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“What would good Sir John say, if he knew what obscenities occupied your mind? If only Sir John could see you now, the spectacle you make of yourself, displayed here, dripping with my spend and still begging to be used.”
Francis has so few delights these days. The particular rosy blush that comes over James’s face when embarrassment knifes through him is one of them, and Francis seeks it unsparingly.
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Just six weeks into the voyage, Francis and James have fallen into a certain easy understanding—but it's not made to last.Bookmarked by vangoghStar
09 Jan 2026
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There is a simplicity in the act of service, a quiet sense of purpose that allows for clear-headedness in an otherwise cluttered mind. Jopson knows it well, can measure out his heartbeat by the rhythm of his daily regimen. Shaving, tailoring, preparing meals. Tending to the needs of the Captain, often before the Captain himself becomes aware of them.
It is this duty that finds him in the pantry, a damp dish towel in one hand and Captain Fitzjames’s chin in the other.
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After the flogging on Terror, Francis must finally yield to his second.
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James knew then, with a devastating certainty, that there was nothing awaiting him in England. This shell of a man he had become, or rather what yolk had run out once the shell was broken, had no friends there. All who once knew him would look at him with this same pity, and excuse themselves from his company. He no longer had anything to offer them to keep them by his side.
A story about longing and belonging.
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15 Dec 2025
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Beautiful pacing and the end landed as smooth as anything. Amazing contrast to the beginning which made me literally cry 😭😭
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And It Is Now, And It Is Here by 20thcenturyvole, pointyshades
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018)
03 May 2023
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Before the ships are trapped in the ice, James Fitzjames sees a terrible vision of the future, a harbinger of his own death.
Before the ships are trapped in the ice, Francis Crozier is visited by a tender apparition, an angel wearing James Fitzjames' face.
They are both seeing the same vision. Whether they can heed its warning is another matter entirely.