#thomas reads the terror

[leadandblood]

"Rosy-cheeked lisping pet poodle Fitzjames" oh my god😭 stop slandering the poor man like that. I mean you're right, but-

[cockroachesunite]

Here’s the whole thing! (Including the bit of dialogue right before my canon divergence for context)

The End (?)

Original format ☞ (part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4) (part 5)

[laissezferre]

favorite bits from the terror screenplay, 11/?

[cashmere-caveman]

when u are a guy who is super normal about his boss and also his boss' wannabe arch-nemesis (more terror text post memes)

[royaielfroot]

reform your behavior

my artworks for the 2024 the terror reverse bang, made together with @uneassasymphonie who wrote this fic while i made these drawings, ensuring at least a bit more jopson and irving content in the fandom 🖤 thank you so much reece & a big thank you to the mods @theterrorreversebang for hosting.

[awhbeans]

I'm so pleased to reveal my collab with @capricioustube for this round of The Terror Reverse Bang! You want a light romance? A little angst? A full reincarnation AU with Crozier and Jopson as modern day archeologists returning to King William Island to bring home their dead? This baby's got it all!

[oughtnots]

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

[jellyfishhugger]

James' smile was wan and sympathetic. "That was an extraordinarily strange introduction to this business. You were entirely correct though, Francis, I was completely out of my depth there. Trapped in some basement with a horrific creature."

"If I remember correctly," Francis replied. "You held your own quite well given the number of tentacles."

what if a supernatural beast injured me gravely and you had to take my mind off it by telling me strange and intriguing tales of a world uknown... and we were james fitzjames and francis crozier? 😳🫣😳

my two illustrations for the fantastic(al) fic "Beyond Belief" by Jellyfax, prepared as a part of the @theterrorreversebang!

[marypickfords]

The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (Lawrence Gordon Clark, 1974)

“‘The Treasure of Abbot Thomas’ (1974) is the most ripping mystery of the bunch, starring Michael Bryant as a theologian who teams up with a young posh protégé to try to uncover a treasure allegedly hidden on the Abbey grounds. Bathed in blue and black hues, with the chameleonic Bryant practically unrecognizable from both Girly and The Stone Tape in the years previous, the adaptation moves the action from Germany to Somerset’s Wells Cathedral where it incorporates the famous 14th century stained glass 'Jesse Window' as part of the mystery. [...] The stained glass operates as something of a map, with clues leading to the Abbot’s treasure, which (as in A Warning to the Curious) is guarded by a supernatural being” — Kier-La Janisse, from Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television (2017).

[leadandblood]

another angry Jopson sketch! (literally don't worry abt it)

[fate-motif]

anyone want to hear about my selkie manson fic that i outlined but never wrote

[saints-who-never-existed]

Rereading The Terror

Two short chapters combined for you today, each more gut-wrenching than the last!

Chapter Fifty-Five: Goodsir

Goodsir's first few days in the Mutineer Camp have not been pleasant, needless to say. He begins describing Hickey as The Devil and the other men as an "Infernal Legion" celebrating with a "Feast of Human Flesh" after the confrontation with Crozier.

There are a few familiar and unexpected faces within that 'infernal legion' including Billy Orren, John Morfin, and Billy Gibson, all very much still living so far. Interestingly, several of the Mutineers are still actively resisting the descent into cannibalism - Morfin and Hodgson most notably - but Goodsir suspects they won't be able to hold out much longer - "the smell of Roasting Human Flesh is Horribly Enticing".

Just like the main party, the Mutineers also appear to have found leads in the ice. 17 men pile into a boat only meant for 8 and begin to paddle northward but it's clear quickly that they cannot continue to do so for long, and it's not because of the leads themselves: "I Heard Hickey and Aylmore whispering after we landed to pitch Tents this Evening - they made Little Effort to lower their Voices. Someone will have to go. ...now that they do not need Man-haulers, which Men will be Sacrificed to the Food stores so that the boat can be Lightened for tomorrow's Sailing?"

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Chapter Fifty-Six: Jopson

Oh gang... I'm afraid this is it...!

Jopson doesn't understand. He doesn't fully understand what's happening to his body anymore - why his teeth and hair are falling out and he's bleeding from every orifice. And he doesn't understand why he's being left behind on this, his literal birthday: "...but he was not an old man. He was thirty-one years old today and they were leaving him behind to die on his birthday." :(((

He has just enough wherewithal to smell the roasting of the seal meat Des Voeux's men brought back to camp, and to note the stream of men visiting his tent, unwilling to show their faces but leaving behind a pile of mouldy ships biscuits for him "like so many white rocks in preparation for his burial."

Jopson can only really protest in his own head - against the men and their actions and, interestingly, against Crozier... "Hadn't he stayed by Captain Crozier's side a hundred times during the captain's illnesses and moody low points and outright bouts of drunkenness? Hadn't he quietly, uncomplainingly, like the good steward he was, hauled pails of vomit from the captain's cabin in the middle of the night and wiped the Irish drunkard's arse when he shat himself in his fever delirium? Perhaps that's why the bastard is leaving me to die." Good Christ if that thought doesn't actually fucking destroy me! It's not even the idea of doing all that for someone and it somehow not being good enough, it's almost as if it was too good instead. Like something about reaching that level of intimacy being too unbearable in some way and somehow being the thing that dooms him? Ooh lordy I'm unwell... :(((

Soon enough, Jopson's birthday becomes more surreal and yet more literal as his crawling from the tent is described almost like labour, like an actual birth - "He had grown used to the canvas-filtered dim light and stuffy air of his tent-womb that this openness and glare made his lungs labour and filled his squinted-shut eyes with tears."

Crawling over food - "brought to him as if he were some damned pagan idol or sacrificial offering to the gods" - Jopson exits the tent which all too quickly fades into the fog behind him so he can't go back, and tries to shout after the departing men.

He's so weak but so utterly utterly desperate that he even tries to use his fucking chin to drag himself along the ground when his arms fail him. But of course it's not enough. Just like that, the departing men are gone. "It was as if they had never existed."

[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

[dance-magic-dance]

38% through the terror and I just want to know is dan simmons okay??

[hacash]

NOPE

NO

LITERALLY INCAPABLE OF SNARKY COMMENTARY FOR THIS

IF I DON’T ACKNOWLEDGE IT ITS NOT A PLOT POINT

KAJGANICH CAN’T MAKE ME

LA LA LA

ABSOLUTELY NOT

IT DIDN’T HAPPEN

[moviesandmania]

THE TERROR OF HALLOW'S EVE - reviews - free on Freevee, Plex, Roku

The Terror of Hallow’s Eve is a 2017 supernatural horror film directed and co-produced by Todd Tucker from a screenplay written by Zack Ward (Bethany; Circus Kane; Restoration), based on a story by Ronald L. Halvas and Todd Tucker. The Illusion Industries/Quixotic production stars Caleb Thomas, Sarah Lancaster, Annie Read, JT Neal, Mcabe Gregg, Niko Papastefanou, Doug Jones, Kent Kasper, Christie…