#rumrunners isle

[theultimatepotcescapade]

Elizabeth Swann and Jack Sparrow after burning the rum supply on Rumrunner's Isle.

#potc #pirates of the caribbean #jack sparrow #captain jack sparrow #elizabeth swann #hms dauntless #rum always gone #why is the rum gone #rumrunners isle #rum

[boltlightning]

Okay okay another ask and I am going to ask some people the same thing since I'm genuinely curious

What is the worst scene in the POTC Trilogy. You can judge it by relevance, entertainment value, or even how much it adds to the story?

And what is the best deleted/extended scene in the Trilogy, that you believe should've been kept in. Even if it may replace/alter things slightly?

ah. i love to answer questions and i similarly love to kick hornets' nests

the obvious answer for worst scene is cannibal island. just...harmful and unnecessary and not at all worth the stunts that came out of it.

please don't mistake me. i don't think the following scene is equivalent to cannibal island at all. but. in the spirit of the question: i'm going to say that i haaaaate that conversation elizabeth and will have on the pearl in AWE, where they snipe at each other about trust.

it's an uninteresting conflict and is so childish, and not even in an "oh they're 20 and this is their first major relationship" kind of way. like, they both have salient points that are hard to communicate in that scene, that's understandable! it's just so hamfisted in a way that clearly exists to add extra conflict to a relationship that doesn't need it, and is a discredit to the emotional intelligence of both characters. if it had been resolved better i'd probably feel a lot differently about it.

for the deleted scene: my immediate reaction is the aftermath to elizabeth accepting the proposal on the dauntless. it makes the whole second half of the movie so much more tense, and gives a lot more context to norrington and elizabeth not just as solo characters, but in their standing relationship to one another.

like — norrington having to save will even outside his promise to elizabeth adds SO MUCH to his sense of duty, and how he truly believes it is the best way to do good in the world. he KNOWS she's lying immediately and still clarifies with her, even if their engagement is only thing he really wants. elizabeth continuing to lie directly to her fiance, even when he gives her a way out of this engagement they both know she doesn't want, says so much about her as a person. governor swann's inability to see elizabeth's scheming until its too late (and how little he cares about it compared to how much he cares for her happiness) says a lot about how he's raised her! norrington's lone smile in the movie! the purposeful eye contact!!! AHHHH

obligatory runner-ups: swann song (i understand why it was cut, which is why it's not my main pick, but it is most certainly necessary viewing), extended dmc ending (for the world wall payoff and the full 10-second close-up of those eyes with that sword, but also because i think it's a shame norrington and beckett barely interact), jack's scars on rumrunner isle (self-explanatory)

#what the dauntless scene has done to period drama girlies is indescribable #thank you friend. i love to answer questions. these are so fun #replies #homelesspersonchic

[tenthdoctorsglasses]

The Mermaid and the Pirate (Part one)

Will Turner x mermaid!reader

Warnings: brief description of injury but that's really it!

Summary: When Will Turner, travelling alongside Captain Jack Sparrow and his crew, find themselves in a shipwreck, Will is saved by a mysteriously brave mermaid. How will he react when he learns that mermaids are not so much of a myth?

A/n: hey, so this is my first time posting something i've written online eeekk! This story is gonna be in parts, i'm not sure exactly how many yet but i hope you'll enjoy it :)

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"Alright, let's see how long it'll take for me to swim out to Rumrunner's Isle today!"

You had been a mermaid for over a year now, and keeping a secret that big had proven itself to be very difficult. Consequently, you had become quite distant from your family, and often had to resort to setting yourself challenges like this one in order to keep yourself entertained.

Being a mermaid had made you into an extremely fast swimmer, and it had also made it easier for you to hold your breath underwater. Therefore, seeing how long you could last swimming long distances served as an easy distraction from your troubles. However, it didn't compensate for the loneliness and despair of having to keep what had become such a huge part of yourself secret. You were afraid of how people would react; maybe they would lock you away forever...or maybe even worse. They would most likely assume you to be a threat, but you knew that you weren't. You were still the same person you had always been, the only difference was that you turned into a mermaid everytime you came into contact with water. You weren't of any danger to anyone. Though, how you would convince them of that, was beyond you.

