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zalrb · 7 months ago
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for your recent ask on how to build relationships in movies where you used willabeth as an example i was just thinking of them as i read ur post lmao! what do u think are some underrated aspects of their relationship in the films ? and if you had to pick a favorite film of the potc trilogy based on just willabeth, which would you pick?
Oh, yay! A Willabeth ask!
AWE automatically wins on "At Wit's End" (aka "Will and Elizabeth's love theme") alone. That is the soundtrack to a cosmic, epic, transcendental, soul-moving, earth-shattering love story, that is the epitome of a romantic composition, it is everything. Like just listen.
But I mean, the scenes that they have in this movie?
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I'm not sure that there's anything that shippers find underrated about them, it would just be in response to Sparrabeth shippers or people who are anti-Willabeth, which I just don't find merits a response but something I do quite enjoy about the Willabeth love story is the role Jack plays in it and how his respective bonds with Will and Elizabeth actually reinforce that love story:
Like, Jack helps Will come to terms with his parentage and history
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and therefore who he is and Will, in turn, saves Jack from the gallows.
Elizabeth has faith in Jack, tells him he’s a good man, helps him see the morality of situations
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and Jack does prove her right in Dead Man’s Chest by coming back to help the crew but I think the most significant way he proves her right is by going against a desire he wanted for all of At World’s End so he can do right by Will (and it actually goes further than his desire throughout At World’s End but to a fundamental passion like he sold his soul to Davy Jones to get the Pearl, that’s how much he loves the sea)
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and then you had Jack speaking to Elizabeth’s desire for freedom
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and encourages her obtainment of that freedom, of that agency, of that power
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which ultimately leads back to her choosing to love and be with Will
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which, despite what antis say, isn't a regression. The trilogy begins with seeing her discomfort in "polite society" and feeling pressured into doing what's expected i.e. an engagement to Norrington
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which includes hiding her fascination with pirates as well as her feelings for Will
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the two things are interconnected. In fact, when we see her being chastised for not behaving the way she should, it's when she's too intimate with Will
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Her interest in pirates is signified with her keeping Will's medallion
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her choosing Will is also her choosing her own freedom
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Will even teaches her how to fight
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and throughout the trilogy, it's them discovering more facets of themselves i.e. Will reunites with his father, Elizabeth actually gets to be a pirate but what even got them on those journeys was trying to find/help the other so they can be together
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and those layers just bring them back together stronger. This has always been the point
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This also isn't exactly underrated but I find when I go into the tag, there's a lot of emphasis on what Will does for Elizabeth, how he supports her, how in love with her he is, how devoted to her he is and I completely understand why but also Elizabeth's devotion to Will deserves a spotlight as well.
Going to fight undead pirates alone to save Will
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Being both surprised and upset at Will even considering that she could be in love with Jack
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Giving away the entire plan because she couldn't feign disinterest when Sao Feng acted as though he'd stab Will
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Having to literally be carried away by Jack when Will was stabbed
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Even the smaller, in between things like Will shouting at Elizabeth to shoot at the barrels of rum but her refusing because he was still caught in the net.
I just love them so much.
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Thanks for the tag @seeingteacupsindragons!
Rare writer ask game: name three pieces of media that are not novels/short stories or movies/TV that were formative for you, and tag three people.
Oh damn, this is tricky and I love that. I don't know how much any of these are connected to my writing specifically, but they were formative to who I am and obviously that's always gonna tie into my writing somehow.
1. Ocarina of Time. It always will be one of my favourite video games, and the kind of games I like now are still often reflective of what I liked about it. Also, I said recently in another ask that Sparrabeth was my first ship, and it was definitely the first one I went all in on, but Link/Sheik was probably actually where I started (that Bolero of Fire bit, am I right?) Sheik was also probably technically my first queer fictional crush.
2. This feels cringe to admit 😅, but Adam Lambert's Glam Nation tour. I was 19 and juuuuust starting to internally acknowledge and accept myself as queer, and I would watch all the videos from the concerts and dance along in my room and sigh dreamily over Tommy Joe Ratliff's knees buckling while he got snogged within an inch of his life. It was the first time I remember being excited about being queer, because it seemed so damn cool. ("Fun" side note; writing this made me go "the heck ever happened to Tommy Joe anyway?" and apparently now he's a far-right Christian Trumpster, so that's a thing that happened. Somewhat disorienting that he was a little part of my journey away from that and then he went into it. Booooo.)
