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I’m still here!
I know I’ve been MIA for almost a year, I had to take some time off and figure stuff out. I haven’t abandoned the Killian x Milah prequel idea, I just ran into an inspiration wall and then refused to touch it for months, but I’ve been having some more ideas and am hoping to restructure some of the plot to give me new wind. Just wanted to give an update!
READ. EVERY. WORD. OF. THIS. Account of a medical team out in St. Paul last night.
Link to original tweet thread.
Milah WIP Update
I’m more than 40,000 words into the fanfiction I said I would write about Milah’s life and her adventures with Killian, and I’m nowhere near finished. This one is getting a little out of hand. I didn’t expect it to turn out this long, but I’m pumped, so that’s good.
I’m not gonna post it before it’s done because I want a chance to revise it properly, and because I don’t want the pressure of updating it regularly to interfere with my writing. But I might post snippets from time to time to give you a taste of what’s coming.
So here’s an update to let you know that I haven’t forgotten or abandoned this project, it is just taking more of my time (and sanity) than I expected.
Hope you are all keeping wellin these crazy times, stay safe!
Fantasy Guide to Ships, Boats and Nautical Lingo
Of all the ways to travel in fantasy and historical novels, there are two favoured ones: horses and ships. But I covered the horses already so here we have some ship terminology and kinds of ships.
Common Boat Terms
Aft/Stern - The back of a ship.
Bow - The bow is the front part of the ship, the pointy part or the place where Kate Winslet stood on in Titanic.
Port - The left side of the ship
Starboard - The right side of the ship
Windward - The wind the direction is blowing.
Hull- outside of the ship
Leeward - Or sometimes called the lee. This is the opposite direction of the wind is blowing
Boom - A horizontal pole extending from the base of the main mast. It adjusted toward the wind direction in order to harness the wind for the sails.
Rudder - The rudder is a flat piece of wood below the ship, used to steer the ship. It is connected to the wheel of the ship.
Tacking - A common sailing maneuver that involves turning the bow through the wind, to change the wind direction from one side of the ship to the other, making the boom move.
Underway- This is when the ship is moving
Astern- The ship is moving backwards
Amidships- Middle of the boat
Topside- when you move from the lower decks to the upper deck
Compartments of the ship
Most ships would have compartments inside the hull and underneath the deck.
Cabins- most war ships and merchant ships would only have one or two main cabin occupied by the captain and higher crew.
Galley- The kitchen on board the ship. The galley would be fitted with tables and cabinets. Galleys were built in such a way that they were more resistant to the heaving of the ship. Most galleys were built with special stoves to stop people from colliding with them and things from spilling out of pots and pans.
Wardroom- some ships are built with a common room for the crew. The wardroom acted as a common room as well as a dining room. It would usually be conjoined with the galley.
Sick Bay- is the compartment of the ship that is given over to the injured and sick. The sick bay would hold the medicines and medical devices and would often be under lock and key.
Hold- This will be the largest compartment in the ship were the cargo or the ship's weapons.
Crew and Positions aboard the Ship
Captain
When we think of captains we imagine them as blackhearted slave drivers (something akin to managers in the customer service industry) but on further research you will find that is not true. There are two kinds of Captains you find in history. Pirate captains and Legitimate Captains. Pirate captains were elected by their merit in battle and dedication to the crew. They were considered equal to the crew, only taking full charge during raids and battles. In the Navy or any legal-bound ship, captains were selected by rank and wealth. There was no equality between captain and crew as in pirate ships. Legal ships were Capitalists and the Pirates were Democratic.
First Mate
First Mate is the captain's deputy. They act as captain when the captain cannot. This was mainly seen in Navies and merchant ships as Pirates usually placed their quartermaster as their deputies.
Quartermaster
The Quartermaster was in charge of ensuring that the ship ran smoothly, rather like the ship's HR manager. The Quartermaster was in charge of supplies and had certain powers such as being able to punish the crew for minor infractions.
Sailing Master
These were officers in charge of piloting the ship. They would have to be educated enough to read a map and was a much desired position because it was a fair paying job. Pirates usually kidnapped sailing masters from ships they attacked to use aboard their own ships.
