as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean

@commodorknotanymorrington's sideblog for pirate, ocean, history, stuff like that. Lots of potc. Used to be @old-habits-and-all-that

[frenchublog]

[donnapalude]

i was thinking there's really something in max calling anne "the truest person i have ever known". black sails is a story about stories in many ways, not the least of which is about the stories we tell to ourselves about ourselves in order to survive our own choices. flint and eleanor mostly tell themselves that they are good people and that their 'bad' actions are justified or don't represent them i.e. they are not part of their identity. max cuts off pieces of her identity so that she does not perceive her actions as opposed to her self-concept. silver abandons any definition of his identity so that he can be flexible enough to do anything necessary to survive. and so they choose and they can live with it. but when it comes to anne, she can't do it. when she needs to choose whether to take her revenge on max she says "i don't wanna do it. i don't wanna live with it after". during the show she has been characterised as someone struggling to find her identity, tending to lean on others to absorb part of theirs. and that gradually changes after she meets max, but even at the end of the series it appears to be still a work in progress. yet, even at the beginning, and again throughout the show, even when she doesn't know exactly who she is in all of her facets, as soon as she perceives something about herself, as soon as it surfaces, she honours it. when she realizes she does not want vane's men to keep raping and beating max she does something about it, immediately. when she realizes she does not have it in her to kill max, she stops. she is not able and i think more importantly she does not want to tell herself any lies to live with it. she is similar to silver in that she has run from looking at herself for a long time, but she is opposite to him in that she is probably the character more intentioned to embark on a journey to shine light on her interiority moving forward. she is also the only character, as far as i can think of, that seems to conceptualize the definition of her identity as a process of discovery of a sort of tangible 'true self' that exists somewhere within her and that encompasses every moment of her life, every decision. in that way she is someone that never really tries to be the author of her own narrative, it's almost like for her, her story has already been written. not in the sense that her future is predetermined, but in the sense that she thinks events and choices have shaped her and will keep shaping her as they happen regardless of her will for them to do so. in that sense, when she tries to find herself she is less writing her story and more reading it. while everyone else considers their identity a negotiation between what they can keep in and what they can omit from the narrative they self-create.

[garashir]

Black Sails XII. // XXV.

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[image description: 10 stills juxtaposing two scenes from Black Sails, alternating between Silver talking to Flint and Max talking to Eleanor.

1: Flint asks, "You see me as the villain here?"

2: Max says, "My God, how I hated you."

3: Silver, with a look of realization on his face, says, "It bothers you, doesn't it?"

4: Eleanor looks at Max with a guarded, wary expression.

5: Flint looks vulnerable as Silver says, "What they think?"

6: Max says, "There was a time in which I could not conceive"

7: Silver says, "With the things you've done..."

8: Max says, "of how I could ever forgive you."

9: Silver says, "It must be awful being you."

10: Max says, "And in this moment, I am you."

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[formulanni]

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[everythingispirates]

🏴‍☠️lowlyseaman

I love not having scurvy 👍

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🦢w3nch

breaking mutuals with @/forgeguy don't ask me about it this is the last I'll say on the matter

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omg did something happen :(

🦢w3nch

shut the fuck up never fucking talk to me again I'm so srs

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kys

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i miss him so fucking much i can't fucking do this anymore

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🩻bigbarbie

this fucking meeting sucks I'm going to firebomb shipwreck cove

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👁️raspghetti

little life update I feel like I'm honestly really coming around on this prosthetic eye idk it's really starting to feel like a part of me now :') I hope I never have to lose it or anything

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piracy is a SCOURGE on these seas!!! EMBARRASSING!

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omg I can't believe we still have piracy antis on this website to this day like this is literally the high seas piracy website go back to ye olde twitter

🩻bigbarbie

"piracy antis" girl that's the king of england

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⚔️forgeguy

I can't keep going like this I can't believe I did that to her I'm such a failure I should just kms like I literally don't deserve to be on this earth

⚔️forgeguy

just remembered some things. nevermind lol

⚔️forgeguy

remembered some more things and I want to die again I was so fucking wrong

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and when I drop the ***** aka ********* receipts then what. lol. lmao even

🦢w3nch

bitch give us a fucking vowel

🩻bigbarbie

yeah um just so everyone knows op literally shot me on isla de muerta so I'm really not interested in their receipts

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what the fuck is going on on pirate ye olde tumblr

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everyone keeps calling me a liar they just hate to see a wench who tells it like it is

⚔️forgeguy

literal 100+ pages ye olde google doc of times op has lied

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you would actually not believe how much harder it is to girlblog when your fingers are turning into fucking shrimp or whatever

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captain has it fucking easy

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they're gonna whip me for this one lads :/

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anyone else riddled by guilt? clap if you're riddled by guilt

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the second I'm free of this stupid flesh prison I'm putting a curse on this entire fucking website

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op what the fuck is this why do you not have an url

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the sea will claim you in five years. use your remaining time wisely

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sure yeah whatever. I'll fucking do that I guess.

