❖ Age of Sail ❖ Aubreyad ❖ nautical lit and media ❖
❖ history & archaeology ❖ creative pursuits ❖
❖ the sea in general ❖
Main: @ybereneth | Star Wars: @blue-marbles
I made this blog after lurking in Tumblr's Age of Sail, Aubreyad, and history corners for over half a year. Since I go by Blue Marbles (or just Marbles) elsewhere and tend to feel a bit lost sometimes (who doesn't?), the blog name felt fitting.
Most of what you will find here will probably be reblogs, with occasional original posts, projects, and rambles.
❖ Primary Focus: Age of Sail, Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels, and Peter Weir's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
❖ Adjacent Interests: Pirates of the Caribbean, Our Flag Means Death, Hornblower, general nautical literature/films, tall ships, history, archaeology, and everything sea/nautical
❖ Personal Projects: Occasional art, potentially writing/fanfic someday, book/film/show/documentary reviews, my chaotic beginner attempts at sewing/historical costuming, general rambles
Other places you can find me:
❖ main blog: @ybereneth (random stuff, currently mostly quiet)
❖ Star Wars sideblog: @blue-marbles (currently on hiatus)
❖ AO3: BlueMarbles (currently nothing there relating to this blog, though that might change eventually)
If you have recommendations, questions, fun facts, or just want to chat: asks and dms are open!
I am going to try to tag my posts as follows:
❖ #marbles reads at sea -> posts about books, be it general discussion or reviews
❖ #marbles sews at sea -> anything relating to (historical) costuming, textiles, sewing, etc.
❖ #marbles makes art at sea -> my artwork, fan art or original
❖ #marbles writes at sea -> if I ever write nautical fanfiction
❖ #marbles wardroom rambles -> rambles, shower thoughts, unsorted trains of thought, rants, that kind of stuff
Might add tags as needed.
Anyway, while I don't fully know this blog's heading yet: welcome aboard!
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Absolutely. In a way, Star Trek (depending on the project - some more than others) is kind of scifi-O'Brian. Just swap out the sea for space and nautical/period language for technobabble, and there you go.
Somebody working on Star Trek seems aware of that. In Strange New Worlds S04 E02 "Griffin Incident" (at ~ 03:36) one James T. Kirk empties a small crate onto a console. And what cones out of that crate?
Well, I'll be damned- those Starfleet folks are reading O'Brian.
Props to the prop person who chose to hand Kirk a copy of Master and Commander
I don't know what it is about Peter Weir's Master and Commander.
Other films I love I rewatch once a year at most, usually, maybe a couple of times if I feel like it. Then there is Master and Commander. Ever since I stumbled upon Master and Commander (which was way too late, all things considered), I have watched it every few months. If I don't, I miss it. If I don't have the time, watching clips, looking at pictures, or watching some of the DVD specials help a bit, but I end up rewatching it anyway rather sooner than later. Or I listen to the soundtrack again. And again. StatsFM claims that by now it is my most listened-to album of all time, and that Richard Tognetti is my 5th most listened-to artist ever. Whoopsie.
How can a movie have such a spell on a person? Is it the language? The acting? The plot? The pacing? The material culture? The craftsmanship? The level of detail?
While I do love ships, history, and the sea, generally, those can't be it because it isn't the same for other nautical franchises I like.
And it does not stop with the film. The film leads to books, be it O'Brian (slowly working through that), nautical fiction, non-fiction, secondary literature, primary sources from the age of sail, then following actual tall ships/tall ship replicas, buying a ship-in-a-bottle, painting seascapes, making sailor characters for Call of Cthulhu and Vampire the Masquerade, …
I mean, I did like history and nautical stuff before, as I said, listened to shanties since I was little and whatnot, but Weir and O'Brian brought that interest to a whole new level.
At this rate, give me a few more years to fall further down that rabbit hole and also more money than I will probably ever own, and you might watch me trying to build a life-size frigate or some similar nonsense.
But in all seriousness:
Is Aubreyad (both the film and the books) just weirdly captivating, or is this just me?
Anyway, it has stolen both my heart and brain, and now here I am. Hi.
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