Gunner
Gunners were the overseers of any many qualified to load and fire guns. They were in charge of aiming cannons and making sure the crew were safely using guns. Most the guns were loaded by young boys called powder monkeys.
Boatswain
Boatswains or junior officers would act as supervisors, watching over the crew as they did their duties. If things were not going well they reported to the captain or quartermaster to punish the crew.
Surgeons
Surgeons handled any diseases and wounds. Since being at sea limited the amount of medicine available. Most ship's surgeons were forced to cut off limbs to avoid infection pike gangrene. Surgeons may not always be found on ships. Cooks or carpenters were often pressed to do amputations: meat was meat and cutting was cutting.
Cooks
All ships needed somebody to cook. Navies and merchant ships would often have trained cooks while on pirate ships it was just a crewmember who was handy in the kitchen.
Kinds of Ship
(Not a complete list, may post more later.)
Brig- A brig is the ship that one most thinks of when you think of a ship. The brig is a large vessel, set with a pair of square-rigged masts. Brigs were fast ships and highly maneuverable. They were used as merchant ships and warships.
Galley- The galley is propelled via oars. The hull is long and slender and most of them featured larger sails. Galleys often were rowed by slaves and used in war.
Galleon- Galleons were large ships, built with multiple decks, carrying three or more masts with square raised stern. The Galleon was usually rigged with square sails on the fore-mast and main-masts.
Caravel- The caravel was a small ship with triangular sails, famed for its manoeuvrability and speed.
Longship- The longships were the ships of the Vikings. They were slender ships, narrow. They were able to keep afloat in shallow waters as well as the deep sea. Longships were able to reverse quickly, a very important skill. The longship was a warship, a raider's ship propelled by oars.
Carrack- the carrack was a large ship, often built with mass cargo holds making the most popular ship to go on long voyages on. The carrack had three or four masts.
Cog- This ship was a large vessel, the hull wide and large. The ship is propelled by a great single sail flown from a tall mast.
Junk- The junk or Chinese junk was a kind of coastal or river ship used as merchant ships, pleasure ships and sometimes houseboats. They are small ships and made with battened sails rather resembling wings.
Trireme- the trireme was a slender ship set with three banks of oars pulled by one man each. The trireme had a concave hull and usually had an underwater ram at the prow of the ship.
For @viola-cola
This post is a lifesaver for my Millian WIP.
I‘m rewatching The Outsider, and honestly, what is it with everyone talking about Milah like she‘s a possession? “He took my wife“, “You stole his wife“, “You took her first“.
Let a woman make her own decision for once and stop pretending she had no say in this. If you really can‘t see why she left you, at least give her enough credit to be angry with her and not Killian. Something tells me Rumple would be the kind of guy to complain that women always go for the Bad Guys and ignore the Nice Guys — without realising he‘s completely invalidating her and the so called “Bad Guy“ here actually listened to what she wanted.
Rant over. For now.
Pirate Spotlight: Anne Bonny
I might post more of these while I do research for the Milah backstory I’m writing. This is a fascinating character that will definitiely feature heavily. Some interesting facts:
One of the most famous female pirates
Left her cowardly husband James Bonny for "Calico Jack" Rackham. The pair were later joined by fellow female pirate Mary Read
Mary and Anne both disguised as men
Anne was reportedly very dangerous with a cutlass and pistol
When the ship was captured, most of the crew was passed out drunk and lost easily, much to Anne's dismay. Some sources claim that she and Mary fought almost alone to defend the ship.
Both women feigned pregnancy to avoid execution. Mary died of sickness, but Anne lived to be over 80.
There's some clear similarities to Milah, so I see them becoming good friends. Stay tuned for more, I might post a sneak peek at some point!
So I just started watching Once Upon a Time and someone’s probably already done this but...
* 2 weeks into quarantine*
Emma: This stinks! I hate this!
Emma: There’s nothing to do! There’s nowhere to go!
Emma! I need action! I need adventure!
Emma: I need to punch!
Emma isn‘t the only one...
Pirate Queen
Digital (and very overdue) painting of Milah!
