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Saw this in my newsfeed and was like THE BLOODY JACK ADVENTURE SERIES DAMN WELL BETTER BE ON THIS LIST OR I SWEAR HELP ME GOD and lo and behold it was there, first under their recommendations for binge reading long series.
I was chuffed as plum duff. ☺️
Bloody Jack, Written by L.A Meyer (via ohcarolineiknow)
Bloody Jack series by L A Meyers
Requested by: @loudlymychild
aaa you guys i reread all of the bloody jack series and forgot how much i loved those books. here’s a portrait of jacky herself, complete with trafalgar medal, legion of honor, and kinda white eyebrow. maybe someday i’ll do a matching jaimy one (and a clarissa one for the helluvit)
rip L.A. Meyer–your voice is truly missed.
The Condition of Faber Shipping Worldwide, Incorporated As of June 6, 1809
HOLDINGS: The Brigantine Lorelei Lee The Schooner Nancy B. Alsop Two Small Cutters, the Morning Star and Evening Star Faber Shipping Headquarters, State Street, Boston, Mass. Much Equipment— Traps, Rope, Tackle, etc
OFFICERS: Jacky Mary Faber, President John Higgins, Vice President Ezra Pickering, Esq., Treasurer and Clerk of Corporation
Lovely Napoleonic illustrations by Nic
“Ain’t a sailor alive what can catch Jacky Faber in the rigging!”
“She is beautiful. She is trim in the waist and young— only sixteen years old— and frisky as a new filly. I have been all over her, trying to find her wanting in some respect, but found nothing to diminish her in my eyes of in my heart. I have swum with her in the harbor and felt her bottom and it was smooth and sound. I have thrust my knife into her knees and into all her cracks and crevices and found nothing but good, solid bone. I have been with her at sea and found her there to be the most amiable of consorts. She was as spirited and wild as any mermaid as we splashed headlong through the waves, a bone in her teeth, and her tail to the wind. She belongs to me and I love her and her name is Lorelei Lee.”
—The Wake of the Lorelei Lee, by L.A. Meyer
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And what be a pirate’s favorite book? ARRRRRRISTOTLE. MARRRRRRCEL PROUST. HANNAH ARRRRRRRENDT.
Ah we jest, ye vagabonds, but arrrrrrrrrrr you in need of a good Talk Like A Pirate Day read?
Listen up buckos! We’ve pillaged across the seven seas to bring you scallywags the best of our buried treasure. So batten down the hatches, because this literary storm is a – brewin’. Landlubbers best be stayin’ on shore, or ye’ll surely walk the plank.
Weigh anchor and hoist the mizzen, here arrrrrrrr some favorites:
Blimey! A swashbuckling romp with a buccaneer leader if there ever was one. But aye, he’s a good man through and through, not a bilge-sucking scurvy dog.
Noble pirates! Warms us to the brisket to see a buccaneer save the day. Dead men tell no tales, and without pirates, Crusoe would be down with Davy Jones today.
Grab yer cutlass: the haunting tale of the “Black Spot” is enough to send shivers down yer’ black spine. And if yer wee lads need a movie that isn’t rated ARRRRRRRRR – Muppet Treasure Island is your booty here.
Lassies can be pirates too. Borges fictionalizes the tale of fierce female pirate Ching Shih: “a lady pirate who operated in Asian waters, all the way from the Yellow Sea to the rivers of the Annam coast.“ Saavy?
Pour out a grog for Pirate Jenny, me lads! “Kill them now, or later?”
Avast ye, Hook. Aye. Not for all the doubloons in the South Sea would I stand atop a crow’s nest and look upon the man.
All hands hoay! We’re teamin’ with classic sailors in this one – William Kidd, Blackbeard, John Lancey, Edward Trelawney. And even some of the great lady pirates. Anne Bonny and Mary Read: These beauties be fearsome as the day is long!
Aye aye matey, get off your sea legs, drop anchor, and enjoy these classic stories from the sea. Ahoy me hearties!
Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day, readers! Resuscitating one of our favorite posts from a few years back.
For all of those Bloody Jack reblogs. PLEASE READ THE BOOKS. AND IF YOU HAVE, MESSAGE ME SO WE CAN TALK ABOUT THEM.
Don’t EVER apologize for reblogging Jacky!
REBLOG THE HELL OUT OF IT.
How it feels at the start of a Bloody Jack book
How it feels at the end of a Bloody Jack book
Lover’s Wreck / The Highwayman / Black Is the Colour of My True Love’s Hair / Demons / Sound the Bugle / Bones / Sail / Hallelujah / She Moved Thru’ The Fair / Posthumus / Raise Hell / Remember Me / The Highwayman / I Am Stretched on Your Grave / Two Hornpipes / The Parting Glass
soldier-sailor-mermaid-spy can we confirm this is jack aubrey y/n (from the wake of the lorelei lee)
I do not consider myself a scholar for either the Bloody Jack Adventure series or the Aubrey/Maturin novels, but I am 99.9% sure that that is Jack motherfucking Aubrey. ;)
The thing aboutt the bloody jack books is that in canon they are written by Amy so if you have a headcanon, where, let’s say, Jacky and Clarissa had a secret lesbian affair that started on the bloodhound and continued on through when Clarissa was staying at the pig, well, who can tell you any different?
