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libraralien) wrote2020-01-22 10:22 pm
libraralien) wrote2020-01-22 10:22 pm
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Snowflake Challenge #9
Challenge #9
In your own space, promote at least one canon that you adore (old, new, forever fandom).
I am going with a new-ish one, because the first blushes of love seems like a good time to sing a canon's praises. I am promoting The Terror! It's a miniseries, depicting a fictionalized account of Franklin's lost expedition to the Arctic. The fictionalized part is that, well, we don't know exactly what happened so any depiction is going to be fictionalized, but also there is a magical monster killing them (along with the scurvy, starvation, freezing to death, etc.). I actually resisted watching the show for a while because I was put off by the supernatural and horror elements, but eventually I fell to the siren call of Age of Sail fiction, and then I fell hard.
Some selling points:
- It is a miniseries! Only ten hour-long episodes of your time!
- Even minor characters feel distinctive and get their own moments and friendships and relationships and stories. Which is to say: rich material for multishippers. I don't strongly have an OTP for the show, but rather, enjoy pushing any two or more of these boys together and seeing what happens.
- If you like Age of Sail fiction in general it has a lot of the good stuff (forced proximity from close quarters, a homosocial environment, manful bravery and even more manful crying, institutionalized homophobia, Victorians, sodomy, and it's friend, the lash)
- That's right, the lash. For those for whom this is a selling point: there is a flogging scene.
- You will get to have even more feelings about "Northwest Passage" by Stan Rogers than I assume everyone already does.
- It knows it's a show about colonialism and the futility of empire, these things don't go unexamined.
- Complex shades of morality, but also as much as there is a villain, there is a very fun villain.
- Hurt/comfort. Also just...Hurt.
- It's dark, but rather than everyone getting crueler as things get worse, they instead get kinder and more loving to one another which just makes it hurt more! It's awful, just awful!
- I absolutely cried my eyes out at most episodes, but also found plenty to be horny about. What more do you need from a canon?
If anyone is considering watching it and has any questions, or wants any specific content warnings, just let me know (there are certainly plenty of things one might want to be warned about). If you do decide to join me, I am happy to talk (or just squee) about it!
In your own space, promote at least one canon that you adore (old, new, forever fandom).
I am going with a new-ish one, because the first blushes of love seems like a good time to sing a canon's praises. I am promoting The Terror! It's a miniseries, depicting a fictionalized account of Franklin's lost expedition to the Arctic. The fictionalized part is that, well, we don't know exactly what happened so any depiction is going to be fictionalized, but also there is a magical monster killing them (along with the scurvy, starvation, freezing to death, etc.). I actually resisted watching the show for a while because I was put off by the supernatural and horror elements, but eventually I fell to the siren call of Age of Sail fiction, and then I fell hard.
Some selling points:
- It is a miniseries! Only ten hour-long episodes of your time!
- Even minor characters feel distinctive and get their own moments and friendships and relationships and stories. Which is to say: rich material for multishippers. I don't strongly have an OTP for the show, but rather, enjoy pushing any two or more of these boys together and seeing what happens.
- If you like Age of Sail fiction in general it has a lot of the good stuff (forced proximity from close quarters, a homosocial environment, manful bravery and even more manful crying, institutionalized homophobia, Victorians, sodomy, and it's friend, the lash)
- That's right, the lash. For those for whom this is a selling point: there is a flogging scene.
- You will get to have even more feelings about "Northwest Passage" by Stan Rogers than I assume everyone already does.
- It knows it's a show about colonialism and the futility of empire, these things don't go unexamined.
- Complex shades of morality, but also as much as there is a villain, there is a very fun villain.
- Hurt/comfort. Also just...Hurt.
- It's dark, but rather than everyone getting crueler as things get worse, they instead get kinder and more loving to one another which just makes it hurt more! It's awful, just awful!
- I absolutely cried my eyes out at most episodes, but also found plenty to be horny about. What more do you need from a canon?
If anyone is considering watching it and has any questions, or wants any specific content warnings, just let me know (there are certainly plenty of things one might want to be warned about). If you do decide to join me, I am happy to talk (or just squee) about it!