#pirates and politics

[transannabeth]

a summer walk in the gardens before anything could go wrong

my piece for this year's edition of @windowtoworlds!! if you haven't checked it out yet, you should!! it's full of incredible art of original characters for all four seasons, and i got summer :]

would you believe that this is the first time i've drawn musi and rade together since february 2016? i can

[warpedlegacywrites]

The finale of Swept Away is posted. This bitch is DONE!

DAFF tag list: @rakshadow, @rosella-writes, @effelants, @bluewren, @breninarthur, @ar-lath-ma-cully, @dreadfutures, @ir0n-angel, @inquisimer, @crackinglamb, @theluckywizard, @nirikeehan, @oxygenforthewicked, @exalted-dawn-drabbles, @melisusthewee, @blarrghe, @agentkatie

[warpedlegacy]

Chapter 5 of Swept Away is up! We have arrived at the meet-cute!

"Isabela comes to Antiva City, a place filled with unpleasant memories for her, in order to meet her new - temporary - employer. But this Josephine Montilyet isn't exactly what she was expecting."

@rakshadow, @rosella-writes, @effelants, @bluewren, @breninarthur, @ar-lath-ma-cully, @dreadfutures, @ir0n-angel, @inquisimer, @crackinglamb, @theluckywizard, @nirikeehan, @oxygenforthewicked, @exalted-dawn-drabbles, @mogwaei, @melisusthewee, @blarrghe, @agentkatie

[jeeaark]

Lae'zel just wasn't ready to sort out those feelings yet.

Anyway, I lied! I had to make one more shenanigan to this dang incident after double checking and learning a thing. Involving full rests and the Astral Sea.

Apparently, full rest don't mean you gotta sleep????? It can also refer to.... downtime. Chill time. Non-adventuring time. Hang out with your squid friend for 8 hours time.

And even if you never need to sleep, eat, or drink in the Astral Sea, you can still sleep, eat, N' drink if you want to. As well as just chill to recover a certain planeshift ability.

Is cool, Lae'zel and I can both learn new fun facts at the same time~

[42starsintheuniverse]

Watching the percy jackson series is worth it for this line

[mapsontheweb]

Which countries have officially registered pirate party?

Pirate Party is a label adopted by political parties around the world 🌍. Pirate parties support civil rights ✊, direct democracy (including e-democracy) or alternatively participation in government, reform of copyright and patent laws ⚖️ to make them more flexible and open to encourage innovation and creativity 🌈, use of free and open-source software, free sharing of knowledge (open content and open access), information privacy 🔒, transparency, freedom of information, free speech, anti-corruption, net neutrality and oppose mass surveillance 📷, censorship and Big Tech.

by very_useful_maps

[alllsunday]

I love how Ace and Sabo are just kind of each other’s foils / inverse and cover each other’s weak points. Ace is red, Sabo is blue, Ace is hot tempered and Sabo is more level headed, Ace is like the fire to Sabo’s water, I just think it’s so perfect and I will be forever mad that we didn’t get to see them properly fighting together, back to back, one last time as adults

[patchworkpiratebear]

[xray-vex]

who the fuck gave him the right to be so fucking pretty

[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 --"

[transannabeth]

🌹

its been a while

[warpedlegacywrites]

Chapter 16 of Swept Away is out! The threat is resolved, but there's still much to say. (CW for explicit sex)

DAFF tag list: @rakshadow @rosella-writes, @effelants @bluewren @breninarthur @ar-lath-ma-cully @dreadfutures @ir0n-angel @inquisimer @crackinglamb @theluckywizard @nirikeehan @oxygenforthewicked @exalted-dawn-drabbles @melisusthewee @blarrghe @agentkatie

[warpedlegacy]

Chapter 3 of Swept Away is out!

Restlessness grips Isabela and her crew as they lie low following a mysterious explosion - one that no one seems to know anything about. Isabela hopes that one of her old contacts may have answers, but they won't be the answers she wants.

DAFF tag list: @rakshadow, @rosella-writes, @effelants, @bluewren, @breninarthur, @ar-lath-ma-cully, @dreadfutures, @ir0n-angel, @inquisimer, @crackinglamb, @theluckywizard, @nirikeehan, @oxygenforthewicked, @exalted-dawn-drabbles, @mogwaei, @melisusthewee, @blarrghe, @agentkatie

[thingstrumperssay]

People are freaking out because Hasan called Luffy a terrorist and One Piece a "socialist" anime... Because he is, and it is.

Luffy is a pirate who's constantly fighting against the corrupted government that he declared war against. He's literally labeled a "terrorist" for stopping them.

He very early on in the series stopped the public execution of a wanted criminal by breaking him out and stealing property seized by the government.

The Straw Hats are treated like the good guys of the show despite constantly going against the world government. If right-wingers saw that and thought that The Straw Hats were patriotic capitalists then they really are hopeless.

[systemdeez]

It's kind of funny that there's no malicious copy protection stuff in Wii games, even though it should be really easy to do.

The Wii used motion controls for a bunch of games and you'd think some games would try to detect whether or not you're using an emulator based on motion input. Why isn't any game just like "Huh, every time the controller is shaken it's done at the EXACT same frequency? Time to crash the game lol."

I have a Wii games folder on my PC that's almost 50 gigabytes in size and not one of those games seems to care that it's being emulated.