love, you ever want me, don't

viktor || he/him || aspiring eccentric old man || follows from lyaios

[fredoesque]

“I thought it was the captain left me behind,” said Jopson. His eyes were clear as they had ever been, his cheeks smooth. Death had done well by him—or perhaps he himself had risen up and found, in the first place, a mirror. “Turns out it was just you, sir.”

Or: the final days of Edward Little.

RETURN of the evil crozier-centric joplittle. NOW WITH TWICE AS MANY GHOSTS

[ghostowlattic]

[minotauri]

This half man show… is it queer bait or should I watch it?

queerbaiting is the least of your worries

[minotauri]

[about to be dropped into the shark tank] hey is the water cold?

[armandgender]

writing is so fun

[armandgender]

writing is impossible why does anyone do this

[helen-epic]

It's insane that pants were named after a fictional character who wore pants

[bifauxnenarmand]

[tragedyprotagonist]

I'm forcing my sister to watch black sails and she hates flint (gates pushed her over the edge) so much lmfao. She says she doesn't give a fuck what his motivations are there's no way they could be good enough for her unless. and I quote. "he's doing it all for the gays or something"

[subaru-copilot]

trying to write a fic but i get frustrated bc i dont write like a 50+ years of experience in writing nobel in literature winner writer

[cordspaghetti]

boy zone for dragoshkas

[smallerhawk]

How about shipping Dundy and Bridgens in Jeeves and Wooster style

[angstics]

youd think youd run out of things to say about a tv show

[annabelle--cane]

stop. analyse that text through the lens of its author's intentions and original historical context. okay now take the author out back and kill them dead and analyse that text as though it were published by your mutual yesterday and is in direct conversation the contemporary discourse that's most relevant to your life. okay now pick your favorite angle of interpretation and come up with the strongest possible argument against it. now imagine that the text is your best friend and that it means you well and that you naturally give it every benefit of the doubt because you're on its side and you want the best for it. now imagine that the text wants you dead and it'll eat you if you don't eat it first. now pretend that you found this text locked away in a cave with no evidence of when or where it came from and you have to divine its meaning solely through its internal coherence and nothing else. okay now address the elephant in the room aspect of the text you've been ignoring because you find it boring or confusing or uncomfortable and become the number one expert on it. now spend forty minutes assigning all the characters dnd classes with at least three sentences of reasoning each. okay now do the cha cha slide.

[speedlimit15]

its my pleasure to produce a grammatically fucked sentence

[just-deer-things]

what a beautiful time of year everyone is growing veegtables for me spacifically, one problem though you need to make fences shorter im sure its a mistake but i cant reach some of them

[just-deer-things]

hello imptortant message from deer youyr doing it agen. i cant eet the vegbals you are growing for me like this

[romanceyourdemons]

guy working on an artwork they knew would push them technically: what the hell why do i keep doing this wrong. am i haunted by malevolent spirits and such

[top-cheese]

ok so its a pretty good story but you know what would make it better? a liar. a character who lies. maybe two.

[werewolfsone]

Sometimes the JopLittle narrative is too kind to both Jopson and Little. These two men are defined in canon by their relationship with Crozier. Occasionally we go to lengths to make Crozier seem like The Worst because of his drunken mistreatment of Ned, but then we ignore the yummy points of 1) Jopson's extreme dedication to Crozier which does not abate no matter what Crozier does (including mistreating Ned) and 2) Ned's extreme dedication to Crozier which does not abate no matter whatever Crozier does (including mistreating Ned).

There are forces inside Little and Jopson that drive them to remain at Crozier's side even when others are permanently and publicly turned against him. And and: Jopson's and Little's motivations for this can be very ugly. They both believe in class and empire in ways that make them follow orders and refuse to question authority figures even in extreme conditions, even when it puts them in danger. They would both see "inferiors" punished to keep that status quo because that status quo is safe.

At any rate, all this to say that I think Ned and Jops have a lot of room to be meaner in fanfic. xD Even to each other in JopLittle fic. What do y'all think? How does Jopson view Ned's dedication to Crozier and how does Ned view Jopson's?