#jfj207

Did a bit of calligraphy for Jimmy Fitz’s birthday - and what better to write than a bit of his own poetry?

Summary: Venice, 1845. Carnevale. James Fitzjames is at a private masked ball in his prettiest gown and an elaborate red wig. Where he meets a stranger with a soft brogue, who makes a very specific request.

This is for the prodigiously talented and generous @corinthes​, who gave me three dizzyingly wonderful prompts for the James Fitzjames Birthday Extravanganza. I do not deserve you.

Excerpt below the cut.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Terror (TV 2018) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Captain Francis Crozier/Commander James Fitzjames Characters: Commander James Fitzjames, Thomas Jopson, Francis Crozier, William Coningham, Elizabeth Coningham, Edward Philips Charlewood, Thomas Blanky, Sir James Clark Ross, Lady Ann Ross, Thomas Hartnell, Lt John Irving, Sarah Carleton Charlewood, Background & Cameo Characters Additional Tags: Background Relationships, bridglar, Joplittle, hartving, Weddings, Wedding Planning, Trans Female Character, trans woman fitzjames, historical concepts of gender, Gender Identity, Accidental Outing, but not maliciously and nothing bad happens, JFJ207 Series: Part 2 of this is how my world gets made Summary:

“You know,” Francis said, later that evening. “I told William that we were living as husband and wife, but we haven’t really had anything like a wedding, have we. I only started calling you Lady Crozier when we went to Portugal, because anything else would have been suspect.”

James looked up from the sketch he’d been doing, Francis in profile. “Francis… we can’t. There isn’t a church in the world that would marry us.”

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Terror (TV 2018) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Captain Francis Crozier/Commander James Fitzjames Characters: Captain Francis Crozier, Commander James Fitzjames, Louis Braille, Background & Cameo Characters Additional Tags: Blind Character, Blindness, coming to terms with disability, braille and other early hand reading methods, mild historical ableism, nothing derogatory, just like old language usage, Tenderness, hand holding, minor discussion of eye trauma in end notes, JFJ207 Summary:

James’ sight had begun to fail on their long walk toward Fort Resolution. It had started with his left eye, and, while at first it had seemed contained, by the time they were England bound aboard the Enterprise, his right eye had begun to fail as well. When they finally reached England’s shores, five long years after they sailed, James had gone completely blind.

Of course my first ever full figure drawing is him in lingerie. Happy birthday Jimmy² Fitzy! 🥰🥳