#pyrates

[hang-on-lil-tomato]

[izahelle]

[aiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiaia]

[veevkelenthusiast]

lovely lady

[becauseitwasi]

Passive Aggression.

[rmelster]

—𝐍𝐈𝐊𝐎𝐋𝐀𝐈 𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐒𝐎𝐕.

Sail on, my swift one! nothing fear; Nor calm, nor storm, nor foeman’s force Shall make thee yield in thy career, Or turn thee from thy course.

—José de Espronceda, “The Song of the Pirate” (1835)

This one is for dear @ricardian-werewolf . I haven’t seen or read Shadow & Bone yet, but I hope this Nikolai moodboard makes him justice!

[askthechronoverse]

All rise.

We're getting off track... and way too mushy. I'm calling MetalBeard to the stand!

Hey! Big guy! Tell the court what RJ is really like!

Aye. He'd be an inconsiderate and annoying man who don't play by any rules! The scallywag has been nothing but a bane on the high space seas since the day he came into our lives! He deserves to be thrown in the brig for the rest of his life!

[reading-backstage]

fun fact: most of the information we know about classic pirates (blackbeard, anne bonny, mary read, calico jack) is from one book. and it’s more hilarious the more you know.

A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates (or A General History of Pyrates) by Captain Charles Johnson

firstly: captain charles johnson is not a person nor a captain. it’s a pen name. and we have no clue who he actually was. he probably chose “captain” to give himself a sense of credibility he did not have. (could possibly have been daniel defoe or nathaniel mist and you can actually find modern copies printed under both their names)

secondly: he made a lot of it up. he gathered whatever information was available and just made up the rest and anything he thought would make it cooler. that’s not even to mention the second volume where he made up several entire people. this dude was just making stuff up and it’s now the earliest history we have of these people and we’ve accepted it as fact.

thirdly: it was initially published in 1724. (golden age of piracy was 1650s-1830s, dude was writing about the present) several of the pirates he writes about were still alive. and the rest were very recently dead. (henry every is an outlier) he was literally making up facts about people who were very much alive likely while he was writing it.

so this mysterious random dude made up stories about pirates who were still running around killing people and it’s now accepted as pirate cannon. amazing

[teal-skull]

If I had an infinate amount of time tu study in university, and infinate amoutn of money, I would study to get a degree in english translation and translate Charles Johnson's A General History of the Pyrates into finnish because why the fuck has this classic of pirate literature NOT have a finnish translation? Alexander Exquemelin's Buccaneers of America has a finnish translation (although from the 70s) why not this classic as well?

[yronnia]

Look how proud Stede is about his foliage and how well he took care of the spoils of the first swashbuckling.

[elmo-f-tree]

hi i love you hi hi hi I love you hi I love you hi hi I love you hi. what's a fun fact you have off the top of your head

i’m actually working on an essay on the depiction of gender, race, and socioeconomic class in a book about pirates from the 1720s (it’s not a good essay but it is the Context for why i am researching).

the INTERESTING thing is that this book that is one of few primary sources we have about anne bonny and mary read (female pirates from the golden age of piracy) and we don’t even know for sure who wrote it. we know that whoever DID write was not entirely truthful in his description of what happened (like really untruthful to the extent my professor compared it to the movie braveheart in regards to its historical accuracy)

this is likely more than you wanted but it is On My Brain

and LOVE YOU TOO

[ourfag]

im like in between tasks rn (in an autism way) (difficult) but i NEED to make this poll before i forger

[shiningnorthernlights]

“a new world” - amber gray from the royal pyrate: a new musical

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Two notorious cross-dressing women became female pirates: Mary Reid and Anne Bonny, whose story was published as A General History of the Pirates in 1724.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[sooforme6]

1905, 24 octobre 2022

[krakensmaw]

i'm awake and i'm thinking about how ed is touch starved and kisses like a man dying of thirst, like he's trying to pull your very soul from the depths and make it a part of himself