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Rachel Smith
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(She/her) Historian. Theatrical Type. Artist? Fashionable? Always tired. 🏳️‍🌈🌸🌈✡️
Polar history, films, TTRPGs and audiodrama are my thing ❤️
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Here she is, pride of place 🥰 my beloved Endurance ❤️
The completed Lego model of Shackleton’s Endurance, placed on a windowsill that overlooks gardens and trees
January 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Day 5 (which is technically day 6 because of a pub quiz break) and she is COMPLETE 😍 my beautiful girl all ready to set sail 🥰
A Lego model of Shackleton’s Endurance, a black and white sailing ship with three masts and a small chimney stack for the engine. The model has 4 lifeboats hanging from the edge of the deck
January 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Day 4, what an absolute beauty 😍😍😍 I love the tiny compass so much 🥰
A Lego model of Shackleton’s Endurance the hull is now complete and the upper deck has been assembled. All three masts are in place and there is a white chimney towards the stern section A close-up of a section of the upper deck where there is navigation equipment, including a tiny compass, the face of which is blue with a gold compass rose and a tiny N indicating North
January 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Day 3 and she’s really coming together 🥰🥰🥰
A photograph of a Lego model of Shackleton’s Antarctic ship, Endurance. The front and middle sections of the hull have been completed and work has been started on the back section. She is a black ship with a white band and white cabins on deck An overhead view of the Lego model of Endurance with it split into two parts. One part is the front and middle of the hull with a cabin visible, the other part is the back of the ship with its engine and two smaller cabins either side of a central mast.
January 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Progress day 2 (forgot to take a pic at the end of yesterday 🤦‍♀️): bags 1-7 done!
A photograph of an in progress Lego model of a ship, the bow section of the hull is mostly completed, and is black with a white band running round the top. The skeleton for the mid-section has also been put together and is waiting for the remainder of its parts to be added
January 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Finally, it begins… 👀🥳
A photograph of one smaller box and one larger box that have been opened. Both boxes are full of numbered bags of Lego (1-28) that will become the ship, Endurance
January 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Christmukkah didn’t go according to plan this time around, but I am now back home, and the proud owner of my very own, beloved LEGO Endurance 🥰
Two Lego sets still in their boxes, one in front of the other. The larger one behind is the ship Endurance that Shackleton sailed to the Antarctic. The smaller set in front is Shackleton’s lifeboat
January 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Chag Hanukkah Sameach! ❤️
A menorah on a white windowsill with the central (shumash) candle and the first candle on the right both lit
December 25, 2024 at 11:33 PM
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This moment hit me like a punch to the solar plexus
Two black and white screenshots stacked one on top of the other. The top is a closeup of a white man with dark hair, starring blankly just below the camera. The caption reads “I still don't understand the play.” The bottom screenshot has two men, one is facing away from the camera out of focus on the left of the picture. The other man is in the centre of the shot- white man with dark hair. He looks off to the left, addressing the other figure. The caption reads “Doesn't matter. Just keep telling the story.”
December 11, 2024 at 9:40 PM
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Cardinal this, Cardinal that… forget those guys! What I want now is to sit back and watch these three queen out 💅🏻

#Conclave #TheYoungPope #DerryGirls
A triptych of pictures of three fictional nuns: Left: Sister Michael from Derry Girls is sitting behind a desk, arms crossed. She is wearing her habit and looks unimpressed. Middle: Sister Mary from The Young Pope. She is bear headed and wearing dark glasses. She’s dressed in her pyjamas, the top of which are white and read “I’m a Virgin. But this is an old shirt” Right: Sister Agnes from Conclave. She is also wearing her habit and looks both determined and angry. Around her neck is a thick silver crucifix
December 7, 2024 at 1:38 AM
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Sorry in advance to the group chat but I’ve *just* seen Conclave…
A screenshot of an old Tyler, the Creator (@fucktyler) tweet that reads: “Un-Follow Me Now, This Is Gonna Be the Only Thing I Tweet About For The Next Week. Ive Wanted This For Years Fuck. What The Fuck.”
December 4, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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*Esme Squalor voice* Listen up Oxford. Flooding is OUT. Fog is IN 💅🏻
A view across a park. There is a path running through the centre, with grass either side and some play spaces visible. There is one lone figure on the path and the whole scene is covered in fog
November 28, 2024 at 8:05 AM
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Good morning I guess 😅
November 27, 2024 at 8:17 AM
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Ok, I’ll play
Black background with white text reading "1 like = 1 favorite movie"
November 19, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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❤️❄️ Good morning Oxford ❄️❤️
A photograph taken out of an upstairs window looking across a flat roof. There are a variety of trees surrounding the roof on three sides and some houses just visible beyond. Everything is covered in a blanket of snow
November 19, 2024 at 9:34 AM