some visual development pieces for my Whaling Era horror comic anthology, Whalebones 🐋🦴
finished reading The Worst Journey in the World and I am not okay!!
sorry i never replied. everyday is blending together and im losing sense of time
there’s a certain descent into madness one takes after watching the terror. one minute you’re watching the show with mild interest and the next minute you’re hand painting Robert Scott’s sledging flag to put on your wall
anywhere can be the trenches with the right mindset
things are not going so hot for me but at least im not in antarctica rn . haha am i right? *i look at my photo of apsley cherry-garrard which i keep on me at all times. it does not respond*
I think often of a modern ragnarok where the ghosts of the pleistocene return, and a herd of steppe bison and mammoths and ground sloths and wooly rhinoceros and wild horses and aurochs that reaches past the horizon tramples everything in its path, it topples cities and skyscrapers, bursts dams and drives metal back into the earth, and again the world is as it should be, and there is a chance to try again
ernest “I cannot believe it is true” shackleton (upon learning of the pole party’s death) vs frederick “it is quite possible that roald amundsen is still alive” cook
maxine • 23, she/her • polar exploration, the terror, sailing & art
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