#The wild rover

[nikki-rook]

You wanna meet the rest of my crew?

[margoton20-blog]

“You're right, Castle. It does change how I see you. It makes me like you just a little bit more.” 🥹🫶

[renegadesstuff]

“It makes me like you just a little bit more.” 🤍

[figgyblossom]

I had a wonderful experience at work last week

(I've since quit, and this actually happened on my last day which is lovely in itself)

We were closing the kitchen/line, sweeping and mopping and all that. I was sweeping, my coworker was mopping behind me, and she began to sing. She was singing the Wild Rover. I joined her.

I cannot express the incredible feeling of swabbing a kitchen while singing and stamping out a beautiful 400yr old song with a coworker & friend.. the joy, truly.

[jonsilverstone]

Hey, just letting you know there are new things on my SoundCloud, this time it’s three songs that we sang at this year’s Irish Studies Workshop (AKA the Irish Week). :D So, you know, they are the most overplayed Irish songs, but I still like them. :D And if you have a song you really like and would like to hear me do it, just send me a message, I’m currently looking for inspiration. :D

[lifewithaview]

Tamala Jones and Stana Katic in Castle (2009) The Wild Rover

S5E18

The corpse of Jimmy, a baker popular for cupcakes, is found in his industrial dough mixer. His apprentice, Todd, noticed someone in a vintage muscle car, before being sent away. The car was identified as belonging to Irish mob boss Robert 'Bobby S.' Shannon. After FBI agent Sam Walker tells the team that Jimmy was his informant, Ryan astounds everyone by revealing he had been undercover in that gang years ago. And, to save a friend, chooses to revive his alias, Fenton, and go back undercover.

*This episode begins with a cupcake cake reading "Happy 99th" on the victim's table of baked goods. This is the 99th episode of Castle.

[dciburnside]

8.21 The Wild Rover

[cuddlytogas]

maybe it's just the Radical Rediker talking, but there's something pointed in the way that, say, popular pirate media like Pirates of the Caribbean dilutes the pirate's freedom to "bring me that horizon" as opposed to, say, "plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power" (Bartholomew Roberts).

broadly speaking, most pirates chose the life in order to escape and revenge the hard labour, corporal punishment, overworking, and unequal pay of merchant/navy/privateer ships; or the privations of their sudden unemployment once a war was over, ignored as soon as their ability to die for the state was unneeded. yes, many were thugs, but, consciously political or not, they were responding to a particular, material reality.

the pirate's desired freedom was from the effects of exploitative modes of statehood and capital production. but popular media usually shifts this into a general desire for freedom: freedom to roam, freedom to love (usually merely a cross-class white, heterosexual union), or freedom from the personal pressures of social norms. it's a vague, ahistorical, post-Enlightenment, libertarian ideal rather than a response to a real social and economic situation.

to be clear, this only really applies to specifically the late golden age of piracy, in the first quarter of the 18th century. earlier generations of pirates/buccaneers often displayed nationalist/religious motives, and were lauded, tolerated, or even encouraged by the French and English states for aiding their fights against the Spanish and Portuguese. only the last gasp of age of sail pirates had a truly anti-national energy, and both figured themselves, and were figured by the imperial powers, as the enemies of all nations.

but if we are to valourise the late golden age pirate, at his best, his ideals were for true democracy, and the abolition of nation, hierarchy, and labour exploitation; not "the horizon". he was striking out in response to specific political, social, and economic oppressions, rather than a general individual restlessness, and that reality - and its similarities to our own - are important.

I dunno, I just... have a lot of thoughts about the defanging of piracy in modern media. obviously there were a lot of things bad about them, too, and the level of egalitarianism varied between individual people and ships. but again, if we're going to be valourising them anyway... there were idealists. and they weren't subtle about they wanted.

"I shan't own myself guilty of any murder", said William Fly in 1726. "Our captain and his mate used us barbarously. We poor men can't have justice done us. There is nothing said to our commanders, let them never so much abuse us, and use us like dogs. But the poor sailors --"

[beannary]

HEY TLP AND RED ROVER TIED

prissy rich boy and deranged mad scientist forced to put aside big mama and baron draxum rivalry to win poll competition.png

Red Rover au belongs to @red-rover-au

Oh also @tmntseparatedaucompetition

[melrosing]

it’s just occurring to me how much Matt Smith’s portrayal of Prince Philip seems to have inspired the actual writing of Daemon Targaryen in HOTD and that is hilarious to me like this is ur Prince???

[butterfrogmantis]

+ One extra under the cut so I don't jumpscare anyone with a naked Smurf (It's not sexual)

Also whilst I was drawing it I was thinking about how Archie's ears are usually always covered by his hat so theoretically the skeleton earring could be canon fjdksf

Under here for nudity but I'm back in a Hunter mood and I rlly like drawing vitiligo and wanted to draw smthing full body :) Not entirely sure why 'showering via leaf' was the answer but here we are

Censored via tasteful leaves.png even though as far as my xenobiology headcanons are concerned you wou-// shot

Hunter, Wild and Archaeologist (c) The Smurfs

Rover is mine

Buster and George (c) The Arthur Series

[renegadesstuff]

“YOU'RE RIGHT, CASTLE. IT DOES CHANGE HOW I SEE YOU. IT MAKES ME LIKE YOU JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE.” 🥹🤍

[alfaromeole]

As the Roman scholar Pliny the Elder already knew: something new always comes out of Land Rovers

Land Rover Series III (1971–1984), a well-traveled Brit, admirably individually built for a reasonably relaxed life on Ibiza far from the norm

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 2012 – Death of Bernard Noël 'Banjo Barney' McKenna, a musician and a much-loved founding member of The Dubliners.

Barney McKenna was the last surviving founding member of the Irish folk group the Dubliners. With Luke Kelly’s powerful voice and force of nature on stage, Ronnie Drew’s gravelly memorable vocal sound, it was McKenna’s playing of the tenor banjo, coupled with John Sheahan’s fiddle, that gave the Dubliners their original instrumental quality. In the process, McKenna redefined the role of the banjo…

[oldanimalcrossing]

Rover holding a note in a bottle.

Game: Wild World

Image obtained from Nookipedia.