The actual unhingedness that is Carl Ferris needs to be brought up more, like everytime he's mentioned its like oh he's a kind old man and then all his actions are like, "locked up carol's mom in a mental institute and told Carol she was dead" "stole a plane and tried to blow up Ferris aircraft after Mr smith bought it" "causes Carol at least five issues everytime he sees her"

Showcase #22 (1959) by John Broome & Gil Kane

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From mikeflanagansource on IG

Live version of Ell no vol que el món s'acabi (Mov.1: La Flor) by Sílvia Pérez Cruz

I love this trend yknowww. I am so normal

sometimes learning maritime history is just sitting there thinking like okay i get that all my why would you not Xs is money like its just who cares about safety when money BUT i feel like if all of you would agree on shipping lanes for lake fucking huron, youd probably save money on ship collisions, what do you mean these lanes didnt apply to canadian ships????

carol's relationship with star sapphire is so thematically enriching in context of the discordance between power and agency in green lantern comics. the power that she (and hal!) possesses is a) contingent upon her ability to fulfill a given role within the hierarchical establishment and b) thrust upon her without her consent!!!! her position at ferris air is a condition of her father's approval, while star sapphire exists as a violation of her personal autonomy—which is why it's so fascinating to unpack her motives when she does choose to pursue its power. carol's worst offenses are consistently a reaction to the destabilization of her environment: predator manifested in response to carl's belittlement and jason bloch's attack; star sapphire only targeted green lantern after the zamarons abandoned her. it's the revelation of her true lack of agency that drives her to lash out. power is illusory as long as someone else controls it—this was carol ferris' mantra long before it ever became parallax's

Random thoughts before the finale: one of my favorite little thing about Richonne is how over the top Rick is when it comes to her? Just to name a few instances:

Way back at the start of S4, the first time Michonne comes back to the prison, I always thought the way Rick opened the gates was so extra; like, calm down she saw you 😭 (tbf 1- I haven’t watch that season in forever and maybe if I rewatched it now and paid special attention to people opening the gates, it would stick out less but I truly remember noticing it already way back when and 2- given that Rick is opening the gates with Carl, it is also possible that Andy was making sure to do most of the work so that the kid wouldn’t have to)

Bleeding all over the place and still hopping over to go grab that cat as a gift to Michonne in S7

Stop fighting in the middle of fighting walkers and climbing on a damn ferris wheel cause he saw a deer that he just must get for Michonne in 712

The way he kicks and kills the soldier in 102

In 104, when he goes after her, the way he jumps on her to protect her?

And and and…! Rick, Extra™️ King for Michonne and I love it 😂

We love a man that goes above and beyond for his lady without her ever asking for it ❤️

I love that transfem Hal is canon under two different writers <3 we all know she's so gender

Daimyo oak from Japan which has lovely large thick leaves that stay on the tree all winter before falling off in the spring.

https://www.bluebellnursery.com/Quercus/2247-Quercus-dentata-Carl-Ferris-Miller.html

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Dumb shipwreck facts because I need to hyperfixate for a moment: 

The only Olympic-class (Britannic, Titanic, and Olympic) ship that was actually unsinkable was the Olympic. Olympic took full advantage of this and became the only merchant vessel in WWI on record to sink an enemy vessel (it didn’t discriminate, either; Olympic actually sank two vessels during its service, one of which was a friendly lightship during peacetime). 

It took 150 years to discover what happened to the infamous Lost Franklin Expedition because the English were too racist to ask the natives. The Canadians, meanwhile, found the wreck of one of their ships, HMS Terror, in a fraction of the time by asking an Inuit hunter named Sammy Kogvik for help. 

There are at least two wrecks in Lake Erie that we may never find because the lakebed quite literally swallowed them. 

On a related note, Lake Erie might have the highest concentration of shipwrecks of any body of water in the world. 

Lake Superior is actually the least lethal Great Lake, despite its reputation, but over half of its wrecks are located around Whitefish Point, most notably the Edmund Fitzgerald. 

The Bermuda Triangle doesn’t actually have a very high disappearance or wreck rate. It’s considered weird because the gulf stream carries any wrecks and debris out of the search area, making it that much harder to find any remains. 

There’s a disturbing tendency for ships, particularly freighters, to not only split in half while they sink, but for the back half (the stern) to keep going, sometimes for miles. The most notable case of this would be the SS Pendleton, an oil freighter that wrecked off the coast of Massachusetts; the rescue of the crew on its stern is considered to be one of the most daring Coast Guard rescues ever pulled off. 

Most ships built before 1950 were made with subprime or low-grade metal, which is believed to be part of the reason why they split in half so often. This metal turned brittle in colder water; guess where most of these wrecks were. Some wrecks believed to have fallen victim to this include the Titanic, the aforementioned Pendleton, the Carl D. Bradley, and the Daniel J. Morrell. 

