Might take a slight break from looking at Terror content on here. I love you all, but my impostor syndrome is going crazy. Your analysis is all so interesting, I only hope my book can hold up! Of course, I know it’s impossible for me to include everything and I was working with specific themes, but I need to calm down. Still feel a bit unworthy that I’m the one writing the book. Continue making your content and shine on, I will be back when my brain weasels have settled down
“I was limited to 12 lines to speak of his services. It was hardly possible to say the thousandth part of what I should have like to have said of one I so truly loved.“
–James Clark Ross, writing to Eleanor Franklin Gell about Francis Crozier, 1855
Thank you to @annecoulmanross for isolating JCR’s handwriting!
Of course the wildman portrait of Sir James Ross, the pinup of polar exploration, is a gift to us Cold Boys girlies but I need to speak up. I simply must.
Sir James Clark Ross C.1847-1848 is - and I will die on this hill - actually prime JCR.
when i came out as trans i had an old friend from my church days message me to congratulate me and ask me for my name and pronouns. and i was shocked tbh cause he was such a head-deep-up-the-church’s ass kind of guy so i was super wary.
and after digging a little deeper i found out that he was very supportive of transness, saying that trans men are men and trans women are women
BUT
he also believed in the church’s gender roles meaning that trans women had to marry men and be submissive wives and trans men had to marry women and be strong christian husbands.
which is like ????
the weirdest and most surreal form of trans inclusive misogyny i’ve ever seen.
Get you a man who would leave his new job working for a millionaire on a yacht to go back to making you tea over a campfire while you sleep off your latest hijinks in a potting shed