2. This song. One of my earliest memories is of my dad holding me and singing this song to me. I still can't listen to it without tearing up. And really just a lot of music I associate with being a kid in the 90s. There's so many songs that take me back to my mom hitting record on the tape deck when they came on the radio, to the way my dad whistled along to classic rock. But this one is right down at the foundation.
Tagging (as always no pressure!) @hergan416 @shreddedleopard @soapy-soartp
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swannposting · 3 months ago
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OKAY I just read the last chapter of Condolences and it was FANTASTIC so now I have a few post-reading questions:
Where did the idea for this fic come from?
What were your favorite chapters to write?
Are there any hidden intricacies I should be in the lookout for on rereads? Because I WILL be rereading.
I will probably come up with more at some point but for now I just want to say congrats on completing another fic! It truly was a wild ride and a lovely read and I can’t wait to see what comes next!!
HELLO DEAR !!!!! ♡ first of all, thank you so much for being so engaged in this fic, it truly means the world to me. i'm so very pleased to know that you enjoyed, because your comments really motivated me to keep writing!!! now as for your lovely questions...
So I was really fascinated by the way that A.C. Crispin wrote about Jack and Teague in The Price of Freedom, and I just wanted to explore that some more on my own. Then at some point last winter I was listening to the album Fear Fun by Father John Misty, and the songs Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings and Only Son of The Ladiesman sort of put the idea in my head to write about Jack coping with Teague's eventual death. And so I actually wrote the first scene of the fic with only the intention to explore that concept. The Sparrabeth brainrot came later as I was working out just how I wanted dear old Teague to pass on. I knew that I wanted Elizabeth involved in the fic, particularly as Teague's "heir" so-to-speak, to really establish Teague's rejection of Jack. One of the first scenes I had envisioned was actually the conclusion to this fic, where I wanted Elizabeth to help Jack with the funeral arrangements/burial not out of guilt, but just as a compassionate gesture. That did not entirely change, but the twists that the story went through before getting to that point certainly did put that initial idea in a different light!
Ooh it's hard to pick because I really did enjoy writing Condolences more than almost anything else I've written. I'd say that chapter 4 was probably the most fun, though I did agonize over editing it. I really did not plan for chapter 4 to go the way it did (tbh I only planned for 3 chapters in the first place), but once I got to it, I had a really good time just going "okay how can I make this a little insane? >:) how can I make this kind of gross? >:)" I really want to contrast the idealized version of Elizabeth that Jack has got in his head with the more nuanced, flawed version of her that we know and love, and so I had a lot of fun with the shenanigans of chapter 4.
Haha I love this question- you've prompted me to skim back through my own work because there could be something like that, but I just genuinely do not recall at the moment. Something I did try to be intentional about is when and where Jack internally refers to Teague as "father" and when he uses other phrasings. Though I don't think that counts as "hidden". I don't usually plan for that sort of thing, so if you notice anything then it was probably a happy accident! :3 ♡
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sunshine304 · 10 months ago
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For the fandom asks, 3,4,19, or 20?
Oh I'll just answer all of them. XD
3. a character that fandom has helped you appreciate
Hm, I think Yu Ziyuan gained much more depth for me through reading meta about her/the family dynamics and genre conventions behind it. She’s a divisive character for sure, but I never saw her as extremely negative as some other fans seem to have. She always seemed like a commentary on the tiger mom stereotype to me, and I couldn’t help but also at times think she’s kinda justified in her bitchiness? Because Jiang Fengmian is like that… But yeah, her character definitely became more interesting and tragic to me through fandom.
None of the others needed any help, I think, I could appreciate all of them for what they brought to the story (I mean, except for Jin Guangshan, no-one appreciate shim and he can go die in a ditch).
4. say something nice about a ship you don't ship (it can be another ship in your fandom, a mutual's OTP, etc)
Sparrabeth. I very much refused to engage with this ship back in my PotC days because the shipping wars between Willabeth and Sparrabeth shippers became incredibly obnoxious after the second movie. As I really enjoyed Willabeth and was more of a Jack/Anamaria shipper (if we have to pair him with anyone… that was before I discovered slash XD), I did not like Sparrabeth at all.
