That post that's like "Your tits are gnc af".... Regrettably that's Fitzjames having his St. Sebastian moment when he realises his wounds have reopened
The really regrettable part is it's actually the scorbutic wounds that are gnc not the tits. I suspect there's a lot of overlap between things people have written about Marilyn Monroe and things that apply to James Fitzjames but the big one imo is Joyce Carol Oates in 'Blonde' saying "There is something female about being dead."
Man all of the above makes me sound like Jack the ripper if you haven't seen the show but it's true.... The gender of death in The Terror is so fascinating in general. Like this isn't my insight (I can't remember where I read it + would love a link if anyone recognises it) but JFJ's dissolving wounds really can be seen to evoke the menstrual taboo bc they produce old, 'sick' blood that seeps and oozes. I think you can read like castration anxiety and Freud's description of female genitalia as 'uncanny' and wound-like into that as well. Even like the way Francis says "You've got holes in you" to convey the profundity of his illness. And the way that's bound up with the Christ stuff - the idea of Christ's side wound as like yonic especially. And the weird eroticism of Fitzjames and Gibson's death scenes, the way they're both you know "the receptive partner", with the parallel made explicit in Gibson and Hickey's case (and by extension arguably Fitzjames and Crozier's). Even Goodsir's death is very feminising, with the use of poison, the prolonged male gazey shot of him preparing himself, the fact that this time they do "use his body", etc. I'm sure I'm inadvertently rehashing things someone with a PhD said much better two years ago here, but oh well
