#kathleen scott

[tealin]

The bust of Scott from the Canterbury Museum is still on display! While the renovation is ongoing they've got a pop-up museum with some favourite pieces on display, and Scott made the cut : ) along with a few other Antarctic ephemera

There he is! Much better lighting than in the museum, too. Sadly he didn't make the cut at the new NPG, though Shackleton is hung in the WWI gallery, for maximum irony!

#captain scott #canterbury museum #christchurch #new zealand #sculpture #kathleen scott #bronze #bust #portrait

[areyougonnabe]

I have a follow up question which is What's Going On With Kathleen?

lol oh man. the real question is what ISN'T going on with kathleen

she was......... A Real Character that's for sure. interpreted in all sorts of bonkers ways by posterity because she refuses to fit into any sort of neat historical categorization as far as "wives of famous heroes" go. she was a strident anti-suffragist, loud in her universal hatred of other women, obsessive about maintaining her virginity amongst swarms of admirers in fin-de-siecle paris, determined to find a worthy father for her destined son, despite her occasional wishes she could have a son without marrying at all...

back to spufford, who wrote really wonderfully about kathleen:

She does not mind the election to muse and taskmistress; but she did not choose it, and again Scott has perhaps slightly misread her. The Woman One Must Strive For is a cartoon out of the male mind, and only approximates Kathleen. It is true that she plays up to it. It is true that she has something of the presenter of white feathers about her, blithely demanding bravery in circumstances her gender prevents her from experiencing. But her vicarious involvement in his polar life is more generous than that, and her emotions more detached from the public failure or success of the expedition than Scott imagines. Their marriage would not be ruined (as he sometimes fears) if he returned having failed to reach the pole, or (now his fears have coalesced into a Norwegian) having failed to beat Amundsen. The self-invented code she lives by has an eccentric stoicism as a main tenet. Nothing will be allowed to hurt enough to take the joy out of her life. When Scott moped once about the future, she had replied, in italics, 'I shall be happy whatever things happen and that is true!' She would contrive to be happy if he came home defeated; she would manage somehow to make it not matter; though whether he would be able to endure that particular demonstration of her self-sufficiency is another question.

in terms of the polycule chart, her connection to nansen comes from a set of historical letters between him and her that demonstrate certainly that he was in love with her, and that she felt something for him in return—but whether they actually consummated an affair is disputed. roland huntford, rolanding away, claims that clearly they obviously did, but wayland young (kathleen's son from her second marriage) was able to dispute that fairly easily based on evidence from the letters which huntford actively ignored.

but it's clear she had certain qualities which caused everything from obsession to revulsion to confusion in the people that she encountered. when she had to suffer the company of Hilda Evans and Oriana Wilson during the terra nova's time in new zealand it ended in violent fighting, with oates comparing the scene to a "Chicago slaughterhouse" with blood and hair flying everywhere. her overbearing presence during the loading of cargo annoyed the hell out of bowers. later, when cherry published Worst Journey, she took issue with Scott being described at times unflatteringly—despite Cherry's clear affection for him elsewhere in the book. this caused a fatal rupture in their friendship, which up until then had seen kathleen bringing her young son and many admirers (including nansen lol) to cherry's country estate.

anyway, that's about all i got, but there is a biography by her granddaughter louisa young which i have not read but is based partially on her diaries/autobiography, so if you want to know more about her you could start there!

#polar exploration #kathleen scott

[johntorrington]

men will have one pose

#hilariously even the statue kathleen scott did of wilson is doing this pose #(circus music starts) #terra nova #🗺️

[cinematicjourney]

Losing Ground (1982) | dir. Kathleen Collins

#losing ground #kathleen collins #seret scott #bill gunn #maritza rivera #films #movies #cinematography #screencaps

[degrassiclassiclover]

It’s time to talk about Scott’s abuse and manipulation tactics he used against Kathleen. (This is not meant to be a guide to help people recognize abuse in relationships. It is an analysis of a fictional character done by someone who is not a professional in any way.)

