Oh man, can you imagine. Nate used to work for The Crown, but after the death of his son he can’t deal with all the back room deals and rich people getting away with stuff and he’s like: FUCK IT, life of crime it is. We’re gonna steal your loot and make sure you pay for being dicks to ordinary people.
There are many legends of Pirate Queens around the globe. What noone realises is that three of them are all Sophie. (One legend of a dread pirate king is also Sophie.)
Eliot has done some bad things for bad people. When he finally managed to flee from the service of the Dread Pirate Moreau, he tries to keep a low profile. He can’t exactly go straight, his face is on too many Wanted Posters (he may have a Very Distinctive scar), and even long haul fishermen have to go to port eventually. Eliot is the reason nobody on the ship has died of scurvy. He can even make Parker eat her vegetables.
Hardison is always fiddling with new navigation equipment. Hell, he’s built more accurate compasses just because he can. There’s a reason they manage to outrun any ship the Crown sends after them. A lot of the jobs they pull is helping escaped slaves. The young ones get dropped off at his Nana’s, who never questions where Alec got all that gold. She just scolds him that he needs a clean shirt and a hot meal.
Parker has been on ships since she was very, very young. Archie caught her trying to pickpocket him and promptly decided to make her his ‘cabin boy’. Once she was too old to be passed off as a boy, she was already such a fierce pirate that nobody questioned her. She does all the rigging. Nate really wishes she’d stop jumping off the crows’ nest. The more superstitious pirates whisper that she can control the weather. She never has any sea-legs problems.
The dinghy is named Lucille. They’re on their fourth one already.
Sterling, of course, works for the Crown and is still a smarmy bastard.
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One of my favourite anecdotes about the first Golden Age of Piracy is that, at one point, Captain Henry Morgan left England in one ship, and arrived in the Caribbean commanding a completely different ship, and nobody knows why. What happened to the first ship and how he acquired the second one are entirely unrecorded.
At some point in his short career (1715 until 1718), the English pirate Ben Hornigold attacked a sloop near Honduras just to steal all the hats of the crew, because his own crew had gotten drunk the night before and they had tossed every single one of their own hats overboard.
Bartholomew Roberts, arguably the most successful pirate in history by ships captured (a whopping 470 in 3 years), didn’t actually want to be a pirate. His ship was captured and he was forced to join the pirate crew.
After the original pirate captain was killed, he was democratically elected captain of the pirate crew less than 6 weeks after being captured by them.
…Dread Pirate Roberts
if i was a pirate captain i would get a movie projector and play a movie on the big sails every friday night for my boys to kick back and enjoy some time off unless we were under attack
Pirates legit did the 16-17th century equivalent of this. When things were slow, they would put on plays, act out dramas of stories they knew, or freestyle. The most preferred model of original productions was courtroom drama: “trying” each other for piracy. The “accused” would list off their many, dramatically and humorously embellished crimes, and be equally dramatically sentenced. Sometimes there was a daring escape, sometimes just a really maudlin death scene, but a good time was had by all.
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This is true btw. I did a report about Ann Boney in school and Read actually liked her back so they ran away together and were considered the two most terrifying pirates across the seven seas
Lesbian Pirates
Give us this film
Just fyi – many of the illustrations and statues of them show them with their breasts exposed. This is not because they are sexualising lesbians but because these women often used to open their shirts and expose a breast when they killed a man just so the man’s dying thought would be the realisation that he was killed by a woman.
tits out for murder!!! a true aesthetic!!!
One of my favourite anecdotes about the first Golden Age of Piracy is that, at one point, Captain Henry Morgan left England in one ship, and arrived in the Caribbean commanding a completely different ship, and nobody knows why. What happened to the first ship and how he acquired the second one are entirely unrecorded.
At some point in his short career (1715 until 1718), the English pirate Ben Hornigold attacked a sloop near Honduras just to steal all the hats of the crew, because his own crew had gotten drunk the night before and they had tossed every single one of their own hats overboard.
Bartholomew Roberts, arguably the most successful pirate in history by ships captured (a whopping 470 in 3 years), didn’t actually want to be a pirate. His ship was captured and he was forced to join the pirate crew.
After the original pirate captain was killed, he was democratically elected captain of the pirate crew less than 6 weeks after being captured by them.
A real example of the fabled ’Pieces of Eight’, the object of many a pirate’s lustful treasure-seeking eye. This is a 1676 Spanish 8 Reales, which was known as a ‘piece of eight’.
The most successful pirate in history
was a Chinese prostitute. Cheng I Sao
commanded 80,000 sailors and a fleet
bigger than most country’s navies, which
is why the government had to give up
and offer her a truce. She retired with
her loot, opened a gambling house, and
later died, peacefully, a 69-year-old
grandmother. Source
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