Pirate Terms and Phrases
Link: The Sea is in Her Blood
Brig - A prison on a ship
Cutlass - A type of sword
Dance with Jack Ketch - To hang; death at the hands of the law (Jack Ketch was a famed English executioner)
Davy Jones's Locker - A mythical place at the bottom of the ocean where drowned sailors are said to go
Dead Men Tell No Tales - The reason given for leaving no survivors
Give No Quarter - Show no mercy
Keelhaul - A punishment where someone is dragged under the ship
Maroon - To leave someone stranded on a deserted island with no supplies, typically a punishment for any crew members who disrespected the captain
Mutiny - A situation in which the crew chooses a new captain, sometimes by forcibly removing the old one
No Prey, No Pay - A common pirate law that meant crew members were not paid, but rather received a share of whatever loot was taken
Pillage - To steal/rob a place using violence
Powder Monkeys - Men that performed the most dangerous work on the ship. They were treated harshly, rarely paid, and were expendable
Privateer - Government-appointed pirates
Run A Shot Across The Bow - Fire a warning shot
Scurvy - A disease caused by Vitamin C Deficiency
Sharks are older than dinosaurs and trees
Sharks have survived at least four mass extinction events
There are more than 500 different species of sharks alive today
Out of these species, only about a dozen of them are considered dangerous to humans
Sharks don’t really like eating humans, because we aren’t a good food source to sustain them and we tend to fight back
Most shark attacks are either the shark mistaking a human for something else, or the shark just being curious
The five largest living sharks are the Whale Shark, Basking Shark, Tiger Shark, Greenland Shark, and Great White Shark
There are three species of filter feeding sharks, the Whale Shark, Basking Shark, and Megamouth Shark
There’s only one species of omnivorous shark, the Bonnethead Shark
The Greenland Shark can live for centuries, with the largest estimate being 500 years
Hammerhead Sharks have 360 degree vision because of their unusual heads
Sharks are vital to the ecosystems, being apex predators that keep fish populations in check
Any healthy coral reef ecosystem will need a good amount of sharks
top ten replacements for saying kms that don't make you sound like a fucking loser
i am literally suffering more than jesus right now
i'm going to kill YOU
i'm going to turn my entire body inside out through my digestive system
this is literally giving me incurable brain cancer
i'm going to turn into my werewolf form
sending me through the time vortex
i'm going to go back in time to kill my dad so i was never born
i'm going to start biting
literally turning into a bug
literally getting shot out of a gun slugterra style
tumblr isn't a blogging website its a playground at lunch and we're all playing vampires and wizards and pirates and werewolves
You know what I didn't realise until now? Pirates of The Carribbean: At World's End ending for Will and Elizabeth doesn't make sense (unless Will is ferrying souls 24/7).
Elizabeth is Pirate King and captain of her own ship and crew (the Singaporean pirates); she doesn't have to stay on land and separated from Will for every 10 years that goes by. Not to mention the way Davy Jones handled having to be on the land (in a big enough tub/bucket of water). So does that mean the port in Singapore where Sao Feng was introduced would work? It's not exactly land even though it is port? It's wooden walkways above water...
I don’t want realism […] I’ll tell you what I want. Magic!
Tennessee Williams, from ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’
so aria and I, trapped in quarantine for months and being generally the most extra lesbians you’ll ever meet, spruced up our kitchen. pour one out for aria, who came up with the idea of the accent cabinets and then Made It Happen. local baroque femme is engaged to brilliant handy aesthete, news at eleven.
(I meant to share this on twitter with like a hundred people and it went SO VIRAL that I’m getting messages from family members who are now seeing it on meme aggregate sites on instagram. with some paint and a little imagination, you too can have chaos in your mentions!)
now wait JUST ONE MOMENT this is RUDE
i keep a little poison pill in my ring just in case im captured by the enemy but i cant dry swallow so i also wear a vial of a single sip of water
A man and a woman platonically raising a child together and not falling in love has to be the biggest plotwist in the Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves movie AND my favorite part
No time to talk, bitch. Get in the shark pile
I will reblog all my niche interests with no regrets. I have many, I consume much media. I may be crazy, but I'm free.
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