#franklin's lost expedition

[cupsofsilver]

Y’all ever read the reviews for Beechey Island?

[boarix-draws]

@so-i-did-this-thing I made something terrible for you...

[bjornkram]

we're like 2 ships passing in the night, if the ships were 2 arctic exploration ships and instead of passing they were stuck in the ice for 3 years before we begrudgingly abandoned them, and the night lasted about 4 month at a time.

[rainsofcamelot]

i need to share this oh god 😭😭

[hibiscus02]

First scene on S2 of Sweet Tooth and this scientist finds a ship buried in the Arctic snow and for a moment I was sure they were gonna make a correlation with Franklin's Lost Expedition, but we could just barely see the ship's name and it wasn't the Erebus or the Terror, so. Missed opportunity right there.

[made-myself-miserable]

SCREAMING!!!

Also hi spam followers hope you’re doing well :) enjoy my Terror posts when they begin again shortly 

[cemeterything]

>dies anyway

[saintharrowhark]

[cupsofsilver]

I love that in the book this is the first thought of Hickey’s we are introduced to.

Be gay do crimes right?

[roystonvasey]

PATRON SAINT OF THE LOST CAUSES.

have not stopped thinking about him since we finished the terror. image id in alt!

[left-hand-of-dorkness]

the royal navy was like for real though its fucking baller and not ironic at all that we sent these ships named [ancient god of darkness] and [most severe form of fear] to check out the last unexplored bit of a place that eats ships and doesn’t have sun for half the year i’m sure nothing bad will happen to them

[saints-who-never-existed]

Hey, why are you called saints-who-never-existed?

Hey! :)

It's an excerpt of W.H. Auden -

Animal femurs/ Ascribed to saints who never/ Existed, are still/ More holy than portraits/ Of conquerors who/ Unfortunately, did.

It's an excerpt I first came across in the beautifully-made video linked below that examines the Peglar Papers and all the layers of literary meaning within Bridgens and Peglar's in-show relationship.

To me, it speaks to and symbolises the human cost of the Expedition.

We can't excuse away the evils of colonialism - the 'conquering' as it were - or forget the huge role that it plays in both the factual and fictional Franklin narrative.

But that's not to say that we can't also reflect on that human cost, the 'animal femurs', the lives of the very real people caught up within that same narrative.

[shestoodintears]

Started reading May We Be Spared To Meet on Earth, Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition, and I'm delighted to report that James Fitzjames had a terrible sense of humour.

[severias]

So uh, some drawings of The Terror, I am absolutely obsessed with this show and it is NOT healthy at this point

They're so great, man, they're so great