brood-mother:

captain flint: we’ve mended the alliance with the slaves, we have hundreds of powerful allies flooding in from the rest of the new world, i’m here with my bff and we’re working through his shit, i’ve come a long way in mending my own broken heart, we’re all progressing as one mind towards a common goal and for the first time in a long time i feel hopeful and bold

the spirit of inevitable calamity, violence, betrayal and suffering:

tuotilo:

In 1722 or 1723, Rogers was approached by a man writing a history of piracy, and supplied him with information. The resulting work, A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates, published under the pseudonym Captain Charles Johnson, was an enormous hit on both sides of the Atlantic. [xThe book gives an almost mythical status to the more colourful characters, such as the infamous English pirates Blackbeard and Calico J a c k. [x