#NOT A DRILL THIS TIME

[charliemack]

CONSUMED

A Terror Sci-Fi AU  |  Part of The Terror Big Bang 2022

Featuring artwork by @oughtnots​

The remains of the Discovery Ship Terebus are found in a region of space where they’re not supposed to be. A region of space where nothing is supposed to be.

Per navy protocol the ship has consumed itself in an attempt to generate enough power to keep the crew - locked in stasis - alive until they can be rescued. After over twenty years there’s almost nothing left of it. Only seven pods out of 24 remain.

Seven men, trapped inside their dreams.

Stasis is meant as measure of last-resort to hold out a few weeks. Months at most. Not decades. After so long the minds inside those bodies might be empty. They might be insane.

If the truth of what went wrong with the Terebus and its mission is ever going to become known, someone will have to try to coax the survivors back into the waking world. A trusted friend. A kind and handsome face.

Sir James Clark Ross is an old man now, and fragile. Fate has given him one final chance to save the friends who sailed away without him into the dark, all those years ago. He has to try.

34,567 words  |  Rated M for horror, violence, and character deaths

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Rating:

Mature

Archive Warnings

Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Major Character Death

Category:

M/M

Fandom:

The Terror (TV 2018)

Relationships:

Francis Crozier/James Clark Ross

Francis Crozier/James Fitzjames

Ann Coulman Ross/James Clark Ross

Francis Crozier/Ann Coulman Ross/James Clark Ross

Graham Gore/Henry T. D. Le Vesconte

John Bridgens/Henry "Harry" Peglar

John Irving/Solomon Tozer

William Gibson/Cornelius Hickey

Characters:

Harry D. S. Goodsir

James Clark Ross

Lady Silence | Silna (The Terror)

Ann Coulman Ross

Thomas Jopson

John Bridgens

Netsilik Shaman | Silna's Father (The Terror)

Edward Little (1811-c.1848)

John Franklin (1786-1847)

James Fitzjames (1813-c.1848)

Francis Crozier

Graham Gore

Henry T. D. Le Vesconte

Henry Foster Collins

William Gibson (1823-c.1848)

Edmund Hoar

Thomas Armitage

Thomas Blanky

John Irving (1815-c.1848)

George Henry Hodgson

Stephen S. Stanley

Solomon Tozer

Henry "Harry" Peglar

William Heather (1810-c.1848)

Cornelius Hickey

Additional Tags:

Alternate Universe - Space

Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies

Doomed Expedition

Dreams and Nightmares

Androids

android stewards specifically

Cyborgs

cyborg marines specifically

The Royal Navy

IN SPACE!

Exploration

Adventure

Horror

unreality

Established Relationship

Developing Relationship

Trans Character

Non-Linear Narrative

Orange Catholic Bible

Kobayashi Maru

Jopson wants to be a Real Boy

Cornelius Hickey the murderous AI

Endgame Fitzier

Endgame Rossier?

Ann Coulman is a delight

Edward Little and his thousand certifications

Goreconte but make it sad

Like - REALLY sad

#NOT A DRILL THIS TIME #this is the fic for real #come read about COLD BOYS IN SPAAAACE #some of them even don't die! #imagine #the terror #amc the terror #the terror big bang #the terror big bang 2022 #the terror fanfic #the terror fanfiction #space au #sci fi au #the terror consumed

[ash-and-starlight]

and i’ll do anything you say (if you say it with your hands) chapter 10

“You came looking for me,” Sokka says. Zuko’s already soft eyes melt further.

“Of course I came looking for you,” he says. Like it’s obvious. Like it doesn’t knock the earth off its axis.

For a second, Sokka forgets about the pain, past and present. All he feels is a treacherous bubble of hope – inside his chest, under his skin, stuck in his throat.

or read it from the beginning if you haven’t

#id in alt text #HAPPY AIDAYS UPDATE EVERYONE #thIS IS NOT A DRILL #Alexxxx i don’t even have words thank you for the honor the pleasure the privilege of making art for your fic #THEE fic of all time even #ty for trusting me with your baby and WITH THIS SCENE IN PARTICULAR #ALREADY GOING CRAZAYYYY INSANE #ik i will die after reading the new ch so enjoy this last art b4 i go six feet under #sokka #zuko #zukka #fic rec #my art

[flyingbunniesart]

Had a sudden brainworm about both of them in cowboy outfits.... western AU klapollo.... hooo boi

[KOFI]

#my art #klapollo #apollo x klavier #klavier gavin #apollo justice #ace attorney #OLD TOWN ROAD PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND #save a horse etc etc you know the drill #im soooo happy with apollos hair in these ones. i usually have a hard time drawing him

[redysetdare]

A character looks straight into the camera and says "I'm not interested in romance" and people will still say "No, it's not confirmed they're aromantic!!!" "They could change their mind!!!" "it's a challenge for them to overcome!!!" "They'll have character development that makes them fall in love"

It's like they are given the most blatant answer to a character romantic orientation and they actively ignore it. all the while all it takes is subtext for people to speak as if it is fact for a character to be any other sexuality.

