The Sailor’s Curse

On 22 October 1707, four Royal Naval warships in a 20-strong fleet under Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell sank at Western Rocks in the Isles of Scilly, losing about 2,000 men. According to legend, however, this was not due to an accident. Instead, it was due to a curse on the part of a sailor.

Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell (x)

The fleet was returning from the Mediterranean and was blown off course by strong winds. The Admiral was convinced that they were in the open waters of the English Channel.  But on his flagship the Association, was a native of Scilly who knew better. He tried in vain to inform the officers that they were heading straight for the rocks, but they would not listen and Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, after several attempts by the Sailor to contact him, was so fed up with him that he summarily sentenced him to death by hanging for insubordination and attempting to incite a mutiny. On the way to the yard the poor man shouted "Kill me and ye shall all drown” .  But his warning went unheeded and the disaster took its course. One version of the legend now says that a storm came up and pushed the ships against the western rocks of the island. The other made it even more dramatic, because the corpse that had previously been buried in its hammock was said to have escaped from it and was floating on the surface of the water, and as soon as it was sighted, the storm started.

Sir Cloudesly Shovel in the Association with the Eagle, Rumney and the Firebrand, Lost on the Rocks of Scilly, October 22, 1707 (x)

The ships smashed against the rocks and thousands lost their lives, including the admiral himself. But the curse had something else in mind for him. Legend has it that he was found alive on the beach at Porthellick Cove on St Mary's. The cause is said to have been bad positioning and the ship being wrecked. Unconscious and surrounded by dead Sailors, he was buried together with them, and alive. The other version is that a local woman killed him to get his jewellery before burying him.

In the end, his body was recovered a day later and buried in Westminster Abbey on 22 December 1707 at the behest of Queen Anne.

But is there even a spark in these legends ? probably not. For they only appeared in 1780 and were then written down as ballads. Presumably it was really just bad positioning and ignorance of longitude, but faulty nautical charts and navigation tables are now also assumed.

Eventually, this event led to the introduction of the ship's chronometer.

We know that Lucifer is canonically the only character that's said the F word in Obey Me!. Nobody else has outright sworn. (I know the others say stuff that gets censored and it's primarily for legal/content reasons but hear me out.)

We also know Lucifer has cast curses during events so that nobody remembers what he (and his brothers in multiple instances) looks like shirtless/naked or as a dame.

Is it possible that at some point Lucifer cursed MC to be a pure cinnamon roll, unable to hear the other characters' constant swearing? Cursed to only converse like life is a PG13 movie while everyone is actually incredibly vulgar.

Blue Coral always forgets to watch his mouth (and always pays the price)

(Sprite edits by cosmicwhoreo!)

you would not believe your eyes

if I found a completed comic in my wip folder

Chuuya thinks he's the king of cursing until he witnesses Kunikida utter sets of words directed at Dazai that should be banned in every country under the sun

CONSTANCE ZIMMER as Shira Bolitar | Harlan Coben's Shelter

Quick post so you guys arent waiting too long-

(Please please click for better quality tumblr is ass)

This is CROSSSSSSS from a dreamtale au im working on right now. His name is in brackets because its supposed to be some sorta greek jumbled together version that im still working on. Like Killer is Hassaos (assassin, killer) and Dust is Insomania (insomnatem, mania). This is his refrence which is obviously not done so ill rb it when i get done w it.

Cross belongs to jakei95

Au belongs to xullian (me [3 )

I don't think I want to know the context behind this but curiosity killed the cat ig

✨moonlight densetsu✨

benoit blanc is just gender envy, pure and simple. i too aspire to help women of color fuck shit up and wear fruity little outfits doing it. he is the kind of man and the kind of masculinity i try to be/have.

Eve Best as Eleanor O’hara in Nurse Jackie

part 2/2 gag reel comp

The tumblr q&a is over, but I was curious! I love all the different phrases the characters in isat/sasasa:p use--If it's something you can say, where did inspiration for "gems alive" and other phrases come from?

