Walking away upright as a dart…looking like an old monk going to mass.

—Robert McCormick on Penguins, Erebus

this is hilarious bc this isn’t Fitzjames Birdshit Island Story, it’s James Clark Ross’. And Crozier is on the other ship.

reading Black Fire is like being recounted breathlessly some child’s weird dream

and after the court martial spock was sent to prison but he met a romulan and they became friends and then spock and desus escaped and desus thanked him by making him his second in command of his pirate fleet and now spock’s a pirate known as black fire and women write romance novels about black fire and want to be captured by him and then….