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He/Him • Never had a theme more specific than "Look at this, it's neat" • Neither in the US nor in the UK but a secret third thing

[thatdisasterauthor]

I don’t think we talk enough about how, despite the presence of multiple globes, PotC takes place on a flat earth, ice wall included.

[patrickdiomedes]

I'm gonna need some elaboration here

[thatdisasterauthor]

They literally sail over the edge of it after passing through a hole in a wall of ice. They fall off. They get back to the other side by passing through the whole ocean.

But also there’s a globe on, like, everyone’s desk.

[andthentheywilleatthestars]

#it's like lord of the rings#it's only flat for pirates

[thatdisasterauthor]

You get it.

[finalvortex]

No, but this is actually (sort of) canon.

See, part of the conceit of the PotC trilogy is that all myths are true. Nearly every supernatural element in the franchise has a root in some real world mythology or pirate lore, although some of them are mashed together.

Another thing is that they take place at the end of the Golden Age of Piracy, and the more the map gets filled in, and the more the Royal Navy takes power, there less room there is for the mystical and supernatural in the world. This is explicitly called out in At World's End with the death of the kraken:

Barbossa: The world used to be a bigger place. Jack: The world's still the same. There's just... less in it.

The only way to access the world of the supernatural is through the supernatural itself. You can only get to the Isla de Muerta with Jack's compass that points to whatever you desire, or if you already know where its is. You need Tia Dalma's map to find the edge of the world. To access the supernatural, you need to already be immersed in it.

The pirates world isn't flat, it's round - but because the edge of the world exists in myth, it therefore exists in reality. The pirates are able to find it through supernatural means, but if, say, someone like Norrington just sailed in the same general direction, he wouldn't end up in the same place.

[nitewrighter]

“Pirate” is a mage subclass fueled by word of mouth, rule of cool, The Power of Belief/Love/Friendship, and rum.

[dailyadventureprompts]

If you look at it in a particular way, the Pirates specifically function by FAIRY RULES: obscure codes of law and formality that they are irrevocably bound to abide by...except when you get the wording wrong.

When we go to Tortuga (or any pirate controlled space) we leave behind the sensibilities of the real world and enter this bizarre perpetual revel of debauchery and violence that could never sustain itself in a world bound by sense.

That makes Jack our Puck character, a trickster of tricksters who can invert your fortunes just by letting him talk to you.

It also makes Will into a changeling, born of the fairyworld, adopted by mortals, and fated to return to it in what makes for a doomed love story. Hell, one might say that the reason Will's swords are SO GOOD is because they contain an element of myth about them: they're the IDEA of swords, true to how they would be in myth.

[sandersstudies]

Name as many Shakespeare plays as you can. Feel free to write them down and check your answers but not to cheat. How many can you name?

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Remaining time: 3 days 1 hour

Tell me in the comments: are you from a country that speaks predominantly English? Was any Shakespeare required in your education?

[000l]

[shrewreadings]

like to charge, reblog to cast.

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[maryellencarter]

May I also suggest, for another variant which revokes the privileges but keeps the "stealing your trademark" aspect (because it is legally possible, though extremely difficult, to actually remove a company's ownership of a trademark if it gets fully genericized enough, and I feel it could be worth at least trying), that we might try something of this format:

"I googled it on DuckDuckGo/Bing/etc"

That is, make *explicit* how you have already implicitly been using "googled", in the sense of "looked up on any internet search engine".

(It is verbally clunkier than just "I googled" -- I do think "look it up" has a better potential for widespread use because it's the same number of syllables -- but this being Tumblr, the home of commitment to the bit, there's also potential for some major hilarity if it spreads further beyond the strict usage of search engines and becomes a synonym for "look it up" in general. I googled it on Wikipedia. I googled it in the dictionary. I googled it in the ancient tomes that lie below R'lyeh. Et cetera.)

[karrakazz]

everyone is meeting me in the grotto

[karrakazz]

[dailymanners]

I feel as though what drives most rude / inconsiderate behavior I experience IRL on a day to day basis comes from a place of having this unearned and unnecessary sense of urgency in situations that aren't actually urgent. I think if more people became aware of this completely unnecessary sense of urgency in situations that actually aren't urgent, it might make co-existing and sharing public spaces with other people a lot easier and more tolerable.

That text post that's been making the rounds that goes something like "Omg you made it to the same red light as everyone else but faster and more dangerously and recklessly, should we call nascar? Do you want a medal?" summarizes exactly what I'm trying to talk about.

It's like when I have to change buses at one of the bigger and busier bus stops, and the people who get off the same bus as me shove and elbow past me to get off before me, and then shove and elbow past anyone even slightly in their way on the way to the bus they're switching, only to end up on the same bus as all the people they shoved and elbowed with several minutes to spare before it leaves and plenty of open seats left.

I think this unnecessary urgency a lot of people feel in their day to day lives drives a lot of bad behavior. I'm not saying I'm innocent of this, I've felt it too in plenty of situations that didn't call for it, and regrettably was less kind than I should have been as a result. But I try to be aware of it, and always try to ask myself it it's really as urgent as my lizard brain is trying to tell me it is, and even if it was that urgent, does that still justify unkind behavior?

