#(.person | .james fitzjames)

[deadrlngers]

fitzjames petting neptune. if you even care.

[horror-aesthete]

[futuristicdoormats789]

(staring into mirror) today i will not be thinking about crozier wearing one of fitzjames's gloves after he is gone. today i will not think about how crozier does not let go of fitzjames's hand once in his final moments, only to coax what will take him away down his throat. i will not think about the pain of fitzjames's request, to ask crozier to guide him somewhere the other man cannot go. today i will not think about how they do not look away from one another. today i will not think about crozier's soft 'its alright' when fitzjames explains why he cannot haul because it is alright. because they have time. they have time.

[filmbroandy]

if james fitzjames from hit tv series The Terror (2018) and robert pattinson's character from hit film The Lighthouse (2019) swapped places jfj and willem dafoe's character would have had such a lovely time telling each other their long ass boring stories and probably would have fallen in love or something while robert pattinson's character would have cannibalized sir john within the first week onboard erebus.

[andrew-rannells-mustache]

holy trinity

[arcticclimes]

[opens-up-4-nobody]

@sockgarter :-]

[carsickcrow]

drawing of mandible NgLj-2:226 in my sketchbook in honor of the James Fitzjames remains identification. i’ve never drawn a jaw bone before but i liked how the lettering of his name turned out

[valtsv]

love the concept of transfem fitzjames not just because it's both fun to headcanon characters as trans and also thematically appropriate in her case but because i feel like she'd be so ideologically incoherent about it. she'd be like i should be allowed to fight and die in a war not because i'm a man or a woman but because i'm james fitzjames and i can do anything. diversity ??? this trans woman is defying traditional gender roles in a way that seemingly benefits absolutely no one.

[unamused-kookaburra]

I'm actually so chuffed that they've identified Fitzjames remains but I have no one to share the news with without sounding like

[nedconte]

manic pixie dream polar explorers or something

[horror-aesthete]

[goldenzingy46]

am i too far gone if i'm imagining tenderly spoonfeeding james fitzjames to save his life or is this just something that happens when you join the terror fandom

[goldandnavy]

I love seeing everyone's responses to the news about Fitzjames because you can clearly see who's excited and why:

- The old fandom folk who've probably done enough research for fun to write entire books on the subject and are excited to hear about our boy

- The new fandom folk who are starting to realize that this wasn't just a fun tv show from six years ago and people did in fact eat eachother

- The folks who enjoy cannibalism (and I mean, yeah, fair enough)

[calvinandhobbes]

the terror 1.06, ‘a mercy’ // bakkhai (trans. anne carson)

[saints-who-never-existed]

One thing I always feel with Fitzjames is that he may well have been happier if he hadn't tried so hard to build himself that great gilded life.

He may say otherwise but clearly it's a life that does humiliate him to live in many ways - he feels forever inadequate, forever a fraud and a fake right up until almost the end of his life when he reaches the end of vanity and is finally free. Perhaps an un-gilded life would have suited him better? Perhaps he ought to have forgone much of that emotional turmoil and continued just being the fighter/deadly weapon/balls-to-the-wall adrenaline junkie madman that life and the military saw fit to make him?

I would never in a million years condone his actions or condone violence and colonialism in general. But you can't deny that he was extremely fucking good at it and derived significant pleasure and purpose from being extremely fucking good at it.

Which is all to say that I'm now thinking the same thing about Hodgson...

We know of course that the real Hodgson appeared to be cut from a similar cloth to Fitzjames - distinguishing himself under heavy fire in battle and earning his commission during the Opium Wars. And there's much to indicate that his fictional counterpart shares that backstory right from his E01 dinner-table reminiscing onward.

Hodgson in the show really does often seem to be at his best under bloody, chaotic, and extremely high-stress circumstances in a similar way to Fitzjames. We see it in E05 when he's able to stop, assess the situation, rally the men around him, and lead them back towards danger to no-scope poor Tuunbaq in the arse in the middle of a blizzard. And to some extent we see it right at the end of his life when he's once again ready and willing to charge forward and make that desperate grab for Armitage's keys, even with chaos and death all around him.

Maybe Hodgson wasn't a Captain. Maybe he wasn't 'made of that'. Maybe he was just made to be a weapon and nothing more.