#James fitzjames

[jarvis-cockhead]

mhm mhm let me not forget my big hat

[meinqiwu]

terror-pilled

[skltart]

your state worsens on my skin

[amongponderosas]

North With Franklin is fiction but sounds like it NAILS the voice. I knew basically nothing about the Franklin Expedition the first time I read it (and don't know that much more now) and don't remember it well but MAN I need to read it again.

Especially since @jamesfitzjamesdotcom seems to like it.

“Goodsir suggested, jokingly I trust, that we capture one of these beasts (a seal) and set it up on deck as some kind of local dignitary which we could consult on matters pertaining to our voyage, much as the Greeks attended their oracles when they wished the future to be made clear.”

Journal entry from James Fitzjames 19 July 1845- North With Franklin by John Wilson

[djdolleyes]

Part one

Part two

[prouvvaire]

erebus command in shambles

[elwingen]

i got the book last year for Christmas and cried when I finished it. reading the correspondence of these men is genuinely so heartbreaking, you're let in on their hopes, their dreams, you read about what they thought they were going to come home to. if you're interested in the Franklin Expedition, and you can get your hands on this book, please do.

like. if you read any of his letters (may we be spared to meet on earth is such a good book, I'd recommend it if you're into doomed arctic expeditions or even just enjoy reminders that people two hundred years ago were still people) you know that fitzjames comes across as a pretty funny, kind, and above all human guy, just some dude who you could probably have a really nice chill time down the pub with. he was good at his job, yes, but he wasn't a Wellington or a Shakespeare or whathaveyou. he's literally Some Guy doing what was a really exciting thing for the time.

and it's not so much that he died under horrible circumstances, that much is a given. but it's the fact that so many people a hundred and seventy years later are losing their shit about him being found. think about that.

real fitzjames probably would never have expected to be recognised like that. no-one really thinks they'll have such an impact that two hundred years later. and yet he did - not because he was a great general or an inspiring poet, but literally because he was just A Guy that we found out about and got emotionally attached to.. imagine telling this random thirty-something that centuries later people would be so happy to see his body uncovered. imagine his reaction. I'm a thirty-something and I'm not a particularly famous individual, and the thought gets me properly choked up. he was literally A Guy, albeit one in unusual circumstances, and we still care so much about him. that's such a big thing.

[thesilliestpotato]

The Terror Characters as Public Transport

A scientific analysis based on vibes only byyyeeee

And Harry Goodsir is a bike and Jirving is a tram, but I got tired in the process.

[jamesfitzjamesdotcom]

James Fitzjames and James Walter Fairholme on the Franklin Expedition, July 1845, Greenland, colourised.

[slowshowed]

the terror (2018) / henri-léopold lévy, la jeune fille et la mort

short version if you dont want to reblog the long version that takes 45 minutes to scroll through because i need you to see this hello? hello???? hello?? hello hello????

[falling-through-a-trapdoor]

@red-lever you’re a genius

Brooooo…. I know JFJ was ready to grab a rope and climb the mast when he saw this… I know he wakes up in a cold sweat at night thinking about this and the fact that it’s hanging at the admiralty… done so dirty they gave him dysmorphia ooooof

[oughtnots]

trust is the seed

[jarvis-cockhead]

Girl why r u so lines

[amongponderosas]

Of all the dogs, what if James Fitzjames brought a greyhound to the Arctic? Tall, elegant, attention-grabbing. Runs mad zoomies around Neptune. Likes to dress up. Doesn't actually do great with the cold and needs to wear fancy little boots in the snow.

And oops! They're wearing matching cream-coloured sweaters. It was totally an accident.

[meinqiwu]

girl who is going to be okay vs girl who has seen the horrors