THANK YOU FOR ASKING BECAUSE I GET TO TALK ABOUT WORLDBUILDING AND SWEAR WORDS AND BRANDON SANDERSON

long post ahead

ok so when I was figuring out the world, I found this lecture on worldbuilding by Brandon Sanderson (go watch it, and also go read his books), and (im gonna paraphrase heavily here) one thing he mentioned is that, to make a memorable world, one thing you can do is pick a couple areas of culture, and go real deep with it. So like, pick fashion, and architecture, and interior design, and develop those a bunch, and bam! you convinced people you have a whole dang world, even though you only developed 3 areas of this world. hollow iceberg everyone thinks is a real iceberg.

he also mentioned the idea of like... getting weird with it? and develop based on a weird detail? for example, in his book The Stormlight Archives, one detail is that women have to hide their left hand at all times. ok, so what does that mean, whats taboo about a left hand? is the left hand shameful, or lewd somehow, the same way ankles were for us? what about fashion, what does women's fashion look like? and how do you live your every day life, knowing you can't show this hand, can you carry things the same way? etc

SO, for me, one of the Big Worldbuilding pillars i picked was, uh, swear words lol. or language and common expressions, more generally. i went on a whole journey where i was like... ok swear words in a LOT of languages (including french and english, both languages i speak fluently) are either sexual, or about gross bodily discharges. you know what words i mean!!!!!

and, well, i also didnt want the game to be full of those words, mostly because i think its a tightrope to use those words without seeming cringe, and also because i have a Core Memory of showing a comic to a colleague and she said "well i wouldve liked to show it to my kids, but you said fuck 12 times in there" and i didnt show my face to her for a week. family friendly family friendly family friendly

so what swear words should my characters use, that arent the same ones we use? and could those swear words actually tell us something about the world they live in? could i actually use those swear words... to show the characters come from different cultures???

and what COULD swear words be like, if theyre not about sex or body stuff? well irl they're usually about religions or belief. "oh god", "goddamnit", etc. as a sidenote, stuff like "oh my god" or "geez" arent used, because jesus christ is not canon to the ISAT universe. alright

i decided very early on i wouldnt have those in the game either, but i COULD have them be about the religions specific to this world. and for insults, i could have them be about stuff those beliefs would see as lesser.

anyway instead of talking about "gems alive" lets talk about "crab"

isabeau+mirabelle+bonnie use "crab" as a swear word because they follow a religion all around change, bettering yourself, evolving, and, the crab meme,

for those who dont get the joke, its about carcinisation, and about how a bunch of non-crab-like forms somehow evolved to a crab-like form. which would be horrible, for a religion all based around change!!! you mean we change and evolve, but theres a chance we might all become crabs??? CRAB!!!!!!!

anyway having "crab" kinda reads as 1. swear word 2. thats funny and weird (sets the tone) 3. tells you they know what crabs are (world not that different from ours, AND means they live close-ish to the coast, aka not land locked) and 4. crabs are somehow hated/feared, even if as the player you dont get why, it shows this country has its own culture (even if you dont get the crabs joke, which uuuh apparently doesnt work as well in countries that dont have this specific meme. WHATEVER!!!!)

(a few people came to me saying "heh, i get it, because crab and crap are very similar words" and um actually i did not think about that. crab is just a funny word on its own, and also i am a comedy genius without even trying)

anyway tldr: swear words as a worldbuilding tool. soon in theaters

TOP 10 THEATER FANDOMS ON AO3 BASED ON NUMBER OF FANWORKS (2009-2022)

To make these bar chart race, all series titles in the Theater Category on November 29 (or the closest date to it) of every year were copy-pasted from Wayback Machine to Google Sheets, rearranged according to number of fanworks, and then inputted to Flourish to turn into a bar chart race.

Locked fanworks aren't included in the count because Wayback Machine can’t view those, only Ao3 users can.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan was in the Theater category in November 29, 2022, but has been removed by the time this post is published, so I'm leaving it out of the chart.

Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon may be in the top 10, but only 1% of its fanworks come from Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon | Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (Musicals).

Fandom tags that are no longer in the Theater category tag as of posting this are left out of the bar chart race. These tags are usually either miscategorized or already have other tags referring to the same fandom.

For tags that existed on the same years before eventually merging into one tag later on (such as Romeo And Juliet - All Media Types which later on merged with Romeo And Juliet - Shakespeare, and Hamlet - All Media Types which later on merged with Hamlet - Shakespeare), I use the data of whichever tag has the highest number for that year.

Please refer to this post for more bar chart races.

Thanks for understanding and hopefully I didn’t mess up anywhere! 🙏

Just 3 princesses

Diego, sighing: Who’s turn is it to give the pep talk?

Luther: It’s Five’s go

Five: Fuck shit up out there, but don’t die or I’ll kick your sorry asses

Klaus, wiping away tears: So inspiring

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