I can see the appeal, though! Elizabeth became ever more of a pirate as the movies progressed, showing a side of herself that had mostly been suppressed in her previous sheltered, prim and proper life. She obviously had a taste for adventure and overall seemed actually more suited for and interested in this kind of life than Will, who gets rather reluctantly dragged into it all again and again. To have her as a counterpoint to Jack, as someone who can hold her own against his scheming and word games and teasing, can be intriguing. They’ll banter, he can teach her all kinds of stuff about life on the high seas, and they’ll definitely be a force to be reckoned with.
19. your current fandom(s)
Since 2020, it’s The Untamed/MDZS – still going strong, with no sign of slowing down. I tend to fixate on one main fandom for quite a while and it really takes a lot to make me switch to something else. And still, the old ones never really leave me – I recently reread some Teen Wolf fic, last year had a bit of a Sherlock revival with selected rereads. Now and then, I revisit some old PotC favs etc.
But yeah, now it’s CQL/MDZS with a side of some other cdramas/thai dramas like KinnPorsche or Word of Honor. It feels like the fandom is slowing down a bit as people move on to other dramas, but I’m still very much in love with it.
20. your very first fandom!
That depends a bit on how you’d define this. The first thing I was totally obsessed with was The Animals of Farthing Wood, a truly great animated tv series based on Colin Dann’s book(s). I drew so many fox pictures for that series, had a whole bunch of OC foxes and invented new stories with them (yes, only the foxes! XD). Of course, I was somewhere between 7 – 10 years old at the time and had no idea what “fandom” was!
I think I became aware of fandom as we know it when I looked for content for LotR online. I discovered message boards that were full of fans of the book and recently released movies.
The first fandom I was actually in, with the full awareness of it being a fandom, was Pirates of the Caribbean. That trilogy was incredibly important to me for many years and I’ve met a few friends through it that I’m still in contact with to this day. <3
I actually was asked this for a meme on Dreamwidth, so check out this post for a bit more on this topic.
Fandom question meme
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whentheynameyoujoy · 2 years ago
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FYI, when it comes to fictional ships, “healthy” is just a pretentious way of saying “boring”.
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asparrowandaswann · 5 years ago
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I’ll never forgive the writers for diverting away from the too-short, too-vague Sparrabeth storyline of DMC in AWE, for hardly giving us any Jack/Elizabeth scenes in AWE and for failing to include any sort of discussion between the two of them regarding that little hiccup in their buddling flirtations/romance/otc-epic-love-affair which was Elizabeth kissing and sending Jack to the locker... and then immediately moving heaven and earth to bring him back again (ahem.. slight mixed signals, perhaps?).
Something that I do love about AWE, however, are the little reaction shots between Jack and Elizabeth. Not just the ones which are so often discussed; Jack’s reaction to seeing Elizabeth in the locker, Jack telling Elizabeth that her father is dead, and the parachute scene, but the tiny, silent glances and reactions to each other within scenes.
These three clips especially, I would love to question the writers, director and actors about. Why include a closeup of Elizabeth flinching when Jack is punched, highlighting her reaction compared to that of everyone else, when she’s right there in the wide shot - her flinch would still have been visible in the wide shot, while less conspicious; it would simply be a typical reaction to someone nearby being punched without warning. A close up only adds meaning!
Why did they decide to film a shot of Jack staring after Elizabeth, him being the only person who didn’t run to stop her from jumping off the ship after her father, when in the script it says that everyone, including Jack, runs after her, Will catching her just slightly ahead of Jack. Again, I’d love to know the meaning of Jack’s expression and lack of a reaction according to the writers, cast and crew who decided that the scene ought be filmed/edited in this way instead.
As for the last one... are they just leaving breadcrumbs to satisfy beady-eyed Sparrabeth shippers (if so, job done)? Did they feel they couldn’t wrap up the Sparrabeth storyline without peppering a few lingering looks in order to make their ‘love story’ more realistic? Are they all of the opinion that AWE should have had a Sparrabeth ending, even if, for whatever reason, they wouldn’t allow it to happen?
As a writer, a photographer and a film lover/geek/obsessive analyser, I need answers!
What are everyone’s own interpretations of these moments?