The first thing he did was make Kathleen trust him. He told her how much he loved her, treated her with more respect than most of the upperclassmen did, and got her extravagant gifts.

Whenever he attacked her, he apologized profusely and basically bought her forgiveness.

He refused to let her talk to any of her male classmates, further isolating her.

He gaslit and emotionally abused her, convincing her that she didn’t have any talent for things she was passionate about.

He made her feel more loved than anyone else in her life (including her parents) so that she would come back to him.

He convinced her that he needed her, making her feel guilty for wanting to leave him.

And finally, he convinced her that she had no chance of being wanted by anyone else, putting down her personality and physical appearance.

#degrassi #degrassi high #Kathleen mead #Kathleen degrassi #Scott #emotional/physical abuse tw #Tw

[edwordsmyth]

Losing Ground, Kathleen Collins (1982)

#kathleen collins #bill gunn #seret scott #billie allen #noberto kerner #ronald k. gray

[triviareads]

Can you recommend a book with a good doggy style scene?

It Happened One Autumn by Lisa Kleypas: I was surprised I'd forgotten this one! I think what made this hot was that Lillian is so out of it after one orgasm (and one he deliberately withholds) that Westcliff is "arranging" her on her stomach before they do it doggy-style.

Duke of Depravity by Scarlett Scott: The transformation of Crispin from pathetic -> not is complete with this scene; he's very "tell me you're mine", gets a little spanky, a little bite-y, and when Jacinda finally agrees, he goes for it.

Wicked Again by Kathleen Ayers: They're hot. They're older (she's 49, he's 40). A little thing like an ankle injury isn't gonna stop Haddon from going "we're MORE than a dalliance bby!" as he bends Marissa over.

When A Girl Loves An Earl by Elisa Braden: James is muddy and doesn't want to *soil* Viola but Viola can't be stopped, which ends with her on all fours on a couch and Jamie uttering the winning line, "Take yer filthy Scot inside ye now, Viola."

The Chief by Monica McCarty: An emotional doggy-style scene; for background, Tor thought Christina was a prostitute his buddies had sent him (and she was there to get compromised) so he nearly took her from behind. Now when they're married and she asked for it, he's all "are you sure?!?!?" and the funny thing is even after they go at it doggy style he flips her over because he wants to see her face when they orgasm.

I would like to note that I nearly added McCarty's The Saint to this list but when I checked, Magnus only said to Helen "I hope you like it from behind" because he thought she was someone else, but he stopped when he realized it was her and never following through in the entirety of the book so now I'm sad :(

A Rogue's Rules for Seduction by Eva Leigh: The tail-end of Dom and Willa's fuck cabin sex marathon; a standout more so because of everything that comes before it and when he does just before it (he eats her ass; a rarity in HR), but it's very hot.

His Countess by S.M. LaViolette: More of a historical erotic romance; you know that when they do it doggy-style after he a) eats her ass, and b) asks if she's been doing her kegels (30 minutes a day! for his pleasure and hers!).

A Daring Pursuit by Kate Bateman: Post-bear chase! It's adrenaline-fueled and a little rough in a very good way.

Also, if you'd like a list of specifically bending-her-over-the-desk moments, here it is.

#book recs #lisa kleypas #scarlett scott #kathleen ayers #elisa braden #monica mccarty #eva leigh #s.m. laviolette #kate bateman #historical romance #romance novels #ask

[dearly]

LOSING GROUND (1982) dir. Kathleen Collins

#losing ground 1982 #kathleen collins #seret scott #film

[itsmyfriendisaac]

Nowhere: this surreal installment of the Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy follows Dark & his eccentric friends throughout Los Angeles. After a game of kick-the-can, their 24 hour odyssey culminates at Jujyfruit’s house party before an impending alien invasion totally dooms them all!

