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

[sovay]

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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[radiantfracture]

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.

I love these homely sources for finer works. I think I've listed mine ad nauseam, but I love the carrot machine of the mind.

[theseatheseatheopensea]

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.

I love it when inspiration is weird/wonderful like that. Thinking about it, some of the sea (and bird) iconography I've loved for the longest time comes from flawed things too... although now I wonder: if something includes sea (or birds), can it really be flawed?

[thisbluespirit]

when I get back to my stack of DVDs I could just rewatch Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006).

I hope you are now able to do so!