#joplittle fic

[maedhrus]

you start thinking of edward little as a girl dad once and it literally does not stop

[oughtnots]

my art for the reverse bang this year! these illustrations are for @derry-rain's amazing fic, barghest. please go check it out!!

[fredoesque]

“Ah, Jopson.” Edward tries to smile. “You needn’t call me ‘Captain’. I’m a lieutenant yet, merely—that is—you needn’t.”

“It’s common courtesy, sir, when a man has command of a ship.” Jopson doesn’t look like a man who has just lost a friend. He doesn’t look like a man who hasn’t slept in three days. He looks like a steward, with his hands steady and his head bowed.

Edward envies his composure, pities his composure, cannot, must not look at his eyes.

Or: on New Year’s Eve, 1847, Francis Crozier dies. All told, it changes very little.

finally posted my joplittle break-it (opposite of a fix-it)!!

[alxiet]

uhhhm I read TRULY FASCINATING fic https://archiveofourown.gay/works/30378480/chapters/74892135 by @longstoryshortikilledhim and it completely changed my brain chemistry so I made this joplittle sketch some time ago

[abrahamvanhelsings]

i think edward little would be great at emails actually. i think he'd love having to opportunity to think abt what he needs to say and formulate it well and concisely. i think he'd write perfectly ok emails, to the point but polite enough not to be blunt. in normal circumstances he'd receive normal emails and write normal replies and it would be fine. the problem in terror is that he keeps getting increasingly upsetting emails from his boss and they're all no-reply

[lieutenant-catboy-little]

self rec

@fightthesun tagged me to do a fic author self rec, and list my five favorite works of my own. tyyy love

Performance, ned/crozier, rated E, 1,152 words

toxic boss!crozier/employee!ned w praise kink and exhibitionism. i'm always crazy abt ned and crozier and really enjoy their dynamic here and how grimy this fic feels.

I'm always getting lost, solittle, rated E, 9,607 words (5 chapters)

technically ned/tozer but mostly a story abt ned growing up asexual. i'm ace and i always want more and better ace representation and I'm pretty pleased with ned's journey in this one AND someone told me it made them have a good conversation with a friend which is the ultimate praise for a fic like this.

I'll just give you me, solittle, rated E, 2,139 words

solittle knights which is a VERY important solittle au to me, feat. nedner and some bittersweet romance. I just think their roles feel very natural here, the setting is very dreamy, and the intimacy is fitting and hot.

The Work Happy, joplittle, rated E, 2,003 words

canon era nedner and some spicy roleplay. another one where I feel like the dialogue and sex flow naturally and ned and tom get to have a very sweet and bittersweet moment at the end where I lay down some of my nedner thesis.

The Surviving of Wind and Water, queerplatonic nedving, rated E, 1,403 words

some lowkey canon era nedving after a long day. i really like that this story is very soft and quiet, and the sex isn't explosive but still loving and familiar; i think it feels real emotionally and grounded in the setting. it's also a bit of my nedving manifesto.

i'll tag @manicpixiedreamjop, @charlesdesvoeux, @moghraidhs, @recliquary, and @thedailylifeofafailedvodkaaunt if any of you want to do it any capacity!

[heronmare]

sharing my new fic here for all the other joplittle enthusiasts out there:

Fandom: The Terror (2018)

Relationships: Thomas Jopson/Edward Little, Edward Little & Francis Crozier, Thomas Jopson & Francis Crozier

Words: 5.8K

Tags: everybody dies/nobody lives, hurt/very little comfort, character study through religious symbolism

Summary:

When they leave the men behind, Edward Little turns back.

[tylered-up-in-blue]

calling all freaks and friends I have mentioned before that I'm writing a (very loose, more generally Wildean) Importance of Being Earnest AU (yes, it is called The Importance of Being Frank -courtesy of @aziracrowbrain) and it WILL be ridiculous! I am loving it though and am aiming to get the first chapters out by the end of the week

in the meantime I'm gonna post the chapter titles because I think they are funny.

1: letters and hats and other such modern troubles.

