#a fair trade i guess

[laney-rockin]

I love the canon implications in "Bread and Circuses" that McCoy can't fight for shit. Spock is over beside him absolutely trying his hardest not to kill the gladiator he's fighting as McCoy has to be told to defend himself lmao.

Kirk knows his too, seeing as he asked if Spock could help McCoy when he was done with his own opponent.

McCoy is the grumpiest doctor around and can't fight for shit and I just adore that character detail so much. He can argue with the best of them but give him a sword and he's mostly at a loss.

#star trek #jim kirk #spock #star trek tos #tos star trek #bones mccoy #bread and circuses #i love that mccoy can't fight #cause it's canon that spock and kirk can fight really well when they have to #i guess bones traded fighting skills for common sense #which is fair considering who spock and kirk are as people #someone needs to make sure that the mad scientist vulcan and his nerdy yet himbo boyfriend are kepy safe

[cuddlytogas]

Fyre sent me an article that made me Lose My Mind, so instead of sending 800 tweets about it, I decided to just write up my thoughts here

so, in re: ET Fox, 'Jacobitism and the Golden Age of Piracy' --

Fox is definitely exaggerating. His logic jumps from 'ship names and alleged toasts', to 'every pirate was one contact away from a confirmed Jacobite', to "a Jacobite maritime community" (296), with little evidence beyond each previous assumption. He does demonstrate a link with popular Jacobitism, but overstates pirates' political commitment by far.

There's one letter to George Camocke, a Jacobite naval officer, suggesting that the pirate fleet should unite under his command and take Bermuda as a Jacobite base, but the source is shaky, and it went nowhere once Woodes Rogers ousted the pirates. (It's I think from 1718 and unsigned? Possibly from Charles Vane and his crew? Fox only says that, "Through these contacts [unspecified, between Vane and English Jacobites] a letter reached George Camocke" (286), which is suspiciously vague, and I can't access the original to check. Either way, it would still only prove the committed politics of one crew.)

Fox also makes a lot of Archibald Hamilton, governor of Jamaica from 1710-16, who commissioned and profited from the anti-Spanish privateers who turned pirate and made up some of the original Bahamas pirates c. 1715. Since "it has been suggested that [Hamilton] was a Jacobite supporter" (283), Fox claims that these establishing pirates were also committed Jacobites, and therefore the whole pirate community that grew around them must have been. (Which leads to Fox then being baffled when there's no direct evidence of Jacobitism among some of them, such as the crews of Anstis, Fenn, or Rackham.) He relies on these assumptions, and then claims that every connection between pirates proves their mutual Jacobite sympathies.

It's much more likely (and in line with the historians I've read so far) that the Jacobite toasts and ship names speak to a broader anti-authoritarianism among pirates, with no evidence of committed Jacobite actions by them, eg, specifically targeting Hanoverian ships, or materially supporting or trying to support Jacobite rebels beyond that one letter. Indeed, the 1710s/20s pirates are generally agreed to be distinct for not adhering to religious/national loyalties like the C17th pirates usually did. (I'm so sorry, I haven't consolidated my notes yet, but I know Marcus Rediker goes through this, as does Kris E Lane, and I think Tim Travers and David Cordingly.)

Fox does identify a correlation between the rise and fall of Jacobitism and piracy over the mid/late 1710s, but attributes a pretty shaky causation: pirates ceased their Jacobite loyalties due to the suppression of Jacobitism in Britain and Europe. A much more obvious explanation is that both anti-authoritarian movements simultaneously flourished in the post-war, post-succession instability, then were both quashed as the new regime established itself and cracked down on rebels.

So, did many pirates espouse Jacobite sympathies? Yes! They named their ships in favour of Jacobite causes and rulers, and there are plenty of reports of them toasting to King James / the Pretender. (Which it must be said, although the sheer volume lends a ring of truth to the trend, individual claims should be taken with a grain of salt, as Jacobitism was a common accusation against criminals at the time, with or without a basis.)

Does that mean that the 1710s Caribbean pirate community was centred around a heart of politically committed Jacobites, as Fox argues, or largely motivated by Jacobite sentiments? Yeah, probably not.

Anyway, I am SO sorry that this article got me riled up XD the whole point of this is to say, I've never read anywhere that "many pirates were Jacobites driven out of Britain", which I KNOW wasn't even your main point, but I am unfortunately Insane. We can and should talk about expressions of pro-Jacobitism and actual political engagement among 'Golden Age' pirates, but what we know of their actual actions and espoused ideals doesn't speak to a trend of committed Jacobite politics beyond a general loyalty to rebellious causes.

