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Polar Explorer RPF - Prompt Post 1
This is for prompts for all things general Polar Explorer RPF.
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Under this umbrella you can prompt:
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.
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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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FILL Cook/Amundsen - sad old man reflects on what could’ve been
(Anonymous) 2022-10-04 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)“They blacken my character,” says Roald bitterly. “But any man would have done the same. They are liars if they say otherwise!”
He took my hand — this is Frederick — and he wept right there, in my prison cell, over the many wrongs that men had done him.
“You know what they are like! They only seek to tear good men down.”
He said, just look at what they did to you, my dear Frederick. I have never doubted that you were first to reach the Pole. If all the world were against you, I would believe in you.
“Sometimes I think there is nothing pure in the world except a good death. A good death in a noble cause, hmm?”
Ah, my friend, Roald said. Sometimes I think of those days on the Belgica. We were so young, so full of hope and love. Perhaps we should have died then, when we were still great.
A wry smile. A moment of recollection. It is almost as though Roald has caught his train of thought. As though their thoughts have brushed against each other. “Do you ever think those days on the Belgica?” Roald asks.
Frederick remembers. He remembers those days. One day above them all.
“Ah,” says Roald. “We are a pair of old fools. You know I still have the tablecloth you made for me? I kept it.”
Roald said to me, I still have the tablecloth you made for me. I kept it.
The unembroidered truth has never been enough for Frederick Cook. But in that moment, he almost believes that it could be.
Re: FILL Cook/Amundsen - sad old man reflects on what could’ve been
(Anonymous) 2022-10-05 01:47 am (UTC)(link)Re: FILL Cook/Amundsen - sad old man reflects on what could’ve been
(Anonymous) 2022-10-06 01:29 am (UTC)(link)🥺 oh no my heart!! oh I love the interplay between the truth and Cook’s cooking of said truth and then again the truest truth running through both versions of the visit!
😭 oh Fred! Another thing I love about this, you can see still that each is a bit of an egotist, and yet the affection between them is simple, stripped of vanity. They ARE an old pair of fools! ❤️
Re: FILL Cook/Amundsen - sad old man reflects on what could’ve been
(Anonymous) 2022-10-06 01:30 am (UTC)(link)I feel so lucky and also very sad, in the good way 🥹
Re: FILL Cook/Amundsen - sad old man reflects on what could’ve been
(Anonymous) 2023-01-14 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)