The One You Don't Cross.

est. April 2015 | rose from the grave Feb 2023 | written by ithika, 35, she/her, gmt +8 Black Sails + history + headcanons | independent: highly selective | Pinned Post: Links Coming Soon ~

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CHARLES VANE, CAPTAIN OF THE RANGER. P I R A T E. EARLY THIRTIES. FORMER SLAVE. FREE . "People should be either caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but  if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If an injury has to be done to an enemy, it should be so severe that their vengeance need not be feared.”

I am considering a series of vignettes wherein young Vane learns to sail, except making them really technically focused and heavy on the actual real mechanics of 18th century sailing, because I could honestly do with revisiting what I know (and relearning things which existed on "my" 19th century ship that wouldn't have existed on the late-17th and early-18th century ships Vane sailed on).

I know that for a lot of people, the mechanics of sailing, or the realities of it, aren't what makes pirates and their stories appealing. And I agree that there is a lot of really compelling historical and social/political elements that make them fascinating.

It's obviously been years, so I think I will lurk for a while and see what the cool kids are even doing these days. I blew the dust off of my old Vane playlists and I have been mainlining Season 1 directly into my brain for the millionth time.

I think for my own sake I should do a rules update & revisit my verses/character info and so on?

The best part though is after so many years, my Chas muse is as strong as ever. Maybe a little rusty, but that's never bothered him much.

Look, at this point I know nobody is going to believe me, but I am absolutely fucking determined to get back on my bullshit (the bullshit is at the very least writing some Chas fic)

Hello, pirates! I think in my heart I have come to accept that my dear pirate will be on hold for at least another year - that three kid life is no joke! But next year I will have 2/3 goblins at school most of the time, and since I am still writing I dearly hope to return to RP *on this blog* then. But managing two tumblr accounts at the moment is simply not something that has worked, and every time I log on here with good intentions I just disappear again.

I'm posting drabbles and nonsense on a new multifandom/writing blog at @thorst. If anyone RPs on Discord, I can't promise anything (I cannot even promise myself more than 5 hours of sleep! I am going insane!) but RP brings me joy so I'm trying to prioritise it more as part of ~self care~. (My discord is ithika#0098 let me know you're from OTR!)

Anyway I can't tell you how much joy it brings to log in here and see that some old friends are still hacking away at their blogs and roleplaying their glorious portrayals of their muses. This is really such a great hobby and I'm glad so many of you are still at it!

OOC.

Lol so I've been gone a while, huh? I'm not likely to come back to RP on Tumblr on any kind of regular basis (I am far too time-poor these days ;-;), but I still think of this place often. Maybe one day, eh? anyway, if you see this, and we used to hang out here: I hope you are well.

Also lol I haven't really updated here since 2018, I have had one (final Is2g) baby (her name is Thea) and I've even moved house. It's been a long time, right?

Perhaps I'll hop on here from time to time and write some drabbles or HC or whatever - I still update my AO3 (ithika) from time to time. I never did finish that 100 days of headcanons prompt...