#Queen Anne’s revenge

[reinbewpastel]

I picked up a random word search book last night to do when I’m bored and I was just flipping through it and I found this! I can’t believe it!

#pirates of the caribbean #potc #pirates #captain jack sparrow #jack sparrow #james norrington #angelica teach #armando salazar #blackbeard #black pearl #davy jones #elizabeth swann #fountain of youth #captain barbossa #jack the monkey #joshame gibbs #Queen Anne’s revenge #joshamee gibbs #captain teague #will turner

[blackbonnet-ruined-my-life]

Interesting fact I discovered while reading a pirate history book. It turns out Blackbeard didn’t actually get the Queen Anne’s Revenge until after he and Bonnet started sailing together. I think that would be such a great fanfic opportunity. Them raiding a ship together and Ed falling in love with her and Stede suggesting they take her and the fun they’d have turning her into a proper pirate ship!

Edit to add: I just realised, this means that The Revenge came first. Stede didn’t copy Ed, Ed copied Stede which ngl is far funnier.

#ofmd #blackbonnet #ofmd stede #our flag means death #blackbeard #ed ofmd #gentlebeard #ofmd edward teach #ofmd fanfic #ofmd meta #blackbeard ofmd #Queen Anne’s revenge

[bbyteach]

Uhhh sooooo NYC 80’s punk scene AU where ed used to play in bands when younger but not anymore & runs a popular venue and is totally burned out on the scene. Until a blonde weirdo wearing pastels started coming to shows there and he had to understand what is going on with this guy?? And the guy wants to learn more about this world and Ed confused but ends up having more fun than he has in ages??

#ofmd #blackbonnet #our flag means death #edward teach #stede bonnet #gentlebeard #ofmd season 2 #my draws #ofmd au #I rushed the first one to hammer it out bc last drawing of the year babyyyyy #one of Ed’s old bands was called ‘here comes the kraken’ #anyway he’s burned out on The Grind and all the bad bs in punk spaces overall #he’s not too cool to get flowers now in fact he welcomes the occasion okay #and uh. happy new year #oh and the venue is queen Anne’s revenge bc he’s a pirate history nerd maybe idk #punks and pirates seem like they are kindred spirits #for vastly different goals but… you know

[thegorgonist]

I love how stage-y this show's production is, there's a slight storybook quality to everything. Excited for season 2 to crack me up AND break my heart in new ways! ~

I should have prints at RCCC and Geek Girl Con!

#our flag means death #blackbeard #stede bonnet #OFMD cast #gay pirate show #the queen anne's revenge #thegorgonist

[arsenicflame]

what a wonderful day for all the izzy enjoyers who have been saying this whole time that izzy never cared about status, never wanted to be a captain or use ed for power, but wanted to feel safe and stable and have his life back

#tell me that he didn't belong to something on the queen anne and lose that on the revenge. you cant #the people on the revenge dont get it!!!! they dont have the way of life other pirates do!!!! #sure theyve built their own thing but its not the same!!!! not fof izzy!!!!!! #(izzy; whos under the impression these people are their CAPTIVES of course he cant have camaraderie with them) #nyxtalks #ofmd #ofmd s2 spoilers #izzy hands #israel hands

[ltwilliammowett]

" Queen Anne's Revenge" attacks an English frigate, by Sergey Wladimirowitsch Dorofejew, 2019

#naval art #queen anne's revenge #pirates #18th century #age of sail

[originalleftist]

Pirate Trivia Time:

Here are some of my favourite bits of pirate trivia:

Ann Bonny's name has been spelled "Anne" with an e for 300 years due to a error in the trial record.

The sole surviving physical description of Ann Bonny and Mary Read by an eyewitness is basically "I knew they were women because they had big breasts".

Blackbeard once ransomed the city of Charleston for syphilis medication.

There is no known record of Blackbeard killing anyone before his final battle.

The word "buccaneer" has the same origins as the word "barbecue" (the boucan, a means of preparing meat).

A buccaneer, William Dampier, introduced the word "avocado" (among others) to the English language (he was also the first person to circumnavigate the world three times).

