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I Played Smee many many years ago at the Great Lakes Medieval Faire. I was complimented many times on my portrayal.

Smee my beloved

I want to talk about perhaps the most under appreciated character of the Peter Pan franchise—Mr. Smee. Other than Captain Hook, he is the most fleshed out pirate, and honestly does not get enough love for the brilliance of his character because he’s often dulled down to a bumbling sidekick, when he is truly much more.

In the original Peter Pan 1904 play (and 1911 novel) :

Smee is described as the only non-conformist and Irishman aboard the Jolly Roger.

Though in most adaptations he takes the role of the first mate, originally he was the boatswain, but his relationship to Hook nonetheless remained quite strong, implying that it was each other they sought companionship in rather than a relationship based purely around their stations.

Instead of wiping his sword clean of blood after a battle, he is said to clean his spectacles.

Described as oddly genial for a pirate, but make no mistake that he DOES kill people. In fact, he has a curved sword which he nicknamed ‘Johnny Corkscrew’ for the way he twists it into his enemies guts. Pretty gruesome.

Despite being described as ‘stupid’ and ‘pathetic’, he’s often the only one Hook can have intelligent conversation with. In fact, it is Smee who points out that when the clock in the crocodile runs out, Hook will no longer hear it coming and thus be at risk of death.

He sows, dances, and even sings! He also evidently collects trinkets and gives silly little names to things.

He is the only pirate other than Starkey to survive the end battle, and whereas Starkey is captured by the Natives, Smee goes on to explore the world and sell the trinkets he gathered from piracy. He even claims that he was the ‘only man Hook ever feared.’

He is the only person Hook expresses admiration for, and too is one of the few pirates who is not berated or harmed by him.

Hook sees him as the only man with legitimately good form, which is peak levels of respect from Hook.

In Hook 1991

Smee takes on a more domestic role in caring for his Captain, and evidently Dustin Hoffman and Bob Hoskins both agreed to play Hook and Smee as a married couple!

Shown to be the only pirate other than Hook capable of reading, writing, and understanding more complex language (he makes a joke to the pirates in the first scene he’s in, in which he refers to Hook as ‘unfathomable’, and when the pirates don’t react, he realizes he has to dumb down his vocabulary for them.)

Jovial and quite silly, always knows what is best for Hook, and it is evident they’ve been with each other so long that they know each ones quirks.

Reminder that SMEE is the person to suggest the plan of turning Peter’s kids against Pan by making them like Hook, meaning he is the one who came up with the evil plot, once again proving that he’s not some bumbling idiot.

Actually so sweet I love him I heart him did you see the scene where he plays baseball? Husband.

In Peter and the Starcatcher (the play by Rick Elice)

Shown to be a really good actor, good enough to fool Aster into believing he’s a legitimate navy Lieutenant.

Once again surprisingly literate, having quite a few boasting lines for Stache before the Captain comes on board. He even is shown to correct Stache every now and again when his Captain mixes up words.

Seems to speak a tiny bit of French, as he refers to Stache’s style as ‘comme il faut’, though he could also just be using the phrase itself.

Frequently comes up with the plans Stache uses in his plots, even suggests the idea that the trunks were swapped. He doubts himself on his own ideas, frequently referring to his ideas as ‘stupid’, but nonetheless Stache accepts them wholeheartedly.

Is the only character other than Stache to break the fourth wall.

Pretty much the only reason Stache is still alive.

He’s also a ukulele player and a decent singer—and apparently, like all of the pirates, a drag Queen!

I don’t have much to say on the Disney version because they really butchered his character there, but I think it’s important to note that once again, he often suggests the plots that Hook later uses for his evil schemes, such as when he mentioned the drama between Wendy and Tinkerbell. This could be just him gossiping, but it might be more interesting to imagine that he came up with the plot, but wanted to quietly suggest it to Hook in a way that would make Hook think that he himself came up with the idea, so as to save his Captain’s already tainted pride. He’s the ultimate hypeman/husband.