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got scurvy 👎

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[mapsontheweb]

Ships logs from 18th/19th centuries vs 1945

[zookie-art]

Celebrating the 10th anniversary!

[letoghanima]

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES End Credits Scene

[bafflecks]

Let no joyful voice be heard! Let no man look up at the sky with hope! And let this day be cursed by we who ready to wake… the Kraken!

BILL NIGHY as DAVY JONES in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2006) dir. Gore Verbinski

[undeadpirate]

mcnally’s answer to a question at a convention about preparation/inspiration for gibbs’s accent:

Pirates, traditionally, went to the Caribbean by leaving the west coast of England and the west coast of Ireland. I am fortunate that my father had an Irish accent, quite a strong Irish accent, and my mother came from the port of Bristol, which is where pirates - and Liverpool as well, but pirates mainly came from Bristol, and her accent was a Bristol accent, which is sort of like that, and so I thought, if I sort of did an impersonation of my dad and my mom, then I’d sort of sound quite piratey. … 

I must tell you something funny - when we read the read-through of the first movie, I had the first line of the film, and so I said - the little girl was singing, “Yo, ho, yo ho,” and I said, “Quiet, missy. Cursed pirates are sailing these waters,” and Geoffrey Rush looked over at me, aghast, and went, “That’s exactly the accent I was gonna do.” But, as we didn’t meet in the first film, it didn’t matter. 

The shit really hit the fan in #3, when he had to say to me, something like, [in the accent] “Ah, the green flash, have you ever seen the green flash, Mr. Gibbs?” and I said, [in the accent] “Yes, I think I’ve seen my fair share,” and he said, “We’ve gotta stop this.” He said, “Somebody’s always got to speak in between us, so that the audience don’t realize we’re doing exactly the same performance.”

So he said to me, “What can I do if anybody ever spots this?” 

 And I said, “Well, I always tell people that I have got my accent because I had a mother from Bristol and a father from Ireland.” So I say, “Why don’t you tell everybody that you had a mother from Ireland and a father from Bristol, and that’s a completely different accent?” So now that’s what he does.

[heathcliffgirl1847]

this bit from jack and stephen is really. thats it thats the series

[albescent]

“The first sound you hear, is the sound of my hurdy gurdy as I was tuning it up. And this weird, lopsided, almost out of tune groove started coming out of the instrument, and I just started recording it, and that’s actually the first sound you hear during the Black Sails main title. 

To this day I have never been able to recreate it. It was like this magic sound that happened. I had the mics on and I was right in front of it and the weather was right, it wasn’t too humid, it wasn’t too dry, and the hurdy gurdy made the sound. 

I think it’s very iconic of the show. Every time I hear it I go, ‘that’s Black Sails’. 

It captures the spirit of the show. These are all broken, sad, almost unlikable characters. And the combination of that hurdy gurdy groove with the melody that’s slower than it should be. To me it just struck that nerve. I think it gets to the core what the show’s about.”

—Bear McCreary

[fluentisonus]

we talk about stephen maturin self surgery all the time but the specific bit of that that always fucked me up the most is where jack apparently could literally see his heart beating there while he did it

[fluentisonus]

#jack the only one to see the heart of him etc etc

no but LITERALLY. the way that surgery & intimacy are overlayed here is so much. like the fact that he's been shot in the chest in a duel over a woman who's broken his heart & he's so intensely private that he does his own surgery to dig the bullet out rather than have anyone else touch him like that -- Literally down to the heart, and the fact that jack is there & sees all this. and sees his actual physical (metaphorical) heart exposed like that... and then the way he personally sits with him through the whole fever that results so no one else will hear when he says secrets in his sleep. it's so.

[fluentisonus]

also like

[wibblyrlin]

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma

[everythingispirates]

more deleted scenes stuff. the fucking extended liar's dice scene. "you're the one that hopes to get married but your fate is to be married to this ship". what if I KILLED MY SELF !!!

