Peacocks are hilarious, really. They really are just like

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Classic sea shanties like:

"I fucking hate this ship and I cannot wait to get off."

"I got off the ship on the dock but I know I'm going to get back on the ship when my leave is up. Fuck."

"Storm."

"Big storm."

"Is it just me or does this ship have like. Really clean lines. Like damn. Okay. Not saying I'm feeling attracted to the ship, per se, but. Damn."

"Sometimes you see weird shit that you cannot explain and you just kinda have to shrug and go. Welp."

by Sam{Lightonthewater}

Then, too, at sea—to use a homely but expressive phrase—you miss a man so much. A dozen men are shut up together in a little bark, upon the wide, wide sea, and for months and months see no forms and hear no voices but their own, and one is taken suddenly from among them, and they miss him at every turn. It is like losing a limb. There are no new faces or new scenes to fill up the gap. There is always an empty berth in the forecastle, and one man wanting when the small night watch is mustered. There is one less to take up the wheel, and one less to lay out with you upon the yard. You miss his form, and the sound of his voice, for habit had made them almost necessary to you, and each of your senses feels the loss.

—a sailor's diary entry, on losing a shipmate, ca. 1834 (from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.)

I need everyone to see the painting @luwha did from these sketches. Iranji looks so good. Thank you, luwha! This is now my phone lock screen.

(I also appreciate how many people are as Normal about him/these sketches in the tags as my friends and I are. <3)

Character sketch sheet for Iranji!

*ahem* LOOK AT HOW GOOD MY BOY LOOKS. Having Luwha do this sketch sheet of Iranji for me was the highlight of my week.

Character sketch sheet for Iranji!

I love characters that think they can't allow themselves to love or be loved

just to have someone stride into their life to turn that concept upside down

so much love for characters who are desperately unsure whether they’re a good person, a redeemable person, a person worth saving, but are absolutely certain that they’re a grade a hottie

I spent so much of my life romanticizing the Great and Powerful Enormity of the Sea, reading about the salt and the sweat of the sailors straining to haul the sails or anchor while dreading the monsters in the cold, icy deep fathoms below…and now you tell me that a fathom is only 6 feet deep -

unmatched ship dynamic: "i've done terrible things in the past" x "all i care about is who you are in the present"

Can't believe i haven't posted this one 😳✨ Work for Iranji!

Wind's howling

Well that’s not very in love with me of you