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maddie-grove · 1 year

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Little Book Review: Nonfiction Round-Up (May-December 2022)

Waking the Tiger by Peter A. Levine (1997): a self-help book with a somatic approach to dealing with trauma symptoms. It contained some advice that was useful at my old job. Unfortunately, I was too traumatized from said job to concentrate properly on the audiobook, so I was kind of in a Catch-22.

The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman (2022): A deliciously disconcerting series of essays about the fractured last decade of the twentieth century. It wins the coveted "book I'm most determined to lend to my mom" award.

Yes, I'm Hot in This by Huda Fahmy (2018): a cute collection of comics from Fahmy's Instagram, covering subjects from strangers being stupid about her hijab (hence the title) to lighthearted scenes of domestic life. I found it in a Little Library.

Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson (2022): an exploration of the life and writing career of Beatrice Sparks, author of multiple "real" diaries by troubled teens, through-and-through grifter, and coiner of the immortal phrase "freak wharf." This fucked, y'all. Emerson seamlessly delves into multiple topics of interest--Sparks's hardscrabble youth, the discovery of LSD, the Satanic Panic--with plenty of compassion and humor.

The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber (2013): the true-crime account of Charles Cullen, a Pennsylvania/New Jersey nurse who murdered possibly hundreds of patients by poisoning their IV bags in the late 1980s to early 2000s. The subject matter is shocking, and it's horrifying how the indifference of the large medical systems he worked for kept him from facing consequences other than getting fired for years. The style/organization of the book is kind of pedestrian, though.

Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow (2019): an account of Farrow's efforts to write a story for NBC about the decades-long sexual predation of producer Harvey Weinstein, including NBC's sideways attempts to get him to back off. Farrow's a solid narrative writer, not great, and the book gets less interesting when he strays beyond the inner workings of NBC.

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion (1968): In her first collection of essays, Didion talks about murder, movies, mental distress, and Sacramento. It's incredibly fresh in some ways (the essay where she talks about raising her daughter away from her extended family) and incredibly dated in others (her incredulity at people who ascribe artistic vision to Meet Me in St. Louis). I genuinely appreciate her ability to make me go "girl, what are you even talking about."

Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh (2020): an illustrated memoir/series of comics, focusing on coping with mental illness and the unexpected loss of a loved one. There are some very funny passages (particularly one involving a troublesome dog), some devastating ones (Brosh's montage of memories of her late younger sister), and some aimless ones.

Monkey Mind by Daniel Smith (2012): part memoir and part general information about anxiety (the science of it, how different people have written about it through history, etc.). It's more interesting as a memoir. I remember that it had some good advice at the end for managing anxiety, but I don't know for the life of me what it was. Still, I feel like I should give him credit for it.

#little book review #waking the tiger #peter a. levine #the nineties #chuck klosterman #yes i'm hot in this #huda fahmy #unmask alice #rick emerson #the good nurse #charles graeber #catch and kill #ronan farrow #slouching towards bethlehem #joan didion #solutions and other problems #allie brosh #monkey mind #daniel smith

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milliondollarbaby87 · 2 years

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The Good Nurse (2022) Review

Amy Loughren is a compassionate nurse who has been working tough night shifts in the ICU. She has a life threatening illness that she cannot tell anyone about and when Charlie Cullen starts on the same shift it looks as though she will have someone to truly support and help her. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ *LFF 2022 Preview Screening* (more…)

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jerichopalms · 1 year

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#19: The Good Nurse (2022, dir. by Tobias Lindholm)

#the good nurse #movies of 2023 #movie poster #tobias lindholm #charles graeber #krysty wilson-cairns #you go girl pass that bechdel test #women screenwriters #female screenwriters

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bob-the-movie-man-film-reviews · 1 year

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The Good Nurse (15): "They never stopped me".

