thecountessolivia
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- London Spy (8)
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Christmas 1850. James is adrift. Francis gets married and takes up a new hobby.
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Fitzier Tumblr Ficlet Collection - Part Deux by thecountessolivia
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018)
04 Oct 2025
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A series of non-sequential, unrelated Fitzier snapshots, as posted on Tumblr. Part 2.
1. Early into their march, James offers Francis a cure for sleeplessness. (Rated M)
2. Francis discovers the men have given him an unfortunate nickname.
3. Francis and James are swallowed by a whale following mutinies aboard their respective ships.
4. Francis, instead of drying out, turns into a baby. James tries to solve the problem of how to keep him alive.
5. Unable to face a return to England, James makes an unusual new start in New York City.
6. Pony play (coming soon)
7. TBD -
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Guilt is a burden James cannot afford to carry on the march. Francis devises a plan to lighten the load before they set out.
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"Francis is certain he has long ago betrayed himself. Some gesture, some pained look. To say nothing of the fretful hours he spends at James Fitzjames' bedside. And in any case, James would have known the moment he saw them together."
Francis tries to find a way to put something behind them.
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[visual art] JFJ on his knees in the great cabin.
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23 Jul 2025
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Ex Illustri Vagantium Ordine by annecoulmanross for kaserl
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018), The Terror - Dan Simmons
19 Nov 2020
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Selections from significant scholarship on Francis (“Franciscus”) Crozier and James (“Jacobus”) Clark Ross, the famous 17th century humanist astronomers.
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19 Apr 2025
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See additional warnings in end notes.
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Even at the worst of it. Even at the eleventh hour, when the weakest of them (James included) were driven round the wheel of breath by brute instinct alone, dead men with beating blood, Francis emanated the kind of muddy half-light that precedes the rising sun. His indefatigable will made manifest in the flesh.
“Don’t be cruel, James,” he is saying now. “I am fat, decrepit. My better days, if ever I had them, are long behind me.”
“Ever the curmudgeon. You’ve no idea how ... splendid you are. I, for one, think these are your finest days.”
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31 Mar 2025
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When we first began, I was naturally quite—nervous is too mild a word for it. I fancy myself generally a quite composed sort but my hands were all a-tremble and no matter how hard I tried it felt I could not fetch enough air into my lungs. My tongue felt sluggish and I did not know where to look, how to proceed—what to do with my hands once I’d clatteringly set the tea tray down. But then Fitzjames kissed me: a better ameliorant for nerves there surely never was. A flurry of delicate, chaste little kisses he gave me at first, though in their very lightness they were wickedly teasing until slightly maddened I took hold of his jaw and—insisted upon something more intimate. Only after I had licked his mouth open did it occur to me that I may have taken too much of a liberty, and, mortified, I attempted to break loose—to stammer an apology—but it was apparently not too grave a transgression for his own attentions rapidly grew more rapacious; his tongue’s ways as bold and intricate in deed as in speech.
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31 Mar 2025
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When All the World Shall Melt by neverfaraway
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018), The Terror - Dan Simmons
27 Jul 2021
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I’ll not have a picture, he thinks, gazing grimly at James’ drawn, damaged face. I’ll not have a miniature to tuck inside my breast pocket, or a sketch made on a winter’s evening by the fireside. It will be my own burden to remember him, until such a time as this cursed land takes me, too.
Twenty five men return to England. For Francis, this means making a poor job of keeping James from scuttling his career, and working out what a sea captain might do with himself in the absence of a ship.
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- Part 1 of When All the World Shall Melt
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17 Feb 2025