(...) Silver had terrible hard work getting up the knoll. What with the steepness of the incline, the thick tree stumps, and the soft sand, he and his crutch were as helpless as a ship in stays. But he stuck to it like a man in silence, and at last arrived before the captain, whom he saluted in the handsomest style. He was tricked out in his best; an immense blue coat, thick with brass buttons, hung as low as to his knees, and a fine laced hat was set on the back of his head.
“Here you are, my man,” said the captain, raising his head. “You had better sit down.”
“You ain’t a-going to let me inside, cap’n?” complained Long John. “It’s a main cold morning, to be sure, sir, to sit outside upon the sand.”
“Why, Silver,” said the captain, “if you had pleased to be an honest man, you might have been sitting in your galley. It’s your own doing. You’re either my ship’s cook—and then you were treated handsome—or Cap’n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!”
“Well, well, cap’n,” returned the sea-cook, sitting down as he was bidden on the sand, “you’ll have to give me a hand up again, that’s all.”
(...)
Silver’s face was a picture; his eyes started in his head with wrath. He shook the fire out of his pipe.
“Give me a hand up!” he cried.
“Not I,” returned the captain.
“Who’ll give me a hand up?” he roared.
Not a man among us moved. Growling the foulest imprecations, he crawled along the sand till he got hold of the porch and could hoist himself again upon his crutch. Then he spat into the spring.
“There!” he cried. “That’s what I think of ye. Before an hour’s out, I’ll stove in your old block house like a rum puncheon. Laugh, by thunder, laugh! Before an hour’s out, ye’ll laugh upon the other side. Them that die’ll be the lucky ones.”
And with a dreadful oath he stumbled off, ploughed down the sand, was helped across the stockade, after four or five failures, by the man with the flag of truce, and disappeared in an instant afterwards among the trees.
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just played threads of you demo
me: *immediately falling for Vince and Andrew*
*vince avoiding the bookshop, the implied history between jean/vince/andrew in their relationship charts, andrew's bio referencing a bad past and him being a loner in the present, andrew's relationship to vince being "its complicated" and asking if vince is okay, vince's being "strangers" but also just andrews name, jean and andrew disliking each other, wyatt mentioning in HIS relationship chart that vince and andrew used to be inseparable*
me:
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HI OMG SORRY EPISODE ONE IS OUT NOW! (We'll be doing captions soon.)
Episode One- Close to Home
Also we're opening up our casting calls for episode 2! We just gotta get the doc done for that as well. Life has been pretty busy. Ty if you watch. - Dog
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There was a post going out a little while ago about grey/silver hair and owning it. No matter the age or stage of your non melinanated (not even sure if that's a word) drapes. Told a poster I would eventually post side view of my lazy mohawk/mullet (I hear banjos AND punk music!). Here it be!!! CHALLENGE: Post pics of your hair! If you are comfortable with a face shot, or just your hair and crop out the face (for safety /comfort). Let's be "grey and ok, or shoutout" about our hair!🩶🤍❤️
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silver please come home: a thread
so i've decided to try and put my pulling experience in one place, given... the situation (my desperation to obtain my son). i haven't set things up yet (still grinding a few things before i begin) but for now...
silver greeted me when i logged in. oh please please please let this be a sign 🙏🙏🙏
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Spider-Man (Japan, 1978), "The Terrifying Half Merman! The Miracle Calling Silver Thread"
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