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norrington-hell · 6 years ago
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Freedom. He tastes like rum and spice and freedom. As Elizabeth shackles Captain Jack Sparrow to the mast of his beloved Pearl, she feels him smile against her lips. Lips that found his for the express purpose of leaving him to die. ‘It’s after you, not the ship.’ He knows. And what’s worse, he understands. The gleam in his eye says everything. ‘I’m not sorry.’ And she isn’t. Not really. And neither is he. ‘Pirate.’ A compliment. A curse. A confirmation that he’s had her pegged since the very beginning. She senses it should hurt more than it does.
Redemption’s Promise (Ch. 23 - Opposition)
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peremadeleine · 5 years ago
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mrs-de-winter-now reblogged your post:
#will turner is boring af #fight me
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I read a meta once arguing that Will was boring on purpose (though I can’t remember exactly what the argument was), and it was good.
Even though I ship Sparrabeth till the end of time, I’d have been okay with Elizabeth staying with Will IF, for the purposes of making that couple endgame, they hadn’t destroyed everything her character had ever dreamed of/worked for. Which they did. Barely half an hour separates Elizabeth being named Pirate King and giving that badass Hoist the Colors speech and then Elizabeth standing, alone and (presumably) penniless and homeless, on the beach, pining for a man she won’t see again for ten years.
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starport-seven-five · 2 years ago
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WIP Wednesday
@playinggalaga tagged me for WIP Wednesday
Rules: post whatever you're working on, no more than 300 words, and tag five other writers.
I have to apologize because the angsty fic I was working on is currently a lot of sentence fragments and ideas all smooshed up without context and it's just not ready for public yet! I tried to find something that I hadn't shared before, and was at liberty to share, and... I dug up this decade-old Sparrabeth WIP. Yup! Is it going to get finished? Hell if I know!
(It's SLIGHTLY over 300 words. Rules were meant to be broken!)
It had been a good plan.  In fact, it was the only plan, seeing as how Elizabeth doubted Jack would have allowed her to burn the rum otherwise.  It had been difficult to carry out, as well, playing into his seduction, feigning a little more tipsiness than she’d actually acquired from the rum…  But quite undoubtedly the hardest part of following her plan had been rather unexpected: she found herself, as the night progressed, actually falling for Jack’s clumsy advances much more so than she had intended to pretend to.
And oh, how she regretted following this plan through.  Elizabeth turned to face said pirate, her eyes surveying his still form.  Jack was… not bad-looking, to say the very least.  If Elizabeth were being honest with herself, she would have been likely to say that she found him rather stunning.  His dress was so unconventional, even for a pirate, and the rest of him…
Here he was, unmoving, for once, and she had all the time in the world to burn his image in her mind; at least, that’s what it felt like, on this island, empty save for her and Jack, removed from civilization.  She’d already seen the tiny island in its entirety.  Now, she could hardly move her eyes away from the sleeping pirate.
Elizabeth settled on a top-to-bottom fashion, starting with the crown of Jack’s head, eyes moving down to his hair, his face, taking in the various adornments—beaded hair, eyes lined with silvery kohl… his features were all sharp, the complete opposite of her own soft ones.  Her eyes traveled down to Jack’s body, his chest, only half-exposed… damn that shirt of his… his torso, and all of it looked so interesting.  Anyone might have found Jack’s skin, with its imperfections and scars, unappealing, but Elizabeth was drawn to the marks, wanted to know the stories behind them, wanted to feel them, and know where they had come from…
I hate tagging people because I always feel like I’m bugging them! Seriously though I always want to hear about peoples’ WIPs so everybody just do it!
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piratestrash · 3 years ago
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Who do you ship Elizabeth with? I liked Sparrabeth until she got Jack killed but I can’t see them together specially after realizing Jack is like 20 years older than her (even tho they were both adults). I’ve also seen some fans hating on Willabeth because they wanted Liz to be with Jack but I feel like these people forget the story is not just about Jack and Liz.
Personally, I think Willabeth is a good ship and has more potential for angst than people remember. I've heard the complaint that it's TOO perfect and therefor not realistic, but that simply isn't true.
From the time Elizabeth stole the medallion, there was a problem that would inevitably come to the surface. The whole point is loving each other DESPITE everything. And DMC and AWE also add onto this. Not to mention they have good chemistry and have plenty of similarities, but also differences to keep the relationship working.
