#buccaneers*

[dailybuccaneers]

The Buccaneers  — 1.01 x 1.08

[usafphantom2]

Ark Royal and a few Buccaneers

@CcibChris via X

[caleod]

11-2-24

[whencyclopedia]

Spanish Main

The Spanish Main refers, in its widest sense, to the Spanish Empire in the Americas from Florida in the north to the northern coast of Brazil in the south, including the Caribbean. The term was initially more limited and referred only to the mainland Spanish territories in northern South America. It was a name particularly popular with writers of pirate fiction as a handy and romantic term to cover the field of operation of privateers, buccaneers, and pirates from the 16th to 18th centuries.

Geographical Area

The term 'Spanish Main' was applied to Spanish colonial possessions in the Americas from around 1520 to 1730 and the end of the Golden Age of Piracy. At first, it had a more limited meaning. The term literally meant the "mainland of the Spanish Empire" and derived from the Spanish Tierra Firme, meaning the "mainland". Consequently, the expression was used by English privateers in the 16th century to mean only the northern coast of South America (approximately from Panama to Trinidad), although the coastal waters thereof were also included. The Caribbean islands were not then included within the term's geographical reference since these were obviously islands and not the American mainland. The buccaneers of the 17th century then used 'Spanish Main' to refer to the Caribbean Sea, in effect, inverting the original meaning. 18th-century fiction writers began to use the term even more indiscriminately to mean all of the Spanish Empire from Florida in the north to the border with Portuguese Brazil in the south. It also now referred to the entire ocean in that area and so came to include all of the Caribbean with the exception of the Lesser Antilles, which had been colonised by other European powers.

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[mischief-marauders]

Okay I need everyone to stop what they’re doing and please go watch The Buccaneers on Apple TV.

It’s like a Taylor Swift coded version of Bridgerton but about girlhood and much more fun.

Soundtrack slaps. Nothing New in the first episode and Long Live in the last episode.

Premise is five American girls making their way through English deb society.

Very good storylines, phenomenal acting, and beautiful/deep characters.

Last episode had me screaming and kicking my feet and gasping in shock. This is REAL tv!

[theindefinitearticle]

Every episode of buccaneers I am like surely this episode they will just kill seadown. And then every episode for some reason nobody ever just starts beating him to death.

[emmanuelle-la-rosa]

Alhambra Theatre

[saotome-michi]

Spoilers for one piece ch 1114

I've been thinking this for a while and now with ch 1114 I feel more certain that—

—Joy Boy was a Buccaneer.

It would explain why the Buccaneers have been persecuted to near extinction. Plus, them being called buccaneers could be a nod towards Joy Boy being the first pirate, since buccaneer literally means pirate!

I've seen many theorize that Joy Boy was a giant, because of the large straw hat at Mariejois, but Buccaneers can be large as well (just look at Kuma), and while the Giants do believe in Sun God Nika, the Buccaneers are the ones who we've seen truly mimic him; with Kuma's father teaching him the dance, which he then passes down to Bonney, who then uses her powers to mimic Nika and his way of fighting (yes, Bonney is not a Buccaneer, but she was still raised by one).

Also, when Kuma arrived at Egghead to save Bonney, Vegapunk was shocked that he could still move after they'd pressed the shutdown switch.

"So is it true, then...? It is not the physical strength of the Buccaneers that makes them remarkable... for at one point in time, they..."

There are some who think that Joy Boy didn't eat a devil fruit, but had some innate ability that made him able to "fight however he wanted" and that the gum gum fruit only manifested after he died due to people's dreams and wishes for him to return. If that was the case, then Vegapunk's thoughts here might be hinting towards that—that the Buccaneers had some innate quality of freedom; the freedom to fight however they wanted, even after a shutdown switch.

[originalleftist]

Pirate Trivia Time:

Here are some of my favourite bits of pirate trivia:

Ann Bonny's name has been spelled "Anne" with an e for 300 years due to a error in the trial record.

The sole surviving physical description of Ann Bonny and Mary Read by an eyewitness is basically "I knew they were women because they had big breasts".

Blackbeard once ransomed the city of Charleston for syphilis medication.

There is no known record of Blackbeard killing anyone before his final battle.

The word "buccaneer" has the same origins as the word "barbecue" (the boucan, a means of preparing meat).

A buccaneer, William Dampier, introduced the word "avocado" (among others) to the English language (he was also the first person to circumnavigate the world three times).

Wrecks of at least two pirate ships have been discovered: "Black Sam" Bellamy's Whydah Galley, and Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge.

Arguably the most successful pirate of all time was a Chinese woman, Ching Shih, aka Zheng Yi Sao.

Bartholomew Roberts had perhaps the most cinematic pirate death- trading broadsides with a man of war in the middle of a tropical storm.

Yes, Stede Bonnet actually had a library on his sloop, the Revenge.

[thebeautifulbook]

THE LAST BUCCANEER, or, The Trustees of Mrs. A. by L. Cope Cornford. (Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1902) Cover designs by Jay Chambers of Decorative Designers.

[dailybuccaneers]

"The Buccaneers" Wedding of the Season (TV Episode 2023)

[usafphantom2]

And from the Military Zone……lots of nana’s

@CcibChris via X

[saturnslight]

new edit <3

[trashassassinxiii]

appropriate music for my current reading

[ltwilliammowett]

Buccaneers in the midst of a fierce battle, by Frederick J. Waugh, 1910

[julie-and-the-ghost-himbos]

The ending of the Buccaneers was actually incredible, not what I was expecting but it was very emotional to see everyone coming together like that.