Flurries-and-frost - Do You Remember Your First Snow?

You can't even go on an expedition to find a passage through dangerous ice fields and die alongside 100+ men for your hubris anymore. Because climate change 🙄

at the royal museum greenwich online collections again

Walking in the Pack, Ross Expedition, by John Edward Davis 1842 ( Captain John Edward Davis (1815-1877) was 2nd Master of the Terror during Ross’ Antarctic expedition)

deep in the arctic circle

A football or rugby game between sailors and officers, in front of HMS Terror, during the Back arctic expedition 1836, by first lieutenant William Smyth 1836

the exact opposite of "damn and they'll have to deal with godzilla too" happens to people who watch the terror and message me like "what do you mean there's a creature"

in a parasocial relationship with the sea

arctic gothic

• There are strange lights in the sky. It is not the Aurora Borealis. You pretend it is the Aurora Borealis.

• Something is eating the polar bears.

• The ice fields seem to go on forever. Perhaps they do.

• You wake up in darkness. You go to sleep in darkness. You exist in darkness.

• Watch out for falling icicles- they’re waiting for you to come within spearing distance.

• Yes, the wolf is howling your name. Do not go outside.

• Every radio station is static. Sometimes whale song plays from a channel with no name.

• A crack in the ice opened up last week. It creaks and groans intermittently. There is no bottom in sight.

• A pale figure stands atop the northernmost snowdrift at 00:59am each night. At 1am it is gone. We are unsure of his motives.