#spheirrow

[tiderideraa]

it  happened  suddenly,  like  the  taste  of  lightening  on  the  horizon,  a  sudden  snap  that  that  set  the  air  alight.  harry's  body  reacted  quickly,  muscle  memory  guiding  his  hand  forward  to  grasp  jaq  by  the  back  of  her  neck  and  in  a  single  fluid  motion,  he  had  thrown  them  both  to  the  ground.

        no  sooner  had  they  hit  the  dirt,  did  an  explosion  of  sound ��ripple  through  the  street  in  a  wave  of  heat,  shattered  glass,  and  splintered  wood.  harry  curled  his  fingers  into  the  collar  of  jaq's  coat,  hauling  her  close  to  him  as  he  shoved  himself  back  up  to  his  feet.  he  half  carried,  half  dragged  jaq  down  the  street,  away  from  the  immediate  danger  where  he  tucked  himself  and  jaq  into  a  small  alcove  and  only  then  did  he  actually  look  at  her.

        ❝  jaq,  look  up,  look  at  me,  ❞  harry  ordered,  releasing  her  collar  so  that  he  could  touch  her  chin  and  guide  her  face.    //    @spheirrow​  ♡'d  for  a  starter  .

[tideridera]

—  @spheirrow​  get’s  a  starter  inspired  by  wire / desctownhall .

                    harry  traced  his  fingertips  lightly  over  jacqueline's  inner  thigh.  the  motions  absentminded  as  he  fastened  the  thigh  holster  he  had  brought  for  her  around  her  leg.  against  her  golden  brown  skin,  the  red  appeared  vibrant  and  hot  even  within  the  dim  light  of  the  cabin,  the  gold  accents  now  warm  from  the  heat  of  her  skin.  harry  pressed  his  lips  against  the  bare  skin  of  her  thigh,  a  lazy  motion,  more  fond  and  affectionate  than  inherently  sexual.  jacqueline  had  been  through  enough  at  least  for  one  night  if  the  faint  tear  streaks  on  her  face  were  anything  to  go  by.  harry  shifted  so  that  he  was  partially  lying  between  her  legs,  and  pressed  a  second  kiss  against  her  cheek.        "        out  with  it.  you've  had  something  on  your  mind  since  you  found  me.        "

[tiderider1]

@spheirrow​  &  @bloomrots​  get  a  starter  for  reasons .

𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬  𝐡𝐚𝐝  𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝  𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐲  since  their  return  from  wonderland.  while  word  had  reached  him  before  their  departure  from  the  isle  that  his  father  and  the  crew  of  the  jolly  roger  had  been  preparing  for  something,  nothing  had  come  out  that  had  warranted  concern  until  now.  it  had  taken  some  effort  to  find  out  what  his  father  was  up  to,  he  had  repaired  his  cannons  since  harry  had  sabotaged  them  so  long  ago,  and  had  been  stockpiling  ammunition,  weapons,  water  and  food  for  a  long  voyage  but  now  harry  knew  where  he  intended  to  sail.

hook  had  ranted  and  raved  about  his  treasure  hoard  since  harry  had  been  a  child.  about  the  pile  of  gold,  silver,  jewels  and  wealth  he  had  accumulated  from  his  time  sailing  before  he  had  been  imprisoned  on  neverland  and  then  the  isle  but  it  had  always  been  the  ramblings  of  an  old  man  past  his  prime.  not  anymore.

harry  had  gone  over  the  maps  with  uma  and  tomas,  charting  the  best  routes  that  would  see  the  lost  revenge  reach  the  hoard  before  his  father  could.  they  had  the  advantage  of  a  smaller  and  faster  brigantine,  they  could  easily  outpace  the  old  galleon  but  they  had  less  firepower  and  if  it  came  to  a  frontal  battle  they  were  severely  outgunned.  harry  had  been  working  tirelessly  to  bring  the  lost  revenge  up  to  scratch,  removing  anything  that  would  hinder  the  ships  speed  and  moving  supplies  of  water  and  non-perishable  food  into  the  cargo  hold.  harry  knew  that  the  girls  had  noticed,  but  he  hadn’t  wanted  to  tell  them  anything  until  now.

