At least Francis didn't end up alone.
If he'd gone back to England, he would have been in a home he no longer recognized after years away, himself fundamentally changed. No one could ever possibly understand what he'd been through or what he'd seen. He might have ended up married, but even then, he would have still been spiritually alone.
But living with the Netsilik? They may not have ever been able to fully grasp what he'd been through, but they knew and understood what Tunbaaq was and the damage it had done. That, at least, was some common ground they shared, and it would have been infinitely more common ground than anything he would've gotten in England. He spoke their language, learned their ways, and they understood at least one of his monsters. He probably found some comfort in being able to shed the skin of Francis and become Aglooka for good.
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she has that sadness in her eyes that you only see in alcoholic captains of doomed arctic expeditions
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When you spend a semester abroad and then can’t help peppering in the new language you learned into everyday speech…
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i do want to expound on the absolutely groundbreaking levels of respect i have for terroramc adapting book irving (drowning in pussy fuckboy blond) into a cow-eyed brunet youth pastor telling sodomites to just. do watercolor instead. also the dress (!!!) and the homoerotic assisted suicide were and i cannot stress this enough a wholly original aspect of the show. truly inspired. they had a book written by a grown man beefing with greta thunberg, a cast of completely identical men, tobias menzies, and a dream.
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Bunny Corcoran, an empath, sensing that they are not looking for new ferns.
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