Pirate Avast

[Stella Kreuter]

Getready to set sail with a crew of rebels and misfits in this thrilling anthology of pirate tales. From CD burners to space pirates with an otherworldly crew, these stories blur the lines between criminal and separatist, playful and heartfelt and showcase a range of unique characters and found families. Featuring seven long-form pieces of writing, including a graphic novella and a verse novella, this collection has been edited by and features trans and non-binary writers, ensuring a fresh and diverse perspective on the pirate genre. So come aboard and discover a world of queer pirates, exhilarating escapades and homebrewed ale.

Fremantle Press respectfully acknowledges the Wadjak people of the Noongar nation as the traditional owners and custodians of the land where we work in Walyalap. We offer our respects to Wadjak Elders past, present and emerging.

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International Talk Like a Pirate Day started after syndicated columnist and author, Dave Barry, mentioned a group of zany guys who liked to talk using pirate lingo. Years earlier, these guys decided to start their own Talk Like a Pirate Day and make it a national holiday on September 19th. Trouble was, no one knew about it. But in 2002, when Dave Barry wrote about the fledgling holiday, it was a breakout success.

Since the name of our company, AVAST, also means stop or desist, as in "Avast, ye landlubbers!", it made sense for us to be a part of the celebration. Jezebel, the Webwench from the Talk Like a Pirate's Day crew declares,

More than a match for the ruthless pirate crew, Alosa has only one thing standing between her and the map: her captor, the unexpectedly clever and unfairly attractive first mate, Riden. But not to worry, for Alosa has a few tricks up her sleeve, and no lone pirate can stop the Daughter of the Pirate King.

Hi, everyone! My name is Ren Strange and my pronouns are she/they. I'm here to talk about books, music, and more! Sometimes I make social commentary or address feminist issues. Sometimes I just watch YouTube for hours. Welcome to my blog!

When pirates land on the beach, they invite little Jeremy Jacob to join them to help them bury their treasure. At first, Jeremy loves being a pirate: there are no vegetables, no manners, and no bedtimes. But there are also no bedtime stories and no one to comfort him when a huge storm threatens the ship. Fun, engaging story, with lots of opportunities for the kids to echo pirate phrases. It was the perfect lead-in to my treasure map activity.

I had done this activity once before for a Map-themed storytime at our other branch. The picture above is actually from that library. I hand drew the map and copied it onto tan paper. I crumpled up each copy before spreading it out again to give it to the kids. I made signs to mark tables with names like Ship-Shape Shelter, Parrot Paradise, Mermaid Isle, and Dragon Isle.

I like to think myself a discerning games player. I explore the far reaches of video games in search of fascinating systems, profound experiences, and deep truths. Also, I cannot stop beaming at Doom II imps dressed up as pirates whose hats drift lazily down to the ground after you blow them away with a flintlock. That's Pirate Doom, a mod giving everything a piratical makeover with twenty-odd new levels, pirate hats, rum, beer, beards, peg legs, cannons, and ripped Monkey Island music.

It's very pretty and cartoony, with silly pirates and lush Monkey Island-y skies, but is a pretty solid pack as well as a bit of a giggle. Though I haven't finished it, the maps seem pleasant, and the replacement weapons strike a nice balance between familiar and new. The shotgun becomes a sawn-off and the rocket launcher is a cannon, for example, but they're not direct analogues and have alt-fire modes like a cutlass slash or barrage of cannonballs.

Pirate Doom is this-a-way. You'll need the GZDoom engine and either a full copy of Doom II or the Freedoom replacement pack for textures and sounds and whatnot. A new version came out earlier this month, adding another map and the sort of change I'm always delighted to find in patch notes:

That's pretty much the beginning and end of my pirate speak. However, in honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day, I decided to expand my vocabulary beyond the basics. First, I found this nifty difty pirate translator. So go forth and speak pirate. Some more googling and clicking led me to this awesome word: matelotage

The pirates exchanged rings and pledged eternal union. After this, they were expected to share everything. Plunder and living spaces were obvious, but couples in matelotage were also known to share other property and even women. If one of the partners was killed in action, pirate captains were careful to make sure that the surviving member received both shares of the plunder, as well as appropriate death benefits.

