#james fitzjames

[armadillorollup]

Jaw and Tongue

[oochilka]

Seaside rendezvous

[scuttllebutt]

Fanart I drew of James Fitzjames dying in a glue trap

[asparklethatisblue]

Dundy hates Francis for good reasons…

[thatgracelessheart]

diva up!

[undead-in-space]

On a scale from 1 to badly bleaching the Victory Point Note transcript into a t-shirt how normal are you about the Franklin Expedition?

[apfeldude]

ordinary set of photographs from the 1920s

[juliaanoia]

Since I still haven't done anything with these I might as well post them now.

[lieut-john-irving]

An Irving and Fitzjames mention in Kingston’s letter to Malcolm — 27th April 1838 (Yarmouth)

Although this letter (below) doesn’t explicitly confirm that John met Fitzjames when the Belvidera was stationed in the Mediterranean, it does seem that both of his close friends, Malcolm and Kingston, were present in the picture sometime before or when Fitzjames was 'keeping it up' with the Belvidera lads in May 1833 (right before Malcolm was to leave the Navy on account of his health, returning, as seen in Fitzjames’ record, when the Belvidera left for England). But, stationed where they were and with Kingston’s confirmation of their knowing each other in some passing manner during this time, it seems reasonable to assume that Irving and Fitzjames did meet, or at least know of each other, during this time as teenage midshipmen.

Regardless, based on the wonderful @jamesfitzjamesdotcom’s research, Kingston nevertheless contributes to the lack of letters concerning Fitzjames during his time aboard the Excellent;

Source: Acc.6684/27 NLS

TRANSCRIPTION, with the bold parts being the relevant parts here (thankfully way easier to decode than Kingston’s other letters!):

I find Irving and Fitzjames’ relationship quite interesting, particularly after reading Woodman’s Inuit Testimony. We know that Fitzjames was theoretically responsible for choosing the officers of the Franklin expedition, with Irving being selected as third lieutenant for the Terror’s 1845 crew. Consequently, both men are mentioned on the only surviving literary record attesting to the crew’s abandonment of the ships in 1848 (Irving’s retrieval of the famous Victory Point note, which he delivered to Fitzjames to amend):

So, I find that if they did meet as teenagers, then another layer of intrigue and tragedy surfaces. But, of course, until there is concrete proof then this narrative unfortunately remains fragmentary!

[tavern-cat]

Have some sad James and some "More than God loves them" James.

[kami-ships-it]

Mandible NgLj-2:226

[lisondraws]

Does he have ridiculous sideburns? Does he die a gruesome death? Is he on screen less than ten minutes total?

I spent a full day making this "Guess who? (is stuck)" The Terror game! Inspired by countless conversations about how hard it is to tell these dudes apart on first watch (and endless shitpost ideas with @merlintintintin ) This was honestly a lot of work, and now I really want to play it! I hope you'll find this cool, I'm personally really happy with the result! Would you play it?

I added Silna because I feel like the two boards kinda represent Terror & Erebus, and she's stuck here with these horrible dudes. Definitely more of a thematic easter egg rather than practical gameplay choice ahah.

To make this I bought a My Little Petshop Guess Who game (I liked the colors) second hand, took forever to cut out all the characters and color grade the pictures on photoshop (this serie is SO DARK, i'm thankful for the official pictures by Aidan Monaghan I also used), made the cards backing mostly using some designs I had already made, and then printed and cut the whole thing by hand!

I may share the template for this later on, if anyone is interested!

[slowshowed]

does one not bring one's habits to terror?

[wantonlywindswept]

congratulations to the surprisingly high number of people on my dash who are celebrating the discovery of their beloved lightly-gnawed doomed polar explorer

[shrimpquoter]

sounds about right