#Like 'You're twelve years-old and therefore a grown man now - time for you to run away to sea and support a family on your earnings!'

[saints-who-never-existed]

One thing I find really hilarious to think about sometimes is just how much older/younger a lot of the real-life Expedition crew members were compared to their fictional counterparts.

Like, 25 year-old Goodsir, anyone? Or 27 year-old Collins for that matter?

26 year-old Bridgens and 37 year-old Peglar? Ludicrous!

On the one hand, it blows my mind a little bit that I'm currently the same age as the likes of Fitzjames and Le Vesconte.

But on the other hand, I look at all of my male contemporaries - God's Perfect Idiots to a man - and think "Aw shit, yeah, it all makes sense now! Men are just fuckin' like that, huh?"

#Reblog and tag an Expedition member who shares your current age #If nothing else I'm interested to see who here is a literal babby and who's not #Sillyposting #Rum Posting #For real though I do find it so interesting to think about how differently age and maturity would've been perceived #Like 'You're twelve years-old and therefore a grown man now - time for you to run away to sea and support a family on your earnings!' #On the one hand a 31 year-old like Fitzjames - for example - would've had significantly more life experience than many 31 year-olds today #Would've had completely different expectations of adulthood and maturity placed upon them from a much much earlier age #But on the other hand people have always been people #Foolish young men have always been foolish young men #So the differences are probably also not nearly as vast as we might expect #The Terror