2: those who are not husband hunting are avoiding their husbands

3: NOW ANNOUNCING: LADY MARIA, ANGEL OF THE EQUATOR!

4: i am sure there is a proverb about drink and revelations

5: sewing seeds is a morbid ordeal when one is no successful farmer

6: It seems everyone is happily in love but me

7: only for a Little while

8: is it quite polite to make merry at the wake?

 9: do I dare to wish for repair without repetition?

10: the truth -rarely pure and never simple

[ferylcheryl]

“Yes, Miss Little?”

Thora Jopson did not even turn to address the thin, mournful girl lurking behind the spinning magazine carousel. Only when Edie Little remained mute did she raise her gaze, the guarded marine serenity of it, from the goods beneath the glass.

Edie knew it was a ruse. Thora had no interest in the bright array before her, neither the thin dazzle of the paste jewelry nor the driving gloves draped over each other like birds’ wings, neither the collar stays nor the cufflinks nor—shudder to think—the ghastly porcelain figurines of drunkards or donkeys or cherub-cheeked boys sitting on fences. She simply had too good of taste. But just as Thora had pretended to be so absorbed in browsing that she had not noticed Edie until now, it was now Edie’s turn to confect some excuse to be there. She grabbed a random magazine from the rack and held it out.

“I just popped in for… this.”

“Astonishing Planet?”

Edie looked down at the cover, which featured a brunette in a metal breastplate grappling with a leering, tentacled Martian.

“Y-yes,” she nodded. “For Miss Tozer.”

“Is Miss Tozer aware that such material is contraband?”

Edie frowned. “I… hadn’t thought of that.”

“I won’t tell.” She crossed her arms and smiled in her close-mouthed way. Then, when Edie continued just to stand there: “Well? Are you getting it or not?”

Thora had a way of seeming to dismiss you each time she turned away again, and by the time she was finished with her own purchases—gray thread, stamps, a tin of rose balm—Edie wasn’t sure if she remembered she was there. Edie paid for the magazine and a pack of Old Golds and peeped out the storefront window to see if Thora had waited. Yes, there she was, facing away. Navy wool peacoat, collar turned up to almost touch the dark gloss of her low chignon. She was, Edie realized miserably, speaking with someone.

Read more of lesbian Joplitzier here:

[maedhrus]

Edward Little wears a wedding ring. It is plain gold, well cleaned. But he makes no mention of this vague ghost of Mrs Little, not even her name. Edward and Thomas arrive in the Arctic already married.

thanks to the mcnulty bts photo and @unrealwasteland please help yourselves to some joplittle "they've been married the entire time" agenda

[manicpixiedreamjop]

Relationship: Thomas Jopson/Edward Little

Word count: 6,966 (nice)

Rating: E

Summary: Edward likes Van Diemen’s Land — likes the weather and the wildlife and the break from the society of London. He likes the Franklins as well, even if they can be a bit overbearing, and Lady Jane can treat him a bit more like a child than the man of one and thirty years that he is.

He would have found a way to be happy here, he thinks, were it not for the arrival of the Ross expedition.

It is not the expedition specifically, he supposes. He misses the Navy, though he’s still not entirely sure whether it’s the Navy itself he misses or the structure and camaraderie that came with it, but this new yearning he feels has nothing to do with the Navy and everything to do with Captain Crozier’s steward, a young, dark haired man with the most enchanting pale eyes Edward has ever seen.

A canon era AU with a little exhibitionism and a lot of sub top Ned/power bottom Tom

[boogiewoogieweeb]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Terror (TV 2018) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Thomas Jopson/Edward Little Characters: Thomas Jopson, Edward Little (1811-c.1848), Solomon Tozer Additional Tags: Fluff and Humor, Crack Treated Seriously, Getting Together, Meet-Weird (Like a Meet-Cute but with Cryptid Energy), Retail Worker Ned Summary:

Red Jumper scans a bag of grated cheddar, waits just long enough for the total to pop up on the screen, and then promptly tears the bag open, reaches in, and stuffs a handful of cheese into his mouth with all the gusto of a starved gerbil.