I can see the appeal for Sparrabeth or Norribeth, as the writers did an amazing job with making each plausible when it comes to personality. Jack and Elizabeth both crave freedom and will say and do whatever they have to. They compliment each other well and would make a fierce couple.
Elizabeth and James both come from the upper class and deal with the expectations that come with that, and both are extremely smart in similar ways. I imagine both like to read, as well, so that could be a shared hobby.
But I ship Willabeth. Will isn't necessarily booksmart or good at making plans, but he can make a good split-second decision and he is very good at making something just sound a little less bad. Elizabeth IS booksmart and good at making plans, but I imagine she isn't very good with people, unlike Will. She is very blunt and will tell you exactly what she thinks. It makes them balanced. The similarities are that both feel the call of the sea, have a hunger for adventure, and will not take shit from anyone
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ohhthereuare · 3 years ago
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Loved your tags on my norribeth post! I try to be nice bc willabeth is SO popular but I don’t like that ship 😭 I love seeing people salty about it in the wild bc I choose violence
then you've come to the right place 🔪🔪🔪
oh gosh oh gosh where do I even start
I completely agree with all of your points concerning norribeth even though I will fight for sparrabeth till my dying breath but I feel like arguments concerning both of these ships have a lot of common ground and most of them are rightfully pointed against willabeth
and since I have literally no-one to talk to about this and its been brewing inside me for y e a r s we're in for an essay
(of course I harbour no hate towards orlando's performance, he did a great job and it's not his fault his character is a whiny wimp most of the time)
even if they had ended the franchise on "the curse of the black pearl" willabeth's arc would have already been on thin ice. it made sense in a span of one movie and one story- the protagonist rescues and gets the girl, the girl sees something more in the protagonist and favourable circumstances let them be together in the end. except potc is more than just one movie and even that one movie was something more than that.
elizabeth may have been raised as a dame but she was never a damsel in distress therefor what william loved from the start was a false image of her. to his credit it was probably an imagine elizabeth herself believed in for a long time because she had no chance to prove herself wrong. he thought her proper. he thought her honourable. he thought her delicate and sweet and helpless. then we've got william who's just a simple blacksmith and as cute as he may seem, he's unattainable, with rough hands that know hard labour, with sweaty face and messy hair, and most importantly, he's somehow linked to pirates that elizabeth's secretly so entranced by. i'm not gonna go into too much unnecessary detail because we know how this story goes but i w i l l point out an important conclusion- this story is not at all what it seems. because will has never been a pirate and he will never be one. he may have ended up on a ship, may have been forced to work side by side with a real pirate, he may have even used his wicked methods in the course of the entire franchise but william turner is n o t a pirate. he only mimics one. and that's what enrages me so much about the ending of "at wit's end"- will has gotten a fate that he did not want, did not deserve, did not even appreciate. to him it turned out to be another responsibility that he had to take on himself, that he would dutifully follow. all he has wanted throughout these 3 movies was to save whoever he (mostly wrongly) thought needed saving at that time and he wanted to go home. he wanted to be done with it. he wanted to settle. he's never said a thing about a treasure, about a ship, about the sea, about freedom. at first it was a girl then it was his father. it was always an honourable goal and having reached one he was ready to sail back home and happily stay there. that's why the ending of "the curse of the black pearl" already feels spoiled, leaves a bad taste in my mouth. "a pirate" elizabeth says, while lovingly looking at will. no, sweetheart. never have been, never will be. you're in for a bitter surprise.
now, elizabeth. oh lord. never have been a truly proper lady, never will be. in the face of deadly danger she cannot handle a sword (yet) but she claws and bites her way out of a fight with whatever's at hand and she makes a deal with a deadly undead captain and she's ready to stab him with a kitchen knife, she's ready to kill this man before she even knows he cannot be killed. she may need a little help but she doesn't need to sit around and wait to be rescued. throughout the course of the first movie and then the second and then the third she becomes more and more vicious and at first she wants to be free of the corset then she wants to be with whomever she wants then she wants to sail to the horizon then she wants to become the goddamned pirate king and lead a fleet of these wobbly-legged, rum-soaked pirates against the east-trading company and also a very dangerous, damned lord of the underwater underworld. nothing ever seems enough to her. she thought she wanted, loved will because she thought he represented everything that she has always secretly craved- freedom and a little danger. william was neither of those things. i guess that's the biggest hidden plottwist of this franchise- elizabeth, expected to stay proper, doesn't, and william, not expected to stay a good, does. somehow they switch the roles of the archetypes they would normally be supposed to fullfill and that change was supposed to completely alter their previous motivations and goals.
