And the shrouds hum full of the gale of the grave and the keel goes out to the sea

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In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day, I respectfully wish to submit that if I had just had scurvy, this whole week would have been much easier. Have a suspicious ghost crab, the Changelings' "Port Royale" (1998), and Tim Eriksen rocking out Bellamy's setting of Kipling's "Poor Honest Men" (2011). In keeping with the recent influx of Kevin McNally in the eighteenth century, when I get back to my stack of DVDs I could just rewatch Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006). For all the varied and undeniable flaws of those second two films, their sea-iconography has clung to me like dream-wrack for nearly twenty years and I wouldn't have a cycle of stories without them.

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[theseatheseatheopensea]

One of my formative picture books was Holling Clancy Holling's Seabird (1948).

I can see why! That's some really beautiful art! <3 Tiny me is impressed (and offers another formative thing in return!)

(No, but I admire them on other people! What form did your Verne one take?)

I imagine you with a mermaid tattoo for some reason! <3 Mine is of the phrase "mobilis in mobili".

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Tiny me is impressed (and offers another formative thing in return!)

"Loca de risa, la espuma del mar."

What a lovely formative thing!

I imagine you with a mermaid tattoo for some reason!

Thank you so much! If I had one, a mermaid or a dragon would be the likeliest bets: something from out of or across the sea.

Mine is of the phrase "mobilis in mobili".

Nice!

[theseatheseatheopensea]

"Loca de risa, la espuma del mar."

What a lovely formative thing!

Isn't it? She has so many good ones that it's hard to pick a favourite, but that one's right there at the top!

Thank you so much! If I had one, a mermaid or a dragon would be the likeliest bets: something from out of or across the sea.

I knew it! <3 <3 <3