#onemannsmovies review of "The Good Nurse" (2022). #GoodNurseFilm. A stunningly chilling Eddie Redmayne is what's worth seeing here. 3.5/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “The Good Nurse” (2022). I’m filling in the final part of my jigsaw for the major categories at tonight’s BAFTA awards with this Netflix movie that features a Best Supporting Actor nomination for Eddie Redmayne. And I think it’s a great call by BAFTA, since Redmayne’s performance is fabulous in a quiet and creepy way. Bob the Movie Man Rating(s): Plot…

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porquevi · 1 year

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"O enfermeiro da noite" (the good nurse) - netflix.

Esse filme não chegou aos cinemas. Apesar de dois atores de peso no elenco, Chastain e Redmayne. A história verídica de um enfermeiro que matava pacientes usando medicação, assusta e acaba interessando. Ficou no radar pra ver por algum tempo e ontem chegou seu dia.

depois de ver: a história é assustadora e talvez merecesse uma adaptação mais parruda. aqui temos basicamente dois atores segurando a trama. gosto da opção linear, sem pulos no tempo - que tem sido praxe em histórias como essa.

#O enfermeiro da noite #netflix #the good nurse #Tobias Lindholm #Charles Graeber #Eddie Redmayne #Jessica Chastain #Nnamdi Asomugha #Noah Emmerich #Kim Dickens #2022

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sluttyhaecceities · 8 months

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'The tendency in popular thought to view the biological world in economic terms was present at the nineteenth-century beginnings of Darwinian science.

Charles Darwin, after all, borrowed the term “survival of the fittest” from the sociologist Herbert Spencer, that darling of robber barons. Spencer, in turn, was struck by how much the forces driving natural selection in On the Origin of Species jibed with his own laissez-faire economic theories.

Competition over resources, rational calculation of advantage, and the gradual extinction of the weak were taken to be the prime directives of the universe.'

– David Graeber, What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?

By the way, by contrast, the other great, independent discoverer of Evolution, Alfred Russel Wallace, was a socialist, indeed an anarchist, even if he didn't use the label.

“However, we did not talk of geography during the afternoon we spent together, but of Anarchism, of which [Élisée Reclus] was one of the most convinced advocates, and I was very anxious to ascertain his exact views, which I found were really not very different from my own. We agreed that almost all social evils — all poverty, misery, and crime — were the creation of governments and of bad social systems ; and that under a law of absolute justice, involving equality of opportunity and the best training for all, each local community would organize itself for mutual aid, and no great central governments would be needed, except as they grew up from the voluntary association of their parts for general and national purposes.”

— Alfred Russel Wallace, My life: A Record of Events and Opinions

#david graeber #anarchist anthropology #charles darwin #what is the point if we cant have fun #anarchism #alfred russel wallace

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eddie-redmayne-italian-blog · 1 year

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Fotografia di Pierre-Ange Carlotti @Phenomena Styling di Tobias Frericks Grooming di Petra Sellge Produzione di North Six

Eddie Redmayne for GQ Italia

Eddie Redmayne torna, di nuovo, a fare sul serio Dopo avere interpretato per la terza volta il ruolo di "Magizoologo" nel franchise di Animali fantastici, uno tra i più validi attori di Hollywood, nonché premio Oscar, è pronto ad affrontare la scena nei panni di un vero criminale

di Jason McBride

27 ottobre 2022

in English:

Last summer after playing The Good Nurse and before starting rehearsals for the Cabaret revival, winner of the Olivier Awards 2022, Eddie Redmayne back to school at the very specific and renowned academic institute l'École Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq, more know as the Clown school, to Paris.

Redmayne took a course in theatre of the absurd for two weeks where he spent the time to improvise and play.The course was very demanding and the instructors were extremely honest and even strict.

Redmayne’s classmates were between 18 and 60 years old and all came from professional acting background. He was the only one who won an Oscar and the only one to have starred in a billion -dollar film franchise, he felt like an absolute amateur (dilettante). This was the point, he wanted to start all over again to get naked and try to free himself from all the tics of acting patterns accumulated in twenty years.

We are sitting in a suite hotel in Toronto, two days after his son Luke, 4 years old, finally started attending his school in london, redmayne is a caring parent and he wouldn’t miss Luke’s first day for nothing to world, but soon he had to fly to World Premiere of The Good Nurse.

Redmayne it’s been at TIFF five times and he said is thrilled to be back as well as to have the opportunity to face this particular chat “ I’ve never released a real interview” he says “ that of talking about a movie you really believe in, is a rather rare occasion”

In The Good Nurse, Redmayne plays Charles Cullen a nurse who killed as many as 400 patients during the 1990s and early 2000s murdered his victims with insulin and other drug mixes. Today he lives in New Jersey prison where he’s serving 18 consecutive life sentences. Cullen remains the most prolific serial killer in Criminal History.

Redmayne plays him as an affable person, dressed in the classic cardigan, a nice guy, so to speak, but sequence after sequence emerges more devil side “

“Charlie had really two opposites personality in him” said redmayne, who know him described him as “dissociated” and when this emerged his eyes went in different directions, “ I spent about three days in the mirror trying to” says laughing Redmayne “ in the end thought f.....and made my version”

The Good Nurse couldn’t come at a better time in redmayne’s artistic career, he had just finish playing the third part of FB as Newton Scamander, and he longed to act on a smaller set “ It was really liberating for me” Redmayne sais” After trying my hand at so many epic and impactful films that can certainly be fun and spectacular, but they make you lose touch with the human dimension and the intimacy of the production process of a cinematographic work”

Redmayne was struck by the script, loved it, much more when he learned that he was directing by Tobias Lindholm “ He has an extraordinary moral sense” says Redmayne and Lindholm , in turn, has found a precious ally in Eddie.

“ I think making a movie is like being the manager of a football team” says Tobias “ and Eddie is definitely one of those players you would want in your locker room for sure on the pitch too, but this qualities in the locker room are second to none””

When Redmayne learned that Jessica Chaistain would play Amy he was very happy, they never worked together. “ It can be embarrassing to work with friends, a workplace is a particular space, it’s different, you can getalong when you are with your family and then you clash at work”

According to Redmayne he and Jessica have the same approach in the way to preparing their characters. “You have to do a detective work, as accurately as possible” said Redmayne” “ then you throw everthing away and try to act alongside someone”

Eddie prepared himself on Charles Graeber’s 2013 book of the same name, but also from the material he gave him, interviewa, court documents and this mean to study all the Cullen footage in circulation. The Ideal would have been to speak with him, but it was impossible. Redmayne just had a zoom with Amy, who today is a grandmother resident in Florida.

Before plaiyng Cullen, Redmayne hired Reynolds ( Choreographer who helped him to capture every specific detail of Hawking’s physical deterioration) which helped analyze and then impersonate the characteristic, step and posture of the nurse. “ It was kind of a question mark” says the actor worked alongside a vocal coach to refine the slight New Jersey accent.

With Jessica Chastain Eddie attented a nursing school where they spent two weeks learning how ro effortlessly insert the picc line in the vein and hang the saline bags.” I was just a total clumsy ironic, you would never want to see me running to your rescue in a moment of crises”

Such a thorough and obviously tiring preparation takes a long time. Not all actors do this. but in case of Redmayne its’s synonymous of seriousness and also works like as a lifeboat or safety belt. “ Some need a short runway to take off, “ he explains, “ others need a long ramp, I must have a very long one”

In the book Graeber defines Cullen as self -deprecating and vulnerable, this description also fits stragely on Redmayne, the acotr often mentions never having attended an acting school, and tends to describe entire career as a kind o happy accident. “ I don’t have specific plan” he says “ I’m just inprovising”

In fact, his words might even sound like a strange form of boasting. Redmayne started, so to speak, from the top when he was only 11 years old, thanks to a small role in an Oliver production portrayed by Jonathan Pryce and directed by Sam Mendes, Then, while still at Eton, he played Viola in a Globe anniversary production of Twelfth Night, starring and directed by Mark Rylance. His first best-known film roles were Hawking and, a year later, transgender artist Lili Elbe in the film The Danish Girl which earned him, at the age of 30, several nominations for the most prestigious awards. The Theory of Everything, for example, also earned him a BAFTA and a Golden Globe till to win the Oscar. After these two films he seemed well on his way to becoming the answer of his generation of Daniel Day Lewis Ralph Fiennes

Participation in the 2016 film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them has in a sense moved him away from that path. Suddenly, Eddie Redmayne found himself in the Harry Potter franchise, a high-budget production with big special effects, with big star like Jude Law, Johnny Depp and Mads Mikkelsen. What kind of preparation is needed to deal more deeply with the role of a Magizoologist? It is not possible to register for a crash course at Hogwarts. Redmayne does not express himself in these terms, of course. When he talks about the Harry Potter spin-off film series, he’s very accommodating and generous. "The moment I accepted to enter that type of universe," he says, "I knew I was ending up inside a mechanism much larger than me. He has given me so much and I have loved acting alongside some of the best and brightest actors in the world. The possibility of continuing to work with them every two years, in an industry that is nomadic and circus, has been an extraordinary experience of continuity ». An undoubted advantage on the human level he says, not necessarily at the level of acting. It has been a fun journey, but perhaps not the ideal place to continue learning. "The thing I'm sure of is that comfort and I don't get along very well," says Redmayne. "So I always try to go beyond the boundaries of my comfort zone." Fantastic Beasts has also been plagued by some controversy of an extracurricular nature: the scandalous views of J.K. Rowling on gender identity, Depp's libel case, the recent arrests of Ezra Miller and a drop in box office results. While Redmayne doesn't want to talk about all of that, the decision to focus on more intimate films like The Good Nurse is the best answer.

During our conversation , Redmayne reflected on his own creative ambiguity, his "cynicism" and "pessimism". When I ask him where this way of feeling comes from, he’s careful not to attribute it to any particular project, but he struggles to identify its true source. "Acting is a strange mix of control and freedom," he specifies, choosing his words. “When you start making a movie, you lose a bit the control . You become a cog. You can work on the script for years, but there comes a time when you have to give up on yourself and that's a complex thing, you know? At best, you do this with someone you trust and it makes you feel completely free. But it doesn't always work like that ».

If Redmayne has always worked hard, he has also, by his own admission, worked little. Now, thanks to Cabaret and The Good Nurse, he probably expects to work even less. "This year has served to make me more demanding," he says, bursting out laughing again. Unlike most artists, he doesn't really know what he'll be up to in the future. However, after finally working with a friend, he would like to do it again. Perhaps with one of his longtime British colleagues, such as Ben Whishaw and Andrew Garfield. Maybe with his Cabaret co-star Jessie Buckley. Or, dare, even in a comedy, the kind of film in which it might come in handy to have attended clown school. «I gave myself a move», he concludes, «and I rediscovered the love for my work that perhaps I had lost a bit».

https://www.gqitalia.it/show/article/eddie-redmayne-intervista

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gracelandmp3 · 8 months

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finally reading 1491 and the fact that the guy is a journalist not an historian keeps pissing me off which i was NOT expecting like i read popular press history books all the time! i’m quite stupid! it shouldn’t be bothering me this much!!! but it’s sooo frustrating i keep mentally comparing it to other books i’ve read w even vaguely adjacent subject matter and it is Simply not doing it for me

#i’m still gonna stick with it like the subject matter Is interesting enough to carry it for sure #but i keep feeling like . charles c mann shut upppppp you don’t have it #you will never be david graeber and david whatsisname the other guy who did the dawn of everything #i get that it’s a broad overview but everything feels rly surface level i want it to go deeper on like every topic it covers :((

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bespokeredmayne · 2 years

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Must-see

Two Oscar winners — Jessica Chastain + Eddie Redmayne — as leads, + the “excellent” Tobias Lindholm at the helm have put The Good Nurse on RogerEbert.com’s “can’t wait to see” list at the Toronto International Film Festival.