Is shoving or elbowing another person aside going to make the difference between whether or not you make it to the bus before it pulls away? (hint: at least where I live, most of the time that's a no because the drivers usually won't leave if they see people from another bus heading towards their bus). Is shoving and elbowing people aside in a crowded grocery store going to make any noticeable difference in how quickly you get your shopping done?

Does a few extra seconds of time actually justify cruel and unkind behavior towards people you perceive as slightly inconveniencing you?

[purlturtle]

Someone pointed out to me once how a lot of people, when out grocery shopping, amble through the aisles at a leisurely pace, maybe checking out this new product or that tester... But when the time comes to queue for checkout, all of a sudden everyone is super impatient and not leisurely at all.

That fully rewired my brain.

Ever since then I've tried to keep that in mind when I shop. If I'm not hurrying through the store, I'm not gonna be impatient in line for checkout.

[titsay]

[uss-edsall]

Does anyone have this picture

But it’s a parody of Master and Commander’s opening title

I swear I have seen this before and I cannot for the life of me find it

[kesslersymbolic]

This image?

[uss-edsall]

YES

[eddardsharpe]

[bacony-cakes]

PNG'D! (i didn't know the font so this is taken directly from the image)

+ bonus italian navy vessel

[catgirl-kaiju]

[youcanstillwhistle]

I think the "pre" and "post" parts in "preposterous" should cancel each other out but everyone else seems to find my idea completely erous

[importantcatpics]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[thelastgrayson]

[tieflingkisser]

[rarilee33]

Also on windows 10!! go to typing settings- how ai has helped you- typing insights-off

[janmisali]

how do you usually search the internet for things?

I type a search term into the url bar of my browser and press enter

I type a search term into the url bar of my browser and click search

I go to a search engine website, type, and press enter

I go to a search engine website, type, and click search

I go to one of multiple subject-specific websites

I ask an assistant on my smart device to search the internet for me

I ask a person who I think might know how to look things up to look things up

I do not use the internet

something else

[show results]

Remaining time: 2 days 10 hours

[pedanther]

My browser setup has a separate search bar next to the URL bar, with a pulldown list of which search engine to use. It can include general search engines (I have Startpage as the default) and also specific sites with their own search functions like Wikipedia and IMDb.

These days, the separate search bar is technically redundant because Firefox's URL bar also functions as a search bar (including the pulldown list, which automatically manifests if you type something that isn't a URL), but I keep the search bar around because I'm used to it being a different thing and I like using the URL bar for URLs.

[maryellencarter]

* Oh good lord, another Greek mythology episode? I really have zero trust at this point for anything this team will do with Greek mythology. This time we have Hephaestus building a war robot for Ares, it's called the Annihilator. He plops it down in now war-torn Kaznia to cause havoc. Meanwhile, Wonder Woman is in a very bad mood. J'onn calls her off of putting her fist through a random punk's head and snarks at her a bit about it.

* "Hawk and Dove". Seriously? I assume these are '70s characters. Their outfits look like Team Canada practice hockey sweaters, and their dialogue is really clunky. Like, Vietnam-era catchphrases put in a blender.

* ...why is random St Francis of Assisi preaching war to Kaznian rebels? Ah, Ares in disguise.

* "as they say, only Zeus is perfect" how do you guys fuck up Greek mythology *this badly every time* wtf man, do you do literally zero research or just not even care to imagine that religions can be a different shape than Christianity 101

* This is a really, really, really stupid episode. The concept could have been done well but oh my god the writing is so fucking bad, man. So bad. There aren't a lot of episodes in this whole *gestures at the DCAU* franchise... thing... that are absolute stinkers, but good lord.

[pedanther]

Hawk and Dove debuted in 1968, and have occasionally almost been interesting.

Probably the most interesting thing about them in this episode is the casting: they're played by two actors who had previously played brothers in a popular TV show called The Wonder Years in the 1980s. The one who was the older, more aggressive brother in The Wonder Years plays Dove.

[awesomebutunpractical]

The first draft philosophy that has finally gotten me writing for fun isn't "worst version of story" type framing, it's "tell the story to yourself."

Your story isn't ready for polished prose, you don't know what happens yet. This doesn't make it Bad Writing, it's a different type of writing. And this ties into why I think the plotter vs pantser debate misses the mark - both detailed outlines AND make-it-up-as-you-go first drafts are ways to make up the story. This part is for you, so how you do it should be whatever is the most fun or satisfying way to tell yourself the story.

[fictionadventurer]

Actually, Wishbone might be good training for readers to know how to approach adaptations of classic literature. Because it's such a specific format, you can't let your analysis of the adaptation begin and end with, "It's different from the book." This forces you to recognize that there are a lot of other factors that influence an adaptation--intended audience, tone, time and budget limitations, the themes they want to emphasize--and that need to be taken into an account when analyzing its story choices. Just because it's different from the book doesn't mean it's bad.

But on the other end of things, this makes it very clear to the people who prefer movies that the adaptation is not the book. All these changes can be valid choices, but they will skew the original work, and the adaptation can't replace it. I promise, Mr. Darcy is not a Jack Russell terrier just because there's an adaptation that portrays him as one. So maybe you can apply that concept to other, subtler things like personality.