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emcads · 2 years

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this is a half baked thought but it compels me how the potc rpc (me included) latches onto port royal as a place for worldbuilding / domestic storytelling / etc because it exudes permanence and structure as opposed to places like tortuga and shipwreck cove which are transient by nature, and full of residents in transit, and ghosts, and stories. ships, not homes.

#theres certainly an element of ''what does civilization / family / community look like in colonial society?'' that i am not immune to but i #at least attempt to address in my writing #but i also think theres something interesting in writing in a place that's post earthquake - post an image of looking like tortuga #and is building an idea of what it sees itself as ( not unlike the later seasons of BS and the new nassau )#and casting off the idea of the old privateers and the old england that was more than happy to buddy up with the privateers #to .. finding places in the New World Or Perish so to speak #✘; I HAVE SEVENTY TWO EXAMS AND I HAVE NOT STUDIED FOR ONE ( ooc )#what we dont really get a sense of in the movies (which for obv reasons cast PR as the naval & civilized foil to tortuga)#is that countless numbers of the other residents would have to adapt their ways of life as maritime communities once england decides piracy #is against her better interests #the merchants who counted on patrons with stolen spanish gold - the carpenters and suppliers who are now fitting naval ships instead of #pirate vessels. the sex workers who – rather than depending on gold windfalls from pirates – are dependent on the unreliable pay given to #their naval clientele #there's a whole new crop of work that pops up post piracy act (namely the local justice system for hanging pirates) but it interests me to #think about how that sharpening divide between legal and illegal naval violence catches civilians in the crossfire #rather than ONLY the sailors / pirates / privateers / etc themselves

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