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Glasses people love to make you try their glasses on to see how fucked up their eyes are. It's a sign of respect in their culture.

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Photographs of the ship Endurance and Ernest Shackleton's ill fated Antarctic expedition by Frank Hurley, 1915

#the ones with the spars and rigging stark black against the sky and ice #and then the one with the rigging so frost-rimed it's white against the sky........... #at this point I probably do need a tag for #polar exploration #stuff so there you go let's commit now

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jared harris doomed grouchy alcoholic captain of my heart and all, but I cannot emphasise just how moving it is to read the actual crozier’s letters to his ‘dear sisters’ and nicknaming his sister charlotte as ‘dear small’ and gushing over how excited he is to serve under someone so honourable as sir john franklin and constantly asking james clark ross to pass on his love to ross’s wife and baby and nicknaming anne ross ‘thot’ (??) and the baby cute things like ‘the dear little stranger’ and ‘little sir james’

and yes I love terror’s francis ‘crankypants’ crozier, but the fact that we think of victorian men as being repressed and emotionless and yet every single one of the real man’s letters just overflows with affection and good humour just Does Something to me ok

#yeahhhhh ;_; #still haven't finished reading may we be spared because every letter occasions unbearable feelings #the terror #ish

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absolutely delighted to report that this episode featured the weird Galapagos iguanas, and when the narration went, 'these are the only iguanas that can swim', I felt a ghostly hi-five from the imaginary Stephen Maturin who lives in my brain

in an effort to remind myself that I did in fact used to be fairly good at Icelandic, I've woken my vpn from its long slumber to watch things on RÚV, but unfortunately my first pick was 'a perfect planet' with Icelandic narration and so I am being rapidly humbled by how few birds/fish/etc I can actually identify by sight

'and the súlur accompany them'. me, nodding, 'ah yes, the súlur, of course' *squinting desperately at the beak shape as though this will help me*

#will dealing with google translate's pisspoor efforts in the natural history field drive me to finally pay for snara.is? MAYBE SO #IT'S SO BAD #'did you mean 'comb'?' fuck off

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narratively I am a fan of romances that don’t ever actually become romances

I don’t mean in an aromantic life partner way, I mean romantic tension that is never resolved or acted upon for whatever reason but by the end it’s clear that both characters experienced the love of their lives without ever acknowledging it as such. but they know. they know.

#@ prev tags: aough ;_; (but also. correct)

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in an effort to remind myself that I did in fact used to be fairly good at Icelandic, I've woken my vpn from its long slumber to watch things on RÚV, but unfortunately my first pick was 'a perfect planet' with Icelandic narration and so I am being rapidly humbled by how few birds/fish/etc I can actually identify by sight

'and the súlur accompany them'. me, nodding, 'ah yes, the súlur, of course' *squinting desperately at the beak shape as though this will help me*

#took me a linguistically dizzying minute or so to figure out that Kyrrahaf is the Pacific (kyrr=quiet/peaceful) #i have a really good vocab of Weird Verbs of Motion but not a good one for anything that rímur poets don't care about #such as for example the fish of the pacific ocean #so that one visit to the whale museum in reykjavik is really paying off let me tell you

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Funniest thing in the world when people write an AU extremely different from canon, but they’re not willing to give up on the character building it created for their blorbos. Girlies out there fighting for their life recreating a relationship formed on a doomed arctic exploration in 1848 by replicating that same dynamic in a Great British Bake Off AU.

#akgjgkska #the terror

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I must have told you, hundreds of years ago

That I love you

It's just that you've now forgotten

And I can't recall it myself

Mysterious Lotus Casebook (2023) + The Lost Tomb 2 (2019) & Ultimate Note (2020) // 愛人錯過, Accusefive

#oh *no* #that's not fair #dmbj #mlc

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honestly, how is [redacted university] maintaining two icelandic teachers in this economy??

oh good the teacher has emailed me and it is not the teacher who knows me, so I am going to have to explain both the pronouns and the 'unfortunately I have speech patterns from the sunny summer of 1203 and writing patterns from the godawful winters of idk the 16th century mostly. what do you mean no one writes it tvá anymore, how do you make it rhyme with þá??' thing. in icelandic.

#I mean. from what I know of their other hiring practices. probably by wildly underpaying them but still

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oh good the teacher has emailed me and it is not the teacher who knows me, so I am going to have to explain both the pronouns and the 'unfortunately I have speech patterns from the sunny summer of 1203 and writing patterns from the godawful winters of idk the 16th century mostly. what do you mean no one writes it tvá anymore, how do you make it rhyme with þá??' thing. in icelandic.

#íslenskan mín er svolítið skrítið I say with a rictus grin #og ég er bara hér því að kínverskunámskeið er ekki í boði :( #can I remember One Single Idiom? can I heck. #can I give you ten synonyms for 'horse' off the top of my head and sing you a little song about them? yes #anyway. I think I will cope just fine with the course materials because it says students will begin to use irregular verbs #and I'm over here like. my friend. if they are *spelt* consistently they're more regular than anything I'm used to #but I understand the teacher wanting some evidence that I'm not going to be That Guy in her class ahead of time

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NO FUCKING WAY

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one of the most infuriating things about becoming an adult is when you realize that it actually is 10x easier to solve problems by making a phone call vs literally any other communication method

#yeah :(

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turning up on the first day of class like hello, I have neopronouns and a 13th-century approach to sentence structure

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had to write to the icelandic course administrator like, I swear I am not trying to humble-brag here but I have no idea which course is suitable for someone who can basically read fluently but can barely string a sentence together out loud and also has. uh. antiquated speech patterns when they do. but my god I know about noun declensions!

grumble grumble bloody undergrads and their need to study for exams so they don't want to take not-strictly-necessary language courses this term so there aren't enough people to run the mandarin course I was meant to be on grumble grumble

#I really hope it *is* the teacher I think it is and not someone baffled and bewildered by the concept of hán 😑 #it has been so nice to be an undifferentiated ta in mandarin

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grumble grumble bloody undergrads and their need to study for exams so they don't want to take not-strictly-necessary language courses this term so there aren't enough people to run the mandarin course I was meant to be on grumble grumble

#it's fiiiiiiiine #I'm going to take an Icelandic course instead #which is probably going to be weird because the teacher and I have seen each other drunk a *bunch* at conferences #but that's probably fine #she's a norse person so she will understand my 'I know 50 poetic synonyms for 'woman' but I can barely order a coffee' problem

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Someone: How are you doing?

The fractured piece of an eldritch deity that I keep in my head at all times: lie.

#the nice thing about tumblr is that it's even odds whether any given post is a fandom ref or not #malevolent

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spent too long thinking about The Rational Garment at knitting club tonight and gave myself a hysterical fit

#I need to make more knitted fanworks you see #but I think the rational garment might be a step too far #i am not a professional frame-weaver after all #aubrey-maturin #kinda