#peglar x bridgens

[the-holy-ghosted]

congrats 2 henry peglar for being the only bitch confirmed as to be Fucking That Old Man

[nigesakis]

Dave K in answer to the question why a scene with more physical touch (finger on lips and almost kissing) between Hickey and Gibson from the script wasn't shot

Specifically in this show, Dave wanted to be careful about affectional physical touch between Hickey and Gibson, Peglar and Bridgens and also Crozier and Fitzjames.

Physical touch was supposed to be reserved for other kinds of intimacy (vulnerability, friendship, brotherhood) and ultimately the cannibalism as the ultimate form of intimacy.

Though he sees the hand touch between Bridgens and Peglar as a beautiful sex scene in itself.

(Perhaps a big part of me wanting to share this specific answer is... what the hell are Fitzier doing in here?😭)

[ellicler]

the typical way homophobia warps back around to become dripping with homoeroticism

simmons started with the premise 'how do i make my gay ex-couple celibate and pure as an angel's wing' and worked his way to 'i should make one of them not really gay just a kinsey 1 for this one guy only' (rediscovering a typical fandom strategy) and then he got to an eternal classic 'what if i was your student and fell in love with you for the very first time and you taught me everything both about life and about love' and then he shrugged and said 'good job and then they broke up amicably and never thought about it again'

[dogmotifz]

happy fuck those old men friday 👍

[paintb0x]

♡

i feel crucial pain every time i see them //////

[dysfunctional-deity]

Why do they keep doing this to me???

[swiftzeldas]

---the slippery slope, lemony snicket

[theorangekin]

awakens from slumber and offers a lil pocket steward* in these trying times

*comes with one free (1) cold boy(friend):

[phoenixflames12]

for the 3 sentence writing meme— bridgler, time travel AU? 👀⌛

Got a little carried away with this one

They walk through the museum hand in hand, hardly daring to believe that this was possible.

It couldn't be possible; not this; not themselves, their comrades, their friends hung, mounted and framed, as if their ill-gotten hubris was something to be cherished and loved and remembered.

'A diary and a kiss,' Henry murmurs as he squeezes John's hand where a ring now glitters.'That's all you left me. But, my love,' he whispers as he takes the old, dear, cragged face in his hands and kisses John's brows, 'look how far we've come.'

Give me a pairing, an AU setting and I'll write a 3 sentence fic

[nomilkinmyteaplease]

Hands and their owners part 2

[bobbyinthegarden]

So the old adage goes that fandoms will completely ignore female characters of colour in favour of white man ships, Terror AMC fans truly do sleep in Lady Silence (best character), which really is a shame. Meanwhile Bridgens and Peglar (aka the canon white man romance) are right there!

[tobelovedbyjohnbridgens]

A Bower Quiet for Us

I'm impulsively posting this little thing I wrote a while ago and completely forgot about until recently. It's very sappy and is important to me. Title from Endymion, by John Keats.

“Henry,” he called because he could. Because he knew Henry would hear and turn to him and cross the room to close the distance between them. He knew Henry would hear, and turn, and smile, and take great strides in their small apartment to come to him, and he would set his hands on John’s shoulders and would lean down to kiss him.

Henry raised his eyes from the book he was reading, the sun pouring through the window and shifting the wisps of his flyaway hair to gold. Henry set his book down did exactly as John knew he would.

“‘Ello,” Henry said against John’s lips.

“I love you,” John replied, his hands at Henry’s waist.

“You’re sappy today.” Another kiss. “I love you too.”

“What were you reading?”

“Some Keats.”

John hummed.

“I bet,” Henry continued, elegantly sliding on John’s lap, “you know his poems by heart.”

His cheeks flushed. “That might be the case.”

“John—” Henry called, and John knew Henry was doing the same as he had done. That he would do whatever Henry asked for after saying his name. They both knew this. “Tell me.”

“Give me a title.” He kissed Henry’s neck.

“That’s no fun!”

“He wrote a lot of poems, love.”

“Fine—the first that comes to your head.”

In his mind, John saw the little bound book, which he had first encountered during some years of service, in his ship’s lending library. Most of his pay had been spent to acquire that very copy. John closed his eyes and could feel its red cloth cover on his fingers, could see himself go through the pages of poetry. Henry did ask him to recite the first that came to his mind.

“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:” he swiped his thumb on Henry’s cheekbone, “Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing…”

Endymion was possibly the worst he could have chosen—there was nothing wrong with it, of course, it was just on account of its length. But he would recite until he could no longer, and Henry would get up and find the book, and they would read the rest to each other. And John could not have been any happier.

[ithappensoffstage]

other than the amazing doomcountry / @doomcountry fics (which you should all read if you haven't), does anyone have any bridgens and peglar recs?

[goldfishgrahamcracker]

Franklin's lost expedition crew

I was looking at posts about AMC's The Terror and I kept getting confused by the use of first names, so I wanted to see how many of the characters had the same names. Arranging the crew in alphabetical order, I got:

1 x Abraham (Seeley)

4 x Alexander (Berry, McDonald, Paterson, Wilson)

5 x Charles (Best, Coombs, Des Voeux, Johnson, Osmer)

1 x Cornelius (Hickey)

2 x Daniel (Arthur, Bryant)

3 x David (Leys, Macdonald, Young) + Bonus: Bryant in the show but most historical sources I found list him as Daniel

1 x Edmund (Hoar)

3 x Edward (Couch, Genge, Little)

2 x Edwin (Helpman, Lawrence)

3 x Francis (Crozier, Dunn, Pocock)

1 x Frederick (Hornby) + Bonus: Des Voeux, whom I have seen referred to as Frederick rather than Charles on occasion

6 x George (Cann, Chambers, Hodgson, Kinnaird, Thompson, Williams)

1 x Gillies (MacBean)

1 x Graham (Gore)

7 x Henry/Harry (Collins, Goodsir, Le Vesconte, Lloyd, Peglar, Sait, Wilkes)

10 x James (Brown, Daly, Elliot, Fairholme, Fitzjames, Hart, Reid, Ridgen, Thompson, Walker) + Bonus: Ross, who was not part of the expedition but appears in the show

23 x John (Bailey, Bates, Bridgens, Brown, Cowie, Diggle, Downing, Franklin, Gregory, Hammond, Handford, Hartnell, Irving, Kenley, Lane, Morfin, Murray, Peddie, Strickland, Sullivan, Torrington, Weekes, Wilson)

2 x Joseph (Andrews, Healey)

1 x Josephus (Geater)

1 x Luke (Smith)

1 x Magnus (Manson)

1 x Philip (Reddington)

1 x Reuben (Male)

2 x Richard (Aylmore, Wall)

8 x Robert (Carr, Ferrier, Golding, Hopcraft, Johns, Sargent, Sinclair, Thomas)

3 x Samuel (Brown, Crispe, Honey)

1 x Solomon (Tozer)

16 x Thomas (Armitage, Blanky, Burt, Darlington, Evans, Farr, Hartnell, Honey, Johnson, Jopson, McConvey, Plater, Tadman, Terry, Watson, Work)

22 x William (Aitken, Bell, Braine, Clossan, Fowler, Gibson, Goddard, Heather, Hedges, Jerry, Johnson, Mark, Orren, Pilkington, Read, Rhodes, Shanks, Sims, Sinclair, Smith, Strong, Wentzall)