#transterrorweek

[transterrorweek]

Introducing the prompts for Trans Terror Week 2025!

Each of these prompts is pulled from thematically relevant academic articles/book chapters/books. The full details for each work, plus a direct link if possible, are on our Prompt Page.

Day 1: A Life in Pictures || Changing the Subject

“A Life in Pictures: Trans Visibility, Invisible Labour and the Film Career of Robert Allen" by Chris O'Rourke

“Antarctic Diaries and Heroic Reputations: Changing the Subject" by Elizabeth Leane

Day 2: Pioneers of Transgendering || Learning from the Land

“Pioneers of Transgendering: The Popular Sexology of David O. Cauldwell” by Richard Ekins and Dave King

“Nunami Iliharniq (Learning from the Land): Reflecting on Relational Accountability in Land-Based Learning and Cross-Cultural Research in Uqšuqtuuq (Gjoa Haven, Nunavut)” by Gita J. Ljubicic, Rebecca Mearns, Simon Okpakok, and Sean Robertson

Day 3: Changing Ones || Inuit London

Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America by Will Roscoe

“The Iceberg and the Cathedral: Encounter, Entanglement, and Isuma in Inuit London” by Coll Thrush

Day 4: The Drag Queen and the Mummy || The Waking Ice

“The Drag Queen and the Mummy” by Edward Conlon

“The Waking Ice” by Bathsheba Demuth

Day 5: Mother Camp || A Passion for Blankness

Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America by Esther Newton

“A Passion for Blankness: U.S. and British Polar Discourse” by Lisa Bloom

Day 6: Electric Brilliancy || Abnormal Fears

“Electric Brilliancy: Cross-Dressing Law and Freak Show Displays in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco” by Clare Sears

“Abnormal Fears: The Queer Arctic in Michelle Paver’s Dark Matter” by Maria Lindgren Leavenworth

Day 7: Trance Gender || Clairvoyants and Mediums

“Trance Gender: Automatic Writing, Spirit Mediums, and Gender Fluidity” by Roseanne Brooks

“Clairvoyants and Mediums Search for Franklin” by Gillies Ross

[creatureesque]

Day 6: Frankenstein | Sledge Runners

no sledges only homoerotism tonight sorry

[howtheriddlergothisname]

Death Shrouds / Life Shrouds for @transterrorweek and my @theterrorbingo square 'shroud'

Terror Camp Clear / Neo-/Victorian Biographilia & James Miranda Barry: A Study in Transgender and Transgenre by Ann Heilmann / Go For Broke / A Mercy / Scanty Particulars: The Strange Life and Astonishing Secret of Victorian Adventurer and Pioneer Surgeon James Barry by Rachel Holmes / Terror Camp Clear / Edward Bradford, letter to The Medical Times and Gazette, September 9th, 1865 after Barry’s death / The C, The C, The Open C / Queer Others in Victorian Gothic by Ardel Haefele-Thomas / We Are Gone

[theyonagoda]

Almost forgot.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

@transterrorweek

It doesn't really matter anyways but I thought I should put it here.

[asparklethatisblue]

“any blue clothing you can put into the case” 

The struggle of getting tailored clothes as a trans man going stealth is real. So Francis relies on his sisters a lot. It’s not odd for them to send new clothes to their brother who’s away to sea so much.

For @transterrorweek cause trans man Crozier? Yes.

[jirving]

For the prompt 'Twelfth Night' for @transterrorweek 2023

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[izzys-focking-resignation]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Terror (TV 2018) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Francis Crozier/James Fitzjames Characters: Francis Crozier, James Fitzjames (1813-c.1848), Thomas Blanky, John Bridgens, Harry D. S. Goodsir Additional Tags: Trans Francis Crozier, Trans James Fitzjames, major character deaths, Violence, Assisted Suicide, Period-Typical Transphobia, t4t Francis Crozier/James Fitzjames, no active harassment of trans characters Summary:

For @transterrorweek on Tumblr, "Frankenstein"/Sledge Runners

Death of a loved one can be difficult to accept, particularly in a land of ruin and frozen decay.

Gendered terms are all over the place for this one due to the setting (being a trans man/trans woman isn't a concept to them; Francis is a man but views himself as a woman dressed as a man, just as James views himself as a man who wants to be a woman), but it's mostly he/him for both Francis and James.

[solomontoaster]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Word count: 2,446 Fandom: The Terror (TV 2018) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Francis Crozier/James Fitzjames, Ann Coulman Ross/James Clark Ross Characters: James Fitzjames (1813-c.1848), Ann Coulman Ross, James Clark Ross Additional Tags: Coming Out, (in the sense of 'repeated coming out to all one's friends'), Period Typical Language, or lack thereof, Developing Friendships, Trans Female Character, trans woman!james fitzjames, Trans Terror Week 2022, The Terror Bingo 2022, Period Typical Attitudes Series: Part 3 of this is how my world gets made Summary:

In his latest letter, Fitzjames had asked Anne her thoughts on a recent spate of arrests in London after a police raid on public dance hall. Arrests, specifically, of men who were dressing as women at the time or otherwise considered to be conducting themselves indecently with other men.

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In which Anne Coulman Ross learns about Isabel.

For the @theterrorbingo prompt “Sudden Clarity” and one day late for the @transterrorweek prompt “Something That May Shock and Discredit You.”