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mr blanky: you have to keep the men sane or they will think about killing you via splitting your head open with a boat axe

fitzjames: hell yeah let’s throw a crazy party open bar and I’ll crossdress

#the terror

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packing an “IN CASE OF EMERGENCY BREAK GLASS AND START CROSSDRESSING” box on the doomed arctic voyage is CRAZY. thanks sir john

#the terror

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The Terror is so good as anticolonial horror. It's like the opposite of every white saviour narrative.

And the heart of it, the most devastating moment out of many devastating moments, is when Irving meets the Netsilik family.

Up until then we were stuck along with the characters in a narrative where this place wanted them dead, where they were in a fight to the death with an unforgiving, malevolent landscape.

And yet here is normal life. Family, comfort, joy, warmth.

The characters have been reaching towards this understanding in fits and starts, but here is the most stark confirmation: what is destroying them is within, not without.

And for a moment Irving can discard his rank and his role, meet strangers who have not yet constructed ideologies that allow them to strip humanity from others. Meet in a communion that vastly predates Christianity. But only for a moment.

Many things could have happened differently, sure. But there were no possible good outcomes, when their very presence was destructive to the Netsilik people.

After that moment the spectre of safety and normality haunts everything that happens. While the characters descend into despair and cruelty and death and self sacrifice, ordinary life feels like it's just beyond the horizon.

And yet no matter how close it feels, reaching safety was never possible. Because the rot is within. Because they couldn't have touched their salvation without destroying it.

It's senseless and it's inevitable. It's such goddamn good writing.

#the terror

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I wanted to do one of those poll things for season 1 of The Terror. You know the drill, share it and tell me which one of these you think is a lie. To my fellow Cold Boys enjoyers, please share and don't give it away.

#the terror

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Tuunbaq relaxing after eating these british sailors.

#the terror #tuunbaq

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"no dude don't kill yourself. have you tried cocaine" is an actual line from amc the terror

#the terror #Henry collins

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"Depressed drunken Irishman captain goes cold turkey while lost in the Arctic and re-emerges to discover his crossdressing second is throwing an open bar rave in the middle of the endless polar night" sounds like a shitpost version of The Terror but alas that really does happen in the show and it's a major turning point for everyone involved

#the terror

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#the terror amc #the terror

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im sorry your tummy hurts. you're a good mutual. there will be poems

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“In the war film, a soldier can hold his buddy—as long as his buddy is dying on the battlefield. In the western, Butch Cassidy can wash the Sundance Kid’s naked flesh—as long as it is wounded. In the boxing film, a trainer can rub the well-developed torso and sinewy back of his protege—as long as it is bruised. In the crime film, a mob lieutenant can embrace his boss like a lover—as long as he is riddled with bullets. 

Violence makes the homo-eroticism of many “male” genres invisible; it is a structural mechanism of plausible deniability.”

–Tarantino’s Incarnational Theology: Reservoir Dogs, Crucifixions, and Spectacular Violence. Kent L. Brintnall.

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“In the war film, a soldier can hold his buddy—as long as his buddy is dying on the battlefield. In the western, Butch Cassidy can wash the Sundance Kid’s naked flesh—as long as it is wounded. In the boxing film, a trainer can rub the well-developed torso and sinewy back of his protege—as long as it is bruised. In the crime film, a mob lieutenant can embrace his boss like a lover—as long as he is riddled with bullets. 

Violence makes the homo-eroticism of many “male” genres invisible; it is a structural mechanism of plausible deniability.”

–Tarantino’s Incarnational Theology: Reservoir Dogs, Crucifixions, and Spectacular Violence. Kent L. Brintnall.

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i think at some point if you make a rpf historical drama show gay enough like via script and actor chemistry you should get a free pass to make them kiss onscreen at least once. the families will understand if theyre real ones

#I found this in The Terror tag #And it's right #But may I also add #Boardwalk Empire #Lansky and Luciano #Anton and Vincent quoting the gayest bits from their biographies #And getting the Mind Meld Eye Contact perfect #They should have been allowed to kiss #Lanskys grandkids are too busy trying to get the Cuba real estate money back they won't care

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"We suspected East was not our brightest star to follow"

I'm currently doing a rewatch of The Terror with my merry band of IRLs known as the Gay Pirates. However, for the duration of our Terror watch, we have rechristened ourselves the Gay Boat Cannibals.

Every time I watch this show—this will be my third watch overall—I realize what a horrible go of it the lieutenants specifically are having. Having just rewatched episode 2, I’m very struck by how haunted Lieutenant Hodgson looks after returning from the leads party—the only other character with that much of a thousand-yard stare that early on is Collins.

And on returning, Sir John tells him, “We suspected East was not our brightest star to follow”

If I were Lt. Hodgson, I’d be wondering, “Did Sir John really just send me out into unknown horrors just to own Captain Crozier?

I think he did—or at least, that he assigned the Terror lieutenant to the eastern party for not-unrelated reasons.

#the terror #the terror amc #george hodgson #sir john franklin #francis crozier

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terror shitposting (38/?)

#the terror #solomon tozer #cornelius hickey #henry goodsir #edward little #john irving

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He goes out. Crozier, moved, lies there with the enormity of the gift Jopson's giving him.

-> 6/∞ CHARACTER DYNAMICS in The Terror

#the terror #francis crozier #thomas jopson

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revisiting several hickey scenes rn in AMC's The Terror (2018) i forgot how much time he spends ALL the way in some guy's personal space. like i get it hes like five foot three he has no other tactics for intimidation but its so funny that his go-to method is just to get really close to someone and make it weirdly sexually charged. permanent vaguely lecherous expression. and bc its the victorian era and everyones really repressed and homophobic its working 😭😭😭.... king of innovative solutions.... his growth mindset swag....

#the terror #cornelius hickey

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Make me Choose

↳ Cavendish/Drax or Collins/Goodsir asked by anon

#the terror #harry goodsir #henry collins