My war ships are lying off the coast

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365 Characters ↳ #42 - Koschei, the Deathless

That feeling of yearning

Contributions from other folk:

One witch grabs a potion and makes a molotov cocktail 

One witch has a tree branch and wields it like a magic greatsword

One witch who is essentially the “druid/ranger/beastmaster” class and she sets her hordes of black cats upon her enemies.

Ice witch who crafts herself some ice knuckledusters

tarot cards but they’re metal and flicked like knives/ninja stars

understands the characters to their core

writes so well they–just so–they just—their writing is—-THEY WRITE GOOD

shatters your bad mood with a new update

writes a fic that you can read over again and still clutch at your heart like HOLY SHIT I FUCKING LOVE–I LOVE THIS FIC

writes a scene that has you all giddy in public and that one random stranger asks you like “ooo you are smiling :) :) is that a boy :) you are talking to :)” and you’re like “no I’m reading a Everybody Lives/Nobody Dies AU, please leave”

understands and portrays the characters better than the people who make MOVIES with those characters

THIS WONDERFUL MOVIE WAS MADE BY LOTTE REINIGER! SHE WAS ONE OF THE PIONEERS OF ANIMATION!!!! SHE MADE OVER 40 FILMS IN HER CAREER USING A TECHNIQUE SHE INVENTED WITH HER HUSBAND! WALT DISNEY ENDED USING HER MULTI PLANE TECHNIQUE IN HIS OWN MOVIES! AND SHE FUCKING MADE THE FIRST FEATURE LENGTH ANIMATED MOVIE!! (she ended up fleeing Nazi germany eventually work in north america, both us and canada, on other movies.)

 This woman is one of the most important figures in animation HISTORY!

1. will and elizabeth’s love story

2. elizabeth becoming pirate king

3. avoiding sexualizing elizabeth or the other female pirate characters in the first 3 films by allowing them to wear period-accurate pirate outfits that aren’t tailored to be revealing and impractical for ‘sex appeal’ just because they’re women

6. I run a corseting panel at cons and literally use Elizabeth’s lace-up scene as a video clip of what historical corseting was actually like, because the only thing they got wrong in this scene is that tightlacing wouldn’t be a thing for about another 200 years (and you couldn’t tightlace with the corset style Elizabeth is wearing anyway). It’s one of the most accurate corseting scenes I’ve ever seen.

7. Will’s hat.

8. That scene with all the pirates on the gallows where that little boy starts singing Hoist the Colours? Yeah, that’s fucking legendary. The rest of AWE was kind of a trash fire, but that scene gave me goosebumps.

9. There’s this great shot in the first one where they really drive home the class differences inherent in this time period by having the governor talking about progress and civilization to Elizabeth in their carriage, and then they cut to a shot outside the carriage where a beggar gets splashed by mud from the wheel. It’s a perfect way to underline that everything is not, in fact, a nice little upper-class fairytale, and to give some weight to Will’s storyline, because he has a lot more in common with that beggar than with the governor.

10. For its time, the CGI was fucking amazing.

11. And let’s not forget the work of the makeup department, which had to actually invent new ways of putting on makeup for this movie.

12. The governor’s death scene. Holy shit.

13. They could have gone with a Jack/Will/Elizabeth love triangle, but they didn’t. There are some hints Jack is in love (or at least in lust) with Elizabeth, but he recognizes that she loves Will, and that’s that.

2. They had a woman pirate right in the first film, when the tradition is to only show male ones (hell, the PotC ride at Disney had a wench auction scene until recently). And it was a female pirate of colour at that!

3. Elizabeth may not have known how to fight in the first film, but she wasn’t helpless either. Her first instinct was to fight, but she also had the brains to recognize when it was best to hide instead. Plus when given the chance she stabbed Barbosa that one time.

4. Elizabeth’s lack of fighting ability was not simply because she was a woman, it was clear it was due to her societal circumstances, since we saw other women of different socioeconomic backgrounds being able to fight (and when given the opportunity to learn Elizabeth took to fighting like a duck on water).

5. The Hoist the Colours scene where we see pirates of multiple ethnicities and their varying flags, reminding us that pirates came in all shapes and sizes and weren’t just white men.

6. One of the Pirate Lords being yet ANOTHER woman of colour. She may not have had much of a speaking role if memory serves, but even her presence is already a big deal.

10. We can’t give all the credit to Hans Zimmer because it was Klaus Badelt’s work in the first movie that created the memorable tunes. They both worked on it but in the artist for the album, it lists Klaus Badelt. Another movie Klaus Badelt worked on? The Prince of Egypt. (Hans Zimmer was also a composer for this movie)

11. the first movie almost didn’t get made because pirate movies weren’t thought to be profitable anymore

12. casting Geoffrey Rush as Hector Barbossa. He is known to ask directors so many questions (and deep questions at that) about his character to really get into his roles that it sometimes gets on directors nerves. The fact that he cares so much about his role in 1-3 really made his character memorable.

13. that scene where Davy Jones plays the organ with his tentacles?? was no one going to point that one out? chills. is also the same time that will turner meets his father by accident?? and also just the spooky organ music in general for the kraken

14. the fact they actually built the ships instead of relying on CGI. and they filmed a lot of scenes on location and added and edited things in later really helped the CGI look better.

15. when Barbossa walked down the stairs at the very end of Dead Man’s Chest and said “So, what’s become of my ship?”, the facial expressions shown by the other actors were real because they were told it was going to be Anamaria (played by Zoë Saldaña) walking down those stairs. while unfortunately we didn’t get to see more of her character, the added detail of showing genuine confusion and shock on their faces really helped the scene end the movie excite the audience for the third one.