and maybe she was too set on the topic of love to let herself let him go but their relationship surely felt the strain of their sudden differences. the whole of "dead man's chest" was elizabeth testing new grounds and desperately grasping at old ones and the whole of "at wit's end" was the heavy burden of disappointing discovery. they had very little in common. they couldn't trust each other anymore. they wanted very different lives and were willing to do different things to achieve them and the only thing keeping them together was "love" but at one point it became just a word, a new name for a habit fading away. hell the whole of "dead man's chest" was elizabeth redefining the word love into lust as you have rightly pointed out in your post. would they have gotten married had it not been for the burning need to just jump each other's bones? or more accurently, to jump anybody's bones for that matter?
i feel like elizabeth ending up with norrington or jack would have made a lot of sense for her character arc, both for very different and quite opposite reasons. norrington would have been the anchor keeping her morals safe and jack would have been the wind in her sails steering her towards the wilder, more chaotic, pirate side of her nature (peas in a pod, darling). both men saw her for what she truly was- strong, fearless, unyealding. will saw her for who she was in his mind and in the end that was who she was forced to become- a housewife bound to land, destined to tend to the treasure of her not-pirate husband that got to sail to the horizon. but at least she got to get married, right? 🙂
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orionredstarr · 7 years ago
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TITLE: THE DEVIL’S KISS 
CHAPTER 13: “A Maze of Midnight Meetings”
ON FANFICTION
ON AO3
Author: OrionRedStar
Pairing: Jack Sparrow/ Elizabeth Swann
Genre: Romance, Drama, Humor,
Summary of Story - Elizabeth is two years married and hence those years have been lonely. She finds herself living on Little Cayman Island, and one day she sees something in the corner of the eye. What that something turns out to be, leads to an entirely unforeseen journey into the unknown macabre world of a newly reformed pirate.....but not reformed in the way you think.....
RATING: Chapter 13 is rated R simply because overall most of the other chapters do include mild or heavily inferred sexual contact, with some quite erotic and graphic. Each chapter will be or has already been marked per material content, due to this fiction being written solely for ADULT ENTERTAINMENT. So please, if you find this sort of adult writing offensive, or you are not an ADULT of consensual age, please do not read. Thanks!
 Chapter 14: is now being constructed as this is a WORK IN PROGRESS
Thanks for being patient!!
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💖🤡🙋‍♀️ 🎃 🎨 💞
💖 What made you start writing?
Other than some stunningly cringe diaries and attempts at poetry as a middle-schooler/young teen, I think what really got me to start writing was Sparrabeth circa 2006. Obviously in the years since we've learned some things about Johnny Depp, but I didn't know any of that then and this was incredibly compelling to baby bisexual Hyper:
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I made some early attempts at original fic (also Truly Terrible) but getting comfortable with that is still an unmet goal, one which I'd like to take some good steps towards this year.
🤡 What's a line, scene, or exchange you've written that made you laugh?
There's a few, but faves are probably either the stupid boner joke from Best Seat in the House (rated T) or the fancy Shakespearean boner joke from How Like a Winter Hath Thy Absence Been (rated E). Clearly I have the sense of humour of a thirteen-year-old boy armed with a thesaurus.
🙋‍♀️ Do any irl people know you write fanfic?
Hell to the absolute nah. 😅
🎃 Do you write fics for certain holidays? Which is your favorite holiday inspired fic?
I've only done a Christmas one and a birthday one (both rated T), which were very similar. I like the Sherlock's birthday one more, I think. I don't know if I'd do more holidays, but I might do more character birthday fics.
🎨 How do you feel about fan art of your stories?
Amazing, splendorous, wonderful, unbelievable. People have drawn things for me a couple of times and I just get kinda blown away by the idea that people might like something I write that much? It's really beautiful just to have fans all using their different methods of being creative to hype each other up!
💞 Who's your comfort character?
Probably Mycroft or Louis in that I tend to interpret "comfort character" as "person I would trust to handle an emergency irl." 😂 If it's just like, "character who makes me feel warm and fuzzy," then it's Liam.
Thanks for the ask!!
