#billy orren?

[nomilkinmyteaplease]

10 little sailors

Ten little sailors were drinking wine, one coughed up some blood and then there were nine. 

Nine little sailors tried to rescue a mate, one drowned in the sea and then there were eight.

Eight little sailors talked about Heaven, one fell into a hole and then there were seven. 

Seven little sailors were cleaning candlesticks, one set himself on fire and then there were six. 

Six little sailors tried to stay alive, one ran into a knife and then there were five.

Five little sailors felt a little sore, one ingested poison and then there were four. 

Four little sailors said “What will be will be”, one walked out into nothingness and then there were three. 

Three little sailors were eating a shoe, one died of scurvy and then there were two.

Two little sailors ran to grab a gun, one charged a giant bear and then there was one.

One little sailor sat under the sun. He tried to challenge the bear…

And then there were none.

The World’s most Perilous of Corners, aka 10 little Sailors

For @theterrorbingo prompt The World’s most Perilous of Corners

#theterrorbingo #the terror #the terror amc #cornelius hickey #solomon tozer #david young #john bridgens #james fitzjames #stephen stanley #George Irving #sir john franklin #billy orren? #my stuff #theterrorbingo2023

[laststandx3]

round 2 of

*not strictly a "how do you imagine you'd die" question. Can be also read as "how do you wish to die". Just know that in this 1845 expedition you WILL die, so choose wisely.

#the terror #how would you die poll - 2nd edition (a bit darker than the 1st) #they die in SO many ways #francis crozier #john bridgens #james fitzjames #tuunbaq #billy orren #thomas blanky #henry goodsir #tom hartnell #john morphin #billy gibson #solomon tozer #stephen stanley #cornelius hickey #jacko #magnus manson #mags tummy hurt when he died and he didn't deserve it #i need you all to know that 'ardently' comes from latin 'ardere' = 'to burn'

[multiiocular-mushroom]

and not one atom of happiness

is destined to spin eternally.

#the terror #the terror amc #henry collins #billy orren #digital art #glorified screenshot redraw that turned into your usual stuff about being doomed by the narrative #(still wanted to draw collins smiling) #krita #artists on tumblr

[saints-who-never-existed]

Still thinking about Collins and his relationship with identity and responsibility.

Like, it's so SO important to him right from the start.

That's not just any faceless seamen down in the water.

BILLY ORREN. THAT'S WHO IT IS.

A real human being. That's who it is.

A real human being whose safety I was responsible for and who I have now, through no fault of my own, failed in my duty towards. THAT'S WHO IT IS.

I think it comes out later in his conversation with Goodsir a bit too.

My nose and my stomach, they don't know horrible from supper... BUT I DO. I DO!

I'm still a real human being. That's who I am.

A real human being who knows right from wrong and is trying so very hard to do the former. That's who I am.

A real human being who is not only clinging white-knuckled to his sanity but to his humanity too. THAT'S WHO I AM.

#Guess who's been reading the scripts agaaaaiiinn?! #This guy! #The Terror #The Terror AMC #Henry Foster Collins #Billy Orren #This turned into a proper ramble as usual #Nevertheless I stand by it

[necromcom]

ID: screenshots of characters from AMC's The Terror with text posts pasted over them.

1) Edward Little with a post by katebushdressedasabat that says "any one else in here a man of constant sorrow" 2) John and Jane Franklin with Jacko, with a post by oniongarlic that says "his wife has filled his house with chimps" 3) Thomas Jopson with a post by jsuh that says "we jumped, we popped, and oh boy (nostalgic chuckle) did we jop" 4) Billy Orren's body floating under the surface of the water with a text post by memorycycle that says "octopus 2022 wrapped / this year you disguised yourself as: coral 10023 times / ocean floor 8064 times / coconut shell 244 times / various fish 196 times / scuba divers long lost wife 12 times" 5) Henry Collins in the sickbay with a text post by moveslikekeithrichards that says "when i was a kid my Getting To Sleep technique was visualizing a child-sized shriveled up mummy with big piercing eyes that would stand silhouetted in the doorway & stare at me & probably attack if i so much as opened my eyes after getting into bed & this technique caused me to develop a lifelong nighttime-induced paranoia & it still takes me 2 hours to fall asleep. so i wouldnt recommend that"

end ID

doing my own october challenge where instead of drawing literally anything i make text post memes only with posts found that day on my dashboard or on my main from before the month started. here's day 1-5

#OcTerror #the terror #dot txt #graphic design is my burden #edward little #john franklin #thomas jopson #billy orren #henry collins

[meduseld]

Speaking of obsessing over a character so minor he was played by a stuntman to facilitate his near immediate on-screen death, to function as the symbolic herald of doom even more so that David Young, I’ve built up a Billy Orren in my head who is essentially “Hickey, but in the opposite direction”.

