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.

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Hey everyone,

So you might have noticed a post I made the other day about my debut novel, which is officially out! (Well, technically it has been available since November, but there were some formatting issues that needed to be resolved), and it is available in both hardback and ebook!

When Scarlett, a nurse at St. Rose Hospital makes the decision to murder one of her patients after hearing a voice in her head, she meets Death, the Grim Reaper personified, and only she seems to be able to see him. Unsure of her sanity, she decides to find out for herself whether or not he is real. Taking matters into her own hands, Scarlett turns down a path that she never thought she would. With people’s lives hanging in the balance, her decisions impact the whole city, but who could blame her, when a coffee date with Death himself is on the line?

I’m published with a little indie publishing house out of Australia, so the price and the shipping is a little high, but I would love the support (and I know that they would too).

If you end up buying or reading the book, you should let me know! (Leaving a review on Amazon or Goodreads is always helpful too)! 

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32913497-scarlett

Hard copies are available from the publishers website: www.novelsuitepublishinghouse.com

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