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Okay, so: in early drafts of Jules Verne's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Captain Nemo is a Polish guy bent on revenge against the Russian Empire for the murder of his family in the January Uprising. Verne's editor objected on the grounds that Russia was a French ally at the time of the book's writing, and in the actual, published version of the story, Nemo's national origin and precisely which empire he's pissed off at are left unspecified.
Later, in the 1875 quasi-sequel The Mysterious Island, Nemo is retconned as an Indian noble out for revenge against the British for the murder of his family in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 – basically the same as the original plan, simply substituting a different uprising and a different empire. Verne's editor raised no objections this time around, because fuck the British, right? Though Twenty Thousand Leagues and The Mysterious Island aren't 100% compatible in their respective timelines, this version of Nemo has customarily been back-ported into adaptations of Twenty Thousand Leagues ever since.
Now here's the funny part: perhaps as a jab at his editor, Verne made a specific plot point in Twenty Thousand Leagues of Professor Aronnax repeatedly trying and failing to figure out where the fuck Nemo is from. At one point his attempt to pin down Nemo's accent is frustrated by Nemo's vast multilingualism. At another point, he tries and fails to trick Nemo by quizzing him about latitude and longitude.
(To contextualise that last bit, at the time the book was written, there was no international agreement on which line of longitude should be zero degrees, and many nations had their own prime meridians; Aronnax hoped to identify Nemo's national origin by calculating which meridian he was giving his longitudes relative to. Nemo, however, immediately spots the ploy, and announces that he'll use the Paris meridian in deference to the fact that Aronnax is a Frenchman.)
The upshot is that at no point in the course of any of this Sherlock Holmes bullshit does Aronnax ever bring up the colour of Nemo's skin as a potential clue. In light of the book's publication history, this is almost certainly simply because Verne hadn't decided that Nemo was Indian yet. However, taking into account The Mysterios Island's retcon, it retroactively makes Aronnax the least racist Frenchman ever.
When Sir John is thrown into a hole in the ice James jumps in after him in a desperate and futile attempt to save the man. The consequences of taking a dip in Arctic waters catch up to him, leaving Francis to contend with the idea of maybe ending up the only expedition leader still alive. All while wrestling with the complicated feelings he has towards Fitzjames.
The Fitzier Whump I've wanted to write for ages, chapter 1 of 2 is here~ Enjoy some pre antibiotic era fun times
And then Hickey proceeded to make it necessary anyway
The Terror and OFMD mashup nobody requested but will get regardless
Oh no worries that’s just the Master! I mean
shh-im-wondering
Current number of WIPs:
Seeing this as "fics I already started and want to finish". 5. Two of which I have been putting off for years, and of those one is posted and the reason I never post unfinished multichapter fics anymore aha.
Who is one character you haven’t yet written for that you would like to?
I was gonna say Dr Stanley but I did do that... I find it hard to get used to characters so it takes ages for me to even consider though.
Are you a planner, plantser, or pantser? Is it consistent?
A planner, mostly because of that one fic WIP that I'm stuck on cause I never considered how to resolve the conflict in it, lol
Fanfic Ask Game (the movie, the sequel)
In celebration of me actually working on a fic, I made y’all an ask game instead of continuing to work on that fic. Pls enjoy.
💖 What do you like most about your own writing?
😐 What embarrasses you most about your own writing?
👻 What is one WIP you think you may never pick back up?
👀 Do you have any WIPs that you would never let see the light of day? If yes, what are they about?
📥 What is your fave fic to receive comments/messages on?
✏️ Do you write every day?
🖊 Post a snippet from a current WIP.
🏅 What is something you recently felt proud of in regard to your writing (finished a fic, actually planned for once, etc).
😈 Is there anything you enjoy doing that you think your readers hate?
🌙 What time of day do you prefer to write? Why?
👖 Are you a planner, plantser, or pantser? Is it consistent?
📊 Current number of WIPs
👨👧👧 Do you tell people in real life that you write fic?
🌝 Who is one character you haven’t yet written for that you would like to?
📝 What is one growth area you have for your writing?
📚 Do you read your own fic?
🌈 What inspired you to write [insert fic here]?
🤔 What is the hardest part of writing fic?
🧠 What’s an idea you have that you can’t quite call a WIP yet?
💻 Do you do research for your fics? What’s the deepest dive you’ve done?
✨ Choose three adjectives to complement your own writing.
💭 What is a headcanon you have about your own work?
🍰 Name one of your fave comfort fics (doesn’t have to be your all time fave).
👩🏭 If one of your fics was going to get you arrested, which one and why?
⏰ Do you spend more time reading fic, writing fic, or do you do both equally?
💋 [Freeform - what is something you want to know about one of poster’s fics?]
new year new fundraising post!
i’m hoping that my surgery consultation will be booked in the next couple of months, so i SHOULD be able to get top surgery by the end of the year! i’m autistic, and chronically ill, so saving money is incredibly difficult as i need a lot of it for living costs, and every little bit helps go towards keeping me alive and getting my chest sorted out!
i’ m super nervous about it but also just so excited, thank you so much to everyone who has already shared and donated!!
happy pride month i’m getting top surgeried in 2 weeks and 6 days pls donate if you can!
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Worst part about this is I've only ever used that yellow square emoji once and it was just to see how it looked. This isn't who I am. However, in retrospect, I suppose it is
Reading through the notes is a surreal experience please keep adding more to fuel my effervescent consumption of non descriptive emojis
shoutout to the lord of the rings lighting directors. bold move to let the audience see what's going on in nighttime scenes. i miss that.
xposting from my twitter because not enough people appreciate terror memes over there
Francis had that jacket since the 80s and he’s keeping it on regardless of weather. James has been looking forward to have his shirt open all day, so he shares the sentiment regarding outfit changes.
Happy Pride Month~
