#age of sail memes

[fuckyeahnaturalphilosophy]

Found this on KnowYourMeme

[thekenobee]

As promised

[aye-aye-captain]

watching a youtube apology video like...

[ltwilliammowett]

🤣

Send by @departmentq - thank you very much

[mystery-star]

I neglected the memes too long, I know... also sorry there's so few but I'm running out of them and need to make some more.

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[eachlanguagewritten]

She Creature

Prompts taken or adapted from the 2001 horror fantasy creature feature (but this time it's all the sailing-ship/myth specific ones.) Feel free to shuffle the pronouns, etc.

“You're right to think me strange, but you'd be strange too if you knew what I know.”

“All water holds hidden magic.”

“In Greek mythology, sirens were originally bird women, then somewhere along the line, the story mutated into fish women.”

“Mermaids are myths, everybody knows that.”

“They sing, they dance, and they lure the sailors to their lair with their pale flesh.”

“The story goes that every year, under the strongest of the full moons, the mermaids become human for roughly one night.”

“You skipped the part where the creature bites the hand that feeds it and you end up a paranoid old fool staring at it day and night and night and day.”

“This is history and archaeology and spectacle all rolled into one.”

“Did I tell you the one about the hangman and the hawk?”

“Must be awful for you, listening to all this sailor talk day and night.”

“I'm telling you- don't be fooled by what it appears to be! ”

“I don't think any explanation could satisfy.”

“Give me one good reason why I shouldn't throw this thing off my ship right now and you with it!”

“I've had men flogged to death for less.”

“Think of it as the greatest treasure any man has ever discovered.”

“You divide your share any which way you see fit.”

“You're looking at the good luck charm of a lifetime.”

“I'm going up for some fresh air.”

“It reeks down here.”

“Perhaps the ocean air is bringing out the animal in you.”

“I don't care how much treasure we're promised, that thing doesn't belong here.”

“Look, acting the clown's one thing, but you're playing with everyone's safety and you know it!”

“See that over there? Like a mass of shadow? It's an island.”

“I don't care what you do just turn this thing around!”

“It can and will rip the guts out of each and every living being here tonight.”

“The bullets are in the captain's quarters, come on.”

“What the hell is that thing?”

“I'm not waiting around down here.”

“An island full of mermaids - that's why we're here.”

“No one gets to see the forbidden islands and walk out alive.”

“You told me "let's take a mermaid to America, get rich and famous" not "let's steal the queen of the what's-it what turns into a monster and eats people"!”

“I think I would have remembered the difference!”

“What happened? Where's your crew?”

“Eventually our journey became a footnote, a bizarre unresolved tale.”

“I'm just going to check below and make sure everything's alright.”

“Some things, no matter how magnificent they are, are best left alone.”

[preblesboys]

I love how Stephen Decatur is the standard for all of them.

[granturn]

[image description: a screenshot of Jack Rackham from Black Sails wearing sunglasses with 4 panels (two in front, two at sides). He is looking forward with his mustache quirked slightly. Accompanied by a text post by tumblr user eleventh-earl that says, "his swagless looks and cringe personality have captivated me".

/end description]

[intertexts]

the black sails experience so far.

[thekenobee]

The tale of a cur-tailed dog

[aye-aye-captain]

I feel like this gif has to be some kind of reaction meme

[smokeys-house]

Sailors in the 1700s finding weevils in their ship's biscuits

[victusinveritas]

It's more nautical folk than outright sea shanties, but I'd love to hear her cover "The Mary Ellen Carter."

[mystery-star]

Dear Aubreyad people, no I have NOT forgotten the memes. Here you go, enjoy!

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[kakusu-shipping]

I’m kinda insecure about one of my f/o’s because, 1. He’s a teenager (and I’m an adult), and 2. He’s kind of a meme character. I’m worried people will think I ship myself with him as a joke, but I’m not. I really, really like him!

This is the Internet and it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks ever.

Well that's my go to response anyway, but I do understand the hesitation, especially with a canon minor character, feels like you gotta dance around certain people for that, and it makes the whole thing feel kinda exhausting. Though I'll say, it's probably not as scary as you think it is, it's easy to fall into this hole on the internet that if you make even the slightest misstep people will scream for your head, but it's really not that bad, I promise. Maybe I'm just lucky though, or off most people's radar.

The other half though, the worry people think you're self shipping with them as a joke? Honestly, if people think that, it's probably fine all things considered? Like I get it kinda sucks not being taken seriously, kinda hurts, but at the end of the day your F/O knows you're serious, and you know you're serious, and that's what matters.

Every character is someone's unironic Fictional Other. There are people out there who'd unironically want to Marry Shrek, or Nagito Komeda, or Sans Undertale and the Oncler together. And like!!! Good For Them!!! I love that for them!!! Shrek and Sans love them back!!

So if you're comfortable with it, take a deep breath, and love loud.