"Must have been about three minutes that time...not bad!" You thought, as you reached the shore of Rumrunner's Isle.

You had stopped to catch your breath when suddenly you heard people shouting in the distance and what sounded like things exploding. You looked to your left to see an oncoming shipwreck. You didn't even think before diving straight back into the water to go and help. Because if anyone could save those people, it was you.

Once you had made it closer to the scene of the disaster, you could see that there was a lot going on within the wreckage: people screaming while trying to stay afloat, groups of people crammed onto dingies, flames rising from fragments of the ship. However, there was one sight in particular that caught your attention; a man floating lifelessly in the opposite direction. You decided that you should go to him first, as he was completely helpless.

You felt bad for this, but the first thing that you noticed once you had reached him was how strikingly beautiful he was; not the cut on his forehead, nor the fact that he was floating unconscious on a scrap of wood in the middle of the sea. He was very handsome, you thought, as his shoulder length hair lay messy and undone, with some strands sticking to his face. But of course, none of that was important right now; you had to get him safely to the shore. So, you proceeded to grab hold of his waist. You propelled him down from the scrap of wood, which was keeping him afloat. This brought him down to your level, so you held onto him tightly, and kept him as close to you as possible. You used your mermaid abilities to swim him as fast as you could to the shore. Admittedly it was harder to swim fast, while also carrying another person. However, you still made it to the shore relatively quickly. Clearly all of your time spent swimming back and forth between Port Royal and Rumrunner's Isle had paid off. Once you had reached the shore you laid him down on the sand, and just as you did this, his eyes started to flutter open.

"Hello", you said to him, unsure of how else to handle the confusing situation that you were in.

He looked confused, which was understandable given that he had just been knocked unconscious in a shipwreck, but then he glanced behind you and immediately jumped up in fear.

"W-what a-are you?" He said, while slipping his sword out from his scabbard and pointing it at you. You looked behind to see your tail sprawled out, resting on the shoreline. Your tail looked quite magnificent, you thought, shimmering an iridescent glow in the sunlight.

"Dammit" you were becoming frustrated. You had been so preoccupied with saving him that you had momentarily forgotten about the fact that you were a mermaid.

"Look, it's ok" you said, while putting your hands up in defence, but truly you were panicking over the fact that someone else knew your secret, "I'm a mermaid, but I come in peace. I don't want to hurt you, I just saw you out in that shipwreck and dragged you ashore, that's all."

"You're actually a mermaid?" He was utterly perplexed.

"Yes" you responded.

"Really?"

"I'm not sure how I could make it much clearer" you said sarcastically "I mean, I am sitting here with a fully-grown tail".

"That's really quite brilliant" he smiled, while lowering his sword.

"You really think so?" You were completely shocked at his sheer adoration of you, nevermind the fact that he had just immediately accepted you for what you were.

"I do; mythical creatures being real...it's very exciting" he gushed "Especially one as beautiful as the mermaid".

This made you blush.

"I'll have to ask you to keep this a secret though" you explained, "If word got out that I was a mermaid, lord knows what would happen to me. I could end up being experimented on for the rest of my life."

"Of course" he smiled, "Your secret's safe with me"

'Relieved' wasn't a strong enough word to describe what you felt in this moment. To have someone see you as you truly are, and not just merely accept you, but for him to gush over you...that was something far beyond relief. You found yourself overwhelmed with appreciation for his words.

"I must thank you for saving my life" he commended you "What's your name?"

"(Y/n L/n)" you responded.

"Well (Y/n L/n), thank you for your bravery today" he smiled while looking directly into your eyes, caushing you to blush again, "If not for you, then I could be dead right now."

"Oh it was no trouble at all" you tried to downplay your actions, "Besides, i'm a very fast swimmer so it wasn't too hard".

"Really? Is that a perk of being a mermaid?" He asked.

"Something like that" You smiled.

"By any chance, could you help me get to that hut over there?" You pointed, "I use it to dry off after being in the water". You had spent quite some time building that hut out of old scraps and pieces of wood that you found on the beach. You even brought some blankets from your house, so that you could hide your tail if someone was to walk by. You spent so much time there that it almost started to feel like your home.

"Certainly" he nodded, and with one swift movement he lifted you up and held you in his arms.

