#theterrorappreciationweek

[theterroramc]

@the-terror-appreciation-week​ - Friday, March 29: Favourite Ship "It wasn’t a cheerful name, but then she wasn’t built to cheer; she was built to intimidate, and her name had been chosen quite deliberately. In classical mythology Erebus, the son of Chaos, was generally taken to refer to the dark heart of the Underworld, a place associated with dislocation and destruction. To evoke Erebus was to warn your adversaries that here was a bringer of havoc, a fearsome conveyor of hell-fire. ” - Michael Palin, ‘Erebus: The Story of a Ship’

#The Terror #the terror amc #TheTerrorEdit #theterrorappreciationweek #HMS Erebus #gif #this is the kind of ship you meant right? #RIGHT?!

[gobnaits]

The Terror Anniversary Appreciation Week → March 27: Favorite Main Character

Silna

#The Terror #the terror amc #theterroredit #theterrorappreciationweek #silna #nive nielsen #mine

[cestpasfaux24601]

The Terror Anniversary Appreciation Week  ↳  Favorite main character  - Thomas Blanky

#the terror #theterroredit #theterrorappreciationweek #thomas blanky #yverocher #i don't actually know if he's considered a main or minor character #but he's a main in my heart so *shrugs* #mystuff #q

[tautline-hitch]

my favourite line is Terror’s foretopmast staysail downhaul because—no, I apologize, I will take it no further. 

there are some excellent lines in The Terror—I think “I am hungry and I want to live” is excellently understated (like i 100% get why the Monologue strikes some people as slightly bathetic, but it works for me); “Close is nothing” remains solid; “Does one not bring one’s habits to Terror” is as I have said I think before a pretty enjoyable exploitation of the inaudibility of italics—but I would like to mention one that is much less of a showpiece and also I think quite excellent:

I don’t know what you’re due.

The barb on it! In the aftermath of the previous episode’s flogging, the crack of the cat is right there. Crozier is at this stage barely competent as a commanding officer, but he is also, perhaps more significantly, no longer functioning as a gentleman; he is not dressing or speaking or conducting himself as a gentleman must. And Fitzjames informs him it’s been noticed in such a perfectly gentlemanly way: this little assertion of class and power, of the hierarchy which underpins every interaction on a warship (and this is a warship, because Crozier by his methods of discipline has made it one). What is a thief due? Well, that depends on his station. What are the conditions for mutiny? Shipwreck, alcohol, flogging—and a captain without authority. Which authority Crozier has just spent on those 16 bottles. 

I love too that we don’t see Crozier’s face; he looks away from us and from Fitzjames as the line is delivered, still in the dregs of the belief he can disguise how far things have slipped. Instead we get that understated, unconvincing “I did no such thing”, cut across Fitzjames’s line and overwhelmed by it; instead we see what he sees, Blanky and Goodsir’s unsurprised embarrassed resignation. Whatever he’d thought he was to them, in this instant he has become a circumstance to be managed: they believe Fitzjames without question, and he is locked out of that circle. This is the moment, I think, at which he understands that he is no longer in control. For Crozier the end of vanity happens here. 

#theterrorappreciationweek #also of course ''she asked you 'why do you want to die'''!! EXQUISITE. #and i would ALSO love to know what follows 'we both know what is happening' #that must have been a HELL of a conversation however long it lasted. #(i love too that francis has been testing the elasticity of polite society essentially since we met him and this is the moment it SNAPS) #(his boxer's bounce and his come-on-then nod) #(the dual effect of his look-round before he throws that punch: #half can you believe this shit (they can) #and half dirty fighter's fake-out.) #(lovely.)

[terribleoldwhitemen]

@the-terror-appreciation-week  → Favorite Scene: “There is time.”

a favorite not just for its unabashed tenderness, but because it was the scene which finally convinced me to watch the show. after seeing this scene in gifs on my dash, I couldn’t not find out who these men were and what they meant to each other.

#the terror amc #francis crozier #james fitzjames #theterrorappreciationweek #originals #gifs #it's the 26th somewhere #james's scurvy face is still BIG YEESH for me even after all this time #here's to a year in arctic hell with no regrets

[zehstern]

The Terror Anniversary Appreciation Week Day 7: Favorite fandom creation

Happy Anniversary Platypuses! Thank you for keeping the fandom fed and alive. You guys are incredible, every last one of you.

#the terror #the terror amc #amc the terror #theterrorappreciationweek

[the-terror-appreciation-week]

@lafiametta and @arcticelves here with a new fandom event for 2019!

It’s been almost one year since the premiere of Season 1 of The Terror, so what better way to celebrate than with The Terror Anniversary Appreciation Week, which will run from March 25th to March 31st. Join in by posting about your favorites! All kinds of posts are welcome, of course, not just meta/analysis, but also any creative works (fanfic, art, etc.) inspired by the day’s category. 

Please tag all your posts #theterrorappreciationweek, and we’ll make sure to reblog them here. And please be sure to follow this blog if you want to keep up with all the week’s appreciation posts!

Schedule: Monday, March 25: Favorite episode Tuesday, March 26: Favorite scene Wednesday, March 27: Favorite main character Thursday, March 28: Favorite minor character Friday, March 29: Favorite ship Saturday, March 30: Favorite quote Sunday, March 31: Favorite fandom creation (art, fanfic, meta, meme, etc. Tell us all about your faves!)

#the terror amc #the terror #fandom event #theterrorappreciationweek

[theendofvanity]

THE TERROR ANNIVERSARY APPRECIATION WEEK

Day Five - Favorite Ship: Fitzcro/Fitzier

“Are we brothers, Francis? I would like that very much.”

#theterrorappreciationweek #the terror amc #the terror #favorite ship #fitzcro #fitzier #james fitzjames #francis crozier

[indifferent-century]

“Gentlemen, we always feel worse in the darker months.”

James Fitzjames, Captain HMS Erebus, 1848

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The Terror Appreciation Week day 2: Favorite Scene

It’s nearly impossible to choose an absolute favorite scene from the entire series—there are so many that stand out. Gore’s party’s arrival and Victory Point. Goodsir and the daguerreotype camera. The funeral of Sir John Franklin. Men singing below deck. The flashbacks to England. Crozier and Fitzjames at Victory Point.

But if I had to choose one (and I know, it’s technically more than one!) I would have to choose the entire beginning of episode 6: A Mercy. Everything before the opening credits is beautifully captured: the way the camera pans around the great cabin, starting with the men’s feet, where we first see Blanky up and about after his display of absolutely mad daring; how we see Fitzjames acting as expedition commander for the first time, and doing a stunning job of it; Blanky telling Fitzjames about Ross and Fury Beach; Fitzjames clearly worried and staring into the fire as he thinks of how he can possibly save the lives and morale of all the men now under his command; and ending with Fitzjames discovering the trunk of Carnivale costumes and staring into a mirror with a mask held to his face.

The way the camera travels upward during the stove scene, in particular, might be my absolute favorite. The first thing we see is the fire, making the great cabin one of the few places of warmth and security left in this place. Then Fitzjames’s hand fidgeting at his side, clearly worried about what the future holds for the long walk he’s just announced, trying to maintain confidence, to his officers. Then finally his expression as he thinks over everything Blanky has told him, and warned him about. This is a man who’s had everything fall into his hands, and yet has to maintain the disposition of confidence that he is both known for, and required to display as an expedition leader—whether he wanted it or not. But he’s James Fitzjames, and he’s going to give it everything he has.

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Also I really just wanted to draw his amazing coat and waistcoat. I got the proportions wrong, but let’s just pretend that’s camera angle.

Bonus close-up, because my scanner is great. But geez, Tobias Menzies, why is your face so hard to draw?

#the terror #theterrorappreciationweek #IndifferentArt #tobias menzies #james fitzjames #plus look at all those buttons #the man is devastatingly handsome but why is his face so difficult to draw?