An Arctic cruise ship took on a Venezuelan patrol boat and won. Said patrol boat was trying to force the cruise ship, the Resolute, to come ashore. Ships create depressions in the water (you most often see this in the “wake”) called displacement, and it’s generally believed the patrol boat underestimated the strength of the Resolute’s displacement and was sucked into its path, ending up crushed by Resolute’s icebreaker-grade hull. 

While we can be reasonably certain what sank the Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 (it was a train ferry with an open back and had previously had a near-accident when a wave slammed directly into the opening, almost flooding it), what we don’t know is what happened before and after. One of its lifeboats was found with nine bodies and the clothing of a tenth. The ship’s steward was found armed with two knives and a meat cleaver, and the captain’s body was found some time later with slash wounds. It’s agreed that the steward killed him, but why remains a mystery. 

Moby Dick was based on the sinking of the Essex, a whaling ship that was rammed and sunk by its own prey. The crew resorted to cannibalism to survive; ironically, they would’ve been rescued sooner had they not avoided a nearby island chain for fear of cannibal tribes. 

Don’t read about the sinking of the Estonia. Just...don’t. It’s not pleasant. For some hint of how awful it was, despite being reasonably close to the surface no one was ever able to get all the bodies out because of the sheer number of them. 

On a much lighter note, the Swedish Navy in the 1700s poured thousands of kroner into building a mighty flagship for their navy, the Vasa...only for the Vasa to sink less than 300 yards into its maiden voyage. Turns out they gave it too many guns, making it too top-heavy, and it capsized. 

The Canadian freighter Bannockburn disappeared in a storm in 1902. Almost all of its crew were in their late teens and early 20s; the youngest was 16. Companies would hire younger, less experienced men to work aboard their ships because they were cheaper. The Bannockburn has never been found. 

Speaking of Lake Superior shipwrecks, there’s a saying that “Lake Superior never gives up her dead”. It’s not wrong; the temperatures at the bottom are cold enough to halt the decaying process, which prevents the bodies from rising to the surface. The most notable instance of this is Old Whitey, the nickname for a body found in the engine room of the Kamloops who has never been identified. This is also the reason no one is allowed to dive to the Edmund Fitzgerald; the crew’s bodies are still aboard the wreck, and it’s considered disrespectful at best to dive to a place that for all intents and purposes is a graveyard. 

It took over 100 years and numerous deaths from scurvy for anyone to realize that eating raw meat can prevent it. They discovered this on a Belgian arctic expedition where one of the crewmen, drawing on past experience, somehow managed to convince the rest of the crew to eat raw penguin, rapidly decreasing the number and severity of scurvy cases onboard. 

To end this on a lighter note, the saying “Batten down the hatches” is an actual maritime phrase; hatches are openings in the ship’s deck used to bring cargo inside and, on older ships, allow passengers and crew on deck. Hatches let enormous amounts of water into the ship in bad weather, and are often “battened down” (covered up) to prevent water from getting in. It will probably not surprise you to learn that not battening down the hatches or not doing it properly has caused its fair share of wrecks; notably, it’s believed that the Cyprus, an ore carrier that was said to be leaving a red trail in its wake the day before it capsized, was leaving said trail because its hatches were improperly sealed; water was getting into the hold, mixing with the cargo of iron ore, and then being pumped out, hence the red wake. 

First Operational Sortie refuel over Southeast Asia, SR-71 #976. Probably Jerry O’Malley and Ed Payne in the cockpits. Did you know that they drew straws to determine who would ferry over the first SR 71 to Kadena?

The SR 71 crews agreed to draw straws, leaving the choice of who would go first in the hands of fate. Dave Dempster held the four straws of varying links, and the RSOs from each of the other three crews drew one; with the luck of the draw, Dave Jensen straw decided that he and Buddy Brown would fly the first aircraft across the Pacific and hopefully the first ninth SRW ops sorti from Kadena. Jerry O’Malley and Ed Payne would fly the second deployment and Bob Spencer and Ruel Branham the third.

Dempster was left holding the short straw, so he and Jim Watkins would ride in the tanker unless one of the other crews came up with a sick jet. Command of operations location would alternate between the ninth SRW wing commander and the vice commander. The first detachment commander would be the vice commander, Colonel Charles Mintor, and Colonel Carl Estes would be the Director of maintenance with the tanker safely at Hickam Air Force Base. Major Harlan Hain, the first SRS operations officer, set up a down-range radio station on Wake Island to provide emergency radio coverage. All was now ready for Brown and Jensen to make the record-breaking five-hour flight across the Pacific. The flight would be flown at a speed twice as fast as the existing world record. I found this on page 321 of Paul Crickmore’s new book: Lockheed Blackbird, Beyond the Secret Missions, the Missing Chapters.

Linda Sheffield

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