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Last One Standing (Cod. ang. cyg. 422 12°) by SwanFloatieKnight
Fandoms: Polar Explorer RPF
29 Oct 2025
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"Knowing our Frank, I’m certain he’ll be disappointed, too, if you’re not the last one standing."
Blanky tries to give James Ross something to hold onto
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- Part 29 of Whumptober 2025
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Lore-Ley by hatshepslut for Write_to_the_Colonel
Fandoms: Polar Explorer RPF, Historical RPF
16 Sep 2025
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She presented me before we departed
the fatal drawing room for sweet night's
rest with her cloak - a beautifully
marbled piece of seal skin she
appeared most attached to not having
removed it once during our cordial
exchange. A token of remembrance
& an [[aʃsurance]] of our prolonged
acquaintance she had insisted with
the greatest sobriety.Or Ross and Crozier make a good catch (it's Selkie!Anne).
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Trinity House thought Henry might kill himself, or fall down all ten stories of the spiral staircase, or die of something gruesome— in any case, leaving the light unattended, so they sent him Tom. Tom with the calloused hands, patchy beard, warm eyes, and big shoulders, Tom in his hand-knit sweaters and lovingly darned socks.
Principal Keeper Henry Peglar wasn't expecting his Assistant Keeper Tom Armitage, wasn't expecting his feelings to develop the way they did, and absolutely wasn't expecting two half-dead shipwrecked boys to wash up on his beach.
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Force of Attraction by hatshepslut for ararelitus
Fandoms: Polar Explorer RPF, Historical RPF
31 Aug 2025
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"If I had known that drowning in an ice hole was all it would take to get you to undress", Ross muttered into his shoulder, his shallow breaths brushing against Francis neck in a way that made his skin break out in goosebumps, "then I would have taken a dip months ago."
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When the men aboard HMS Isabella capture a whale with no real means of processing the creature, the young stranger from an unknown boat comes as a godsend. When John Ross realises just who has come aboard, his feelings become more conflicted.
Warning is for descriptions of flensing and whale carcasses.
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Contrary to the rest of the world’s beliefs on the matter, James and Francis will always know that it was Ann who truly saved them in the end, though she will never take the credit for it.
In which both Rosses are the heroes of the story, in their own way.
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- Part 2 of strange magic
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Henry is not dead. He is only late.
To know that I loved without knowing that I was loved in return was a feeling too painful to be long endured. — Henry T. D. Le Vesconte, 16 April 1845.
In the wake of the Franklin Expedition's disappearance, Henrietta Le Feuvre considers what it means to be a wife.
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I am a ship made of empire,
My timbers from Old World and New.
An Irish outsider my captain,
The English downtrodden my crew.
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HMS Terror was the empire's prize.
They left her trapped in the ice.
What perils came next?
We only can guess.
Read on, I hope you're enticed.Written for the Sail-Out Summer Flash Fest 2025. Prompt: Discovery/Home.
Thank you to CJ for the beta read!
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John’s favorite thing, every day, is coming back aboveground. Seeing Jack blink into the sunlight, eyes sparkling, coughing and coal-dusted but cheery in the fresh air. He carries the memories of Jack happy and exhausted close to his heart, like a locket of a sweetheart. Walks home at night with thoughts of that smile in his mind.
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i will betray as a god betrays by fullfathomfive for onetondepot
Fandoms: Polar Explorer RPF
22 Jun 2025
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Perhaps Wilson will not be satiated until he has held all of creation in his hands, and known its weight, and traced a slim finger along its outermost edges.
They are locked together, he thinks, like twin frigates in an ever-constricting gyre. This is the centripetal effect of desire.
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the man who walked a thousand miles by foxcalls for ootmobile
Fandoms: Polar Explorer RPF
22 Jun 2025
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“Mm. An arborist,” Bartlett corrects him. He starts to speak, goes a bit red, and joins Mac in examining the floor, pressing the toe of his boot into the plush green carpet. In a lower voice, he murmurs, “Not much to say on roses, that chap.”
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“You’ve got to relax, Con.”
He leveled a bleary eye. “I can’t.”
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Three short conversations had between James Clark Ross’s closest companions without his knowledge.
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For the Summer Sail Out event! Prompt: Port :)
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dissecare… latin: to cut into pieces
In 1841 a scientist performs a dissection. Worlds and time away, a man seeks answers.
Written for Sail-Out Summer Flash Fest using the prompt “Specimen”
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A note, on Archibald Johnstone Goodsir by periph_ry
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018), Polar Explorer RPF
20 Jun 2025
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He will be nineteen years old when he last sees his brother, and he will be nineteen years old when he sees him again.
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Something small and sad curls tight within the cradle of James' chest, throat swelling inexplicably as he presses a final kiss to the ridge of Francis’ knuckles. “You know I’d have gone,” he murmurs softly. “I’d have gone anywhere with you, Francis, you must know that.”
Francis smiles again, a small thing, a precious thing. “I do.”
One last conversation, before the expedition sets sail. For Sail-Out Summer Week 1!
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James watched them through half-open lashes, his pupils dilated like an Arctic fox preparing to bounce its unsuspecting prey. He was visibly holding back, keeping his hands to himself to allow Anne some entertainment of her own. But his patience was limited like most things.
"I know just the distraction for our old boy", he exclaimed, his wife humming in approval as he planted a brief kiss on the nape of her neck. James smiled one of those wolfish grins of his, making a shudder run down Francis' spine in cold excitement as his gaze fell back on him.
"Breakfast in bed."
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When Ann wakes gasping for air in the sweltering summer heat, sheets sticking to her limbs like treacle and a name on her lips, she knows with uncanny certainty that something awful has happened, is happening, will happen.
In which Francis Crozier is gone, and only Lady Ross knows exactly how far.
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- Part 1 of strange magic
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Edward Gore had resigned himself to the fact he would never see his brother again, lost tragically on Franklin's doomed expedition to the Arctic.
Until one day.
[Reflections on loss, grief, complicated sibling relationships and secrets].