thy bees are frozen

Francis study!

I'm slowly and surely getting more comfortable with my art style! Yay! I've been experimenting a lot recently but I really like how he turned out 👽

i painted my sabre ! and have been fencing 3x a week for over a month, plus my first competition, and it is still looking flawless (on the inside. where i painted it. do not ask about the gold guard. we do not speak of it) thank you beloved for stitching together the felt pad for me, and for being a very patient hand model

wardroom x2

THE TERROR GIFS  │   2 / ∞

Frankie and James going to the beach~

Thank you so so much to everyone who sent requests!!! I've had a blast doing them! 💙⚓

The crew :

"swarms of ‘mosquitoes’ as large, I was going to say, Eagles, as a blue bottle fly they stung us through our trowsers." - Charles Osmer

"the Mosquittoes are very troublesome to all. The bite of these flies is much more troublesome than the sting of a bee leaving the mark for many days." - Harry Goodsir

"the Miscatties is Very Thick. I have been sadly annoyed with them my face and hands is all swolled by them and the Chief part of the crew the same way." - James Reid

"there was plenty of Misketoes and they bite very bad my arms are very much bitten with them they are more venemous than the English Bugg some of the Men is blisterd all over the Face and Arms" - James Thompson

"Sargent & I went on shore this afternoon – for the sole purpose of taking a sketch of this place but were obliged to retire with the loss of one pound of flesh each – almost eaten by mosquitos –" - Edward Couch

"the Mosquitoes are troublesome to the thin skinned members of our party. They are of the large kind." - John Franklin, laconically

and of course:

In his 1835 narrative of the Victory Expedition—aka the Fury Beach disaster—John Ross wrote about "an annoyance from the mosquitoes [...] under which my nephew [James Clark Ross] suffered in a most extraordinary manner." (pg. 69)

Sir John then goes on to defend all those who complain about mosquitoes in the polar regions:

Who is it that abuses [Giuseppe] Acerbi for his eternal repetition of the sufferings he endured from these pestilent animals, which, in these climates, render every moment a torment, so as to occupy the entire attention, and to make it almost as impossible to act as to enjoy? Let them try the experiment, not of a whole summer, but of a single day in Sweden, or even here in Greenland; and I am mistaken if they do not justify the accumulated complaints of all the travellers that ever annoyed their readers with the records of what they had endured from this most incredible, and never to be forgotten generation of worse than vipers.