Schematics and Sundry

A home for the scribblings of Attzi Gearburst. Follows from literalbirdperson.

[attzi-gearburst]

Blog consolidated!

Hi! All future Attzi and Iranji posts will be going up at @indraste-darktalon. I've consolidated all my WoW RP blogs.

[idiopathicsmile]

researching 17th century piracy tonight. came across this:

One popular pastime amongst pirates was the mock trial.  Each man played a part be it jailer, lawyer, judge, juror, or hangman.  This sham court arrested, tried, convicted, and “carried out” the sentence to the amusement of all. (x)

how widespread could this have really been? how would it have gotten passed from ship to ship? can you imagine a pirate crew at a tavern, bragging to another pirate crew about how good they are at playing pretend? why was their go-to game “legal system”? were they performing incisive satire? is this some sort of pirates-only inside joke that’s been lost to the ages?

[idiopathicsmile]

update: the mock-charge in the mock-trial was piracy

they used to pretend to try each other for piracy

as a stress relief

[roachpatrol]

ok but it’s got to have been a lot of fun to be the pirate defense lawyer, for the pirate accused of piracy, to attempt to argue to the pirate judge, in front of a jury of pirate peers, that your client could not possibly be a pirate

[xanaxfarts]

The setting sun spotlights a ship hand climbing rigging in Buenos Aires. This scene has been repeated for nearly half a millennium, since the port was founded in 1536. Photo: Bruce Dale

[homunculus-argument]

Peacocks are hilarious, really. They really are just like

[kaijuno]

🌊

[shieldfoss]

#oh thats what he meant by wine-dark sea

[boatcats]

Classic sea shanties like:

"I fucking hate this ship and I cannot wait to get off."

"I got off the ship on the dock but I know I'm going to get back on the ship when my leave is up. Fuck."

"Storm."

"Big storm."

"Is it just me or does this ship have like. Really clean lines. Like damn. Okay. Not saying I'm feeling attracted to the ship, per se, but. Damn."

"Sometimes you see weird shit that you cannot explain and you just kinda have to shrug and go. Welp."

[boatcats]

Not to forget crowd favorites like:

"Pull harder or we are all going to die."

"Bad working conditions."

"Fucking pay me my wages, you asshole."

[seaglassandeelgrass]

And the perennial favourites:

"God I Need A Drink"

"I Am Drunk And Cannot Find My Clothing"

"Listen To This Cautionary Tale Of: Don't Fall Overboard"

"My Sweetheart Has Left Me, Guess I'll Go Be Miserable At Sea"

"Whale. Big Fish."

"The Food Sucks. So Do The Wages. And The Mate Is A Bastard."

"Spent All My Money, Oops."

"Our Ship Can Kick Your Ship's Stern."

"Shipwreck."

"Nautical Gibberish That Was Probably Once Actual Words, Maybe."

"Hey, Remember That Guy? He's Dead."

"I Have Not Seen A Woman In Six Months."

"Mapquest Directions, But Rhyming."

"Whatever You Do, Don't Go To Sea. Goodbye, I'm Off To Sea."

[meat-vendor]

[expressions-of-nature]

by Sam{Lightonthewater}

[the-most-sublime-fool]

Then, too, at sea—to use a homely but expressive phrase—you miss a man so much. A dozen men are shut up together in a little bark, upon the wide, wide sea, and for months and months see no forms and hear no voices but their own, and one is taken suddenly from among them, and they miss him at every turn. It is like losing a limb. There are no new faces or new scenes to fill up the gap. There is always an empty berth in the forecastle, and one man wanting when the small night watch is mustered. There is one less to take up the wheel, and one less to lay out with you upon the yard. You miss his form, and the sound of his voice, for habit had made them almost necessary to you, and each of your senses feels the loss.

—a sailor's diary entry, on losing a shipmate, ca. 1834 (from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.)

[memewhore]

[luwha]

Character sketch sheet for Iranji!

[attzi-gearburst]

*ahem* LOOK AT HOW GOOD MY BOY LOOKS. Having Luwha do this sketch sheet of Iranji for me was the highlight of my week.

[attzi-gearburst]

I need everyone to see the painting @luwha did from these sketches. Iranji looks so good. Thank you, luwha! This is now my phone lock screen.

(I also appreciate how many people are as Normal about him/these sketches in the tags as my friends and I are. <3)

[luwha]

Character sketch sheet for Iranji!

[attzi-gearburst]

*ahem* LOOK AT HOW GOOD MY BOY LOOKS. Having Luwha do this sketch sheet of Iranji for me was the highlight of my week.

[stargatelov3r]

I love characters that think they can't allow themselves to love or be loved

just to have someone stride into their life to turn that concept upside down

[stargatelov3r]

@thebuni EXACTLY

[romanceyourdemons]

so much love for characters who are desperately unsure whether they’re a good person, a redeemable person, a person worth saving, but are absolutely certain that they’re a grade a hottie

[beggars-opera]

I spent so much of my life romanticizing the Great and Powerful Enormity of the Sea, reading about the salt and the sweat of the sailors straining to haul the sails or anchor while dreading the monsters in the cold, icy deep fathoms below…and now you tell me that a fathom is only 6 feet deep -

[panicedgannet]

Six feet is still more than enough for a grave.

[beggars-opera]

Hi, that is the most metal addition you could have possibly made to this post

[the-overanalyst]

unmatched ship dynamic: "i've done terrible things in the past" x "all i care about is who you are in the present"

[luwha]

Can't believe i haven't posted this one 😳✨ Work for Iranji!