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dougielombax · 6 months

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I wonder what the largest shellfish is?

Edit: Okay this post is getting a LOT of traction. What is going on?

Edit: Fucking hell.

This post has set off a fucking MINEFIELD!!!

What have I DONE????!!!!!

I’ve lit the blue touch paper and found there’s nowhere to run to!

I’ve summoned a wolf only to unleash a tiger!!!!! Made of fire! And nails.

Probably….

Idk.

Edit 2: 5,000 Notes! Good god! What the HELL do you want from me. I’ve never had a post of mine take off like this until now.

Some got close like the one about homeowner associations (fucking powertripping middle aged mediocrities!) which got at least 1.5k notes but this is the most I’ve gotten on a single post so far.

Anyway.

AND this post has officially gone to hell. (6,666 notes)

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WHO THE HELL TURNED OFF THE REPLY THREAD FOR THE REBLOGS?!

Okay never mind it’s back. For now at least.

Anyway.

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mycological-mariner · 10 months

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So I bought this painting of the Cutty Sark in a charity shop for 50p. And on the back it’s got this placard - pretty cool, right? Obviously it’s staying

Obviously the frame is a little busted and it can’t hang but that’s a 10 minute fix.

So I remove the card first thing to save for later and —

It’s a fucking menu. And apparently a really fancy one - it got French words. I’m laughing my ass off because some guy cut out a description of the Cutty Sark from a restaurant menu and stuck it to the back of a painting of said ship. At this point I’m having a blast and joking that “Oh, what’s next, the painting itself is gonna be from the dessert menu, I bet!”

IT WAS THE FUCKING WINE MENU. And this has to be ancient because £1.25 for a bottle of wine?? 20p for a glass?!

So quite a few decades ago some guy stole a menu, took it home, then cut out the painting of The Cutty Sark and it’s description and framed it to presumably hang on their wall. And now it is in my home, on my mantle and whenever I have guests over they’ll go “Oh what a nice picture of a ship!” But they won’t know. Only I will know that it is in fact the front piece of a wine menu. Like. The process behind how this came to be.

I’m keeping this forever.

#I’m gonna treasure this the rest of my life #thought age of sail tumblr might get a kick out of this WEIRD but lovely and honestly hilarious find #that frame was being held together with tape I’m sorry it had to go tho #maybe I’ll paint this one so it’s not so. boring.#it was just a cheap thing from the store #holy shit #incredible find #how did they smuggle it out of the restaurant??#big coat?? hand bag? under their hat?#anyways #age of sail #age of steam #cutty sark #maritime art #(and it IS art)

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frogofshadyorigin · 1 month

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OMFGs I might have an opportunity to join a maritime excursion on a research vessel for 10 days sometimes in 2024 and I'm so hyped it would literally be such a great step into my future goal of getting into maritime biology OMFGs I'm so hyped right now even though I'm probably not going to get the place ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

#ahhhhhhhh #holy ehit #it would be so fucking cool #maritime biology is the best #fuck #shit #can't deal with that rn

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apnourry · 3 months

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not doing SHIT this weekend so if y'all see me doing shit please tell me to knock it off bc i'm not doiNG SHIT THIS WEEKEND tia🥰🥰🥰

#i can't help myself #i'll be like ONE RHING CAN'T POSSIBLY BE THAT BAD #suddenly balls deep in 4 projects #driving through the mountains with a ton of brush to take to the transfer station and learning to be a ranch hand and taking up 1800s #maritime life #it snowballs #SO FAST #so anyway #NOT DOING SHIT

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theiceandbones · 9 months

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If it's not a hurricane it's a noreaster and if it isnt a noreaster it's a wildfire and if it isnt a wildfire it's a carbon tax and if it isnt a carbon tax it's apocalyptic thunder and flash flooding after having rained for a month straight so why anyone would want to live in, to relocate to Nova Scotia is absolutely beyond me

