I just found out (from Nostalgia critic of all things) that "Nunnery" was Elizabethan Slang for a brothel. So that means when Hamlet told Ophelia "Get thee to a nunnery!" he's calling her a slut in two possible ways.
1. In that she needs to cloister herself up with nuns because she's impure or... 2. Because she's so slutty she might as well go to a brothel.
This is almost as interesting as the obvious Bottom = ass joke with the donkey ears in A Midsummer Night's dream.
Also Jack Sparrow mistaking a convent for a brothel in Pirates of the Caribbean Stranger Tides isn't just a throw away joke now. Based on the language of the era, he misunderstood being told the place was a nunnery.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Syrena —Aesthetic
Syrena's Character & Personality
Syrena is a mermaid from Whitecap Bay. Like all her sister mermaids, she's beautiful, smart, alluring, enigmatic and emotionally tough. Beyond this, Syrena is the opposite of her bloodthirsty sisters. She's kind, innocent, timid and compassionate. Syrena can read people quite well without having to know them. She can identify a person who protects versus someone who harms. Thus, Syrena is brave and will protect those said people in return. However, she's quite aggressive towards those with ill intentions toward her. Finally, Syrena is selfless as she doesn't want her tear going to waste.
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I was thinking about PotC recently and remembered an HC I have about Jack's mother. She's not "nobody" but someone very powerful.
But first I want to talk about another powerful lineage in the movie series.
I've always thought Captain Blackbeard was too forced for a human, but rereading PJO I came across something interesting. Uncle Rick wrote Blackbeard as the son of Poseidon,
Period. Let's consider Edward a demigod. That explains the connection with the sea, because he is feared and the most powerful.
But that's not all. He knows spells, curses and the future.
Anyway, in the book, he was imprisoned by Circe.
"Circe was a sorceress goddess in Ancient Greek tradition. The deity, like many others in Greek mythology, had a dualistic nature: she was the goddess of the New Moon, of physical love, of enchantments and dreams that reveal the future, but also of revenge, curses and black magic"
This is Uncle Rick's story. And it's not because PJO is from Disney that PotC has to follow this narrative. Let's go back to the movies, another universe.
The voices in the head then said and defended this concept. Blackbeard is Poseidon's son, but instead of Circe imprisoning Edward like a guinea pig, he had a daughter with her, and Circe taught him a few tricks.
This explains why they can put ships in glass bottles, how Blackbeard can control his ship with his sword, how they can turn men into zombies and make voodoo dolls. And I think Angélica has futuristic dreams (I even think she was the one who dreamt that Barbosa would kill her father and lied to protect herself).
Now for the most important point, which is Jack's mother
I have a HC (Head Canon) that Jack Sparrow is the bastard son of the Queen of Atlantis and now I can explain with proof why.
Let's just reinforce that in the same way that Teach can't be the most feared pirate just because he's human, Jack can't be the most important pirate of all because he is, without a special nature.
Are you saying that a human can't do what Jack and Teach did?
I am! They're both connected to the sea, and to magic, and that's why they're so successful in their adventures.
Jack is a son of Atlantis (almost like Aquaman kkkkk)
And the main point is a scene from the first movie. In the scene, Jack and Will are at the bottom of the sea, with a simple boat capsized and yet with breathable air. For physics, what Jack did is impossible, mainly because of the pressure of the water.
So, since physics can't explain it, we're left with fiction. Jack was able to unconsciously create an air bubble and walk under the ocean safely, because the nature of the royalty of the people of Atlantis allows it.
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