#history #pirates #pirate history #Jacobites #Jacobitism #Togas does meta #this article annoyed me so much omfg #at every step Fox makes a sort of shaky assumption and then bases his next assumption entirely on that as if it's a proven truth #it's like IF hamilton was a commited jacobite and IF that loyalty was shared with the privateers and IF those privateers #retained and spread that belief among the growing pirate community and IF that was the belief that held the community together #then yeah sure i guess jacobitism was a core cause and concern for the golden age pirates #but that's a lot of fucking 'if's among a situation with a lot more obvious explanations #Fox is right that historians so far are probably ignoring the influence of Jacobitism on golden age pirates a bit #it really hasn't come up in all my reading so far and I've done... a pretty fair amount lol #but he goes so far in the opposite direction that it's kind of embarrassing #very BR Burg coded tbh XD (i say as if i've actually read burg >.> but all the reviews are forming a picture for me...) #EDIT: it's also worth noting that Jacobitism was rarely (never?) a charge laid against pirates in all the trials and moralising against them #which you'd think - if they were actually hardcore individual or broad-base supporters of the cause - might've come up more often #but anti-pirate arguments basically always revolve around the threat to trade and property therefore nation/empire #if lawyers and reverends wanted to argue that pirates were traitors - and they did! - you'd think they'd mention any actual treasons #EDIT EDIT: N: Harry M. Lewis (2021) George Camocke’s 1718 Proposal of a Jacobite–Pirate Alliance #The Mariner's Mirror 107:3 pp366-370 #has better detail and context for that letter

[dappio]

Game awards sucked ass overall but seeing Alan Wake 2 win 3 awards and seeing the whole cast dance on stage made my whole week

#was doing a watch party with my friends and i was screaming everytime #im so proud of remedy and the amazing games they make #bg3 winning goty wasnt suprising and im like we got a concert so guess its a fair trade lol

[kdsburneraccount]

why does adley rutschman remind me of joe burrow 🧍

#apologies to any baltimore fans who see this #but also im a wiz fan and thats like close enough to baltimore that i can comment on it (dmv moment) #i guess its the whole fair haired white boy drafted first overall #who is also kind of old for a rookie #but considered very good #idk much about baseball im kind of a nats casual and they're bad #every day i question what the fo was cooking when they traded juan #sad! #whatever average washington sports moment pretty soon the mystics are gonna be mid too and then what #nfl #mlb #baseball #baltimore orioles #cincinnati bengals #joe burrow #adley rutschman

[gayest-classiclit]

a list of classic lit characters on the sexypedia (the tumblr sexyman wiki. documents them yk.)

hamlet from hamlet. understandable

big???? brother???? from 1984???????

jonathan harker from dracula. i do not know any other jonathan harkers why did i specify

sherlock holmes from the books (sherlock like bbc sherlock has a different entry)

adam. frankenstein's monster adam

arsene lupin from arsene lupin yk

if it counts, erik phantomoftheopera is there also

atticus finch. to kill a mockingbird guy

gerald aninspectorcalls, who i mentioned previously

RODION RASKOLNIKOV???????? WHY IN THE

#i checked yesterday because i wanted to see my epithet erased blorbos #turned up with rodya instead #fair trade i guess #bazposting

[hyunjining]

the keep driving lyric is “riot america” not “raya, america” 🙏

#i guess that’s a fair trade off for choke her dkdjf #i bet harry doesn’t even know what raya is 🧍‍♀️ #harry’s house spoilers

[nocherryblood]

No one:

My autistic-ass thinking the new ObeyMe! event was gonna be all about steam trains:

My reaction when I found out it wasn't about steam trains but was about steampunk:

#niche topic that not many people think of #my hot demon bois #obey me #omswd #obey me shall we date #actuallyautistic #i mean steam trains arent a special interest of mine BUT i do love them very much #and especially just the idea of combined with sent my brain into a frenzy #steampunk is a fair trade off... i guess #next give me doctor who references and gravity falls references and i wont be able to function normally for at least a year #or give me lucifer and mc touring a vacuum/hoover factory because im an aspie and i said so #things that will never happen 😣 #unless... unless i wrote it...? jk jk... unless? 😳 #saveom #write #save