❝  got  something  to  tell  you,  ❞  harry  said  quickly  as  he  entered  the  dockside  building  that  they  had  made  into  their  home  away  from  the  ship,  ❝  both  of  you.  ❞

[trickstercaptain]

Hi Lottie! So, you may have talked about this before and I just haven't seen it, but I have a biased interest, so could you tell me about Jack's relationship with Tia Dalma? I haven't read TPOF (yet), so I don't know if it goes into that more, but I'm curious and I always like reading your metas. :>

ahhh of course fae!! i haven’t talked about them in a while but Jack’s relationship with Tia Dalma is one of my absolute favourites in the entire franchise because of how similar they are at their core, so i will happily ramble about them for a little while! I’m also gonna refer to her in this predominantly as Tia Dalma rather than Calypso because that is how Jack knows her for the majority of their relationship ( Jack doesn’t find out for sure that she’s Calypso until he overhears hers and Barbossa’s conversation in AWE before the Brethren meeting, but he absolutely has his suspicions about her before then )

TPOF doesn’t actually add a huge amount regarding their relationship ( Tia Dalma doesn’t appear in it but Jack mentions her several times and seems to have this fascination with/crush on her at this point in his life ), but along with the young Jack Sparrow books it confirms that Jack has known her since he was a teenager. he also has his compass in the Shipwreck chapters ( set when he’s 20 years old ), so we know that Tia Dalma gave it to him sometime before that. regardless of my own headcanons concerning Jack’s mother, we also know that Jack has no maternal influence either in TPOF or any other media since she was effectively banned from being mentioned by the House of Mouse themselves, which is why I think Tia Dalma in some part fulfils that role for him. so the easiest way to define the relationship that Jack has with her in my opinion is as this slightly unorthodox mix of maternal and intimate 

they are absolutely intimate and have slept together at least once before AWE ( more than likely pre-CotBP but post-mutiny, if I had to pin it down in his timeline ), which is indicated not just by the flirting but by the throwaway line in AWE about Tia Dalma being one of the four people that Jack accuses of trying to kill him in the past ( the other three are Barbossa, Elizabeth, who succeeded, and Will ). when Jack addresses her directly, she says:

“Don’t tell me you didn’t enjoy it at the time.”

“Fair enough, all right, you’re in.”

the innuendo of this whole exchange implies that the occasion Tia Dalma tried to kill him was during sex and likely kinky af lmao. it’s also safe to assume that after this particular incident, Jack gives her a wide berth for some time seeing as, in DMC, he’s very reluctant to seek her out and, when Gibbs says that he’ll watch Jack’s back, Jack’s response is ‘It’s me front I’m worried about.’ again, innuendo that implies these two were sexually intimate until a point where Jack was subsequently scared off. but I don’t think this is a simple friends-with-benefits sort of relationship, at least not for Jack ( you can debate Tia Dalma’s attachment to Jack but I truly do think she is fond of him in a way that she is fond of very few humans, even in spite of his connection to the Brethren Court, considering her petname for him and the way she acts around him ). it’s not love either, at least not in the traditional sense of the word in a romantic context, but this is where Jack’s feelings get complicated because of that maternal aspect to their relationship

I think Tia Dalma’s influence in Jack’s early, teenage life is very formative for him. you only have to look at TPOF to see how he references her a fair bit in relation to not just the situations he finds himself in ( anything faintly supernatural = oh yeah like tia dalma lmao ), but also in how Jack approaches relationships and I think this is the big one. for someone who grew up on Shipwreck Cove where the main exposure to women Jack would have had would likely be the sex workers operating in the island’s brothels, and the only exposure to relationships would be that between the sex workers and the sailor clientele ( plus the sailors he’d know who had wives and children in some port somewhere ), knowing a woman like Tia Dalma, who is powerful, untameable, takes multiple lovers and desires freedom above all else would be very important in shaping who Jack ultimately becomes in his adult life. he talks about this in TPOF too:

“Tia Dalma isn’t ‘mine,’ love,” he corrected her. “She’s her own woman, make no mistake. No man will ever possess her. She’s…” he groped for words to express something indefinable he’d always sensed about the hoodoo sorceress. “She’s…she…sometimes it seems like she wears her woman’s body…the way you would wear a gown.” He shivered. “She has power,” he said. “Real power. She’s no one I’d want to cross.”

also -- and i know these headcanons are kinda shot down by Teague’s presence in AWE and canon established in TPOF but -- it was always my personal theory that it was Tia Dalma who first fashioned Jack’s hair into dreads and introduced him to kohl, plus that she was the one Jack brought the liberated slaves to when he went rogue from the EITC --- and I really wish TPOF had gone that route rather than ignoring that obvious scene at the very end of DMC where the remainder of the Pearl’s crew return to Tia Dalma’s shack and the river is full of what look like ex-slaves/maroons who are holding candles in vigil to Jack ( it also adds a whole other dimension to the scene when Jack first arrives at Tia Dalma’s shack and is looking rather on edge at the faces staring at them in the rowboat from behind the trees, but i digress ). 

then there’s the compass ( we’re ignoring how he got it in DMTNT ), and even if we don’t take into account the weird powers that DMTNT’s script gifted it with, it’s established in TPOF to be a very powerful magical object. Tia Dalma gives this to Jack when he is a teenager. it’s clear that either she knows Jack well enough to know the real him very well, or that she sees enough of his destiny to trust him with something like that and agree to trade it.