A very close (sometimes romantic) pirate buddy was called a matelot on French ships. The English picked up the term that described these close same-sex friendships that were so different than the relationships between English sailors. Eventually, they shortened matelot to mate.

The problem with pirates is, of course, that literacy was low, and there was no real centralized government. They died young, lived dangerously, and left relatively few documents. On top of this, "pirate" is a very nebulous term that describes the crews of any number of semi-legal and illegal trade ships as well as maritime bandits. However, there is an increasing body of research suggesting that a lot of pirate cultures were relatively permissive when it came to same-sex relationships.

Many people compare this to "situational homosexuality." Other historians theorize that people who would be rejected by society for their sexuality or breaking other taboos would be more attracted to the relative acceptance of the pirate life. It would only be natural that these communities would be more open to breaking the rules about sexuality when they're already breaking so many other laws. Keep in mind that at this time, sodomy was punishable by death in the British navy.

In 1645, the governor of Tortuga was sufficiently concerned about same-sex relationships among French sailors that he requested the government send hundreds of prostitutes to keep the sailors occupied. It didn't really work. The pirates enjoyed the prostitutes but kept their mates as well.

Again the idea of pirates as a single entity is deeply flawed. Each ship basically functioned at is its own governing body. Although there may have been cultural norms that transcended individual ship's laws, there was a lot of variety too. Each ship had its own articles that were the basic rules and laws of the ship. Most codes haven't survived, but there are a few, and some of those do address sexual conduct.

Boys and women are grouped together in this one as potential sexual objects, which makes me assume that there was a degree of knowledge of same-sex relationships. Also, there seems to have been rules around what kind of same-sex interactions may or not be acceptable. The other mention I've found was in Captain John Phillips's articles. He didn't address same-sex relationships, but he did state,

It looks like pirating was probably about more than swabbing, plunder, and pieces of eight. Although it was brutal, illegal, and sounded largely un-fun, piracy also created a space for people to escape the very confining social mores of the time. Men had the freedom to express their affection for men or women. There was significantly more social mobility as well. It was also this more permissive society that also allowed women to make their mark as more than wives and daughters. Definitely, go check out Anne Bonny and Mary Read for more on some awesome women who took to the pirating life. Also, if you're interested in learning a whole lot more about same-sex lovin' on the high seas, check out Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean.

Head, who teaches courses in American history and western civilization, came out with his latest book on the subject this year, an edited collection of essays, The Golden Age of Piracy: The Rise, Fall, and Enduring Popularity of Pirates (University of Georgia Press).

In the early 18th century, piracy revived following the wreck of a Spanish treasure fleet off the Atlantic coast of Florida. Pirates preyed on the salvage operations and then organized themselves in the Bahamas. These are the notorious pirates like Blackbeard, who sailed in defiance of all authority and plundered the ships of every nation.

Piracy declined in response to changes in geopolitics, as seen with the buccaneers. Another major factor was changes in the support pirates received from communities ashore. Landlubbers supported piracy for many reasons, including the simple fact that they provided goods unavailable in the colonies by legitimate means. When pirates lost that connection, they lost the shelter they needed in between cruises.

One of the best known legends of pirate treasure is told about Captain William Kidd, who raided in the Indian Ocean in the 1690s and was later arrested in Boston, and sent to London for trial. He was executed in 1701. He took a while sailing from the Indian Ocean back to North America, with stops in Madagascar, the Caribbean, and New York, where his family lived.

Yes, there were pirates in the Middle Ages when chivalrous knights jousted, but they were not the same pirates of the Caribbean, which Europeans had not yet encountered. Piracy was common in the Mediterranean and was often practiced by the Muslim states of north Africa, the Barbary pirates that the United States would fight against early in its history.

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