“A fierce creature with giant tentacles that’ll suction your face clean off and drag an entire ship down into the crushing darkness…the Kraken. The stench of his breath…Imagine the last thing you know on God’s green earth is the roar of the Kraken and the reeking odor of a thousand rotting corpses…If you believe such things.” - PoTC: Deadman’s Chest
i cant believe americans on tv really say rock paper scissors like???? its paper scissors rock omg do u irl americans actually say rock paper scissors????
rb this with whether u say paper scissors rock or rock paper scissors
me normally: linguistic differences are so interesting and cool! I love hearing different dialectal variations.
me, reading “paper, scissors, rock” with my own two eyeballs: the lord is testing me
i swear to god if i ever hear someome IN REAL LIFE say “paper, scissors, rock” i will strike them dead without hesitation
I mean English isn’t my first language but it’s definitely rock, paper, scissors - it’s in that order even in Finnish, so um, what?
Guess German is special for saying “Scissors, Paper, Rock”. Also sometimes we just don’t say the names of the things and just mumble invented words that make no sense. “Schnick, Schnack, Schnuck”
The actual fuck are you talking about? Where I’m from in Germany we say “Scissors, Rock, Paper” which timeline is this
“Scissors, rock, paper” here too from Germany. Like even saying “Schere, Papier, Stein” twists my tongue.
It’s “Stein, Papier, Schere”. What backwater village are you folks from?
Es ist Schere Stein Papier aber man sagt Sching-Schang-Schong?!?!
Things are heating up in the… the… Umm…
It's "jan ken po" you heathens
Albert Bierstadt, Ships in Moonlight, 1859.
All this will be for nothing. We will have been for nothing. Defined by their histories, distorted to fit into their narrative until all that is left of us are the monsters in the stories they tell their children.
This might be my favorite monologue in the series. Thank you, Rogue.
This is my favorite as well
One of my favourite anecdotes about the first Golden Age of Piracy is that, at one point, Captain Henry Morgan left England in one ship, and arrived in the Caribbean commanding a completely different ship, and nobody knows why. What happened to the first ship and how he acquired the second one are entirely unrecorded.
At some point in his short career (1715 until 1718), the English pirate Ben Hornigold attacked a sloop near Honduras just to steal all the hats of the crew, because his own crew had gotten drunk the night before and they had tossed every single one of their own hats overboard.
Bartholomew Roberts, arguably the most successful pirate in history by ships captured (a whopping 470 in 3 years), didn’t actually want to be a pirate. His ship was captured and he was forced to join the pirate crew.
After the original pirate captain was killed, he was democratically elected captain of the pirate crew less than 6 weeks after being captured by them.
“Half-hidden, like a mermaid in sea-weed, / Pensive awhile she dreams awake,”
— John Keats, from The Complete Poems; “The Eve of St. Agnes,”
Adding varnish to painting makes it come to life. This is so satisfying to watch. (Source)
Paint this on my entire life
This is very satisfying to watch
so satisfying
I watched this like 5 times, it’s really satisfying
Moby-Dick tattoo-a-day collection.
“If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman. […] Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings.”
— Plato, from the Phaedrus.
Fun fact - I got to be in a scene as a roadie in a Geena Davis TV series pilot. It never aired 😂
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003)
Hi! One of my POV characters is a pirate captain in a medieval fantasy setting, but I don't know anything about ships or sailing! I want the voice and descriptions to be convincing without being gimmicky, but I don't even know where to start. Do you have any tips/resources or even fiction recs, maybe? Thank you, and sorry if this has been asked before!!
Hiya! Thanksfor your question! Historical research is important if you want your story tobe accurate.
Note: Theseresources apply to the Golden Age of Piracy (1690-1730).
Ships:
6 FamousPirate Ships
Typesof Pirate Ships
Pirate Glossary: Ships
Complete List ofSailing Vessels
Sailing:
Positionsand Duties on Board a Pirate Ship
How to Saila Full-Rigged-Ship (Video, old but accurate) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Weapons:
Pirate Weapons
Pirate Weapons– Different Types of Weapons Used by Pirates
PirateWeapons – Hand Weapons
Speech:
Historically,pirates didn’t really have any special slang. The terms they used wouldhave been used by any sailor or boat captain. That being said, speech patternsfor the general public were very different from how we talk today.
Howto Speak 18th-Century English
Ato Z Guide to Street Slang from the 1700s
Royal Navy Diction and Slang
Fashion:
Pirate and Privateer Clothing
TheGolden Age of Piracy – Fashion
Pirates and Their Clothes
Important Note!: “Walking the plank” was notan actual thing pirates did to their enemies. This was invented because itlooks cool in movies and sounds cool in books.
Thanks againfor your question! If you need help with anything else writing-related, feelfree to send in another ask. Happy writing!
- Mod Kellie