[bloomrots-a]

—–   @spheirrow​​ said :          ‘ i’m asking you to love me hard for the next few minutes . ’

         “   you never have to ask me to .   ”     hands reach out to twirl gently around a coiled strand of hair ,   fingertips brushing ever-so-slightly against jaq’s cheek .   she leans closer ,   nosing softly at the side of her neck and pressing a sweet kiss to the warm skin there .     “   you never have to ask me to love you a certain way ,   okay ?   never .   ”

not accepting !

[gothealed]

      𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐄 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 ,   𝐀𝐌 𝐈 𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 ?          feat .   @spheirrow & @tiderider

[faetaels]

@spheirrow​ liked for a starter (from gio)

“Well, well… color me impressed someone managed to steal from you, I hope it was worth it to them going by the look on your face. What makes you think it wound up here in my pawn shop?”

[snowsnitches]

Did you hear about @spheirrow​? It seems that particular little birdy has flown the coop, jumping ship to hang out with daddy and go sailing away. Now what an odd thing for her to do since I’m sure she was getting plenty of ocean views here, which means she must be avoiding something. Maybe another pirate, since anyone with any sense can tell her usual company isn’t worth a drop of fool’s gold.

[zzozoa]

GONZO  STUDIES :  1 / ?

ft.  @spheirrow

[tiderideraa]

𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓'𝐒  𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑  𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐌?

—  bitterness .

okay,  wait,  let  me  explain.  you're  not  a  bitter  person,  not  by  any  means,  but  you  don't...articulate  your  feelings  very  well.  you  hide  behind  all  of  the  walls  you  built  and  you  live  inside  a  castle.  bitterness  is  your  defence  mechanism.  you  don't  want  to  be  a  bad  person,  you  don't  want  to  make  people  feel  bad.  and  honey,  you  don't.  we  know.  we  know  things  are  hard  and  trusting  people  is  hard.  we  know  you're  trying  your  best  and  you  don't  need  to  be  the  nicest  person  in  the  world.  you've  just  got  to  be  true  to  yourself  and  try  to  be  as  good  as  you  can  be.  and  i  know,  sometimes,  that  doesn’t  feel  like  enough.  you  don’t  feel  like  you’re  good.  you’re  not  as  kind  and  caring  and  lovely  as  some  people.  you’re  sharp  and  tough  sometimes.  your  life  and  your  feelings  aren’t  all  pretty  and  sugar  sweet.  that’s  okay.  they  don’t  need  to  be.  the  people  in  your  life  are  there  because  they  want  to  be.  don’t  ever  think  you’re  a  burden  or  that  they’re  only  there  because  they  feel  like  they  have  to  be.  they  love  you.  and  because  of  that,  they’re  in  it  for  the  long  run.  it’s  going  to  be  okay.  you  don’t  need  to  be  sugary  sweet  to  be  deserving  of  love.

tagged  by :    nada tagging :    @spheirrow,  @shehook,  @ballagarraidh ( uma ),  @rotturn ( chad ),  @arthurjr,  @talesgolden​ ( jane ),  @levered​,  @mimnghs​,  @demoniste​,  @soulvalor​ ( cassia ),  @vengefulwins​,  @tawruhs​ ( nalini ),  @yoakkemae​ ( ben ),  @biteofwinter​ 

[clippcr]

SURGEONS  ORDERS ↳↳  dash  event  @gotnerved​

𝙳𝙰𝚁𝙴 :  𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚞𝚕𝚝  𝚝𝚑𝚎  𝚗𝚎𝚡𝚝  𝚏𝚒𝚟𝚎  𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎  𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝  𝚢𝚘𝚞  𝚜𝚎𝚎  (𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚜𝚝 𝚏𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎 𝚘𝚗 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚍𝚊𝚜𝚑).  𝙿𝚁𝙸𝚉𝙴 :  $���𝟶𝟶.

noelani pursed her lips somewhat at the notification that appeared on her phone. she rarely felt the urge to insult anyone, but for three hundred dollars she was willing to make the effort, though she did wish that the first person she saw wasn’t jacqueline.

she liked jaqueline, even if she was a little reckless with her own wellbeing. noelani set her phone to record.    “    you  have  the  self - preservation  skills  of  a  drunken  raccoon  and  smell  like  an  absolem  bottle  that’s  been  left  out  in  the  marshes  for  two  days.    ”

@spheirrow​

[furnborn]

WORD  PROMPT  COMPILATION ↳↳ accepting  ( @spheirrow )

