KO SHIBASAKI As MITSUKO SOUMA

there are so many parallels to be made between The Terror and The North Water... even beyond the obvious common points of "sad boys on a boat are stranded in the Arctic and there's some killing and mutiny involved". the way both shows use these backgrounds to explore themes like identity (faking one, lacking one, rebuilding one), masculinity especially related to class and religion, colonialism, the way both shows go beyond the saint/monster dichotomy and while being incredibly dark and showcasing human-made horrors, still manage to leave room for redemption and/in solidarity

checkups

Happy Valentine's from Aki and Angel 💝 next time I will draw them kissing, promise 😙🌹

antarctic exploration is so funny because you read about the endurance expedition and it’s a zany adventure with a lovable stowaway and trials and tribulations that show the indomitable nature of the human spirit without a single man lost and it ends in a thematically resonant and meaningful way with a fitting and beautiful conclusion and then you get to the belgica and the crew are running away constantly, they frame the cook for his own beatdown and get him fired, the beloved moral-boosting chipper ships boy literally falls off of the boat and drowns before they even GET to antarctica, the commandant and the captain are deliberately freezing the ship in ice to protect their beautiful belgian honor, they’re constantly falling into crevasses, and the ships pet penguin dies in what i cannot stress enough is the most narratively ominous and portentous circumstance on the morning of their imprisonment in the ice. the doctor was literally imprisoned for fraud.

Beetlejuice (1988)

concept art of young zaundads (and Benzo and I believe Felicia) from the Arcane art book

what a gay situationship does to a person

The Terror 1.06 "A Mercy"