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james bites his hands until he’s bruised and bleeding to try to keep from crying out while being hauled. bridgens is the first one with him when he finally does and, in the next hours, bandages his hands before holding them at the end.
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ok francis rawdon moira crozier post: everyone’s always (rightly) repeating the “irish and middle born” line but i really don’t see talk about it beyond that — except maybe having him spit some irish gaelic while he fucks fitzjames in a fic, and i guarantee you that man would not have been a fluent irish speaker (see: efforts from both the english and from irish communities to prevent people from speaking irish). and as part of that i’d like to see more discussion of is francis’ betrayal of who he is and where he comes from.
he is irish. the famine has just begun. he spends his life attempting to rise through the ranks of, to be a successful arm of, the empire that has ensured his status as a second class citizen, his inability to speak his ancestral language, the genocide of his countrymen. francis has his assertive personality and his vocal objections and his challenges, but ultimately he’s betrayed the very essence of who he is and only does it further upon destroying himself with alcohol — because to the empire, what else would an irishman do?
and he has so little genuine self awareness about it. deep inside himself, in his subconscious, i’m sure he knows. but he could never begin to Truly know it within the conscious or to actually vocalize it. bc how do you even begin to acknowledge or make sense of this about your ENTIRE LIFE?
and ofc this parallels with james and with hickey. pretending to be something you’re not, betraying the very essence of what you are. hiding. he doesn’t know it but THAT is the basis of his initial resentment of those two: they’re betraying themselves.
because to him, at first, hickey is an irishman who has so fully committed to the betrayal he won’t even speak in a way that implies his origin. hickey thinks this double deception makes them comrades, but in reality, would francis really have had hickey punished As A Boy if not for their first exchange? would hickey have mocked francis’ irishness from the gallows if not for the failure of that disguise, this betrayal of a perceived countryman?
the full extent of james’ betrayal is hidden to francis until the cairn but he still sees it, and he sees himself in it. the obedience, the obsequience, the ambition, the admiration, (the queerness,)
so when james confesses his bastardry, his non englishness, his deception, even if francis did not now love him, how could he ever hold it against him? he’s done worse.
and, perhaps most significantly, paralleling that with silna. francis helping the empire to colonize and imperialize other places as ireland was. silna avoiding and almost rejecting her duty for nearly the entirety of the show, seeking shelter with and in some cases allying with the interlopers she despises and who have ruined her life. Tuunbaq Is Dead.
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HAPPY 177TH BIRTHDAY TO HER!!!!!
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The Terror - You ain't going nowhere, The Byrds
#hey check out how hard i can cry!!!!!!!#the juxtaposition of the hickey and irving scenes one after the other.....GODDDDD#evergreensounds#video
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historical accuracy in fics is so funny to me. googling if they had grapefruit spoons in 1845 but also letting two men get married. fuck homophobia, tell me about cutlery.
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addicted to relationships where one person is a ghost but it's unclear who's haunting who
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Francis Crozier for the wonderful @so-i-did-this-thing
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"Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious." ― Michel de Montaigne
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13 times the hands made the tongue envious in The Terror for @vvanessaives
#okay. okay. okay. okay. okay. okay. okay. okay.#<3#michel de montaigne goes so crazy. you would have loved the terror sir
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Its thinking about Henry Peglar and John Bridgens hours
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Have a bunch of really bad quality honestly mostly mid drawings of the little ice men from the boat
#thank you for your service 🫡#i loooove the first illustration of henry SO MUCH#henry peglar#john bridgens#bridglar#astal-art
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Do you think Bridgens ever watched Francis’ quiet denial and bargaining, seeing a love story approach a tragic end, and realised that his own will likely end the same? Or was he holding out hope too? That parallel messes me up aha
For @theterrorbingo “the point of no return”
#FUCK!!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭#fitzier#bridglar#james fitzjames#francis crozier#john bridgens#henry peglar#asparklethatisblue
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Sorry I'm still incredibly overwhelmed thinking about the cannibalism thing. To think that dave k truly said that were the other still alive, bridgens and peglar respectively would resort to cannibalism in order to survive. For the other. They would survive only for the sake of the other still being alive. Eating people only because the other is still living and they cannot fucking live without each other I am going to fuckeigndndnhhshsh hdhhehshsskh <- brain blew up
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love a character that's like. i survived (<- not a brag) (<- this is a curse that weighs on me every waking hour)
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— Sophie Mackintosh // insp.
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Silna / The Secret History, Donna Tart
(insp)
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