#goodsir my beloved

[opens-up-4-nobody]

:-P

[laststandx3]

*not strictly a "how do you imagine you'd die" question. Can be also read as "how do you wish to die". Just know that in this 1845 expedition you WILL die, so choose wisely.

**In this order: Limewater, Syrup of Squills (a sliced herb set in tannin solution), Peruvian Wine of Coca (an admixture of wine and cocaine), Solutions of Hartshorn (a Medicine made from ground-up antlers of red deer which stinks strongly of ammonia), Solution of Camphor, Tincture of Lobelia (a solution of Indian tobacco that was almost pure nicotine)

*** lead poisoning

[widevibratobitch]

do you guys ever think about fitzconte

[i-love-you-very-much]

woag is that an onion i dropped ........ 🧅.. .ahaha oops how silly of me. *leans on counter* anyways do you come here oft *misses the counter and hits my head

*i attempt to catch you but i miss and also hit the counter*

[selchielesbian]

I really cannot tell any of the men in the terror apart

[majorxmaggiexboy]

also don’t let me fool y’all i might have gone way harder for this show than at all reasonable but 90% of the time unless there are only like three characters in a scene and they say their names i cannot pick them out of a crowd.

[favouritefi]

btw in the catboy au its considered normal for humans to pet cat/dogboys as a greeting or as praise and this was why sir john was so beloved by some of the younger boys bc he doled out pets pretty generously whereas fitzjames only pets his lieutenants and crozier pets no one unless he's forced to. dont worry tho touch-starved cat/dogboys (largely dogboys) can go to the doctors for pets and its equivalent to physiotherapy (which didn't really exist until late into the victorian era but ignore that) so here's my reviews of the medical staff based on their pet-prowess:

Goodsir - tender soft touch, favourite amongst the marines, very good at chin skritches and cheek rubs and knows exactly where to scratch behind the ears, sometimes will even hum to you if you're lucky or (gasp) call you a good boy

McDonald - firm fatherly touch, will say "there's a lad" if you purr or chuff at him, never pets you for as long as you want him to though because he's rather busy running the sick bay

Peddie - this is usually who you end up getting on terror, lil awkward since he's still learning the ropes but he's real earnest about it

Stanley - perfunctory, clinical, expedient, you will leave ruffled and feeling worse than when you came in

secret bonus contender:

Bridgens - seen petting peglar so often that soon other cat/dogboys started not-so-subtly asking him for pets too, big hands firm touch, will smile kindly at you and maybe even ask about your day, if you're lucky he'll use two hands to cup your face and for a moment all your troubles disappear, WARNING afterwards peglar will be colder towards you for a brief period of time

[saints-who-never-existed]

My beloved Grandpa was left-handed and I've been thinking all day about the fact that his own grandmother tied his left hand painfully behind his back when he was a tiny wee boy and forced him to write with his right...

Just a (miserable! angst-ridden!) little something to consider vis a vis the whole 'Goodsir and Little may both have been left-handed IRL' conversation! >:)

[opens-up-4-nobody]

🖤

[solittles]

you’re like uncannily good at assigning daemons to doomed victorian sailors. wish we could see the whole list!!

omg thank u soooo much ;; my dearest @stolperzunge is my co-creator of this au, she has had SO many great ideas for this au 💕💕 here is our complete list of the terror daemons!!

character - daemon settled as (gender) name [potential nickname] (real name)

feel free to send an ask if you have any thoughts or questions about my beloved au 💞

croizer - northern fulmar (f) aislin

fitzjames - cheetah (x) alexandria

sir john - basset hound (f) elizabeth

nedward - mole (f) cornelia

irving - swan (m) fabienne (fabien)

hodge - schipperke (f) mirabelle

dundy - lynx (f) abernathy [biscuit]

gore - arctic fox (f)

hickey - rat (f) dhalia

billy - whippet (f) sophie

sol - norwegian elkhound (f) akiva

tommy - one eared galago (f) saoirse

blanky - osprey (f) isolde

hartnell - mandarin duck (m)

jopson - siamese cat (f) lydia

peglar - otter (f) odette

bridgens - raven (f) edith

manson - yorkshire terrier (f) evie

goodsir - hedgehog (m) eileithyia

silna - polar bear, seal, northern fulmar etc (x)

diggle - golden lion tamarin (f)

wall - golden lion tamarin (f)

pilk - groundhog (f) romilda

des voeux - weasel (f)

heather - pit bull (f) harriet

hoar - pomeranian (f)

bryant - american staffordshire terrier (f)

morfin - seagull (f)

collins - seal species? (f) tristana

stanley - moth species? (f) victoria

mcdonald - quokka (f)

billy orren - seagull (f)

chambers - duck (f) evelyn

strong - gannet (f)

young - hare (f) anna

evans - puffin (f)

golding - water rail (f)

charles best - seagull (f)

[chaotic-goodsir]

Accent-switching Harry Goodsir my beloved 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💖

Like all due respect to Pready's incredible acting, but if 'has anyone *ever* invited you to a wedding Dr Stanley?' or 'Does that really work with anyone, Mr Hickey?' had been in Goodsir's natural Scottish accent?