"I just realised; I don't even know your name" You said

"Will" he responded "Will Turner" and with that, he carefully carried you through the forested area of the beach, up to your hut."

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A/n: Part two coming soon :)

#pirates of the carribean #pirates of the carribean x reader #will turner #will turner x reader

[tortoisesshells]

Collecting opinions on this since I have a very specific bias...

What is the worst scene in the POTC Trilogy. You can judge it by relevance, entertainment value, or even how much it adds to the story?

And what is the best deleted/extended scene in the Trilogy, that you believe should've been kept in. Even if it may replace/alter things slightly?

I'm not saying anything new, and am just echoing what other people have been saying for years, but: worst sequence has to go to the Isle of the Pelegostos in DMC. It relies on racist tropes for the bulk of its gags, and even if it hadn't (say, if it was instead a sequence about Jack just barely escaping the EITC's crackdown on piracy elsewhere), it far outstays its welcome in terms of establishing for the sake of the plot that "Jack can't find safety on dry land, and is going to have to face Jones."

As for the best deleted scene: I really can't say with any degree of detachment. Most of the deleted scenes from CotBP are punchy, short, and add a lot to the characters, if not the immediate needs of the plot? - the "No Truth at All" extended sequence on Rumrunner's Island, the extended proposal acceptance sequence on the Dauntless, the "Peas in a Pod" sequence thereafter. I don't think the extended Liar's Dice game would materially improve DMC's pacing problems, but is it great character work for Will? yeah! (also, in terms of the work the VFX artists put in: come on the Dutchman is the coolest most visually striking location in the whole trilogy!) Deleting "It's Just Good Business" got rid of the single most important part of Jack's backstory with Beckett, which at least the bulk of the fandom has been insisting is canonical for nearly 20 years now.

I suppose I'll have to give it to "Swann Song" - I am not an impartial commentator, and "He'll obey. It's what he does." is perhaps my favorite single line of dialogue about James Norrington, and because even in the unfinished state it is, Nighy as Davy Jones terrifying, because it explains some of the lore around Jones and the Dutchman, and because no one in that room is surviving until the end of the movie and Norrington, Jones and Swann are, in their own ways, playing for space and time.

#ask me about the deleted scenes tomorrow and i'll probably say the extended proposal acceptance scene on the Dauntless. i'm fickle. #polkaknox talks

[potctrilogy]

But you're Captain Jack Sparrow! You vanished from under the eyes of seven agents of the East India Company! You sacked Nassau Port without even firing a shot! Are you the pirate I’ve read about or not? How did you escape last time?

THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL (2003) dir. Gore Verbinski

#potcedit #disneyedit #disneygifsdaily #chewieblog #bbelcher #perioddramaedit #filmedit #jdeppedit #kknightleyedit #tw alcohol #tcotbp #elizabeth swann #jack sparrow #sparrabeth #locations #rumrunners isle #gifs #ours #elle

[trickstercaptain]

it’s been a looong time since i actually wrote a meta on this blog, but rewatching DMC has got me wanting to talk about the year time jump between the 1st and 2nd film and, more specifically, the Turkish prison where we first encounter Jack and his crew in DMC. in particular, I want this to be an fun exercise of filling in the blanks surrounding that prison and Jack’s reasons for being there without relying on external information given to us outside of the text ( so for instance, one of the levels in the AWE tie-in game specifying that it’s a Turkish prison lmao ). essentially I want to prove that all of the cues are in the text if you know where to look lmfao

so, the first thing you might ask is how we can tell this is a Turkish or at the very least Mediterannean prison, and therefore that Jack is somewhere in the Mediterranean Ocean at the start of DMC as opposed to in the Caribbean where the majority of the movie takes place?

let’s start with what we do know. Jack’s confrontation with his crew after escaping the gaol tells us a lot about what he has been up to since we last saw him in CotBP: we know via Gibbs that it has been “some time” since Jack and his crew did some actual pirating; we know that during this period they headed back to the Isla de Muerta and attempted to recover the treasure that Barbossa and his crew had hoarded there for ten years ( avoiding the cursed Aztec gold, of course ) and that, when they arrived, the island had been “reclaimed by the sea and the treasure with it.” we know that there was a hurricane at some point ( which fun fact, while in the script, is also a reference to the hurricanes that hampered the production of DMC and AWE since that scene was shot near the end of filming ), and we know that the Royal Navy ( namely James Norrington ) had chased them “all around the Atlantic,” presumably for a considerable length of time.