#scenes #1990s #gregg araki #nowhere #looks #james duval #christina applegate #rachel true #nathan bexton #scott caan #guillermo díaz #kathleen robertson #devon odessa #staci keanan #squad

[tealin]

Hello! I’m in Christchurch atm and stopped by Scott’s statue while out on a wander, and noticed something strange about the plaque below it. As a resident Bilson expert, I was wondering if you knew anything about it?

Bill’s initials here are listed as A.E. rather than E.A.? I may be completely missing something here, but I’ve never seen him referred to anywhere as Adrian Edward rather than Edward Adrian; though it seems a rather glaring typo to have made on such a prominent monument. Any ideas?

People make mistakes sometimes.

The plaque at the Cape Crozier igloo says the Winter Journey party got there in June 1911 when it fact it was July – they had departed Cape Evans in June. The handful of people who would ever visit are the most likely people in the world to notice the mistake. But to err is human ... it's only a little more embarrassing when one does so in bronze. I'm guessing the text was assembled by someone who didn't know, made a transcription error, and it wasn't caught until it was too late.

This statue is one of my faves (the other being the bust in Canterbury Museum, which I believe is inaccessible at the moment) – Kathleen had to make it in marble rather than bronze because of wartime supply issues, but I think it's a superior sculpture to the one on Waterloo Place (of which it's technically a copy) due to the limitations of the medium making it more graphic, and the way marble interacts with light. Thanks for visiting Capt. Scott, and enjoy Christchurch!

#christchurch #sculpture #kathleen scott #human fallibility #tealin answers

[senseiwu]

Ninjago fandom has terrible taste

Not even just with the winner of a lot of those polls but

How did my wife lose to scott

Just

Look at her

#im sorry but i dont see the appeal to scott ixljchldit #but faith......... hwoa.... #faith ninjago im your biggest fan #they could have brought her back...... we had misako. kathleen barr was RIGHT THERE................ #wasted opportunity 💔 #just like never bringing echo back. even though brent is RIGHT THERE #anyway. appreciate my wife

[rosepompadour]

favorite fitzgerald girls: rosalind connage, this side of paradise Sometimes when I’ve felt particularly radiant I’ve thought, why should this be wasted on one man?

#it's over thank god #anon i hope you're happy because this was a challenge! #i need to do nicole and kathleen #but i promised myself i wouldn't touch the stories because it would never ever end #i mean i would 100% do an edit for julia ross if anyone knew who she was #but even i'm not thaaaat self-indulgent #ps: why do all these girls like taylor swift? i'm pretty neutral on her but the lyrics fit fitzgerald's women like ✨ #it can't be denied! #this side of paradise #f. scott fitzgerald #literature #bookedit #gatsbygirls* #*

[leatherhearted]

LOSING GROUND (1982, dir. Kathleen Collins)

#losing ground #directed by women #seret scott #fyeahmovies #kathleen collins #1980s

[aurorawest]

Reading update

The Haunting Season: Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights - 5/5 stars

Again, bought this solely for Natasha Pulley's story, The Eel Singers, which is about Thaniel and Mori from The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. It's set between Watchmaker and The Lost Future of Pepperharrow. I loved it, obviously. The rest of the stories were also really good—a few of them were genuinely really disturbing.

Teacher of the Year by MA Wardell - 3.75/5 stars

This is the first book in Wardell's Teachers in Love series (the second being Mistletoe & Mishigas, which I read last week). I didn't like this one as much, though tbh I'm chalking that up to the fact that it's Wardell's first novel. He uses some very strange descriptors sometimes that really throw me off ('matte' was used once to describe dialogue, which I still can't really make sense of). I also got kind of frustrated with Marvin's freakouts over Olan's alcoholism—not really the fact that they happened, but just like...the pacing of them, I guess? After it happened once, it didn't really feel like there was any escalation of that conflict, just sort of the same conflict happening repeatedly.

