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kiss the something something strike dear mistress and cure his heart

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I pay attention to different things during every Terror rewatch. This time, I was focusing a lot on Crozier (because Jared Harris does the best drunk acting I've ever seen) and his alcoholism. I noticed that during that talk with Fitzjames in Punished as a Boy, he's heavily intoxicated to the point that he's acting noticeably emotional and winsome. Fitzjames is so unsettled that his captain is slyly referencing his doomed relationship with Sophia and admitting to only being on the expedition because she asked him to look after Franklin, and I can't blame him. Like, these two have never had a personal conversation before; Fitzjames knows all of Crozier's less public backstory beats from Franklin, presumably. It's just such a deeply sad scene to me, and I love how Fitzjames tries to soften his frustration and reach out in sympathy but is immediately shut down. This show never stops giving.

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Here more than anywhere

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"Rope" for week 3 of Sail-Out Summer Flash Fest on twitter

(with a bonus Little/Irving drawing. as a treat.)

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Is that a blue sky? Is that a blue sky? It's about damn time. It's about damn time.

full version of the paintings without the text under the cut

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wip for the Edward Little girlies

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BIG SEXYYY!! hes my fav…

he was so confident in the first episode and then got immediately traumatized :(( I need to make him smile

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it still makes me laugh that hickey's like "recent deception" and then talks about something from a year earlier. girl that is not "recent"

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too often historical shows fall into a pattern of being like “only stupid, uneducated people were racist and it was because they were stupid and uneducated” but that’s just objectively not true

tbh one of my fav things about hodgson from a narrative perspective is that being "the smart one" doesn't exempt him from being racist and in fact actively makes him more racist bc he thinks he knows more than everyone and his racism is justified by the things he knows. it really emphasizes how like. baked into society and people that attitude was and the different ways it manifested in different people of all different walks of life

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tbh one of my fav things about hodgson from a narrative perspective is that being "the smart one" doesn't exempt him from being racist and in fact actively makes him more racist bc he thinks he knows more than everyone and his racism is justified by the things he knows. it really emphasizes how like. baked into society and people that attitude was and the different ways it manifested in different people of all different walks of life

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i think if you had to distill the terror down to one singular scene it would be the "this place is beautiful to me even now [...] and her... do you think she's still alive?" "silence? this place is her home" because it really is just. everything. they all hate where they are, what's happening to them, what's led them there. goodsir worries about a woman he barely knows, whose life he inadvertently ruined, because he's looking at her life from his own white english standard. and crozier points out that she lives here. to silna, the arctic isn't an inhospitable wasteland nor a beautiful, idolized painting. it's just her home. but it will never truly be her home again because of these men that have destroyed her entire life and caused the events that led her to be exiled from her people.

goodsir thinks he cares, but his final act of life is also the one that damns silna to a life of solitary wandering. because no matter what happens, he still can't truly see or understand her life or how she feels.

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stanley being a war surgeon is so fundamental to his character. he is able to separate himself from emotion because he has a job to do, a way to fix the problem at hand. as soon as he finds about the lead in the food, there’s nothing he can do. he can’t save anyone and that’s why he kills himself. he’s no longer useful and therefore he can no longer separate himself from his emotions. stanley isn’t some callous, cruel person—he is the way he is in order to minimize suffering and save lives. burning down the carnivale was him doing his job one last time.

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goodsir has the biggest saddest wettest eyes in this scene, my god

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i can't think about Irving and Little for too long or i start shaking uncontrollably

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aaah can I have yuri jopzier please 🙏

Hehehehe that I’m always happy to provide 🥰🥰🥰💝

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More girl navy in my dresses!!

(Fairholme gets my latest thrift find that’s absolutely not a casual summer dress but this gorgeous 80s number was just 6 bucks so I had to take it home. Also Fairholme is just an OC at this point so I can do whatever I want to him <3)

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sounds about right