"Two years ago, we were there at Christmas, as we do every year, and Danny (Liam's son) had these T-shirts made without my knowledge. Christmas Eve comes, and there's a ritual of dressing the tree. I'm last down, but they are all down in these T-shirts, but I don't know this. So I start dressing the tree, and it took about ten or fifteen minutes of pointing and sniggering for me to say, 'What is wrong with everybody?' And I hadn't seen that they were all wearing that T-shirt. That was, I guess, an early Christmas present, and that was revisited by Liam."

nobody's savior / your oldest friend

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Ahoy, Terror fans! Have you been having fun trapping lieutenants in ice cubes? Do you long to do even more fun things to them? Then you might enjoy Lieutenantfest! A 7-day celebration of the 7 lieutenants from The Terror (2018), running from July 6th to July 12th.

Benjo Plans (About The Event)

Lieutenantfest is a fanwork event dedicated to Lts. Gore, Le Vesconte, Fairholme, Little, Hodgson, Irving, and Jopson from AMC's The Terror! This is a fun and casual celebration hosted on this blog and its accompanying AO3 collection. Stay tuned for a detailed schedule for the week, along with some optional prompts for each day!

The Articles (Event Guidelines)

Rules For Participating:

No AI-generated anything allowed.

With the above caveat, any fanwork medium is welcome! Fanart, fanfiction, fanvids, playlists, edits, GIFsets, moodboards, meta, memes, photosets, fiber arts, fansongs, a cake with Fairholme's face on it, anything. Especially the Fairholme cake.

No adult content restrictions! As long as everything is properly tagged, works of all ratings and topics are allowed.

Due to the rule above, all participants must be 18+. If you create or consume any fanworks for this event, you will be assumed to be following this rule.

Feel free to combine this event with any other concurrent fandom events, such as The Terror Whumpathon!

While this event is primarily geared towards the characters from The Terror (2018), fanworks for historical RPF or other fictional depictions of the Franklin Expedition lieutenants are also welcome! This event warmly accepts fans of William Malcolm, The Ministry of Time, and everything in between.

All event prompts are 100% optional. They're meant to be inspirations, not restrictions!

All fanworks must prominently feature at least one (1) of the lieuts, but to be clear, there is no requirement to feature their actual rank! Canon divergence, AUs, crossovers, etc. are all welcome. Draw Dundy as a midshipman a few years before canon, cosplay as Werewolf!Nedward, or write about Hodge captaining a trivia team in the 21st century. :3 Get creative!

How To Participate:

No sign up required! All you need in order to participate is a Tumblr and/or AO3 account.

In order for your fanworks to be reblogged here and included in our masterlist of works at the end of the event, make sure to use the tag #lieutenantfest and/or @ this blog in your post! (And if you believe your post was missed, shoot the blog an ask or message and that'll be rectified posthaste!) Posting dates for the event are July 6th through July 12th, but feel free to use the #lieutenantfest tag and/or @ the blog with your lieut-themed WIPs any time before that so we can all get super excited and build anticipation!

For fanworks posted to AO3, please add them to our AO3 collection!

If you don't finish your creation in time to post it during the event proper, no worries! Both the AO3 collection and this blog will remain active after the "official" event dates. Never too late to post more lieuts!

Most importantly of all, have fun!!! Don't let the epaulettes fool you; nobody is standing on ceremony here. This is a lighthearted celebration intended to inspire fan creations of all kinds!

Is there anything special you require, Sir? (Questions & Concerns)

"I've always loved you, River. River is my best friend and I don't have many of them." - Keanu "That's really sweet, Keany." - River

"Every evening that we don't spend together we're on the phone." - Keanu

"He's beautiful, inventive, funny and creative, too." - Keanu

"I really would like to do Shakespeare with River. I think we’d have a hoot. We could do A Midsummer Night’s Dream or Romeo and Juliet." - Keanu "I’ll be Juliet." - River

"Meeting River was a revelation." - Keanu

"There was a lot of deep love." - River (about "Private Idaho")

"We brought good out in each other." - Keanu

"River's the best, he's a god, he's the king. I pray to the church of River Phoenix!" - Keanu

"(After a long silence) River was an exceptional person, incredible. Where is my Juliet? Bullshit. Fuck! (After another long silence) He was a really good guy." - Keanu

"I don't have any friends in the business. Just River. Oh where, oh where has my Juliet gone?" - Keanu

"I don't know what I'm going to do when I get older, do you, Keany?" - River "I'd like to maybe get a boat someday and sail around. Maybe I'll settle down and I'll raise a family. I've always wanted kids." - Keanu "I didn't know that --" - River "You never asked, dude." - Keanu "I really want kids too." - River