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Don’t crop/edit/tweet and please reblog, don’t repost. Thank you!
This is absolutely incredible!
“thank you so much for deciding the rest of my narrow little life for me” is everything you need to know about milah and why she needs to be defended—this is a person who has lost all her agency, who was claustrophobic in her own family, who was a complicated woman who fought back in the only way she knew how
i know it won't happen but i want to see killian find out what really happened to milah. and i want her to get a better ending. i mean there's a .01% chance of that happening but
listen i’ll never forgive the writers for allowing regina’s horse to move on to the afterlife but not milah
And then there’s that.
The next thing I want to mention about The Crocodile is that if I had to pick the BIGGEST missed opportunity in season two, this is it.
Milah should have been Captain Hook. Absolutely and without question.
Fridging her shows a failure of imagination so huge that it is breathtaking. Want to talk about centuries long grudges? Yeah, bring in his ex-wife who left him and whose lover he killed. Now that has some history to it. Some weight. You would believe she could still hate him after all these years. And just think of Milah and Baelfire. Who is Killian to him but some guy he knew for a day or two and who took his mother away? Milah, though, that’s mom.
And this doesn’t mean we need to get rid of Colin. He can be the loyal first mate who always loved Milah from afar (but now has a thing for Emma) while the bad-boy lover who she ran off with is played by someone else.
I... never even thought about this. I mean, I love Killian, I’m glad they did it this way and we got to enjoy him on the show. But if this was a spin-off, or one of apparently many alternate universes... that’d be awesome.
Fandom: I’M A FEMINIST!!!
Fandom: Thinks a woman who doesn’t wear make-up and has her hair up in a ponytail half the time is unattractive.
Fandom: Thinks a woman must wear make-up and have her hair down and/or curled to be beautiful.
Fandom: Thinks a woman is weak and pathetic if she’s in a relationship with a man.
Fandom: Thinks a woman mourning the death of her boyfriend makes her weak and pathetic.
Fandom: Thinks a woman must show no emotion. Cannot cry, get mad, or be happy. If she isn’t cold and robotic then she’s not badass/hero/role model.
Fandom: Thinks an ex-boyfriend should be allowed to control who his ex-girlfriend gets to date.
Fandom: Thinks a wife must be supportive and loyal at all times to her husband no matter how many times he lies to her, manipulates her, robs her of her agency, and twice endangers her life for his own selfish needs.
Fandom: Thinks if a woman wears dresses, skirts, heels, any clothing that’s pink or floral print, she’s anti-feminism and a horrible role model.
Fandom: Thinks a mother’s life must revolve around her child. She’s not allowed to have a social life or love interest. If she does, then she’s a bad mother.
Fandom: Thinks a man killing his ex-wife because she left him is justifiable and she deserved it.
Fandom: Thinks a woman that wears make-up proves how happy she is and if she doesn’t wear make-up, she must be unhappy.
Fandom: Thinks if a husband abuses his wife and the wife leaves him. He’s the victim and she’s the abuser because she wasn’t loyal enough to stay and support him.
Fandom
: Thinks a woman that is pregnant isn’t badass or a hero.
Fandom: FEMINISM!!!!!!
Me:
*cough*
Obviously not true for everyone. But negative voices do tend to be the loudest. Let’s call them out!
one year of captain swan: 205/365
Whenever I feel sad, I remember that this scene was improvised.
Remember pancakes? Better times...
Work in progress
So, with all this being-at-home-business, I’ve finally found time to write again. I’ve had this idea for a story about Milah’s life and her adventures with Killian for a while - what was going through her mind when she left Rumple, what happened in those ten-ish years at sea, what was young Killian like before her death made him dark and broody... bonus: sailing and so many potential people from history and mythology you can throw in there. I’ll upload it once it’s done, so stay tuned! And in the meantime, prepare for some Killian/Milah/Piracy/Sailing/OUAT content I will generously call “research” because it sounds much better than “procrastination”...
I love that Milah’s default expression tends to be ‘What sort of Tomfuckery is this?’ to varying degrees, whether she’s dead or alive.
In case you couldn’t tell, I’ve been slightly obsessed with Milah lately.
