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We’ll Drink & Be Jolly & Drown Melancholy

@focsle / focsle.tumblr.com

Call me SJ. he/him. 30s. I like ghosts, animals, sea shanties, and shirts with big sleeves. I talk a lot about my comics/writing, and I won't shut up about 19th c american whaling history if you open the door. I post all my art here too.
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If you’re going to ask me about where I get my clothes or where I find my logbooks please see my FAQ here.

**** Hello! I write n draw. This is my personal blog for being silly, but it's also where a lot of my creative works live. I’m terribly chaotic on main in that I have multiple personal projects running at any given time, so here is some semblance of order!

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ART COMMISSIONS: CLOSED - est. reopening May 2024 (see info here) My Patreon - Subscribers gain access to behind the scenes work, process gifs and videos, and early access to comic pages throughout the month!

Instagram - I mostly just post stories…

My Ko-fi - a tip jar, if you're feeling so kind.

All my art is HERE.

I also talk about New England commercial whaling history a lot, so that tag is HERE. I'm also in the process of aggregating the essays I've written in a more cohesive way over here, if you'd like to learn more about this window of history!

PERSONAL PROJECTS ⬇️

Lacrimore - My award-winning gothic fantasy novel published 2020, and available as an ebook, print, and audiobook. Synopsis and purchase options are here. If you like faithless spiritual mediums, morally questionable doctors, eccentric dying scholars, and evil sentient houses, it might be a book for you! Developmental blog is @lacrimore

Going to Weather - My long-form webcomic set on the stage of the American whaling industry in the 1840s. Part historical fiction, part ghost story. Monthly bulk updates happen on the 2nd or 3rd Wednesday (whichever falls mid-month) at goingtoweather.com Developmental blog is @goingtoweather

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OTHER THINGS:

For a list of tags for other things I do (banging on a guitar/taking obnoxious selfies/fandom stuff.) please check THIS PAGE.

I try to use common content warnings, but if there are specific things you’d like tagged please let me know, anon or not, and I’ll try my best.

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#and then everyone will ignore it and be like THIS GAY MAN#sorry im so steamed about this one way almost everyone talks about black sails…erasure of bi men all the time always#‘calm down they’re using ‘gay’ as a shorthand’ they say…#not when the shorthand is erasing a whole part of someone’s sexuality and plays into the very common falsity that bi men are secretly gay#and the misogyny of it all that if they have relationships with men they also cant possibly have equally important relationships with women#ANYWAY….i’ll stop going on in the tags
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eldritchbauble

Don't be scared of getting older. Every year I'm reborn as the most me I've ever been.

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girlfleeshouse

The house (which spreads its poisonous influence throughout the neighbourhood) conforms to principles laid down by architects lost to human memory.

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bobemajses

Jewish street musicians in Lviv, Galicia, western Ukraine

The Jewish community of Lviv is one of eastern Europe's oldest and largest. Prince Danylo of Galicia founded Lviv in the thirteenth century, and Jews settled in the city shortly thereafter, arriving from places like Byzantium and Asia-minor (modern-day Turkey), Khazaria, and other neighboring lands. Those fleeing from persecution and the plague in Western Europe began arriving during Casimir the Great’s reign, trading in perfumes, wines, silk goods, and other exotic items that they imported throughout Poland. Under the rule of Stefan Batory (1576–1586), Jewish community leader Yitshak ben Nahman built a synagogue known as Ture Zahav, called Di Goldene Roize (The Golden Rose/Rosa) in Yiddish, after the name of the builder’s wife.
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wowwforever

if you told vin diesel fast and the furious you were gay he'd be like "Some people like driving stick…some people like driving automatic…what matters is you cross the finish line.." and then he'd rev up a dodge challenger and drive through a building and kill 16 people

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boogerwookiesugarcookie

he literally did in the fourth one when he's asked if he likes cars more than women

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explorerrowan

If you asked if he was cool with trans people, he'd probably say "sometimes, aftermarket parts are the only way to get the vehicle you really want. Everyone should have the right to hot rod."

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