[ eat ] + reverse  for  pips  offering  jaq  food

         “    you  haven’t  seen  anything  yet.  check  this  out.    ”    flying while at a human size was a little tricky, he felt weighed down and heavy but his wings supported him all the same as he hopped up into the air with an easy lift. a green glow engulfed the ferngully fey as he walked across the air and beneath him the long dead dirt of the isle’s barren wasteland seemed to shiver with life. for a moment, that was all it did, but with a little more will and snap of pips fingers, lush green grass sprouted from the dirt. from it grew more, roots of small plants that grew bigger, fresher, and more vibrant than anything ever seen on the isle. fruit plums, peach trees and strawberries began to spread where ever pips hovered, the scent of them almost intoxicating and pips bent forward to snatch up one of the strawberries.

pips dropped back to the hard ground floor and offered the scarlet red fruit to the pirate with a wide and toothy smile,    “    tah - dah !    ”

[tideridera]

—     @spheirrow​     /     continued  from  here .

Harry was used to being the first one Jacqueline went to, he was used to Jacqueline being the first he went to. And why not? They weren’t usually too far away from one another, it was convenient and what was more, they were CREW. They were safe with one another. So the fact that Jacqueline seemed to prefer going out of her way to find someone, anyone, that wasn’t him, pissed him off.

          Did she not want him?    The thought made his stomach drop, an almost cold panic threatening to clutch it’s hand around his throat. Why didn’t she want him? Did he not make her feel good anymore? He was sure that he did. He was good at it, he had always been good at it, he would be good again if she just let him show her. He would kiss her harder, he would touch her more, he’d make her come apart and put her back together only to take her apart again and again until she knew he could be the best she ever had. He was good at it. He was good. He’d show her, he’d prove it if she just touched him, if she just let him touch her.    He held her jaw when he kissed her. Made her tip her head back as he pressed his tongue past her lips and tasted the absolem still clinging to her lips and her teeth.

She shoved her hand into his chest and Harry pulled back almost immediately, but it was her laugh that made him flinch as if she had struck him across the face with one of her knives. Harry all but recoiled away from her, expression twisted into something like confusion but there was more to it than that, a hurt that clung to the edges of his eyes.

    “    Jealous ?  Of  who,  huh ?  You  even  remember  who  you  were  with  tonight ?    ”    Harry snapped, temper flaring as it always did when he was in pain.    “    I  never  said  that.    ”    He hissed, anger rippling like some waking beast and he couldn’t follow half of what she was saying because the memory of her laugh was still cutting into his skull like a cleaver.

[cecaeliana]

@spheirrow​ sent  swordplay >:) 

   their arena is not so big, the deck of the ship being half taken up as it was be the rest of the crew, and the noise was raucous. laughing, betting (for those souls brave enough to want to risk pissing off one of them by betting against them), joking. and uma and jaq in the middle of it all. 

   there’s a grin on her lips, bright and wide. she loves the thrill of a fight, the electricity, the adrenaline. swords clash together time after time. blows parried and fended off. neither giving much in the way of ground, but being unable to take it either.  

   she circles around, looking for anything to alter the playing field, anything to use to her advantage. and then she finds it. she surges forwards, flinging a desperate an attack at jaq without prospect of relenting until the other is moving backwards. until her foot finds the fishing net uma had been eyeing. until uma can instead of swinging her sword at jaq, hook it through the net and pull, sending the other sprawling to the floor, where uma, despite being swordless (since untangling that would be too much work), can pin jaq’s wrists to the ground, grinning broadly. 

    “ hey, ” she teases. 

[gotnerved]

𝙶𝙴𝚃𝙷𝙾𝙾𝙺𝙴𝙳     𝙶𝙾𝚃     𝙳𝙰𝚁𝙴𝙳 .

𝙳𝙰𝚁𝙴   :  𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚓𝚊𝚚 ( @spheirrow ) 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚊 ( @gothealed ) 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚖 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚐𝚎𝚝 𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚔𝚗𝚎𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚎.     @tiderider

𝙿𝚁𝙸𝚉𝙴   :   $𝟻𝟶𝟶.

[naivetm]

@spheirrow​​​ .            “so… did you miss me?”

                                the    smile    on    allie’s    face    only    bloomed    at    jaq’s    words,    letting    out    a    small    giggle,    like    it    was    obvious    to    what    the    answer    to    her    question    would    be.        she    shook    her    head    slightly,    not    to    answer        ‘    no    ’        but    just    as    an    expression    to    how    silly    it    would    be    to    suspect    that    the    answer    would    be    anything    but        ‘    yes    ’.            “        of    course    i    missed    you,    silly.        i    always    miss    you    when    you    leave.        even    when    it’s    not,    like,    for    a    week.        i    was    more    worried    this    time,    though.        i’m    just    glad    you    got    back    okay.        ”