#bootstrap

[sabretoothleather]

Uh oh more bootstraps

[doodlingcrayon]

me when i'm a previously retired cat man that's traveling Eorzea with his two lesbian neighbors and having a good time doing it

[captainkawaii666]

I started writing an interactive webcomic!

BOOTSTRAP

Four friends guided by a cosmically enforced Narrative become entangled with events beyond even its control.

Heavily inspired by but not related to or affiliated with Homestuck, and the culmination of several years of revision and reworking of a concept I've been rolling around in my head for a while

[matt0044]

Bunnybug contacting Marinette got me thinking like:

[doctoramn3sia]

BOOTSTRAP

Four friends guided by a cosmically enforced Narrative become entangled with events beyond even its control.

y'all shoald check this out it's peak (and I have author intel that the story won't progress until people comment lol)

[rayofjourney]

When you are sleepy but still gotta complete your daily tasks....

[newsbrand]

Happy MLK Day in celebration of the late great Martin Luther King Jr.

“How can you ask a bootless man to pull up his bootstraps”

[the-dutchmanjr]

…I have some HEADCANONS!!!

This is about the Flying Dutchman’s crew in “pirates of the Caribbean”, just a couple of things I came up with…ok maybe more than just a couple, I kinda got carried away. 😂😂

What if maccus usually goes to sleep on his stomach since he can’t really lay down on his back with those tendril pinchers, and he can’t lay on his side with his hammerhead like….head. 😂

What if he lays in his hammock and just nuzzles into the fabric and lets himself sink into it like a bed of wet sand, what if he has these itches on the back of his head he just can’t really reach so he goes around to one of the wooden beams and just rubs his head back and forth on them (hammerhead XD) till he gets that itch.

What if jones has a tendency to play his organ when the Dutchman’s underwater and he draws in all sorts of creatures who just wanna hear the music. What if he draws in mermaids, and dolphins, and all sorts of fish who either dance (swim) around or start singing (chirping) with his song.

What if jones has all these different octopuses that he uses as scouts, growing attached to them he’ll use them like little pets and will play with them from time to time in the privacy of his quarters.

We’ve seen him fall asleep at his organ before. But when Beckett takes charge of the Dutchman, he’s gotta relocate his living quarters (probably down somewhere in the ship) everyone has this known silent rule where if he goes to that certain part of the ship, they all leave. That’s his new personal space.

What if when the kraken’s around, it’ll grab certain parts of the ship and just tags along for a ride before disappearing back down to the depth to sleep.

What if Davy jones watched the kraken grow from a young (but large) squid into the giant beast (baby) we know today.

What if bootstrap bill tries to help the others as much as he can with the more littler things, just trying to help ease some of the crews load.

What if when bosun (who apparently is actually named Jimmy Legs???) finds out that bootstrap is helping the others with their loads and he starts giving turner more heavy burdened tasks to do “since he obviously doesn’t have enough chores to do”

When the others find out, they all sort of pitch in together to try and take some of the load off of bill turners duties (to which he’s grateful for).

I can definitely see bootstrap bill turner being as kind as one can be in his situation to the newer recruiting members. Trying to help them out a bit before bosun takes notice again and basically starts punishing him for stepping outa line (fucking bosun man 😂)

What is Palifico (who I’ve taken the liberty of calling Ree) has the duty of cleaning the barnacles and the bottom of the ship, while he’s down there he finds all sorts of things that get stuck on the coral parts that have grown. He like collecting weird things. If they’re in shallow enough water and he has the time, he’ll scope out the bottom searching in the sand and seeing if he can find things like rocks or shells or random trinkets.

What if he likes giving those things to the other on the ship. I could definitely see him giving someone like Koleniko an urchin just to see his reaction and start cracking up when Koleniko just glares at him.

Speaking of Koleniko, what if he had a lover in a past life.

What if some days he gets really reminiscent about her and he starts to get really bitter about how his life turned out, About jones, about his decisions, about the duties he now has to do for the remainder of his time.

Because of this, he gets really moody and becomes kinda cold towards the others. It makes him a good crewman getting all sorts of things done and pushing through a lot of of the elements and hardships, but everyone usually tries to stay clear of him when he gets like this. Bitter about everything.

But on the better days, he’s pretty neutral to everyone. Even going as far to help some of the others out if he’s feeling generous. He’s usually a quiet person, only speaking when he has to. But when he starts feeling better he can talk to someone he’s more close to on the ship and just goes on and on about anything. It’s not often, but when he wants to- he can be a real chatterbox.

This was fun, I’ll have to see if I can come up with some other things for the rest of the crew later! 🤣