just

this sport made these two men live through a nightmare of a fucking fanfiction level friends/lovers to enemies plot and for whatever fucking reason it happened on international tv

#jenson's face at the end always makes me lose it

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Adults: Following rules is good, not following rules is bad

Little me: Okay :] *follows a rule*

Adults: Oh my god look at this loser. He doesn't know that this rule is Secretly Okay To Not Follow. Dumbass. Let's all laugh at him

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I am LOVING all this black sails content

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hometown hero!

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now THIS is paving the way for the women’s game, go girls!!

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chinese gp commentary

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Nico Rosberg | Post-qualifying China 2024 for @blorbocedes and insp

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people love to take "it's spring, you're young, you're lovely, you have a right to be happy. come back into the world" out of context and turn it into something beautiful, but constance doesn't want to come back and helen doesn't actually care about her or merricat, not really. what if the world isn't worth it? what if we can find a home outside of it, within a story that doesn't have a happy ending in anyone's eyes but our own? maybe it's spring, and we're young, and we're lovely, and we do have a right to be happy, and the world has always rejected us so we reject it right back. maybe that is how we triumph and it's not inspirational to the mrs. clarke's of the world, because it's a rebellion against their conformism and hypocrisy, but that doesn't make it tragic. it makes it ours

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DIDIER PIRONI at the 1983 BRITISH GRAND PRIX

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