#text #yes I'm calling out the hypocrisy within queer readings of a text and how often people dont see aromanticism as queer #and thus they will hear a blatant omission that a character is aromantic and still say it is not enough #mean while a character saying 'im not interested in the opposite gender' is rightfully taken as the character being queer #the queer community hates aspec characters because they don't match their perfect idea of sex sex relationships as being peak queerness #aphobia #aro #aromantic #aspec #aroace #im sorry but n oit isn't a difference of opinion if you blatantly ignore a character outright saying 'im not into this' #like y'all complain abt ppl turning gay ppl straight but will defend ppl erasing aro identities all the time #fandoms will throw a fit if you ship gay characters in straight relationships but ppl shit aro characters and we r told to shut up #im so fucking tired of this bs #I will keep complaining and keep calling this shit out #until it is drilled into ur skulls that you are being APHOBIC becaue WHAT? You want to REALLLLLY SHIP a character? #Because you'll die if you dont??? #fuck man just say you hate aspec ppl and move on #it's easier than dealing with your 'im not aphobic ur being unfair i supposed aspec people really' bs

[pancakemolybdenum]

@josuyasuweek-2024 day 2: sleepover / festival or matsuri / childhood friends

cheating at games for children. together <3

#josuyasu #josuyasu week #josuyasu week 2024 #was debating back and forth on whether they would wear yukata or regular clothes at festival but in the end yukata is just more fun #even if im having a hard time not making it look like a bathrobe #maybe its bc my dad owns a bathrobe with p much the same pattern as okuyasus and i just associate it with that #um anyway #be gay do crimes you know the drill #lovisas art #josuke higashikata #okuyasu nijimura

[tervaneula]

NEW ARM BAYBEEEEE

Thought that enough time has passed since the update and this isn't a big spoiler anymore :D

(The prosthetic might be a lot sleeker than Leonardo deserves but Donnie designed it and he's a fourteen-year-old who is very much into the Rule Of Cool so that's what we get)

#the look of his socket changes every time I draw it lmao maybe one day I'll settle for a design I like #rottmnt #rottmnt fanart #rise of the tmnt #rise leonardo #future leonardo #future leo #peepaw leo #peepaw multiverse #nqk #not quite kintsugi #tervdraws #i love the drill that's just for hero poses donnie is SO EXTRA

[mrtequilasunset]

BOOM! Hear the Bass go zoom !

(based on this pic of Aqua)

#disco elysium #the speedfreaks #acele berger #noid #andre #egghead #dj crazy times #ms biljana electronica #planet of the bass #doing this reminded me i had a massive fixation on aqua when i was a kid #their music videos were my cocomelon shit #im not the first to do this but im crazy abt the concept #click for better quality yk the drill #pete andre #my art

[spooksicl-e]

various personal references for funzies!

mockups refs for various war wound circumstances ^^

#do not look to these if you want accuracy! #i did my research and took my own creative liberties when illustrating the scarring patterns #analyzing john watson’s scars as an excuse to practice anatomy has been my best friend lately #not strictly brett and burke/hardwicke but they will always influence my victorian designs! #also used peter cushing!holmes as a reference this time around as an experiment:D #enough yapping sorry!!! #my art #the @ is my insta #didn’t include @s in some of these so just don’t use or steal you know the drill #art #fanart #fanartist #sherlock holmes #john watson #sherlock #johnlock #bbc sherlock #acd holmes #acd #victorian holmes #watsholmes #gen #martin freeman #sherlock fanart #sherlock holmes fanart #granada holmes #granada #scars #scar #scarring

[just-gay-thoughts]

Pro tip for any new or soon to be new college kids: don't fucking pull the fire alarm, easy way to make enemies

#gay thoughts #went off 4 times yesterday (only one planned as a fire drill) #and now at fucking 8am its going off

[gay-otlc]

Shoutout to queer men who are sexually attracted to women whether you be straight transmascs, mspec men, straight aroallo men, straight acespec men who experience some sexual attraction, or any other identity I forgot to mention. Your attraction to women isn't creepy or predatory or objectifying or misogynistic, it's just attraction and it's morally neutral and you don't deserve to be shamed for it. That's all, have a nice day.