The thriller, with a screenplay by Krysty Wilson-Cairns based on the true-crime book by Charles Graeber, has its world premiere next Sunday, Sept. 11.

#eddie redmayne #jessica chastain #the good nurse #rogerebert.com #TIFF 2022 #world premiere #krysty Wilson cairns #Charles graeber

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eddieredmayneargentinablog · 2 years

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"The Good Nurse" have arrived at TIFF!

#my screenshoots

Watch the video here 👇🏻

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#Eddie Redmayne #eddie redmayne #eddieredmayne #redmayne #jessica chastain #tobias lindholm #charles graeber #tiff 2022 #the good nurse #thegoodnurse #Youtube

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mostlysignssomeportents · 27 days

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This day in history

I'm on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in BOSTON with Randall "XKCD" Munroe (Apr 11), then PROVIDENCE (Apr 12), and beyond!

#15yrsago Why URL shorteners suck https://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners

#15yrsago Heinlein’s house for sale https://web.archive.org/web/20090406105617/https://mcginnis.com/listings/detail.php?lid=41846127&limit=0&offset=0&aid=005900204&oid=005900002&temp=1057&aname=Sharon+Roland&aimg=1&chome=1&agent_hasfeat=2&&posc=6&post=10&cfq=elegant%3Dyes%26property_category%3D1%26county%3D41%26aid%3D005900204%26oid%3D005900002%26temp%3D1057%26aname%3DSharon%2BRoland%26aimg%3D1%26chome%3D1%26agent_hasfeat%3D2%26SRSearchDate%3D1238781456%26SRRecordCount%3D10%26SRPage%3D1%26SRPageCount%3D1%26SRPageLinks%3D6

#15yrsago Game industry exec celebrates 60+ hour work-weeks https://web.archive.org/web/20090405131359/playthisthing.com/mothers-dont-let-your-children-grow-be-game-developers

#15yrsago Nine year old’s survey project excluded from school because he learned some people don’t think of themselves as male or female https://thefourthvine.livejournal.com/102417.html

#10yrsago Britain is turning into a country that can’t tell its terrorists from its journalists https://memex.craphound.com/2014/04/03/britain-is-turning-into-a-country-that-cant-tell-its-terrorists-from-its-journalists/

#10yrsago Stop-and-frisk as the most visible element of deep, violent official American racism https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/04/what-i-learned-about-stop-and-frisk-from-watching-my-black-son/359962/

#10yrsago David “Debt” Graeber evicted, implicates NYPD intelligence, claims revenge-harassment for OWS participation http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/015820.html

#10yrsago Open net gets a huge boost in the EU: net neutrality and no roaming fees https://web.archive.org/web/20140405234420/http://www.marietjeschaake.eu/2014/04/mep-european-parliament-supports-proposal-schaake-to-enshrine-net-neutrality-in-european-law/

#10yrsago Cats of Tanglewood Forest: illustrated modern folktale from Charles de Lint and Charles Vess https://memex.craphound.com/2014/04/03/cats-of-tanglewood-forest-illustrated-modern-folktale-from-charles-de-lint-and-charles-vess/

#10yrsago House Science Committee: a parliament of Creationists, Climate Deniers (and dunces) https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/the-curious-wavefunction/the-house-of-representatives-committee-on-science-is-turning-into-a-national-embarrassment/

#10yrsago Big Data has big problems https://www.ft.com/content/21a6e7d8-b479-11e3-a09a-00144feabdc0

#5yrsago 540 million Facebook users’ data exposed by third party developers https://www.upguard.com/breaches/facebook-user-data-leak

#5yrsago Elizabeth Warren proposes holding execs criminally liable for scams and data breaches https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/elizabeth-warren-its-time-to-scare-corporate-america-straight/2019/04/02/ca464ab0-5559-11e9-8ef3-fbd41a2ce4d5_story.html

