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TL;DR: Crowley is a scientist. Aziraphale is a siren. The year is 1911, and the place is Antarctica. Also, there’s tons of kinky sex.
[Fully written. 190k words. 42% smut. Updates every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.]
The real-life Terra Nova Expedition, organised by the British Royal Navy, took place between 1910 and 1913 under the leadership of Captain Scott. His main goal was to win the race to the South Pole, but scientific research was a priority as well. Six of his men, collectively known as the Northern Party, spent most of 1911 on a remote beach that would turn out to be the world’s largest Adélie penguin rookery.
In this story, Anthony J. Crowley (surgeon, zoologist, photographer) takes the place of Northern Party member George Murray Levick. I tried to stick as much as possible to the actual scientific facts and timeline of events, but some creative license did have to be taken.
For example, there was no real-life monsterfucking at any point during the Terra Nova Expedition… as far as we know.
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- Part 1 of Polar multiverse
- Part 1 of Polar siren AU
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it's beginning to look a lot like christmas by auroracalisto
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018), Polar Explorer RPF
09 Dec 2025
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ficlets following modern!bridglar and their christmas holiday. chapters can be read out of order—it's more of a drabble set than anything.
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- Part 10 of the terror
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“They forged the last link with their lives”
– Sir John Richardson, friend and physician to Sir John FranklinNunavut, Canada
April 1999Five hundred miles north of nowhere, frozen, hungry, and feeling useless, Ray Kowalski is ready to give up on finding the Hand of Franklin and head back to Chicago. But when the ghost of Sir John Franklin appears, Ray and Fraser realize that only they can help him move on. Will finding the last link claim their lives - or show them the road back home again?
Thank you to KittKat for beta reading this fic.
Check out the complementary works for this fic at: https://archiveofourown.org/works/74205501 and https://archiveofourown.org/works/74415616/chapters/195035706
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A Dancing Lesson by scientist_captain
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018), Polar Explorer RPF, Historical RPF
12 Nov 2025
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After The Expedition is rescued and Crozier has settled down with the Rosses at Aston Abbotts and with a ball coming up the children need some lessons. This brings up some unexpected memories of a night in the ice at the other end of the world.
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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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- Part 1 of Slipping Off the Sealskin
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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.