Hey, how've you been? Have you been eating right? I've been super busy with irl stuff, you know how it is. Anyways, have this super late April Fool's joke class for Fabula Ultima (late only here, dropped this one on the Rooster Games discord and FabUlt subreddit and it was a certified HIT, you just had to be there man /hj)
Anyways, don't expect anything anytime soon; got some irl stuff still going on and a pretty ambitious homebrew project in the works, might just drop FabUlt items here and there if I feel like it.
Here's the original google doc, if you wanna leave suggestions and such: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MPLasgPJvXuZuDL-9awpi_ayptUYTuzz6a2dIrwbFt8/edit?usp=sharing
Peace out, internet sailor.
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Crying screaming going insane over the fact that even if you THINK Hickey deserves the thirty lashes (or the twenty-three that he actually receives), it's still a difficult order to justify (even though Hickey was objectively in the wrong, although unfortunately it's not a massive leap in logic for your average white British sailor in the 1840s) because it's fundamentally part of Crozier's arc regarding alcoholism bringing out the worst in him. Sure, he comes to Silna's aid, but in the next episode, he wants to throw her out and abandon her, and even punishes his good friend for rightfully standing against him! It's a careless act of anger and cruelty that costs Blanky his leg, and ultimately his life (or at least, what might have remained had he not gotten gangrene). Ultimately, its the catalyst for Crozier's sobriety, his moment of "oh god I REALLY fucked up," and he's a better man for it, but it comes at the cost of his friend's life and Silna's safety.
Back to Hickey. I think we tend to let this moment slide because we know Hickey is a terrible person who does terrible things and we want to see him suffer, but Crozier continuing to up the ante as Hickey keeps talking is downright petty. The addition that Hickey be lashed as a boy is pretty needlessly cruel. And it leads to the moment where Hickey goes from a reactive nuiscance to an active threat. His homoerotic joker origin story. It's a moment where, like the Blanky situation, Crozier creates a future problem for himself.
It's a hard scene to watch (and the performances are incredible), and in that scene, it's kind of easy to see how mistrust of Crozier could breed in this environment. Flogging for an offense is terrible, but it's also expected. Hickey's flogging kind of pushes a lot of boundaries as to what is acceptable punishment or senseless cruelty, and we see different characters struggle with this. Crozier didn't just make an enemy of someone who previously wanted to be on his good side, he also created a martyr. It's just one of those things where nobody could have forseen the consequences down the road.
Don't get me wrong I absolutely love this scene and the way it furthers Crozier and Hickey's respective arcs and their dynamics with each other, but I think we can safely say Crozier acted from a place of malice, and it's just one of a few pretty fucked up things he's done, but we want to brush it off because Hickey is an acceptable target even though what happens to him is objectively pretty terrible.
I heard it said that flogging makes good men bad and bad men worse. There was no way Hickey was gonna come out of this normal, and in that instant, it's like fate was sealed. Crozier would never be able to be anything but a mortal enemy in Hickey's mind after that.
I love that this is a moment when Crozier crosses the line. I love that it seems to be more about taking out his feelings than serving a just punishment. I love the constant glances from Hickey and Fitzjames. And I love that this behavior escalates to Crozier going past the point of no return, leaving Blanky to the mercy of the elements and the Tuunbaq and abandoning Silna, and it's a huge moment of reckoning for him! He doubles back! He realizes he fucked up and he tries to change, and in some ways it's too late, but he still commits himself to changing for the better even if it kills him. Which. The DTs could have very easily killed him. It's just as much of a transformation for Crozier as the flogging was for Hickey.
It's so neat. These two men having these massive transformations involving deep personal suffering, and in Crozier's case, Hickey is a footnote, and in Hickey's case, Crozier is the cruel hand of God.
Or somwthing idk I'm like really sick and the nyquil hit.
Anyway I'm not going to bat for Hickey and saying he was right but I think we need to bear in mind that he's a sewer in the sense that he is the sum total of the society he came from and everything that was put into him- love and hate and betrayal and cruelty and everhrhjngi- and in the end, he is colonialism taken to its logical extreme. He's gonna fight God and then become God because he is Special (and Britain is going to conquer the passage and thus control the world because they have the power of God and anime- I mean uhhh they're doing it for queen and country so they are totally right and correct for trying to exploit a sea route for spice, right 🙄). Except he gets torn apart because nature doesn't give a shit.
Idk. Hickey gradually becomes warped into everything Wrong with the Franklin Expedition from the outset, and Crozier isn't a perfect saint who is right all the time and that's why I love this show. I'm gonna go to sleep now.
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OKAY FOLKS ITS ARTSYBOOKS GRIAN RECAP TIME!! ^-^
WHY WAS THAT GRIAN AND ETHO'S TASK OH GOD WHY!!!
and mumbo is grian's butler too??? yeah im fine im so fine
mumbo and grian and etho is my dream team! i am in heaven with these three together!!
etho being so echo-y is so cool!! i love it!! and the fact that it was ONLY etho, not cleo or bdubs somehow makes it even better
BDUBS SPAWNING IN HIS BEDROOM IN THEIR BASE!! OMG THAT WAS SO FUNNY SEEING HIM JUST STORM OUT LMAO
grian stealing the corners of tehir portal and etho whining about it. and then mumbo just actually breaking the portal. amazing
also the fact that earlier mumbo was scarily close to what grian and etho's tasks were. i am so normal about that.
i am so nervous with mumbo and grian in the nether. i am so nervous for my boys
WHY DID MUMBO GET ON THE SRIDER!! WHY MUMBO!! WHY WHY WHY!! GRIAN TOLD YOU NOT TO DO THAT!!
love grian reffering to the admins as admin faries ^-^
GRIAN IS ON HALF A HEART AGAIN!! T-T
i am so normal about grian and etho working together
"if anyone loves me gift your heart please" WHAT IF I STARTT SCREAMING GRIAN
HOW DID LIZZIE DIE????
GRIAN THE ADMIN MAN FOR THE WIN!!
i am so nervous for this task. so so so nervous. and grian messing with that stupid note block is NOT helping T-T
WHERE DID ETHO GO!! MY BOY WHERE ARE YOU!!!
the wither just constantly following scar is so funny actually
GRIAN JUST DIED ON THE BUTTON AND BROKE THE GAME HSFSHDF GRIAN MY BOY NOOOOO
OH AND I CAN'T FORGET!! JIMMY BROKE THE CURSE!!!! SECOND OUT BABY KETS GOOOOOO!!!!! I KNEW HE COULD DO IT!!!
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put me in a crown car, take me for a drive
kiss me in the front seat, take me for a ride
small and silver, teach me how to live
small and silver, teach me how to love
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Do you draw on paper? Or do you do art fully on digital
i draw on paper only occasionally (ex. the sasuke that’s illegal comic), almost everything i post here is fully digital :)
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may not post today, my fatigue is really low and just don't feel like posting today, i promise there will be a daily wallace pic posted tomorrow!!
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