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Thomas Evans

I only took him with me because he was scared

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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.

#the terror #the hyperborean

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"The Black Freighter" is just about what goes through your head in a shitty customer service job.

#the black freighter #music #pirate jenny

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'All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool. And that works all the way from the external trappings to the level of metaphor, subtext, and the way one uses words. In other words, I happen not to think that full-plate armor and great big honking greatswords are cool. I don't like 'em. I like cloaks and rapiers. So I write stories with a lot of cloaks and rapiers in 'em, 'cause that's cool. Guys who like military hardware, who think advanced military hardware is cool, are not gonna jump all over my books, because they have other ideas about what's cool.'

-Steven Brust (2010)

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Cryptid sighting. 

#the terror

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you ever think about how sad it is that the guys in that submarine died 7 times faster than the brain's pain response threshold and thus didn't suffer at all

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1 . 0 6   ➢  T H E   A R T   O F   F U C K E R Y

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Shame we never got to actually see Ed put his hair up. Shame we never got him in a crop top either so lemme just-

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Our Flag Means Death gifs - 19/?

1x06, “The Art of Fuckery”

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Imagine being Stede Bonnet, who wants to share his interests and the things he loves with others so fucking badly, and is never anything but mocked for it. He is so open and generous with what he loves - he wants others to enjoy them with him! He wants to share his library with the crew! He wants to show off his closet full of fine fabrics! He's so desperate for positive attention that he shows his library proudly to Nigel!

And all he ever gets is "that's absolutely ridiculous," it's a "dreadful misuse of space."

Until Ed. Who is genuinely, effortlessly, absolutely enamored not just with Stede's things but with how much Stede loves them.

It would have been so easy for Stede to be reluctant to share the things he loves. He's been burnt so many times before. It would've been easy for Ed, so experienced and world-weary, to fall right in with everyone else calling him stupid and ridiculous.

He's used to being called ridiculous and foolish. But he still wants to share his things with Ed. And Ed, from the start, thinks he's incredible.

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been seeing homies get deep into "the terror" and making me want to rewatch SO i spent two hours in the dead of night reading the wiki/the subreddit/other linked articles and like. one of those articles was deadass fucked up

there was a woman who spoke inuktitut who was writing a book containing a lot of inuit oral histories, and in nunavut she was able to hear passed-down recollections of when survivors from the franklin expedition were passing through

and like. i can't imagine being an inuit family/group, knowing that europeans exist but having never seen them, seeing 8-9 shambling, blue-skinned, cold-to-the-touch out-of-their-minds white men come wandering by. they invited the men inside their igloos for warmth, for food, to be hospitable. the men refused to eat, refused to speak, and when trade was offered, clutched their possessions close and refused to entertain the idea of trade. this was, offputting, to say the least. the group set them up in their own igloo, with their own fire, and left three whole seals for them to eat. and then they fled cause what the FUCK get out of there. they came back in a few days to check on the strangers. the three seals were completely untouched, while all of the men had killed and eaten each other

i mean. fuck dude. there are obviously pretty dark angles to view the franklin expedition from– honestly can't think of a good angle, it's pure colonialism and british exceptionalism– but that specific interaction, that inuit group who were living lives as normal until a dozen fucking walking dead showed up and did cannibalism. no wonder that story got passed down, i'd be shitting my pants if i saw that

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i cannot fucking believe the terror has a wilhelm scream in the last episode. a show about the disappearance of 129 men into the arctic. and when one of them dies he goes AOUGH‼️

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#the lighthouse #for the love of all the odd gods of the galaxy sound on

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THE TERROR ▸ 1.09 the c, the c, the open c

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the thing that delights me about mr cornelius hickey in amc's the terror is that the first notable thing he does is get caught bumping uglies with whatshisface and when you hear that you're like "oh, okay, this is going to be his character axis, he's the gay one" which means you are COMPLETELY unprepared for him to start murdering people. by the time you get to him running shirtless across the tundra and doing unprompted cannibalism his sexuality is entirely irrelevant. like this is an equal opportunity descent into madness. homosexuality is still illegal but i guarantee the giant polar bear with a human face is going to get him before the cops do which is a win for representation in my book

#the terror #cornelius hickey

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but your honor his big wet princess puppy dog eyes cancels out all the horrors he’s committed

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team hot and emo

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