#pirate vibes

[shapeshiftersvt]

Ah! Is it fancy gay pirate season once again?

Fancy lace binders for fancy gay pirate vibes!

[pheexblack]

SPEECHLESS

[alwachart]

So I put Astarion in Wyll's outfit...

[env0]

Tagged by @quannaix and @sappholovesemily a selfie so have this Lil set. My new favorite busking shirt(because the obscene amount of sexual harassment I get while street performing) Henry Crabgrass say, "Consent Please!"

Tagging @ohgoddamnit, @cherrycasino, @elusive-phantom, @thepoisonofdoubt, @fabledanarchy @princess-aries, @starry-stargazer, @lotusilk, @ianvs, @moss-wizard, @dustsculptures, @anyone else who want to share a selfie. Mutuals looking at you

[lasirenedesiree]

Black Sails (2014-2017) aesthetic 🏴‍☠️

[thisthat-ortheother]

Requested by anonymous

[saturnspoison]

Outfit for a medieval festival

[littleemptyattik]

This week I finished reading this book— The Republic of Pirates by Colin Woodard

For a book that's entirely nonfiction and written with only the solid facts as the main focus, I can honestly say I felt more emotions reading this than any other book in a long time.

Despite my instinctive love for the world and concept of classic pirates, when I picked up this book I was preparing to be disappointed in some ways; I wanted to know the truth about them, but I was afraid the truth was dismal and that I was going to find a book full of men not to be admired, motivated by their own greed and violence.

In the history of piracy there is certainly greed and violence, but it's not the pirates that I found myself despising. Maybe I'm still a little biased by my idealized view of them, but after reading this book I can't help but feel more love for that league of pirate kings and queens. These were people whose governments—mainly the British, but also the French and others, including the blooming Americas—had not only neglected, but also abused and exploited and even tortured. More than once in the early chapters I had to put the book down because I felt overwhelmed reading about some of the accounts of navy and merchant ships, whose captains and owners had manipulated or even straight-up kidnapped men and boys to put to work as practical slaves. Hundreds of thousands of innocent lives were lost to the sea with no proper respect, sometimes even through deliberate murder by their superiors, and no one did anything about it because these men and boys (and the women and children who were left behind) were poor and had no power, existing as nothing but a workforce for politicians and businessmen to use until they broke.

I'm not going to pretend the pirates weren't sometimes just as vile; of course they were, at times. But these men had decided that enough was enough, that their lives were worth more than having their bodies dumped overboard so some old man could count his riches in his mansion back on land. I feel like many of us can still relate to this in our world today.

These men and women weren't saints, but I don't know what choice they had. Mutinying, thievery, fear tactics—these were all the resources they had, and it was either that or continue to be exploited by a system that gave them no benefit. And in the end, even the most vicious pirate in this book was not as corrupt as most of the high-class thieves and murderers who got away with their corruption because it was legal. The pirates stole to survive and try to thrive in a world not made for them. They married women of other cultures and had beautiful mixed children in a time when that was rare and would be for three more centuries. They often freed slaves from the cargo holds and invited them to join their crews, not caring about their skin color or even if they didn't speak the same language. I found myself laughing more than once at how the many of them would board a ship and then send the crew on their way with an apology and well wishes to get home safely, sometimes even paying the captain for his trouble and the goods they took. Though they did harm some people and earned their reputation in some ways, these men weren't a stereotype of cruelty and lust. They were human.

I held myself back because I was in public at the time, but when I read the last few pages detailing the fall of the pirate leaders, I felt somehow like I was losing friends. They certainly weren't perfect, but I also can't agree that they deserved their fates. The propaganda and political corruption of the times had ensured pirates like "Blackbeard" would be remembered with hatred and terror even to this day, when in reality, the brilliant Edward Teach was known in his circles for his mercy and moral standards toward his men and his victims. In a world where violence was utilized like a tool, forced upon men like him who didn't actually want violence, did he really deserve to die so brutally? Did Calico Jack and Stede Bonnet and Mary Read, and that 20-something-year-old who called the audience cowards for not standing up against their oppressors just before he was hanged with seven others? In a republic (because it was exactly that, a system of fair election based on merit), did the pirate leaders deserve to have their society torn apart so that the old system of exploitation could continue?

After I finished the book, I ate dinner and just wondered...What if? What if some of the pirates' political plans, like Charles Vane's desire to depose the royal family, had actually happened? (That's the same royal family that still rules Britain today, by the way.) What if they had been united with more educated people to enhance their society, providing more structure to it? What if they'd kept Nassau as their capital, creating a trade system that might help fund their goals and dreams? What if their knowledge about other lands and peoples had become the norm? Would we be more intermixed in color and culture today, more advanced in our treatment of other people groups as equals? What if the ideologies hadn't been suppressed, but had been allowed to spread around cities and towns in Britain, Europe, and the Americas, ideologies of freedom for individuals and curiosity about the world and motivation to challenge injustice? What if they'd been given the chance to rule for longer than just the handful of years they'd had?