that last one is the most important to determining Jack’s location, since even if being chased there is no point for him to cross the Atlantic if what he is searching for is already in the Caribbean ( and we know that he spent the majority of this year period looking for ways out of his debt, even before Bootstrap’s arrival on the Pearl as an emissary ). it’s also likely that when Jack’s men call out these instances of misfortune that have soured the mood and strained the relationship between captain and crew, they’re not necessarily shouting them out chronologically, so detective work is needed in order to put these events into some kind of order.

there is one other thing that we know: when Jack and Gibbs encounter Norrington in Tortuga, he explicitly states that he nearly had them “off the coast of Tripoli.” this specifically places Jack and his crew in the Mediterranean at some point in the past year --- and, again, since there’s no reason for Jack to make more than one Atlantic crossing during this year long period, we can assume that this climax in the pursuit between the HMS Dauntless and the Black Pearl took place not too long before Jack’s opening scene in DMC. 

the only thing that confuses the issue is what follows on from Norrington’s mention of Tripoli: that he would have caught them “if not for the hurricane.” I feel like this is something that has been discussed a lot in the fandom over the years lmao. a) hurricanes don’t form anywhere but the Atlantic Ocean and Tripoli is not on the coast of the Atlantic, but the Mediterranean, and b) if Norrington had nearly caught Jack off the coast of Tripoli and only afterwards been caught out by the hurricane, it doesn’t make a lot of geographical sense if Jack’s ultimate destination had always been present day Istanbul, which is further east than Tripoli and further away from the Atlantic where these hurricanes form. i also recall the writers mentioning this in the director’s commentary for DMC when Norrington says the line --- they seem to imply, along with the original DMC script, that the Tripoli incident and the hurricane are separate and not connected. so a way around this is perhaps to theorise that Jack entered through the strait of Gibraltar, nearly got caught by the Dauntless off Tripoli and was forced to flee back out the same way towards the Atlantic where both ships strayed into the hurricane’s path. once the Pearl had avoided it, Jack turned around and headed back the way he’d originally came. but this is very much a digression lmao, my real point is that I don’t think much time had passed between the destruction of the Dauntless in this hurricane and Jack arriving at the Turkish prison. that when Marty mentions the hurricane in the crew’s confrontation with Jack and is met with a chorus of ayes also seems to suggest that this is a particularly emotive incident, whether by virtue of being their most recent misfortune or by being a particularly narrow escape.

however, some people ( including myself as i was figuring this out ), might be asking how this makes chronological sense when the first scene in DMC is Cutler Beckett’s arrival in Port Royal. when he arrives and arrests Will and Elizabeth, he asks after Norrington and Governor Swann’s response is that he “resigned his commission some months ago.” this is where I’m going to cheat slightly and point out that the original intention for DMC was for it to open with the shot of Gibbs singing ‘fifteen men on a dead man’s chest’ rather than the wedding scene. the reason for this was thematic, so that every movie in the trilogy opened with a character singing a song ( Elizabeth singing ‘a pirate’s life for me’ in CotBP, Gibbs in DMC and then the boy/chorus of pirates singing ‘hoist the colours’ in AWE ). obviously this didn’t end up happening for DMC, but it makes a lot more chronological sense for the scene with Jack breaking out of the Turkish gaol to happen first, before the wedding back on Port Royal, particularly considering how long it took in the 18th century for a ship to cross the Atlantic. this was a several month long voyage at best, even for a ship as fast as the Black Pearl, so if Jack is indeed in the Mediterranean in his very first scene, it would probably take the crew six to ten weeks to return to the Caribbean --- so a time skip existing between that and Will and Elizabeth’s wedding makes the most sense considering that it’s not long after Will’s arrest that he is sent off by Beckett to find Jack. this also gives enough time for Norrington to suffer the consequences of his failed pursuit, which likely happened weeks before this, be stripped of his rank and commission, and for the news to reach Governor Swann back on Port Royal so that he can then later convey it to Beckett.

