The terror is a good show because it’s a fascinating story and critique of colonialism with amazing acting, writing and attention to historical detail, but there’s also a scene where a guy covers himself in forks before he gets eaten by a magical polar bear in order to wound said bear, which actually works

it's worse than anything in the world.

I can't be the first person to make this observation, but it's just struck me that Captain Ahab from Moby-Dick and Thomas Blanky from The Terror represent the opposite ends of a spectrum—"How well do you cope with losing your leg to a huge white beast that destroys hubristic seafaring men?"

idk if modern au crozier would acc wear an old man bolo but i want him to

THE TERROR ▸ 1.09 the c, the c, the open c

i hope im not just a mutual to you but also someone you'd look for the northwest passage with

watching the terror after playing return of the obra dinn

Francis, we both know what's coming for me now. At least love me enough to admit it. ↳ 2/∞ character dynamics: Crozier and Blanky

Overheard in 1845, the beginning of a beautiful… relationship

What do you need?

I've got half a pouch for my last smoke. That will do for me.

thomas blanky shouldn’t have been dying in the arctic, man. He should have been wearing a life is good t-shirt at a buffett concert.

its time to go to bed

Not to be morbing on on main but imagine an world where after everything the crew find the passage and return to Britain, only to realise they are men who now no longer fit…victory parades and presentations where Blanky is delicately left out because seeing his amputation would ‘upset’ the audience…parties to which the officers are invited but lower ranks are steered tactfully away because they wouldn’t enjoy such formality, don’t you know…Crozier’s name is still spoken mud-tinged and with half a laugh by better-born men, who mention him as a mere footnote after lengthily eulogising Sir John...Fitzjames finally receiving every glorious accolade he ever dreamed of, only to feel it all turn to ash in his hand...Silna's part in their story both exoticized and sexualised, turning Goodsir speechless with rage whenever he hears it... Irving feeling that he has never been closer to God nor further from his fellow believers, and not knowing what to do with that...Tozer insisting on visiting the family of every Marina he ever commanded, and not realising he's been shaking from a full-blown panic attack through every visit because that would mean he's weak, and he's not, he's a soldier…Hartnell nearly killing a man for calling his brother one of the ‘honoured dead’ because he wasn’t, John Hartnell died because a greedy industrialist wanted to save a pound or two and has never answered for it... just instance after instance of men coming home and realising that something happened out there and the Empire never truly cared for them, it just wanted to eat them up and spit them back out

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