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swannposting · 6 months ago
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Hi how is the writing going at the moment? And, if you want to, can you share a recent scene/moment you have written?
Hi!! :3 The writing is going slow as per usual, but I'm trying to keep at it. At the moment, I have a oneshot that is nearly finished, so I've been mostly focused on wrapping that up...
This has been a fun one for me. It's a Jack-centric story that I've been writing on and off for like six months. I want to call this a Sparrabeth fic, because it definitely is. But the premise has a lot to do with Jack and his relationship with his father. Here's a little excerpt from the beginning...
At dusk, a raucous bunch of pirates gather to mourn and celebrate an old legend of a man. Among them, Jack feels queasy. Too many drunken slobs call him Teague’s son as they slur their unsolicited condolences, reminding him that the memory of the unruly, undesirable ward that he once was still lives among the older crowd at Shipwreck. It seems the departure of the old man also means that the unspoken rule regarding any mention of Teague’s paternal ties has been scratched off the record, no longer to be enforced. As a boy, Jack yearned for such an acknowledgement. Now, becoming an old man himself, Jack wishes they would all go back to pretending.  Distractions abound— women, shanties, drink. In his usual way, he attempts to smother any opportunity to have an introspective thought by stepping jovially into hedonism. But the ladies watch him with their sad, enraptured eyes, the shanties taste bittersweet, and the drink does nothing to quell his unwanted musings. He cannot shake the image of Teague, eyelids held shut by coins, his arms stiff and forever still.  Just when he decides that it’s come time for him to slink away and cast off from this blasted graveyard of pirate ships and pirate bones, he catches sight of the pirate king. She finds him among the crowd. As she approaches him, he considers her mourning attire— an ebony waistcoat trimmed with tiny gold threads— and admires the lovely look of her hair when it is loose about her face, and notices the jingling of a very large ring of keys attached to her belt.  “You look like you would rather not be here.”   He will not deny that, though he ruffles at the realization that his discomfort is noticeable. She places a hand on his arm, and he remembers that she probably assumes that he is grieving (which he absolutely is not doing), for she half-smiles in a strange way, as if she is trying to pour comfort directly into his cup. “Come, let’s go somewhere quieter.” 
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lonelyvomit · 3 years ago
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Oh, it's a nice story of going into the fandom 😊 I'm anon who asked about it
For me, potc wasn't the first fandom I've read fics per se, but I belive sparrington was my first pairing I actually shipped (even though I was kinda late to the party and mostly wandered around long-dead forums), I still have a soft spot for it �� and yeah, Captain Jack introduced me to Johnny, which I'm grateful for
ohhh one of the rarepairs! I was too young then and I expected fanworks to still somewhat follow canon, so I was Sparrabeth truther, it wasn't until years later (cus I stopped reading fic for a long time) when I got into music RPF that I was like "🤯 they can actually just make things up?!" 😂
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bloomingcockroaches · 3 years ago
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For the fandom ask: Jane Austen if you're into her works at large? If not just Pride and Prejudice?
oh geez, i know nothing about jane austen and am firmly not into her but i will answer this based on pride and prejudice (2005)!!
favorite character: lizzie of course!!!
least favorite character: MR DARCY GET TORN APART BY WILD DOGS CHALLENGE
brOTP: lizzie and her dad 🥺🥺🥺 wow keira knightley play ANOTHER headstrong young woman with a doting father why don't you
OTP: i don't have a ship for this story i'm sorry to say...me and lizzie bennet
OT3: me and lizzie bennet and oh it's me again standing on the other side of her holding her other hand
NOTP: LIZZIE/DARCY... WHICH MAKES THIS FILM AGGRAVATING
favorite storyline: everything with william collins tbqh!! tom hollander is delightful and hilarious. my friend who rly likes jane austen let me know that the film plays him for laughs while in the book he is much older and utterly wretched... but i do really like tom hollander so putting my eyeballs on him was great. also he and keira have great comedic chemistry.
least favorite storyline: literally lizzie/darcy i wish him a very die
what I wish had happened but didn’t: i don't think i had a real Goal for this story i just wanted lizzie to be happy and in the end she was. my Wrong™️ opinion is that i love the insanely horny us-only ending and it's the only part of the movie i liked... i liked it so much i made it sparrabeth
what happened that I wish hadn’t: you'll never guess
send me a fandom!!
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