#bridjames

[dawntreaders]

there will be poems.

[roundtriptojupiter]

ive seen bridjames get hate for like “people will ship bridgens with anyone except peglar!!” but to me bridglar and bridjames perfectly coexist, especially before peglar is berthing on erebus. two gay men finding solace in what little intimacy they’re permitted by the navy as steward and captain while thinking about other people? and perhaps pushing it a little further than what’s appropriate? i eat that upppppp. peglar IS haunting the dynamic the entire time. thank you

[theremustbeabear]

i wrote a very silly yet deeply sincere peglar/bridgens/fitzjames modern au threesome fic. please enjoy <3

(link in reblog)

[dawntreaders]

i’m really obsessed with your bridjames art… do you have any thoughts on their dynamic them in general? 💕

a lot of people seem to think the potentials of bridgens x fitzjames are only worth exploring because bridgens took care of fitzjames - similar but not wholly so to the way bridgens would take care of the men of his ship - especially in fitzjames' final moments, when he was no longer captain but a barely-breathing organism walking on its last legs of life... but i think that bond ran deeper than this unspoken vow of servitude because that alone makes things a bit messy and uneven.

fitzjames loved to write, bridgens loved to read, and there's a lot more to fitzjames than what can be read from his comedic memoirs. bridgens could've simply seen right through fitzjames' self-mythologization. he would've wanted to welcome fitzjames into his own small, candid world instead, allowing them a space to have meaningful intellectual discussions amidst fitzjames' alienation from what should have been his own peers. all this, because fitzjames led bridgens to a chance at a new life and kept him full with fascinating perspectives on everything under the sun that they can mention. they'd become increasingly aware that wherever they stood, there would always be magnetism - a part of them that pushed and pulled at the other regardless of their stations.