[dooplissss]

god i'm so sorry to be that guy but taking probiotics has changed my binge eating habits so much its insane, I even get annoyed when i'm hungry now its wild

#the supplements are expensive as hell tho so i guess its a fair trade #i just decided to make a chicken sandwich rn instead of ordering and it both filled me up and was delicious and saved me like $20 like. #i cant believe this was the answer the whole time god fucking dammit #like my stomach actually rumbles now and i can choose to ignore it for a time! i dont eat every goddamn sugar in the house within 2 days!!! #my stomach hates spicy food even more now tho i think bc theres billions more bacteria yelling at me now than before #im so mad that it was this easy. the whole time. the whole time??!!! the whole time!!! fuck!!!

[toburnup]

my life is messy in a way that's perfect for fanfiction inspiration tbh. i'm seeing a concert this weekend and i just got the email with the list of openers. and of course one of them is the band with the guitarist who was a childhood friend AND someone i hooked up with back in 2018 lsdkflsdjflsdkj

#had a crush on him in grade 2 #and we used to trade lunches lmao #it's not fair that he's still really cute #time to break out my sluttiest outfit i suppose #viospeaks #omg not that my life is perfect but it's a WELL of inspiration i guess

[clueless1995]

god i have to start using consistent grammar on posts they keep getting reblogged

#like idc if i use im or i’m but both in the same post feels bad. #and if like three mutuals like it and that’s it it’s Fine but i keep inadvertently making posts that reach outside of the mutuals #honestly a bit scary just bc i had a blog that was semi popular on here when i was a teenager and it was a horror show #it was for a specific fandom and a ship within that fandom too so there were a lot of Strong Opinions. and rape threats #i guess if i get too many followers i can just start blocking people and turning off reblogs when it reaches a certain point #i’m sure it sounds silly bc my friends on here are WAY more popular/have more popular posts and whatever #but like. for a long time i wouldn’t interact with anyone or make posts on here i would just reblog stuff #and now i have friends and mutuals and i get to be silly with them on the internet so its a fair trade off to have to deal with a 200 note #post every now and then

[foucauldiantheory]

making my peace with warm weather (my dreaded enemy) solely by remembering that when it warms up i'll get to wear a big skirt and little tank top and have a beautiful dinner picnic at the cemetery bc the sun will still be up <3

#a fair trade for not being able to wear my leather jacket anymore. i guess.

[akascow]

lmao going through my camera roll deleting things and i barely remember this but i used to take timelapses of myself working on homework in quarantine just so i wouldnt use my phone as a distraction

#i mean it worked so fair trade i guess

[swordspider-fr]

Got this SICK accent (smooth by coexistence) in a trade that just fits my pirate boy Raisin all too well :-) !! Staring at his toothy maw forever now.

#fr #flight rising #fr dragon share #flight rising dragon share #im guessing its worth a fair amount?? bc the person had it on AH for 5kg bfr we traded. That or they were overpricing and i got jipped #but idc anyway LMAO perfect accent for my man Raisin :-)

[nakkipalkka]

I love how people on dogbook are all “I own 5 malinois and kelpie is too much! I would never!” and I’m here like, heeheheh kelpie sure is a lot faster than rough collie:)

#kelpie go brrrrr #What did I get myself into #afdasdasdf why did the breeder give me puppy #anyway I think I need another kelpie and this time r&t #oh and I need a solid black B sob i love them so much #I am losing my sanity but i guess that's how you survive w kelpies? #it's a fair trade imo

[blackboxwarrior]

im gunna be 25 with a mortgage.... and I didnt even have to invest in stocks

#200k in debt on one of the best pieces of land money can buy. #I guess its a good trade #My dad dying isnt a fuckin fair part of it though

[mittensmorgul]

me, talking to my kid who is wearing noise cancelling headphones about our cat, virgil: I’ve officially changed his name to villain

kid: why?

me: because he breaks things and always steals my chair?

kid: okay, sure, but why dylan?

me: ...??? not dylan... VILLAIN. because he’s a thief

kid: OOOHHHHH

so now apparently our cat is named dylan

#my life as a muppet #his name is still virgil he's just a villain :'D #he destroyed a ceramic eeyore because i had elastic hair ties draped over it in my bathroom #i bought the thing 22 years ago before kiddo was born and i'm not processing the loss of something so small being destroyed #but the cat is a hair tie thief and a chair thief and a general miscreant #but i own his fuzzy belly so i guess it's a fair trade... >.>