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❦ Ella || 28 || Writer • Artist ❦ POTC sideblog • follows from inastarlesssky Willabeth is everything to me.

[ofblacksmithsandswanns]

About Me

Hi! I'm Ella, and this is my Pirates of the Caribbean sideblog because I am currently rewatching all the movies and have decided I need a place to gush about it. I'm 28, easily excitable and I love more things than I can name here. I write fics, and sometimes do art.

What You Can Expect To Find Here

So this is my space for purely and unapologetically Pirates of the Caribbean content, savvy? I don't really know if the fandom is dead or not...the movies have been out for a while, but I don't care. I love my blorbos and this is the place I made to write about that. Most specifically, it's going to be very Willabeth-centric here, as I adore the Will x Elizabeth dynamic in the movies, with some other characters I'm fond of.

FAVORITE CHARACTERS

Captain Jack Sparrow (I'm actually still on the fence as to whether I love Jack more or Will...let's say they both have #1) (

Will Turner (Is a king and deserved better. I love him.)

Elizabeth Swann (got considerably more badass when she embraced the fact that she's more a pirate than she thinks she is. Love her too)

Barbossa (He's just a sly, grumpy old pirate and he's dear to me.)

Mr. Gibbs! (You can't not love him.)

SHIPS

• Willabeth (Someday I may write an essay about them, maybe)

• Sparbossa (platonically, but I always just giggle at the banter between these two...Barbossa always sees through Jack's ruses and he's not amused with it. But I love them.)

Will and Elizabeth are everything to me, and I realized what I've been missing out...I watched the movies years ago, but I didn't know about shipping and Tumblr and all that, so I didn't jump into it then. But now I do, and as I watch the movies, I just love those two and their relationship more and more.

I'm always looking for folks to chat with about this, so if you like them, too, ping me. C:

Also, I'm currently in the market for help with brainstorming and beta-reading a possible idea I've got for a Willabeth fic, but I've never written for them before and I'd be super grateful for any help anyone might wish to give. If interested, please, don't hesitate to @ me or message me.

I haven't (yet) written for POTC but here's my AO3 if you're curious. (Mostly Dramione and Sandman content there, but there will be Willabeth stuff here and there).

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[nocauseislost]

"A lot of people ask, if this is an adventure or a love story. And to me, I think, it’s a love story at heart. Because there wouldn’t have been a story if Will didn’t love Elizabeth. It would have been Elizabeth being kidnapped, and that would be the end of it. But because he loves her, he goes to all these lengths. That’s what drives him, and that’s what drives the story. At the end of the day, I think it’s a love story between these two people. Separated by class, then the worst thing in the world happens, and it ends up being the one thing they needed to get them together."

Stuard Beattie, Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio and Jay Wolpert - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl audio commentary

[owenhcrper]

Will Turner Wednesday - 12/?

[snow124-art]

Some pirates here for you =^______^=

[thelordsoftherings]

There will come a time when you have a chance to do the right thing. I love those moments. I like to wave at them as they pass by.

[rogers-carter]

Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Swann and Orlando Bloom as Will Turner PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL 2003 | dir. Gore Verbinski

[ofblacksmithsandswanns]

So I was watching At World's End, and the part where Will's fighting Bootstrap (or fending him off, I suppose because he doesn't want to hurt his father really), there's a point where he overpowers Bootstrap and just then, Elizabeth gasps/cries out because Davy Jones backhands her. Will turns immediately.

My brain just went, "He heard her, over all that din of the ongoing battle." Maybe he just looked at the right time but I think not because of the following:

1. He's engaged in a fight with another person and wouldn't just let his guard down like that

2. He could have been just really concerned and looking back over his shoulder to be sure she's okay but also don't think this happened either. He couldn't really know she'd be RIGHT there behind him, no? They're fighting. She could have ended up anywhere.

So that left me thinking he heard his beloved's cry and turned. And my heart, oh my heart. I couldn't.

[ofblacksmithsandswanns]

Hey folks,

So I know I posted something like this earlier, but I'm still looking for more POTC mutuals. If anyone's into POTC (or more specifically Will x Elizabeth) follow me here, and I follow from my main (inastarlesssky).

I just need more POTC on my dash.

Here is just a lot of Will and Elizabeth with a good dosage of Jack Sparrow, Barbosa, and some of the other characters. I just really love these two.

Thanks and please reblog to help me get the word out. ^^

[ofblacksmithsandswanns]

The graphic is done! I've also got a title for the fic. It's going to be called 'Come Hell or High Water'.

[ofblacksmithsandswanns]

So at the end of AWE, do we even know, when Will and Elizabeth meet again, how long it's been since Will became the captain of the Flying Dutchman? Is it supposed to have been ten years or was that one day that he got at the start and then she needed to wait ten years to see him again? Because in the post-credit scene, I think, iirc, there's this 'ten years later' thing or something like that and then we see Elizabeth and their son, waiting for Will's return.

But then when Henry goes to find his dad in POTC5, how old is the kid supposed to be? I'm terrible at guessing ages, but he seemed like he could have been ten or younger than that.

Now I know that POTC5 isn't considered canon and doesn't tie in well with the trilogy, I just got confused a bit.

[ofblacksmithsandswanns]

"My darling," he said, "You will never be unloved by me; you are too well entangled in my soul."

[ofblacksmithsandswanns]

Barbossa and his curses. I love him.

"You blooming cockroaches!"

[caprisun89bakerstreet]

I’d like to add another one of my personal faves:

“You crackhanded deck apes!”

[whowolf06]

Another great one : "Dearly Beloved, we be gathered here today ... to nail yer gizzard to the mast, yer poxy cur!"

[ofblacksmithsandswanns]

I was wondering what he said! Couldn't make it out over the din of the fight, but I love his curses. So inventive haha.

[caprisun89bakerstreet]

That’s probably the whole reasons barbossa’s crew is still sailing under him because they can’t make out his words half of the time

Barbossa: *in the midst of battle* YOU TREMBLING ROTTING SQUIDS- BRING ME THE KEY!

Pintel: oh he called us dazzling plotting kids how thoughtful

Ragetthi: that’s why he’s my favorite captain, he loves to praise us for our many talents

[ofblacksmithsandswanns]

Haha exactly. Half the time they're probably puzzling out what he's even saying!

[ofblacksmithsandswanns]

'You have captured the emotional bond between these characters'

I almost squeed when I read that comment that a very kind person left on my fic The Last Ray of Sun. It's my first attempt at writing Will x Elizabeth, and that really made my day.

[capturingdisney]

[ofblacksmithsandswanns]

Barbossa and his curses. I love him.

"You blooming cockroaches!"

[caprisun89bakerstreet]

I’d like to add another one of my personal faves:

“You crackhanded deck apes!”

[whowolf06]

Another great one : "Dearly Beloved, we be gathered here today ... to nail yer gizzard to the mast, yer poxy cur!"

[ofblacksmithsandswanns]

I was wondering what he said! Couldn't make it out over the din of the fight, but I love his curses. So inventive haha.