Zheng has had all her illusions fully destroyed in barely an afternoon.
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"Girl, how are you?" is the funniest line I've ever heard and I know I'm gonna be quoting it at least once a day forever. Anyway girls (gn) how ARE we?
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I have not been the same since Zheng Yi Sao became a character in our flag means death. It means so much to me that pirate-related media is representing her more because I never would have known about her and she is too cool to be forgotten.
For years pop culture either portrayed her as the racist "submissive asian woman" stereotype or ignored her completely. It's infuriating. Now though we have a strong portrayal of her in both doctor who and our flag means death!! Let me tell you a few things about the rightfully named "Pirate queen".
On average, most pirates died 2 years after starting piracy. Edward Teach died after two years, Stede Bonnet died after one and Israel Hands impressively died around 8 years after starting, all executed. Our pirate queen died at 68 after a successful 9 year career. In fact, she only stopped because she was made to surrender and lived the rest of her years in effective retirement.
She inherited her late husbands pirate fleets and at one point commanded around 1,800 ships. Blackbeard is believed to have a maximum of 5- likely because he didn't get along with people well enough to amass enough crews to run them. She had the largest fleet in history.
Zheng Yi Sao was a leader and undoubtedly one of the most successful pirates ever and yet we dare to forget her.
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jim jimenez and their girlfriend working together to get jim’s boyfriend a girlfriend, truly no one is doing it like them
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Where you going?
To skin a prince.
(Fixing your hair means business)
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queen of the pirates conquered china and also my heart
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