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[the-twelve-daggers]

🏴‍☠️ ⤷ Masterlist of Research Resources about Pirates

Updated 1st December 2025 | **Please feel free to submit any works you find in the ask box, and they can be added to the list!**

📄 Critical Works:

"Yo-ho, A Pirates Life For Me" – Queer Positionalities, Heteronormativity, and Piracy in Pirates of the Caribbean: A Queer Reading by Heike Steinhoff

"You Believe in Pirates, Of Course…": Disney's Commodification and "Closure" vs. Johnny Depp's Aesthetic Piracy of "Pirates of the Caribbean" by Anne Petersen

Well-Behaved Pirates Seldom Make History: A Reevaluation of the Golden Age of English Piracy by Mark G. Hanna

The Changing Portrayal of Pirates in Children's Literature by Alexandra Phillips

📺 YouTube Channels:

Gold and Gunpowder - Discussions of true history about the Golden Age of Piracy (1630-1730)

History Hit - History channel with a few useful videos exploring piracy in the western world.

📖 Literature:

Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly (1995)

A General History of the Pyrates by Captain Charles Johnson (1724)

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)

The Corsair by Lord Byron (1814)

[everythingispirates]

do NOT fuck with r/piratesofthecaribbean we do NOT watch the movies and we do NOT know how to read ‼️

[littletinyminisnail]

“Tia Dalma’s shack” localized in Pantano River, Cuba.

[homericwinter]

pov ur a bug and they lifted up ur rock

[lord-alligator]

sluts.

[clearpurpleskies]

I am the S E A

[before-the-black-pearl]

⚠️LOST MEDIA FOUND⚠️

2026 is starting off so good for me because I think I just found lost media I’ve been searching for for years 😭

Almost two years ago I called on a search for a lost book fair video featuring young Jack Sparrow. Little did I know this video had been up on YouTube for a few months before I posted about it!

The only thing I remembered when I watched it as a kid was the live action pirates and this seems to line up very well! I think this is it!!

Here’s the YJS clip!!

The link to the full tape is below the cut

[hayeseveryone]

Ah shit dude, this is fucked.

I'm talking to this guy in a prison cell, but the camera keeps framing me behind the bars and him without them, to show that he has all the power in this situation.

This is so messed up man, I thought I was the one with the upper hand here.

[flameandignite]

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Shipwreck Cove. Art by Nathan Schroeder.

[flameandignite]

Pirates of the Caribbean II & III — Flying Dutchman deck detail

[flameandignite]

Will Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl / Howard Pyle's The Buccaneer was a Picturesque Fellow

[boltlightning]

there's a bit in the commentary for COTBP where keira knightley is like "look jack! it's the only time you get to hug me or touch me or cuddle me :)" and it is, in fact, the only time in the movie norrington and elizabeth touch, save for a bit in one (1) deleted scene where she takes his arm for 10 seconds.

jack [sparrow] knows that norrington will catch elizabeth rather than chase him, so he aims tactfully when he tosses her back to the navy:

and like. i just think it's nice that neither of them acknowledge this moment at all: elizabeth isn't pulling away and norrington isn't interrupting the action to notice that it's happening, despite all the complicated feelings that would otherwise arise. there's a certain—i don't think comfort is the right word here, but trust that they know each other well enough that it's not worth reacting to? i know there's a lot going on in this scene, but it's coming on the heels of a dreadfully awkward proposal AND an exposing swim in the harbor, and it's still not uncomfortable.

they're out of society's clutches in DMC, but i do really like the physicality of how elizabeth does not help to toss norrington into the muck, but gently helps him up and turns him over rather than just offering her hand

and in AWE after a year (or more?) apart, not really knowing who is alive or dead, when elizabeth trusts him the least, her instinct when trapped in a bad situation is still to rush for him—and norrington replies in kind by pulling her immediately into a hug.

and it's this (+ the mention of her recently deceased father) that makes elizabeth remember "oh right, i can't believe this guy actually". the idea that norrington=safety in some deep part of her mind, despite how little they touch, despite all the circumstances that changed, is very special to me

[before-the-black-pearl]

I think I just discovered new (or not so new) young Jack Sparrow content

Persian YJS books 😭

[clearpurpleskies]

Look at this miserable man, I hate him (affectionate)

[the-twelve-daggers]

Various concept illustrations of Davy Jones by Mark 'Crash' McCreery.

[the-twelve-daggers]

Concept art of The Dauntless, The Black Pearl, and The Interceptor by James Ward Byrkit.

[the-twelve-daggers]

The Black Pearl being followed by a swarm of hammerhead sharks, concept art by Miles Teves. This was later removed from the movie.

[the-twelve-daggers]

Concept painting of a swordfight taking place on The Dauntless by Simon Murton. This was later removed in the final rendition of the movie.