[ SECRET POST #3666 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3666 ⌋

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OP

[(Anonymous)]

My first encounters with pirates were the pirate captain Boltar, who was at least friendly with Prince Valiant, so I liked him, and one from an old fashioned children's book roughly translated to "Prisoners of the Pirate King". I hated said pirate king with a burning passion.

It's not exactly about real pirates vs. fictional pirates for me. I am rather fascinated by Sir Francis Drake for one.

I just don't get fandom's "everything is better with pirates" attitude, or the old "pirates vs. ninjas" thing. I am vaguely confused about the popularity of something like talk-like-a-pirate-day.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Fandom's fascination is probably that it's a nice AU that most people are going to recognize but not a modern AU.

You can do a Dread Pirate Roberts and Buttercup type situation with your OP. Or have a group as a crew. You can kind of apply any general adventure template, where as working as a ship's crew specifically for a country gets into historical research. (Being in SW fandom, everybody creams their pants over smugglers/bounty hunters which are pirates IN SPACE)

For talk like a pirate day, it's fun and silly, recognizable, and doesn't really have any heavy cultural baggage so it's safe. About the only thing I can see as a similar topic would be 'dress/talk like a dinosaur' and then you get into the whole furry thing.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I was endlessly fascinated by Captain Blood novels in my childhood, and then, of course, there was PotC, which gave the pirates trope a certain air of adventure and drive. But I don't get all the pirates AUs either, cos I immediately think of the historic rather than fictional version of piracy, and it's... ew.