I love going viral on tumblr.com. It’s like if you stood in a field and said some of the stupidest shit a human being is capable of and then like fifty thousand crows attacked you
i think people in the middle ages acutally did know how to make photorealistic drawings they just chose not to because it’s funnier to draw some fucked up creature
they actually did make photorealistic drawings things just looked different back then
I don’t think we talk enough about how, despite the presence of multiple globes, PotC takes place on a flat earth, ice wall included.
I’m gonna need some elaboration here
They literally sail over the edge of it after passing through a hole in a wall of ice. They fall off. They get back to the other side by passing through the whole ocean.
But also there’s a globe on, like, everyone’s desk.
See, part of the conceit of the PotC trilogy is that all myths are true. Nearly every supernatural element in the franchise has a root in some real world mythology or pirate lore, although some of them are mashed together.
Another thing is that they take place at the end of the Golden Age of Piracy, and the more the map gets filled in, and the more the Royal Navy takes power, there less room there is for the mystical and supernatural in the world. This is explicitly called out in At World’s End with the death of the kraken:
Barbossa: The world used to be a bigger place. Jack: The world’s still the same. There’s just… less in it.
The only way to access the world of the supernatural is through the supernatural itself. You can only get to the Isla de Muerta with Jack’s compass that points to whatever you desire, or if you already know where its is. You need Tia Dalma’s map to find the edge of the world. To access the supernatural, you need to already be immersed in it.
The pirates world isn’t flat, it’s round - but because the edge of the world exists in myth, it therefore exists in reality. The pirates are able to find it through supernatural means, but if, say, someone like Norrington just sailed in the same general direction, he wouldn’t end up in the same place.
fuck can you imagine being cassandra de rolo. your nerdiest brother is the only other one who survives the massacre of your family and he manages to escape the clutches of the murderers, leaving you behind and presuming you dead. years later, he comes back, his hair is completely white, hes carrying a weapon nobodys even seen before, hes host to a demon?? not only can he now hold a conversation with a woman, his three besties are all hot powerful magic ladies. you thought he hated magic. he still does but he can do some now. he kills monsters for a living. hes so hardened by his trauma you can barely recognize him. hes come back, but has he really? is this insane version of your brother just a ghost whos come to torment you in your inescapable loneliness? he wasnt even one of your favorite brothers. he has an earring now
