i do love the terror bc it has that insane “characters who know theyre in a story” trope that makes me crazy but in wildly different ways. crozier knows from the beginning theyre in a tragedy and hes powerless to stop it. until carnivale james thinks theyre in a high adventure story of which he is the protagonist and this is just his prologue and he slowly comes to realize and accept that it’s crozier’s tragedy. and hickey thinks hes the protagonist of some kind of bizarre cosmic horror story that will be read as religious text in a thousand years once he’s managed to eat the sun but he is just a rat in the ships hold.
FavoriteThe Terror characters (in no particular order): James Fitzjames ➢ “And so all of those stories that you would have my biographer tally as courage… it’s all vanity. It always has been. And we are at the end of vanity.”
InMay We Be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition everybody will be able to read Fitzjames’ original last letters to the Coninghams. This is the publication history of the edited letters, including some quotes and images of the original ones:
