Tealin

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Animator, teacher, making a graphic novel serial of The Worst Journey in the World. "Commendably insane" – Francis Spufford | patreon.com/tealin | worstjourney.com

A historical photo of Scott, Oates, Wilson, and Evans standing around Amundsen's tent, proof that the Norwegians had beaten Britain to the South Pole by a month.
Screen cap from a BBC news article on US expansionism, which reads "Now, Trump has changed course, with aims to expand America's physical borders again, and limit the numbers of people the country lets in." The German word in question is Lebensraum, literally "living space", the policy which saw the annexation of neighbouring countries in the 1930s for ethnic Germans to live in.
A screen capture of a weather forecast indicating 40°C in a few days' time. A sketched angry woman in a tank top is pointing at this and saying, in large text, NO.
A screencap from The Death of Stalin in which seven men, some quite elderly and some very young, stand about in white lab coats looking confused.
A phone photo of my computer screen showing a close-up of some pastiche 19thC quill cursive
A painting of people passed out in an opium den
A peregrine falcon standing proudly over her brood of three small fluffy chicks, who are all lying down on a fine gravel surface.
c.2005-era Daniel Craig drawn on top of the PBS logo
Screencap of a reblog-restricted post saying some guy I never heard of looks like the PBS logo
A family tree chart from grandparent to grandchild, with YOU labelled in the middle, ANCESTORS on the top, and DESCENDANTS on the bottom.
A screencap from the BBC News videos section, with a photo of a partly cloudy sky and the caption "How long will the sun stick around?"
A screen capture of my Notifications page, with a bright coral-pink banner in which is written an exclamation mark in a red circle and the word 'Forbidden'.
A publicity still of Derek Jacobi as crime-fighting, mystery-solving Benedictine monk Brother Cadfael, from the '90s TV adaptations of Ellis Peters' books.
Screenshot of a detail of Trump's ridiculous AI self-insert Jesus picture, showing three(?) crap AI assemblies of shapes that roughly read as fighter jets, wherein two of the three seem to be nose-to-nose.
A box moth fluttering at a closed window towards the end of Episode 2 of The Other Bennet Sister. I am willing to forgive an anachronistic invasive species for the purpose of visual metaphor, but not one that is MY SWORN ENEMY.
Screen capture from The Terror (2018), of the wardroom table with Capt. Sir John Franklin (Cíaran Hinds) at its head. Caption: "So as you can see, we have a few challenges, but I'm fully confident that reality will bend in our favour as long as we keep believing in ourselves."
Front page of the Daily Mail. Main headline: TWO DEAD IN UNIVERSITY MENINGITIS OUTBREAK. Next to this is a photo of Jessie Buckley smiling and laughing. Above is another headline, 'What I do to stay healthy and look this good at 54.'
screencap of Flightradar24 showing a US military C-17 crossing the North York Moors National Park
A screen capture off Flightradar24.com tracking the flight pattern of a KC-135 over Suffolk
A tabby cat standing on a chair at a dinner table set for Christmas
A scrawny red horse with a skeletal head appears to be on fire, with the number 2026 written below.
The cover of an old sci-fi paperback by Jack Vance, titled Servants of the Wankh
A screen capture of the URL wherein I visit my Patreon page, logged in as me. The variable at the end reads ? vanity = user
Screenshot from BBC News article https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr444j671vo: Donald Trump's claim that Nato troops stayed "a little off the front lines" during the war in Afghanistan is "disappointing", a minister has said. Health and Social Care Minister Stephen Kinnock said the UK and other allies had "always stood shoulder to shoulder with the United States" and contributed to US-led missions. On Thursday, Labour MP Emily Thornberry called it an "absolute insult" to the 457 British service personnel killed in the conflict, while Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said: "How dare he question their sacrifice?"