Ned’s aware he’s staring.

There are a lot of things you get used to, working the closing shift at your local Tesco’s. Watching a man devour shredded cheese at the self-checkout, as Ned Little discovers, is not one of them.

[rahabs]

Anyway, I do want the lovely joplittle folks to know that these two still have me by the throat and I have several fics I intend to release for them, but I am migrating all my work to a new writing program after a few of them got corrupted/partially lost when trying to fight with Scrivener's terrible migrating/syncing and MS Word's terrible... everything. So once I stop mourning for "the lost ones", as it were, and my WIPs have been moved over to Ulysses (ease of syncing due to how often I switch between the computer and my iPad), I'll be finishing up some of my projects (Captain Little, a scrimshaw sequel, the last few thousand words of another Beggar's Knowledge-type fic, etc) c:

[abrahamvanhelsings]

for the ship asks: joplittle? i know i'm opening pandora's box with this

if someone already asked, then going for any other ned ship you might also like? choose freely my friend

AUGH my beloveds!! ill try not to make this a whole essay so ill point out a couple of things that i love about them at random

the way they interact with each other on screen has me obsessed. i wrote a post a bit ago about how we don't see them talk much together but they have a lot of potential anyway, and then @cinematicnomad made a great point about the fact that they DO interact but a lot it is nonverbal. honestly that opened my eyes to so much little things i hadn't noticed before. that they communicate through glances and gestures and that they understand each other, know each other well enough to have that kind of interaction... they may be background characters and we may not see the progression of their relationship much, but we can tell that it happens, and that they become close. you can tell that being in that precarious situation together, where crozier's alcoholism is affecting the entire expedition but it also has to be kept a secret, and they're the two people who know, and who are responsible for crozier/everything else, that really created a very tight bond between them.

speaking of tight friendships! we can tell that it happens bc edward, famously, is SO happy when jopson is made lieutenant. everyone at that table thinks it's deserved, and is happy for jopson, but edward is a beam of sunlight in that tent. genuinely can't stop smiling. it's so so lovely to me that he can't contain his own glee bc he's so glad and proud. get you a man who applauds your successes like edward little

there are so many ways their personalities fit together so well!! they're both extremely diligent in their duties, but it plays out differently in them both, and they both have different weaknesses. they're the type of people who are generally quiet and unobtrusive but steadfast and loyal, but where jopson tends to go sharp as a knife under pressure, edward always worries that he is doing the right thing (that's also bc for a large part of the expedition they have very different responsibilites and cares, but nevertheless). they're both guarded where it comes to showing their inner feelings, but it feels to me that jopson can provide a firmness, the assurance that edward needs to remain confident in who he is and what he does, whereas edward (once you've cracked him like an egg) has a warmth to him that can fold around jopson like a blanket, to let go of that tightly-controlled professionalism. each other's safety blankets, people who can mitigate the other's shortcomings, and provide space for their better qualities and their feelings to come to full bloom.

lower class/higher class dynamic is a weakness of mine. any fic that has thomas being a steward/valet to edward in any capacity with the victorian slow burn mutual pining/mutual 'he is to good for me' has me on my knees

[lieutenant-catboy-little]

please enjoy my offerings for the p!atc server's valentines fest, now that i've finished all of them *checks watch* almost two months late :> monsterfucker ned featuring horsecock

some sweet nedving (and hodge!) qpr goodness

it's ned's turn with the costume trunk dress gender

trans ned finally gets what he deserves (well-fucked)

[vandrawsing]

Show me where my skin begins— a joplittle fic written by @hypallepse for the 2023 edition of @theterrorbigbang.

In which Jopson hunts down renegade wolfskin-bearers for Captain Crozier. But this time the beast he has been sent to capture does not seem so monstrous. Illustrations (and spoilers) below the cut.

Chapter 1 — Suddenly, the beast moved. Its dark eyes went from the water directly to Thomas.

Chapter 4 — You battle until you get bitten.

Chapter 7 — He couldn’t tell the voices apart, just as he couldn’t tell whose skin was whose, where Thomas started, and Edward began