#jacky faber

[captainsvscaptains]

Round 1 Part 1 Poll 4

Propaganda

La Sombra is badass and beautiful and might be a necromancer or at the very least fond of them.

Jacky is from a book series I read as a kid. she dresses up as a boy, makes other boys think they're gay, kisses girls, becomes a pirate, starts a theater, has adventures, becomes a consort to Zheng Yi Sao. I love her.

[john-bracket]

[gaypiratepropaganda]

gay pirate glossary

articles- ship's articles. the papers you sign to join a crew. different ships have different rules. pirates got to make up their own.

bosun- boatswain. in charge of things that happen on deck. pretty sure there's supposed to be an apostrophe in there somewhere (bo'sun? bo's'n?)

bosun's chair- the swing thing for working on the side of the ship or bringing breakfast up to your co-captain.

bow- front of the ship.

bridge- the higher deck on top of the cabin? where you steer the ship from. only certain people are supposed to go up there, usually.

brig- the jail place below deck where you keep people who are annoying you.

captain- you know this one for sure, but pirate captains were a bit different than other captains. since they weren’t backed by any kind of government and could be mutinied or voted out at any time, they had to earn their crew’s respect. they needed the crew to see them as an equal, but still an authority on certain things. sometimes there was no captain, or they took turns.

doldrums- when the wind isn’t blowing for a while and everyone kind of loses their minds

flogging- punishment used on sailors in which a person is tied up and whipped a certain amount of times, depending on their transgression (30 lashes, 40 lashes, etc). It could get pretty bad, people died from it. allegedly you could volunteer to whip your friends so that it wouldn’t hurt as bad. people say this is where the phrase "I’ll scratch your back, you scratch mine" comes from, but that doesn't seem true

galley- the kitchen on a boat. sometimes doubles as the infirmary.

grog- daily rations of rum, mashed fruit, sketchy water, and sugar mixed into a delicious punch.

gun- the thing that shoots cannonballs.

hardtack- hard sad little crackerbreads that keep well but are very bland. sometimes there were bonus bugs in (extra protein!)

head- the toilet. it’s basically a board with a hole in it at the front of the ship. it goes straight into the ocean.

keelhauling- tying someone to the end of a rope and dropping them off the front of a ship so that they’re dragged under it and they drown or their skin gets ripped up by barnacles. fun.

(note: pirates didn’t usually use torture methods like keelhauling or flogging, especially not on their own crewmates. that was the navy and the merchant ships. a lot of people started out on those, mutinied because of the harsh conditions, stole the ship they were on, and became pirates. if a pirate captain tried that shit, they would not be captain for very long.)

kohl- black eyeliner made by the indigenous people of africa, india, and the middle east. i think it was invented in egypt? if pirates wore it, then tragically no one wrote about it. but it’s part of the lore at this point and it’s pretty. just accept it.

letter of marque- papers that prove someone is a privateer.

matelot- pirate husband. there was a matelotage ceremony, papers to sign, and a party afterward. a mate served as, like, next of kin. they made decisions if the other couldn’t, shared quarters and possessions, all that. some people insist it was only a financial arrangement, and maybe sometimes it was. but so were straight marriages, especially at the time.

port- left when you’re facing front (like stage left)

press-ganged/shanghaied- being drugged, stolen, and sold to work on a ship involuntarily. the recruiters just had to forge your signature and then you were stuck. some people became pirates to escape. it’s press-ganging when the navy does it, shanghaiing for the merchants.

privateer- like a pirate, but authorized by the state. they were allowed to kill and steal but only enemies of the crown and they had to give everything to the king. it was a good way to get a pardon and avoid being hanged. privateers often went right back to being pirates at the first opportunity.

quartermaster- first mate, also elected by the crew.

raid- when you go on another ship and take their things. pirates weren’t really out there stealing fabulous treasure or anything. It was more basic necessities like food, water, medical supplies, clothes, dishes, money, sugar, spices, and anything of value they could find to sell. they tried to be as scary as possible so that people would surrender and they wouldn’t have to kill anyone unnecessarily. if you could get them to join your crew, even better.

rigging- all the ropes. you can climb around on them.

round robin- when you sign your names in a circle so that no one gets singled out for signing first. used in the navy.

