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    (have no fear of falling)

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    Maccadam's Old Oil House once again welcomes all lifeforms! Here to serve you good engex with great cheer.
    All complaints can be taken out of the door where you are very welcome to start your own bar. Karaoke nights every fifth cycle.

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    I’ll not have a picture, he thinks, gazing grimly at James’ drawn, damaged face. I’ll not have a miniature to tuck inside my breast pocket, or a sketch made on a winter’s evening by the fireside. It will be my own burden to remember him, until such a time as this cursed land takes me, too.

    Twenty five men return to England. For Francis, this means making a poor job of keeping James from scuttling his career, and working out what a sea captain might do with himself in the absence of a ship.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    Fitzjames volunteered to sail with Sir James Ross to the Antarctic, but the Admiralty wanted a return from his expensive training on the Excellent, so he was appointed gunnery lieutenant to HMS Ganges instead. He never got as far as an interview with Ross.

    A what-if, and the adventure that follows.

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    04 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    so so good. loved reading between lines and just. mwah

  3. Rec 7

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    Dearest Francis,
    By now you have perhaps understood my idiotic mistake, or alternatively you cast the missive in the furnace unopened; in any case, I am writing you once more to repeat those sentiments which I expressed in my first letter. Fortune has provided me with an unparalleled opportunity of revision, and I shall take it with both hands, minding most of all truthfulness, and clarity, and the force of what I am to say. Francis.


    A narrative through letters of the lives of one James Fitzjames and one Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier (Captains in the Royal Navy), c.1849-1853.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    James looks out across a once more friendly ocean as they sail for British port. James has no idea where he's going to stay-- until Francis catches wind of this, that is. He insists James joins him staying at the Ross' family home.

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    03 Jun 2026

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    There are nights when no one dreams, or dreams are small and life-sized: espresso grounds and science books, the tenure track, or people; broken strings and shipwrecked boats, dishabille, or seagulls.

    A story of cognitive dissonance and emotional devotion. Drs. Geiszler and Gottlieb deal with the complexities of the post-drift psychological state in a fine-ass, mature blaze of physics puns, banter, poorly prepared meals, questionable wardrobe choices, and, of course, science.

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    29 Aug 2025

    Bookmarker's Notes

    so many things i owe to this fic (including my username here, haha). my love for it is immeasurable. thank you