Polar Explorer RPF - Prompt Post 1

[coldboys]

This is for prompts for all things general Polar Explorer RPF.

If you've filled (or started filling) a prompt, please make sure to link it in the comments of the Fills Post. And if you would like to cross-post your fills on AO3, here is the collection!

Under this umbrella you can prompt: 

• Historical versions of Franklin Expedition(-adjacent) guys (Rossier, Gore/McClure, etc)
• Madhouse at the End of the Earth/Belgica Expedition
• Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration - Shackleton, Scott, Amundsen, Mawson
• Andrée Expedition
  
• Karluk Expedition
• etc

Prompts in line with adaptations of Heroic Age stories can also fit here, for example if you want to specifically prompt Hugh Grant!Cherry from The Last Place On Earth getting wrecked (which someone really should). 

No blorbo too obscure for this post! EXCEPT: NO PEARY ALLOWED. God I hate that guy.



Rules: 

1. Be fucking nice. YKINMATO/KINKTOMATO at all times.

 

2. This meme is CNTW (Choose Not To Warn) but warnings are highly encouraged.

 

3. Prompts should use this format in the subject line: [SHIP], [DESCRIPTION]

e.g.

Mertz/Ninnis, sex crying

 

Solo gen can be prompted as well alongside (a) character name and description

e.g.

Gen, Emil Racovitza, discovering a crazy new fish

 

4. Fills should use this format in the subject line: FILL: [TITLE], [PAIRING], [RATING], [ANY WARNINGS]

e.g.

Fill: The Very Next Day, Cherry/Birdie, E, cw self-harm

 

5. One prompt per comment please. 

 

6. Multiple fills for each prompt are welcome! 

 

7. You don't have to be anon for your prompts or your fills but we do encourage it because of the vibe. You're also welcome to deanon your stuff by posting on AO3/Tumblr as you please! 

 

8. Feedback on prompts and fills is AWESOME; please take longer conversations to the discussion post.

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Re: FILL: Gore/McClure, gen

[(Anonymous)]

Anon. I donot know how to thank you for this. For this perfect poetry. For a portrait of THGG so exquisite I kept forgetting it had been written by a person and didn't just exist as a historical fact the way the weather just exists in the sky.

The repetition of 'His curls are still dark' made me feel fucking crazy, symbolic as it was of Gore's insistence on the obedience and constancy of his physical body (even when,e.g., his parents age - devastatingly observed btw, the mild way he thinks 'Australia then' about a matter of pretty major significance!!!)

I loved the cleanness and tautness of your sentences, which suited the rigorous (even rigid) care Gore takes to not look back, not regret, not anticipate, just look firmly for his path. Such a fitting, brilliant use of style, but also very exact with what you're portraying - it's not that Gore is simple but that he exercises consistent control, and I can feel that very control in your prose.

And of course... lol... I'm so demented about the little cat ghost of McClure's projected desires. Writing endless letters and never getting them answered! The McClure Curse. I'm going to have to return to it because I can't think about it without honk honk honk honk honk honk but the subtle eroticism of the paws kneading his back when he's trying to sleep, the weight of another being when there's no one there... Gore being a little complicit in this projection, perhaps even wilfully imagining it... HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK...