#The Pirate Menace

[semper-legens]

134. The Pirate Menace, by Angus Konstam

Owned: No, library Page count: 340 My summary: A history of the Golden Age of Piracy - Caribbean buccaneers fighting and robbing from the colonies in the New World, holding up port towns and butchering hundreds. Names like Charles Vane, Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, Benjamin Hornigold - all rose to prominence on Nassau or Port Royal, and all fell back into the misty haze of pirate legend. This is their story. My rating: 4/5

More books about pirates! This is going to become a running theme, if it isn't already. I'm doing research for a book I want to write, so I'm reading a lot of pirate nonfiction in the vain hope that at least some of it will stick in me brain long enough to create a plausible historical fiction from it. This book is specifically about Caribbean pirates during the Age of Sail, and more specifically the few years that historians have dubbed the Golden Age of Piracy. From Benjamin Hornigold to William Fly, pirates reigned over the Caribbean and caused terror in her oceans, but the life did not last long, and the authorities seized control back from them. This is the story of how that happened - how pirates rose, and how they fell.

It's a pretty good book - informative without being overly dense or formal, accessible, interesting - though I did have some quibbles here and there. The more narrative-style retelling of these pirates' stories led to some jumping around in the timeline that could be confusing, and as such the stories didn't quite flow as well as they could. Konstam speaks of accepted historical theory and posits his own suppositions, but some of them seem weak. (I don't think, for example, that it's widely accepted that Daniel Defoe is 'Captain Charles Johnson', the author of 1724 book A General History of the Pyrates, just that it's a possible theory.) Nevertheless, his structure of taking us through the story of each individual pirate is an interesting one, and curtails the potential problem of the story stopping and starting as it skips between captains. If you're into pirates, this isn't a bad book to check out, that's all I'm saying.

Next, a conclave of cardinals meet to determine the next Pope.

[chialattea]

POV: it’s 4AM. You’re the crew’s chef and you hear noise in the kitchen

[achieve-the-sun]

Big psycho pink bird man on main??? There you go

[daily-dose-of-danno]

Some exterior shots of Fenton Works :)

Season 1, Episode 1 - Mystery Meat

Season 1, Episode 8 – Prisoners of Love

Season 1, Episode 17 - Maternal Instincts

Season 2, Episode 1 - Memory Blank

Season 2, Episode 3 - Pirate Radio

Season 2, Episode 6 - Identity Crisis

Season 2, Episode 7 - Fenton Menace

[taco-tuseday]

Baby’s got a bomb

Day 11 of buggytober

[kacievvbbbb]

Shanks trying to explain to people that Mihawk is actually hilarious and cracks a lot of little sarcastic jokes and his crews just like sure boss we believe you

Shanks growing desperate and frantic trying to explain that Mihawk can actually be really fun and is very sporadic a lot of the time and is the literal embodiment of “do it for the plot 🤷🏿‍♀️”and the crew’s just like captain’s really whipped ain’t he. Hawkeyes’ really got your number boss.

All the while Mihawk watches on eyes alight with joy only Shanks can see. This was all part of his plan

[starrspice]

I've been meaning to ask, in the Silent Shanty au, how do Eclipse and Y/n know each other? And why doesn't Y/n remember him?

Well, they spent a summer together a long time ago.

Eclipse would travel overseas with his father during the summer, and while playing on the beach one afternoon he got swept out to sea by the current. Y/N helped pull him back to shore, and the two played together everyday that summer.

Those summer memories have always held a place in Eclipse’s heart, and he’s spent years trying to find them again. But it was such a long time ago Y/N’s nearly forgotten

[gatitties]

Ayo I wondering if you could the straw hats or heart pirates with reader who's personality involves them being sarcastic, mischievous and brazenly condescending yet sly and humorous. they also have the genso genso no mi that allows the user to create physical illusions that can be seen by everyone. These illusions are highly convincing and shatter like glass when reader dispels them, or someone breaks them. Their most apparent use of them is creating illusions around their body, either to disguise themselves or for their opponent to target while they escapes or moves unseen to another point of attack.  They also seem to be somewhat resilient to damage. While fighting an opponent, the illusion concealing reader's outfit was not dispelled even after taking or landing some hits.  They also learned to use their devil fruit abilities for psychological manipulation, exploiting the appearance of close friends and families in their enemies to torment and overpower them. Reader at one point displayed their mastery over their devil fruit, where they managed to completely disguise an entire navy ship to physically resemble a marine ship, implying that they could maintain the facade long enough to fool the marines. Their devil fruit awakening would allow the reader to cast illusions from any object or living thing from their own surroundings. An example would be zoro who was cast an illusion on him to make others see him as Charlos (aka the ugly celestial dragon). that would make the opportunity for Luffy or any of the straw hats to fight him while not realizing that is zoro while reader comes up with a plan.

─Strawhats & Heart Pirates x reader

─Summary: You're a mischievous person, you like to cause some chaos with your powers, even if it's your own crew, you just enjoy the drama too much.

─Warnings: none

─ You are a threat and a salvation in equal parts for this crew.

─ Reliable enough to get them out of trouble thanks to your illusions, and evil enough to create small fights between them with your power.

─ You live for drama, and what better drama than blaming others for acts they haven't done? You love causing chaos wherever you step, did you think that just because they are your friends they would get rid of your bad jokes?

─ Nami has probably hit you more than once for being silly or making an unfortunate comment on more than one occasion, but your sarcasm can't be stopped.

─ Robin and Jinbe are the ones who fall least into your traps of illusion, they know how to detect when you are going to do something mischievous, they can read you like an open book.

─ Zoro and Sanji are the ones you mess with the most, confusing them and making their bromance more than just bros, but you're just trying to make love blossom, at least that's your legitimate defense.

─ You can be sarcastic, stubborn… and countless other things, but Chopper is not part of your jokes, at least, not most of the time.

─ Although you will use his appearance in your hallucinations to scare Usopp, there is nothing that scares the sniper more than meeting a monstrous and unreal version of his cute friend.

─ Something that is not so common to use with them is the 'mental control' that you began to develop, it seemed to you that it was something that you should only use with enemies… and with the occasional whim.

─ Do you want to go to a snowy island just to ride a sleigh and make snowmen? Not to mention more! A couple of wishful thinking, some sweet words and you'll be on a winter island the next day.

─ Although they probably scolded you for altering the route, you defend yourself by saying that it wasn't you who agreed to change it, they can't really blame you when they were the ones who "agreed".

─ You have a list with all the most hated people in the crew just to create illusions and provoke everyone to go against each other.

─ Literally sometimes you are the definition of “why have enemies when you have friends.”

─ Law is so fed up with your behaviour but you are so useful in avoiding marines that he allows some of your comments and antics.

─ Although he will probably send you many more tasks than the others as a punishment for taking years off his life with your jokes.

─ You will make him think that he is eating bread, getting on your captain's nerves and doing a puzzle with your body so that you can kill the boredom rebuilding it.

─ Shachi and Penguin have a lot of fights because of you, but they are so easy to fool that it is impossible for you not to confuse them with some of your illusions so that they end up arguing over trivial things.

─ Ikkaku has strictly forbidden you entry to the kitchen because the last thing she needs is to cause more disasters in the kitchen, and she's also a tough nut to crack, your illusions don't work so well with her.

─ Of course Law also learned to see through your power, so you started using a little psychology for your antics.

─ One day you simply decided that it would be a good idea to use your powers to convince everyone to dress up as penguins for a mission, the moment was unforgettable just like cleaning the floor of the submarine with a toothbrush…

─ Once you made Jean Bart take the form of Bepo, although only Law could see him like that, everyone laughed at him for seeing him hug the wrong person.

─ It goes without saying that you had to do another arduous task after messing with your captain.

─ Bepo is probably the only one who escapes the worst jokes, you will use him as a shield for some scoldings, he really is your most powerful weapon against your captain.

─ They always send you to the rear in case they need you to create some illusion for an unexpected situation, Law is usually calculating and rarely prefers to take action if it is not planned in advance.

─ What seems boring to you and sometimes you decide to improvise a little, without ruining the plan, but it's more fun to watch the bad guys beat each other while you just watch the fight like it's a movie

─ The probability of arguing with Law for disobeying him is lower, since at least you didn't ruin the mission, or at least, he doesn't have to remember that you ruined something, you just have to alter his mind a little so that he doesn't realize that your little mistakes.

[patchworkpiratebear]

[xray-vex]

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

[quakerr0ats]

Oodles of doodles fr

[spideyachilles]

secrets seem so silly when they're kept from you <3 zolu comic :3 pls click for quality !!!

if you're confused about the pictographs/what they're saying, look at ALT!!! full image below 🫶

[mccallhero]

favourite ouat scenes: 29/?

[demigodofhoolemere]

The Second Doctor

November 5, 1966 — June 21, 1969

Patrick Troughton

March 25, 1920 — March 28, 1987

[delusionalbitchinthehouse]

"You look lonely. I can fix that" but it's siren Rain trying to lure someone toward the water in my Ghost pirate AU.

[coldemergency]

Harry: You actually were telling the truth

Voldemort: I do that quite a lot, yet people are always surprised