#we are not okay over here and have never been!!!#honestly the only good thing to come out of confederation is that we aren't American because god knows Ottawa doesn't give a shit #and neither does the rest of the country. unless they're taking a cute little vacation to the quaint little maritimes #actually ykw I'm not done. yall will see a lighthouse and nut yourselves like waaa i want to live thereeee by the oceannnn #do you know what it's like to live here?? we are dying in emergency rooms because we don't have doctors #every stupid morning there's a new homeless tent on Grand Parade because it's too damn expensive to live here #and despite the million of us screaming for help Ottawa and the rest of Canada does nothing to help us #they never have. ever #i love my home and it will always be my home but your rose coloured glasses are insulting sometimes

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heelhausen · 1 month

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GUYS HELP SONNY KISS HAS SEEN MY ARTWORK

#Sonny is friends with a bunch of the maritimers i work with so like. I knew it was a possibility.#but I damn near shit my fuck when she commented on the post

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queensectonia · 2 years

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another example where the localisation team really pulled out their good shit: Lor Starcutter. in Japanese, it’s only “Lor” (spelt ロア) - there’s no suffix. but in English they added “Starcutter”, which is such a clever double pun.

it’s a “star cutter” because of the way it cuts open star-shaped portals. but it’s also a star cutter - a type of boat that’s known for being fast! that’s so smart! I love it! instead of a starship it’s a starcutter! the localisation team made up a whole custom suffix to expand the Lor’s character and themes and they killed it.

ignoring the fact that it’s very clearly modelled after galleons, of course x)

and i can’t talk about the Lor’s name without mentioning how tied up in Magolor’s name it is - the localisation team didn’t miss that either. to be frank, Magolor’s name was translated really well too, it’s just that the meaning behind his name was very obvious so it was much simpler to give him an elegant translation.

#kirby #i'm a gigantic maritime nerd so when i first saw this i was so stoked about it #naval shit AND nomenclature? sign me the fuck UP

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splendidemendax · 3 months

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trying desperately to find the source on this half a fact abt roman law that i have rattling around in my brain

#some percentage of roman law something (i think maybe cases in the digests?) was about the sea and maritime shit #but i can't find the source so i can't find the details #ugh #classics #mea res

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high-voltage-rat · 2 years

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I did some research at the maritime museum because it’s been driving me nuts not knowing exactly what type of ship type the Revenge is and I wanted to confirm for sure. She’s not a brig, a barque, or a brigantine- she’s a full-rigged ship, with a luteen-style mizzen sail on her mizzenmast.

Whether or not it would be accurate to call her a frigate is questionable- the definition has changed a few times over the years. By 18th century standards, she doesn’t have enough guns- from what I can tell, she’s only got 18 at the max, if all her gunports are filled, (though we only ever actually see the 6 that are on the deck)- and a ship needed 28 to qualify as a frigate. However, in the 17th century, that term applied to ships that were small and built for speed, which we could technically apply to the Revenge.

She could also be referred to as a sloop-of-war- though these were not built as three-masted ships until decades after when the show is meant to be set, anachronisms aren’t exactly a primary concern of OFMD, so. Sloops-of-war were equipped with only one gun-deck, and typically had only 18 guns like the Revenge, as they were unrated. Given all of that, I think this is the best description to use if you want something cooler than just calling her a ship.

bonus image of my rigging and ship structure labelling and horrible handwriting notes under the cut!

#not video games #ali watches our flag means death #our flag means death #ofmd #was this totally unnecessary and lowkey a waste of my time? yes. do I regret it at all? no.#I just. fucking love boats and maritime shit.#anyway shout out to the age of sail section in the maritime museum of the atlantic #feeding my hyperfixation fire highkey <3

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chicago-geniza · 2 years

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finally figured out why Bohdan never shows up in all the fuckin' fancy Pedigrees the Noble & Most Ancient Zahorski Line commissions like all szlachta families and it is because his father disowned him in the Krakow Social Democrat newspaper. Embarrassing