ARRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[erastes]

I found this on a site where there is a hilarious explanation of The Victorian Breakfast.

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[sinick.livejournal.com]

I voted ye into Heartthrob Pirate-hood. Now let's see some R, Matey!

[m-barnette.livejournal.com]

The icon is great. Did that come from Icanhascheezeburger?

Now I want to find pirate hats for my kittehs!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Arrr! Heart-throbby is right, matey.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Yes it did - isn't it lovely? :)

[kittymay.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't put cutting off genitals and wearing them as a necklace past ye.

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

The icon is delightful.

ARRRR Jim-Lad, where's Johnny? Let ye sweet loving commence!

[sinick.livejournal.com]

ARRR MATEY! Y'can keelhaul me poopdeck anytime! P)

[suryaofvulcan.livejournal.com]

You know, I just don't get the whole pirate thing. Never did, even as a child. Pirates, clowns and circuses completely pass me by.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

With me it was Hook. J M Barrie's description of Hook caught me as a VERY young girl, and it's supposed to, really. It's a very dark tale of father issues, under the fairy-tale.

In the midst of them, the blackest and largest in that dark setting, reclined James Hook, or as he wrote himself, Jas. Hook, of whom it is said he was the only man that the Sea-Cook feared. He lay at his ease in a rough chariot drawn and propelled by his men, and instead of a right hand he had the iron hook with which ever and anon he encouraged them to increase their pace. As dogs this terrible man treated and addressed them, and as dogs they obeyed him. In person he was cadaverous [dead looking] and blackavized [dark faced], and his hair was dressed in long curls, which at a little distance looked like black candles, and gave a singularly threatening expression to his handsome countenance. His eyes were of the blue of the forget-me-not, and of a profound melancholy, save when he was plunging his hook into you, at which time two red spots appeared in them and lit them up horribly. In manner, something of the grand seigneur still clung to him, so that he even ripped you up with an air, and I have been told that he was a RACONTEUR [storyteller] of repute. He was never more sinister than when he was most polite, which is probably the truest test of breeding; and the elegance of his diction, even when he was swearing, no less than the distinction of his demeanour, showed him one of a different cast from his crew. A man of indomitable courage, it was said that the only thing he shied at was the sight of his own blood, which was thick and of an unusual colour. In dress he somewhat aped the attire associated with the name of Charles II, having heard it said in some earlier period of his career that he bore a strange resemblance to the ill-fated Stuarts; and in his mouth he had a holder of his own contrivance which enabled him to smoke two cigars at once. But undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw.

I was lost.

But I'm with you on clowns and circuses. Yuk.

[suryaofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, doesn't do much for me I'm afraid, and it has the old disabled baddie trope as well. (Do you have any idead what it's like to see yourself continually cast as the villain? I'm working on a meta-post about disabled character tropes.)

[mzcalypso.livejournal.com]

Unusual colour blood... what, he's a bleedin' VULCAN?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

*laughs* In my love-struck childhood, I saw it as darker and blacker than normal blood.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I never saw him as disabled, I suppose--he was fitter, faster and better than anyone else--and although he lived in fear of the crocodile coming to eat the rest of him--he was rather grateful for the hook. He'd not be a fearsome without it. What I love is that he went to Eton!

Of course disabled pirates isn't really a trope, it's a fact of life - the pirates had much better disability compensation than the navy - they were paid huge amounts if they were injured in their work. They weren't cast aside like the Navy would do, but would be offered less hazardous work (see Long John Silver - a cook)

http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/pirates51.html

the pirates were compensated quite nicely for any loss of limb that they may suffer while working as part of the crew. Not only were they given money for their losses but because their capacity for work would be diminished, they would then be assigned to the less physical areas of work such as prepping food in the kitchen and operating the cannons. Here is what they would be paid as compensation for the loss of any of these limbs. They would be paid pieces-of-eight, which equals just less than one American dollar today.

* Loss of an Eye – 100 pieces-of-eight
* Loss of Right Arm – 600 pieces-of-eight
* Loss of Left Arm – 500 pieces-of-eight
* Loss of a Finger – 100 pieces-of-eight
* Loss of Right Leg – 500 pieces-of-eight
* Loss of Left Leg – 400 pieces-of-eight