Wrecks of at least two pirate ships have been discovered: "Black Sam" Bellamy's Whydah Galley, and Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge.

Arguably the most successful pirate of all time was a Chinese woman, Ching Shih, aka Zheng Yi Sao.

Bartholomew Roberts had perhaps the most cinematic pirate death- trading broadsides with a man of war in the middle of a tropical storm.

Yes, Stede Bonnet actually had a library on his sloop, the Revenge.

#Pirates #History #Trivia #Blackbeard #Charleston #Syphilis #Ann Bonny #Anne Bonny #Mary Read #Ching Shih #Zheng Yi Sao #William Dampier #“Black Sam” Bellamy #Buccaneers #Bartholomew Roberts #The Whydah Galley #The Queen Anne's Revenge #Shipwrecks #Stede Bonnet #Our Flag Means Death

[aboutoriginality]

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#queen anne's revenge #edward teach #blackbeard

[ampresandian]

When they leave CCs Spa in season 2 I think the best way for them to turn Percy's inner monologue of trying to figure out which ship to choose into something they can portray on screen is to really utilize sound/the music. The Queen Anne's Revenge should have it's own song, and it should have a wide, sweeping, almost-chorale part that plays when Percy's eyes (the camera) land on it, something that evokes adventure but also like settling as calm. Maybe the wind also dies down or picks up noticeably, too.

I just idk I don't want them to take away Percy's moment of listening to his body that just knows that's the right choice. We know he has good instincts, and he's mostly okay at listening to them, but everything leading up to this point in som is times his instinct has gone wrong, times he hasn't noticed things he should (Tyson) or he's made a choice that backfired (also Tyson)--he needs to listen to his instincts and be proven right at this point in the story.

#percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo #percy series #pjo tv show #percy jackson spoilers #pjo spoilers #percy jackson tv show #sea of monsters #circe #the queen anne's revenge #&thoughts

[ipomoea-batatas]

so happy it’s finally the time of year Target is starting to put out all the “Edward Teach’s cabin on the Queen Anne’s Revenge” decor out in the dollar section

#our flag means death #ofmd #edward teach #blackbeard #queen anne's revenge #~two chandeliers that's overkill~ #sir you have an umbrella stand full of swords #he's literally such a dork i just love him

[zorak-show]

OFMD Halloween Exchange

Do you love Halloween?

Do you love gay pirates?

Namely, the gay pirates from the hit TV show Our Flag Means Death?

Well, have I got the event for you!

Sign up here until September 19 --that's less than a week away!

I will then email your matches by Friday the 22nd.*

Post your lovely creations on Halloween!

This event is open to anyone 18+, artists and writers alike!

*It's like secret santa, so you won't know who has your name!

#ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd events #ofmd fanfic #ofmd fanart #halloween events #ofmd halloween #stede bonnet #blackbeard #izzy hands #frenchie ofmd #ofmd jim #fang ofmd #ofmd buttons #ofmd oluwande #crew of the revenge #queen anne's revenge #ofmd wee john #room people #tealoranges #blackbonnet #ofmd swede #mary bonnet #spanish jackie #anne bonny #calico jack #halloween #ofmd spooky #fuckery #ghosts

[myhauntedsalem]

Queen Anne’s Revenge – The Flagship of Blackbeard the Pirate

Before she ran aground in 1817, Queen Anne’s Revenge haunted the waters off the Eastern United States during the early 1800s, sending fear into her victims at the mere sight of her. The ship had the ability to intimidate visually just as her Captain, William Teach did. He was more commonly known as Blackbeard the Pirate. Blackbeard himself is said to haunt the waters where he met his demise off the coast of North Carolina to this day.

Built in 1710, the British cargo ship Concord, was captured by the French shortly afterward and rechristened La Concorde. The French enlarged the ship to carry more cargo as it was used to ferry slaves to market. In 1716, La Concorde had an encounter with the pirate Benjamin Hornigold who then converted it to do battle, fitting it with 20 cannons. Hornigold terrorized the Guinea coast before setting said for the Bahamas and the Americas. It is thought that Blackbeard derived the name of the ship from Queen Anne’s War in which he participated in.