TLDR; Mr. Smee is awesome and I love him and media should do him better. Here’s my version of him as well. Toodle-oo!

#mr smee #captain hook #peter pan #pirate #neverland #great lakes medieval faire

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Black Sails / Treasure Island Middleloge

So. between Black Sails and Treasure Island, Flint's crew is disbanded, Silver gets a parrot, Billy gets off the island, Flint dies at Savannah, his last words being 'Darby MacGraw, Fetch aft the rum' and Ben Gunn, with knowlege of these, last words, is marooned again. Here are my headcanons

Silver visits Flint and gives him a parrot as a gift, he is reunited with Thomas and is adjusting, so, no hard feelings, he names the bird 'Captain Flint' in mockery.

Silver and Madi open a bar 'The Spyglass' and take up smuggling on the British coast. (in TI Flints old crew use a lugger to ransack the Benbow Inn and escape Squire Trelawny's men. lugger's were popular smuggling craft and it seems a logical step. for a retired pirate with an Inn)

At Some point, Billy and Ben Gunn make it off Skeleton Island

Billy bargains or threatens Flint to aquire the map, Flint calls for "Darby McGraw" to fetch aft the rum to finish the business. The Map in the book even has a notation that "Given above JF to Billy Bones mate on the Walrus" while Billy's journal mentions that "At Savannah Flint Got it."

Billy Also possibly Kills Flint after the deal is complete as revenge

Darby McGraw is either some kid Flint adopted giving him his real name, or an alias he gave Thomas, who took Flints real name in marriage, McGraw

Silver returns to Skeleton Island to try and track down Flint's treasure at Ben Gunn's urging but maroons him upon losing patience. Its possible these events are shortly after the series close and Silver becomes a Pirate Captain.

Rackham (still at large) operates out of Skeleton Island, with Max and Featherstone in charge of Nassau, and piracy being done on the Sly, hard currency is stashed on the island by his crew, (in the Book there is a LOT of coinage)

Billy escapes Silver's wrath and hides out at the Benbow Inn, with Silver finding out too late about the deal and Flint's murder. He is possibly tricked, and then betrayed by Billy

#black sails #captain flint #black sails starz #pirates #treasure island #headcanon #billy bones #john silver #ben gunn #james flint #pirate #skeleton island #headcannons

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Black Sails characters and their Treasure Planet counter parts (Or, Treasure Island characters in Black Sails and Treasure Planet)

Long John Silver James Flint/McGraw - Nathaniel Flint  Billy Bones Ben Gunn - B.E.N (Bio-Electronic-Navigator) Israel Hands - Scroop*

*There is a character in Treasure Planet called Israel Hands, one of the pirates who’s never named and doesn’t have ant influence on the plot. Scroop fills Hands’ role as a character, and therefore he was picked instead. 

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So here for this Crossover. Lord Hamilton and Captain Flint by @lisamoony​ (reblogged) with my drawing of the Walrus titled ‘Black Solar Sails’

I’m a lil drunk right now sooo I feel ok with posting this

I know it’s weird but hear me out-

#Black Sails #treasure planet #Captain Flint #thomas hamilton #space galleon #space frigate #Space Pirates

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Flint and Thomas Hamilton Black Sails and Treasure Planet

Okkk I proceed with this

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Captain: James Flint Jack Rackam (temporarily due to Salvage) Dufraine (temporarily due to mutiny) Armament: Broadsides: 26 light laser cannons Arm Mounted Attachments: 3 claw Blades (2 starboard, 1 port) 1 drill (portside) 2 circular saws (One per Side) Miscellaneous Weapons: Ram, Captain James Flint's Manipulation  of Other people, and Callous disregard for other's well being Long John Silver = (1) Loose Cannon Power Source: Solar Wind, Wrath, Spite, and gay angst I redid my old Treasure Planetized Walrus from Black Sails, made it more in line with Nathanial Flint's Ship from Treasure Planet.  I decided to make the solar sails black for obvious reasons, and pulled an all nighter binging Black Sails Season I. To help with color contrast, I made the Etherium green and purple, which actually gave it a lovely gritty dark look to match the Walrus's dark wood hull. It also references the approach to Treasure Planet and it's 'Green' look. The ship also has a metal ram at the bow like some of the vessels from Treasure Planet Battle at Procyon, which I have been playing again since discovering a modding community, that makes a lot of cool ships. "Remarkable, No Matter What we put that ship through... She Just refuses to Die.  It's Fucking Unnatural."-- Long John Silver

