#potc calypso

[cupcakeshakesnake]

Ok I caved. Old couple goes to Costco

[elventhespian]

Here's a bunch of dumb Pirates memes I've made over the years

[the-blackened-pearl]

more Jack-Calypso parallels

for the soul <3

“The Pelegostos believe Jack is a god in human form and they intend to do him the honor of releasing him from his fleshy prison.” - Gibbs, Dead Man’s Chest

“In another age, at this very spot, the First Brethren Court captured the sea goddess and bound her in her bones. That was a mistake. […] Gentlemen. Ladies. We must free Calypso.” - Barbossa, At World’s End

I GO MAD OVER THESE PARALLELS

[cjbolan]

Just had a thought : what if Tia Dalma/Calypso is THE Calypso? From The Odyssey ? She is a goddess, she clearly has a thing for sailors, it’s funny to imagine after leaving Odysseus she rebounded onto Davy Jones.

(Also Elizabeth Swann being a noblewoman would’ve definitely be educated on “The Odyssey “. Maybe she’s the first to realize Calypso is THE Calypso?)

More thoughts after listening to The Wisdom Saga.

[yourfriendlypyrovampire]

She's just like her namesake 😂

[dandelion-blues]

Hold Fast, Captain.

A Percy Jackson and Pirates of the Caribbean adventure!

The Prince of the Sea.

Oh! the dead dare to dream.

The cursed sought to claim,

If only the red blood would remain.

You dare touch the Storm’s chosen,

The one crowned by black roses.

Yo ho! A pirate may lust,

But will never earn his trust.

So pretty, the pearl of the sea,

Singing the siren shanties.

Drown in the depths of his eyes.

Oh! He'll be your demise.

Yo ho! Dancing till dawn,

The Hero won’t be treated as a pawn.

Oh! Lavish him in your riches,

To evade swimming with the fishes.

~~~

Many a pirate felt the calling of the sea in their very blood. They felt the sea salt air thicken as the waves crashed against their wooden vessels. The clear sky seared into their being.

Oh, it was the calm before the storm, they knew. Something was coming. For the Goddess of the Seas called her fish back, leaving the pirates blessed by her domain without their meals. It was her way to protect all those of the sea and send a message to thee. Only a fool would choose to ignore it, lest they wished for their death.

Their dreams filled with a young man, his face never clearly seen, but had the eyes not of a man but of the sea. Oh, blessed one of the seas.

“The Prince is coming,” the Goddess whispered in their dreams, to all those traveling on her waters. Her voice like the very tides. Ebbing and flowing in a soft crescendo. But in her voice held power, a power that spoke of a Goddess with many depths. A low symphony to her hidden trenches, deep and dangerous underneath the crystalline voice of her shallow shores.

Oh, Goddess of the Mirror World. Calypso, the Goddess of summer tides, the sea’s storm and might, the rescuer of the souls lost at sea, and the final judge of all those who dare journey her seas! Don’t mistake her for the daughter of Atlas, for she is more powerful than thee. She is this world’s Goddess of the Seas!

~~~

Dark eyes open. He swallows deeply, his voice but a whisper amongst the ship’s rocking waves, “The Prince is coming.”

Jack Sparrow, captain of the Black Pearl, looks to the horizon. Somehow, he knows he's in for something grand once again. He’ll survive this trial, this test, from the Goddess of the Seas. He knows he can.

For now, though, he’ll be drinking his weight in rum to forget the coming storm.

Notes:

Here's a little snippet of this idea that I've had on the backburner for a while now, but I finally decided to write.

I honestly really love this! And there really needs to be more Percy Jackson and Pirates of the Caribbean crossovers!

Also, I am fully headcannoning Captain Jack Sparrow as Aroallo!

"...my first and only love is the sea." ~Jack Sparrow.

[keykidpilipili]

Thinking again about KH3 POTC and I wonder if IN-UNIVERSE Calypso/Tia Dalma's decision to favor Sora was to stall the org and heartless away from the movie plot. Plus with her foresight powers from the movies, she'd know about the revived kraken who'd get in the way of Davy Jones' butt kicking and want to have SDG ready to take it down.

[florals-cardigan]

Davy Jones and Calypso at my work

[cupcakeshakesnake]

Some kind of important day

[kakastravakaianapoda]

here have some more of those silly goobers it's on the house

potc + textposts part 15/?

part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4 part 5 part 6 part 7 part 8 part 9 part 10 part 11 part 12 part 13 part 14 part 16

Very Special Dmtnt edition part 1 part 2 part 3

[elventhespian]

Was reminded by another one that confuses people

There are Two Separate Curses Affecting Davy Jones at the Same Time

This one confuses a lot of people because key dialog that helped make it more clear was cut in a deleted scene. The Captain of the Flying Dutchman being trapped ferrying souls until their true love frees them is one ... magical contract, we'll call it. It can be a curse in its own way, if you don't want to do it. But really it's a duty that Calypso created for the sake of the souls of the dead, and then she abandoned Jones to that duty. AS A PART OF THAT, if the Captain chooses NOT to do his duties and uphold his end of the contract, then the more aggressive part of the curse "activates" and the crew starts turning into fishmen. That's one curse/magic.

Stabbing the heart to kill the captain, and then being required to take the captain's place, is a separate thing Davy Jones did to himself. He did it, as mentioned earlier, to save himself from his own conscience, A, and then he likely put the "yours must take its place" geas upon it to protect himself.

I have created a chart for the trilogy curses to help illustrate this differently:

Okay. There's a few plot points I keep seeing people misunderstand about PotC, so I'm gonna be annoying and make a little list of them with their more canon explanations here. Obviously, feel free to re-interpret these things in fanfics and art etc. It's fun to go, "Well, in MY version, THIS is how it works." Unironically: great! Do that if you want!

