Oliver Hazard Perry

Please stop discrediting your ancestors' ability to tell stories by trying to find material/physical origins to their stories. Krampus isn't a cryptid, dragon stories weren't inspired by dinosaur fossils, every region has its own mythology and fae are only a thing in Celtic, English, and English-colonized regions, your ancestors were perfectly capable of doing things without help from aliens, and our world is weird enough that tales of mysterious strangers, mass disappearances, memories not lining up, and so on, are better explained as a product of OUR world than hypothetical other worlds/timelines. A lot of weird tales were spun by storytellers. Give some respect to their hard work.

Bark Europa in the Drake Passage

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「墓標都市」　装画

7月28日に創元SF文庫より発売されます「墓標都市」（キャリー・パテル著）の装画を担当させていただきました。自身では初の装画です。

ヴィクトリア朝風の地下都市が舞台ということで自分なりの解釈で色々詰め込んで描いてみました。

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Drawing of a Martha's Vineyard Sloop, by Henry Rusk, 1935

The first human inhabitants of what became Martha’s Vineyard, arrived on foot. The Island was not yet an island — the edge of the ocean lay 50 miles south of what is now South Beach — and Vineyard and Nantucket Sounds were dry channels. Over time the waters rose, creating an island. Boats whose owners would transport people and goods for a fee quickly followed.   

The first regular ferry service to Martha’s Vineyard was established in the early 1700s by Abraham Chase, probably using a sloop like this one. Sloops, seaworthy enough for open water but small enough to be handled by a crew of one or two, were mainstays of the short-haul trade in eighteenth-century New England. 

Chase shuttled his vessel between the sheltered harbors at Falmouth and his hometown of Holmes Hole (now Vineyard Haven). On the Holmes Hole end of the trip, Chase sailed up Bass Creek — a 7-foot-deep channel that ran where Water Street and Lagoon Pond Road are today — to a pier at the edge of what is now the Five Corners intersection. After the last trip of the day, he would continue up Bass Creek into the Lagoon, and anchor for the night in the lee of what is still called Ferryboat Island.

— Richard Siken, Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

La Grace is a replica of a brig from the 18th century.

The original ship of Augustine Herman bore this name, during merchant and exploratory travels around Europe, United States, Caribbean and across the Atlantic Ocean. La Grace was also renowned for her corsair activities. She was launched 2010.

prince randian, the living torso, lighting a cigarette with only his mouth; pictured in 'freaks,' (1932) dir. tod browning.

found this on pinterest, thought of tumblr

part two of 'bonsai's stolen memes'