#humblecyborg

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this is it. this is really, really it. this is what bliss feels like. first off i would like 2 thank manpiratejohn, for wedding together these muses. secondly i would like 2 thank obdurare themselves for being a kickass barbossa & finding interest in my old duck bby,. lastly i would like to thank jack. the monkey. for being who he is.

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I don’t care how.  I don’t care why.  I don’t care what.  I need this in my life and no one can stop me.  You watch, I’m gonna rewatch Treasure Planet and I’m gonna want an au and it’s gonna be all your fault so I hope you’re ready for that, friend.  Because I’m 100% going to blame you.  But seriously, I want to see how these two would get along and I just love.  John Silver.  So much.  

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humblecyborg replied to your post: misconception: barbossa is just plain evil nothing...

i’ve noticed that there’s this general misconception that pirates, real or fictional, were evil (unless that pirate is attractive, of course). to me pirates are just human. from what i’ve read the majority of pirates came from poverty, and with the particularly high amounts of classism at the time of historical pirates, for those born in poverty it was a means of survival. there was no such thing as “climbing the latter”.

I've been trying desperately to get back to this because I really wanna touch on it from that rl piracy perspective but. Yes. This. Like, piracy was a means to an end for so many people. It wasn't always, like, their only career, a lot of them also did logging and honest sailing and any number of other things? Piracy was a quick way to get cash because their actual wages weren't anything to write home about. I need to dig up that list I have in one of my books where it compares like. What EITC ranks made verses normal merchant sailors. But classism was huge in Early Modern sailing. When the ship's officers got chickens and goats and eggs and milk and the rest of the crew would get cheap rations and there was exactly fuck-all they could do about it. Cheap rations that would go bad early on. Rations that could be taken away at any time for any infraction. Being beaten nearly half to death with the cat. I totally headcanon Hector still carries scars from his own times with the cat as an honest sailor and as a pirate, too, probably. And like. Piracy was a way to fight back against that. It was a way to make sure they got their pay if they did the work (because that would be taken away, too). It was a way to make sure that no one had their entitled rations taken away for any reason. It was a way to keep peace aboard a ship with widely varying personalities that probably clashed quite a bit. Like, when the pirates have rules that guarantee these things - guarantee them - you know things are bad. Like piracy is criminal activity, it sure is. But desperate men and desperate times and no sort of real social safety net or recourse and what do you expect? When you close off all avenues completely, people will find a way to fight back.