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30+, multifandom, some polar exploration. also on twt! 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇻
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Well, I figured out what OJR was most likely talking about re: Abernethy turning down other offers 🥲😂 why was he so Like This, oh my god...
August 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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The adventures of Richards and Inglefield's bothersome guest, and his potential skelewidow 💀💗💀 (The bones in question are those since proposed to belong to HDS Goodsir.) Hashtag myskellington
Two screenshots from Woodward's Jane Franklin biography. Text: Early in 1872 Hall was in the news again - though he himself had passed beyond the reach of reporters. A skeleton which he had brought back from King William Land had been consigned to Inglefield, then British naval attaché in Washington, and Inglefield was asking Richards what to do with it. "My advice to him will be to put it in a box and bury it", Richards wrote to Jane, who doubtless knew that his brusqueries covered a very tender heart. "It could not be certainly identified - and would be no use to any one - probably if the Skeleton was married - his widow has taken another Skeleton before this." But Inglefield sent it to him, and after more jokes and grumbles he procured the assistance of T. H. Huxley and "the Skellington" was tentatively identified - from the age and a gold-plugged tooth - as Le Vesconte of the Erebus.
August 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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I think we should all approach life with the unfounded enthusiasm and confidence of Sir John Ross in 1829 tbh
(Westmorland Gazette, 18th July)
July 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM