#or has neat stripes

Don’t mind me, I’m just having a nice time imagining Stede sending little letters to his kids from various interesting locales and relating tales of his adventures and all of his cool friends (probably exaggerated for literary effect) and sometimes little gifts as well. Like, they’ll just get a letter from Dad about how his first mate’s new bird familiar is fitting in with the crew and his boyfriend’s taught him a lot about swordfighting (his name’s Ed and he’s very nice, Stede hopes he’ll get to introduce them to him one day) and also here’s a cool rock he found.