Pirates of the Caribbean OC Appreciation

A blog to celebrate POTC fan characters. Do you have art or fic you'd like to share? Feel free to submit it!

[rascalsandscoundrels]

A blog to celebrate POTC fan characters. Do you have art or fic you'd like to share? Feel free to submit it!

[piratesgiftexchange]

by kickingthepirate for undeadpirate

Prompt: "Gibbs/Kit - Gibbs has an injury that needs to be homoerotically bandaged"

[lobanhart]

Davy Jones with his son for sweet @the-chaos-katzlein

[beemovieerotica]

HE TOOK HIS SON FISHING!!!

[valtsv]

people are so weird about self insert ocs actually. like why wouldn't you want a made up little guy who's like you except cooler and they get to live all your fantasies? what are you afraid of? having fun? free yourself

[valtsv]

people will really try to tell you "self insert ocs are cringe" like okay then. when you play a first person pov video game with character customization options do you not style them at least a little bit to reflect yourself as the player? have you never thought about what an ideal version of you with no restrictions would look and act like? do you never imagine yourself in situations? open your eyes

[valtsv]

"self insert ocs are cringe" lol i'm hanging out with all my favorite characters in my mind and we aren't even talking about you

[xlownenbemy]

Potc Oc doodles!

They carry the heavy burden of being the only one able to read/write...

[rascalsandscoundrels]

If you have fic/art/etc about your oc that you’d like to share, or if there’s a fic you’d like to recommend, you can submit it, or tag this blog in your post!

[revenantwyrm]

Made a Crewman oc of the Dutchman! (Rewatched all of the pirates movies, love em).

They have parts of a deep sea isopod. My vague idea for their story is that their ship sank down to the near bottom after an attack from another ship seeking revenge or treasure and they were offered the choice to join Davy Jones’ crew. They took it, because in the last moments of their life before their ship sank, they fell in love with the captain of the ship that attacked and doomed them 🥺🥺 so sad lol. So they stay alive (?) to find them, not knowing that it has been far too long…

As my wonderful fiancé said, art of the ship, art of the crew!

[sevarix-blogs]

i don't care how 'cringe' or 'mary sue' you think your oc is. i think your oc is cool and i think you should talk about your oc more.

this applies to everyone

[rascalsandscoundrels]

If you have fic/art/etc about your oc that you’d like to share, or if there’s a fic you’d like to recommend, you can submit it, or tag this blog in your post!

[rascalsandscoundrels]

In yet another attempt to encourage people to post stuff about their ocs, I present: the Pirates OC Challenge! (I almost called it the POTC OC Challenge but that was too many Os and Cs.)

How to participate: - You can draw, write ficlets, or just talk about your character. (Or anything else you can make to fit each prompt - moodboards, edits, playlists…) - There is no specific date for this, and you don’t have to do every day in a row. Feel free to tackle it whenever you have time and inspiration hits. - Tag this blog, @rascalsandscoundrels, and/or tag the posts #Pirates OC Challenge.

some further description of each day’s prompt under the cut

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[piratesgiftexchange]

What’s that over there?

[id: “Hidden Treasures Round Two” in animated flaming text]

Hidden Treasures is a gift exchange for Pirates of the Caribbean. Last round had a focus on minor characters, but this time around all the characters are fair game!

Another change for this round: anyone can submit prompts, even if you don’t plan on participating otherwise!

Types of gifts: Fic/podfic (at least 500 words) Art (at least 1 finished piece)

Dates: Sign-ups/prompt submissions close: May 31st Gifts due: July 31st Gifts revealed: August 1st

Sign up for the gift exchange

Submit prompts

Read the FAQ

[anxietyrobot]

getting obsessed with your own ocs sucks ass because you gotta be the one that makes all the content for them like damn whats a guy gotta do around here to see their made up scrimblos drawn by someone else

[rascalsandscoundrels]

If you have fic/art/etc about your oc that you’d like to share, or if there’s a fic you’d like to recommend, you can submit it, or tag this blog in your post!

[rascalsandscoundrels]

In yet another attempt to encourage people to post stuff about their ocs, I present: the Pirates OC Challenge! (I almost called it the POTC OC Challenge but that was too many Os and Cs.)

How to participate: - You can draw, write ficlets, or just talk about your character. (Or anything else you can make to fit each prompt - moodboards, edits, playlists…) - There is no specific date for this, and you don’t have to do every day in a row. Feel free to tackle it whenever you have time and inspiration hits. - Tag this blog, @rascalsandscoundrels, and/or tag the posts #Pirates OC Challenge.

some further description of each day’s prompt under the cut

Keep reading

[undeadpirate]

kicking off the pirates oc challenge with a portrait of my oc, Kit!

here is their tag and here is the first chapter of a fic about them

[rascalsandscoundrels]

In yet another attempt to encourage people to post stuff about their ocs, I present: the Pirates OC Challenge! (I almost called it the POTC OC Challenge but that was too many Os and Cs.)

How to participate: - You can draw, write ficlets, or just talk about your character. (Or anything else you can make to fit each prompt - moodboards, edits, playlists...) - There is no specific date for this, and you don't have to do every day in a row. Feel free to tackle it whenever you have time and inspiration hits. - Tag this blog, @rascalsandscoundrels, and/or tag the posts #Pirates OC Challenge.

some further description of each day’s prompt under the cut

Day 1: Introduction Introduce us to your character. Perhaps a portrait or a reference sheet if you’re an artist, or a piece of writing that shows a bit about who they are and what they’re about.

Day 2: Backstory Give us a glimpse! Maybe just one important moment, or a timeline.

Day 3: Occupation What do they do for a living? What are their areas of expertise?

Day 4: Hobbies How do they spend their downtime? What do they do for fun?

Day 5: Relationships Who are their friends and family, if they have any? Is there someone they love?

Day 6: Kicking Ass Portray them in battle! (If they're not a fighter, it can be metaphorical ass kicking.)

[undeadpirate]

i love ocs. and this includes self-insert-adjacent ocs. wholeheartedly and unironically. if they are 100% an original sploinky doinky from your brain, that’s great, i love the creativity - but also i genuinely find it delightful when someone looks at a work of fiction and is like, “ok this is great, but you know what would make it better? someone like ME!” imo, they are correct more often than one might think.

and sometimes people really benefit from a power fantasy… i started writing my first potc fic, with an protagonist that was essentially a self-insert, when i was a lonely, bullied, insecure 13yo. to my great surprise, the type of praise i got the most was about how much people liked the protagonist, that she was funny and endearing. that was a boost i needed when i was surrounded by people irl who made me feel like a repulsive little creature that imposed on them by existing.

and then few years ago i wrote a fic for another fandom where the protagonist was a multiply disabled and nonbinary oc, and numerous people thanked me bc they’d never read something with a character like that! if you don’t write a character like yourself, nobody else will, y’know?

also it’s just like. fun. it’s harmless fun. i don’t believe in mary sues anymore, i truly don’t. i used to be so paranoid about that, i’d run all the characters i made through the “mary sue litmus test” and was careful to make sure they weren’t too cool or beloved by canon characters….that’s so silly. down with that mindset. who cares if a character is extremely powerful and cool and a bunch of other characters are obsessed with them? that also describes, like, batman. who cares if it’s self indulgent literally all fanfic is self indulgent to some extent that’s the POINT. 

tl;dr ocs good