#nautical story

[circasoleil]

Drew too much old men so I had to sit and develop my own old man who is lovingly known as only "Pops" right now for an Idea called "The C Side"

[the-golden-vanity]

I think the thing I like most about The Sea, as, like... a setting or a concept, is that in its vastness, its untameable nature, its unknown secrets, you have a lot of historically documented events that sound more like tales out of mythology and folklore.

Take, for instance, the fate of the Victory Expedition of 1829.

The Victory expedition was a private polar expedition led by veteran British explorer Captain John Ross. Twenty-three men set sail for the Canadian Arctic on the steamship Victory, but when the ship became trapped in the polar ice, there was no way to free it. The crew spent four years in the frozen north, surviving on rations from the wreck of a previous polar exploration ship.

Eventually, twenty survivors packed their belongings into small boats and hauled them over ice towards open water. And in that open water, there was a ship, the whaler Isabella of Hull.*

The Isabella's crew couldn't believe their eyes, because, as they told the Victory's survivors, "Captain Ross has been dead these two years."

And if that wasn't strange enough, the (very much alive) Captain Ross of the Victory had, on a previous Arctic expedition, been captain of the Isabella.

*Side note: the more I read about the Age of Sail, the more I realize that wherever official Explorers™ from a given Western nation go, their whalers have already beaten them there. Sometimes that's even the reason the explorers were sent.

[octokoco]

fish bones

[theautismcorner]

I know I said I’d have REDACTED published on ao3 a couple of weeks ago so oops but here it is!

[leonardoeatscarrots]

[doecrossing]

why aren't there more 19th century gothic novels that take place at sea. you'd think that'd be like a prime gothic lit setting.

[dummerhummer]

Why Is English Awash in Sailors' Jargon? | Otherwords

[watermelon-eater]

i take pride in the country i was born and raised in because the culture is rich and the people are kind but although ive never loved it as a country country it gets harder and harder each year to even tolerate it

[bishophazel]

Throwing this on here for any followers who may be interested. I have a queer dark fantasy novelette in this anthology. Don't be fooled by the sexy mermaid cover, my story is filled with selkie men and queer longing. The book comes out in May (ebook and print), but if you like ebooks, the presale is quite affordable.

My pen name is Arlo Z Graves, by the way ;)

[the-golden-vanity]

The number one rule of cursed boat voyages is, "no matter how cursed the boat is, do not dive from it." There was no way to survive this from the beginning, but now you will see that truth with your own eyes, and no one will believe you.

[snapbookreviews]

Sailor Stories by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, trans. Michael Lombardi-Nash

#KarlHeinrichUlrichs was a pioneering gay rights activist in the late 19th century. #SailorStories features four haunting #nautical tales, including the first gay male #vampire story. Translated by #MichaelLombardi-Nash of #UraniaManuscripts.

Sailor Stories was written between 1883 and 1884 while Karl Heinrich Ulrichs—first gay activist in the modern sense of the term—was in self-exile in Italy and was first published in German in 1885. The four stories collected in Sailor Stories are inspired by Old Norse folk tales and beautifully haunting. Haunting is truly the best way to describe them, they aren’t ghost stories and I wouldn’t…

[izroulia]

14, alone and on the run. The only safe place is the depths of the sea.

[mooifyourecows]

when a song for which ive choreographed a music video starring my ocs comes on and i gotta listen to it 20 times in a row to make sure im imagining it perfectly

[emperorsfoot]

There needs to be more movies about ghosts at sea.

[azmenka]

alright but . . . Atlantis AU.

the Iron Islands as a legendary group of islands that vanished thousands of years ago, allegedly swallowed by the sea. in truth the islands have existed onwards at the bottom of the ocean in a submerged pocket of air, unbothered (largely) by the world above, growing and expanding into a culture that, in some ways, is way more advanced than most of modern humanity ( maps, echolocation, filtering oxygen right from the water allowing them to dive, working rare metals found in the ocean floor etc ) but in other ways is deeply medieval ( royal family that rules, the faith in the Drowned God, human sacrifice, suspicion of everything from “above” )

bonus points for a semi-modern setting generally

double bonus points for the Ironborn being generally hostile and def not Disney-ish

triple bonus points for the islands sitting just below the Bermuda Triangle and these fuckers being responsible for ships (and somehow planes) disappearing cos they’re paranoid of being found