#pirates

If you’re going to keep pirates I highly suggest investing in a decent rum. Contrary to popular belief they don’t actually need it to survive, but it serves a double purpose of good enrichment and a convenient place to hide limes they would otherwise spit out. Like a pill pocket.

We think the hook makes her even sexier! Where would you want our Captain Hook to take you on your adventure?

As your adventure continues, learn more about your new fairytale friends and the storybooks that seem to control their lives.

Heeeellloo Rogue! Be still my beating heart! What do you think of our new dashingly handsome LI?

redwhale:

bewareofitalics:

I think I may have solved a mystery that I didn’t even know was one.

So. In Peter Pan, the novel, this is the first mention of Captain Hook:

“Who is captain now?”

“Hook,” answered Peter, and his face became very stern as he said that hated word.

“Jas. Hook?”

“Ay.”

Then indeed Michael began to cry, and even John could speak in gulps only, for they knew Hook’s reputation.

“He was Blackbeard’s bo’sun,” John whispered huskily. “He is the worst of them all. He is the only man of whom Barbecue was afraid.”

Later, we learn this:

Hook was not his true name. To reveal who he really was would even at this date set the country in a blaze; but as those who read between the lines must already have guessed, he had been at a famous public school; and its traditions still clung to him like garments, with which indeed they are largely concerned.

“Barbecue” is Long John Silver from Treasure Island. Jas. is short for James, but in “Captain Hook at Eton,” he’s also called Jacobus. The biblical figure Jacob was renamed Israel.

Blackbeard’s historical boatswain, and also a character in Treasure Island, was Israel Hands.

I’m just saying, if I got a hand chopped off and my last name was Hands… I might want to change it.

‘Lost’ letters reveal JM Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson’s mutual affection

Many kudos to OP, I’m still processing Captain Hook = Israel Hands. Because of this post, I stumbled upon this 2020 article. It is a fascinating and bittersweet read about Barrie, Stevenson, and the Peter Pan+Treasure Islandconnections.

Now, the letters of JM Barrie to Robert Louis Stevenson – presumed to be lost by several key Barrie biographers for over 70 years - will be published for the first time in a forthcoming book. The letters reveal how ardently the young Barrie both adored and admired Stevenson, who was an older and more established writer. A year into their friendship, which was initiated by Stevenson, Barrie wrote to him: “To be blunt I have discovered (have suspected it for some time) that I love you, and if you had been a woman…” He leaves the sentence unfinished.

and

Barrie has a real desire to incorporate Stevenson and his affection for Stevenson in his works, he believes. “I think what Barrie is saying is: if I can never meet Stevenson, because he has unfortunately died, then I want to create the opportunity for our characters to meet.

“I think he liked that idea that they could occupy the same world, and could potentially bump into each other.”

“Youth vs Experience”

In my Illustration Studio III class we were tasked with creating two pieces with opposing themes. I chose youth vs experience, and explored what my, @animegeekchickand@sallux D&D characters would look like at the beginning of our campaign against twenty years later.

Interpreting them in this way was so fun and it’s so rewarding seeing them side by side!

@freckled-cosmos-art

thornfield13713:

redwhale:

bewareofitalics:

I think I may have solved a mystery that I didn’t even know was one.

So. In Peter Pan, the novel, this is the first mention of Captain Hook:

“Who is captain now?”

“Hook,” answered Peter, and his face became very stern as he said that hated word.

“Jas. Hook?”

“Ay.”

Then indeed Michael began to cry, and even John could speak in gulps only, for they knew Hook’s reputation.

“He was Blackbeard’s bo’sun,” John whispered huskily. “He is the worst of them all. He is the only man of whom Barbecue was afraid.”

Later, we learn this:

Hook was not his true name. To reveal who he really was would even at this date set the country in a blaze; but as those who read between the lines must already have guessed, he had been at a famous public school; and its traditions still clung to him like garments, with which indeed they are largely concerned.

“Barbecue” is Long John Silver from Treasure Island. Jas. is short for James, but in “Captain Hook at Eton,” he’s also called Jacobus. The biblical figure Jacob was renamed Israel.

Blackbeard’s historical boatswain, and also a character in Treasure Island, was Israel Hands.

I’m just saying, if I got a hand chopped off and my last name was Hands… I might want to change it.

‘Lost’ letters reveal JM Barrie and Robert Louis Stevenson’s mutual affection

Many kudos to OP, I’m still processing Captain Hook = Israel Hands. Because of this post, I stumbled upon this 2020 article. It is a fascinating and bittersweet read about Barrie, Stevenson, and the Peter Pan+Treasure Islandconnections.

Now, the letters of JM Barrie to Robert Louis Stevenson – presumed to be lost by several key Barrie biographers for over 70 years - will be published for the first time in a forthcoming book. The letters reveal how ardently the young Barrie both adored and admired Stevenson, who was an older and more established writer. A year into their friendship, which was initiated by Stevenson, Barrie wrote to him: “To be blunt I have discovered (have suspected it for some time) that I love you, and if you had been a woman…” He leaves the sentence unfinished.

and

Barrie has a real desire to incorporate Stevenson and his affection for Stevenson in his works, he believes. “I think what Barrie is saying is: if I can never meet Stevenson, because he has unfortunately died, then I want to create the opportunity for our characters to meet.

“I think he liked that idea that they could occupy the same world, and could potentially bump into each other.”

Okay, but in the context of Our Flag Means Death this becomes about two hundred percent funnier for the following reason:

Captain Hook is framed very much as a darker, more bloodthirsty version of the same ‘gentleman pirate’ archetype as Stede. Like, he has the gentlemanly manners, the fine clothes, the fancy quarters, some pretentions to honour…he doesn’t always carry it off quite as well as he intends to, but this is clearly a man trying to present himself in a very specific way, and that way has a surprising amount in common with Stede’s intended presentation.

Now, I am not sayingthat this is Izzy trying very hard to Pygmalion himself into a version of what Ed apparently wants in a partner that is still compatible with the way Izzy himself needs Blackbeard to be…but I’m not notsaying that either.

…what I am also saying is that I want Izzy to be harassed by a crocodile.

Honestly, given how many “Izzy is in the wrong genre of pirate fiction” posts I’ve seen on Tumblr, it would be just his luck to escape a queer romcom only to end up in a children’s book and/or a Disney animated feature.

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Hey all, looking for a new piracy era story?

Boom I got one for ya! Some wholesome, some adventure, some slice of life, and some dramatics, this series has it all!

Pirate family sailing the high seas with shenanigans, tomfoolery, and gremlin children? I think so!

Queer and neurodivergent characters?? You bet! Older characters? Check babey. Kids? Them too!

The Twitter is @baker_crew and the Instagram is @baker_crew1716

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Pirate AU

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thestuffedalligator:

I want more overlap between wizards and pirates. I want a fantasy setting where if you meet someone with a long coat and an unhinged expression it’s even odds if they’re going to whip out a flintlock and rob you blind or turn you into a baby harp seal