Excited that my article on collecting polar exploration ephemera is live, part of the special issue “Crossings in Polar Art History” for the journal Art History. Thanks to issue editors @issygapp.bsky.social and Mark Cheetham and everyone who spoke to me for this piece, incl. @tchotchke.bsky.social!

‘You will find it at the North Pole when you get there’: Travels in Polar Exploration Ephemera

Abstract. Throughout the long nineteenth century, dozens of exploratory expeditions embarked from Western Europe and European settler nations for the Arcti

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This from @tchotchke.bsky.social is so, so good on current fandom issues, especially around fanfic. Feels like as we see this stuff with AI and clout-chasing elsewhere, fandom was never going to be exempt. I’m not at all into Heatex Rivalry, but it’s a bellwether open.substack.com/pub/tchotchk...

Fanfiction has an AI problem

And a social media problem, and a clout problem — but actually, they're all kind of the same problem?

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JEOPARDY! MAY 20! I WILL BE ON IT! TUNE IN!

A huge congrats to Kaitlyn on her contributions to the recent ID of the remains of FOUR (!!!!) new Franklin Expedition men, as part of Dr. Douglas Stenton's research team. Full scientific paper in the thread. For access to Kaitlyn's 2025 TC presentation, please email command [@] terror dot camp.

Katie G@katiegors.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Last year I was able to assist in identifying 4 (FOUR?!?) members of the Franklin expedition! I'm the amateur genealogist who researched Bridgens, Young, Orren, and Peglar, and was able to find and contact living descendants of their families who agreed to do DNA tests!

i am in @emilygouldnymag.bsky.social newsletter today giving a sneaky preview of my book and chatting all things fanfiction and heated rivalry 😎🤩 nymag.substack.com/p/byron-was-...

fyi i am currently in antarctica having the time of my life

Such excellent analysis (and fandom historical context)! also this is where I am right now, but back in regular non HR fandom

Allegra Rosenberg@tchotchke.bsky.social · 6mo ago

✨ new 'stack ✨ i establish Heated Rivalry as a prototypical Toxic Airborne Fujo Event, or perhaps a fandom version of the pluribus disease: 👉 tchotchke.substack.com/p/the-toxic-...

✨ new 'stack ✨ i establish Heated Rivalry as a prototypical Toxic Airborne Fujo Event, or perhaps a fandom version of the pluribus disease: 👉 tchotchke.substack.com/p/the-toxic-...

thank you allegra! this is very good. the latest round of "what's a slash?" coverage due to HR has been driving me steadily nuts

Allegra Rosenberg@tchotchke.bsky.social · 7mo ago

would anyone care to peruse my Thoughts On Yaoi™ ? great i knew you would. anyway here's why Heated Rivalry blew up and i'm right and everyone else is wrong tchotchke.substack.com/p/everyone-i...

another great essay from someone who Gets It

Allegra Rosenberg@tchotchke.bsky.social · 7mo ago

would anyone care to peruse my Thoughts On Yaoi™ ? great i knew you would. anyway here's why Heated Rivalry blew up and i'm right and everyone else is wrong tchotchke.substack.com/p/everyone-i...

and as always allegra is right!!!!

Allegra Rosenberg@tchotchke.bsky.social · 7mo ago

would anyone care to peruse my Thoughts On Yaoi™ ? great i knew you would. anyway here's why Heated Rivalry blew up and i'm right and everyone else is wrong tchotchke.substack.com/p/everyone-i...

Very few, if any, of the Heated Rivalry takes out there have this important point in the screenshot below, and I'm so glad its out there.

Allegra Rosenberg@tchotchke.bsky.social · 7mo ago

would anyone care to peruse my Thoughts On Yaoi™ ? great i knew you would. anyway here's why Heated Rivalry blew up and i'm right and everyone else is wrong tchotchke.substack.com/p/everyone-i...

would anyone care to peruse my Thoughts On Yaoi™ ? great i knew you would. anyway here's why Heated Rivalry blew up and i'm right and everyone else is wrong tchotchke.substack.com/p/everyone-i...