My art

The Walrus from Black Sails and Treasure Planet

#black sails starz #Black Sails #Captain Flint #treasure planet #solar galleon #space pirates #black solar sails #Pirate Ship #space pirate ship #my art

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The Walrus from Black Sails and Treasure Planet

#treasure planet #Black Sails #crossover #pirate ship #space pirate ship

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Bought myself a spyglass and scallopshell cutlass. The spyglass is longer. Lol i finally have my big fancy 17th century cutlass.

#cutlass #spyglass #17th century #captain buccaneer #buccaneer #pyrates #fancy pirate #pirate #pirate captain

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Mother I crave renfaire...

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Disney Hook but period portrait style. Oh! My little black heart.

Artwork by Roy the Art

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Captain Flint’s ship is a Ketch defined by a long bowsprit a smaller main mast, small maneuverable etc

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Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day

Huzzah. Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day to the Lymies and Me Irish Brethren.  I wish the Company a very merry “day off for mourning” International Talk Like A Pyrate Day. As an Irishman and a Boucanier de Isle Tortue, well, Here’s to the Queen! to the Depths with her and her cronies! 

#Irish #pirate #Pirish #Talk Like a Pirate Day #ding dong the witch is dead #They scheduled her funeral on INTERNATIONAL talk like a pirate day #the irony #Captain Flint be like CAN YOU FEEL IT NOW ENGLAND

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The Tale of Skeleton Island

Black Sails (2014-2017)

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1992- a wretch would be born damned to spend his lifetime in a failing broken society. At some time as a child. This Wretch became a pirate. 2007- The boy wore spectacles as Mr. Smee this was the second year he would sail from the glorious haven that was the Great Lakes Medieval Faire.  A port of call for all wayward rovers, gypsies, tinkers, pirates, and Donquihote knights, dreaming of lost eras of glory.

2014, Greyhound The Red Gentleman made port in Avaloch for the first time as a brother of the cast.

pain, suffering, soul killing work in the outside realm of the modern era. you may chain me, but my wages go to cutlasses and boots as well as a sturdy car, that might make the trip to a secluded Renaissance Faire in the woods. You may crush me, I may falter. but you cannot destroy me.  Because at the end of a long cold thankless workday.  I AM STILL A PIRATE Yo ho, all together, Hoist the Colours High. 

Heave ho, Thieves and Beggars, Never Shall we Die!

The Renaissance Faire is an escape, now bring me that horizon.

#great lakes medieval faire #medieval faire #Pirate Captain #Captain Greyhound #fancy pirate #pirates #escapism

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You’re off the Edge of the Map Mate, Here, There be Monsters!

“The Dark Lady” from the song of the same name. song posted below

“The Armada of the Damned” 13 Ghost Ships from all over the world and every era. Conquistador Caracks and Caravels, damned for their greed and cruelty, Barbary galleys condemned for their trade in slaves. An English First rate fo the 1600s damned for her captain’s cruelty, and more than one or two pirates.

and of course, how could we forget, “The Fires of Saint Elmo, and The Damned” The Flying Dutchman herself. “The Flying Dutchman” by the Jolly Rogers posted below

Top is ‘The Dark Lady’ bottom is ‘The Flying Dutchman’

#ghost ship #cursed pirates #Pirate Curse #halloween #pirate galleon #galleon #pirates #armada of the damned #ghost pirates

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one of my mates from faire.

Ed the Butcher, ship's cook with his camp watchdogs/ship's ratters.

#pirate #ship's cook #dogs #puppies #pirate camp #great lakes medieval faire #medieval faire #re-enactment