#terror blogging

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Now that the Terror fandom is growing as it rightly should, I think it's time to re-unleash the Goldner's Fleshlight.

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i've been silent long enough the very premise of david k's fuckass "hickey if he went to ✨️therapy✨️" playlist is genuinely ridiculous. hickey as a character is not shaped and motivated solely or even predominantly by a dsm-categorizable understanding of mental illness that could be improved or eliminated by talk therapy. or even by more intensive or invasive treatments or psychiatric medication. like unless you propose to fix him with an ice pick lobotomy and a straight jacket, which at least would have been somewhat more closely approaching period-appropriate sanitorium treatment, this is not a character who needs a warm cup of tea and a chance to talk to an impartial trauma-informed observer about his feelings.

hickey is a reflection of his surroundings. hickey is a cog in the imperialist machine oppressed by its structures and forces who conceptualizes a word, not without those structures and forces, not free of them, but which may serve as a blank slate for him to be the enactor of said forces rather than their victim. his vision of the arctic and the tuunbaq is one formed by a colonialist manifest destiny. the arctic is an "untamed wilderness" and the netsilik are "savages" and he, as a poor gay white man, can easily rule over them because they're too dim and phrenolpgically inferior to realize that he is the chaffe of white imperialism. it doesn't matter that he's from the bottom rung of the british ladder because that's a ladder that starts ten miles up from where its victims live. and he is punished for this hubris and his additional fundamental misunderstanding of the tuunbaq with his grisly death.

crozier survives and stays behind because he is the one and only man on terror or erebus who gave up england. he truly left it behind. expunged it. hickey could not do that. hickey had no interest in doing that. hickey saw before him an opportunity to build a new england in which he was at its head instead of under its heal. hickey got snapped up and eaten by a force he could never hope to understand but thought to tame.

"we are about to commit an act of hubris we will not survive" is not a narrative theme that can be healed with introspective journaling, and it is... i can't think of an abjective for what it is to suggest that it can be. "hurts my feelies very much" if it was a german compound word. "makes me super s/mad".

[arealcrow-archive]

me and vee finished s1 of the terror a few days ago and. god what a perfect nightmare of a show

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Hey HEY guess WHAT I'm making a podcast series about the Franklin Expedition!

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Hi new Terror fans! Congratulations on your first watch of the show! I can't wait to hear about your second rewatch. Don't forget to hydrate before your third rewatch, and remember to check in on your friends after your fourth rewatch. The space between the fifth and sixth rewatches are where the ghosts hide, so make sure to take care of yourself!

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I'm pulling out old Terror fandom thoughts but one of my favorites was that Thomas Hartnell's animal motif is a red deer. It's in his name (Hartnell, which literally means 'red deer hill'), in his coloring, and in his behavior. He's prey to people like Hickey, but he also shouldn't be taken lightly.

Also I love me some medieval bestiary symbolism, and this is one of my favorites:

The stag is the enemy of the snake. When the stag discovers a snake, it spits water into the hole where the snake hides, draws the snake out with its breath, and tramples it to death. If the stag is ill or old, it draws the snake out of hiding and swallows it. The stag then finds water and drinks large amounts of it to overcome the poison, and is renewed. When the stag is renewed it sheds its horns.

In short, MY DEER BOY.

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I'm remaking the Terror kinkgen, lads. Please hold for results.

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FRANCIS CROZIER QUADRUPLE ATTACK!!!!!