#Pirate Queen

[flynnandsteel]

I have not been the same since Zheng Yi Sao became a character in our flag means death. It means so much to me that pirate-related media is representing her more because I never would have known about her and she is too cool to be forgotten.

For years pop culture either portrayed her as the racist "submissive asian woman" stereotype or ignored her completely. It's infuriating. Now though we have a strong portrayal of her in both doctor who and our flag means death!! Let me tell you a few things about the rightfully named "Pirate queen".

On average, most pirates died 2 years after starting piracy. Edward Teach died after two years, Stede Bonnet died after one and Israel Hands impressively died around 8 years after starting, all executed. Our pirate queen died at 68 after a successful 9 year career. In fact, she only stopped because she was made to surrender and lived the rest of her years in effective retirement.

She inherited her late husbands pirate fleets and at one point commanded around 1,800 ships. Blackbeard is believed to have a maximum of 5- likely because he didn't get along with people well enough to amass enough crews to run them. She had the largest fleet in history.

Zheng Yi Sao was a leader and undoubtedly one of the most successful pirates ever and yet we dare to forget her.

[morningnoodles]

she did not have to be so iconic for the first 3 episodes and yet she was and the people (me) are happy for it

[theabigailthorn]

TOMORROW

The House of the Dragon season finale drops tomorrow!

Can't wait for you to meet Sharako: she's such a badass I love her and some of her lines are going to be especially loved by tumblr haha

[ofmd-ann]

Zheng Yi Sao 👑

[yuenity]

Fine, I’ll say it. Stede’s fight with Zheng was more embarrassing than Izzy’s “oh daddy” scene

[kcsplace]

[catfindr]

[dioic1]

🌺 The Pirate Queen 🌺

[pulpsandcomics2]

Pirate

[thatlittlesentientfox]

Time for some chaos

(couple more pics ‘cause both outfits are fire)

[deadlymaelstrom]

Admiral Isabela

[geneenart]

Strong hug ✨♥️

[butterscup95]

- Who are The Plastics?

- They're pirate royalty. If the Republic of Pirates were Us Weekly, they’d always be on the cover.

- That one there is Stede Bonnet. She is one of the dumbest girls you will ever meet. Lucius went treasure hunting with her last year.

- She bought a map to find an orange.

- That little one there is Zheng Yi Sao.

- She’s totally rich because she conquered all of China.

- Zheng Yi Sao recruits everyone. She knows everything about everyone.

- That’s why her hair is so big. It’s full of dead enemies.

- And babygirl takes a human form in Edward Teach. Don’t be fooled, because she may seem like your typical drinking, backstabbing, toe-cutting dirtbag. But in reality, she’s so much more than that.

- She’s Captain Blackbeard. A star. Those other two are just her little workers.

- Edward Teach. How do I even begin to explain Edward Teach?

(Comment or repost with your answers!)

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[mymultifandomhell]

need them to be the ones to call each other boyfriends for my sake

[zeus-japonicus]

Hello pirate friends! Those of you who know me through Rusty Quill's Trice Forgotten know that I love to write queer and trans Asian pirates destroying colonies with science and also homoerotic swordfighting.

If you like those things in combination with radical, genre-devouring new science-fiction musicals created as a "fuck you" to the white men who've made millions casting East and Southeast Asians as barbarians and lotus flowers, look no further than ASIAN PIRATE MUSICAL!

APM is created by a group of 6 trans/genderqueer/female artists from across diasporas including Malaysia, the Philippines, Jamaica, Japan, Thailand and New Zealand. We love musical theatre, but we want fun, epic adventure stories written by us, about us and casting us. For tone, think the queer humour of Our Flag Meets Death meets the political world-building of The Expanse, with an experimental, orchestral blend of traditional instruments, 21st century Asian pop and indierock.

Here's a bit of a call-to-arms for us as we need some help giving this project its sea-legs.

If you're in London, UK 21-22nd November 2024, we're having a 2-day CONCERT at the Pleasance Theatre. Tickets are £14 and we need to sell out to break even ( ;; yay theatre) Click here to buy tickets.

We want everyone to be able to access this show for free, online. To do that we're recording a studio cast album (think Hadestown's early demo albums, or the EPIC! musical). We've currently got a crowdfunder going, and any donation - however small - is much appreciated. We're at £1,265/£5,000 and that just covers basic costs. Click here to go to the crowdfunder.

If you don't have the ability to financially contribute at this time, we would super appreciate any kind of social media help -> sending people who might be interested our way, reblogs/retweets and shares on Instagram/Tiktok go an incredibly long way in the development of musicals. We're @ AsianPirateMus in most places.

If you want to learn more about Asian Pirate Musical, including more songs and our social media links, please head over to this linktree and follow us where you can!

If you made it this far, thank you! Here's our asian-pop inspired ballad in which we make a historical old man have homoerotic thoughts and feelings for his Emperor.

[efaithart]

She’s fought mediocre men… she’s fought exceptional men!