That said, I did like the book! The characters are all great, and I really loved how Marvin has to take responsibility for how he can't move on from how his mother's alcoholism affected him, and how he's actually quite unfair to his mother and Olan when they both take recovery incredibly seriously. There was a nuance to that that felt really refreshing.

Fallow by Jordan L Hawk - 4.5/5 stars

Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton - 3.5/5 stars

Only the Brightest Stars by Andrew Grey - 3.25/5 stars

Beautiful Undone by Melissa Polk - 3.5/5 stars

Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee - 5/5 stars

Adorable book and read it made me so hungry. I need to try a mooncake next fall.

Keeping Christmas: Yuletide Traditions in Norway and the New Land by Kathleen Stokker - 5/5 stars

I've had this sitting around for a few years now and figured I should read it around Christmas. It was super interesting—not only did I learn a lot about Norwegian Christmas traditions, I actually learned a lot about American Christmas traditions. Also it gave me an idea for a Christmas ghost story/romance.

The Winter Knight by Jes Battis - 5/5 stars

This book had a dreamy quality to it that was perfect for the subject matter. This is a murder mystery and kinda/sorta a retelling of Gawain and the Green Knight...I think? It's been way too many years since I've read Gawain and the Green Knight. The premise is that all the characters of Camelot are reincarnated over and over and stuck living out their myth cycles.

Death by Silver by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold - 5/5 stars

Soooo much yearning. Two school friends reconnect over a murder case. Both of them think they're the only one in love with the other. If you're a Freya Marske or KJ Charles fan, this is very much up your alley.

Doc by Mary Doria Russell - 4.25/5 stars

The King's Delight by Sarah Honey - DNF at pg 72

#the haunting season #the eel singers #natasha pulley #teacher of the year #ma wardell #fake dates and mooncakes #sher lee #keeping christmas: yuletide traditions in norway and the new land #kathleen stokker #the winter knight #jes battis #death by silver #melissa scott #amy griswold #reading tag

[mariocki]

Murders in the Zoo (1933)

"Mr. Yates, never be afraid of a wild animal. Let it alone and it will leave you alone. That's more than you can say of most humans."

"You don't mean to say you really like these beasts?"

"I love them. Their honesty, their simplicity, their primitive emotions: they love, they hate, they kill."

#murders in the zoo #snake #american cinema #pre code film #1933 #horror film #a. edward sutherland #philip wylie #seton i. miller #milton herbert gropper #lionel atwill #charles ruggles #gail patrick #randolph scott #john lodge #kathleen burke #harry beresford #edward mcwade #inspired pre code nastiness‚ right out the gate: opens on Atwill sewing shut the mouth of a romantic reveal and leaving him bound in the #jungle for the lions and consistently hits those levels of onscreen horror which wouldn't be seen again for several decades #i mean i wasn't expecting to actually SEE the results of Atwill's grisly surgery‚ nor an unfortunate being devoured by crocodiles but there #they are! Atwill of course is his usual magnetic self‚ managing to give a surprisingly controlled performance despite the largeness of the #part as written. the astonishingly beautiful Kathleen Burke does what she can with an underwritten part (and billed in publicity as the #Panther Women‚ following her star making turn in similarly shocking pre code Island of Lost Souls) but Charlie Ruggles' comic relief takes #quite a bit of goodwill to warm up to (i got there in the end‚ but his character really belongs in a different film entirely) #Randolph Scott's young romantic lead hasn't very much to do but it's nice to see him outside of a cowboy hat for once #my only real reservation is that you know all those animals were probably having a really bad time :( #such is the risk of 90 year old cinema i guess #still this was fun; and contrary to popular belief not a Universal film‚ but a Paramount one (only owned by Universal after they bought a #ton of Paramount's back catalogue)

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

#the virgin suicides #james woods #aj cook #kathleen turner #kirsten dunst #josh hartnett #scott glenn #michael paré #jonathan tucker #danny devito #sofia coppola #1999