What Arrrre your thoughts on pirates?

[Freebooter]

Ahoy! I'm here to write a pirate's adventure and I'd like to know, what are your favorite pirate facts, myths, fables, and tropes? They can be true or fake, I'm just looking for all the piratey inspiration I can find.

With a yo ho ho!

[Shinsou Vaan Osiris]

100% my favorite thread on here.

My favorite myths:

1) Pirates buried their treasure so nobody else could find it. This probably happened occasionally, but was the exception, not the rule. Pirates didn't expect to live very long, considering the business they were in, so planning for the future wasn't high on their list of concerns. Since pleasure right now was their only real desire, they'd take any treasure they got to a pirate-friendly port and spend it all on liquor and women as quickly as ever they could. Besides, what crew would stand for their captain burying the treasure they'd won together?

2) Pirates made their victims walk the plank. There's no evidence this was done much, if at all. Pirates' preferred means of punishment was keel-hauling, which meant tying their victims to a rope and dragging them under the ship. Considering that ships' hulls tended to accumulate debris from the water, this tended to result either in wounds (if the victim was dragged quickly) or drowning (if slowly). Either way, considerably worse than walking the plank, I'd say.

My favourite pirate was Blackbeard. 100%. The Queen Anne was a beast!

[Flamebird]

Doesn't Philomel have a merry pirate crew?

[Shinsou Vaan Osiris]

Doesn't Philomel have a merry pirate crew?

A ship called the Feisty Fox, crewed by heathen Lily scurvy dogs.

[Freebooter]

100% my favorite thread on here.

My favorite myths:

1) Pirates buried their treasure so nobody else could find it. This probably happened occasionally, but was the exception, not the rule. Pirates didn't expect to live very long, considering the business they were in, so planning for the future wasn't high on their list of concerns. Since pleasure right now was their only real desire, they'd take any treasure they got to a pirate-friendly port and spend it all on liquor and women as quickly as ever they could. Besides, what crew would stand for their captain burying the treasure they'd won together?

2) Pirates made their victims walk the plank. There's no evidence this was done much, if at all. Pirates' preferred means of punishment was keel-hauling, which meant tying their victims to a rope and dragging them under the ship. Considering that ships' hulls tended to accumulate debris from the water, this tended to result either in wounds (if the victim was dragged quickly) or drowning (if slowly). Either way, considerably worse than walking the plank, I'd say.

My favourite pirate was Blackbeard. 100%. The Queen Anne was a beast!
Harrharrharrr, those be some good 'uns! A double ration of grog fer' the man in the fancy coat!


Doesn't Philomel have a merry pirate crew?
Yoharr! Who be this foulmole, and which waters sails she?