There's good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

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Crappy followup:

Me on the inside, watching:

Well that doesn’t justify you having the power to make the afterlife less cruel but CHOOSING NOT TO, instead being a big old ASSHAT to other people (INCLUDING YOUR CREW) who had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR BREAKUP which is not only an extremely private affair but also happened AGES AGO like take it up with your ex you dramatic petty ass bitch

here have some more of those silly goobers it's on the house

potc + textposts part 15/?

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

So the little crumbs of Jack's inner feelings during this inspection always get me. Just look at that moment when Norrington takes the pistol and inspects it, Jack's immediate reaction is to reach out but he stops midway. Of course he cant, thats a navy officer; but also, he fact that that pistol just has ONE bullet. And Jack absolutely does not want to loose that bullet because thats his 10-year revenge plot right there-> see how he closes his fists and sort of shakes it slightly like reassuring himself. Thats a self-soothing gesture like... alright fine, is still there, still there we haven't lost it.

And then the compass bit. He is pursing his mouth, looking downward. He KNOWS how his compass works, so why does he look subtly ashamed here? Its not only because hes being inspected and put down by Norrington, is it? This is a man used to being underestimated and mocked. But somehow it hurts now because he's literally just done a good deed -> saved Elizabeth from drowning. And it sort of points to him being ashamed of his own foolishness maybe? Along the likes of "great idea, save the girl, you dumbass! This is what being nice gets us".

And then when Norrington moves to openly mocking him with the "I half expected it to be made of wood", he glares at him for a microsecond before he dawns the mask back on and starts using humour as a self defense mechanism.

He can't keep getting away with this

All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse.

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cause she knows that it’d be tragic if those evil kaiju win i know she can beat them oh mako mori they don’t believe me but you won’t let those kaiju defeat me

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.

And not just pirates. Presumably she’s been on a ship once- when she comes over from England. But nope no piracy wasn’t enough for this kid no she did some intense studying of sailing too because why not. So when they’re being chased down who’s coming up with all these nautical maneuvers? Elizabeth fucking Swann, sea nerd extraordinaire.

Fast forward and she’s not just a nerd anymore. And she isn’t a pirate, either. She’s the Pirate King, doing battle with Davy Jones and the entire British navy, with every Pirate Lord and their crews behind her. No more improvised weapons, no more parlay- she commands every black heart that ever set sail. And then her bae becomes ferryman for every soul lost at sea.

So then what? Everyone just goes back to what they were doing? And Elizabeth just goes home to make a quiet life for herself as a single mum? From studious sea nerd to Pirate King and now suddenly she’s happier at home, waiting for Will?

Give me an epilogue where Elizabeth has her father’s estate and enough gold to keep her comfortable for a lifetime, but instead travels the world, her son at her side. Adventuring and exploring, in and out of the law. Tell me she calls up Calypso for tea from time to time and they talk about uncharted lands and the price of sugar. Tell me in some ports she’s recognized as the daughter of Governor Swann and wined and dined. Tell me in some ports she’s recognized as the Pirate King and gets barrels rum on the house.

Tell me even honest sailors whisper stories of the mysterious and elusive Pirate King, who rarely strikes at all but then vanishes for years at a time.

Tell me Elizabeth spends time aboard the Flying Dutchman, so she can be with her husband, and her son can be with his father and grandfather. Imagine young William learns to sail on his father’s journeys to and from the land of the dead. And when he finally captains his own ship, he’s learned to be both a respectable gentleman and a good pirate.