These are the kinds of things that make @terrorcamp.bsky.social such a joy to be involved with. Thank you to everyone who attended, presented, made a poster or shared art, and helped organize, especially the brilliant @tchotchke.bsky.social! Can't wait to do it again next year

v i t r i o l@vitriol.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Things I learned at @terrorcamp.bsky.social this year: -the word “scurbotic” -the American Ornithological Society is my enemy -I would take a bullet for a Norwegian museum curator named Anders whom I’ve never met -you absolutely do not want to know how they figure out the age of a Greenland shark

So happy to be nerding out at @terrorcamp.bsky.social 🤓 A rare and wonderful space where academic inquiry meets fan convention energy. Great to be with people across the world who are brilliantly, obsessively in love with polar exploration like me 😆 #polarexploration #terrorcamp #conference #fandom

"What if there was an event—online, like all events still were at that point—that combined the best elements of an academic conference and a fan convention?" - @tchotchke.bsky.social on the origins of @terrorcamp.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/12/01/t... #envhist #polarstudies #popculture

What a pleasure to moderate this conversation. Takeaways: joy, naivety/approaching your work like an amateur, integrity - all sit at the foundation of creative work that lasts in a world designed to make it seem disposable.

Terror Camp@terrorcamp.bsky.social · 8mo ago

STARTING NOW: Our Sunday keynote! Join us now in conversation with director Edward Berger and cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister! 🤩🤯✨

TODAY’S THE DAY! ❄️🤩🎉 We can’t wait to kick off Terror Camp V today, starting at 9:00am PST / 12:00pm EST / 6:00pm CET. You should have received a link to join the conference via Eventbrite email — let us know if you have any problems, and we’ll help!

This weekend is the next iteration of Terror Camp, a free online conference for polar exploration enthusiasts, which has the highest level of intellectual content and hilarity I have ever encountered: www.terror.camp @terrorcamp.bsky.social

Terror Camp | Polar Fan Conference

Terror Camp is an annual virtual gathering of hundreds of polar exploration enthusiasts. Inspired by AMC's The Terror and the history of the Franklin Expedition, this polar exploration conference feat...

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Anyway. There's still good stuff about the Internet. At @terrorcamp.bsky.social on Sunday, I'll be chatting with Edward Berger (The Terror, Conclave, All Quiet on the Western Front) & Florian Hofmeister (The Terror, Tár, True Detective). Have questions, check out the link in my last Re-post.

"Terror Camp Clear" by @tchotchke.bsky.social of @terrorcamp.bsky.social is the eleventh and final post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/12/01/t... #envhist #envhum

Did you know? You can help support Terror Camp by paying for a conference ticket or donating at any time! Here's everything your support helps us do—from Zoom licenses to charity donations: terror.camp/so/75PgE5vmu...

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new article on AO! about the HOT NEW TREND ON TIKTOK, memes about "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," just in time for the 50-year anniversary of the disaster www.atlasobscura.com/articles/edm...

📣 SATURDAY KEYNOTE ANNOUNCED: Inside Amundsen's House with Anders Bache! Step inside the historic home of Roald Amundsen, as curator Anders Bache invites us on an exclusive tour of his amazing recent discoveries. 🤩 ❄️ Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/terror-cam...

📣 FRIDAY KEYNOTE ANNOUNCED: Careers in Polar Humanities! Interested in becoming a professional polar obsessive? Join us as we hear from five incredible experts working across the field of polar humanities. ❄️ Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/terror-cam...

Time for @terrorcamp.bsky.social at Shackleton Autumn School, kicking off with the brilliant @tchotchke.bsky.social ❄️🐧

📣 TERROR CAMP V PROGRAM ANNOUNCED! Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/terror-cam... We’re thrilled to bring you a fantastic line-up of presentations for Terror Camp V, from deep dives into Inuit texts and polar history to queer naval fiction & scurvy. Find out what we've got in store! 🤩

i just wish more people knew about the race to the north pole of 1909

Full house tonight at South Street Seaport Museum for talks on queer polar and maritime history with @tchotchke.bsky.social @evamolinaflores.bsky.social and Seth Stein LeJacq! ❄️⚓️🌈