#transhet #mspec #aroallo #queerhet #pride tag #queer #yall know the drill. i feel bad about something? time for aggressive positivity posts

[art-that-fucks-you-up-tournament]

SET ONE - ROUND ONE - MATCH ONE

"Lament for Icarus" (2020 - Miao He) / "Lament for Icarus" (1898 - Herbert Draper)

MIAO HE: [no additional commentary provided]

HERBERT DRAPER: It is a sad picture, yes, but mainly it fills me with some kind of melancholy and calmness. The golden colours, still speaking of the sun, his apparently unhurt body, brown and human in contrast to the white nereids... He seems like he's sleeping and maybe he's finally happy and free :') (stardoused)

(Miao He's painting is a digital piece done in 2020 as a new take on the original piece from 1898. you can find Miao He's artstation here!

Herbert Draper was an English painter who painted this piece in 1898. "Lament for Icarus" is an oil on canvas painting that's currently owned by Tate Britain, a free to visit art gallery located in London. The piece is 180cm x 150cm (5.9ft x 4.9 ft)!)

#art that fucks you up tournament #polls #atfyu polls #id in alt text #REAL BRACKET POLLS THIS IS NOT A DRILL #it's icarus v icarus time which one flew closer to the sun #cw nudity

[dailyedgeworth]

today, kristoph in 10a and sound of crying!!! for @aramanna <333

#this is the first time ive drawn kris i think!!!! #and i dont draw klavier with the drill so it's been a long time for that too haha #kristoph gavin #ace attorney #aa4

[bluespiritshonour]

Thinking about how popular Mai would've been if she were a boy. Like, can you imagine?people would've swooned over her like they swoon over, idk, Jet—it just occured to me that I like her because she's so unconventional for a female character.

Girls like Mai exist in real world—but women are rarely allowed to be complex and three dimensional and grey in fiction.

I would argue that Mai is a grey character; she did start out as Azula's lackey. And well, that's a fictional girl; I found her apathy stan-worthy.

I love that she constantly has a bitch face. She cracks dry/dark jokes. Wears black. Is mysterious and stoic. Does everything she can to disregard authority/even though she's not confrontational about it. (There's one difference. Bad boys are usually very confrontational).

All these characteristics exist in popular male characters. (Except for one thing that I've noticed: most of these “bad boy” characters are volatile and yet, are described as broody/stoic, like, dude. That ain't stoic, that's so emotional.)

So yeah. Coming back to Mai. Imagine if she were a boy.

A boy who's apathetic and has no passion for anything. A boy who's constantly bored/a thrill-seeker/has nothing he cares about. A boy who has a shutter for a face and rarely expresses himself, is amazing with knives and hand-to-hand combat and is gloomy.

There's nothing he cares about because caring gets people hurt and everyone wants something and is two-faced so it's safe to be a mask of indifference. Until—hold on—until he meets a passionate, hot-headed girl who's ✨ different ✨and if not anything, wears her heart on her sleeve/is an open book...

Yes, I'm talking about Zuko.

...and oh, oh, would you look at that? Now he has something to fight for!

I mean, for Mai, Zuko (after Ty Lee) is the only other person in front of whom she can be herself.

Reminds me of “he's only nice to her” trope. Sorry.

“You're so beautiful when you hate the world.”

“I don't hate you.”

Just imagine Mai as a boy. People would eat it up. They don't like her 'cause she's a girl.

#mai #atla mai #avatar the last airbender #in defense of mai #i just felt like word vomiting #even zuko is described as broody #as if he wasn't constantly #and i mean CONSTANTLY #incapable of not expressing himself #plus mai was more apolitical than zuko #zuko was an active part of FN imperialism #and while mai did help azula #she always chose the path of least resistance #cue azula drilling a hole into ba sing se's wall #in what would be a historic victory for FN #and mai being like ew #azula can kill me later im not jumping in a drain #again not defending mai for helping azula #which is why i say she is a grey character #she's also a side character and hence did not get as much care/screen time as #say #someone like zuko

[majimasleftasscheek]

we here at Majima Construction

#yes bbygirl drill some shit or whatever 👀 #see also every time goromi bends over #yakuza #ryu ga gotoku #majima goro #my art #suggestive

[room-of-lies]

someone get him a washcloth!!! cooties!!!

#not ship yall know the drill #nao egokoro #shin tsukimi #yttd #your turn to die #vivi art time #kimi ga shine

[field-guide-to-mud]

i'd fit all my joys and pleasures in one perfect day

#junk journal #scrapbooking #my photos #craft #insects #bugs #bug art #dragonfly #mudposting #yall know the drill its ramble time #this was the VERY first page i ever made #updated to be more busy and fun and full #it started super simple #just a bit of a test to see if i even liked junk journalling #and i did!! #i liked it so much!! #i added the photo and some other stickers and whatnot just recently #but it was always dragonfly themed #yknow i started with pretty minimal supplies #and ive since built up that supplies massively #and still growing i have a problem lol 😅 #anyways #i hope yall love this one too cuz its probably the most important to me as a memory of how i got into this craft