#it's FINALLY fridayyyyyyyyyyy

[buscandoelparaiso]

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[jurakan]

FUN. FACT. FRIDAYYYYYYYYYYY.

Alright friendo, Ima be real for you. On my draft post in which I keep ideas, I had one that was that one time a guy tried to challenge Bruce Lee to a fight by sneaking into his yard, but as amusing as that story is I can't find any references to back that up. I saw it first on TV Tropes and it has no names other than Bruce Lee's, so I can't verify that it's a fact. Or something anyone has ever actually heard of. I can't even pass it off as an urban legend.

That one will have to be shelved for now.

So. Actual kind of urban legend mixed in with some history. Because why not!

Today You Learned:

So Blackbeard. The man rocks and I love him. This is probably common knowledge (if it's not consider it part of the fun fact) that he was immensely hard to kill. The story goes that in battle the man died in his final battle only after taking twenty sword wounds and five gunshots. And even then, he was killed by being beheaded. To prove that he was dead, Robert Maynard had his head hung from the front of his ship to show everyone.

There is a story, that's not very well-attested and probably not true, that Blackbeard's skull, after spending time as a decorative warning to all pirates, was made into a drinking cup. There was a guy as recently as the 1980's who claimed to have the Blackbeard Skull Cup, and it was made from a skull, but it can't exactly be verified.

[Also! There is a Hellboy comic about Hellboy fighting Blackbeard when his skull cup is reunited with his ghost which is, also according to legend, sometimes seen haunting the coast of North Carolina around where he died, looking for his head. It was an awesome comic.]

Also! Blackbeard's famous flag is this:

Except there's no proof that he ever actually used this flag. It was just something made up in a magazine in the 20th century without any citation and there's no reference to it in historical sources.

And last up: some historians believe that until his final battle, Blackbeard never killed anyone during his career as a pirate captain. And to be fair, he never needed to: this humongous bulletproof man stepped on your ship with a massive beard, with seven guns and two swords and lit fuses all through his beard and hair, and a tendency to down shots of rum with gunpowder, wouldn't you surrender without a fight?

So now you know, friendo.

[imisswonho]

🌺 HAPPY FRIDAY BABES!! 🌺

YAAAAAY IT’S FRIDAYYYYYyyyyyy just another day for me to be unproductive lol #summer 🌚 I think today tho I have to continue packing bc I’M GOING TO LA/SD NEXT WEEEEEK and I’m already sweating bc it’s gonna be like 100 degrees in socal but hopefully I can finally get tan lol

ANYWAYYYYYYY I hope you all have a magical day/afternoon/evening!! ✨✨✨