so that’s how we pin down Jack’s location, but I also very much want to talk about why he’s there in the first place. again, starting with the things we know about Jack’s break in attempt: considering he says to Gibbs that “complications arose, ensued, were overcome,” we can infer that things didn’t go to plan. this is corroborated by the fact that Jack had to escape via a coffin thrown into the sea ( probably not his first and most desirable option for an escape attempt ). the only tangible thing that Jack has seemingly gained from the trip --- at least to us as an audience and to his crew --- is a drawing of a key. I don’t think it takes a huge leap to assume that a drawing of Davy Jones’ key was not what Jack originally went into the prison for, but is what he ended up with. the most important question to ask, however, is who drew this key? how did they know what the key looked like? why were they in the prison? let’s take a look at a cap of the drawing itself:

so the key has obviously been hand-drawn, but in the corner you’ll also notice a tally of some kind, identical to prisoners’ markings that usually appear on the wall of a cell to denote the number of days of imprisonment ( at least in the classic pop culture trope sense lmao ). therefore, I think it’s safe to say that whoever this drawing belonged to, they were a prisoner inside of that same Turkish prison Jack broke into. presumably, then, Jack was looking for the prisoner rather than the drawing: for this individual to be able to recall the appearance of the key, there is only one place he must have been fairly recently and that’s on board the Flying Dutchman. for him to have later ended up in a Turkish prison, he must have somehow escaped the Dutchman, meaning that he either did not swear an oath to the ship in the first place, or agreed to join the crew and then later escaped. either way this makes him a rare example of someone who survived an encounter with Davy Jones, and therefore would make him a valuable asset and source of information to Jack, who is trying to do the same.

after leaving the gaol, Jack arrives back at the Pearl empty handed and so we never get to meet this prisoner --- there’s a lot of room to theorise on what happened but I think we can safely assume that they didn’t make it out alive, particularly as Jack escaped on his own and now has their drawing of Davy Jones’ key in his possession with no mention of its owner. but there are indications that it wasn’t just a knowledge of what the key looked like that Jack gained from his visit to the Turkish prison, and that can be gleamed from Jack’s behaviour while at Tia Dalma’s shack. we can infer that at least part of his skittish behaviour around Tia Dalma herself is because of their own past, but he looks positively uninterested while Tia Dalma is telling the story of Davy Jones, perhaps because he’s already heard it before. he interjects when Gibbs, Pintel and Ragetti are theorising on “what vexes all men” to inform them that it was a woman, and, when challenged by Will who accuses Jack of already knowing all of this, he denies that’s the case --- but then clarifies in the next breath that he didn’t know where the key was, meaning he very likely knew the rest.

so this very much begs the question: where else could Jack have gotten this information from other than from this prisoner? the film is definitely encouraging you to make the connection, without explicitly stating anything about this mysterious figure. drawing all of this evidence together, then, it’s highly likely that, catching wind of rumours of a lone survivor of a run-in with Davy Jones’ crew, Jack pursued the story all the way across the Atlantic ( while simultaneously being chased by the Royal Navy ) to a Turkish prison where he finally met with the man directly. he quite possibly traded the prospect of escape for the promise of information, but Jack’s aforementioned “complications” to his plan meant that escape wasn’t possible for the informant he’d sought out and Jack had to save himself. he might have recovered the drawing of a map from the prisoner’s body, but if Jack escaped the gaol with the information Tia Dalma later gives from her shack, it’s likely he was told something about Davy Jones before the prisoner’s death, and perhaps given the drawing instead of taking it.

but yes this is why I have such a firm theory on what this visit to this Turkish prison was all about, even in spite of the fact that my theory has been hugely formed from old fics I read waaay back lmao --- but this demonstrates that the clues are also in the text of the film.