I didn't mean to write all of this, honestly. I was just going to give a little summary and post the photo. But it's been repeating in my head for days now...What if?

(And just to be clear, I would have married Blackbeard if he'd asked.)

[treemaidengeek]

please everyone take two minutes to enjoy my favorite a capella group VoicePlay having an absolute blast with Wellerman

[alta-et-astra]

Drawing with my kids again! My four year old did the moon and my two year old the enthusiastic line work! 😍 Done with my kids' Crayola markers.

[beesmakesthings]

Alright kids. A new project is coming. Bees is gonna make things ….

So my kiddo is in year 11, which is the first big exam year for UK kids. There’s a prom. They have a costume day to raise money for that.

As a result of a massive change in her “friend” situation (in that the ones she thought she had turned on her and treated her like shit. I’m not playing because it’s my kid. IYKYK) she doesn’t want to be Mary Poppins any more. (That would have also been a fun costume!!) So I asked her what she wanted to be and she said she’d think about it.

Three days later, heads off the bus right at me and says “Grace O’Malley, Pirate Queen”.

So here we go?! I’m bodging as per - we’re going for “wearable by a small young person” over full authenticity. She just needs her history teacher to get it. (She loves history, he is AMAZING and she digs it.) I’ve paged my LARP-ers (if you’re reading this, know that I love you an unreasonable amount right now!!) and we’ve found a chemise object and a laced up leather weskit on that there Vinted. Next up is charity shop fun and raiding the fabric stash. She wants a bit of swish and we need some boots (possibly). Bonus brother is on swords and daggers, other dear ones on belts and leather goods, and cloaks we need to fix yet.

She wants to kick ass. She deserves to. Let’s GO.

[madelineburgetauthor]

Caraway of the Sea, available on kindle unlimited.

Caraway Auclair has devoted herself to protecting her brother, serving as the ship’s first mate and enforcer. Sacrificing nearly all she is to ensure that he becomes the most fearsome pirate Captain to ever sail the Carnelian Sea. She realizes too late, that the seas have only grown darker, and the waves more fearsome, they threaten to pull her under completely and mold her into something akin to a nightmare.

After Caraway's closest friend dies in a brutal storm, grief puts Caraway and her brother at odds more than ever before.

When they dock on Isla Dalia after the devastating storm, Caraway is surrounded by both friend and foe, oftentimes unable to distinguish between the two. She must navigate a torrent of emotions unlike any she has weathered before. Seeking out any and all distractions, she begins to grow dangerously close to a rival Captain, despite her brother's warnings.

As another storm looms, ever encroaching upon her crew's uncertain future, her fears are laid bare for all to see. Caraway struggles to face the demons of her past ... only to discover that they pale in comparison to the monster that she had a hand in creating.

As she drifts further away from all that she once knew, secrets slowly begin to surface, and the tides of her life as she knew it begins to shift ...

A shift that just might destroy the life she's worked so hard to protect, and her future with it.

[artbywillow]

Transcript:

Our house is a ship

--Pirate Ship--

We sail the seas of Poverty and Pandemic

Mates accompanied by Tune and Hound

Eating and smoking what we can.

Sometimes we set traps to snare the sneaky trespassers.

They spike their fingers and scrape their scrotums.

Our barricades block their way.

Our Hounds Bork their bags.

Guess they'll have to find another way through When they do their shady business. Their route is no longer convenient.

We are finally safe and at peace.

Well, learning to be.

Until then,

...

Creeeeek

End Transcript.

[cave-cryptid]

I'm a simple person

I see a young man with floppy hair, ear cuffs and multiple tattoos

He haunts about in my thoughts for weeks

[captain-ultimat-doggo]

I long for the sea in the sense of someone who reads historical fiction about the golden age of piracy, wanting the salt spray with no seasickness, the freedom of climbing the rigging and singing with friends while the evils of the time are quietly written out of existence or vehemently opposed by all main characters. The idea of sailing and adventuring and relaxing in the romanticized way, despite the fact that I have in real life managed to somehow offend a god of the sea.

I long for the woods like someone who's been burned too often by unshaded cities. To walk barefoot through leaves and moss and curse at the pinecones and thorns, to mimic birdcalls and follow trailblazes and be completely isolated but surrounded by life of immeasurable size. The idea of ancient redwoods and forests that dwarf our skyscrapers and have spread their roots to grow daughters that will take hundreds of my lifetime to grow to their fullest height.

I may love the idea of the ocean, and someday I will see if it loves me back, but I'm born of the Appalachians and they've raised me as their daughter to go seek the ancient wild places, wherever they be.

[wanpie]

I totally forgot that he's a lil deranged freak underneath all the trauma and can't-catch-a-break-itis of part 2

The hearts, Bepo even,are like dude