Author: acescents

you always wanted it to be like this

exit152:

We run & we run & search lights
sift the fog. How do I love you? Oh, same as
always. With a key in the door. Through
an open window. A little more on Sundays.

What’s young doesn’t stay young. I’m ready
to think of you fondly. In the boat when
you touched my face so softly that
it hurt for weeks, the aching wonder of

a reverse bruise. In my room, in the alley, in
the backyard dusk. A place where the
shadow lingers. They all say the same thing,
“it sure gets real late, real early.”

I’m okay with giving you everything. That’s
the way of the world, or at least of this
crooked universe. I just wish we’d had more
daylight before the dogs were called out.

mythaelogy:

lyinginbedmon:

johannesviii:

prokopetz:

One of my favourite anecdotes about the first Golden Age of Piracy is that, at one point, Captain Henry Morgan left England in one ship, and arrived in the Caribbean commanding a completely different ship, and nobody knows why. What happened to the first ship and how he acquired the second one are entirely unrecorded.

At some point in his short career (1715 until 1718), the English pirate Ben Hornigold attacked a sloop near Honduras just to steal all the hats of the crew, because his own crew had gotten drunk the night before and they had tossed every single one of their own hats overboard.

Bartholomew Roberts, arguably the most successful pirate in history by ships captured (a whopping 470 in 3 years), didn’t actually want to be a pirate. His ship was captured and he was forced to join the pirate crew. After the original pirate captain was killed, he was democratically elected captain of the pirate crew less than 6 weeks after being captured by them.

Stede Bonnet, sometimes known as “The Gentleman Pirate” decided to become a pirate one day due to marital problems. He’d never sailed a day in his life, but he bought a ship (rather than stealing one) and then paid his crew wages instead of giving them a share of the plunder. He was such a useless and inexperienced captain that at one point, his crew abandoned him for Blackbeard’s and he just stayed on the ship as a guest.