Up until the mid 1870s, it was generally accepted that life could not exist below a depth of 550 meters. This is why some of Ishmael’s whale theories are so off and why Ahab pictures the sea floor as a vast wasteland of bones and shipwrecks. 🌊
I mean. Can you blame them
Oh here it is!!!! The most unsettling thing Ahab/Ishmael might’ve believed about the deep sea
at a phase in my life where when i get the sense a book is trying to offer me Representation ™ i hiss and scream and start kicking and ripping bricks out of the wall. this character’s Coherent Identity And Articulation Of Their Issues had Better fit in with the rest of the worldbuilding (it won’t)
meet my new oc blorbinia who introduces herself to other people in fantasyland with exacting microlabels based on her recurring visions of Social Media Identity Discourse from this world. it is her goal in life to establish as many other people’s labels as possible because she believes if you die without knowledge of your Correct Terms then the gods don’t know what Community you belong to and your soul roams the empty betweenspace of the afterlife forever.
if you ever get impostors syndrome when applying for a job remember they let fucking anyone aboard the belgica
Also, Shackleton (who has an entire book written on his leadership style) hired a man because he looked funny
He hired Frank Worsley as captain only because 1. Worsley coincidentally found the flier to apply after he had a dream about the street it was on, so he went to go check things out, and 2. He liked Worsley’s vibes
Shackleton said forget all that other stuff, I’m gonna ask the important questions: Can you sing with the boys?? This is make-or-break.
Tumblr user @sluttymichaelsword I think you need a fully funded fellowship to continue your research and its dissemination
Say what is it that you wanna say I’ve always had the same old feeling that is aimless Shut up let me speak I promise you will never taint it How could I ever betray myself like this I condemn you! I condemn you!
Honestly, part of why it irritates me when people act performatively shocked at the homophobia in 2000s media is it wasn’t just media. “Can you believe this aired in 2008” buddy, in 2008 I was having shit thrown at me from moving cars for having long hair, and you wanna get worked up about sitcoms?
Like, I need to emphasise that it’s really only within the last ten years that I’ve been able to stop worrying about being physically assaulted in public over piddly shit like “being a dude with long hair”; if that surprises you, you have no frame of reference for how recently things were real bad out there.
why does my mother suddenly fail kindergarten whenever she tries to do anything on the computer
I know she doesn’t know what “the maximise button” is so I told her “click the square at the top right” and she clicked…the printer icon…in the middle of the toolbar. and I’m just like okay. this isn’t a technology thing you are flunking basic shapes and directions. I’m turning off your computer and getting you a block puzzle. you have a master’s degree
