incorrectist
Fandoms
Recent works
-
Tags
Summary
The picture of Fitzjames in Francis’s mind begins to crystalize: this is an audition. Though Fitzjames is no Arctic veteran, though he has no experience that would justify his position as Francis’s second or even his lieutenant—he will prove that he has other skills. He will prove that he is a fast learner. Francis lets himself imagine, just for a moment, Fitzjames bent and bound over his desk on Terror, waiting to be made useful. It's thrilling.
James Fitzjames petitions for a job.
-
Tags
Summary
Dennis hates that he bends over backwards for his family, that he’s uprooted his life yet again for people who don’t have the decency to call him by his name. If his mother truly has vascular dementia, she may have some time to get her affairs in order, but it is a progressive disease. It’s unclear at what rate and how dramatically she will decline, but she will decline. Dennis just wants to be spared from bearing the news to the rest of his family.
Dennis's mother has a stroke. As he deals with the complexities of his extended family in Broken Bow, his relationship with Robby shifts.
-
Tags
Summary
As the stranger turns his head, the shadow of his hat shifts and James all at once recognizes the dour, scowl-scarred face of George Barrow, wagging his finger at John the way one might scold a dog. James still cannot hear them, but he can read snippets of the conversation on their lips, and it is unpleasant. He catches the words “rat’s den” and “degenerate” as George’s voice rises, and the chatter of the bar falls away apprehensively. It sounds like George has gone to great pains tracking his brother here—and has found himself drinking in the process.
-
to find there but the road back home again by incorrectist
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018)
06 Jul 2025
Tags
Summary
It is a week since the execution, by Francis Crozier’s estimate. The caulker’s mate is dead: shamed, hanged, and then mauled. The creature does not give chase afterwards, but when Crozier returns to the scene he finds the limp body of Solomon Tozer, untouched, left swaying on the gallows like an offering.
After, they no longer make camp–they sleep in shifts on their sledges, twenty or thirty at a time. On their third rotation, James Fitzjames collapses in his harness and is relegated to a sledge with the other dying men. Francis Crozier is best driven by action, so he does not brood over his second’s broken body–he hauls, two shifts at a time, until he can think of nothing but the weight of the sledge and the shale beneath his feet. He hauls, and when he sleeps, he dreams of hauling.
So when the fireworks come, Francis Crozier is not looking.
-
Tags
Summary
Shamefully, James prefers when Francis is a less considerate lover. James likes to be the object of fierce and selfish want, he likes to be taken from; this is the idea of Francis, and indeed the form he took the first few times they were together, that leaves James feeling hot under his collar and rubbing himself raw in his berth at night.
It is this that further complicates things: when Francis bellowed at him in the wardroom tonight, on Terror, when he lunged and raised his fist to James and struck him—James wanted him then. And in the split second after it happened, when James’s confused mind had stuttered, Francis (wicked, unobservant, indefensibly drunk as he was) had noticed.
Recent bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
Robby hadn’t moved. His jaw had locked so tightly it hurt. Disgust curled low in his stomach. Not at Whitaker, never at Whitaker. How could he let this happen? Under his watch, in his ED of all places. It felt irrational. Possessive. Territorial in a way Robby hated recognizing. If he hadn’t been so thoroughly revolted by the thought of Whitaker ending up with Park, he might have found the blush steadily spreading across the kid's face unbearably endearing.
Instead it only made something inside him twist. Whitaker deserved someone careful. Someone patient. Someone better than a shark. Someone even better than Robby.
Or, Park The Shark asks Dennis out and Robby learns that Dennis has never gone "all the way" with a guy before. He has a lot of mixed emotions about that.
Series
- Part 15 of Hucklerobby Fics
Bookmarked by incorrectist
08 Jul 2026
-
Tags
Summary
“You’ll have to hold on, okay?” Robby chuckled, and Whitaker could feel his body shake, because they were sitting on the same flimsy, stupid seat. Nope. Nope, nope, nope. This was not happening. Some time ago, he remembered cussing out motorcyclists in their entirety, especially the ones who didn’t wear helmets, after a particularly bad collision incident had left them with six casualties, four entirely preventable. It didn’t seem relevant here. Dr Robby was driving. He felt his morals slipping away by the second.
“Hold on to where?” And yes, Whitaker was aware of how weird and stretched out his voice sounded, and no, he was not going to unpack that right now.
“Me.”
or
A lift home on the back of Robby’s Triumph Bonneville one evening pushes Whitaker’s inconvenient crush on his attending into the danger zone, and Robby seems entirely aware of this.
Set across the Friday evenings until the end of the year. A Christmas, a birthday & a happy new year.
Bookmarked by incorrectist
10 Jun 2026
-
The Light That Comes Through by kenwayyed for chesthighwater
Fandoms: The Terror (TV 2018)
29 May 2026
Tags
Summary
Francis returns to his cabin from seeing off David Young on his transport to Erebus to find that his chess set has been disturbed.
It’s barely anything. Two pawns and a knight on either side of the board have been touched, and the white king and queen moved forward one row. There isn’t any semblance of strategy to the way the board has been set up: more white pieces than black have been moved, for a start. It does not seem like the intention was for any serious game to play out. Rather, it seems as though whoever touched the board was merely looking to amuse himself to pass the time.
Of course, Francis knows exactly who it was that rearranged the chess set. He knows it was Fitzjames, because he watched him do it.
Or: five times Francis is distracted by James’s hands without him noticing, and one time James makes excellent use of that distraction.
Bookmarked by incorrectist
31 May 2026
-
Tags
Summary
They had come to be a highlight of his day, these missives from his boss. They made him feel special, chosen to see Robby’s revival play out in real time, although it was possible Robby was texting others too, maybe Abbot or Dana or Noelle. It had gotten to the point that Whitaker, never the biggest fan of smartphones—of any flashy tech, really—would scramble to retrieve his device from whatever odd shelf or surface he’d forgotten it on the second he heard it buzz. When it was Robby, his expression would involuntarily screw into an amused little grin, scanning the text a few times before deciding how to respond. If it was anyone else, Santos asking about bills, his mother badgering him to visit, he would drop his phone unceremoniously between the couch cushions and ignore the message for hours.
But Robby hadn’t sent one in days—six days, to be exact.
On his way home from Canada, Robby goes radio silent and his favorite resident spirals. When he comes home two weeks before he was scheduled to and finds Whitaker standing half-naked in his kitchen, things get even more complicated. (Or, everyone in Dennis Whitaker's life is falling apart around him, and he doesn't know how to not help.)
Bookmarked by incorrectist
07 May 2026
-
Tags
Summary
Fitzjames rose from his chair and held out his hand. “Cheer up, Francis, we’re climbing Everest.”
Christ alive.
“No one since Mallory has found that a cheerful idea,” Francis said and shook Fitzjames’ hand, which was warm and slender and startlingly soft. “And look where he ended up.”
Bookmarked by incorrectist
03 May 2026