But for the sake of fandom META, I gotta clarify these points:

Davy Jones did NOT cut his heart out because he loved Calypso "too much" and wanted to numb the pain of loving her

This is the story Will and the audience is told by Calypso as Tia Dalma in Dead Man's Chest--and is the story she apparently believes. It's the story Jones himself probably prefers people believe. It's poetic and sad and makes him look like a victim. But it is a false narrative, and we're shown that in the third movie. Will discovers what the truth is for the audience in At World's End when he meets with Jones and Beckett. He realizes Jones really cut his heart out, because he sold Calypso out to the Brethren Court in revenge and then wanted to numb the guilt of that betrayal, so he could move on without looking back, pretending he "did nothing wrong" even though he cognitively knows it was deeply wrong. Davy Jones didn't simply cut the love out of his chest, he cut his conscience out and buried it in the earth where he cannot go, because he was THAT committed to making her suffer the way he felt he was made to suffer. He would rather mutilate his own body and soul than free Calypso, he is that bitter.

The world isn't a flat earth in PotC

The most basic answer to this is this: it's PotC. The writers like to put intentional contradictions and paradoxes in there for the humor and funsies. "How do you find an island that cannot be found unless it already is?" (Shrug!) "How do you sail off the edge of a world shaped with no edges?" (Shrug!) Don't ask questions, get in the boat.

But if you want a more in-universe explanation, it's a little more complicated:

Earth is still a canonical globe. Beckett owns globes in his offices and is working on having the whole world charted, to force it open for consumption. Jack's sign out in CotBP is about exploring what's over the horizon. In a deleted bit of dialogue from their first scene together, Will questions Beckett why the East India company is in the Caribbean at all, and Beckett asserts, "We are east of India, just the long way around." This isn't something that's specified very well in the final cut of the movies, so this one makes sense for people to not totally get but: the charts they steal from Sao Feng are important because those rotating circles are meant to show seven plains of reality and how the movement of the stars guides access to them. We're never told what the other six plains of reality are, we only know they chart beyond the mortal world, including the world of the dead. People are only able to sail off the "edge of the world" after passing through the Farthest Gate into a new plain of reality. That's what that ice cave is that they sailed through, the Farthest Gate. Because it's a gate that moves with the stars, it might not always be a giant ice cave. Sailing over the Mirror Seas was meant to convey being in that new plain of reality. Whether the Mirror Seas are another whole world and a separate ring on the map or just a liminal space between realities is for us to decide. (I vote the latter.)

While there isn't a canon model of how the edge of the world "works," we know that the world is not flat. There's lots of other models you can play with: for example, I like to imagine it more like Saturn, with something of a spiritual "ring" of extended seas around it that moves, and that's what you have to find and sail over to make it to the Seas of the Dead without dying or needing the power of the Green Flash. Or MAYBE--if you like that post comparing Will and Legolas to each other--it could be compared to Middle-Earth, where the physical world has been bent into a sphere but there's like ... the path along the world's old, flat shape that can be found by elves following Earendil or whatever? The Silmarillion's hard to summarize succinctly, okay?

The entire underworld isn't all Davy Jones' Locker

The PotC underworld is basically an expanded, alternate version of the ancient Mediterranean underworlds--Greek, Egyptian etc--with us only getting glimpses of the oceans around the Pirate equivalents of Tartarus, Elysium and all that. But the Locker is one specific limbo-like space something like purgatory, and it prevents souls from making their journey to the afterlife. It also is supposed to look different to each person trapped there--for Jack it happened to appear like salt flats because that's his personal hell: unable to travel the seas, only having himself for company. (Which... the marooning of pre-CotBP. Just saying.) Once the Black Pearl sets sail on the seas of the dead, and the characters start seeing the spirits of the dead in and on the waters, they're not in the Locker anymore. They're wandering the wider underworld, looking for a way out.

Elizabeth and Will cannot just go meet at sea in the ten years after AWE

There's two problems/conditions with Will and Elizabeth's separation people seem to have not noticed in the movies--either because the dialog isn't an overt statement or people miss the explanations altogether.

Going back to some of what I've established with traveling to the edge of the world: Will is not in the same world/reality as Elizabeth while serving on the Dutchman. That's part of what is meant to be represented by him disappearing in a green flash--he's crossing the boundary into the other world. He sails the seas of the dead, the underworld that they spent the first third of the movie getting to. And while's he's not technically dead, functionally for Elizabeth, it's as though he is for those ten years--if he's doing the job as required, she's not gonna wander around the ocean and just come upon him around shipwrecks or whatever. Will cannot leave the underworld without breaking the terms of the contract. Davy Jones was sailing the seas of the living, because he very deliberately DID break the contract and abandoned his job as the psychopomp of the underworld's oceans. That's the whole reason he and the Dutchman's crew were cursed. He just... didn't care about that part anymore. Will can only do the same thing, wandering the world of the living, if he accepts becoming cursed and trapped as the Dutchman's captain until someone kills him.

I'm gonna self-reblog for my next points, because apparently I'm hitting a character limit on this post.

[kickingthepirate]

another late night idea for a potc shitpost, 2nd edition with a very underrated duo, calypso and barbossa. This is them in a nutshell to me.

meme edited by kickingthepirate - do not repost without credit

[moretolose]

NAOMIE HARRIS As TIA DALMA/CALYPSO PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN (2006-2007)

[transcrewonthedutchman]

One can wish for a happy ending, Even if it feels.... Oh so far away

[mamsellemadeleine]

Wolves and sheep

[owenhcrper]

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST - Costumes