Stanley and Hickey would just've dropped dead right there.

[i-love-you-very-much]

oh FUCK i missed your birthday yesterday......AND ALMOST TODAY. HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY

that's okay, there was another more important birthday yesterday

HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(not tom baker, the story this gif is from)

[danidoesathing]

HELLAUR. Hows goes the terror do you have a favorite character yet. Very curious

HELLO ooh it's either between Harry or Blinky. mr goodsir my beloved hes such a good character with a good heart and its so heartbreaking to see him that hope in him die over and over as the series goes on. plus my guy fucking queen fly-ed the mutiny group and i think that was very cool of him (and even if im sad about it. what a way to go)

blinky tho was a fucking DELIGHT every time he was on screen. his sense of humor was great and refreshing in a very depressing situation. he lost his leg to the tuunbaq and joked about it while getting his leg cut off and then later on he strapped forks to himself so that when it ate him it would hurt to go down. the scene where he accidentally found the passage is still one of my favorites. "what took you so long." god he was great miss you king

[swiftzeldas]

tagged by @dead-ghost-walking!

How many works do you have on AO3? 58! though i've been considering orphaning some lmao

What’s your total AO3 word count? 260,542

What fandoms do you write for? i write for whatever is currently occupying my brain so currently that's the x-files and the terror but i have also written for NADDpod, dimension 20, the magnus archives, the adventure zone, and various other fandoms (inception, the exorcist, psych, succession, baseball rpf, the enchanted forest chronicles, it is truly an eclectic mix)

What are your top 5 fics by kudos? i haven't looked at this in ages so this is interesting! they are: something more than nothing (jon/tim, the magnus archives), if you need some company (hardwon/moonshine, naddpod), head above water (roy siblings, succession), a million little times (taako/magnus, the adventure zone), the greatest films of all time were never made (taako/magnus, the adventure zone)

Do you respond to comments? i try to! i never know what to say besides "thank you so much i'm so glad you liked it" but i mean that every time!!!

What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? i don't think i have a ton of angsty endings so i suppose it is us traitors never win, my hickey/goodsir fic. the end of that fic is very similar to the end of the show anyway tbh it just sort of slots goodsir into crozier's ending

What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? i think it's "if you need some company" but in lieu of repeating myself, my morwen/telemain fic it's not the years; it's the mileage has a pretty happy ending as well!

Do you get hate on fics? i don't think i write popular (or unpopular) enough pairings to get hate honestly

Do you write smut? If so, what kind? yes, usually as part of a longer fic but occasional PWP

Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? when i was younger i did, i don't have any posted on ao3 though

Have you ever had a fic stolen? i don't think so and i doubt it would happen

Have you ever had a fic translated? yes, i had someone ask to translate my saito/eames fic something worth coming back to

Have you ever co-written a fic before? only in the sense that most of the x-files daemon au world i write in was created by @emmaswanned for a fic she's working on and she let me take the au and run amok on the krycek side of things (wouldn't last a day)

What’s your all time favorite ship? i don't think my ao3 stats reflect this very well. i also find a lot of the time i don't NEED to write multiple fics for the same ship, like i get it out of my system

What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? i have multiple WIPs rn and i definitely do not want to throw in the towel on any of them but i've wanted to write a marcus/tomas (the exorcist) fic involving them reuniting at casey rance's wedding for literal years and have never written past the first scene

What are your writing strengths? i think my characterization is good, i think i'm good at capturing tone, i think i'm pretty good at dialogue

What are your writing weaknesses? finishing fics longer that about ~7K (unfortunate because most of my ideas are longer than that), figuring out endings

Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? i probably would not do this just because i'm only fluent in one language and i would not want to offend anyone due to my reliance on google translate

First fandom you wrote for? i wrote baby-sitters club and harry potter fanfic in spiral notebooks when i was a kid

Favorite fic you’ve written? "us traitors never win" my absolute beloved

tagging @jackreichel @amidalleia @ageless-aislynn

[hornelius-hickey]

Stupid fucking Goodsir with his dumb fucking muttonchops. I wanna bash his fuckin head in with a rock.

Then he won't have time to poison himself and my beloved Cornelius.