#&. depths few had ever begun to glimpse ( meta tag. ) #this is far longer than i anticipated lmao #and was borne out of rewatching dmc while waiting for an engineer to show up and service the boiler #i'm nailing being an adult dkjfsdf #but honestly what i wouldn't give to have a chat with every single member of the props department on dmc & awe #and to be able to read the pirate's code cover to cover since they filled it with so much cool stuff #such as how to find the cache on rumrunner's isle (using the same technique that jack did in cotbp on the island) #the attention to detail in the trilogy was *chefs kiss*

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

Curse of the Black Pearl is an honorary Lupin III movie except that Elizabeth DOES get to go on to be a thief/pirate afterwards

#i really wish we got scenes in lupin like the deleted rumrunners' isle scenes in cotbp #where some of jack's romance and stories are stripped away #“is there any truth to the other stories?” “truth? [shows gunshot wounds and other scars] no truth at all.” #(but unlike the lupin npcs elizabeth takes that info in stride and learns from even more ruthless pirates and i just. hhhhh i am not immune) #(anyway there's a lot of lupin in jack and are we surprised? half the characters jack was based on drew inspiration from lupin too) #lupin iii #potc

[mrs-kelly]

roll the dice twice for Jack!! 🥺 <3

Teddy thank you!! Believe it or not um. I rolled two twenties 🤣 Jack makes me so lucky I guess!! I'll just talk about him a lot then!!

20 ~ free space! not a question I just want to hear you gush about your f/o!（╹◡╹）

Ok last post I said I'd wanna talk about his scars soon so!! I'll talk about them now :3

So! Jack has some iconic scars that those of us who've seen the movies a few times may remember! Specifically, the P brand on his right arm, the x on his face that only appeared after On S.tranger Tides, and some people might even point out the scurvy sore on his jaw (although idk if that counts as a scar? I think it's just a sore but it often gets listed alongside scars). But did you know that he has scars that are only shown in a deleted scene from the first movie? Even tho they were cut and never shown again, I count them as canon!

Specifically, he has two scars on his chest, and they look like old bullet wounds. He also has a scar all along his left arm, and to me it looks like lightning scars. They could also be burns from something else, but they run in branching lines down his arm. They were shown in the deleted scene after Elizabeth asked him if there was any truth to the stories about him, to which he replied, "Truth? No truth at all," sarcastically.

We know where the P brand came from, so there isn't much conjecture to be had there. There is a little tho! So, Jack was obviously captured by the East India T.rading Company at some point, and Beckett branded him with a metal P to make it clear to anyone who saw his arm that he's a pirate. It's never explicitly said when that happened, but my guess is that it was after the merchant ship picked him up from Rumrunner's Isle. They saved his life, but probably took him back to port and into Beckett's clutches. How he escaped is another story, but we know Jack is very clever and good at wriggling out of unfavorable situations!

The x on his face was left up to conjecture by the crew of pot.c ost! Johnny D.epp and the person in charge of his makeup conspired together to add the x to Jack's right cheek, and Johnny said that he thought it looked cool, but the origin of the scar was up to interpretation! Given that I've only seen ost once and don't care what the canon events between awe and ost are, in my canon he got that scar after being captured for trying to steal a ship. I could easily see him being captured, threatened, and the owner of the ship marking his face to show he's serious. Or, perhaps, Jack steals the ship, but the original owner marks his face so he will know him if he sees him, no matter what 👀 I'm going to consider those options ajkfdl

As for the scurvy sore, people have different opinions on it! There was a bout of discussion for awhile where some people claimed with certainty that it was a symptom of syphilis, but that was quickly shot down and the general accepted theory is that it’s scurvy. That’s what I believe too! Scurvy is well known for being rampant among pirates and seafarers, because they don’t have access to much vitamin c from anything except the sun.

Up next are the bullet wounds on his chest. Obviously that happened in a shootout. They look like they happened at the same time; their coloring is similar to each other. That means he took two shots to the right side of his chest and LIVED. When I say Jack is special, I mean it!! This movie takes place in the 1700s! That is not modern medicine lol My idea is that they were probably given to him by someone very close to him :( That he trusted them, and when they pulled a gun on him, he didn’t think they would do it. So when they landed the first shot, he was so shocked that he didn’t move before they let loose the next one, a little lower and more to the right. Luckily he survived, but the idea of that is so distressing!!