Or that is to say, older than the other ABs and very experienced, Billy is, like Hickey, actively hiding being gay and having a not so savory lower-class origin story and running off to sea to avoid it as well as deliberately ingratiating himself with command. The difference being, Billy’s no con-artist or proto-deserter. He’s truly good at his job and likes being at sea (and surrounded by men natch) as well as setting himself up as pointman between command and the ABs. He’s been here before, he knows it’s best. And unlike “everyone thinks he’s a freak even his friends”, everybody genuinely likes Billy. He’s extremely solid, reliable, a “brick to us boys”, dependable and easy to go to. Gets along with everyone, by design but without malice. 

Henry Collins is a mistake. Not at the start, he knows to get in good with the Second Master and quickly becomes his right hand man and that’s great that’s the damn plan, to have Collins think of him first, rely on him. But he doesn’t bank on liking Collins. Generally “not overly incompetent or too dickish” is the best you can hope for. But Collins. It’s just so easy to talk to him, to say things he didn’t plan on, to actually talk about himself when Billy’s usual trick is to get the others talking and nod along. Seem like you had a great convo, but reveal nothing and cultivate good feeling but no real connection with others. The thing is something between him and Collins’ clicks, and Collins actually listens and Billy, for once, dwells on the social barriers between them when he’s usually an accept and adapt sort of guy. He wants to be close to Collins, for real this time, and Collins seems to be into him back. Collins trusts him. And sends him up to teach a kid some becket bends and Billy never comes back. 

#oh no i hurt myself in my confusion #billy orren #william orren #henry collins #collins x orren #billy just wants to sail and not have to deal with feelings and shit gdi #the terror #the terror amc

[oughtnots]

terrortober day 2 - seaman

poor poor guy

#terrortober2022 #the terror #billy orren #the terror amc #art #my art #[intense gong sound]

[slashonmydash]

#happy valentine's day #the terror #the terror amc #fandom #once again I couldn't resist making terrorable valentines smh #comic sans valentines #billy orren #gets two because the poor lad is blurry every time we see him #thomas blanky #however just gets one because we all know he's hung #dundy #john franklin #slashonmydash

[solomon-tozer]

Terrortober 2022, 02: Seaman (Collins/Orren)

'That Seaman'

They're a world a part, Henry knows. Although they sail on the same ship, he and Billy Orren are too different to ever be considered alike. Their interactions are prescribed, determined by rank and class, and that, Henry tells himself, is that.

Which is why it feels so damn hard when their eyes meet, and Henry feels as if they ought to be together. There is something in Billy's gaze that makes the man feel like a companion to him, like someone he should know, should talk to without their station constricting them. He can tell the other man feels it too, his gaze lingering, something passing between them.

Perhaps, he tells himself, in the two or so years ahead, they will come to know each other more. Maybe, in dark corners, they will share stolen moments, and can be just two men enjoying each other's company. Perhaps the careful friendship that grows that first winter can blossom into something more.

Perhaps…

And then Billy falls.

And there's nothing more.

Prompt list / All my Terrortober 2022 fills.

#the terror amc #billy orren #henry foster collins #collins x orren #terrortober2022 #my writing #i wasn't going to do anything for today #but then 20 minutes ago i had A Thought #so here it is! highly unpolished because i just typed the thing out

[boilyerheid]

also for the game pls Billy OrrenxHenry Collins AU wher3 Billy lives somehow, amputations optional

Henry sneaks down after dinner, when the sickbay is quiet and the doctor on duty has long since turned a blind eye to his ingress like so much warm water. Billy's fourth finger lost the battle with frostbite today, leaving him with only the thumb on his bandage-swathed left hand, but Henry considers it a small price for his chest to still rise and fall beneath the blankets - the drugged stupor of the earlier amputation leaving him at peace, for now.

There's still a right hand to hold as he takes his customary seat by the sickbed, worn in over the long weeks since pulling his beloved from the frozen sea, and that must be enough.

