@terrorpinup2022 calender exclusivity has ended now so here is my full piece that I contributed! Some Leyendecker inspired Dr Stanley pinup for the summer month!
Bit obsessed with the composition of this bit of film, the concealed face, the blocking and colour. I just like it! So I did a little breakdown/study of it!
so for The Terror self-insert fanfiction event happening soon, I thought I would design a self-insert OC! Jack Jones is a GNC girl who has disguised as a boy in order to join the navy. She refers to herself (in her inner monologues) as ‘she/her’ but everyone else uses 'he/him’ for obvious reasons, but she has found that she actually isn’t bothered by that.
She works as a loblolly boy on erebus, but since historically erebus didn’t use these, her job is more of a low-low-low-down surgeon’s assistant (tidying the sickbay, checking stock, helping hold down patients etc all while she studies)
I have written up a more detailed (non-plot heavy) character sheet for her if you’re interested you can read thereHERE
I wanted to draw my version of Dr Stanley in my post-canon fix-it AU!!
He was scarred from the carnivale fire, he lives in Scotland (no reason ) and works in amphitheatres but many ppl won’t talk to him due to the mysterious rumours surrounding his disfigurement
EDIT: this design directly coincides with my ‘what if Dr Stanley made it to ep10’ design that I sketched up HERE:)
Hello! I’ve updated my etsy to sell some of my terror works as prints! Each listing has specific details so please check them out individually, but here is some basic shared info:
Each print is 350gsm on high quality silk finish paper
To accept one’s past—one’s history—is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.
from James Baldwin, the fire next time, courtesy of @nedlittle
This is the closest I’ll ever come to filling the “Like a bad pun,” square of my @theterrorbingo card, and it’s technically only like, a week late, so I’m doing it—time is fake anyway, you know.
Apologies for bringing this right back to the Victorians as per usual, but this is why Lady Franklin was who she became: you can’t divorce your husband when he’s the most famous Arctic ghost story the world’s ever heard (especially not when you were the one who made him that way, refusing to let him go quietly into that good Admiralty death list)
Ooh Captain Sir James Clark Ross: A Fan Fiction c.1849
Technically I finished this last night so I’m calling it my bingo fill for @theterrorbingo square “Magical Realism,” giving me a bingo at literally (after) the last possible moment. Voila!
My eternal gratitude to @frederickdesvoeux for watching Pride & Prejudice (2005) and giving me the initial idea for this insanity. This depiction of Sir James Clark Ross is based – with my eternal apologies – on Henry William Pickersgill’s c.1847-1848 portrait, now in the collection of the Scott Polar Research Institute. Credit to the overall design of this goes, of course, to the beautiful Hark! A Vagrant comic “Ooh Mister Darcy.”
[Transcript: As John T. Irwin eloquently summarizes, a labyrinth resembles a maze because it is “always open from the outside but appears to be unopenable from within.” End transcript]
ok i’m reading about labyrinths for personal reasons and. obsessed with thinking about narrative as something that is ‘open from the outside but unopenable from within’… can’t stop picturing someone just. stumbling into a story and getting locked in from the inside because all of a sudden the part is cast, their fate is set, and they have a role to play and lines to read… everything is up for grabs until the moment the story starts and then the ending is fixed and you’ve been buried alive inside a structure that gives the illusion of agency while leading you all the while down the only existing path toward the very center of itself, where what awaits you is death..
[Transcript: to tell a story is to align an already known set of events along an arc. End transcript]
[Transcript: They were last seen by European whalers in Baffin Bay awaiting good conditions to enter the Arctic labyrinth. End transcript.]
Francis Beaufort: “Let due honours and rewards be showered on the heads of those who have nobly toiled in deciphering the puzzling Arctic labyrinth, and who have each contributed to their hard-earned quota.” (Kenneth McGoogan, Lady Franklin’s Revenge (2006) pg. 385)
[Transcript: The past tense is a very sturdy thing. End transcript.]
Lady Franklin: “Dear Love, / Haven’t I always told you / there is / what happens, / and then / there is how / we choose to tell it?” (Corinna McClanahan Schroeder, “Letters to the Dead” (2020) pg. 64)
