"Imagine Stockton Rush a hundred years from now getting the same kind of fandom Frederick Cook gets today."
Buster Keaton and Sybil Seely The Boat (1921)
Beautiful Norma Shearer in the 1920s
Clara Bow in WINGS (1927), dir. William A. Wellman
Liès, The Sun, based on the sun that swallows the train in The Impossible Voyage! See The Moon here.
Terror Artists please if you are selling physical art (stickers, charms, prints etc) this is your time to shamefully advertise yourself!
My bf just told me to choose anything Terror related that my heart desires for my name day and he will order it and I want fanworks 🙌
We can turn this into a main reference post for others too who are looking for gifts for the holidays! I'd update this post with links for accounts and shops.
lanterns lit (among the living) - son lux / madhouse at the end of the earth: the belgica's journey into the dark antarctic night - julian sancton / the new york times, 4 march 1926 / roald amundsen's house museum / tablecloth embroidered by frederick cook
Ok literally yes they were. Like did you know that you can do a virtual tour of amundsen's house exactly as he left it when he yeeted himself into the void and prominently featured in his sitting room is the tablecloth that fred cook EMBROIDERED FOR HIM in PRISON!!!!!!!!
That is TRUE LOVE!!!!
Also honestly julian sancton is such a deep understander. Every paragraph he writes about them in madhouse makes me insane. Look at these two this is BOYFRIEND BEHAVIOR
and then there's the literal final paragraph of the book which is purely just fred imagining roald might still be alive out there in the north after disappearing ha ha ha IM FINE THIS ISNT PIERCING MY HEART AT ALL
anyway stan cookmundsen
Feeling totally normal about this
you can see the tablecloth on display in amundsen's house :)))) if you want to feel even more normal :)))))
ok but when will we get a Madhouse at the End of the Earth miniseries
BIRD I'M SCREAMING (via @birdthatisbored)
Feeling totally normal about this
Legendary entertainer Bert Williams was born on November 12, 1874 #botd
Propaganda
Lee Gentry (Crime Without Passion) - SAUL GOODMAN WHO?? Lee is the OG 'hot lawyer' and I love him and his stupid little mustache. The fact that I would will purposefully try to get thrown in jail for a chance he'd defend me says something about me but I don't care. ALSO THE TOP HAT AND TUXEDO COMBO? (see attached) Deceased.
David Belasco (Lady with Red Hair) - The floof should speak for itself, guys c'mon!
This is round one for The King of The Claudes tournament and other matchups can be found here!
Additional Propaganda under the cut!
I would just like to point out that the floof is historically accurate.
So is David’s messy chaotic office:
Claude had big shoes to fill, playing a Broadway legend who only died nine years before this movie came out, and he knocks it out of the park! Vote Belasco!
Having a historical figure as a special interest is rather embarrassing. Yes, that's my person. Yes, they've been dead for over a hundred years and I still have emotions about them. Seeing things that they owned or that were related to them makes me happy. I have Spotify playlists for them. I can tell you so much about their life that it would be very weird for a living person. Seeing historians get them wrong can and will make me frustrated for the rest of the day. I'd love to see them portrayed in a historical drama! Oh...wait, no, not like that. Definitely not like that. Forget I asked.
And this is all emotions for a long dead person. Humiliating.
(From Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle: A Biography of the Silent Film Comedian, 1887-1933 by Stuart Oderman, 1994)
In Ye Olde Times, when beautiful and brave boys were swarming both poles to die there in stupidly heroical (or heroically stupid) fashion, and smoking was still socially accepted, the cigarette producents added collectible items to the packs. For instance the cards depicting famous people. Obviously, the Terra Nova pole team became insanely famous after they froze to death on the return leg of their trip (WHY MY TITUS?!) so yes, their depictions ended up on the cigarette cards. You could find Titus, Scott, Bill and Birdie (unfortunately not Taff, because classism, baby) and different antarctic landscapes in the pack of the Players cigarette brand.
That one is obviously my beloved Titus Oates in his polar gear. The artist tried hard to catch that likeness, he did well with the eyes and these tiny dimples in the corners of Laurie's lips, slightly worse with the shape, but at least Titus looks here like a human and not something that crawled out of the Uncanny Valley.
Scott, for some reason, looks at the viewer with deep distrust and I can only imagine he glanced like that at poor Teddy during that long polar winter night. Still, likeness is pretty good, the artist caught it better than Scott's own wife (I swear, the face of Scott's statue in Christchurch is exact same face that the one Kathleen carved into the memorial plaque for Titus in Eton).
Bill looks very much like himself, gazing lovingly upon someone behind the viewer. Is it Scott? Is it Shackles? Well, that's Bill's sweet secret.
Poor Birdie clearly got a nosejob and looks like a long lost cousin of Ernest Shackleton. Clearly the artist had something against the big noses, because Birdie's organ isn't the only famous polar schnoz that got trimmed.
Well, yes, that's Roald Amundsen, just like Birdie, after a nosejob. His gaze looks a bit like he is stoned and will get munchies on a raw seal meat soon. The artist had also a bit of difficulty with drawing properly the Inuit anorak, so Roald looks a tad like he is dressed in one of these kigurumi pjs.
As a final accent, Titus training a pony in a polar landscape, the mound behind them is probably our old friend Erebus. While I must applaud the artist for getting the shape of the famous DIY sackcloth balaclava correctly (even if he did not get the size right and is it me or does Titus look in this DIY sackcloth balaclava like a crazy, overgrown polar version of Red Riding Hood? Like Antarctic Sackcloth Riding Hood, trying to extort brandy from Grandma Billson's basket?), the boots, on the other hand are, umm, nope.
A WWI "grotesque" by sculptor Dudley Pratt on Smith Hall at the University of Washington, 1939.
I love when some grotesques and gargoyles are scary things from our more recent history. We can look at the older ones of demons and devils and say "wow that's what people were afraid of back then, good thing demons aren't real" But this cute little accidentally Funko pop shaped fucker immortalized a "grotesque" thing we really brought into existence 🥲