[everythingispirates]

also speaking of the liar's dice scene I just think sooooo much about how will wagered an eternity of servitude and would 100% have lost that game if it weren't for bootstrap like the will foreshadowing in dmc is honestly so fucking delectable. like that scene and the bit where jones asks if jack can condemn will to serve on the dutchman in his stead it's so fucking good I'm weeping and crying

[bloomingcockroaches]

was scrolling through tiktok and the clip of elizabeth seeing her dad on the river styx came up and i sat and watched the whole thing even tho it was cropped to that god awful 16x9 narrow ass phone shaped rectangle and i still CRIED the entire time and it was thanks to that god awful crop that i saw when tia dalma cries out that she can’t leave the ship gibbs fucking GUNS it after her and barbossa is right behind him like everyone rushes to save their best girl from trying to swim through the fucking river of death because she thinks she could go and get her dad back if she just tries hard enough she can save him if she just goes out there to get him i’m a wreck

[bloomingcockroaches]

no bc jack being the one to break it to her that they aren’t back… and he doesn’t say it gently he doesn’t say it tenderly

no one else had the guts at that moment to burst her bubble and jack realized he could be the one to hurt her with the truth

bc it would have been more generally in character for barbossa to give the “we’re not back” reveal as the usual bearer of both undead curses and bad news

and it would have been a softer hit for will to tell her because they’re barely on speaking terms at this point sure but he would have been really delicate about it, tried to soften the blow, maybe pull her aside

but jack is so cold and reserved when he tells her, and so freshly dead himself

there’s no lies between them anymore, especially not pretty ones

and then you can draw the comparison as well that it’s elizabeth’s fault jack is in the locker in the first place… whose fault is it that weatherby’s there too? elizabeth obviously blames herself for it afterwards, as much as she blames beckett and norrington

it’s a jack moment that ranks alongside shooting barbossa at the end of cotbp for me… scorned lover’s hit to the heart and all that

[bloomingcockroaches]

#loving this hardcore analysis of my tags it’s literally good thank you for being wise#like me personally i’ve always viewed that line as less actively malicious and almost like. idk how to describe it #it almost sounds to me like he’s a bit surprised he has to tell her #bc like the way i see it this is jack ‘elizabeth we are literally factikin with each other irl’ sparrow #getting to see elizabeth being very different from the way he views her which is to say her being very similar to himself #bc like alike or not elizabeth is fundamentally just so much more of an optimist in a way jack just isn’t at least not anymore 

i absolutely agree yes yes yes yes yes… jack is absolutely surprised that he has to break this news to her because jack is very good at having multifaceted people in his life but only every being able to focus on one of their sides

he met elizabeth as a spitfire young woman and he’s absolutely seen her becoming disenchanted with him/all of piratekind, but the way he remembers her and the way he sees her in this moment is as the ruthless pirate who sacrificed him to a fate worse than death because it was the right thing to do for her and hers

so i think it does absolutely just… catch him off guard to see her as a young girl incapable of even like. conceiving. of the fact that her father could be dead.

#but i literally love this reading of jack as like idk petty sounds a bit too light uhhhh vindictive maybe? #more just actively horrible for the sake of it which i think is kind of rare for him at least to this extent #he’s usually more like. bitchy but we do see him cutting a bit deeper with elizabeth in awe #like the whole ‘four of you have tried to kill me in the past’ is fucking hilarious but also like man. #revealing that in front of everyone could honestly have been a lot worse for her than just creating some drama between her and will #bc we know at least gibbs is very loyal to jack so it’s kind of lucky for elizabeth jack is like. a cunt and no one got very upset

YES. YES THIS IS EXACTLY IT. this is why it’s a parallel for me with him shooting barbossa at the end of CotBP because like… “bitchy” or “catty” is absolutely a flavor of what is going on here but like in the cold dead way of a generally lighthearted easy going spice of life kind of guy being driven to the end of his rope

i don’t think he was really doing his best or his utmost to hurt her, because as un-gentle as he is there were definitely a dozen more pointedly cruel ways for him to break the news to her

he just needed to sort of yoink the wool from her eyes y’know? like just swoop in and swipe that last little bit of instinctual young hearted optimism

and like cotbp jack or a dmc jack wouldn’t have been the one to tell her, but he would have been the one to let her fall into his arms to cry it out, he would’ve like elbowed everyone else out of the way at the chance

but at this moment he needs to break it to her and can’t even bear to witness her pain afterwards, because every brush with death really does just make him more of a coward

it’s not like jack told her a secret here, and it’s not as if she wouldn’t have pieced it together eventually if no one else had been brave enough to tell her what was going on… he just needed to be the one to deliver that news

because like. eventually. in that moment. elizabeth would have to realize that her father was dead. and eventually, throughout the course of their relationship, jack would have to realize that elizabeth is a pirate through and through and won’t hesitate to throw him to the kraken if that’s what was blocking her way to safety. but he definitely didn’t want to find out like that. and she definitely didn’t deserve to hear the news like that.  

idk. i think for jack it feels like a comeuppance. like oh you have this sun shiney ideal of what life could be like? i had that too once. i thought i was going to turn around and come back for you and save you from the kraken’s clutches and we’d get our happily ever after on dry land and on the run forever. life’s crueler than that.

#anyway this is the second time i write this all out because tumblr just sent my post to hell last time i tried to rb#but point is i love your analysis mwah mwah 

tHANK U FOR YOUR EXTRA EFFORT. MWAH.

[howlerbat]

one of the most underrated dynamics in the show actually