And finally, the most mysterious of all, this scar:

What could that be? I actually have no idea and I’m going to have to keep thinking on it, I think 🤔 I said above that I believe it’s a lightning scar, and, while that does fit his character (raising up a sword in the storm and getting struck!) I’ve seen others describe it as having happened in a fire that took place in the young Jack S.parrow series. Apparently that moment doesn’t show this burn happening directly, but they believe it to be a solid guess. Then again, I didn’t really enjoy those books, so I can take canon into my own hands! Jack is fond of telling people, “You will always remember this as the day you almost caught Jack S.parrow!” So, I like to imagine that he sailed away on someone’s boat, probably a pretty small one a long time ago, and held up his sword to really show off, but a storm was active, and lightning struck him. He didn’t die, because he’s the luckiest man alive, but it did leave him with this cool-looking scar!

And that’s all of them!! I thought about talking about all of his tattoos but he has a lot of them and this post is already long! ajfkdls so it’ll have to be the next gush post :3

#THANK U TEDDY I HAD SO MUCH FUN #can't believe i rolled two twenties in a row ajfksdl double critical success... #anyway if you didnt know before then now you know!! im!! obsessed with Jack ajfkdsl #ren speaks #jackren #im gushing out here folks #also theres almost a thousand words in this. just so you know ajfkdsl #Jack scar post

[jamesnorrington]

POTC Meme || Places (2/2)

RUMRUNNER’S ISLE + travel brochure

#potcedit #pirates of the caribbean #disneyedit #filmedit #movieedit #potc meme series #potc meme places #mine #my gifs #my graphics #gifs #graphics #[making brochures for fake island destinations because i personally can't go to the beach right now] #pirates of print media

[everythingispirates]

☠️⭐️ For Jack please, and btw I love your blog

thank you so much! :’D and once again, because I can’t tell the difference between the two star emojis you’re getting both of em v_v

☠ - angry/violent headcanon: I don’t see jack as a particularly violent person because a) he makes an effort to stay somewhat in control of his emotions and b) he just sucks shit at fighting. HOWEVER I think he would have had a period after getting off rumrunner’s isle when he would just be off the shits and probably got into a lot of street fights and whatnot

★ - sad headcanon: I like to think the reason jack is so overly touchy and social is he really doesn’t handle being alone very well, like between how teague treated him, getting betrayed by barbossa and like. everything in the locker he just feels a lot better when he’s around ppl. he’s obviously not gonna get genuinely, emotionally close because he’s got worms for brains, but he makes up for it by being touchy v_v

☆ - happy headcanon: jack and elizabeth are besties and I’ll hear nothing against it! they’d keep in touch after awe and she probably wrangles jack into going on stupid adventures with her because she thirsts for knowledge and has no fear of death, and likes to make that jack’s problem. jack acts like he hates it but while he’s somehow the least reckless of the two of them he does have a lot of fun getting in and out of life or death situations with liz :’)

#ask #basically elizabeth will abuse her power as pirate king she'll be like bring me jack sparrow alive #very serious very commanding #but then when he does get brought she's like jack my good bitch i've found a deeply cursed cave we should go there right now!! :D

[anklesalltheway]

If the dashboard rp community muses went on a beach day / to a Rumrunner’s Isle beach party how quickly would things stay fun before everything falls into total chaos...? 👀

#;; ooc #why am I even accounting for the worst possibly scenario? #then again these are PotC muses / verse muses xD #crack chaos shenanigans is kind of guarantee xD

[killmebutneverinsultme]

On Singing

Normally I've hc'd Jack can't sing, going from his drunken attempts on the Rumrunner isle and his mildly off key Yo Ho. Since books want to deny that, I'm going with that Jack can *sometimes* sing. He can carry a tune and when he's less drunk and not being idle it's an ok voice. He's still no merman :P

Edit: Never mind. I'm watching Into the Woods and I've changed me mind. So long as Jack's not too drunk or half arsing it, he can sing XD (I'd seen Sweeney Todd before and know Depp can sing but Wolf is near enough to Jack for me to change it)

#about Jack #headcanon

[boltlightning]

top 5 potc deleted scenes? please and thank you!

you 👏 already 👏 know 👏 it's 👏 swann song 👏👏👏 society if swann song was canon!!!!!