"It’s weird speaking about him in the past. I hate speaking about him in the past. So I almost always gotta keep it present." - Keanu

"I liked the guy and wanted to work with him." - River

"Keany, he's a sweetheart. People don't understand him." - River

BONUS: "Keanu and River were kind of soulmates, they had known each other for a few years… but they were." - Gus Van Sant

BONUS: "Suddenly he and Reeves are off, excitedly exploring the possibility of doing Shakespeare together. They stand nose to nose- Phoenix newly bleached blond as part of his bid to play the young Andy Warhol in a future Van Sant biopic, Reeves dark-haired and tanned- like positive and negative images of each other. They sustain their banter throughout the meal, as one interrupts the other, but only to complete his thought." - Interview Magazine

BONUS: "I watched how Keanu grieved. And oh, did he grieve for his friend. He’s very private, but he couldn’t hide that. And just to see that a man like that was able to grieve. And I remember thinking, God, if that’s the tip of the iceberg of his depth, and his level of love and care for a friend—that just draws you in." - Sandra Bullock

"I've always loved you, River. River is my best friend and I don't have many of them." - Keanu "That's really sweet, Keany." - River

"Every evening that we don't spend together we're on the phone." - Keanu

"He's beautiful, inventive, funny and creative, too." - Keanu

"I really would like to do Shakespeare with River. I think we’d have a hoot. We could do A Midsummer Night’s Dream or Romeo and Juliet." - Keanu "I’ll be Juliet." - River

"Meeting River was a revelation." - Keanu

"There was a lot of deep love." - River (about "Private Idaho")

"We brought good out in each other." - Keanu

"River's the best, he's a god, he's the king. I pray to the church of River Phoenix!" - Keanu

"(After a long silence) River was an exceptional person, incredible. Where is my Juliet? Bullshit. Fuck! (After another long silence) He was a really good guy." - Keanu

"I don't have any friends in the business. Just River. Oh where, oh where has my Juliet gone?" - Keanu

"I don't know what I'm going to do when I get older, do you, Keany?" - River "I'd like to maybe get a boat someday and sail around. Maybe I'll settle down and I'll raise a family. I've always wanted kids." - Keanu "I didn't know that --" - River "You never asked, dude." - Keanu "I really want kids too." - River

"It’s weird speaking about him in the past. I hate speaking about him in the past. So I almost always gotta keep it present." - Keanu

"I liked the guy and wanted to work with him." - River

"Keany, he's a sweetheart. People don't understand him." - River

BONUS: "Keanu and River were kind of soulmates, they had known each other for a few years… but they were." - Gus Van Sant

BONUS: "Suddenly he and Reeves are off, excitedly exploring the possibility of doing Shakespeare together. They stand nose to nose- Phoenix newly bleached blond as part of his bid to play the young Andy Warhol in a future Van Sant biopic, Reeves dark-haired and tanned- like positive and negative images of each other. They sustain their banter throughout the meal, as one interrupts the other, but only to complete his thought." - Interview Magazine

BONUS: "I watched how Keanu grieved. And oh, did he grieve for his friend. He’s very private, but he couldn’t hide that. And just to see that a man like that was able to grieve. And I remember thinking, God, if that’s the tip of the iceberg of his depth, and his level of love and care for a friend—that just draws you in." - Sandra Bullock

In Monk Magazine, Van Sant commented that "the campfire scene was the last thing we shot in America before we went to Europe.

About three nights before we shot the scene, he showed me a lot of stuff he had written, and it was like sixteen pages of handwritten notes with arrows and things leading to other pages and circles around words. It was a big mess. He said he was rewriting the scene and wanted to know if he could do this.

I was scared. It looked like he was freaking out. It was out of control... Sometimes actors just want you to say "No!", I didn't think he was doing that [but] he was the type of guy that wanted you to say "No." So I asked Keanu if it was all right, if River was like, stepping on his turf, because when one actor starts to write another actors' lines, it can get into this bad scene. Keanu really loved River, and he just said, "Yeah, man. Yeah."

This is the best part in the film", insists Gus, "and was chosen by River to be his big scene. He chose it because his [other] big scene, the one with his brother, had shot early, and he didn't get what he wanted out of it. So, he asked me to save the campfire scene.

He was a prolific songwriter, and he rewrote the scene like a song. Although, besides putting everything he had into the scene, he didn't really change it much. As a matter of fact, one of the ways it was changed was for him to flat-out say that he is in love with Scott."

below the cut is my 2025 ver. and the og screencap!