#koveyook

[vespermyotis]

i think possibly the chiefest point of horror in my first viewing of the terror, which still gets me every time, is Irving encountering the Netsilik family.

it’s a great, gutwrenching scene. Irving doesn’t intend any violence to them. he’s earnest, and they’re earnest in return—Koveyook feeds him, and you know it won’t save him, he’s asking too impossibly much of them when he mentions the rest of the crew, but it’s good in what it intends. on both sides, even.

and you know watching, from the outset, that somehow Irving is going to kill these people. somehow, in short order, this officer of the largest empire in world history is going to blow all their lives up. just by showing up, he’s condemned them to something; just by being aware of them, he’s taking from them. blast radius of imperialism.

and it’s so terrible, because they fed him and he gave them the only pretty and sentimental offering he had on him and ultimately, Irving won’t ever even know he got them killed, though they will have died thinking he meant to do it.

and even so: it doesn’t matter that he didn’t mean it. because they didn’t know him!! and they fed him! and they were murdered for it. take and take and take and take. fuck

[willowbilly]

Inuit Names in The Terror AMC

Aglukkaq: agluq-kkaq, “the one who strides well.” The verb stem agluq- means “to step over; to stride,” together with -kkaq “one who performs a particular action well.” A legitimate given name.

Aja: Seemingly aja or ajak, “maternal aunt,” which in modern Natchiliŋmiutut proper is atchak “paternal aunt.” A legitimate given name, merely in what may be the wrong dialect.

*Silna: Seemingly Dan Simmons’ original combination of Sila and Sedna, i.e., AN UNGRAMMATICAL NEONYM. Sila is Hila in modern Natchiliŋmiutut, a noun meaning “air, weather, outside, atmosphere, intelligence, wisdom.” The principal resident spirit of the air’s personal name is Naarřuk, naaq-rřuk “the big belly,” and he is a giant baby boy spirit. Hila and Naarřuk are the same being. Sedna is the Anglicized form of the demonstrative pronoun sanna, which I think in Natchiliŋmiutut is kanna “that one down there, such as under the ocean (not visible).” This was a traditional circumlocution for the female spirit Nuliajuk, nulik-ajuk “the lubricious one,” the principal resident spirit of the sea. Sila, Hila, Naarřuk, and Nuliajuk are all legitimate given names. Silna is an illegitimate given name.

Kuvijuq: kuvi+juq, “he who pours.” Kuvi- is a verb stem meaning “to spill or pour; to spill or pour it; to spill or pour on (them/it).” *ku is a verb root for “downward movement or orientation” that can also be found in the noun kuuk “river.” +t/juq is the intransitive 3rd person singular indicative mood verb ending “she/he/it/they (singular),” but here it functions as a noun participle. In modern Natchiliŋmiutut proper, this would be Kuviřuq. A legitimate given name.

Netsilik Hunter: Netsilik is derived from Natsilik i.e. Natchilik, “the one with ringed seal,” meaning Netsilik Lake and its environs. Outsiders applied “Netsilik Inuit” both to Natchiliŋmiut and to other Inuit groups. Aŋunahuaqti is modern Natchiliŋmiutut proper for “hunter,” related to the noun aŋut “man.”

Tuunbaq: tuuŋŋaq, tuunŋaq, “shaman's helping spirit.” A legitimate given name, although probably not actually its own.

[beecheyislandgloves]

You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.

The first letter from Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818) / The Terror (2018)

[headcanonthings]

for @thepratandtheidiot, saw your tags and couldn't get it out of my mind so here you go!

Original/Crozier's version

[sinaesthete]

ongoing terror clubwomen au...some of the regulars at a bar upon which a bunch of horrible tourists have descended :/

[vladcvnt]

Koveyook and friends

[coldboysconfessions]

Silna, Aja, the Netsilik Hunter, Kuvijuq and his family, and the other shaman could stand to be much more appreciated by the fandom at large. I am rather judgmental as to why they are not. Silna's character and storyline Make the show imo, and research and fanon can flesh out the very good bones of the characters with little overall screentime so that they may be well portrayed in fanworks just as certain white male characters who also have little overall screentime are portrayed. Even meta that discusses how pivotal they are, or that examines their interiority and how their lives are impacted by the show's events, is always so welcome. Please! Include the Inuit characters!

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[leadandblood]

young Liam has nothing on young Vinnie. Look at him