Thinkin' about pirates

[resonant]

My newest folk CD has a song about a card game that always makes me think of Pirates of the Caribbean slash. Here's why:

She cut the cards first, and I fell to dealing.
I dealt her the trump and meself the poor Jack.
She led off her ace and stole my Jack from me,
saying, 'Jack is the card I like best in your pack.'

'Since I dealt them last time, it's your turn to shuffle,
and my turn to show the best card in the pack.'
Once again she'd the ace and the deuce for to beat me,
once again I had lost when I laid down poor Jack.

So now I want to read a Pirates story in which Elizabeth trounces Jack and Will at cards, and demands appropriate forfeitts.

I don't want to write this, mind you; I wouldn't want to write historical fiction even for money, never mind for free. But I do want to read it. Who knows. Maybe someone will feel inspired.

(The CD, by the way, is Maddy Prior and June Tabor's "Silly Sisters," which I like very much.)

Comments

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Oooooh.

Oooh.

Er.

Yes, um. I hope someone who can write will take you up on this. Like, you know, tonight, maybe.

[halimede.livejournal.com]

Silly question maybe, but why the aversion to historical fiction writing?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Because I'm a lazy slob, basically. My knowledge of history is pretty weak, so anything I wrote would require a ton of research and still be prone to embarrassing holes.

Plus I'm never really confident that I can really understand someone's outlook on life if their society is that different from mine. I mean, the characters in The Three Musketeers, say, or Macbeth? Their whole system of values and impulses and priorities is so alien to me.

Basically I don't want to write Jack Sparrow as some modern guy in costume, and I don't want to do the work that would be required to write him as anything else.

[halimede.livejournal.com]

Ah, the 'write it right or not at all' reason. Makes sense, though I don't think the authors of the movie had such scrupules. Hmmm, I guess I look at PotC and it's ilk as historical fantasy for that reason, now that I think about it.

[mommybird.livejournal.com]

Um, Res? Is Disney movie we're talking about, here. About as much to do with real pirates as, well, my husband (http://pistorius.livejournal.com) walking around going "Arrr!" because our cockatiel is sitting on his shoulder. Historical research not necessary--write it write it WRITE IT!

*g*

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

So I have more scruples than Disney. (Not that that's saying much.)

I am doing a little thinking about setting up a contemporary threesome with similar dynamics to Will, Jack, and Elizabeth, and then writing them in a game of cards.

[mommybird.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'll support your original fic, too. *g* Especially if one of the characters happens to look like Johnny Depp.

[rhiannon-jehane.livejournal.com]

The CD, by the way, is Maddy Prior and June Tabor's "Silly Sisters," which I like very much.

That's such a great CD! Thank you for reminding me of it -- I haven't played it in ages.

*starts rummaging through collection of folk CDs*