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pinning this post just to say that I only use my side blogs!!

@crypticfayble for art, @gremling for everything else <3

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Cottagecore ceramic teacups

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(via)

lungthief

still think its very funny that of all the bisexual people he couldve namedropped in 2011 he chose pete wentz

lungthief

happy pride month

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hamletthedane

Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

ghostflowerdreams

Writing Research: Pirates

Piracy, in international law, is the crime of robbery, or other act of violence for private ends, on high seas or in the air above the seas, committed by the captain or crew of a ship or aircraft outside the normal jurisdiction of any nation, and without authority from any government. The persons who engage in acts of piracy are called “pirates”. International treaties and national legislation have sometimes applied the term “piracy” to attacks on the high seas authorized by a government, in violation of international law; to actions by insurgents acting for political purposes; or to violent acts on board a vessel under control of its officers.

Such acts, however, are not regarded as piracy under the law of nations. Piracy is distinguished from “privateering” in that the latter is authorized by a belligerent in time of war; privateering was legally abolished by the Declaration of Paris of 1856, but the United States and certain other nations did not assent to the declaration. [1] [2]

Names

The Pirate Name Generator: Your Pirate Name

List of Known Pirates

Famous Women Pirates

Popular Names in 1880

English Names of the 1500s

Traditional American Names from the 1600s

Seventh Sanctum - Pirate Ship Name Generator

Society & Life

Famous Pirate Ships

6 Famous Pirate Ships

Pirate Ships & Diagrams

Complete List of Ship Types

The Rigging of Sailing Ship

Roles & Duties On Board A Ship

Positions and Duties on Board a Pirate Ship

Reddit: Ask Historians - How did Pirates find Ships to Steal on the Sea?

Pirate Flags

Pirates & Privateers: Pirate Flags

15th Century Sailing Terminology

A Brief History of Piracy

Pirates & Privateers: Pirate Life

A Pirate From Boyhood

The Pirate Who Could Not Swim

Pirates & Privateers: Pirate Tactics

Pirates & Privateers: To Capture Prey and Plunder It

Pirates & Privateers: Crew of Pirate Ship

Pirates & Privateers: Friends and Enemies

Ten Facts About Pirates

Pirates & Privateers: Black Pirates

Reddit: Ask Historian - Did Sailors/Pirates really walk bare foot on wooden ships?

National Maritime Museum - Pirates, Ships, Seafarers & Life at Sea

Royal Naval Museum - A Brief History of Piracy

Pirate Weapons

History of Pirate Weapons

Weapons Pirates Used

Pirate Treasure

The Pirate of the Buried Treasure

Pirates & Privateers: Pirate Treasure

Shipwrecked Treasure Galleons

All About Pirates and Their Treasure

Pirates & Privateers: Religion

Ten Facts About Blackbeard the Pirate

National Geographic - Grim Life Cursed Real Pirates of Caribbean

National Geographic - Blackbeard: Pirate Terror at Sea

The Morgan Library & Museum - Pride and Piracy: Bartholomew Sharpe

Pirates & Privateers: Benjamin Hornigold

Pirates & Privateers: Captain William Kidd

Pirates & Privateers: Women and the Jolly Roger

Part 1 - Pirate Havens in the Ancient World

Part 2 - Pirate Havens Around the World

The Buccaneers

Privateers an Introduction

Pirate or Privateer, Rogue or Hero?

Women in Piracy

If There’s a Man Among Ye: The Tale of Pirate Queens Anne Bonny and Mary Read

Mary Read, Pirate

Anne Bonny

Pirates Had Gay Marriage And Health Insurance?

6 Absurd Pirate Myths Everyone Believes

Telegraph - Interesting Facts About Pirates

Pirates: Truth, Facts, Legends and Myths

Reddit: Ask Historian - Where did the Image of the ‘Pirate Parrot’ come from?

Commerce

The Food Timeline – Historic Food Prices

Top-Earning Pirates

The Price of Things in the 18th Century

North Carolina Digital History - The Value of Money in Colonial America

University of Missouri - 1700’s Prices and Wages

Reddit: Ask Historian - Realistically, How Profitable was it to be a Pirate during the Golden Age of Piracy?

Entertainment & Food

What Did Pirates Drink?

Rum 101: The Encyclopedia of Rum!

Reddit: Ask Historians - Why was Rum the Drink of Choice for Pirates in the 1700’s?