#5yrsago How EFF’s Eva Galperin plans to destroy the stalkerware industry https://www.wired.com/story/eva-galperin-stalkerware-kaspersky-antivirus/

#5yrsago After years of insisting that DRM in HTML wouldn’t block open source implementations, Google says it won’t support open source implementations https://memex.craphound.com/2019/04/03/after-years-of-insisting-that-drm-in-html-wouldnt-block-open-source-implementations-google-says-it-wont-support-open-source-implementations/

#5yrsago After months of insisting that #Article13 doesn’t require filters, top EU Commissioner says “Article 13 requires filters” https://memex.craphound.com/2019/04/03/after-months-of-insisting-that-article13-doesnt-require-filters-top-eu-commissioner-says-article-13-requires-filters/

#5yrsago Notices at Intel press event seem to say attending photographers must assign copyright to all pictures and videos to the company? https://web.archive.org/web/20200616222543/http://mitchwagner.com/2019/04/02/video-consent-notice-posted-discreetly-in-a-couple-of-places-on-the-walls-at-the-intel-press-analyst-event-today/

#5yrsago Patagonia tells banks and oil companies that they can no longer buy co-branded vests https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/patagonia-power-vest-policy-change

#1yrago The problem with economic models https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/03/all-models-are-wrong/#some-are-useful

#pluralistic

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gaypiratepropaganda · 7 months

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ok here are the most important ones (to me)

The Ballad of the Pirate Queens by Anne Yolen

this is a children's book in verse about Anne Bonny and Mary Read. responsible for my pirate obsession

Bloody Jack by LA Meyer

a young adult series about a girl who disguises herself as a boy, goes to sea, and becomes a pirate. these were the best thing ever invented to kid me but I haven't read them in a while so I don't know if they're actually like, good. I liked the atmosphere and the slightly antiquated way it was written. there are gay bits.

A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates: From Their first Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence to the present Time, with the remarkable Actions and Adventures of the two Female Pyrates Mary Read and Anne Bonny

or A General History of the Pyrates by "Captain Charles Johnson"

A good starting point. a lot of our pirate stories come from this book. it claims to be a true historical record, but I have my doubts. still fun though. I think this guy just wrote down every story he heard about pirates. it has illustrations.

Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition by B.R. Burg

not super historical but it doesn't really claim to be. basically it's just this guy going. "so... pirates fucked, right? like, there's no way they didn't." and then he's correct. I mainly wanted this book as a teenager because I loved the cover and the title but now it's in my brain forever. look at Blackbeard. look at his gay little pose

Pirate Enlightenment or The Real Libertalia by David Graeber

this is the one I'm reading right now and I love it so far. it's about pirates in Madagascar and the real-life version of the pirate utopia from general history of pyrates (it isn't real but it kind of is but not.) I like the writer, he's written other good things. he's obsessed with the enlightenment for some reason but you can easily ignore that.

On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers, which is kind of like a magical realism type thing. I think it's kind of what pirates of the Caribbean is based on. this is where I knew Stede Bonnet from

Liveship Traders by Robin Hobb, three books that are part of a fantasy series. these pirates are dicks to each other a lot but they are gay and their ships are alive.

Lost Boi by Sassafras Lowrey is a queer sort of modern version of Peter Pan. captain hook is in there and he's like a leather guy. not literally pirates, but still.

The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach is science fiction with queer pirates, a monkey god, and mushroom houses.

#iumblr #our flag means death #queer #pirate #if you have a library #you can go on their website and look up all the books with the subject “pirates” and read those.#Project Gutenberg is good for old books #and then another weird thing I do is #go to theanarchistarchive.org and search for pirates there #sometimes there are interesting things #ancient texts old articles fun ramblings #if you run out of books the queen anne's revenge archeology website is cool #and the pirate surgeon website #reference

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