cornelius hickey + dan hentschel youtube videos

i think if you had to distill the terror down to one singular scene it would be the "this place is beautiful to me even now [...] and her... do you think she's still alive?" "silence? this place is her home" because it really is just. everything. they all hate where they are, what's happening to them, what's led them there. goodsir worries about a woman he barely knows, whose life he inadvertently ruined, because he's looking at her life from his own white english standard. and crozier points out that she lives here. to silna, the arctic isn't an inhospitable wasteland nor a beautiful, idolized painting. it's just her home. but it will never truly be her home again because of these men that have destroyed her entire life and caused the events that led her to be exiled from her people.

goodsir thinks he cares, but his final act of life is also the one that damns silna to a life of solitary wandering. because no matter what happens, he still can't truly see or understand her life or how she feels.

made little folded zines for a terror watch with friends a few months ago! (i didn't post them till now bc they were only formatted to be printed and i was too lazy to flip things around..)

been seeing homies get deep into "the terror" and making me want to rewatch SO i spent two hours in the dead of night reading the wiki/the subreddit/other linked articles and like. one of those articles was deadass fucked up

there was a woman who spoke inuktitut who was writing a book containing a lot of inuit oral histories, and in nunavut she was able to hear passed-down recollections of when survivors from the franklin expedition were passing through

and like. i can't imagine being an inuit family/group, knowing that europeans exist but having never seen them, seeing 8-9 shambling, blue-skinned, cold-to-the-touch out-of-their-minds white men come wandering by. they invited the men inside their igloos for warmth, for food, to be hospitable. the men refused to eat, refused to speak, and when trade was offered, clutched their possessions close and refused to entertain the idea of trade. this was, offputting, to say the least. the group set them up in their own igloo, with their own fire, and left three whole seals for them to eat. and then they fled cause what the FUCK get out of there. they came back in a few days to check on the strangers. the three seals were completely untouched, while all of the men had killed and eaten each other

i mean. fuck dude. there are obviously pretty dark angles to view the franklin expedition from– honestly can't think of a good angle, it's pure colonialism and british exceptionalism– but that specific interaction, that inuit group who were living lives as normal until a dozen fucking walking dead showed up and did cannibalism. no wonder that story got passed down, i'd be shitting my pants if i saw that

daddy's got to be honest kitten. i don't think we're finding the northwest passage