james awkwardly telling gov swann that he's compelled by duty to save will even without elizabeth's hand, then pulling her aside to make sure she's not accepting his proposal out of desperation. i will never tire of how much character work those two minutes give us. god

on the rumrunner island, when elizabeth paces the whole isle, then calls jack tf out on the shore and he actually explains his thought process for once in his life

the full end of DMC with beckett and the flying dutchman and the world wall and the sword. god

elizabeth explaining isla cruces' story to james, ending with jack's petulant "no fraternizing with the help" and james' equally petulant "oh after YOU sir"

thank you for the excuse to go back and rewatch all these <3

ask me my top 5 anythings ✨

#no. no i'm not biased. not in the least. what would give you that impression #s/o to the scene where someone gets slightly too frisky with will on tortuga and he immediately goes into battle mode and flips a table #thank you friend!!!!!!!!! #tortoisesshells #ask game

[tatyana-dreaming]

A look into Elizabeth Swann's mind the night she spends upon Rumrunner's Isle with Jack. She considers her current situation, entertains (possibly) some feelings (gasp), and figures out a plan to escape. Contains: exhaustion, angst, ocean aesthetic, drama. Peppered with quite unladylike swears and notions of freedom (the very thought!). Very Long.

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Posting here bc why the heck not!! RIP MY TUMBLR :’) RIP MY WRITING CAREER ;”””)  

#idk maybe someone will enjoy it : #im baby pls don't @ me i'm just trying to have a good time #elizabeth swann #am i gonna regret tagging that #?? WE'LL SEE!! #writing tag i suppose

[tortoisesshells]

fic title game: late rites, or maybe secrets of the deep? please and thanks!! :)

thank you for the ask, kind friend!

late rights: hmm. I know I already had one of these about burial-as-metaphor, but what can I say? I'm a one-trick pony. I think this is from the Norrelliot universe - Norrington and Anne and the death of their hopes for the future? Not that Elizabeth & Wentworth have died, but - the struggle to come to terms with a loss like death and yet there's no social forms for mourning that kind of disappointment? They can mark the time - if Anne and Wentworth had been married, and he died, she would wear black for so many months, etc. - but have to find some way of moving past it.

secrets of the deep: Not to make this sound like a NatGeo special, but - somewhere between Rumrunners' Isle and Isla de Muerta, the Dauntless encounters a pod of whales; Elizabeth and Norrington, trying very hard to not talk about the engagement (either marital or with the crew of the Pearl), watch them go. For all the advancements of the modern age - and for all that man's hunted them! - there's not much known about whales and their world. Surely this is not a metaphor for something?

Send me a made-up fic title (or 2 or 3) and I’ll tell you what I would write to go with it.

#if melville can make a story about a whale mean literally anything else than so can i! #ask meme #polkaknox talks #my fic #... sorta

[toodamnloyal]

Continued from X

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James offered  a hand to shake his “Consider me impressed, Lieutenant Groves.  The fleet can use more men willing to put forth a bit of elbow grease to get things done.  However, as we do need all men accounted for, in the future, do come to me first with any repair work and I shall see that it’s dealt with in timely manner. ” He nods.

Now he turns around, shouting orders. “ All hands come about! Hoist Anchor and Raise the sails!  Set our course for Rumrunner’s Isle. ” Nicknamed of course for Black Sam’s Spit. It was a very popular spit of land for illegal rum trade and a favorite spot to catch and kill pirates.

He turns to his lieutenant. “ I do hope you are as good with a sword as you are with repairs, Lieutenant. If that is the case I foresee a long and successful career. ” He flashed a small smile to Theodore.

Under his tan, the boy colored and nodded. A verbal thrashing had been expected and he still wondered if one would be forthcoming as soon as the two of them were away from the crew. As such, the handshake that he returned was tense. “Of course, Sir.” Was the answer. For first impressions, the idea that Theodore received was that his Captain was strict, a man who had no room for nonsense aboard his ship - which to a trickster, translated to a lack of fun.

“I would hope so, Sir.” He said, “I’ve worked to learn it as well as I may.” With boots donned again he did try to smile and followed the Captain as the man moved about the ship. Interceptor wasn’t particularly large, but the young lieutenant fell in love with her right away. The way that the ship was small and fleet compared to the larger vessels that he’d been on. “What compliment does Interceptor have, Sir?” He questioned while following the Captain. 

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