Ships For Sail

can't love you bro I'm married to the sea minor background painting by Ivan Aivazovsky, Lunar night on Capri, 1841

[nautikale]

Maritime Piracy: Resources

Ahoy! I’ve compiled a list of websites and YouTube channels that provide information about maritime piracy in the age of sail. There are both primary and secondary sources, so I hope this helps in your research!

Websites:

The Pirate Empire

A collection of blog articles about anything pirate.

The Pirate Surgeon’s Journal Main Page

Primary sources for piracy, highlighting surgeons at sea.

Pirates Library Reference

By a maritime historian, it’s full of primary sources from the government and pirates themselves.

British History Online (Colonial Series)

Provides government records about the Americas and piracy in the West Indies.

Pirates & Privateers

Articles about everything you want to know about piracy.

Rob Ossian’s Pirate’s Cove

A collection of over 1200 pages of pirate and nautical information

YouTube channels:

The Pirates Port

Gold and Gunpowder

[teal-skull]

I can highly recommend also checking out Matt Alder’s Pirate history podcast. (It’s both on spotify, but also in youtube and other platforms)

They cover pirate history starting from the age of discovery while also contextualizing the other history surrounding piracy like politics, war and religion. There is so much information in this podcast it is insane, and I’m only at episode 61. You can really hear the host is pasionate about this. He aims to tell the history like it was a very detailed and complicated story.

As a bonus the host started reading Treasure Island and It’s wonderful.

[crunchycrystals]

jhsahjfgsahjsaj thank you VERY much to @sparklezfallsinlovewithbooks for tagging me i've never seen one of these before

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tagging @nautikale and @shrumpydumps bc they agreed while we were talking

[nautikale]

omg

plants or gardens // cloud-watching or star-gazing // water or fire // paperback or hardcover // running or hiking // sleeping with socks or without socks // fruit or vegetables // hanging plants or succulents // dark wood or light wood // handwritten or typed // instagram or pinterest // braids or pigtails // dc or marvel // books or movies // oceans or meadows // forests or fields // sweet or salty // ice cream or chocolate // hoodies or sweaters // long hair or short hair // piercings or tattoos // summer or winter // boots or sneakers // cars or motorcycles // curls or straight hair // castles or cottages // sunny days or storms // reptiles or birds // disney or nickelodeon // strawberries or watermelon // essays or posters // phones or laptops // glass or stone // dark or light // photos or painting // circuses or theaters // reading or writing // dogs or cats // poetry or novels // monsters or ghosts // thrift shops or libraries // fiction or non-fiction

[plaguedocboi]

We need to go back to using sailing ships full time like immediately. Yes it would take longer to get places but the Aesthetic is unmatched

Like there is nothing sexier hthan this

[theboboshow]

Can’t wait for OP to get scurvy

[plaguedocboi]

Are you under the impression that the ships themselves are what caused scurvy

[01938271839]

neil hilborn, a place where someone loves you / [deactivated user] / @filmnoirsbian / anne sexton / sonnet by neil gaiman / caitlyn siehl, start here

[cadmusfly]

Everyone shut up there's a Napoleonic Man of War simulator

you can't control the ship directly you have to direct orders and its complicated and i am in love

also i nearly crashed the ship in the tutorial 10/10

@ltwilliammowett and i would tag everyone i know in the age of sail fandom but that would be a lot because everyone needs to know about this

[whodoyoulike]

uhh yeah we gave your boyfriend a bass guitar and he's a slut now . yeah sorry he's stuck like that

[aquilacalvitium]

Okay fuck it if this post reaches 666k notes by the end of 2023 I'll practise basic self care

Why 666k? Because it's funny and impossible so good fucking luck

[lizluvscupcakes]

Well, OP, I’m officially invested in this shit. Your whiny ass is doing self care if I have to drive to your goddamn house and do it for you.

[aquilacalvitium]

By Talos this can't be happening

[oysters-aint-for-me]

reblog this everyone i wanna see what happens when op’s reverse-hubris forces them to practice basic self care.

why? because it’s funny and completely possible actually so good fucking luck op

[tungsten-moon]

I figured out roughly how many notes it's been getting per day and multiplied that by the number of days left until the end of 2023

If we keep it going at this rate we'll be far past 666k

[aquilacalvitium]

IMPORTANT

Okay so clearly I've underestimated y'all

So how about we make this more interesting?

I will practise self care if this post reaches 666k BY THE END OF 2022

[moonlarking]

Op you have fuckethed with the devil this post has gained 30,000 notes since I reblogged it last night

[headspace-hotel]

Reblog to throw a hedge apple in OP's driveway

[theleakypen]

What the fuck is this eldritch fruit? I'm in.

[headspace-hotel]

It's Maclura pomifera, commonly known as the osage orange or hedge apple. It is known to be native only to a small area of Texas and the edge of Oklahoma and Arkansas. Before the invention of barbed wire, it was pruned repeatedly and shaped to make dense impenetrable hedges to contain animals.

