"Writing fic about the guys from AMC's 'The Terror' is still RPF because they were based on real people" if you saw, heard, or otherwise knew the thoughts I have on the very real people of the Franklin Expedition you'd fucking hurl
I cannot stop thinking about how the Antarctic men of the Shackleton traded things to one another and sort of created their own exchanged. The idea that these men thought of things to gift one another and created a social connection to one another by picking out their own personal belongings or rocks or items. And they gave them as gifts to one another. Effectively giving them meaning to be alive and to carry on. And then I think about items and the things the men of the Franklin Expedition probably gave one another. Clothing. Books. Cups. Tobacco. Chocolate. Things to give. Things to give. Even in the worst of it all there is something they can give. And they gave. To one another.
LIVING for the shade Goodsir is throwing in this letter from May We Be Spared to Meet on Earth. He really said “MacDonald is great, way better than the other surgeons. Peddie is lazy af and only cares about the money. Stanley is stupid and won’t the shut the fuck up. Thank god I’m getting a new title and won’t have to listen to them. Anyway give my love to the family.”