In late 1717, Horgnigold turned his ship over to one of his crew members, Edward Teach. Captain Teach renamed the ship Queen Anne’s Revenge and fitted her with twice the number of cannon, making her one of most intimidating warships of the day, a devastating weapon to be used in the name of piracy. Teach amassed a flotilla of ships, using Queen Anne’s Revenge as his flagship. His menacing appearance with a long braided beard with black bows and his reputation earned him the nickname Blackbeard. He would destroy any ship or person who resisted his attacks.

At one point in his notorious pirating run, Blackbeard and his devilish flotilla blockaded the city of Charleston, South Carolina and held it for ransom. Upon his departure from the city while fleeing pursuing ships, he hastily ran the Queen Anne’s Revenge aground while trying to enter Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina. He transferred his flag to another of his ships named Adventure, thus ending the Queen Anne’s Revenge reign of terror.

There have been no consistent reported sightings of Queen Anne’s Revenge as a phantom ship, although some claim that one of the ghostly vessels of Whites Creek off the coast of Virginia, is that of Blackbeard and his men. There are those that believe that Blackbeard hid some of his treasure there in the coastal forests and that he returns in his ship on occasion to make sure that his treasure is safe.

In 1996, a team of researchers discovered what they believe to be the remains of Queen Anne’s Revenge off the coast of North Carolina, retrieving one of the cannons, anchor, and other artifacts from the ill fated vessel. Many of the artifacts are on display at the North Carolina Maritime Museums.

#Queen Anne’s Revenge – The Flagship of Blackbeard the Pirate #Queen Anne Reventge #Blackbeard #The Flagship #ghost ship #ghost and hauntings #paranormal #ghost and spirits #haunted salem #myhauntedsalem #paranormal phenomena #ghosts and spirits #pirates #ghosts #spirits

[gaypiratepropaganda]

ok here are the most important ones (to me)

The Ballad of the Pirate Queens by Anne Yolen

this is a children's book in verse about Anne Bonny and Mary Read. responsible for my pirate obsession

Bloody Jack by LA Meyer

a young adult series about a girl who disguises herself as a boy, goes to sea, and becomes a pirate. these were the best thing ever invented to kid me but I haven't read them in a while so I don't know if they're actually like, good. I liked the atmosphere and the slightly antiquated way it was written. there are gay bits.

A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates: From Their first Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence to the present Time, with the remarkable Actions and Adventures of the two Female Pyrates Mary Read and Anne Bonny

or A General History of the Pyrates by "Captain Charles Johnson"

A good starting point. a lot of our pirate stories come from this book. it claims to be a true historical record, but I have my doubts. still fun though. I think this guy just wrote down every story he heard about pirates. it has illustrations.

Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition by B.R. Burg

not super historical but it doesn't really claim to be. basically it's just this guy going. "so... pirates fucked, right? like, there's no way they didn't." and then he's correct. I mainly wanted this book as a teenager because I loved the cover and the title but now it's in my brain forever. look at Blackbeard. look at his gay little pose

Pirate Enlightenment or The Real Libertalia by David Graeber

this is the one I'm reading right now and I love it so far. it's about pirates in Madagascar and the real-life version of the pirate utopia from general history of pyrates (it isn't real but it kind of is but not.) I like the writer, he's written other good things. he's obsessed with the enlightenment for some reason but you can easily ignore that.

On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers, which is kind of like a magical realism type thing. I think it's kind of what pirates of the Caribbean is based on. this is where I knew Stede Bonnet from

Liveship Traders by Robin Hobb, three books that are part of a fantasy series. these pirates are dicks to each other a lot but they are gay and their ships are alive.

Lost Boi by Sassafras Lowrey is a queer sort of modern version of Peter Pan. captain hook is in there and he's like a leather guy. not literally pirates, but still.

The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach is science fiction with queer pirates, a monkey god, and mushroom houses.