How to Eat like a Pirate

So What Did Pirates Eat and Drink?

What Did Pirates Eat?

Pirates & Privateers: Music

Pirates & Privateers: Sea Shanties

Pirate Music & Sea Shanties

Pirate Song

Hygiene, Health & Medicine

Health at Sea in the 17th Century

Pirates & Privateers: Medicine at Sea

Pirates & Privateers: Pirate Surgeons

Pirates of the Caribbean, in Fact and Fiction - Pirate Medicine, Pestilence and Pain

Pirates of the Caribbean, in Fact and Fiction - Hygiene and Sanitation

Scurvy

Pirate Dentistry

How Pirate Really Died

Fashion

Pirate Clothing

Period Clothing & Character Guides

Pirates & Privateers: Clothing

What Did Pirates Really Wear?

Dialogue/Language/Writing

Pirate Glossary

The Un-Offical Pirate Dictionary

Renaissance Fair Pirate Terminology

Pirate Pickup Lines

Pirates & Privateers: A Pirate Lexicon

Pirates & Privateers: Pirate Lingo

Pirate Glossary - Phrases

International Talk Like A Pirate Translator

Reddit: Ask Historians - Did Historical Pirates actually use the words and phrases we currently associate with them?

Justice & Crime

Pirate of Code of Conduct

Piratical Punishments & Torture

Pirates & Privateers: Marooning

Pirates & Privateers: The Pirates’ Arsenal of Torture

Pirates & Privateers: Punishing Their Own and Hunting Prey

Pirates & Privateers: Punishing the Pirates

Pirates of the Caribbean, in Fact and Fiction - Punishment

Pirates of the Caribbean, in Fact and Fiction - Why Pirates Were Torture and Why Pirates Torture Others

Reddit: Ask Historian - Did wanted posters for Pirates actually exist? Or are they a fiction?

Reddit: Ask Historian - I’m a Typical Sailor in the Caribbean around the end of the 17th century, and a Pirate Ship has been sighted heading towards us. What would my reaction, and the reactions of my shipmates be?

Reddit: Ask Historians - What did Pirates do with Slave Ships back in the day?

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once again why did we let masquerade balls and handwritten letters and heart lockets and daggers strapped to thighs go out of fashion

nikadd

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made your favorite babe. skyrim dinner

bunjywunjy

Bunjy, do you have any fun/cursed facts about sturgeon? They are my favourite fish

sturgeon are probably responsible for most of history’s “lake monster” sightings around the world! these giant fish do sometimes cruise around just under the surface, and from a distance their primordially scaly spines can look like some kind of fantastical serpent, or something.

“STAY OUT OF THE WATER”

these freshwater fish are generally huge, sure, but some individuals have been recorded as north of 20 feet long, which is frankly ridiculous.

add that to the fact that a single sturgeon can live for more than a century and you’ve got a lake-monster hypothesis!

(or sometimes “jesus christ how did a shark get into the Great Lakes?”)

fayzaundevon

Just because we have a name for it doesn't make it any less of a lake monster. In deep lakes in the south there are catfish that get to like the size of a small car. Just bc I know what it is doesn't mean it isn't an absolute terror

mokopirirakaugalaxias

This is a great time to tell you about the Kali River Goonch Catfish!

The largest one ever caught was two metres long, and they could get bigger. They live in the Kali River, on the Nepalese-Indian border. Thanks to the local tradition of funeral pyres in the river, these things have developed a taste for human flesh and have been blamed for the deaths of at least 3 people in the last few decades.

In 2008, biologist Jeremy Wade visited the area while filming his “River Monsters” tv series, and after some investigation and catching a few of these things, concluded that they almost certainly are capable of killing and eating human beings.

fluffingfloofs

There are a lot of catfish capable of killing (and eating) humans. All over the world. From the Goonch to the Paraiba, from the Wels to the Redfin, from the Flathead to (potentially) the Candiru. I'd say they're probably one of the most dangerous families of fish out there, right up with Piranhas (not as voracious as people think but if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, or their food web is disrupted, they can certainly be devastating), and Rays (which definitely don't hunt humans, but have a bad habit of killing us by accident with their self defense). Certainly more dangerous than sharks as a whole (yes, some species of shark pose a (minimal) threat to humans, but the overwhelming majority are harmless to us).