The fruits are inedible—not poison, they're just hard and taste bad.

The wood is super-strong, burns hotter than any other wood, and is ideal for making bows!

[laineysbucketlist]

We should just fill this post with other interesting things as reasons to reblog it

[laineysbucketlist]

Ok first of all huge thank you to everyone who’s added a fun fact. Here’s one of my favorites: in 1859 an anti-metric system activist named John Taylor published a book about how the pyramids at Giza were built by Noah (as in the big zoo boat guy) as giant rulers in inches because of how God prefers the Imperial British system. According to the book it’s only called the British Imperial system because it was passed down from Noah’s time all the way until 19th century Britain.

[headspace-hotel]

what

[erysium]

a few years ago I made a queer selkie comic, inspired by the Scottish tale One Spared to the Sea :-) ✨ (½)

Part 2 here!

[platycryptus]

a horseshoe crab i saw with the most fantastic flowing mane of algae

(Massachusetts, 7/23/22)

[usermaha]

Pass the happy! When you receive this list 5 things that make you happy!! and send this to 5 of the last people in your notifications.

oooh love this idea!!

1. Early morning sunlight

2. Being creative

3. Working out

4. Jamming to music

5. Talking to all my online friends!! I love all of you so much!! You brighten up my day so much!!!

tagging: @sparklezfallsinlovewithbooks @cruelestwonderland @thy-lovelylionheart @napofastars @madwoman14

[sparklezfallsinlovewithbooks]

thank you SO much for tagging me!!! <3333 1. Dancing (been dancing since i was 4) 2. Singing (it just makes me feel free) 3. Watching A Comfort Show (b99 at the moment) 4. Reading (pjo, especially) 5. Scrolling through my mutuals’ blogs (i love you all so much, you have no clue) tagging: @speaknowtv @dam-bluecookies​ @crunchycrystals @supremeladyoftherandom @1989tv @death-and-the-lady13

[crunchycrystals]

thanks again mx fallsinlovewithbooks <33

reading (starting a new book today hopefully)

music

writing

pasta

playing a ukulele (i’ve been doing it for like 5 years its great)

tagging: @nautikale because you’re the only mutual who still posts occasionally

[nautikale]

omg yay

1. sailing (the adrenaline rush when you’re racing is ghfgfgfh)

2. playing guitar (I’ve joined a band club recently and it feels so nice to jam)

3. dogs

4. boxing

5. learning something new

[tastytoecheese]

First thing you see after you zoom in is how you die

How you dying 👀

[mobylace]

It’s like this

[puppygirlbelly]

Reversed version so you and your mutuals can bonk back and forth.

[redspyisinthebased]

wait, hold on

[nautikale]

@crunchycrystals

[ltwilliammowett]

The beauty of the night - Barque Europa, June 2022

[ryan-sometimes]

I don't know what higher level of consciousness octopi are on but I'm terrified to imagine it

[ryan-sometimes]

"Complex emotions"??? What emotions would lead to punching fish for no reason

[fakestgeekboy]

maybe that fish was a jerk? did you even consider that??

[archaeologicalnews]

Scientists say a shipwreck off Patagonia is a long-lost 1850s Rhode Island whaler

Scientists investigating the remains of an old wooden ship off the cold, windy coast of far southern Argentina say it almost certainly is the Dolphin, a globe-trotting whaling ship from Warren, R.I., lost in 1859. Archaeologists have spent years researching the ship’s origin without making a definitive identification, but a new analysis of tree rings in its timbers has provided perhaps the most compelling evidence yet. A team of Argentinian and American researchers just published the findings in the journal Dendrochronologia.

“I cannot say with a hundred percent certainty, but analysis of the tree rings indicates it is very likely that this is the ship,” said lead author Ignacio Mundo of Argentina’s Laboratory of Dendrochronology and Environmental History, IANIGLA-CONICET. Mundo and scientists at the Columbia Climate School’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory used a huge database of rings from old North American trees to show that the timbers were felled in New England and the southeastern United States just before the ship was built in 1850. Read more.

[littlestpersimmon]

On less sadder note, I did get my hands on some wonderful new textbooks bc some of my commissioners have tipped me!! Very happy to have these in my hands.

I'll try to post some more cool stuff once I'm done reading.

I loved this part, it's such a mundane thing to be excited about, but the fact that our old ancestors styled their hair to look like rosettes, curled their hair fringes and put flowers in their hair, wore them in complex braids and also had similar hairstyles to other neighboring kingdoms, notably China, is very sweet. Most depictions of Visayans usually have their hair worn as just simple and loose, and the additional knowledge that they styled their hair so intricately makes them feel more.. tangible? More..?? Real. Like these people were once alive and lead rich lives.

[lilboreddev-blog]

reblog if your name isn't Amanda.

[thatblackwatchdouche-blog-blog]

2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!

We’ll find you Amanda.

[iceslushii]

this has almost 11 million notes what is this

[araccoonthatlikesmurder]

All the non-Amanda