#the terror fic #ask games #short fics #henry collins x billy orren

[abstractmelons]

1st episode of the terror when David Young starts coughing his guts up and Hickey just like frowns, frowns more, then gets up and walks away... its fucking hysterical to me

#my nonsense #i also love collins actually hes my baby girl #the way he wants to jump in to save billy orren #weeping #love u lamb chops #lamp chops no. 374639287 #i also think abt how much the lad playing little looks like gore......:::: #francis pouring himself a FULL GLASS #of whiskey im sk normallkk #j move h #actually #also actually crying #when i think #hlw crozier #called jcr #james dear #hyeah friendshipe tc etc making me cry #i love francis rm crozier a lot #fictionalised #and the real life man because i too am sad #and lonely

[johntorrington]

after a certain number of watches of the terror you start to notice des voeux and then you notice that he’s literally fucking everywhere and you just didn’t realize before.

billy orren’s death? des voeux was there. gore’s sledge party? there as well. goodsir and silna’s scene in the slop room? there. the mutiny? le vesconte getting his toes cut off? carnivale? you know charles frederick des voeux was there. and this isn’t even mentioning the countless scenes where he’s standing in the back of the shot looking bored and/or bitchy. this wretched weirdo is holding half the show on his back and only the most dedicated of terrorcels will ever notice.

#it’s not even like pilkington where he’s there a lot but he only speaks like twice #des voeux has LINES. #i just never processed that all of his scenes were like. the same guy #(circus music starts) #the terror

[charlesdesvoeux]

Hi my name is Charles Frederick Des Voeux and I have beautiful ebony black hair and warm brown eyes like hot chocolate and a lot of people tell me I look like James Fitzjames (AN: if u don't know who she is get da hell out of here!). I'm not related to James Fitzjames but I wish I was because he's a major fucking hottie. I'm a vampire but my teeth are straight and white. I have pale white skin. I'm also an officer in Her Majesty's Royal Navy, and I live in a ship called Erebus in the Arctic where I'm a second mate (I'm twenty-one). I'm a young gentleman (in case you couldn't tell) and I wear mostly blue. I love Savile Row and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a blue jacket with gold buttons and black cotton pants, grey stockings and black boots. I was walking on the deck. It was snowy and foggy so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. Billy Orren fell into the sea. I put up my middle finger at him.

#the terror #terrorposting #my immortal #charles des voeux #mine

[abrahamvanhelsings]

when orrens falls and collins tries to get to him so bad and des voeux is like 'naurr fam that sailor is dead' and collins goes 'that's billy orren'. like it's been over a year and still you have no idea who this is brother this man just did not care 💀

#like did he maybe not get a good view. perhaps. but i think it would be extremely in character for him just not to know/care #the terror

[leadpoisoningprincess]

thinking about henry collins and how his character is so deeply changed by his traumatic experiences... in the first episode, the very first dialogue we hear on the ships is henry collins giving billy orren orders with a smile and pat on the back. and when he's about to go down in the diving suit and explaining what his signals will mean, his voice and tone is confident and eloquent and commanding and he enunciates each word like he's used to giving orders. but afterwards, when we see him talking to dr stanley, and later after carnivale when he talks to goodsir, he mumbles and stutters and drifts off mid-sentence, can't make eye contact, constantly fidgets... his speech becomes almost childlike. and then it all ends with him drinking the coca wine and entering a euphoric silly state where he's barely aware of his surroundings and has no sense of self-preservation. idk he's just changed so much by his experiences and it's shown so well

#i understand this a very surface level analysis of trauma #im just thinkin tonite #op #henry collins #i understand u girl. we are drinking peruvian together

[meduseld]

There’s a lot of talk about The Terror (AMC, 2018) and its sci-fi adjacentness and resonance and all of that. But I haven’t seen anybody point out that the David Bowman x HAL exchange in The Year We Make Contact sounds like what was probably going through Henry Collins’ coke addled mind if he hallucinated Billy Orren as he was likely to do:

HAL-9000 : What is going to happen?

Dave : Something wonderful.

HAL-9000 : I'm afraid.

Dave : Don't be. We'll be together.

HAL-9000 : Where will we be?

Dave : Where I am now.

#and that's he was so stoked bc either as a ghost memory or dream Billy came to him with his and the expedition's ultimately fate to die #billy orren #henry collins #william orren #the terror #the terror amc #that and the herakles come back even as a shadow even as a dream line #oh and the wuthering heights haunt me then bit