#iumblr #our flag means death #queer #pirate #if you have a library #you can go on their website and look up all the books with the subject “pirates” and read those. #Project Gutenberg is good for old books #and then another weird thing I do is #go to theanarchistarchive.org and search for pirates there #sometimes there are interesting things #ancient texts old articles fun ramblings #if you run out of books the queen anne's revenge archeology website is cool #and the pirate surgeon website #reference

[thegoldenhoof]

This was perhaps the first meta I wrote in the fandom when the show had just come out and building on the Black Sails dialogue between Silver and Flint where Silver points out how Flint's name doesn't belong to him alone. It is a jointly held asset for to build which the crew has spilt blood and which they have a stake in. And how that applied to Ed's desire to first quit being Blackbeard, then run away and then stop being pirates and become a travelling troupe of entertainers or what ever fancy catches his eye next.

While the actual realities of the social structures obviously varied pirate crews did not as a rule sail together for love or loyalty. They risked their life for their share and shares varied as per responsibility.

So we have Blackbeard attacking a pirate ship and loosing men and risking more men which he brushes off as commonplace for the pirate life and this would be entirely true except for a small problem. There is no prize taken from the Revenge so there is no share to be recieved by the pirates who fought. Those men die just because Ed wanted to meet Stede.

Their gain, it could be argued here was just being on Blackbeard's crew which would have come with its share of respect and reputation. In which case the Blackbeard name, his reputation must be considered as part of the crew's share.

Edward's disregard for the crew's lives is not that he is risking their lives, which in fairness he acknowledges and is his right as their captain, but that he is willing to risk them for his personal interests with no reward in return. That on a lot of ships would have been reason enough to mutiny.

This becomes worse in season 2 in the Kraken era but it is not exactly unprecedented. Edward commands the crew to dump the treasure, give up their shares that they risked their lives for because *he* wants to break a record.

His use of the guilt room money is suspect to but lets extend the benefit of doubt and assume that all that was just his share of the money,hopefully after compensating his crew for their share he made them throw away. Do we get any hint of this? No. But since we don't see anything against this either.. Let's assume so. (But if so Frenchie, Fang Archie and Izzy should have been filthy rich in their own right.)

It is canon that Ed has acted like the existence of the crew is for his own personal benefit even before the Kraken era. But they stay because presumably his name alone brings them safety and power. Even wealth considering Ed's comment about ships just surrendering to his flag. The Blackbeard name in itself is then part of the prize for which they are willing to risk their lives.

So when it comes to Ed wanting to end Blackbeard the question comes as to how much does he actually own Blackbeard and what exactly does he owe the crew in the currency of Blackbeard's name. It is, after all, a jointly held asset.

The show's solution to this is of course handwave away the QAR crew because if they are not real people but mere props in Edward's story he doesn't owe them anything...

But if you take a step back from the Edward centric world and wonder.....

#Ed Teach critical #not really but better safe #Queen Anne Revenge #Kraken revenge crew #as much as the idea that Ed needed anyone else's contribution to build the Blackbeard name was shot down as racist just after season 1 #I think it is fair to say that season to solidifies it from the loses taken by the crew in the Kraken era #to Izzy's statement that he needed Blackbeard because it was “them” him and Ed. #izzy hands

[ghostbustermelanieking]

..... yeah, there's a reason the lighthouse metaphor in ofmd appeals to me so heavily

#actually it's just. the reason the show itself appeals so heavily to me. outside of it just genuinely being a good show lmao #trips to the north carolina coast as a child fueled an obsession with lighthouses and pirate history (yeah we learned about blackbeard #in school and stede bonnet too) #one of my favorite places in the world is the town that now exists in the spot where stede bonnet was captured #(and ofc im not trying to glorify the real guys i just like history!!) #but yeah lmao i have a bunch of pictures of me in the spots where sb got captured and blackbeard got killed and their ships were run aground #and the musuem where the queen annes revenge is #ANYWAYS. i have a lighthouse problem. my first tattoo will prob be a lighthouse #also sidenote the lighthouse stede and mary get married beside is the ugliest fucking lighthouse ive ever seen #and ive seen skeleton lighthouses #some college friends referred to oak island lighthouse as cigarette butt lighthouse

[ltwilliammowett]

One of Blackbeard’s Cannons recovered from the Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck (1718), by Zach Frailey

#naval artifacts #gun #blackbeard #queen anne's revenge #before 1718 #age of sail #shipwreck