The Terror recs post?

[thewrongkindofpc]

So my horror-watching buddies and I finally got around to The British Navy Is A Nightmare: Icecapades Edition, a.k.a. The Terror, and strixalba and I had a whole spiral into the fanworks and fandom experience. We were explaining to the rest of Unofficial Horror Club that while tossing links back and forth is a blast, the things we were there for were, to put it mildly, a bit different, and we resolved to put together our significantly different recs lists. Here's mine.



Why save the best for last when you can start there? My favorite series of art that I've seen is the AU where the various factions of the ships are in heavy metal bands, found HERE, and one where Silna is, HERE. I am especially fond of the Mutineers band pics with Hickey's scheming little rat face.

HERE is another pretty art of the horrible rat bastard cannibal.

HERE is some truly gorgeous art for a Moby Dick AU fic I have not read.

Ros&Guil comparion is VERY APROPOS

Some fun memes:
-Is my human suffering sexy enough for you, God?
-Basically just a canon scene
-How To Impress Him Even Though He Sucks
-I LIVED IT, Some Men Had A Conversation Near Me (someone save Silna from this horrible show)
-This guy from In The Flesh is clearly picking his roles specifically for horrible endings
-made of hubris
-Relationship Goals: This Couple Broke Up!

Some more thoughtful meta/text posts:

-On the poetic symbolism of scurvy
-zooming in on a character I mostly didn't notice in the show
-Yes, I'm putting this one on the More Thoughtful Text Posts list
-this one now lives in my head rent-free





Tidings of Comfort and Joy
Pairings: Thomas Armitage/Sgt Solomon Tozer Captain Francis Crozier/James Fitzjames William Gibson/Cornelius Hickey
Summary: Iced in for their first winter, the ships put on Christmas theatricals at Beechey. Presents are given - romances blossom - and Mr Dickens offers some unanticipated struggles.

another new world (an academia verse)
Pairings: Thomas Jopson/Lt Edward Little, Lt Edward Little/Sgt Solomon Tozer, Cornelius Hickey/Sgt Solomon Tozer, Thomas Hartnell/Lt John Irving, Thomas Armitage/Solomon Tozer
AU where they're in academia in various kinds of study of the poles. Beautiful writing, interesting spinning out of the minor characters into something layered and fascinating, interesting reinterpretation of the show's takes on class as a factor within an imperialist structure.

something hot in a cold country
Pairing: Thomas Armitage/Sgt Solomon Tozer
as the tag says, if woobifying these crusty cannibals is wrong i don't wanna be right

Comments

[strixalba]

Ooooh that observation about the poetic symbolism of What Kills Fitzjames is so on-point! So much of my brain gets occupied by how horrific scurvy is that I forgot to contextualize it within the characters' lives and arcs.