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It is Sir John and Lady Jane’s ongoing trial that Francis wished to marry Miss Sophia Cracroft. Oh, but there are so many more appropriate men - even those better matched within the Discovery Service! Why, a well-placed engagement could improve mutual reputations and cause quite the ‘it’ pair within the Admiralty. Thus, upon an embarrassing and early return to England, Sophia Cracroft and James Fitzjames are strongly encouraged by the Franklins that their pairing would be fortuitous, elevate their standing, and offset some of the detrimental press caused by another failed attempt at the Passage. Hilarity ensues.
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09 Oct 2025
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Captain Francis Crozier spends a fortnight in Positano.
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02 Aug 2025
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The post. It’s one of life’s little domesticities, isn’t it?
There’s a pile shoved so high in the letterbox that Francis briefly wonders if they’ve actually been on holiday for a week in some sort of fugue state and that’s why he doesn’t remember having ever been gone. The only thing assuring him of his continued sanity is that there was the same amount yesterday and there’ll likely be the same again tomorrow and the day after and the day after until he’s in the ground and it becomes James’ problem.
The perks of dating a younger fellow; he’s sure to go first and he won’t have to worry about dying alone in his flat anymore.
A story where James gets invited to his class reunion and Francis plans a holiday for them.
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24 Jul 2025
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where tears flow, and teeth gnash by cosmicevil
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018), The Terror - Dan Simmons
11 Jul 2025
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In the fall of 1844, months before embarking upon an expedition from which neither man will wholly return, the captains of HMS Terror and Erebus meet for the first time.
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15 Jul 2025
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A winter of going back and forth between the city and the court at Richmond. The King is a man in the Classical mould; the weather has turned, and he will be thinking now of his deer, Christmas, his horse and hounds, and it will be their job to bring him those things that pertain to a monarch of the here and now, and not just a chevalier of the Chanson des Saisnes.
I’ll draw the form and model of our battle, Limit each leader to his several charge, And part in just proportion our small power.
- Richmond, Richard III, Act V, Scene III.Series
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13 Jul 2025