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I can't be the first person to make this observation, but it's just struck me that Captain Ahab from Moby-Dick and Thomas Blanky from The Terror represent the opposite ends of a spectrum—"How well do you cope with losing your leg to a huge white beast that destroys hubristic seafaring men?"
hey everyone!!
i've been a long time away from this blog and THINGS have happened! i am now a published author and specialise in sad queer men on ships. my debut, leeward, was released last year and its sequel, the devil to pay, came out today!
i'll be making some prettier things soon, i hope, but just wanted to stop in and say hello, it's been a very long time!
teamed up w @makinghappy to create this
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The heroic age of Antarctic exploration - after The Terror opening credits
The tides were carried in, the lakes they take us out They come around again and bring me back to you
here’s a brush test that turned into a messy Nedward study because I’ve just decided to embrace wanting to draw the same side-character 300 times in a row
After trying to decide if The Mummy was filmed with the male gaze or female gaze, I’ve come to the conclusion that it was filmed under the Bisexual Gaze. Here’s a list of other films with the Bisexual Gaze:
Jurassic Park
Venom
Every Barbie Film
Night at the museum, but specifically every scene with Jebediah and Octavius
The 2005 Pride and Prejudice
Pirates of the Caribbean
Les Miserables
Newsies
The Hannibal TV Show
Good Omens
Basically, if you look at a film and think “oh my god everyone is attractive why and the film has a bunch of just…super obviously implied queerness, congrats, that’s the Bisexual Gaze baby! Feel free to add to the list
THE TERROR (2018-2019) | 1.02 Gore - He’s running to inform. - No, I don’t think he will.
characters who arent canonically gay but whose behavior just makes no sense unless you read them as gay
DAISY RIDLEY S Moda Magazine, Feb 2021
the lord of the rings is so honest. so raw. so sincere. so unabashedly from the heart. no snide fourth wall jokes, no attempts to alleviate the heaviness. it is is wholeheartedly earnest in its dedication to portraying hope and love and faith and loyalty and courage, and that is what makes it feel like home to so many of us. it’s true to itself. it doesn’t pretend to be cool and care less. it cares, a lot, and that is a rare, beautiful thing. it warms our hearts to care for a piece of fiction that was made to care about and be cared about
✩ 1st Lieutenant Thomas Pullings keeping watch
screencap redraw of good old Edward “woebegone” Little zoning out while staring at imminent disaster
