A kindred spirit (down to the handwriting) with whoever annotated a beloved used copy of the Iliad in English. Why do I love it? For the note "Achilles is a hero", first put to paper in book 18/24, on the n-hundredth mention of his name, of a work whose first line tells you "Achilles is a hero"

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World-tree.

Things I learned at @terrorcamp.bsky.social this year:

-the word “scurbotic”
-the American Ornithological Society is my enemy
-I would take a bullet for a Norwegian museum curator named Anders whom I’ve never met
-you absolutely do not want to know how they figure out the age of a Greenland shark

That ship you see, my guests, says that she was the fastest of all ships— she was capable of surpassing any other boat whether the job was to fly with an oar-blade or with a canvas sail. And (she says) the shore of the menacing Adriatic doesn't deny this, and neither do the Cycladic islands or noble Rhodes or the rough Thracian sea of Marmara or the wild Pontic gulf (where that future boat was previously leafy forest; on the Cytorian summit, with rustling foliage, she often made a whistling sound). Pontic Amastris and boxwood-bearing Cytorus, the boat says that these things were and are well-known to you: from her earliest beginning, she says that she stood on your peak, she dipped her little oars in your water; and from there, through so many wild seas, she carried her master (whether a left or right wind would call, or whether favorable weather fell upon both sails at the same time) and no offerings on her behalf were made to the shore gods when she was coming from the final sea all the way to this clear lake. But these things happened before: now, in secluded repose, she grows old and dedicates herself to you, twins Castor and Pollux, patron gods of sailors.

in honor of terror camp v: my old translation of catullus 4 🌊

how did this happen to me AGAIN

UNIMAGINABLY HYPE TO HAVE MCNULTY AT TERROR CAMP FINALLY

Gaze upon the STUNNING sticker designs for this year! 🔥✨💖 Drawn by @bironicus.bsky.social MrBoatman1845 @horriblesupper.bsky.social & @schestokryl.bsky.social!

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i think its good that bluesky is boring and you dont want to scroll through it too much because you're not supposed to waste your day away scrolling on social media when you could be using the computer to play & draw & learn before the corporations destroy the rest of the internet. tick tock

My Longest “Devastating News, Lads” Ever

kind of gutted by this :/ it really felt like we were so close to so much

is this screenzen by any chance?

and I keep you safe from harm, you hold me in your arms by manicpixiedreamjop Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply Thomas Armitage/Thomas Jopson Thomas Armitage/Solomon Tozer Thomas Jopson/Edward Little Thomas Armitage Thomas Jopson Solomon Tozer Edward Little (1811-c.1848) The marines - Character Pre-Canon Relationship of Convenience First Time practice sex Developing Relationship Explicit Sexual Content Biting Kink Mutual Pining Possibly Unrequited Love Canon Era Summary: “It doesn’t matter anyway,” says Tommy quickly — anything to make Jopson stop looking at him like that. “Because even if he would let me, I wouldn’t know what to do.” “You haven’t—?” Tommy shrugs and takes a bite of his forgotten supper so he doesn’t have to think about his burning cheeks. “Few quick fumbles. Never time for much else.” Jopson is still looking at him, but thankfully, the pitying expression is finally gone, replaced by something rather thoughtful. “Would you like me to show you how?” As the ocean around them slowly freezes over, Tom Jopson and Tommy Armitage find a way to keep themselves warm. If Tommy sometimes suspects that Jopson is using their arrangement to help him forget about someone else, it's not as if he has any room to complain - not when he's doing the same thing.

you find shelter somewhere in me, i find great comfort in you by lt_goz Tags: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Edward Little/Solomon Tozer Thomas Jopson/Edward Little Thomas Armitage/Solomon Tozer Edward Little (1811-c.1848) Solomon Tozer Thomas Jopson Thomas Armitage Francis Crozier Other(s) Canon Era Pre-Canon Heartache Mutual Pining Mutual Masturbation Unresolved Emotional Tension Lack of Communication One-Sided Attraction Possibly Unrequited Love Complicated Relationships Explicit Sexual Content you're on a ship with a beautiful cold boy and he won't tell you that he loves you but he loves you Summary: Had he been that obvious? Up till now, Edward thought he’d done a fine job concealing his longing for Thomas Jopson. But Sergeant Tozer had just proven him wrong; it had, without his consent, become something more than he could possibly conceal. And what, exactly, was Edward to do with the offer in the sergeant’s carefully worded reply? “There’s some as wouldn’t mind more than lookin’, sir.” With a bruise, a button, and a cigarette or three, once (nearly) in the orlop, once or twice (memorably) in the first lieutenant’s cabin, and (most importantly) without the knowledge of stewards named Thomas — Edward Little and Solomon Tozer come to an arrangement.

would you like to read companion pieces @jopson.bsky.social and i wrote for a little/tozer/armitage/jopson love quadrangle where each story follows only one half of the quadrangle? yes you do well it is done now and you can read it here <3 archiveofourown.org/series/5027496

Screenshot from season one episode eight of The Terror, "Terror Camp Clear." Lieutenant Edward Little stands bewildered, angry, and afraid, surrounded by men who should be under his command but aren't. Sergeant Tozer's words from off-screen are in captions along the bottom of the image: "Perhaps you'd like to make the order, sir?"

call him "sir" in a way that lets him know without a shadow of a doubt that you are hyper-aware that his authority is an illusion and also you have a gun

Haters don’t want to admit it but I’m here to tell you the cure for 2025 is: boat

modern au joplittle for a friend

meeeeeeeeee 🖐️

Weekes, what exactly do you mean when you ask whether the ship is creepy or wet?

YAY! keep an eye out for the sign up sheet on Saturday ☺️

David "i had so much fun crafting bespoke character playlists that i fell behind on all my other writing tasks" Kajganich

we stan a relatable king

Well, Stanley, I really do wish you'd remove that rubber clown nose while you're eating my ass.

variant colorways!!?

“THAT BECAME OUR code. Sometimes I would say it: "I can't sleep." Sometimes he would ask, "Are you having trouble sleeping?" The answer was always yes. Then he would slip down into my bunk. Once he told me that he had heard that of all the professions, bakers know the most tricks to fall asleep. Because bakers have to get up at four o'clock in the morning to start their bread, they have to go to sleep just as it gets dark. The baker's trick, Robbie said, was to smoke half a cigarette, jerk off, smoke the other half of the cigarette, then get immediately between the sheets. The bakers would pass right the fuck out. We made up our own baker's trick. We snuck out the win-dow, out to the soccer fields where he stashed his cigarettes. We shared a cigarette as he blew me in a dark stand of maples. I handed it down to him as he sucked, he took breaks to puff, so that the cherry faintly illuminated his face, then he passed it back to me and went back at it. Afterward, we each smoked a whole cigarette and then climbed back inside. I slept like a baker.”

new torrey peters is soooo gooood

talking to bf about callimachus 15 and he said “that’s not poetry, that’s Posting” and yk he’s right. what is an epigram really if not an ancient post

THE HEALING POWER OF DAVECHELLA

q: would dj dolleyes and dj crazy times be friends.

photoshop of thomas jopson and james fitzjames from the terror (2018) as "DJ Crazy Times" and "Ms. Biljana Electronica" respectively in the youtube thumbnail for the music video for "planet of the bass"

they should have been at the club #davechella

listening to The Giver by Chappell Roan perhaps the entire day long