[theterroramc]

@the-terror-appreciation-week​ - Thursday, March 28: Favourite Minor Character "He has an odd reaction to the brutality that happens, there’s certain coldness to it. But when you take it in context of a man that has served in wartime, then there’s a certain kind of logic and a sense to it. Because that emotional side of him has been blunted in many ways by what he has previously experienced. So from a character point of view, it’s an interesting dynamic. Why isn’t he as emotionally engaged and curious about these strange things and injuries that are appearing? It’s war, he’s seen it. He’s been there.” - Alistair Petrie

#The Terror #TheTerrorEdit #theterrorappreciationweek #stephen stanley #Alistair Petrie #gif #flashing gif #truly yours your biggest fan this is stan

[gobnaits]

The Terror Anniversary Appreciation Week → March 26: Favorite Scene

#the terror #the terror amc #theterroredit #theterrorappreciationweek #mine #john bridgens #henry peglar #bridgenspeglar

[cestpasfaux24601]

The Terror Anniversary Appreciation Week  ↳  Favorite scene - "I'm sorry, but we mustn't stop until it is finished."

#the terror #theterroredit #theterrorappreciationweek #francis crozier #yverocher #still not over how incredible jared was in that scene #mystuff #q

[tautline-hitch]

From top right: Giorgetti, 1671; Ribera, 1636; The Terror, 2018. Something in the light and the shape of the hands.

Or, should you prefer the secular:

These were not the only occasions of ill-will against Marius; some haughty speeches, uttered with great arrogance and contempt, gave great offence to the nobility; as, for example, his ... telling the people that he gloried in wounds he had himself received for them, as much as others did in the monuments of dead men, and images of their ancestors.

(Plutarch, Caius Marius 9.2, in the Dryden translation because i do not have the energy to drag myself through the Greek on a Tuesday night)

Is this my favourite scene? Probably not; I love very much James with the mask, and “I don’t know what you’re due”; I love Sophia barefoot in the snow; I love (miserably) Silna carefully and awfully arranging the body of the little murdered child; I love the afterimage of The Haunting in Collins’s death; I love Hodgson’s monologue. But the ostentatio vulnerum is on the list, and this post has been sitting in my drafts marked “ugh shut up” since December; this seems as good a time as any!

#theterrorappreciationweek #(i suppose i'm meant to see christ showing his wounds here but i am afraid that is not what i see) #(i want it on the record that i am not trying to sketch fitzjames-as-marius here--merely acknowledging the tradition) #(of buying one's name in blood.)

[succession]

The Terror Anniversary Appreciation Week | Day Four | Favorite Minor Character | 3rd Lieutenant John Irving x

| At length the hill we mounted the crest of it / Walking the rest of it - that’s not the best of it! |

“John. (voice breaking) John.”

#the terror amc #the terror #c: john irving #theterrorappreciationweek #do not give us up if you hear nothing

[terribleoldwhitemen]

@the-terror-appreciation-week  → Favorite Main Character: Francis R. M. Crozier, Esq.

#the terror amc #theterrorappreciationweek #francis crozier #originals #gifs #did this....really come as a surprise to anyone

[fiftyfathomknit]

The Terror Appreciation Week

Wednesday, March 27: Favorite main character - Thomas Blanky

For today’s theme, I did a swatch of Blanky’s sweater. It’s done in a much thicker yarn than most in the show (the only other sweater that looks to be done in worsted-weight yarn being Hartnell’s), and it’s the only one with colorwork! I like to think Esther made it for him :) 

Top Blanky moments in no particular order:

- “Aye. You trusted Ross, and you trusted Parry” aka seeing right through everything Crozier says and does.

- Looking straight at James while he translates Silna’s questions: “She asked you, ‘why do you want to die?’”, thus explaining the situation AND Crozier’s personal crisis to James as soon as he walks in.

- also on the topic of things Blanky says to James without actually saying them: that look on his face when James asks “would you have done it?” 

- FORKS! And his maniacal laugh the last time we see him.

-“The men think we are under attack.” “We are. Of the most cowardly kind.”

- Tourniquetting his own fricking leg.

#theterrorappreciationweek #thomas blanky #erebus craft room