stolen gender valour from 19th c naval captains

they/he || australian || 25+ reblogs, shitposts, shipposts, eclectic stuff

[cadmusfly]

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Hi! I'm Cad! It's most likely short for Cadmus (who was turned into a dragon) or Cadaeic (who ennumerates the digits of pi), but it could also be the Caddisfly (who weaves a cloak of trash), Cadmium (who paints in poisoned hues), or just Cad (the rogue and rascal).

I’m a semi-closeted transmasc Australian above the age of 25. I've been around on Tumblr for a while on and off with various blogs and sideblogs.

I'm a dilettante who dabbles in many fields like writing (AO3 account here), shitty drawing, programming, painting tiny miniatures, generative AI (I help run an ethical AI art group at @are-we-art-yet!), rambling and others.

I'm currently very into the Napoleonic Era and men in colourful uniforms and tight breeches holding muskets and sabres. You will see a lot of 26 Eight Year Olds Napoleon's marshals here, as well as fictional Englishmen on sailing ships.

Other interests include creative writing in general and theorycrafting on worldbuilding, literary analysis, tabletop roleplaying games and game design, bad computer science jokes, cats and more. I only really tag the things I’ve experienced or am interested in.

I will be yelling into the void about whatever I feel like, which includes creative writing projects like fanfic or original writing like SbS, an urban fantasy about a zoomer undergrad befriending a ghostly naval captain.

Like pretty much everyone on this website I’m a little shy and anxious, but feel free to say hi! And if we've chatted, feel free to ask for my Discord!

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Sideblogs Of Note

@shippostinginabottle - aesthetic, inspiration and reference blog

@teuthisdreams - Generative AI sideblog, mostly AI art of melting rainbow sailing ships - all created under the code of ethics of the leftist AI art collective Art We Art Yet?

@mostshipshape - a highly experimental weekly Age of Sail roleplaying game that ran for six weeks from 13/06/2022 to 5/08/2022 with public participation for polls

@armagnac-army - joke ask/roleplay blog portraying a parodic exaggeration of Marshal Jean Lannes, loyal and loud best friend of Emperor Napoleon, with guest appearances from the surly Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult

@murillo-enthusiast - uh oh Soult got one too

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Additional Links

List of Perchance Random Generators I’ve Made

List of Sci Fi Short Stories that Set My Brain on Fire

Archive Of Our Own Link

Simple Stable 2.0 Link (free and open source interface for ai image generation using google's servers that I maintain)

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If I unfollow or unmutual you, it’s nothing personal! Feel free to unfollow or unmutual me as well if you’d like!

This post is also a disclaimer that I will post whatever I feel like on this blog, so you have been warned!

[gooselycharm]

SISYPHUS GETS A 9 TO 5

[spoilers for all of severance season 1. words by northernlion, brain worms by me]

[mobilesuitgudang]

forward my shambling soldiers and slay without thinking. let blood flow into every crevice of this rotten land

[yuriinullification]

yes my lady

[girlnephew]

yes my lady

[mtfautoandrophile]

it’s so fucked up when you see something you KNOW is a portal to somewhere but you can’t figure out how to activate it. this is the most frustrating feeling that plagues modern man.

[catsuggest]

[gatheringkeepsakes]

I’ve seen this post easily 12 times now and EVERY TIME it’s just a different cat looking at a different door. 

[artbyblastweave]

Been a really long time since I've watched Daredevil but I do remember coming away from it feeling like it presented a pretty compelling internally-consistent moral justification for the vigilante thing. You're not planet-crackingly powerful, it's just that you can hear, in detail, every awful thing your neighbors are doing to each other, every night that they're doing it. You can't not know and you can't pretend not to know and when the kid tells you the next day that he just fell down the stairs you can't fall back on the provided ambiguity to absolve yourself of your responsibility to act. Semi-relatedly, you're really really good at martial arts. Start the clock

[girlnumbers]

don’t piss me off. you don’t know who you are messing with.

[mammalidentifier]

Southern pudu (Pudu puda). This one is a fawn!

[lilu-the-almighty]

now you know who you are messing with

[doctors-star]

highly recommend keeping a small portrait of a historical figure who met a grisly end on your work desk. for perspective.

[doctors-star]

me: oh thomas cromwell, we're really in it now. every day i get emails.

the postcard of thomas cromwell i keep on my desk: i was on committees with the duke of norfolk. and they beheaded me.

me: yep. good point.

[doctors-star]

me: cromwell. cromwell this post has got too big and famous and people are starting to misunderstand me on it.

the postcard of thomas cromwell i keep on my desk: oh no! you achieved too much fame and status? and now people are misrepresenting you? should we strip your lands and title? have you been beheaded?

me: YES ALRIGHT FINE

[apricops]

sometimes I remember Brett Devereaux's series about how Sparta was a child soldier factory which was constantly at war (literally!) with its own massive slave population, a greater proportion of slaves than any other classical state, and yet has gone down in history as some kind of egalitarian 'defender against tyranny' and then I lose all hope in everything forever

[savedgame]

[junglejim4322]

It took a lot for me to mature enough to accept a lot of the time you just don’t get closure like ill never understand why certain things happened or ever receive an apology or talk to certain people again or know the answers to questions I can’t ask and people die or leave or drift away sometimes and there’s no answer. and this is actually starting to sound like some doomer shit but im not joking when i say it actually became way easier to move on with my life when I accepted sometimes things will just be left wrong and can’t be made right and there’s no point in wasting any more of my time on it

[thegreatyin]

really based and funny of arknights to go right out the gate with "okay this is a halfway futuristic halfway apocalypse world where an infection is everywhere and ruining society" and then you're greeted with a bunch of people with animal ears and tails being prosecuted and called infected and you're like "oh i get it!! so the infection is a disease that makes you into a furry, okay, got it" and then arknights is like "NO the furry thing is NORMAL. EVERYONE is a furry. the furry thing is a completely normal legitimate thing that nobody questions. the furry thing is a FACT. anyway the actual infection is a rock that grows out of your skin until you explode" and you're like oh. okay

[dew-creek]

so bright

[escuerzoresucitado]

[zevons]

deeply funny for Wikipedia to use Ninnis as a source for Titus perhaps not being best-suited for the polar party when Ninnis' stance on everybody who got on Scott's expedition was literally just I Don't Care If Something Good Happened to You It Should Have Happened to Me Instead

[the-grollican]

i think we should include the sourceless opinions of tangentially relevant mean gay twenty-somethings on every wikipedia page actually

[yandere-angela]

[transtemporaladventuress-deacti]

Never was there a tale of more woe than that of Juliet and her Romeo

Never was there a tale of more strife than that of Macbeth and his stabby knife

Never was there a tale of more sad than that of Hamlet and his spooky dad

[godofautism-deactivated20250725]

Transgender Balatro,,