Sew Sew Boys - Sailors who have a special talent in sewing
Jack of the Dust- Purser Mate
Jack Nasty Face- a low ranking sailor
Landlubber- a landsman who has no knowledge of the sea
Fireship - a prostitute with a venereal disease
Spouter - a Whaler
Blubber Hunter- a Whaler
Admiral of the Narrow Seas- a Sailor who threw up in the lap of a comrade
Vice Admiral of the Narrow Seas- a Sailor who has managed to pee on a mate’s shoes under the table.
Long Tailed Beggar- a Cat
Lubber- a lumbering, awkward fellow a stout, clumsy oaf who struggles with seamanship
Bone Polisher- a cat of nine tails
Bugs- a dirty slovenly sailor
Bully Boys- an American sailor
Jack Tar - a British sailor
Cook`s warrant - an operation that ends in amputation
The Croaker- a Surgeon
The Doctor - a cook
Davy Jones natural children - pirates, smugglers, scamps, scalawags and rovers
Hands- Crewmembers
Jimmy the One - the first Lieutenant in the Royal Navy
Johnny Hawbuck- an officer who dressed like a dandy at sea
Landshark - A Lawyer
Limey- another name for a british sailor
Jollies - A Royal Marine
Leatherneck - A Royal Marine
Devil Dog - A Royal Marine
Lobster - A Royal Marine
Old Salt - a veteran sailor
Manxman - a sailor from the Isle of Man
Nip cheese - the Purser
Quick reminder that you don't need a solid sexuality! You can just be in love! Or not be in love! Or have a gender! Labels are a choice, not a requirement. All you need to do is be someone you like being! If labels help with that, great! But they are not required. You don't owe it to anyone, so don't feel pressured to choose labels if they aren't your thing!
Please make art. You don't have to bare your soul or make a masterpiece, you can be silly and you can be derivative if you want. You don't even have to show it to anyone. Just please make something, it's so good for you
Corset discourse really likes to talk in sensationalizing absolutes but historically speaking a corset is just a kind of garment. They could be uncomfortable and painful or they could be well fitted and supportive. They could be hyper-fashionable or they could be brutally practical. You could tightlace them or you could wear them with no reduction whatsoever. Most corsets were probably somewhere in the middle. Like bras. Or shoes. To say they were never perceived as restrictive or used as tools of enforcing dangerous/misogynistic beauty standards is like saying women's shoes never restrict freedom of movement. Patently untrue, but that doesn't mean those shoes have some deeper moral good or evil and it certainly doesn't mean we can use that fact to draw sweeping generalizations about the relationships of entire centuries of women to their own bodies. Corsets, like all clothing, exist in context.