salty- of or related to the sea, experienced as a sailor

sextant- that thing you use to measure the stars so you know where you are at sea. i think you can also use your hand somehow? i don't understand it.

shanties- those songs sailors sing. you know the ones. they were work songs, to get everybody in the same rhythm, but they were also for entertainment. there’s a lot of downtime on a sailing ship. my favorite thing is that when singing a song from the perspective of, for example, a woman waiting for her bonny lad to come back from the sea, they would sing in their man voices without changing the words.

shares- an equal cut of the loot. some people might get a share or half share more or less than other crewmembers. sometimes the captain was the one who got less? this was decided by vote. it’s like a non-profit stealing co-op.

starboard- right when you’re facing front (like stage right)

stern- back of the ship.

watch- everyone took shifts staying up to watch for other ships and make sure they stayed on course.

yardarm- the horizontal thing that the sails are on. yardies!

some basic pirate terms for you in case you need them. I did not do any research, this is 100% organic vibes-based pirate lore in honor of our boy david. i have read a lot about pirates over the years, though. fiction, nonfiction, and primary sources. these are just the fun bits that live in my brain <3

[theshopwherethelostthingsgo]

Jacko herself

[bloodyjackincorrectquotes]

Jacky: Don’t worry, I have a few knives up my sleeve.

Richard: I think you mean cards.

Jacky, pulling knives out of her sleeves: Those too.

[queentrashlee]

Though My Bonnylight Horseman is one of my lower ranked books in the Bloody Jack series, Bardot dying at the end, just makes me sob, especially listening to the audio book, as the song Jacky sings him off with, is just lovely.

[bed-wed-behead-your-fave]

Jacky Faber from bloody jack

[raoulgoldenlake]

THRILLED to see Bloody Jack on here, that’s one of my favorite series that very few people I know have read.

because i've seen 3 other polls like this and they were all missing the best options

[artaxata]

That book series ended up disappointing me so bad. I realized it was a weird fetish/fantasy thing for the author. At least that’s what it felt like towards the end. Torture porn imo it was weird. And the whole thing of “I’m gonna stay a virgin til Jamie and I get married” thing and the better love interests better men, better women, she’d run into all throughout the series. It got infuriating. The time period also didn’t make sense either? Like pirates weren’t really a thing during the regency? He’d mash up a bunch of timelines and it confused me as a kid. I didn’t care I still imagined corsets and tricorns etc. bc I hated the regency look.

[boatmediatourney]

⚓Boat Media Tournament⚓

Round 1, match 4

[captainsvscaptains]

Prelims

Poll I

[lateassignment]

i give up.

[dacenturion]

Cooking up something! Stay tuuneeeeed!!!

This song reminded me of the Trojans….

Here’s my YouTube acc where I’ll post it once it’s done :D

[tansyuduri]

10 characters, 10 fandoms

rules: list your ten favorite characters from ten separate fandoms, then tag ten people!

I was tagged by @sexy-sapphic-sorcerer So in no order Merlin from BBC Merlin

Aang from Avatar the Last Airbender

Claire Devlin from Derry Girls

Eloise from Brigerton

Nell Jackson from Renigade Nell

Keladry of Mindelan from Tamora Peirce's Tortall world

Briar from Tamora Peirce's Circle World

Jordon from Gen V

Jacky Faber from the Bloody Jack Series

11th Doctor from Dr Who I TAG! @kadenemrys @saurix5 @godmerlin @shana-rosee @akelafang

@sugar-coated-prat-dragon @alex-the-bringer-of-chaos @linotheghost @catsconflictscopicsandchamomile

@oakfiddle @samwinjester @wolfiery @merthurogies @kairenn-n

[bloodyjackincorrectquotes]

Jacky: Amy, do you love me?

Amy: Of course I do.

Jacky: Would you still love me if I did something bad?

Amy: well of course I... would...

Jacky: I mean something really, really

Amy: Jacky what did you do?

[qrowsofafeather]

Tagged by @fickleminder

Rules: make a poll with five of your all-time favorite characters and then tag five people to do the same, see which character is everyone’s favorite.

tagging: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @wolvesinstarryskies, @oheyfox, @obae-me, @devildomditzy, and anyone who's interested

Edit: I probably should have thrown in Sung Jinwoo or Woo Jinchul but those two are super recent oh well