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I’ve seen some posts talking abt this weird little moment bw Little and Irving, bc ?? What’s even going on here lads. But I think the moment makes perfect sense when you consider the news they’ve just gotten about the provisions, seeing as Irving is the one who’s been in charge of those provisions.

He oversaw the inspection of the tins. It was his job to make sure all the unsafe food was disposed of, and then it was his job to do the math on how to reduce rations after the culling. We explicitly see him relating this information to the rest of command. And after all that, to find out it was for naught? That the tins he himself deemed safe were still killing them? That he’s been working and worrying about doling out portions of literal poison to his men for years, and he had no idea? Yeah, I’d probably look a little shell shocked too :(

And Little looks over to his friend, and sees him staring into space, obviously going back over all the time he spent agonizing over rations that were killing them anyway… of course he reaches out to try and bring him out of it. I read that interaction as Little telling him, hey, this isn’t your fault, okay?

#op why #this hurts my heart #he was so diligent!!! #as much as we joke about little as the eldest daughter in relation to command #i also love the idea that he plays the role of comforting older sibling to the subordinate officers #he did his best to take care of them and it was for naught! #but there was nothing he could possibly have done that would have been right or good enough and somehow that's not comforting at all #because the hand they were dealt was never going to allow them to survive #and no amount of competence or diligence or love can make up for that #crying over fictional versions of long dead lieutenants again lads #the terror amc

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stede + singin' in the rain

#now this is content #singin’ in the rain #our flag means death

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this Conversation pit is ruining my life

#this is IDEAL #put me in the porthole conversation pit

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listen i don't think edward little was actually a bad first lieutenant. when we see him in the first episode he's calm and confident. he does not say much but he's amiable enough. crozier likes him, and i don't think crozier would like anyone he doesn't think capable in some way. generally he's dependable and knows what he's doing. however unfortunately for edward he has these qualities because he has a major case of eldest daughter syndrome, which means he both wants to please his mum (crozier) and has an overdeveloped sense of responsibility for his younger siblings (crew), so when they get stuck in the ice and crozier starts going (more) alcoholic, he enables his mum bc he doesn't want to disappoint her even if he doesn't agree with her, and he has to pick up the tasks and care for his siblings she's not doing, but he can't let his siblings know about their mum's situation because they'll get worried and restless. and like a true eldest daughter he has to bear the brunt of mummy's anger for being a disappointment but he also doesn't want to seek refuge with the man she divorced (fitzjames) because that feels like a betrayal. also while this is going on there is a giant bear who hunts his siblings for sport so they're dying left and right and also a changeling master manipulator who's making his siblings mad at their mum and who wants to fuck said mum before eating her like some sort of praying mantis. anyway i think i would start being miserable and anxious too.

#justice for edward little #it's not even enabling #crozier could literally accuse him of mutiny if he directly disobeyed an order #including being sent out to commandeer whiskey #what else was he supposed to do! #he was the best lieutenant he could be #in a situation that did not really allow him to be a good lieut. #anywas i realize i already wrote an entire essay on this #anyway good post op

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blows my mind that i have little online friends who mildly care about me. it’s really nice

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The Palm Beach Post, Florida, November 30, 1942

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Water is pretty nice to drink despite how horribly it treated the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald

#or are we drinking water to avenge the crew of the edmund fitzgerald #so the drinker (lake superior) becomes the drinkee

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Glowing Giant Fish Made of Discarded Plastic Bottles, Playa de Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

#ichthyolatry

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Dandelions - Bertha Wegmann (1847-1926)

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#will stanton from the dark is rising #-> prev YES #but in my early years mostly cimorene

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#BENRY #my beloved #i’m very sorry i murdered him #best relationship in the entire show #lost #memerson society

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Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 1

Lina Cavalieri: L'Ensoleillad in Chérubin (1905 Monte Carlo); Princess Fedora Romazov in Fedora (1906 Met); Manon Lescaut in Manon Lescaut (1907 Met)

Sarah Bernhardt: Théodora in Théodora (1902 Paris); Pelléas in Pelléas et Mélisande (1905 West End); Lucrezia Borgia in Lucrèce Borgia (1911 Paris)

Propaganda under the cut

Lina Cavalieri:

Sarah Bernhardt:

She was The Iconic Actress of the early 1900s. I love her curly hair (just like mine!) and her dedication to genderbending every single chance she got. Absolutely wild life and also..she's gorgeous

#the only one of these i’ll reblog #because it is a travesty that sarah bernhardt is losing #she is an icon still

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there’s a very specific aesthetic i’m going for on this blog and it’s called cool things i like

#it’s also how i choose my decor #hopelessly eclectic in all ways

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HMS Terror, abandoned on this day (22nd April) in 1848

#ooo this is beautiful #franklin expedition

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i know nothing about video editing but i had a vision. i call it.......where is the second master's mind.....

#or something #is this anything??? #regardless i made it #the terror amc #henry foster collins #alas #the pixies

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Katy Horan aka Goody Horan (American, b. 1980, Houston, TX, USA, based Austin, TX, USA) - Murder Ballads: 1: The Bloody Gardener 2: The Dreadful Wind and Rain, Paintings: Pencil, Gouache on Paper

#the wind and rain are dreadful but this art sure isn't! #sorry that was not a good joke and yet i am going to leave it typed for some reason #anyway love a murder ballad love these dead ladies