#cd insp

[spearxwind]

was at a museum in iceland and i saw THIS THING it was like 5 or 6 feet long. and idk i thought you might find it cool?

it was used for cutting the trawl wires of british fishing ships, iirc!

Yooo what the hell that looks so fucking cool??? Its like a super fucked up anchor harpoon fusion what a swag silhouette

[spearxwind]

Where I live there I this thing called the "ghost fleet of the Potomac " or the "ghost fleet of Mallows Bay" which I think you'll find is VERY aesthetic

HELLO YES I DO THINK THIS IS PEAK AESTHETIC HOW HAVE I NOT SEEN THIS BEFORE THIS IS LITERALLY THE LOCATION OF ALL TIME HELP IM OBSESSED

[spearxwind]

On the topic of fish diseases, here's a few fun ones that might be interesting to modify to fit CD. NO PRESSURE but food for thought

Columnaris: bacterial infection that can cause white cotton lookin growths in the gills and mouth, discoloration, lesions along the body

Dropsy: kidneys fail and the fish starts accumulating fluid and puff up. The scales raise like a pinecone. The swim bladder fails and the fish can't float/sink at will

Fish fungus: an injury gets infected and grows cottony fungus along the old scars

Velvet: a rusty flaky scaly lookin disease with black spots appearing amid the rusty flaky scales

Anchor worms: worms attack fins/tail and can be seen hanging off/trailing from the fish

There's treatments to everything but if untreated can be deadly, and super fuckin contagious in a lot of cases. Consider? A ship on a hunting trip happens to bring an infected sailor on board, and the symptoms show up when they're days away from help. Maybe it's standard practice to have a first aid kit of cures on board, maybe they don't have cures on board and the crew is struggling to make it back to land before they all die :)

Just food for thought

OOOHHH YOUR BRAIN IS LITERALLY SO MASSIVE FOR THIS ACTUALLY im putting all of these ideas in my mouth

[spearxwind]

re: sea shanties, i think i know a resource that might help? thelongestsong(.)fandom(.)com is technically a wiki about a specific shanty band, but if you go to lyrics and albums-> lyrics by song title, there's the lyrics to every song they've performed, plus a bit of context/history about each song! what i like about this specifically is that you can find video of them singing the songs, in contrast to more historical shanty databases, where it's just the lyrics. sorry, i rly like shanties lol

Oh!! Thats actually super helpful 😳😳 i will definitely take a looksie when I have time again!! Thats so nice of u to tell me as well, if u feel like throwing any sea shanty recs at me feel free to!!

Also gosh just taking the time to say thank u everyone for sending in ideas and asks i actually did not expect that at all, i know its cause like... there's a lot of shanty fans around but its genuinely so nice of yall to come up and help and I appreciate it immensely so, thank you. Really ❤️

[dirwael-moved]

i’ve always misunderstood the line “he whom the gods love die young”. it means that the gods want to bring him everlasting happiness, and they do so by sending him to the afterlife sooner than others. but i thought it was that others knew he was loved by the gods, and wanted to kill him. either out of jealously, or the idea that if the gods truly love him, he’ll be under their protection, right?