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"Sodomy and the pirate tradition" (B. R. Burg, 1983)

Short intermission from fanart: I recently learned that there is a 1983 book called "Sodomy and the pirate tradition" and it got fucking Blackbeard on the cover 🤣🤣🤣

Just wanted everyone to know about that.

The author is still alive and seems very cool. His attitude on the back cover was basically:

I'm not saying all pirates are gay and I'm definitely not trying to argue the obvious and indisputable fact that they had tons of gay sex. I want to look at what homosexuality being okay and even encouraged meant for pirate society.

When I posted this on Reddit a month ago I was informed that he is still very much alive and super excited about OFMD, hadn't watched it yet though because he's hard of hearing and wasn't sure how to at the time the commenter talked to him which is both heart-warming and heart-breaking. 🥺

I hope he's figured it out by now.

(I was able to get a free ebook version through a university library BTW. Haven't gotten around to reading it yet though)

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Lavender

This started as a quick scribble based on: "Oh, Ed would love a fancy updo; this time with lavender braided into it!"

It escalated... 😅

What I learned/tried out this time:

How to draw/color pearls

New personal peak of realism for eyes, eyebrows and especially the white part - had never thought about it that much until it looked really out of place with the rest of the less stylized eye - all white and flat.

WIP Pic, from when I decided the eyes didn't fit anymore. Then the eyebrows didn't fit the eyes and when I was happy with them, the whites looked off 😅

And then just as I saß abut to hit ready to post, I realized the beard looks off now. Gonna post quickly now before I find something else... 😂

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Laid bare for you

I really wanted to try and capture the heart-breakingly vulnerable expression on Ed's face in s02e06.

This picture also made me realize that embracing more sketchy outlines might just work better for me than trying to achieve perfectly crisp ones... 🤷🏼‍♀️

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History's Most Brilliant Tactician

They say history's most brilliant tactician is about to get railed just the way he likes it.