Status Updates From Pym

Making part of the expedition crew the protagonist's ex was certainly a decision... very efficient way to dissolve any and all goodwill I had toward both characters! [muffled retching]

Great first chapter, aside from over-explaining that 'beat' joke.

I too would spend all my life savings on an arctic trip to prove a mysterious colony Edgar Allan Poe wrote about and then immediately invite my ex-girlfriend to join me, though she is married to a man who looks scarily like me