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mister strauss for halloween: attires of leptirica, a movie i like where a butterfly curses peasants into vampires, more or less

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i can’t talk shit about the pirates of the caribbean films as if elizabeth swann becoming pirate king didn’t hand my entire ass to me and make me the gay i am today

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these 2 looks basically defined my sexuality and i’m not afraid to admit it

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things pirates of the caribbean got right:

1. will and elizabeth’s love story

2. elizabeth becoming pirate king

3. avoiding sexualizing elizabeth or the other female pirate characters in the first 3 films by allowing them to wear period-accurate pirate outfits that aren’t tailored to be revealing and impractical for ‘sex appeal’ just because they’re women

4. hans zimmer’s entire score but especially the iconic ‘he’s a pirate’ main theme

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5. When the movie came out, morally-gray characters like Jack were actually not really a thing yet in pop culture, and it’s not Pirates’ fault that there are a ton of stupid shitty copycats out there.

6. I run a corseting panel at cons and literally use Elizabeth’s lace-up scene as a video clip of what historical corseting was actually like, because the only thing they got wrong in this scene is that tightlacing wouldn’t be a thing for about another 200 years (and you couldn’t tightlace with the corset style Elizabeth is wearing anyway). It’s one of the most accurate corseting scenes I’ve ever seen.

7. Will’s hat.

8. That scene with all the pirates on the gallows where that little boy starts singing Hoist the Colours? Yeah, that’s fucking legendary. The rest of AWE was kind of a trash fire, but that scene gave me goosebumps.

9. There’s this great shot in the first one where they really drive home the class differences inherent in this time period by having the governor talking about progress and civilization to Elizabeth in their carriage, and then they cut to a shot outside the carriage where a beggar gets splashed by mud from the wheel. It’s a perfect way to underline that everything is not, in fact, a nice little upper-class fairytale, and to give some weight to Will’s storyline, because he has a lot more in common with that beggar than with the governor.

10. For its time, the CGI was fucking amazing.

11. And let’s not forget the work of the makeup department, which had to actually invent new ways of putting on makeup for this movie.

12. The governor’s death scene. Holy shit.

13. They could have gone with a Jack/Will/Elizabeth love triangle, but they didn’t. There are some hints Jack is in love (or at least in lust) with Elizabeth, but he recognizes that she loves Will, and that’s that.

14. You’ve got to admit that wedding was unique.

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15. The introduction of fantasy elements to historical fiction outside of Tolkein-esque fantasy, and how it contributed to and expanded the Fantasy Media boom we’re still enjoying today.

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1. They had a woman of colour play a goddess.

2. They had a woman pirate right in the first film, when the tradition is to only show male ones (hell, the PotC ride at Disney had a wench auction scene until recently). And it was a female pirate of colour at that!

3. Elizabeth may not have known how to fight in the first film, but she wasn’t helpless either. Her first instinct was to fight, but she also had the brains to recognize when it was best to hide instead. Plus when given the chance she stabbed Barbosa that one time.

4. Elizabeth’s lack of fighting ability was not simply because she was a woman, it was clear it was due to her societal circumstances, since we saw other women of different socioeconomic backgrounds being able to fight (and when given the opportunity to learn Elizabeth took to fighting like a duck on water).

5. The Hoist the Colours scene where we see pirates of multiple ethnicities and their varying flags, reminding us that pirates came in all shapes and sizes and weren’t just white men.

6. One of the Pirate Lords being yet ANOTHER woman of colour. She may not have had much of a speaking role if memory serves, but even her presence is already a big deal.

7. The pirates accepting their King is a woman without much fuss.

chubbyooo

Pirates is amazing I will not here a bad word

Davy Jones CGI is legendary and a ton better than some of the stuff done today 😄

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I’m pretty sure that female Chinese pirate was a nod to a real, documented female pirate king who was Chinese and had a whole fleet of ships at her disposal but I can’t remember her name rn

kintatsujo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Shih

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My favorite part about the Bretheren Court voting wasn’t that they were against Elizabeth for becoming King as a woman and newcomer. They were pissed at Jack for being a chaotic neutral who broke the decades long tradition of an egotistical stalemate by voting for someone besides himself.

Also, the deleted scenes from Black Pearl and At World’s End that divulge more of Jack’s troubled past, like how he was branded as a pirate by the East Indian Trading Company because he stole a ship full of slaves and freed them.

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supercalifragilisticosteoporosis

“People aren’t cargo, mate.”

herrstrauss

by the way there is this picture...

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😒

americasgreatoutdoors

Flat calm, soft babble, rushing current or thundering rapids, an individual river can change its own mood and character on any given day. Depending on the flow, sitting by a river can be calming or exhilarating. One of the oldest rivers in the world, the New River runs through New River Gorge National River in West Virginia. In all that time, its moving waters cut a canyon more than 1,000 feet deep in the hard stone of the Appalachian Mountains. From riverbank or rim’s edge, it’s an impressive sight. Photo by National Park Service.

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When ants die, a few days later they emit oleic acid, which tells the living ants to dispose of their corpse.

A myrmecologist named Ed Wilson discovered this and dropped the chemical on a living ant. It was immediately carried off, despite the fact that it was still moving, and clearly not dead.

periegesisvoid-deactivated

“I’M GETTING BETTER”

kuroba101

Bring out your dead. Eh, close enough.

glitterandgrunge

IM NOT YET DEAD SIR

lazorsandparadox

You left out the part where the ant, believing HERSELF to be dead, stayed in self imposed exile in the ant graveyard until the acid wore off and she realized she was not supposed to be in the ant graveyard.

silent-wordsmith

@finite-experience, this seems like the sort of thing you’d like to see

mister-christmas

Ant 1: To the ant graveyard with you

Ant 2: But I’m not dead

Ant 1: You smell dead

Ant 2: Fair enough

eric-coldfire

Ant 1: “I thought you were dead.”

Ant 2, after acid wears off: “I got better.”

ottermatopoeia

Ant 2, returning to the colony: i lived bitch

andromedadualitas

Another small practice portrait, because I like doing simple and easy stuff when experimenting with new techniques, plus portraits are always fun. 😀 But also that feel when you accidentally do a really cool technique that you probably won’t be able to recreate again soon. 😂

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Helen Nugent on Instagram

markodragic

Leopold Strauss at Horseshoe Overlook🐸

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hoseas-angry-ghost

Absolutely love the implication that John knows what “bacchanalian” means

markodragic

modern au Strauss is the goth granddad that lives in the big spooky Manor on a hill, secluded from the rest of the world, you go and visit him and his doorman (who is also goth) charges you like three bucks to come visit "his lordship" and then when you go into his house, you call out his name and Granddad Strauss from the fith floor is like "Not now, I'm brooding. Please leave"

when you enter his room he’s playing toccata and fugue in D minor on a pipe organ that takes up an entire wall (also I feel like this is all very relevant to your interests @herrstrauss JFKGKHK)

herrstrauss

ah yes,