Earl Grey And Hibiscus From This Ask Game, Pls? And Sending Good ~~ Vibes ~~ Your Way.^^ -

Earl Grey and Hibiscus from this ask game, pls? and sending good ~~ vibes ~~ your way.^^ - ✨

hey enchant! hope you're doing good <3 i appreciate the good vibes. midterms have been really getting to me this year

earl grey: favourite quote from your WIP?

hh admittedly I havent written a lot for the official wip yet, but i like this bit

The blacksmith's fire winked out, the healer's plants wilted, and the mayor lost the impossibility of his charm. Magic was used as a tool. and though it would be missed, the people would live without it. They would learn to cope, and learn together, learn to thrive without their lifelong gifts.

Hibiscus: what inspired your WIP?

I loved coming up with the elements of my wip. it began with a deck of cards theme because i think the aesthetic is cool. coming up with out-of-the-box powers is one of my favourite things to do, so i used the suits to inspire powers (i'll reblog later with what it is to see if anyone can guess) i didn't want to let the powers go to waste, so i came up with a fun setting with vague backstory and lore (admittedly partially inspired by a dnd podcast i listen to) and came up with characters i found fun that i then assigned the powers to as intuitively as i could

town aflame 

Writer 1: Needs to know everything about the story before you can begin

Writer 2: Wings everything. Hardly knows anything about the story. Doesn’t know what’s supposed to happen next

Writer 3: Makes detailed outlines but never follows them

Writer 4: Is a mix of Writer 1 and 2

Writer 5: The sleep doesn’t exist writer

So which one are you?

he makes me so happy and so profoundly sad at the same time

Introduction to Pirates: Pirate Ships

The exact design of ships changes by the time and place of their manufacturing, but they had common builds and terminology.

Directions on a ship are:

bow or prow (front)

starboard (right, as seen when standing on the ship facing prow)

port (left, as seen when standing on the ship facing prow)

aft or stern (rear)

amidship (in the middle of the ship)

windward (the direction the wind is blowing)

leeward (the opposite of windward, sheltered from the wind or downwind)

Important places on a ship are:

bilge (the lowest part of the ship, the part most likely to leak and be filthy)

crow’s nest (a small platform near the top of the mast for lookouts)

fo'cs'le or forecastle (the section of the upper deck in front of the foremast)

helm (the steering wheel. contains the bittacle/bitacola/binnacle, a box which holds the compass)

hold (storage space in the lower part of the ship)

hull (the body of the ship)

keel (the underside of the ship)

mizzenmast (the largest mast. on a ship with three or more masts, the mast aft of a mainmast)

poop deck (the highest deck, usually above the captain’s quarters)

main (the longest mast)

quarterdeck (the aft part of the upperdeck)

Depending on the size of the ship, it may have one or multiple decks and masts. The flagship of Blackbeard, the Queen Anne’s Revenge, was an English-built frigate. It was a 200-ton, 103 foot long vessel with three masts (the fore, the mizzen, and the main). It allegedly had 40 cannons, though only 30 have since been found (far more than most of the ships it attacked) and as many of four anchors, which could weigh up to 3,100lb and take over an hour to raise.

Vessels such as pirate ships cannot accurately be called boats, this is a pet peeve of many nautical workers.

characters who are so inauthentic. characters who only show what they want other people to see of them. characters who simply must have control over every part of themselves. do you even get it