Screenshot from Wikipedia entry for scurvy, signs and symptoms: Early symptoms are malaise and lethargy. After one to three months, patients develop shortness of breath and bone pain. Myalgias may occur because of reduced carnitine production. Other symptoms include skin changes with roughness, easy bruising, and petechiae, gum disease, loosening of teeth, poor wound healing, and emotional changes (which may appear before any physical changes). Dry mouth and dry eyes similar to Sjögren's syndrome may occur. In the late stages, jaundice, generalised edema, oliguria, neuropathy, fever, convulsions, and eventual death are frequently seen.
A screen capture from Duolingo's Danish course, where the user is supposed to speak the sentence "How long has Greenland been a part of the Danish kingdom?"
A passage from The Well of Lost Plots in which is referenced the film Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia, which also happens to be a running gag on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
A pencil sketch off the video of David Attenborough taking to a peregrine chick which is getting tagged.
A screenshot of the Polly Pocket catalogue on Mattel's website
The dumpling. The sauce. Heaven.
The magic sauce at Din Tai Fung
A photograph of Taiwanese dumpling restaurant Din Tai Fung at Canary Wharf, London. One less reason ever to go back to LA.
A chain cafe on the waterfront in Oslo on a dark and rainy day
Battered pollock and crinkle-cut chips with homemade tartare sauce and a glass of Spezi, at Fischfeinkost Baier near Hamburg.
Explaining the size of a T. rex fossil by means of comparison to a school bus and an African elephant.
A screen capture of a squirrel appearing, via a superimposed speech bubble, to be delivering the text of a quoted post about anyone being able to eat birdseed.
The punchline panel of an 'oh no' comic. A pink sock creature says 'oh no' in a deadpan way.
The root shelf of an old coast redwood in Saratoga cemetery, hacked away to reveal the headstone of John P Pourroy, US serviceman in the First World War.
Sign outside Halfords (an auto/bike maintenance shop) that says 'HALFORDS colleague fitting unit'
Three medium sized pumpkins visible in a display outside a greengrocer's. On a cardboard sign behind, in marker, is written 'Pumpkins Only £2. Lots more inside. Lots more.'
Scampi & chips X2, cup of tea, ketchup, chippie menu
Screen capture from a Patreon quip about the proposed Franklin rover to explore the possibility of life/DNA on Mars, named after Rosalind Franklin and not Sir John.
A church hymnal showing the first verse of "we plough the fields and scatter" which was a plot point in John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme s.9
A photo of a computer screen on which uncapitalised "china" – indicating the material, not the country – has a spell check red line under it
A radio recording setup with four mics and the Radio 4 logo
email subject line from Picturehouse Cinemas: "Some battle for love, others battle for vengeance"
A screenshot of the article preview on CBC news, about an Italian kitten who showed away on a cargo ship being adopted by one of the customs agents who caught him.
An Edwardian teenager in a white dress and small purse is posed riding a bicycle, around which is built a model of Scott's ship Terra Nova
A screencap of BBC journalists driving on a multi-lane American highway from Orem to St George, Utah
Screen capture from a CBC article on the killing of Charlie Kirk: "Trump, who routinely describes political rivals, judges and others who stand in his way as 'radical left lunatics' and warns that they pose an existential threat to the nation, decried violent political rhetoric."
Drake meme, top (unacceptable) "St Patrick's Day", bottom (alright) "Capt. Scott Memorial Curry Night"
A word-choice exercise in Duolingo where the words don't go on the rack but rather cluster at the bottom and refuse to he selected after a few.
A flag, quartered horizontally, with the top and bottom quarters grey and the middle two green.
A simple graphic flag in grey and green. If divided in four equal horizontal parts, the top one is grey, the middle two are dark green, and the bottom one is grey again. A white triangle pokes up into the grey from the centre top of the green. The grey is rainclouds and water reflecting the rainclouds, the green is conifer forest, and the white is a volcano poking up above the trees.
A notice on an empty vending machine at a train station: "DO NOT USE. Please be aware that the refrigeration in this vending machine is not working so everything has melted in the heat."
The interior of a Philadelphia themed sports bar in London. American flag bunting is strung under flags mounted to the ceiling, and some American sports channel is on the large screen TV.